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bees gave good yields of honey when 

 tbe Carniolans swarmed themselves to 

 leath and did not gather even stores 

 For winter. — Schweitz Bztg. 



1905. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



143 



Dr. Dzierzon is too ill to write, re- 

 ports Praxis der Bienenzucht. 



Loenst-honey is said by Grabener, 

 n Prakl. AVewg., not to granulate. 



SEEKS AMERICAN CAPITAL. 

 Specializing bee-keeping means keep- 

 ng more bees to such an extent as 

 pj occupy all a man's time. Again, it 

 aeaus reducing labor to a minimum, 

 he object being to make as much 

 loney out of the business as is possi- 

 le. 



The bee-keepers of the world have 



een at work on this problem and are 



till at it. Different methods have 



een studied out to accomplish it. Is 



le Desideratum still to be found? 



T. J. Herzog, of Frankfurt, claims 



ow, in a private letter, to have made 



discovery in this regard which puts 



rerything known in the shade. He 



as tAvo or more colonies working to- 



ther. He claims great simplicity for 



le method, saving of labor, greatest 



5ssible honey yields and absolutely 



) swarming. 



The method is still held as a secret 

 Mr. Herzog. He would like to 

 ive some American bee-keeping eap- 

 ilist take hold of the matter and 

 ive it patented. 



I am not posted on matters of this 

 nd but it is a little doubtful, in my 

 ind, whether or not the method is 

 itentable. 



If Herzog's invention has merit, in 

 e interests of bee-keeping it would be 

 gootl thing to have it made public 

 operty somehow. 



The queenless part will rear a queen 

 from brood present, and the storing 

 of honey will go on uninterruptedly. 

 The result will be a larger honey crop 

 than if the colony had not ))o>m di- 

 vided. The division may bo a tem- 

 porary one or the two may be left 

 separated, thus doubling the number 

 of colonies. If united at the close of 

 the honey season the old queen can 

 be removed. 



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HAVE THEY DIFFERENT ODORS? 

 A drone-breeding colony, if still pop- 

 ulous, may be saved and cured by giv- 

 ing a queen cell with a young larvae, 

 not a sealed cell. The former will al- 

 ways be accepted, while the latter will 

 generally be destroyed, says Jaeckel 

 in Leipz. Bztg. 



ROOT WOULDN'T ENDORSE IT. 

 It may be ignorance or misconcep- 

 tion on the part of the bee-keepers of 

 Germany, of what the American 

 "smoker" is, but it seems same does 

 not find favor with them. On the 

 other hand, they keep experimenting, 

 trying to improve what they have in 

 this line. Gerstung's smoker, as the 

 latest, is illustrated in Praxis der 

 Bzcht; it is to be patented. Of course, 

 tobacco is to be used' in it as fuel. 

 Why not try the American smoker my 

 dear friends? 



MAY BE SO. 

 F. Dickel says in last number of 

 Die Biene that bee-keepers, especially 

 honey-producers, are wasting a great 

 deal of money on high priced queens, 

 so-called '"supei-ior stock," "red clover 

 stock," etc. 



THE DUPLEX SYSTEM (?) 



IM. AVeiss in Leipz. Bienenztg, de- 

 ■ibes the following methods of treat- 

 honey-producing colonies that are 

 divisible brood chambers: 

 'A new bottom-board is placed close 

 'side the colony to be treated, and 

 upper brood chamber is lifted off 

 d placed thereupon. Both single 

 )od chambers are now covered with 

 Ben-excluding metal, and the supers 

 ! placed upon them in such a way 

 Lt the bes can enter from both 

 irtments. No attention is paid to 

 ' queen at the time of separation. 



TO PREVENT GRANULATION. 



Extracted honey may be kept from 

 granulating by heating in a solar de- 

 vice, and keeping it in same for four 

 or .five days immediately or any time 

 after extracting, says Neuman in Cen- 



tralblatt. 



BEES AND BEE-KEEPING OF 

 GERMAN EAST-AFRICA. 



The bee inhabiting East-Africa is of 

 a vei-y bright yellow, very vicious and 

 incluined to swarm. The reporter, M. 

 Roth, thinks the swarming propensity 

 is largely due to the hot climate, for 

 when, perchance, a swarm finds a 

 shady and cool location and a large 

 cavity to fill, they swarm but little and 

 send out large swarms when they do 



