. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 25, 1915.] THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. 57 sur-tax 20 per cent.â^leduciiig their profits. Many bee papers have ceased publication, iind most of those carried on are feeling the pinch of the hard times. Few Continental ones are passing through, and at the best they are long delayed. The trade in queens has been practically stopped, and there is little prospect of improvement during the coming season. A Neu- Bee-quietner.âThe American Bee Journal quotes one Kossi, who pre- dicts that soon we will use no smoke with the bees. He gives a new w
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 25, 1915.] THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. 57 sur-tax 20 per cent.â^leduciiig their profits. Many bee papers have ceased publication, iind most of those carried on are feeling the pinch of the hard times. Few Continental ones are passing through, and at the best they are long delayed. The trade in queens has been practically stopped, and there is little prospect of improvement during the coming season. A Neu- Bee-quietner.âThe American Bee Journal quotes one Kossi, who pre- dicts that soon we will use no smoke with the bees. He gives a new way to '" t-ame" them. He rubs his hands with powdered naphthaline, and, carefully opening the hive, he lays his hands over the tops of the frames. The odour drives down the beesâand, it is to be presumed, intimi- dates them. Penna's Apianj.âMr. Dadant gives a very interesting account of M. Penna's apiary at Bologna, and he describes it as " By far the finest and best conducted apiary which I have ever seen anywhere, all things ; Some of our Eng- lish apiarists might note that colonies are kept mainly in house apiaries. A would- be expert recently informed me that he could see "no good" in such homes of the bees! Apparently real experts like our Italian friend can see much good in them. M. Penna turns out at the rate of 1,000 young queens per month during April, May, Jiine, and Julyâ5,236 queens in all. Hives and nuclei are everywhere, in the park, in the orchard, in the vine- yard, and he has seven out-apiaries for honey-production. The illustrations of the various apiaries are very good. Wintering.âMessi's. Root are making elaborate experiments in wintering bees in the Root-Holterman quadruple cases, so much favoured in many parts of America in recent years. One point deserves men- tion. While the bees in all these receptacles are " siliowing well " they look better and freslier in colonies with " glass covers not s
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