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GERMANY. 



SHOULDN'T OBJECT TO PROFIT. 

 "It is all well enough," says Wolf, in 

 Neue Bztg., "to keep bees for the pleas- 

 ure of the thing, but it Is just as well to 

 also look for profits to be obtained out of 

 the pursuit." 



SAVE THE NATURAL CELLS. 

 F. Dlckel has this to say In Die Blene about 

 modern queen production: "Since It is 

 generally admitted that queens, reared by 

 the new and so-called improved methods, 

 are inferior to normally reared queens, it 

 is advisable that bee-keepers make better 

 use of the cells so easily obtained from their 

 colonies having cast swarms." 



A RETAIL HONEY TANK. 

 H. Bruder is offering now a storage tank 

 for honey suitable for the retail trade. The 

 tank is made double and the space between 

 the two may be filled with water, to pre- 

 vent scorching the honey when heating or 

 liquefying. The tank has also a honey gate. 

 This is the greatest improvement on the 

 whole invention, for formerly it was neces- 

 sary to ladle out the honey to fill glass 

 bottles and other dishes. The inventor places 

 a great deal of stress upon this feature, which 

 he says he has had patented. 



INTRODUCING QUEENS 

 Editor Reidenback says in Rialz. Bzgt., In 

 regard to introducing queens, that a col- 

 ony Is not in proper condition to accept a 

 new queen till after having been queenless 

 for five or six days. Then, he says, is the 

 time to give the new queen in a wire-cage, 

 leaving her confined for three to four days 

 when she may be released. (The writer loses 

 no queens during the earlier part of the sea- 

 son, and through the buckwheat honey sea- 

 son by giving the new queen when removing 

 the old. He manages in such a way that 

 the bees themselves liberate the new queen 

 during the following night; this refers to 

 queens reared in tbe same yard, queens 

 taken from one (nucleus) hive to another.) 



A HONEY MARKET DAV. 

 For the benefit of honey producers in and 

 aiound the great city of Berlin a spc'-lal day 

 was set by the authorities last fall for the 

 sale of honey. This was advertised ex- 

 tensively, but only five bee-keepers appeareJ 

 on the market. They sold out pretty quiolc- 

 ly at 27 1-3 to 2814 cents per pound of ex- 

 tracted honey. 



EGYPT. 



OLD ENOUGH TO BE GOOD. 

 Maspero, director of the excavating force 

 at Theben, has discovered three jars of 

 honey, supposed to have been gathered by 

 bees some 3,000 years ago. The honey was 

 well preserved. — Bienen-Vater. 





SPAIN. 



A PUBLIC APIARY. 

 It is reported in Ulustr-Deutsche Bztg. that 

 an apiary has been established In a public 

 park in Barcelona. The object is to famil- 

 iarize the public with bees and bee-keeping. 

 (A great many city people know absolutely 

 nothing about the honey bee, even In Ameri- 

 ca and an enterprise of this kind must neces- 

 sarily serve the Interest of honey producers.) 



FRANCE. 



A GOOD SCHEDULE. 

 A certain bee-keepers' society in France 

 has established the price of honey for 1905 

 according to Apiculteur as follows: Ten 

 cents per pound retail for extracted; 9 cents 

 per pound wholesale for extracted. Comb 

 honey not mentioned. 



SWITZERLAND. 



DRONES ARE ALL RIGHT. 

 Dr. Bruennig claims to have proven by an 

 experiment described in Neue Bztg. that 

 drones, mothered by a virgin queen, are virile 

 and equal in every way to drones frum a 

 normal queen. 



Thirty-eight hotels in Switzerland have 

 now agreed to furnish only pure honey to 

 their guests. — Leipz. Bztg. 



