905. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



ud the invention of the extractor was 

 he result— Sohleswig. Hoist. Bztg. 



BULGARIA. 



FAVORS AMERICAN HIVES. 



C. Betz of Rustschuck, is an interest- 

 iig writer, occasionally writing for the 

 Iferman bee journals. He is testing 

 ifferent hives in Bulgaria and is quite 

 ivorably impressed with the Ameri- 

 in style of hive. He is setting forth 

 le advantages and disadvantages of 

 le American and German supers quite 

 ubiased in Die Biene. The accessi- 

 ility of the American hives from the 

 tp only, he says, facilitates the work. 

 his is not conceded by the followers 

 ' Dzierzon. Betz recommends the 

 merican hives for mild climate with 

 )od honey flows and says in cold cU- 

 ates and with meagre honey flows 

 ich a hive would mean the ruination 



apiculture. 



ITALY. 



NOBILITY AND BEES. 



An association of beekeepers for the 



omotion of apiculture has been or- 



nized in Italy under the name of 



^derazione Apistica Italiana. Mem- 



rs are required to pay an admission 



ten Lira (nearly $200.) Countesse 



lolina Ricciavdelli is vice-president, 



lis lady of rank is actually engaged 



bee-keeping, having about 100 



'lonles of bees in Dadant hives. In 



:02 her honey crop amounted to 



:!00 pounds.— Schl. Hoist. Bztg. 



HOLLAND. 



The bee-keepers of Holland are 

 {eep, says Kvieger, in Schl. Hoist. 

 Itg. Nothing is ever heard of them. 



BELGIUM. 



UNITING COLONIES. 

 n uniting two colonies Mr. Sharp 

 ■ vises to shake the bees of both 

 I ouies in front of a new hive. There 



VI be no fight. 



SUBDUING BEES. 



ilr. Interim (whatever his real name 

 ty be) gives an article on chloro- 

 fming or putting bees to sleep, 

 i^jiong all the processes advocated. Be 

 Pjfers the use of saltpeter. This con- 



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sists hi dissolving saltpeter in water, 

 soaking some cotton rags in it and 

 letting them diy. They are to be used 

 in the smoker. Where box-hives are 

 used, this may be very useful. With 

 frame hives, much less, still cases 

 might arise where it would be well to 

 use the process. For instance, in in- 

 troducing queens to refractoiy colo- 

 nies, or to find a queen that could not 

 be found otherwise. The process con- 

 sists in smoking the bees until they 

 are put to sleep and fall from the 

 combs either on the bottom of the hive 

 or in box placed under the hive for 

 that purpose. 



"TOO THIN." 



A correspondent says that contrary 

 to the opinion generally held in 

 Europe, pear blossoms yield a consider- 

 able amount oif nectar, but that the 

 nectar is so thin that the bees do not 

 care for it except when nothing bet- 

 ter is available. 



AND EACH WITH A VIRGIN. 



Mr. Salkin reported in a convention 

 that he had seen two swarms come out 

 of the same hive within dn hour. 



A HOMEMADE HIVE PAINT. 

 A first-class paint (?) for bee hives, 

 and especially hive covers is made by 

 mixing coal tar with lime in equal 

 parts. "It has no odor, does not soften 

 in the hot sun, makes a covering hard, 

 glossy, and water proof. Its gi*ay color 

 prevents the excessive heating that 

 always occurs with a very dark paint 

 when exposed to the sun. 



PERFORATED ZINC IS BETTER. 

 The editor of LeRucher Beige, ans- 

 wering a correspondent, advises plac- 

 ing the frames of the super (working 

 for extracted honey) crosswise of 

 those of the brood nest to prevent to a 

 great extent the queen from laying in 



the super. 



BOHEMIA. 



WARM SHOWER NEEDED. 

 The winter has been a hard one. 

 The fall of snow has been immense. 

 Basiueck says in March number of 

 Deutsche Imker that it would have to 

 rain boiling water for two weeks to 

 take the snow off by April. Many bees 

 are reported to suffer severely from 

 dysentery. 





