1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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for building up. He gives bees with Carni- 

 olan blood a long preference for building up 

 this spring. I never saw as conspicuous a dif- 

 ference as this spring, and all in favor of Car- 

 niolan blood for building up; and yet last week 

 I had a letter from a good bee-keeper who 

 states that they are all right for building up, 

 but no good for honey-gathering. The ex- 

 planation must be that the hive was too small 

 or the super room insufficient. Carniolans 

 can not be run in this way; and if theyLreak 

 to pieces swarming, the honey will not be 

 obtained. Again, if they are kept from 

 swarming when they have the impulse, they 

 resent such treatment more than other vari- 

 eties. 



WHITE-HONEY FLOW. 



The white-honey flow is over, and the crop 

 will be from very little in some localities to 

 excellent. There is this, however, to remem- 

 ber: The market was absolutely bare of old 

 honey. The heavy winter loss two years ago 

 wiped two-thirds of the bees out. A year 

 ago swarming and increase were very mode- 

 rate. Last winter, and the spring, again, wiped 

 out half or more of the remaining bees; the 

 crop, therefore, will not be large. The Unit- 

 ed States is, perhaps, much like ourselves as 

 to loss of bees. The flow there has general- 

 ly been poor, and all the honey it has pro- 

 duced will sell at a high price. The duty on 

 honey into Canada is 3 cents per lb. Fruit 

 is high, and the price of honey will be high- 

 er than in many years. 



Gleanings from Foreign Fields. 



BY W. K. MORRISON. 



In connection with the show of the Con- 

 fectionery trades in the Royal Agricultural 

 Hall, London, England, there will be a bee 

 and honey show, Sept. 7 — 14. The cash 

 prizes amount to nearly $480 00. Silver and 

 bronze medals are also offered. 



Dr. Miller thinks the Swiss favor the blacks 

 altogether; but M. Ruffy, some time ago, 

 obtained the votes of 204 bee-keepers as 

 follows: 95 for crosses (hybrids); 90 for 

 blacks, 13 for Italians, and 7 for Cai'niolans. 

 It ought to be remembered that the leather- 

 colored Italian is a natural cross or hybrid 

 between the yellow bee of the plains and the 

 black of the mountains, and, like all crosses, 

 has greater size and more stamina than the 

 originals. It has more Italian blood than 

 black, and reverts back in this country to 

 the original yellow stock. 



A NEW BEE JOURNAL. 



Australia has a new bee-journal bearing 

 the significant title, Tht Commonwealth Bee- 

 keeper. It has hitherto formed a part of the 

 Fruit World, but now feels able to walk 

 alone. And by the looks of the first number 

 it can do it, as the subject matter is original. 



and well printed on good paper. It has the 

 true Australian flavor about it too. The 

 editor and publisher is W. L. Davey, of Mel- 

 bourne, who is thoroughly posted on the bee- 

 keeping industry of the antipodes, and who 

 is likely to make a distinct success of his new 

 enterprise if any one can. 

 .^ 

 The Australians have their troubles as well 

 as we, in that land of the kangaroo. Ac- 

 cording to The Commonwealth Bee-keeper 

 there is some danger of legislation being en- 

 acted which will allow the valuable native 

 forests to be destroyed by "ring-barking." 

 This practice is about as disastrous as a for- 

 est fire is with us. It has been the practice 

 of the Australian government to parcel out 

 the land in vast ranches to capitalists who 

 forthwith destroy all trees by a process known 

 as "ring-barking." It is needless to say 

 there is a class who want this plan continued 

 till all the land is taken up. The bee-keep- 

 ers want this stopped, as the principal forest 

 trees of the Australian continent are honey- 

 bearing. It is to be hoped they will succeed. 



Owing to the death of its owner, El Col- 

 menero Esjmnol (The Spanish Bee-keeper) 

 was discontinued some time ago. A new 

 paper, the Qazeta Apistica, published at the 

 same address, has just appeared to take its 

 place, and Spain again joins the ranks of 

 modern apiculture. 



Almost simultaneously with the foregoing 

 has appeared La Apicultura Espanola, also 

 published at Barcelona, Spain, Gerona, 181. 

 M. Pous Fabreques is editor. 



We learn from Corrispondenza Apistica 

 that a new bee- journal has recently been 

 started in Rome, Italy. It is styled UAvve- 

 nire Apicolo, and it is edited by Prof. G. Bo- 

 nafede, of Rome. The address of the new 

 aspirant for apicultural honors is 168 Via 

 Principe Amedeo, Rome. 



BEE-JOUKNALS IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE. 



" Allgemeine Zeitung fiir Bienenzucht," 

 Konstance, Germany. 



" Bayerische Bienen- und Obst-bauzeit- 

 ung, " Neumarkt, Germany. 



" Bienenvater," Vienna, Austria. 



' ' Das Bienenwirtschaf tliches Centralblatt, ' ' 

 Hannovei", Germany. 



"Bienenzeitung," Limpertsberg bei Lux- 

 emburg, Luxemburg. 



"Bienenzeitung fiir Schleswig-Holstein," 

 Husum, Germany. 



" Der deutsche Imker aus Bobmen," Prag, 

 Bohemia, Austria. 



"Deutsche illustrierte Bienenzeitung," 

 Leipzig, Germany. 



"Die Biene, " UschatYenburg, Germany. 



"DieBiene," Hirzenhain, Hesse, Germa- 

 ny- 



"Die Bienenplege, " Hustingen, Wurtem- 

 berg. 



"Die Bie und ihre Zucht," Durlach, 15a- 

 den, Germany. 



"Die Deutsche Bienenzucht," Ostmann- 

 stedt, Thiiringen, Germany. 



