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THE 



Bee -Keeping World 



staff Contributors: F. QREINER and ADRIAN GETAZ. 



Contributions to this Department are solicited from all quarters of the earth. 



AUSTRIA. 



A bee-keeper by the name of 

 Gergelyi has come to tlie conclusion ac- 

 coi'iling to the Leipz. Bztg. that clip- 

 ping queens does not pay. He clipped 

 80 of lii'S queens and now complains 

 that the queens, when bees were 

 swarming, dropped down onto the 

 ground and niuny were lost. Later 

 swarms issued with virgin queens and 

 he was worse off than he would have 

 been without the clipping. The wonder 

 to the writer is, that no editorial re- 

 mark is offered, saying Gergelyi did 

 not conceive the object of the practice 

 of clipping. What did the man ex 

 pect ? 



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operator will learn tliis after a very 

 few trials without any Insti'uction and 

 the same plan has recently been spok- 

 en of in the Bienen-Vater by the 

 Gleaner. 



GERMANY. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Pirson says in Praxis der Bzcht. 

 that it i-s a better plan to do the ex- 

 tracting at the closing of the bass- 

 wood honey season i-ather than to do 

 frequent extracting thus keeping dif- 

 ferent kinds of honey separate but al- 

 so secure rather green honey. 



The same writer also recommends 

 the use of acid phenique for stibduing 

 bees. One-fourth to one-third ounce 

 with a quart of water. Saturate a 

 cloth and spread it over the expo-sed 

 frames. After five minutes the bees 

 have become ^^ubmissive and may be 

 handled with but little additional 

 smoke. 



In removing honey from the hive 

 he would prefer to use the Porter 

 bee escape, but his hives are not prop- 

 erly constructed for its use. He wants 

 to use four of the escapes in one board 

 (a ^single one answers the purpose just 

 as well. The Gleaner). 



When extracting, he says, run the 

 extractor at moderate speed at first, 

 "thus emptying the cells on one side of 

 the combs partially, reverse the combs 

 and I'un .it full speed, rever-se again 

 and run at full -speed. The observing 



Doering proposes to solve the prob- 

 lem of effecting a sale of German hon- 

 ey by establishing an advertising sheet 

 and sending it out to dealers, hotels, 

 restaurants, etc. He suspects that 20,- 

 000 bee-keepers will join, raise a fund 

 to defray the expenses, etc. It is 

 hopeftil the scheme will materialize. 

 It all dejiends on the bee-keepers them- 

 selvCkS and the faith they have in the 

 undertaking. The cost of issuing and 

 mailing is estimated to require about 

 $10,000. 



The gist of a long article by Martens 

 in Praivt. Bzcht is this: Eat plenty of 

 honey and thus save doctor bills and 

 funeral expenses. 



Dickhaut has tested Apis Americana 

 for two years now and his verdict in 

 Leipz. Bztng. is this: They gather 

 more honey than other races. Italians 

 included: they are very docile; they 

 are most handsome, and queens very 

 prolific. Whether they ha\e longer 

 tongues than other races he has not 

 ascertained. 



It is stated by Alberti in his book on 

 bee culture that most localities in Ger- 

 many are fully stocked up with ;.ec-s, 

 i. e., to the profitable limit, when as 

 many as 30 or 40 colonies are therein. 

 This may explain why Germany has 

 not many big bee yards, although ther«« 

 are more bee-keepers. 



Dr. V. B. very urgently advises In 

 several different German bee-periodi- 

 cals against the use of bisulphide of 

 carbon; says it is very explosive and 

 too dangerous to use by unskilled peo- 

 ple. 



Hardy Norwegian bees are adver- 

 tised in Deutsche Bzcht. 



