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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW- 



measure destroyed. To go more fully into 

 the matter woukl require renewed and 

 fresh material, also larvae and their food. 



A correspondent gathers from a pamphlet 

 published by the U. S. Dep't. of Agriculture 

 that most of the honey shipped from Cali- 

 fornia to England is very largely adultera- 

 ted with glucose. 



For paste to stick on labels on tin, J. T. 

 A. uses 3 teaspoons of honey and 1 of salt to 

 every 3 tablespoons of flour, with water 

 enough to make it of thetliickness of paint. 



CoNDUiTE DU RucHER ( May and June ).— 

 An experience of a number of years 

 leads the author to use separators. — 

 The Heddon method of preventing afier- 

 swarms has given him excellent results. — An 

 average swarm, he says, weighs 2 kilos ( 4 

 lbs. 6^4 oz. ) ; a good one 3 or 4 kilos. — In ex- 

 tracting from oblong frames the bottom-bar 

 should preceed and the top bar follow, with 

 regard to the direction of the motion. — In 

 order to effect the separation of the foamy 

 and thinner portions of axtracted honey, 

 the author uses a tank in which the honey 

 remains for several days after being extract- 

 ed. The retail packages are filled by a fau- 

 cet below. The tank is refilled before be- 

 ing entirely emptied. " Granulated honey ' ' 

 he says " should be handled as little as 

 possible, and for the delivery of our crop 

 we distribute it among cans of different 

 weights, which are delivered just as they 

 are. * * * In France honey sold at 

 wholesale is generally put up and delivered 

 in the wood, white honeys in kegs of D!) lbs., 

 d^rk and strained honeys in barrels of GGO 

 lbs. ; but in Switzerland the majority of bee- 

 keepers prefer to use tin, and both at whole- 

 sale and retail deliver it in cylindrical cans 

 holding SX to .55 lbs. These are provided 

 with a bail and cover to fit, around the rim 

 of which is pasted a strip of cotton cloth or 

 paper. * * * Por samples, and packages 

 of from 1 to 2r> lbs., tin packages with a 

 special fastening are now manufactured at 

 a slight cost. " 



L'Apioulteur. — In connection with the 

 above, and with remarks of Mr. West on 

 page 117, the following quotation from the 

 January number is suggestive : " There is a 

 general complaint in France on account of 

 the imperfect granulation of the honeys of 

 the year ISM ; almost all remain liquid. 

 This occurrence is in fact rather rare, but 

 there is nothing to be disquieted about, ex- 

 cept the annoyances in the shipping of re- 



tail packages, " and a correspondent writes, 

 after speaking of the non-granulation of 

 his honey, " It would be useful to know an 

 easy method of hastening granulation, as 

 many think that non-granulated honey is of 

 poor quality. " The reason for the failure 

 to granulate is supposed to be the moist 

 atmosphere last fall. 



It is evidently uot detrimental to honey 

 producers in France and Switzerland to sell 

 granulated honey directly to the consumer. 

 That it is here, is possible because we have 

 been working against our own interests in 

 keeping granulated honey so much out of 

 sight of the public that it has become a 

 a stra 'ge thing. Mr. F. (). Blair says on 

 yage 181 of the American Bee .Journal:" I 

 have a market in Trinidad for all the honey 

 I can put it up in pails holding r>, 8, and 10 

 lbs., and of course it soon candies. The 

 labels include directions for liquefying so as 

 not to ruin the flavor. Each customer melts 

 it to suit himself, and I hear no complaints." 



Leipzigek Bienenzeitung. — Schoenfeld 

 is of the opinion that the continual feeding 

 of sugar gradually weakens the digestive 

 organs of bees, so that they succumb more 

 readily to dysentery and bacilli. He partic- 

 ularly condemns feeding sugar in large 

 quantities, as it can not then be properly 

 inverted, or changed to grape sugar, by the 

 bees. 



Seven experiment stations in Switzerland 

 have experimented on a total of ten colonies 

 to see how none but old bees do the work 

 ordinarily done by young ones. When the 

 bees were flying most freely from a weak 

 colony, it was removed from its place, and 

 the queen returned to the flight-bees on the 

 old stand, together with one frame of un- 

 sealed brood and two of honey. Some such 

 colonies displayed no disquietude, and others 

 did ; one killed its queen. With that excep- 

 tion, they acted exactly like young bees. 

 The queen was fed, brood cared for, queens 

 raised, comb built, and a division of labor 

 instituted, exactly as if young bees were 

 present. They assumed the appearance of 

 young bees, with well filled abdomens, and 

 like them tumbled from the combs when the 

 hives were inspected. 



Rheinisohe Bienenzeitung. — One of Gra- 

 venhorsts' methods of making artificial 

 swarms is as follows ; all the bees of a strong 

 colony are brushed into an empty hive with 

 starters, which is given a new location, 

 while the combs, with the old hive, remain 



