AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



647 



Plans for Bee-Houses by Josef. 

 Kach. This is an illustrated pamphlet 

 of 28 pages and cover, published by C. 

 A. Schwetscbke & Son, Braunschweig, 

 Germany. There are plans and specifi- 

 cations for 21 different kinds of bee- 

 houses, winter repositories, etc., and 

 these are illustrated by 35 engravings. 

 It is beautifully printed in German on 



softly to and fro in the crisp breeze, 

 apparently crooning itself to sleep with 

 a soft, creaking sound -that kept time 

 with the motion. It was old, worn, and 

 meek looking, and one must get to the 

 leeward side to read, where the weather 

 as yet had failed to obliterate the single 

 word, " Bees." 



Standing in the middle of the sun- 

 fiecked floor, musing over the picture of 

 a rosy-cheeked boy on a hard bench in 



HOCJSE-APIARY IN GERMAN ?. 



good paper, and our German apiarists 

 should each procure a copy. Price, one 

 mark. Send to Germany for it. 



An Indiana Apiary was thus 

 written up by a reporter for the In- 

 dianapolis Journal of last week : 



The golden Autumn sunlight and 

 ^rustle of falling leaves were all about a 

 little wooden building that stands 

 meekly among its more pretentious 

 neighbors on East Walnut Street. There 

 was no sign of life about the place when 

 the writer peered through its tiny win- 

 dows ; even the street was deserted 

 without. Over the door a sign swung 



a stuffy school-room, and a booming 

 bumble-bee gorging upon a big blossom 

 in the center of a clover field, the re- 

 porter had not noticed the entrance of a 

 tall young man who knew all about 

 bees, honey, and beeswax. This was 

 Mr. Walter S. Pouder, and in the short 

 time the reporter spent in his cozy little 

 place, showed himself to be a thorough 

 master of the apiary. 



"My bees are all at rest now, but I 

 shall be very glad to exhibit the inside 

 of a hive, though it is a trifie dangerous 

 at this season of the year, the bees, be- 

 coming cold, also become very ugly." 

 That offer was declined with agility. 



" Now," he continued, "I will show 

 you a queen bee of Italian breed, which 



