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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1 



will set into the habit of working above the 

 brood; and when the honey harvest arrives, 

 take off these upper stories and put on the 

 sections, which the bees will immediately 

 enter, as they have been used to working in 

 upper stories." 



" Do you think there is any thing in that?" 



"Yes." 



"But the bees store what they gather in 

 those combs, do they not ? ' ' 



"Yes, and in doing this the queen is given 

 all the room in the combs below, so that she 

 fills a larger space with brood, which gives 

 a greater working force of l)ees in the fields 

 during harvest. Of course, a queen-exclud- 

 ing honey- board is used to keep the queen in 

 the brood-chamber." 



"What becomes of the honey stored in the 

 combs in Ihe upper story ? " 



"It is generally extracted, but the publish- 

 ers of Gleanings will send you a book that 

 will tell you how it can be put into the sec- 

 tions by the bees, and thus advance your 

 prospects of a greater yield of section honey 

 than by any other plan I know of. This part 

 would be too long to add to our talk to-day." 



Gleanings from Foreign Fields. 



BY W. K. MORRISON. 



Honey market in Berlin, Germany, ordi- 

 nary extracted, 30 cts.; comb honey, 37^. 

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In Barcelona, Spain, wax is quoted at 33 

 to 35; honey of Aragon, wholesale, 7; honey 

 of Catalonia, 6^. 



T/ie Journal a^ AgrieuUure Trojjicale gives 

 the prices of tropical wax as follows, per 

 lb.: Sierra Leone beeswax, in Liverpool, 30 

 cts.; Madagascar beeswax, in France, 31 

 cts.; Tonkin beeswax, in France, 30 cts.; 

 Japanese vegetable wax, in France, 39 to 

 30 cts. 



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According to L''Apicultcnr the following 

 prices are for large amounts of wax F. O. B. 

 boat or wagon in Belgium, per pound: Ben- 

 guella. West Africa, 33 cts.; Zanzibar, East 

 Africa, 83, Portugal, 33; Algeria, in loaves 

 or squares, 33; British India, probably dor- 

 sata, 38^; Cuba, 33; Mozambique, Portu- 

 guese East Africa, 33; palm wax, white, 

 from Brazil, 45; the same, yellow, 45. 



We quote the following from UApiculteiir 

 concerning the prices of honey and wax in 

 France. The very best quality of extracted 

 honey, wholesale, 30 cents. In Brittany the 

 price is less — 16 to 30. Wax, in Brittany, 30 



to 35. At Havre foreign honey is about 10 

 cts. Wax, at Havre, is 35 cts. Morocco wax 

 at Marseilles is 30 cts. ; Algerian wax at Mar- 

 seilles is 31 to 83 cts.; Levant wax at Mar- 

 seilles, 33 to 35 cts. ; Aden wax at Marseilles, 

 34 cts.; honey, very best French extracted, 

 at Marseilles, 30 cts. 



In l^Aheille Bourguignonnc a honey-deal- 

 er advertises honey for sale, wholesale, at 

 these prices, per lb.: Finest French honey, 

 31 cts.; second quality, 30; third quality, for 

 feeding bees, 1(5; Chilian honey, 18; honey 

 chocolate in squares, 30. It may be remark- 

 ed that honey chocolate seems to be popular 

 in some parts of Europe. Probably honey 

 in bricks with a flavoring of chocolate would 

 sell in this country, now that the pure-food 

 law is in force. 



At the meeting of the bee-keepers' associ- 

 ations of Germany, Austria, and Hungary, 

 held in Loben, Austria, last fall, a resolution 

 was passed asking the governments of their 

 respective countries to "retain the word 

 honey" for the product of the honey-bee, 

 and not allow the woi'd to be applied to any 

 artificial production or imitation. There is 

 good sense and economic judgment behind 

 this resolution. 



Some of the German bee-keepers are rec- 

 ommending milk and honey for the chil- 

 dren. One paper has an article on the sub- 

 ject, so laudatory as to be positively alarm- 

 ing. However, there may be something in 

 this, as we know both buttermilk and honey 

 have very valuable properties, and a combi- 

 nation of the two ought to be good when we 

 come to think of it. We know they mix 

 something with the buttermilk in Kentucky. 

 As Gleanings is a temperance paper we 

 can not mention names; but in all the other 

 States honey would be a better ingredient. 



Ij'' Apiculture for January calls attention to 

 the pure-food law of France, passed April 1, 

 1905, which in its main outlines resembles 

 the law passed by our Congress, June 30, 

 last year. But the power to enforce the law 

 is vested in the Secretary of the Interior. 

 The latter seems to have the power to call 

 on all public officials to help him administer 

 the law. There are 15 laboratories charged 

 with the detection of adulteration or mis- 

 branding of all alimentary substances. The 

 editor sagely remarks that the subject of 

 adulteration is of great importance to hon- 

 ey-producers. 



Mr. Halleux, in L^Abellle et sa Culture, 

 states that the retail price fixed by the local 

 federation of bee-keepers for Condi'oz, Hes- 

 baye, and Luxembourg, Belgium, is at the 

 rates of about 30 cts. per lb. He also states 

 the price is not excessive, as the price in 

 Berlin is higher — 33 to 37 cts. At Bremen 

 comb honey is worth 30 cts. per lb.; and at 

 the market in Reichenberg, Bohemia, good 



