. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. The Bee-Keeping World Staff Contribvitors: ^ F. GREINER, ADRIAN GETAZ ^ I Contributions to this Department are solicited from all | ~ quarters of the earth. M. FRANCE. ONE RESULT OF FEEDING SUGAR. An apiarist whose bees had been badly weakened by paralysis was com- pelled to feed them in the spring to build them up. Not having any honey he used sugar syrup. He made a small crop and sold it. The buyers got sus- picious and had some of it analyzed. The honey was found to contain 50 per cent, of sugar, and the apiarist had to pay a fine for adulterat
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. The Bee-Keeping World Staff Contribvitors: ^ F. GREINER, ADRIAN GETAZ ^ I Contributions to this Department are solicited from all | ~ quarters of the earth. M. FRANCE. ONE RESULT OF FEEDING SUGAR. An apiarist whose bees had been badly weakened by paralysis was com- pelled to feed them in the spring to build them up. Not having any honey he used sugar syrup. He made a small crop and sold it. The buyers got sus- picious and had some of it analyzed. The honey was found to contain 50 per cent, of sugar, and the apiarist had to pay a fine for adulteration of honey.— Le Rucher Beige. TRANSFERING EGGS. In the Rucher Beige, M. N. Mercier has a long article on the sex of eggs, and whether the queen lays the males or females voluntarily or whether it is the compression of the cells that causes her to lay female eggs in the worker cells. He concludes in favor of the first supposition. Among the difi^erent experiments he made is the following: Drive a colony of bees in a straw hive or any kind of suitable box. Put it on a black cloth. The queen being full of eggs is compelled to lay them or rather expell them at least for some little time. These eggs can easily be seen on the black cloth. Take a needle, dip the point in the white of an egg—not a bee-egg, but a hen's egg. Now touch the bee-egg with the needle and it will stick to it. Furthermore it can be de- posited in a worker cell and will hatch in due time. The fact in itself has no great value, but it occurred to me that instead of transferring larvae in queen rearing, it might be well to transfer eggs. An objection to transferring larvae is that there is some interrup- tion in their feeding; and while it may possibly never do any harm it would be better to avoid it. While on the subject let me relate something that took place right here in Knoxville, Tenn., U. S. A. A country bee-keeper had somehow or other got hold of something about modern queen rearing and transferred l
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