Jan. 28, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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secret lies in the making of the candy. It you 

 are in too great a hurry yo>i would better 

 postpone the making until you get control of 

 your patience, because if you scorch the 

 candy the least bit it is not fit for bees, and is 

 almost sure death to them. So I wish to say 

 that the recipe, in a time of scarcity of honey, 

 is a valuable one, if the proper precaution is 

 taken for the preparation. I don't know 

 whether Mr. Abbott is the originator of the 

 recipe or not, but let him be who he may, he 

 has conferred a great favor on the bee-l<eep- 

 ing fraternity, if they will be cautious in its 

 preparation, not to scorch or burn in the 

 least. As for myself, it I could prepare the 

 candy myself, I can winter a colony on the 

 verge of starvation. I know it is all right, if 

 properly done. J. B. AusMUS. 



Benton Co., Ark., Dec. 26. 



Appreciates the Bee-Papeps. 



My duties in the railway office compel rae 

 to work with my bees mornings and evenings, 

 and I find it very pleasant and healthful, as 

 well as a remunerative recreation. I have 

 been very successful, so far, and I feel that it 

 is mostly due to the reading of the " Old Reli- 

 able " and other bee-papers. I could not get 

 along without reading such papers, if they 

 cost me five times as much as they do now. 

 Geo. H. Rea. 



Jefferson Co., Pa., Dec. 34. 



Wired Combs from Starters. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, in reply to " Virginia" on 

 page 795, says : " No, you cannot be sure that 

 the bees will build the septum directly on the 

 wire." Virginia had asked if it would tend to 

 insure strong, well-built combs to wire 

 frames when only starters were given. My 

 experience would lead me to advise the wires, 

 for it is very rarely, with me, that the bees 

 fail to build the septum on the wires, and I 

 always wire frames, even with half-inch start- 

 ers. I find two parallel wires sullicient, and 

 it is difficult in most cases to distinguish 

 combs from starters and those from full sheets 

 of foundation. I am not, however, an advo- 

 cate of starters. 1 prefer full sheets, as a 

 rule. C. S. Harris. 



Volusia Co., Fla. 



Moths Don't Come from Butterflies. 



I would like to point out a glaring error in 

 a letter signed "Nebraska Subscriber," ap- 

 pearing on page 797. He is talking about the 

 moth — Galleria cerella— and says: "One of 

 the bee-keepers wanted to know what made 

 the moth. It is the butterflies," etc. ; and 

 further on he adds; "I kept all the butter- 

 flies killed off this summer and am bothered 

 no more." 



I would like to point out that a butterfly 

 and a moth are quite separate and distinct in- 

 sects, as much as any two different species of 

 birds, say a robin and a whip-poor-will ! 

 Therefore he might kill every butterfly in 

 Nebraska, and not be doing the moth one 

 particle of harm. 



Butterflies and moths are two groups of in- 

 sects which together form the order Lepidop- 

 tera. AU butterflies are diurnal in their flight, 

 while moths with many exceptions are crepus- 

 cular or nocturnal. The antennie of all but- 

 terflies agree in having their ends " knobbed " 

 or "clubbed," hence the name for them, Rho- 

 palocera; while the antenuie of moths are «( 

 )io (•«.«(• ever knobbed or clubbed, but may be 

 prismatic, serrate, pectinate, moniliform, or 

 filiform, and owing to this variety of anten- 

 na" moths have been termed Heterecera. 



In butterflies the antenuM- are straight, and 

 stand out rigidly in front of the head, while 

 in moths they are usually curved and can gen- 

 erally be folded back on the body. There are 

 h main groups or families of butterflies, viz. 

 Papilionid;e, Nymphalid*, Erycinid;(>, Lycaen- 

 ida', and Hesperiid*. While moths are 

 roughly divided into Sphingida', Bombycidie, 

 Noctuida?, Geometrida;, Pyralid*, Tortricid;e, 

 and Pterophorida?. 



