. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March, 1909. American Hee Journal in Trieste (a town of over 200,000 inhabi- tants) it is in consequence of ray slow but steady work for the benefit of bee-keepers in general. The house has also a lower room where the bee-work is done, as pressing and sticking the foundation into the frames, extracting, etc. In the shade are 30 hives capable of 24, 20. and 16 frames, according to the strength of the colonies. In the rear is an old cement filter turned downward like a straw skep. and makes the home of a strong colony; also an old queen-rearing box from
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March, 1909. American Hee Journal in Trieste (a town of over 200,000 inhabi- tants) it is in consequence of ray slow but steady work for the benefit of bee-keepers in general. The house has also a lower room where the bee-work is done, as pressing and sticking the foundation into the frames, extracting, etc. In the shade are 30 hives capable of 24, 20. and 16 frames, according to the strength of the colonies. In the rear is an old cement filter turned downward like a straw skep. and makes the home of a strong colony; also an old queen-rearing box from Sartori, in Milan; all other hives have, as a matter of course, the same frames, which I can interchange and reverse at pleasure. With the colonies I have, I have built up quite a library on bees, con- sisting of books and treatises on bee-keep- ing summing up to over 300 volumes, besides a goodly number of journals. American bee- literature makes a fair number of these. In this country flows of honey, as it is the fashion with you, are about unknown. We have fair honey-producing plants, and some countries in Austria have also very good honey crops, but "takes" as sometimes reported from your country sound like fairy tales to us. Alex. Schroeder. Trieste, Austria, Dec. 15, 1908. The picture of Mr. Schroeder's apiary appears on the front page of this num- ber. Mr, and Mrs. Schroeder visited the United States last fall, and got as far west as Chicago and Marengo, 111. it be noted that in this case, instead of being of poor quality the wax was very fine. Mr. Greiner says : I notice what you say in the "Editorial Comments" in last issue about propolis and wax. My experience is somewhat different. For several years I made it a practise _ to save all scrapings from sections and section- holders, wide frames and supers. One time I had nearly a kettleful, perhaps 2 gallons. I placed this on the stove while I was busy doing other work, and from time to time, after t
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