. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. ?iiS --f^t-M-f4 ????»??? ??????????????? THE Bee-Keeping World staff Contributors : F. GREINER and ADRIAN GETAZ. Contributions to this Department are solicited from all quarters of the GEKMANY. A GERMAN CONVENTION. The great annual convention of the Ger- man and Austrian bee-keepers was held in Danzig, the Venice of the North, and was well attended. As many as 25 addresses were recorded on the program, but a por- tion of the speakers were absent. Dudeck, the first speaker, talked about the needs of fresh air for the bees in winter. Guen- t
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. ?iiS --f^t-M-f4 ????»??? ??????????????? THE Bee-Keeping World staff Contributors : F. GREINER and ADRIAN GETAZ. Contributions to this Department are solicited from all quarters of the GEKMANY. A GERMAN CONVENTION. The great annual convention of the Ger- man and Austrian bee-keepers was held in Danzig, the Venice of the North, and was well attended. As many as 25 addresses were recorded on the program, but a por- tion of the speakers were absent. Dudeck, the first speaker, talked about the needs of fresh air for the bees in winter. Guen- ther followed with a discussion of the dif- ferent bee hives and different sized frames; also about the secrets of obtaining large honey yields. (Guenther is one of the oldest and still active bee-keepers of Ger- many.) Rev. Sydow tried to explain "Why the bees build their cells ; The debate following showed that there were many men of different minds. Bassler, Austria, spoke next on sugar-feeding in the bee yard, which created considerable stir. The meeting passed the following resolu- tions: 1. We denounce all sugar-feeding when it is done for the purpose of selling the product as honey. 2. We do not recommend the taking of all the honey from our bees and substitut- ing sugar syrup. 3. We recommend to substitute sugar for unwholesome honey such as honey dew; al- so the feeding of sugar to insure the neces- sary winter stores when such are ; The subject of foul brood received its share of the attention next. Lichtenthaler brought out as "something new" (?) that the spreading of the disease was largely owing to the practice of exchanging combs from one hive to the other. A desire was manifested for an effective foul brood law. In the line of law making, Fitczeck spoke on the lack of protection that the bee and the bee business received from the general gov- ernment. This was supplemented by Heydt, who urged that sugar refineries, candy s
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