1898 



THE AMEKICAN BEE JOURNAl.. 



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brood, must destroy the hive, bees and combs under penalty 

 of $5 to $25 for the first offence, and not more than $50 for 

 each subsequent offence. 



Little to Learn. — A letter in British Bee Journal from 

 Mr. Hooker, who is visiting in or near Philadelphia, says : 

 "From what I have seen and the conversation I have had 

 with bee-keepers, who have been most pleasant and communi- 

 cative, I think we have little to learn from our American 

 friends as to manaKement, etc. They have, however, a much 

 longer honey season than we." Maybe neither side could 

 learn from the other, and maybe either could. 



Moths Eating Colonies — Doolittle took Aikin to task in 

 Progressive for saying something about colonies being attackt 

 by worms or moths, and D. L. Tracy comes to the rescue and 

 says moths don't have such power in Colorado, but in Iowa he 

 has seen the moth literally eat up a colony that was lively, 

 with no sickness or languishing ; " lO.OOU bees to the frame, 

 and lOframes to. the hive, yet the moths completely annihi- 

 lated them." Won't that make Doolittle gasp ? 



Winter Food. — A. S., in British Bee Journal, says that 

 after having fed tons of sugar syrup, feeding in all sorts of 

 ways, he is forced to the conclusion "that the best course, 

 with regard to feeding, is to avoid it altogether, by leaving 

 the bees sufficient natural stores to last till honey comes 

 again," whenever this can be done. He says: "Again and 

 again has it been made plain to me beyond dispute that colo- 

 nies requiring no spring feeding are ready for work in supers 

 before those that are fed in the most careful and judicious 

 manner." 



Development of Foul Brood. — P. Beuhne says in Aus- 

 tralian Bee Bulletin that Mr. McEvoy is right, that perisht 

 brood will develop foul brood, if he should add, germs are 

 present. He thinks there is no occasion to be at cross pur- 

 poses with scientists, who contend that no foul brood can de- 

 velop without germs. No use ignoring the fact that nothing 

 can spring from nothing, and where there are no germs no 

 amount of rotten brood will develop the disease, while in 

 places where germs exist neglected brood makes disease more 

 liable to develop. 



Bees and X-Bays. — Henry W. Brice, a bright writer in 

 the British Bee Journal, refers to Roentgen's discovery, and 

 thinks it possible that bees make use of rays invisible to 

 human eyes. How can bees come out of the absolute darkness 

 of a hive's interior and fly without hesitation, when a human 

 eye would be blinded by the sudden change? What power of 

 vision enables bees to work with such beautiful accuracy in 

 complete and utter darkness? Does the queen utilize the X- 

 rays to allow her to see through the wall of wax, so as to place 

 her eggs exactly opposite those laid on the other side of the 

 comb ? 



"The Alcohol Test is a very simple one for detecting 

 the presence of glucose in honey. Glucose seems to have an 

 affinity for alcohol ; and when a small amount of the latter is 

 poured over the surface of the mixture the glucose will send 

 up little threads and balloon-like bubbles into the alcohol. 

 Alcohol placed upon the surface of pure honey creates no agi- 

 tation whatever." So says- John H. Martin in Gleanings 

 among items in his " California Echoes." So much has been 

 said that is false with regard to testing with alcohol, that this 

 test will probably be fully tried before entire dependence is 

 placed upon it. 



Prevention of Swarming-. — Lacoppe-Arnold in LeRucher 

 Beige says the following plan has been successful with him : 

 Take from the hive all the frames with adhering bees, and put 

 them in an empty hive. Then brush off all the bees at the 

 entrance of the old hive, and as fast as they are brusht off put 

 them back in the old hive, first removing all queen-cells, in 

 place of two of the frames, however, putting in frames of 

 foundation. Then add the super. When he had done this, 

 he says the bees were completely disconcerted. They found 

 combs to build, plenty of room, and the next day killed the 

 drones and gave up all notion of swarming. 



The Bee-Space. — Hardly a farmer was without bees in 

 the neighborhood of P. Greiner when he first commenced bee- 

 keeping, as he relates in Gleanings — soap-boxes, barrels and 

 nail-kegs being among the hives used, and bees were kept 

 rather successfully as to wintering as well as to producing 



honey. After he sold them new-fangled hives and transferred 

 the bees, one after another of the old bee-keepers dropt out of 

 the ranks and converted their hives into kindling-wood, until 

 he was left practically possessor of the field. He thinks the 

 bee-space was to blame for this, as bees would not winter in 

 frame hives with the same care that was sufficient for box- 

 hives. The l3sson seems to be that while with proper care 

 bees may winter in frame hives even better than they formerly 

 wintered in box-hives, yet for those who will not give them 

 that care, and who make no especial use of the advantages 

 offered by movable frames, box-hives may be more profitable. 



Q.ueen Introducing-Cage. — Take the lid of a tin can, 

 cut a large hole in the lop, put a piece of wire cloth inside, 

 and fasten it there neat and flat with solder in three or four 

 places around the edge. Place the queen on a comb where 

 there are empty cells and some honey, place the cage over, 

 press lightly, turning the cage to right and left until it cuts 

 in deep enough to stay, then hang the comb in the center of 

 the hive. Next day make a hole through the comb at the 

 back side with a lead pencil, daub honey on the outside of the 

 hole, return it to the hive and the bees will do the rest. If 

 the queen isn't valuable the hole in the comb may be made at 

 the time of changing the queen. This plan is given in the 

 Australian Bee-Bulletin by W. Reid. 



Tall vs. Square Sections. — Of 2,000 sections put on 16 

 colonies, half were Danzy sections and the remainder square, 

 says B. F. Onderdonk in Gleanings ; 728 of the Danzy sec- 

 tions were finisht, and 468 of the square sections. The 

 Danzy sections were an ounce heavier than the square, were 

 glazed at a cost of 1 'j cents each, and brought 7 cents apiece 

 more than the square ones with cartons and no glass. That 

 for white clover. A rather curious circumstance is that while 

 there was only 3^ cent difference between the white and fall 

 honey in the square sections, the fall honey in the Danzies 

 brought -t cents less than the white sections, which brought 

 20 cents each. Rather has the appearance that the shape of 

 the section, or the glazing, or both, had something to do with 

 getting a fancy price for the tail sections. 



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