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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



August 



Here is the uew grading of honey Italianized during November. Evident- 



as practiced by a certain German drug- ly, the new queens had laid a con-Bl)' 



gist: Extra fine bee-honey, pure bee- siderable amount of bi'ood, a largt 



honey — bee-honey, honey. Definitions portion of which did not hatch, (or 



of these terms are not given. rather, emerge) from the cells unfi; 



the weather was too cold for flying, 



Valentin AVuest. a noted naturalist. It may not be generally known thai 



observed that bumble bees often cut the abdomens of young bees wher 



holes through long-tubed flowers to ob- they emerge are full and these mus' 



tain the honey concealed at the bottom be voided soon after. In such cases 



of the corolla. Thus they open up if the weather is already too cold foi 



the way for our bees, which ai"e noi; flying, they are voided in the hive* 



and thus give, at least, the appear 

 ances of dysentery. 



slow of taking advantage of this wel- 

 come opportunity. — 111. Bztg. 



SIBERIA. 



During the closing of the eighteenth 



LAYING WORKERS. 

 It is diflScult to requeen a colon: 



century the Cossack.s in W&st Siberia affected with laying workers. Mr 



began to pay attention to keeping bees. Wathelet advises giving a queen eel 



Bees were imported as a starter. The enclosed in a cell protector. 



conditions lieing favorable bees mul- • ■ 



tiplied rapidly and during 1902 it is FRANCE. 



said in I.eipz. Bztg. "the number of 



colonies bad increased to 15,029, from WHOSE BE THEYV 



which was harvested 40,978 pounds of . ^ " • u. 



honev and 4.077 pounds of w.nx (a veiy '^ f^^^''"^^' ^'^^ ^ r*" ^^ f n^ 



,, •/ + 4^i,„ ,.-+^,.\ and coming no one knew where fron: 



..mall average, it seem s to the writer). ^^^ ^^^^^,,.%g^ it. g^^i^ ^^arm final!; 



BELGIUM went into an empty hive in 



From Le Rucher Beige. neighboring apiary. The apiarist hai 



PROTECTING COMBS. '^^^^^^ ^o be there and saw it go ir 



^ ^ , \Yho.se propertv is that swarm ?— L 



To keep empty combs free from the ^evue Eclectique. 



moth, sulphuring (?) is probably the " 



best remedy yet. Mr. Leger says, how- 

 ever, that later on other moths may 

 come and deposit their eggs; but that 



TAKE YOUR CHOICE. 



Any doctor or scientist can tell yo 

 can be prevented by putting in the box that the human skin is coated with 

 some walnut leaves (English walnut), very slight amount of an oily or greas _ 

 The odor of the leaves will keep off substance. Recently Mr. Rouvier, pre 



any kind of moth or butterfly. 



fessor of biology and member of th 

 French academy of sciences, has sue 

 ceeded in separating enough of it t 

 make a comjilete study. He found i 

 to be a substance almo-st similar t 

 the beeswax. — Revue Eclectique. 



CAMPING OUT. 



A correspondent says that during 

 the flow, the bees go out as late as 



they can md sometimes so late that 



the nicht overtakes them. They then 



siK-ndthe night somewhere under a EVAPORATION OF NECTAR, 



leaf, in some crack or any other shel- Ttirning back a few numbers of th 



ter and come back in tlie morning. It American Bee-Keeper, the reader wi! 



is easy to verify it by closing the hives find a long article on some expert 



at night. In the morning these out- ments made by Mr. Huillon on tin 



siders will be found coming in and ti'ansformation of nectar into honej 



trying to get in. These experiments have been exter 



sively commented on by several Eurc 



LATE BREEDING. pean" writers. Several quotations sho-W 



.Mr. Wathelet says that one winter ing the flight of the bee when goin: 



two colonies showed some signs of back home, have been brought to nc 



dvsentery. .\fter examination, which tice. The most remarkable is one origlE 



took place in a wanii day in January, ally made by Mr. Babaz, several year 



quite a number of young Italian bees ago. He conceived the idea of feedini 



were found. The two colouies had been very thin syrups out of doors. He say 



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