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GERMANY. 



BEHIND THE TIMES. 

 Neumann says in Leipz Bztg. that 

 the sti-aw-skep holds its place in cer- 

 tain localities of Germany not because 

 it is S'Oi cold here making such a 

 warm hive necessary, but because it 

 is best suited to the existing con- 

 ditions. He does not pronounce the 

 straw skep an out-of-date hive by any 

 means and asserts that among the 

 bee-keepers who exclusively use it are 

 men of wide experience and of repu- 

 tation. 



SHE'S A DRONE LAYER. 

 I. Frey has a colony of bees of Sy- 

 rian blood which is at no time of the 

 year without some drones. 



a little too high for him and that 1 

 had ordered his supply fi-om Franc 

 The lady quickly told him 'very we 

 then, I will order my supplies fro 

 France also," and left him. — Leij 

 Bztg. 



NONE TOO SOON. 



It has often been recommended by 

 the old bee masters to induce all 

 colonies in early spring, when tem- 

 perature is favorable to take a clensing 

 flight: if necessary spray the bees 

 through the entrance with warmed 

 ■sugar water to induce them to fly. 

 This old time practice is now con- 

 demned in Leipz. Bztg. and other bee 

 journals. 



RULE THAT WORKS TWO WAYS. 



Honey is very commionly sold in the 

 candied state by German bee-keepers, 

 but I. Monhving claims to have ob- 

 served that his honey in the liquid, 

 transparent state was always prefer- 

 red. 



He also tells of a lady bee-keeper 

 who had had a ^ood city customer, a 

 storekeeper. She visited his store one 

 time and selected a number of dif- 

 ferent articles for purchase. She then 

 made inquiry as to the storekeeper's 

 supply of honey for the season. The 

 stoi'ekeeper cooly informed her that 

 her honey at one mark per pound was 



QUEENS DIE IN THE MAILS 

 Freudenstein says in his paper th 

 last ye^r he could not fill all orde' 

 for long-tongued bees because t 

 queens, which were shipped him frc 

 Jamaica by one of our breeders w( 

 nearly all dead. He has again order 

 a quantity of queens from Ameri' 

 but he also intends to now breed th( 

 bees himself and is preparing for it 



OBJECTS TO FLOUR. 

 Wolt condemns the feeding of flc 

 in spring on account of the flour, wt 

 stored in the cells, becoming hard 

 stome. In this condition it cannot 

 used by the bees, besides causing th 

 a great deal of unnecessary hard W( 

 to cut it out of the combs. Wue 

 says, in Die Biene: The reason ma 

 bee-keepers neglect to do the rij 

 thing at the proper time is becai 

 their hives are so constructed as 

 make an overhauling of a colony 

 difficult. 



INVENTION OF THE EXTRACTC 

 The inventor of the extract 

 Hruschka, at lone time took 

 unsealed piece of honeycomb from ( 

 of his hives and gave it to his boy 

 take to his mother. The comb v 

 lying on a plate, and this in a bael; 

 The bees were flying around the hoi 

 pretty strongly and to keep th 

 away the boy began to swing or wl 

 the basket and contents around h: 

 self. The father fearing for the j 

 cious honey grabbed it away from 

 boy. Upon examination he found ti 

 one side of the comb was empty t 

 the honey on the plate. This caui 

 him ta study on the principle invol'' 



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