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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



August 



CANDIED HONEY. 

 The editor of the Rural Bee-Keeper 

 asks: "What ks the best method of 

 getting: candied honey out of barrels?" 

 Remove the hoops and take the barrel 

 off of the honey. Ask us an easier one. 



SIBBALD'S CONTROLLED SWARM- 

 ING. 

 The editor of the Review objects 

 to our statement regarding the point 

 In which the so-called Sibbald system 

 of controlled swarming differs from 

 others. With the usual systems of 

 forced or controlled swarming part or 

 all of the bee,s with the queen are 

 put on the old stand and the brood 

 with or without bees goes elsewhere, 

 sometimes to be later reunited and 

 sometimes not. With the Sibbald 

 plan the bees and a queen cell go to the 

 old stand, and the queen and brood to 

 another, union following later. The 

 two systems dilfer only in the use 

 of a cell instead of the queen with 

 the forced swarm. If this is not the 

 kernel of the Sibbald system what is? 



ly larger than a virgin. Nature has S' 

 ordained things for two reasons, th 

 first of v/hich is that the queen cai 

 fly; for, if taken from the colony whei 

 no such preparation has been mad€ 

 she can not fly at all, as -she is s 

 heavy with eggs. The second reasoi 

 is that the queen need not be damB 

 aged by an over-accumulation of egg 

 before there is time for the bees t 

 consti-uct comb in the new home fo 



her to deposit her eggs in.' 



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cart is so far before the horse tha 

 it will be difficult for the latter eve 

 to catch up. We would suggest tha 

 the author of the quoted paragraph 

 make another guess. 



TOBACCO FOR QUEEN INTRODT'C 

 TION. 

 Mr. Hutchinson of the Review has 

 again become a keeper of bees, and 

 has recently rediscovered the value of 

 tobacco smoke in introducing queens 

 directly to the bees without the cus- 

 tomary intermediate caging. Incident- 

 ally he wonders if he would not have 

 had equally good results with some 

 other kind of ,smol^e. We can answer 

 that question in the afl3rmative and 

 restate as we have many times before 

 that it is not the odor imparted to the 

 queen or bees but their mutual con- 

 dition of nerves. Tobacco smoke works 

 more quickly than wood smoke, that 

 is all, but tobacco smoke is one of 

 the things the novice will do well to 

 let alone as when unwisely used it 

 can cause more troul^le among the 

 bees than anything we know of. 



VERY MUCH AWAKE. 



In the Bee-lveeping World deparl 

 ment of the .Tune issue Mr. Greine* 

 quoted from Kvieger. in"Schl. Hols^ 

 Bztg., "The bee-keepers of Hollan. 

 are asleep. Nothing is ever heard o 

 them." 



Editor J. C. Bosch, of the Maand« 

 chrift voor Bi.ienteelt, published a 

 Beverwijk, Holland, writes that h 

 feels confident that the bee-keepers c 

 Holland are very much awake; tha 

 they have a bee-keepers' a,s«ociatio 

 of 2.(100 members, which is doing muc 

 to advance apicultural interests i 

 Holland, and asks for the expressio 

 of a better opinion of his countrs 

 men. 



The American Bee-Keeper was nc 

 responsible for the misleading stat( 

 ment, and regrets that it should hav 

 given it additional publicity. 



We are sure that the foregoing W 

 of real information in regard" to Ho! 

 land bee-keeping will be of interes 

 to our readers, and somewhat of 

 surprise, as well 



SOPHISM. 

 As a sample of redundant sophistry 

 of much of the bee-literature of the 

 day the following is a gem: "All ob- 

 serving apiarists know that, as the 

 season for swarming draws on apace, 

 and tlie colony is about to cast a 

 swarm, the queen ceases her prolific- 

 iiess, so as to be able to fly and go 

 with the swarm, so that, when swarm- 

 ing does occur, said queen is scarce- 



A BEAUTIFUL MAGAZINE. 



One of the most beautiful example 

 of the modern art of magazine mak 

 ing that has come to our notice, is th 

 new monthly .lournal, "La Hacienda, 

 published in the Spanish language, a 

 Buffalo, N. Y., by La Hacienda Com 

 pany. 1336 Prudential building. It i 

 devoted exclusively to agricultural al 

 fairs in the tropics, and will be to ou 

 Spanish-speaking neighbors to th 

 southward, what Country Life h 

 America is to the United States. It 

 perfect typography, splendid illustra 

 tions, artistic make-up and instructive 

 text render its pages a veritable store 



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