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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



AugU8 



hold siieli a meeting and those around of France ;sales in very large quant 



each important city do the same, each ties were made at lower figures, In on 



tor their nearest market. The idea case as low as 9 cents. In the sam 



is at least worth considering in this number of the paper wax is quoted i 



country. None but the producers are 33 to 37 cents a pound, according 1 



admitted to these meetings. Dealers quality. It must be remembered thi 



either in honey or in bee-keepers' sup- all the above figures refer to extracte 

 plies are not admitted. 



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WHOT^ESALE ABSCONDING. 



This spring (1905) in the country 

 around Becoules fAveyron) a consider- 

 able number of colonies have abscond- 

 ed. Sometimes ais many as three- 

 fourths or more of the apiary. No 

 cause can be assigned. Nearly all 

 left more or less honey behind. — 

 L'Apiculteur. 



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honey 



WE HAVEN'T TRIED IT. 

 Mr. Simplice reports that a sma 

 quantity of honey added to butt( 

 (when putting in the salt) improv< 

 its taste considerably and that ,suc 

 butter keeps much better than wh« 

 otherwise treated. — L'Apicultem-. 



ADVANTAGE OF DRAWN COMB 



A series of studies on the adva 

 WINTERING WITHOUT COMBS, tages of hiving swarms on combs 



Mr. Ziche succeeded In wintering a now in course of publication in tl 

 late swarm without combs. He had Apiculteur. In the first experime: 

 it in a sufficiently warm room and <'' number of swarms were hived 

 fed it with liquid honey throughout empty hives and another set furnishi 

 the winter. — L'Apiculteur. with enough built combs to fill on 



— one-third of each hive. At the six 



GERMAN HOBlET IMPORTS. day all were weighed and those ha 



The Apiculteur discussing the prices ing the combs had a little over thr 

 of honey .states tiaat Hamburg is be- times as much honey gathered as t 

 coming more and more the market for others. For a few days after t 

 honey importation in Europe. No re- sixth, those hived on empty com 

 cent figures were available. But in were slightly ahead in the amou 

 1901 the importation was 8,300,000 gathered, or, rather, stored. This . 

 pounds at an average price of 12 cents thought to be due to the fact tW 

 a pound. Nearly half of it was from they had less brood to feed. 

 Chili and about 700,000 pounds from A very large swarm which had 

 the United States. The Chilian honey half set of combs gathered eighte 

 i-s quoted at an average price of 11 pounds in three days. Without com 

 cents and that from the United States these eighteen pounds would have be 

 14 cents a pound. In 1902 the importa- reduced to nothing. The M-riter, It 

 tion from Cuba was considerably high- Abbe Martin, thinks that hiving wl1 

 er than in 1901, about equal to that out combs means a loss of fully fo 

 from Chili and the prices about the days of possible gathering and in iP 

 same — nearly 10 cents. The importation localitj' that occurs during the m8|| 

 from the United States had also in- flow and constitutes one-fifth of 1 

 creased to a little over a million pounds honey crop, the flow lasting abo 

 but the average price fell to a fraction twenty days 

 over ]0 cents. The importation from. 

 France to Hamburg is small, but the ILL EFFECT OF THEIR "O'VSfc^,; 

 prices are quite high comparatively — VINE AND FIG TREE." 



14 cents in 1901 and 22 cents in 1902. Mr. Weber states that in the autur 

 The total importation for 1902 was 7,- when the leaves are falling, the cole 

 550.000 pounds. The honey from Chili nies ])laced under fig ti'ees lose a c( 

 is decidedly inferior and that from siderable number of bees which lo 

 Cuba not much better. Both hurt the as if sick with some kind of paralys 

 price of the United States honey, as When the fact was first brought 

 there all of it goes indiscriminately his attention he would not believe 

 as American honey. A second case leads him to think th 



The meeting of the Apiculteur of the there is more than a mere colncideni 

 country ai'ound Paris had fixed the and that the dying fig leaves may 

 price of the 1904 crops at 12 cents. But some how or other, poisonous to t 

 it is reported that in some other parts bees. — L'Apiculteur. 



