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GERMANY. 



GENERAL, ADVICE. 

 The prospects for honey are very dis- 

 couraging, says Guenther in 111. Bztg.. and 

 continues: In localities with no fall honey 

 reason, July is the closing month and to 

 Increase during this month is not to he 

 lecommended. Tt is best to ar'opt some 

 mea.=ure to keep the bees from breeding;' 

 as Lrood-rearing costs lots of honey and 

 the bees reared are of no value. In the 

 heath and in buckwheat localities breeding 

 is to be encouraged. 



July is the time to renew qvieens Do 

 not wait till August, as the young queens 

 will not get to laying early enough to rear 

 enough young bees for the winter. Late 

 reared queens do not mate readily. 



E\-ery bee-keeper should keep sonie queens 

 on hand for an emergency. The forming 

 of nuclei is an easy matter. Two brood- 

 combs with bees and a queen -cell from a 

 colony, that has been, queenless for ten 

 days makes a satisfactory nucleus. Add to 

 it a honey and pollen comb and an empty 

 one. Such a nucleus, when queen has be- 

 gun to lay, may be united with the colony 

 having an old queen, after removing the 

 latter. 



Keep close watch of such colonies as 

 have swarmed. See to it that their queens 

 have not been lost. 



Drone-breeders are to be treated as fol- 

 lows: Brush the bees on the ground a lit- 

 tle ways from their hive and transfer a 

 nucleus colony with queen to the same, close 

 entrance for a half hour to give nucleus 

 colony time to become settled. Then open 

 entrance again. The brushed bees will 

 quietly and gradually join the nucleus and 

 all will be well. 



The safest way to handle foul-broody 

 colonies is to destroy them. Disinfect tools, 

 hands and clothing. 



A sad story about foul -brood told by 

 Anmann In Illustr. Bztg. : Bee-keeper 



Ulrich, of Schweinitz, was called on to hive 

 a .swarm of bees for a neighbor. He did 

 so and also looked up the hive the swarm 



had come from. He found the hive to be 

 very badly affected with foul-brood, and the 

 swarm a deserter. The hive was destroyed 

 by fire, the bees hived into a clean hive. 

 They developed foul-brood later and again 

 left the hive entering in part three hives of 

 Anmann. In consequence, foul-brood de- 

 veloped in Anmann's yard. Half of his 

 30 colonies died with it that year and the 

 rest, the next year. 



The Columbus comb foundation made of 

 iron, coated with wax, is again talked 

 about in German journals. It is recommend- 

 ed both for brood-chambers and for ex- 

 tracting combs. Otto Schulz is the manu- 

 facturer. 



Swarms are more apt to abscond when 

 hived on sets of combs than when an empty 

 hive is given, says Editor Freudenstein. in 

 Neue Bztg. 



Ludwig says in Deutsche Bzclit. : "In 

 dealing with a friend always have a cash 

 deal, otherwise you may lose your money, or 

 the friend, possibly both." 



The same writer considers it a good prac- 

 tice for such bee-keepers as have only an 

 early honey-flow to purchase heath bees in 

 the fall. With them strengthen each colony 

 to the amount of one pound. These bees, 

 he says, are reared during the late honey- 

 flow and are vigorous. They give a colony 

 an Impetus which manifests Itself in great- 

 er activity of workers and queen. These 

 bees can usually be bought at 50 cents 

 per pound; they would have been brimstoned 

 If not sold. Bee-keepers, who have only an 

 early honey flow, sell bees at the close of 

 their honey season to the heath bee-keepers, 

 sonaetimes at 62 Vs cents per pound, and 

 Ludwig says, at that price the heath bee- 

 keepers do well out of it. They use these 

 bees for storing honey, and later when their 

 season is over they sell them back again. 



There is a inovement on foot to unite the 

 different bee-keepers' societies into one great 

 society. — Bzcht. 



