1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



133 



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From east to west, from north to south, 



War's growling notes are lieard ; 

 The Slav, the Briton Gaul, Greek, Hun — 



Yes, all mankind — seem stirred. 



That " bolog"na-sau.sag-e " honey sent us 

 bv Mr. Aikin is deserving- of all the praise 

 bestowed on it. It looks like a block of 

 marble about the size of a quart cup. The 

 g-ranules are too fine to be noticed,, causing- 

 the mass to taste like some cream candy. 



Foreign bee journals as well as those pub- 

 lished in this country teem with new l^inks. 

 in inachinerj' for the use of bee-keepers ; 

 also new methods of manipulation in the 

 apiar3'. In our last issue Dr. Miller, in 

 Straws, referred to a machine for extract- 

 ing- honey from both sides of the comb at 

 once. The tops of three frames are fasten- 

 ed tog-ether so as to form a triangle. The 

 space between them is filled b}' a wheel to 

 which the frames are attached. As the 

 wheel revolves, like a common grindstone, 

 the frames also rotate in the same plane. 

 The apparatus is covered above and below 

 with a cover, probably of tin, and the honey 

 runs out of a faucet at the bottom. In the 

 same journal, Gazeite Apicole, one of our 

 French exchanges, I see a device to capture 

 the queen during swarming. I think a de- 

 scription will make it plain without a cut. 

 The inventor sa3's: 



"Mv apparatus consists of a kind of hop- 

 per, 24X24 inches at the top, and about 

 16X16 at the bottom. This bottom is closed 

 by means of perforated tin. The hopper 

 rests tight over an open hive-bod3'. Sup- 

 pose I wish to capture the queen or all the 

 queens of a swarm. I shake the swarm 

 into this crib. Immediately the bees will 

 go through the perforated tin. and enter 

 the box below. On top of the tin the queen 

 or queens will be found, when their cap- 

 ture will be easy. If I wish to introduce 

 the queen to the swarm I let her run 

 through a hole in the hive- bod 3'." 



Progres Apicole informs us of the death 

 of Dr. Reisser, President of the Algerian 

 Bee-keepers' Association. He died in Phil- 

 ippeville. Algiers. Dec. 9. He was editor 

 of the only bee jourtial published in the 

 Arabic language. Dr. Reisser was well 

 known in Europe, and his death is a real 

 loss to bee-keepers there. 



In the same journal I find the following, 

 apparently starting in Germany: 



"Mr. Barthel. near me, had a fine 3'oung 

 Syrian queen. She hatched in June, be- 

 gan to laj- in Jul3', and soon had several 

 frames filled with eggs. Although the col- 



ony was populous and the honey-flow good, 

 Mr. B. never found any larv;f in the cells. 

 He told me about it, and asked my advice. 

 I proposed to him to make some experi- 

 ments, and he agreed. I took a frame con- 

 taining some of these false eggs, and intro- 

 duced it to a colony from which I had taken 

 the frames of brood, and whose queen I had 

 caged. The eggs produced no larva», al- 

 though the experiments were made in dif- 

 ferent ways. In the fall, the honey-flow 

 diminishing, we fed heavily, but always 

 unsuccessfully. We wintered the colony 

 under the best conditions, but unfortu- 

 nately the queen died during the winter. 

 The trouble was doubtless owing to some 

 sexual defect in the queen." 



POLLEN IN SECTIONS, ETC. 



"Hello, Doolittle ! Shoveling snow, are 

 you?" 



"Looks like it. Smith. What a terrible 

 stonn we have had for the past twenty-four 

 hours! Did you ever see it snow and blow 

 harder than it did 3'esterday afternoon? 



"I do not know that I ever did — could not 

 see ten rods, the storm was so heavy, and 

 it piled into buildings ever3'where. Have 

 vou noticed how this south storm drove the 

 snow into the entrances of the hives till it 

 has piled the snow clear up between the 

 combs?" 



" No, I had not looked at the seven hives 

 which I have outdoors, but I know that it 

 does sometimes do this where the entrance 

 is not shaded from the sun or shielded from 

 the wind. I always shield mine." 



"How do you do this? It is something I 

 never heard of. I supposed it was neces- 

 sary to leave the entrances open all winter." 



"The entrances are not closed more than 

 yours. I simply set a wide board on the 

 bottom-board to the hive, leaving it out 

 away from the hive, where it rests on the 

 bottom-board four or five inches, so that, 

 when the top is leaned up against the hive 

 above the entrance, it will stay there, thus 

 making a storm-door, as it were, in front of 

 the open entrance. Let us go up to the 

 hives, and then you will understand better 

 about this, and we will see virhether the 

 snow has blown in or not. There, do you 

 see how nicely that leaning board shields 

 the entrance and front of the hive from sun 

 and snow?" 



"Yes, certainly. I wonder some one has 

 not written about this." 



"I have written the matter up, but not in 

 several years. There, now that the board 



