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THE AMERICAN BEE JOLKISAC. 



Mar. 3, 1904. 



F. Rauchfuss— The Committee on a Year Book reports 

 that they favor the publication of a year book, and recom- 

 mend that it be issued. [Adopted.] 



A motion was carried that a delegation of bee-keepers 

 represent the State Association at the January convention 

 of the Colorado State Horticultural Society. F. Rauchfuss, 

 J. B. Adams. M. A. Gill, Mrs. Mellette, and J. U. Harris 

 were appointed as the committee. 



The Committee on Resolutions recommended the adop- 

 tion of the following- resolutions : 



Resolved, That we, the members of the Colorado State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, appreciate the value of Mr. Ben- 

 ton to apiculture, in the investigation of bee-diseases and 

 in other lines, by reason of his official position in the 

 Bureau of Entomology, and recognize the fact that he could 

 and would do much more if adequately provided with work- 

 ing funds for research ; and that we do hereby extend to the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association the assurance of our co- 

 operation in bringing the matter to the attention of our 

 legislators. 



Resolved, That we, the members of the Colorado State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association here assembled, do desire to ten- 

 der our thanks to the press of Denver for courteous treat- 

 ment in sending their representatives to our meetings and 

 making reports of the same. 



Resolved, That we, the members of the Colorado State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, deeply deplore the loss we have 

 sustained, as a body and individually, in the death of F. H. 

 C. Krueger during the past year, and declare him to have 

 been an inspiration to us by his enthusiasm, and an efficient 

 help in times of deliberation, in spite of the comparatively 

 short time that he was connected with us ; and that a copy 

 of this resolution be transmitted to his family. 



Resolved, That we, the members of the Colorado State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, having heard with heartfelt re- 

 gret of the death of Mrs. A. J. Barber, hereby declare our 

 grateful recognition of her instant response to the support 

 of every progressive move of our Association, so that in 

 spite of the fact that circumstances prevented her from 

 meeting with us, she was one of our most valued members ; 

 and our admiration for her perseverance in building up a 

 model system of apiaries under adverse circumstances ; and 

 that we recognize that the deceased, by sheer force of 

 merit, attained a place both in the history of apiculture in 

 Colorado and in the United States, by reason of her origi- 

 nal ideas imparted to the bee-papers. 



J. B. Ad.\ms, 1 



F. L. Thompson, [- Com. 



J. CORNEILIUS, ) 



The resolutions were adopted. 



Mr. Morehouse— I move the whole matter of the aid of 

 the National Association, and the negotiations with Mr. 

 France in relation thereto, be left with the committee hav- 

 ing that matter in charge, with power to act in the name of 

 the Association. [Carried.] 



(Concluded next week.) 



[Our Bee-Keeping Sisters 



Conducted by Emma M. Wilson, Marengo, 111. 



Selling- Bulk Honey and Beeswax. 



Seeing t hat I am the only lady member representing 

 Kansas in the National Bee-Keepers' Association, I will tell 

 how we sell our honey and beeswax. There are 4 of us in 

 our family. My husband is a railroad engineer, my eldest 

 son a blacksmith, and my youngest son is a clerk in a de- 

 partment store, so you see our bees only get our spare time. 

 We quit producing comb honey a long time ago. It is now 

 produced in half-depth frames, and extracted in the usual 

 way. The comb honey is cut out of the frames and nicely 

 fitted in tin pails, all we can get in a pail, then filled up with 

 extracted honey. Our crop is usually about ISUO or 1800 

 pounds, and is sold in about 6 or 8 days to our regular cus- 

 tomers. The pails hold from 1 quart to 2 gallons. We get 

 from 18 to 20 cents per pound for it. 



