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slackens during the night. The raoi?t favor- 

 able conditions for the former are cool 

 nights occurring between liDtand dry days; 

 or in other words, moisture and darkness. 

 He made an artificial llow, at a tin « 

 when naturally there was none, by setting 

 branches in water in the dark where the air 

 was saturated with moisture. J. K. Kuntz, 

 who reports the above, adds that heavy flows 

 of honey-dew in his region ( Alsace ) take 

 place at intervals of three to five years. 



L'Apiculteuu. — Prof. B jnnier, here writ- 

 ing in his own person, besides mentioning 

 some of the above facts, says the bees, 

 while preferring ordinary nectar when they 

 can get it, exercise a choice in gathering 

 honey - dew, generally in favor of that of 

 vegetable origin ; though one instance is cit- 

 ed in which that of insect origin was pre- 

 ferred. This contradicts Vogel's statement 

 at the Vienna convention that no honey-dew 

 is gathered by bees which is not a product 

 of plant-lice. 



In opposition to the idea that supersedure 

 should be left to the bees, M. Devauchelle 

 gives four cases in his experience in which 

 the bees attempted to raise queens out of 

 season. 



The " Capuchin " hive, alluded to last 

 mouth, is illustrated. The idea appears to 

 be, not to have several csionies in one hive, 

 but any number of hives which can be put 

 together at pleasure. The hives are really 

 separate ; but each one has a sort; of gallery 

 in the upper part of one of its sides, extend- 

 ing its whole length, apparently two or 

 three inches wide, so that when the hive is 

 placed alongside of another hive ( which 

 presumably has another opening to corres- 

 pond ) there is a closed passage for heat and 

 scent between the two. Something which 

 in the cut looks like wire cloth apparently 

 prevents the bees from access to this gallery. 

 They appear to be "federated" only in the 

 (extracti'ig) supers. The latter are wide 

 enough to cover not only the hives but also 

 the intervals between them, and have remov- 

 able sides, so as to permit of passage from 

 one to the other, making one large super 

 out of whatever number is employed. 

 Leipzigeb Bienenzeitung.— Pastor Fleisch- 

 mann finds in a newspaper the statement 

 that a firm has been established under the 

 title "North German Honey and Wax Works" 

 for the purpose of manufacturing artificial 

 honey out of sugar, honey, and muriatic 

 acid. As this product is with difficulty dis- 



tinguished from genuine honey, he thinks 

 legal i)rotection necessary. 



The horse-hair bee-caps ( Review 18i)."), p. 

 287, ) he says are really veils, wovdn out of 

 horse-hair, very similar to thuse used by 

 oriental women, and "the most comforta- 

 ble thiug in the world. " 



RriEiNiscHE BiEN NZEiTUNG. — Herr Kiel 

 concludes from his experience that queens 

 of small after-swarms, and those reared 

 uuder the superseding impulse, are fertilized 

 sooner, and are less often lost, than others. 

 As a reason for the latter assertion he refers 

 to the fact that in swarming time there are 

 multitudes of bees flying around the en- 

 trances, so that a queen mcty be easily con- 

 fused. 



E. Schroeder reports from the Schweizer- 

 isclie Bienenzeitung that a Dr. Pfister has 

 been investigating the possibility of deter- 

 mining tlie source of honey by means of the 

 pollen-grains found in it. In connection 

 with chemical tests and tasting, he consid- 

 ers this test of great value, though not always 

 reliable. The pollen most frequently found 

 was that of the dandelion. Honey from 

 Mexico, Panama and Havana had no dan- 

 delion pollen, but some entirely new pollen- 

 forms from the Mimosae, Euphorbiaciae, 

 .etc. The honey of North America and 

 Chili can scarcely be distinguished from the 

 European. That of Australia shows the 

 pollen of the eucalyptus. 



MUENCHENER BIENENZEITUNG. — FrOm the 



Centralblatt is copied the following test for 

 paraflin in wax, given by Prof. Landold : 

 Pour smoking sulphuric acid over a piece of 

 wax about the size of a nut, in a porcelain 

 dish, and heat. The mass swells and turns 

 black, emitting abundant gas. After the 

 production of gas has ceased, heat it a few 

 minutes longer and let it cool. The para- 

 ffin will be found in the form of a transpar- 

 ent layer over the black liquid. Even slight 

 traces will be recognized in the form of 

 drops. 



L'Apiooltoke. — In the district of Reggio 

 Calabria, Italy, the country people employ 

 but one way of hiving swarms. They at- 

 tract them by bruising the fresh foliage and 

 tender shoots of the " cedro " citrus medica 

 — It has precisely the same effect on the 

 bees as the scent of a queen. The same 

 method is the only one indicated in a work 

 on apiculture by Don Antonio Calabro 

 ( Naples 1837. ) Dr. Martin tells of his suc- 

 cesses with this plant in hiving a swarm in 



