. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. I907-] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 235. THE BEE-KEEPING WORLD Stall Contributors: F. Greiner, Adrian Geiaz Conlribulions'lo this deparlmenl are solicited from all quarters ol the earth GERMANY. puffball or some other material is According to the investigation by still largely in vogue and is one in- Dr. M. Kuckuck, all the eggs laid by a volving the least trouble. normal queen bee contain sperm, or , are fertilized. It will be remembered For feeding purposes L u d w i g that F. Dickel championed this theory thinks that sugar syrup need not be for a t
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. I907-] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 235. THE BEE-KEEPING WORLD Stall Contributors: F. Greiner, Adrian Geiaz Conlribulions'lo this deparlmenl are solicited from all quarters ol the earth GERMANY. puffball or some other material is According to the investigation by still largely in vogue and is one in- Dr. M. Kuckuck, all the eggs laid by a volving the least trouble. normal queen bee contain sperm, or , are fertilized. It will be remembered For feeding purposes L u d w i g that F. Dickel championed this theory thinks that sugar syrup need not be for a term of years, and it is owing boiled at all; simply hot water stir- to his agitation that scientists have red into the sugar till all is dissolved, again taken up the matter of "par- Many bee-keepers in Germany (and thenogenesis," which had been laid America.—F. G.; have practiced this "ad acta" since Prof. Siebold. A way and have discovered no disad- great deal has been said pro and con vantage. A poor article of sugar, he during the last few years on the sub- says, in Leipz. Bztg., is not improved ject. Dickel gave his theory and by boiling, and good pure sugar is actual observations at the hive. There wholesome anyway. seemed to be a disagreement which now seems to vanish. Dr. Kuckuck Kuchenmueller condemns in All- speaks of his investigations in Leipz. gem. Ztg. f. Bzcht. the use of smoke Bztg. but gives no particulars. to subdue bees, and says that by • spraying them with sweetened water, It is still adhered to in Germany using an atomizer for the purpose, that the only safe way of curing foul they may be brought into a very ami- brood is the destruction of infested cable state of mind, so that work on hives, bees, brood and all. Neumann, the hive becomes a pleasure rather in Leipz. Bztg., gives the American than a dread. He only gives the bees method of treating the disease, not one puff of smoke when he first opens with the intention that it shoul
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