Now for beeswax : All waste is put into wax and 

 weighed; then we take equal parts of good paraffin, melt 

 all together and mould in lounce cakes and sell to druggists 



at 40 to SO cents per pound for laundry purposes. We some- 

 times sell the wax direct to laundries. Some will say that 

 this is adulteration. It is not ; it is a mixture of beeswax 

 and paraffin for laundry purposes, and sold as such. 



Crawford Co., Kans., Jan. 28. Mrs. S. M. Roby. 



Your crop of 1600 to 1800 pounds of bulk honey is sold 

 to regular customers, the whole being sold in 6 or 8 days. 

 That looks as if most of your customers bought it once a 

 year as a treat — certainly those who only get a quart will 

 hardly make it last through the year. Possibly your cus- 

 tomers buy of you once a year, getting their supply else- 

 where during the remainder of the year. Possibly they use 

 up in a few days or weeks the supply got of you, and then 

 go without the rest of the year simply because it is not con- 

 venient to get more. The question is, whether you might 

 cot increase the good work you are already doing either by 

 keeping more bees and producing more honey, or by buying 

 honey so that you could furnish your customers all they 

 would use thoroughout the year. Very likely you know 

 your own market best, but it is no harm to throw out a sug- 

 gestion. 



Foul Brood— Poor Season in 1903. 



I have kept bees for 13 years, and found, last sea- 

 son, that for the first time my bees had foul brood. One 

 colony was in very bad condition, and several others 

 slightly afl'ected. All seemed right when divided at swarm- 

 ing time. I have been told that the disease has never been 

 in this locality, and I can not account for its appearance. 



Notwithstanding the early spring and good condition 

 of bees in April, the season of 1903 was very poor. With 

 fields white with clover very little nectar was gathered ex- 

 cept for a few weeks in July. In August there was constant 

 rain, and so much cool weather that we had no fall flowers, 

 and hives that were so full in summer were soon depleted of 

 stores, and heavy feeding for winter was necessary. The 

 cold and snow came early, and the bees had no chance for 

 flight since the feeding was stopped, and I fear there will be 

 some heavy losses. Mrs. Wm. Middlecajip. 



Winnebago Co., Wis., Jan. 18. 



How to Make Noug-at Candy. 



Dear Miss Wilson: — Have you among the "secret 

 archives" of the " Sister's Department" a recipe for the 

 celebrated nougat candy made of honey, almonds, etc., in 

 the province of Southern France for the feasts of the Christ- 

 mas Kalends ? If so, will you kindly publish it ? or, if not, 

 perhaps some one else can give it. 



As the confectioners make it, it tastes very nice, but I 

 can't bring my conscience to use their recipe, which calls 

 for IS pounds of glucose to 12 of honey. This shows what 

 pure (?) candy is made of. Rai.ph D. Cleveland. 



Dupage Co., 111. 



Nougat candy is made with almonds or other nuts, a 

 very toothsome article that I am told was rather common in 

 this country half a century ago, but I don't know how it 

 was made. Can any one of the constituency help us out ? 



Possibly some one of the sisters experimentally inclined 

 may be able to evolve some combination of nuts and honey 

 even better. Certainly one of the brethren should not ap- 

 peal to the sisterhood in vain. 



Bees Wintered Outdoors. 



I packed my bees away ''or the winter out-of-doors, but 

 each year when they first start to fly out I lose quite a few. 



1. Would it be a good plan, when the bees have started 

 to fly, and have cleaned themselves, to place them in a dark 

 cellar until spring ? 



2. Would it be better to leave them outdoors and put 

 screen-wire over the entrance to keep them from getting 

 out and becoming chilled ? 



3. Would it be better to leave just room enough for one 

 bee to get out at a time ? Mrs. Anna Weckerle. 



Cook Co., 111., Feb. 2. 



1. If you put them into the cellar at all put them in in 

 the fall. Instead of putting them into the cellar to prevent 

 their flying out, put a board up in front of the hive so the 

 sun can not shine directly into the entrance, for the bright 

 sun shining in entices them out when it is too cool for them 



