. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER March, have its number and is corresponding- fy entered in the book. Correct re- cord should be kept in regard to the queen, her age, her ancestry, etc. All manipulations should be recorded and the amount of honey taken noted. Abbreviations should be used as much as is practical. HONEY AS CHICKEN-FEED. The Rucher Beige says honey is good for hens. Six parts honey, three parts buckwheat flour, one part sift- ed wood ashes; this mixture is said to be good to promote egg produc- tion, gives the plumage a shiny ap- pearance and


. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER March, have its number and is corresponding- fy entered in the book. Correct re- cord should be kept in regard to the queen, her age, her ancestry, etc. All manipulations should be recorded and the amount of honey taken noted. Abbreviations should be used as much as is practical. HONEY AS CHICKEN-FEED. The Rucher Beige says honey is good for hens. Six parts honey, three parts buckwheat flour, one part sift- ed wood ashes; this mixture is said to be good to promote egg produc- tion, gives the plumage a shiny ap- pearance and is conducive to their health in general. the way, but get some agents to do his bidding, therefore bee-keepers' so- cieties should be careful whom they admit to membership and in whom they place their confidence, for such people as try to advance their own interest under the cover of advanc- ing apiculture and being a help to the bee-keeping world in general, are any- thing but a blessing. Jungklaus in Deutsche Imk aus The bee-keepers in and around Kiel keep on an average about 15 colonies. About one-third of the colonies are in 'box hives, the rest in movable comt) hives. The average net result was 21 pounds of honey per hive.— Schlesw. Hoist. Bztg. The idea of constructing a honey extractor that would empty both sides of a comb at one time is not a new one. It has been propounded in our apicultural press a number of times and it has been admitted that the prin- ciple is all right. January number of Deutsche Bzcht. has an illustration, reproduced here- with, of a home-made extractor of this. ?Jbb. 10. @abctefd)c .^lonigfcftleiibcT. Bochmen expresses the same idea in kind having a capacity of 100 pounds raying "Egotism, the aim to always per hour. This mode of forcing the make money out of your neighbor, honey out of the comb does not in- ^nd to be at the head of the heap at jure it as sometimes does the mode ^ny cost, has nothing to do with the employed in the standard


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