Sept. 22, 1904 



TH£i AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



645 



keeper, and as a queen-breeder he has gained quite a repu- 

 tation. His name is attached to several useful appliances 

 used in bee-keeping, namely, the Hyde-Scholl separator, 

 which is now being so extensively used in the South ; the 

 Hyde-Gill hive-cover for warm climates ; and the Hyde 

 foundation fasteners for putting brood-foundation in deep 

 frames. 



The foregoing are quite a quartette of " big bee-men ", 

 for they are not only big as bee-keepers, but as nearly all of 

 them are over 6 feet in height, the reader will understand 

 what we mean. They simply grew in proportion to their 

 State — Texas — of which they are so justly proud. Yes, 

 Texas does not only produce good honey in big quantities, 

 but big bee-men also. 



Then, the pictures also show that they are handsome 

 looking fellows. Who would have thought it after hearing 

 so much about the "Wild West", and the fellows with their 

 yellow breeches, their six-shooters, their long hair, and — 

 horns ? 



They are all expected to be at the St. Ivouis meeting of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association, so those who are 

 going would better take another look at them, so as to rec- 

 ognize them when seen there. 



Yes, they will be at St. Louis, add they will have with 

 them a pressing invitation for the National to meet in 

 Texas next year. And they look as if they would get al- 

 most anything they go after 1 



DR. Q. BOMRER. 



Dr. G. Bohrer, of Rice Co., Kans., whose picture ap- 

 pears herewith, was an intimate friend of Rev. Iv. Iv. Lang- 

 stroth, and one of his patrons, having purchased an Italian 

 queen of him as early as 1864. Dr. Bohrer also defended 

 Father Lang- 

 stroth when as- 

 sailed by those 

 who infringed 

 on his hive pat- 

 ent and denied 

 his being the 

 inventor of the 

 first really 

 movable-frame 

 hive. 



Dr. B. moved 

 to Kansas in 

 1873, from In- 

 diana, on ac- 

 count of disa- 

 bilities con- 

 tracted while 

 in the army 

 duringtheCivil 

 War. He found 

 CentralKansas 

 comparatively 

 free from mala- 

 rial influence, 

 being a s u f- 

 ferer from ma- 

 larial poison- 

 ing. That part 

 of Kansas was 

 not adapted to 



bee-keeping as early as 1873, hence he dropped out of the 

 ranks of bee-keepers. But now fruit-blossoms, alfalfa and 

 other nectar-yielding plants are becoming abundant, and 



every promise of satisfactory success in apiculture is af- 

 forded, so he is in line again. He was chosen president 

 of the Kansas State Bee-Keepers' Association when it was 

 organized some time ago, which position he still holds. 



We understand that Dr. Bohrer expects to attend the 

 National Convention at St. Louis next week. If he is there 

 he will probably be one of the oldest members, having been 

 present at the very first meetings of the Association in the 

 early '70's. We will all be glad to see him. 



[ Convention Proceedings ] 



Report of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the 



Texas State Bee-Keepers' Association, 



Held at College Station, Tex., July 



5 to 8, 1904. 



REPORTBD BY I<OUIS H. SCHOLI,. 



(Continued from pa^e 631.) 

 Mr. O. p. Hyde read the following paper on 

 THE LAWS BABY NUCLEUS FOR MATING QUEENS. 



I see that I am on the program for criticism of the Laws 

 nucleus. I wish to say in the first place that I have no 

 earthly use for it. I have seen hives of which their inven- 

 tor said they were the very thing. After I had examined 

 and tried them I decided that they were no good to me ex- 

 cept for feed boxes or to make hen's-nests. But the Baby 

 nucleus under consideration is too small for either. All the 

 use that I could put it to was for kindling wood. 



Why do I make the above assertions ? I make them for 

 many reasons. When I first heard and read of the Baby I 

 knew that it would not do. I know it this year from ex- 

 perience. My son bought ISO of them. I did not know any- 

 thing about it until they were at the depot, He praised 

 them so much that we took them out. 



The next thing to do was to put them in use. He had 

 to destroy about SO or 75 good, full-sized combs to fill the 

 little frames. It was no small job, as each had to have 

 some honey and part of the comb empty. It is hard to find 

 such combs without much loss. 



Next he had to start plenty of queen-cells, so each could 

 have a cell. Next they had to be "peopled" from the 

 strong colonies. This was all done in good shape. 



Some time later I was out at one of the apiaries where 

 there were 50 of these little nuclei. To my surprise there 

 were not less than 40 of them lying down on their sides and 

 only an occasional bee passing out. I went to work to see 

 how many good queens I could find, and found bees in only 

 three that were trying to stay, and not a queen in either of 

 them. 



So, in a short time I was making a round with the boys 

 and found all of the little things piled up and the frames 

 were all tiered up on full colonies, and they are there to- 

 day. The boys said that they did not get a single queen 

 out of the whole 150. 



We have about 75 of the right kind of nuclei in use, and 

 these are the regular 3-frame Langstroth size. With these 

 we have reared all of our queens to replace all those that 

 were failing. So you can see from the above how I stand 

 on the little nuclei. 



But there is one more point, if nothing else would ob- 

 literate it from the face of the earth, and that is that there 

 is not enough comb-surface. The queen will be cramped 

 the first days of her laying life, and to keep a queen from 



