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perish; that an overloading of the intes- 

 tines can not take place, and hence 

 diarrhoea never can ensue because of it, 

 or of an excessive consumption of food; 

 that diarrlnti is promoted by cleansing 

 flights, which chill the bees; and that 

 licjuid excrements are only discharged by 

 diseased and never by healthy bees. 

 One may produce tliarrhiva in summer by 

 suddenly sprinkling, with cold water 

 from a brook, bees brushed on a piece of 

 linen. In a short time the linen will be 

 spotted. 



.\ \v.\x-pre:ss. 



Prof. Schniid's wax-press, a cheap lever 

 press combined with a can and perforated 

 cylinder so that the wax-material is press- 

 ed in a sack in a cylinder under boiling 

 water, and the wax drawn off above, was 

 experimented with by Editor Weippl and 

 two other bee-keepers, using old and 

 pretty black comb. Forty-three per 

 cent, was obtained. The sack was left in 

 water over night, and a little more wax 

 rose to the surface, but scarcely two per 

 cent. The refuse formed a rather friable 

 cake. The press is not claimed to yield 

 quite as much wax as a screw press, but 

 considering the difference in cost, is said 

 to be preferable for the small bee-keeper. 

 FERTIUTY IN SLfM-GlM. 



Herr (rosch is quoted as saying in the 

 Schleswig - Holsteinische Bienenzeitung 

 that he was offered 3 marks per 100 kilo- 

 grammes for slum-gum after being press- 

 ed, by a party who pro])Osed to make a 

 fertilizer out of it by mixing other fertil- 

 izers with it. The reviewer, Alois Alfon- 

 sus, adds that he knows by his own ex- 

 perience that this material has great 

 value as a fertilizer. 



To cause the impurities of wax to set- 

 tle, Herr .\lfonsys throws in a handful of 

 finely pulverized salt while the wax is 

 boiling. 



BLK.\CHINC. \v.\x. 



To bleach wax, according to a quota- 

 tion from the Oesterreich-ungarische 

 Bienenzeitung, it is melted and allowed 

 to fall through a skimmer into a large 



vessel of colil water, which is kept stirred. 

 The finely divided wax obtained is then 

 put in a sieve and exposed to the sun two 

 weeks, and often sprinkled with water. 



THE POWKK OK printer's INK. 



Herr Maurus cites the experience of a 

 bee-keeper in an agricultural district, who, 

 as soon as his honey is harvested, adver- 

 tises far and near thai he will exchange 

 honey for grain in small amounts at fixed 

 prices. He always (li.sposes of it ail, sev- 

 eral hundred kilos, and sells the grain for 

 cash. He also reports another case of 

 success. A bee-keeper's wife, a woman 

 of education and .social standing, when 

 a large sum of money unexpecteilly 

 became due, helped her husband out 

 of the hole by dressing as a peasant 

 woman and selling their honey from 

 house to house in genuine American 

 style. The honey was packed in glasses 

 of four sizes, attractively labeled, and 

 accompanied by honey leaflets. She 

 found the richest and most aristocratic 

 people the poorest customers, while the 

 middle classes furnished many more buy- 

 ers, but they often did not have the mon- 

 ey to pay for it. After one day's experi- 

 ence of this, she wrote a letter to the 

 editor of the newspaper of the largest 

 circulation in the town, setting forth the 

 progress of apiculture, the lack of a mar- 

 ket, and the advantages of honey as food 

 and medicine, enclosing one of her leaf- 

 lets, and asking the editor to speak a good 

 word for her in the interests of the bee- 

 keepers of the land. The amiable editor 

 proved a veritable dens ex machina, for 

 he printed her letter in full and added a 

 recommendation, and the fact was at 

 once visible in the attitude of the people 

 she called on, most of whom now knew 

 what honey was 'good for. The result 

 was that 600 ]xjunds were sold within a 

 week. The moral, I take it, is not that 

 editors vdll advertise free, but that news- 

 papers have power. 



.\ Q\h.K HONEY-M.\RKET. 



On August 29. 1S97, through the efforts 

 of the Kaerntner association, a honey- 



