. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1907. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 139 FROM SANTO DOMINGO. lows only a certain percentage of „ , .^ TVT o 1^ • glucose, as that substance is one of Sabana La Mar, Santo Domingo, the chief adulterants that is corn- March 8, 1907. monly used. While the island honey Editor American Bee-Keeper: is Pure and just as wholesome as Permit me to thank The American that produced in any part of the Bee-Keeper and Dr. Blanton for their ^^°''^^' ^^is comparatively large good advice, which came too late, as amount of glucose shows badly in the I had lost all my bees
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1907. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 139 FROM SANTO DOMINGO. lows only a certain percentage of „ , .^ TVT o 1^ • glucose, as that substance is one of Sabana La Mar, Santo Domingo, the chief adulterants that is corn- March 8, 1907. monly used. While the island honey Editor American Bee-Keeper: is Pure and just as wholesome as Permit me to thank The American that produced in any part of the Bee-Keeper and Dr. Blanton for their ^^°''^^' ^^is comparatively large good advice, which came too late, as amount of glucose shows badly in the I had lost all my bees. I have, how- f.^^lysis. The honey shipment of ever, started anew; but on account of ^'^^ ''^^"^s will amount to over 800 difficulty in securing material, could not follow the good doctor's advice in detail, though it was a great help to me, and thereby I avoided many errors. We have the stingless bee here also. They are seen on the bloom of the tamarind tree, though I have never seen any of the other kinds of bees working on this bloom. I do not think that they amount to any- thing—that is, for domestication. The more I read of the Caucasian bee, the more I think it is the same, or very near the same as our native Dominican bee. Its stinging and working propensities are about the same. Will you please tell me the best way to extract pollen from the combs, regardless of the combs, the pollen to be fed? Joseph Braun. If pollen is to be fed, and the combs are not needed otherwise, why extract it? In the comb it is in the most convenient form possible for feeding.—Editor. ENTOMOLOGIST FROM HA- WAII GOES TO WASHING- TON. D. L. Van Dine, experiment station entomologist for the Hawaiian is- lands, arrived a few days ago and is now at Washington, D. C, where he has gone to confer with Dr. L. O Howard, chief of the Bureau of Ento- mology of the Department of Agri- culture, concerning a number of prob- lems that have come up in the ento- mological affairs of the islands.
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