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hat the bees on comiug from the feed- prove it also. No experiment has been 



Kr to the hives (the distance was about made in that direction. A small quan- 

 60 feet) expel some of the water in the tity of honey added when salting, de- 

 form of a mist, very easily seen, cidedly improves the taste and keep- 

 When the work is very active, this ing- qualities. A patent has been tak- 

 inist wets the grass and other ob- en for the manufacturing of condensed 

 jects imder the path followed by the milk, using honey instead of sugar. 

 bees. If tasted it is found to be To 100 pounds of milk are added one- 

 absolutely pure water. TJie same fact half pound of honey, two ounces of 

 s reported by Maurice Girard in his horse radish and one-half pound of 

 work on bees. It may be added here salt. The whole is heated to about 

 ::hat Maurice Girard is an authority 90 degrees Fahrenheit and then put 

 n matters pertaining to "bee-ology" in the vacuum pan« and evaporated to 

 uid entomology. His position in one-third of its original bulk. The 

 France is similar to that of Cheshire horse radish is excellent to destroy 

 \nd Cowan in England. — Revue Eclec- bacilli and other noxious germs. A 

 tiquo. little of it put in a barrel of cider 



will stop the fermentation by destroy- 



PREFBRS SIDE-STORING. iog the alcohol-producing germs. 



Mr. Dobbrar constructs his hives so 



is to place the surplus apartments THEY DON'T FIT. 



)ehind the )irood nestjnstead of above. Mr. Devauchelle has tried founda- 



He says he obtains better results by tion made with cells larger than the 



^0 doing. (This applies to extracted natural cells (I presume he means 



loney.) — Revue Eclectique. drone cells, though it is not vei*y clear.) 



The object was to prevent any possi- 



THE WONDERFUL QUEEN. bility of the queen laying therein. 



, . . , , . ^ These cells were built and filled with 



In discussing the laying of queens ^^^ ^^,^^ ^^,^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^.^^^ 



j Ir Ignotus calls attention to the fact ^^^^ ; Q^^jy ^^pp ^ few eggs were de- 

 hat m the height of the season, a po^jted. No drones were raised from 

 uieen may lay 2 000 eggs a day. These ^j^^^^^^ however, perhaps because the 

 :,000 eggs weigh 40 grams. A virgin q^^. stopped soon af ter.-L'Apiculteur. 

 lueen weighs 20 grams. Hence 

 he queen lays in a day a 



veight of eggs twice that of ANOTHER SECRET OUT. 



ler own body. However perfect the The editor of the beginners' depart- 



?ood given the queen by the nurse bees ment of the Apiculteur says that the 



nay be. its weight must exceed some- wax produced in the early and late 



A'hat the weight of the eggs produced, parts of the year is whiter than that 



Something must be added to sustain of the middle summer. The difference 



he queen herself and enable her to ful- of temperature is supposed to be the 



ill her task. So a laying queen may con- cause. 



;ume perhaps as much as three times ■ 



he weight of her body, of food.— Re- piXING THE PRICE OF HONEY, 



aie Eclectique. ^, . . ,. . ■ ..v, ^ .^i. 



The Apiculteur advises that the an- 



nual meeting of bee-keepers of the 



USES FOR WAX. country situated around Paris was 



i Everybody who reads this knows held as usual on the 19th of June 



Ihat oleomargarine is sold for butter at the hall of the Central Society. 



)r consumed in place of butter. As This annual meeting is held chiefly 



ong as it is sold on its own merits, in vieAv of setting the price of the 



do not see any right to object. The pre-sent year's crop of honey. Other 



)rocess of fabrication is described in Uieetings having the same object in 



he Apiculteur. The only point that view are held in several parts of Eu- 



nay interest bee-keepers is the tact rope. The idea is not to set the price 



hat in order to obtain a salable or for the whole state, but only for a 



■ather palatable product, a small certain locality usually the neighbor- 



roportion of beeswax must be added, hood of a certain market. For in- 



iThe question was asked if a small ad- stance, the bee-keepers of the portion 



ition of wax to butter would not im- of Illinois adjoining Chicago could 