It would be quite impossible for any butter- 

 fly to lay an egg that would produce anv kind 

 of moth, quite as impossible as for a queen- 



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bee to lay an egg that would produce a hornet 

 or a yelluw-Jaoliet. 



The correspondent is also mistaken in 

 thinking that eggs are deposited on the bees, 

 as no bee would suflEer any moth to tal<e such 

 a liberty with her. It is a great deal more 

 liifely that the bees take the eggs into the 

 hives with their loads of pollen, as I have 

 often seen the moths hovering around any 

 bloom that bees frequent, and it is most likely 

 that they lay their eggs on those plants, and 

 the bees may accidentally gather some of 

 them with the pollen. 



The remedy for moth is: Keep nothing but 

 pure Italian bees, and you will never be 

 troubled with them any more. 



" A Bee-Keepeb in Virginia." 



Augusta Co., Va., Dec. 17. 



A Beginner's Report. 



The "Old Reliable" is a line paper. I 

 would not like to be without it for twice its 

 price. I am just getting a start with bees. I 

 bought a colony in August, 1902, transferred 

 them on full sheets of foundation, and fed 

 them sugar syrup the first of September. They 

 came through the winter in fine shape. From 

 the one colony, spring count, 1!)0;^, I got H 

 good swarms, and from the first 2 swarms and 

 parent colony I got ".t pounds of surplus 

 honey, and all went into winter quarters with 

 plenty of stores. 



I winter my bees on the summer stands, 

 with cushion frames on each side of the clus- 

 ter, also a cushion on top, and plenty of out- 

 side protection. O. C. Hotze. 



Monroe Co., Ind., Jan. 3. 



A Swarm on a Hat. 



During the swarming season of 1903, I had 

 a swarm come out and alight on iny hat that 

 I was wearing. My assistant gave me another 

 hat, so all 1 had to do was to take my hat off 

 and shake it in front of a hive. 



My crop of honey was very good for last 

 year. 



I had 35 colonies, spring count; increased 

 to 35. H. Gibson. 



Ontario, Canada, Jan. 11. 



A Good Repopt for 1903. 



This is my third year in the business, I had 

 38 colonies of bees last spring, built up to 84, 

 and had 4210 sections of honey to ship. I ship- 

 ped 1912 sections to North Dakota, and 464 

 sections to Nebraska, and sold at home 1454 

 sections, and the balance I still have. The 

 honey shipped brought mel2U' cents per sec- 

 tion, clear of freight and crates. Honey is 

 very plentiful here ; this is the best year in the 

 history of the State for bees and honey. There 

 were bees everywhere. I could have built up 

 to 200 colonies if I had wanted to out of 37 

 colonies. I put from one to five in a hive, and 

 had to put on supers and let the bees up in 

 them to give them room to work. I got as 

 high as 150 sections off some of the early 

 swarms. 



I put the bees in the cellar Dec. 4 in fair 

 shape, and hope they will come out in the 

 spring in good order; and that next year may 

 be a good one for honey, and not so many 

 swarms. E. B. Pritchett. 



Warren Co., Iowa, Dec. 26. 



A Discouraging Season. 



The past season has been a very discour- 

 aging one to western Nevada bee-keepers. 

 Prospects were never better in the early part 

 of the season. A heavj' frost on Sept. 5 com- 

 pletely killed off all nectar-producing flora, 

 consequently the second crop of alfalfa pro- 

 duced no honey — " Navada's honey-pro- 

 ducer." Prices also slumped; all the bee- 

 keepers of this locality sold for S and 7 cents, 

 respectively — No. 1 and No. 2 comb honey — 

 and 4 cents for extracted, with the e.xception 

 of three of us, who managed to get 11 and 9 

 cents for comb honey. The crop was of ex- 

 cellent quality and grade when well handled. 



I am thinking seriously of going out of the 

 business. High prices on bee-keepers' sup- 

 plies, to say nothing of long-distance freight- 

 rates and steals, and depreciating values of 



