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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 14, 191 4 



an apple-tree; they had been on there long 

 enough to make quite a piece of comb. Then 

 I took 2 more combs of honey and pollen 

 from the old hive and put new bees on, with 

 3 empty combs, and fed the lot with sugar 

 syrup, until all had stores for winter, then I 

 made outside cases and packed them the fol- 

 lowing way: 



■ I put in 5 inches of line hay, and then set 

 the hives in, and filled to the supers all around 

 as tightly as possible with same kind of hay, 

 then tacked a piece of burlap on the bottom 

 of the super, and set it on and filled that with 

 the same, then covered to about the depth of 

 a foot, then put on a good cover that was 

 tight. I will report how they winter. 



My old colony carried out its queen on Aug. 

 19; there were about 100 bees that seemed to 

 crowd her along ahead of them, until they 

 got her to the edge of the alighting-board, and 

 then a few took her and went into the air 

 with her, and that was the last I saw of her. 



D. B. BOTNTON. 



Oxford Co., Maine, Deo. 26. 



A Good Report— Bee House. 



This has been a good year for bees here. 1 

 had 19 colonies, spring count, increased to ai, 

 and have sold $450 worth of honey, and have 

 850 or S60 worth more on hand. 



For 10 years I have not shipped a pound of 

 honey ; I always label it, and by square deal- 

 ing try to increase the trade at home. I have 

 sold 85 dozen quart-jars of extracted honey. 



I send you a cut of my apiary ; since that 

 was taken I have built 3 more. I just started 



the air would take from, and not add to, any 

 liquid. Honey will become thinner in a mois- 

 ture-laden atmosphere, and contains more 

 water, but it will be at the expense of the 

 other ingredients of that honey ; or in other 

 words, it is only a form of decomposition. 

 Moisture is necessary for any natural decom- 

 position. Honey, or any liquid or substance, if 

 left exposed to the air will decompose to some 

 extent. All natural decomposition of any 

 substance is due to unseen vegetable life, 

 hence moisture is necessary to favor the 

 propagation of the same; and when any 

 liquid absorbs moisture from the air it is 

 merely an exchange of solid for water. Hence 

 the said 100 pounds of good honey would 

 weigh less after it became ^i water, and after 

 that honey had been again evaporated 

 down to good, thick honey, it would be less 

 in both bulk and weight than when you first 

 started. 



Honey oozing out through the cappings is 

 probably due, to some extent at least, to the 

 gas caused by said decomposition. 



This is the way I understand the problem. 

 I am perfectly willing to stand corrected, if 

 wrong. J. E. Johnson. 



Knox Co., 111. 



Report fop 1903— Honey from 

 Houses. 



I will give my figures for 1908. I started 

 with 12 colonies, and increased to 30, but I 

 caught a number of swarms. I have taken 

 off 23T4 pounds of comb honey and 406 pounds 

 of chunk honey; I got I'i'.j cents per pouud 



BKE-HOUSE OF IRVING LONG, OF LINN CO., MO. 



putting 8 hives to 16 feet, but found they lost 

 loo many queens. I have adopted 6 hives to 

 16 feet, with 4 or 5 distinct colors together. 

 Bees in white or black hives will never mix, 

 but white will within 5 or 6 feet. I have kept 

 bees in bee-houses for 25 years with the best 

 results. I use a 1134'-inch deep frame, usually 

 9 frames to the hive. 



I feel that a great deal can be done by work- 

 ing up home trade, and increasing the con- 

 sumption of honey. A great many people 

 think the nice comb honey is sugar fed to the 

 bees, and I have sold hundreds of pounds of 

 5-pound extracting frames in direct competi- 

 tion with comb honey at the same price. At 

 home we are known, and can sell good honey 

 in anything if they only know it is pure and 



In hot weather my bee-house is partly or 

 entirely open at the top. This does a great 

 deal to stop swarming, and I am troubled very 

 little with stings or robber-bees. The bees 

 winter better and are cooler in summer. The 

 hives will last forever, and the bee-flxtures are 

 right at hand. A good house, 6 feet by 16, 

 costs about S25 00, and one good colony easily 

 makes that every year. Irving Long. 



Linn Co., Mo., Nov. 20. 



for the comb, and 10 cents a pound for the 

 chunk. I never saw such a honey-flow as we 

 had this year. Our meadows and pastures 

 looked as though a light snow had fallen, all 

 summer. As lo bee-trees, any person could 

 find them. I toujid 3". 



One of my neighbors asked me to come over 

 and take the honey out of the side of his 

 house, and one morning I went. His wife 

 said she had brought a 10-gallon can to 

 put it in. Here is what I got; One large 



Problem of Honey Attracting Water 



Does honey draw water unto itself from the 

 atmosphere; I think I am perfectly safe in 

 saying that there is no such thing as honey 

 having power of itself to draw water from the 

 atmosphere. Crystals and dry substances do 

 absorb moisture from the air, but the same 

 law in chemistry which furnishes moisture for 



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South Dakota.— The Soutli Dakota Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will hold its annual convention 

 id the City Hall, in Yankton, on Wednesday, 

 Jan. 20, at 2 p.m. All members are earnestly 

 requested to be present, and a cordial invitation 

 is extended to all who may be interested in bees 

 and bee-culture. J. M. Hobbs. Sec. 



Yankton, S. Dak. 



New York,— The annual meeting of the New 

 York State Association of Bee- Keepers' Socie- 

 ties will be held in the City Hall. Syracuse, 

 N. Y., Friday, Jan. 15, 1904. N. E. France, W. 

 Z. Hutchinson, and other prominent bee-men 

 will be in attendance. An interesting- program 

 is being prepared. All interested in bees are 

 invited to be present. Special rates have been 

 secured at the Manhattan Hotel for accommo- 

 dations. C. B. Howard, Sec. 



Romulus, N. Y'. 



ninnesota. — The annual meeting of the South- 

 eastern Minnesota and Western Wisconsin Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will meet at Winona, 

 Minn., at the Court House, in the County Com- 

 missioners' room?, on Tuesday, Jan. 1" (and 20', 

 1004. A full attendance of ttie members, their 

 wives and friends, is invited to this, out annual 

 meet. All bee-keepers everywhere are cordially 

 invited to attend. W. K. Bates, Pies. 



Stockton, Minn. 



New York.— Mr. N. E. Prance, of Platteville, 

 Wis., General Manager of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, has been secured by the 

 Bureau of Farmers' Institutes to speak at a 

 series of Bee-Keepers' Institutes in connection 

 with the local bee-keepers' societies as fol- 

 lows: Canandalgaa. Jan. and 7: Romulus, 

 Jan. .'<; Cortland, Jan. '1; Auburn, Jan. 11; Os- 

 wego, Jan. 12; Amsterdam, Jan. 13; Syracuse, 

 Jan. 14 and IS. The meeting on the ISlh will be 

 that of the New Y'ork State Association of Bee- 

 Keepers' Societies. C. B. HcwiRD, Sec. 



Romulus, N. Y. 



