41st YEAR. 



CHICAGO, ILL., FEBRUARY 7, 1901, 



No, 6, 



I ^ Editorial. ^ p 



National Bee-Keepers" Association. 



— General Manager Secor has sent us the fol- 

 lowing copy of the report of the committee 

 appointed by the Board of Directors of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association to count 

 the ballots cast at the annual election held in 

 December. 1930: 



Chicago. III.. Jan. 28. IIKII. 

 Hon. EfGENE Secou. 



General Manayii- Xalidiml Bee-Keepers' 

 AsBOCialiini, li.ri>i i iiy. Iowa. 



DE.iu Sir:— 'llir iin.lci.^iLjiitd committee se- 

 lected to count the \uU-s cast by the members 

 of the National Bee-Keepers' Association in 

 December, having performed their duties, find 

 Ihe following result : 



Total number of votes cast 'i95. 



FoH GEXER.iL Manager— Eugene Secor, 

 :i59: George W. York, 16; Dr. C. C. Miller, .S; 

 \Vm. A. Selser, 2: balance scalteiinu. 1 rach. 



For Three Directors— W. z. llmrlihi- 

 son, 237; A. I. Root. 233: E. W hiiinml,. Ml:;; 

 George W. York, 3.5; (i. M. Dooliltle. U : Dr. 

 C. C. xMiller. 12: Herman F. .Moore. 13: E. T. 

 Abbott, 11: C. P. Dadant. 1(1; N. E. France. 

 S; (). O. Poppleton, 6: Frank Benton. 5: C. 

 .\. Hatch, 4; W. L. Coggshall. 3; Thomas G. 

 Newman. 2; H. G. Acklin. 2: P. H. Ehvood, 

 ■-': Prof. A. J. Cook. 2; Eugene Secor. 2; bal- 

 anci' scattering. 1 each. 



Respectfully submitted. 



George W. York. / ,, 

 Herman F. .Moore, i ""'' 



The officiary of the National As.sociation 

 now are as follow: 



President— E. R, Root. 



Vice-President — R. C. Aikin. 



Secretary— Dr. A. B. Mason. Toledo, Ohio. 



General Manager and Treasurer — Eugene 

 Secor. Forest City, Iowa. 



Board of Directors— E. 'tthitcomb. W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, A. I. Root. E. T. Abbott, P. H. 

 F.hvond. E. R. Root. Thomas G. Newman, G. 

 .\1. Doolittle, ^V. F. Marks, .1. M. Hambaugh, 

 I'. 1'. Dadant. and Dr. C. (.'. Miller. 



Single TS. Double Tier Cases.— Some 

 time ago Gleanings in Bee-Culture publi.sht 

 an editorial on the subject of comb-honey 

 shipping-cases, saying that years ago the first 

 were do.ible-tier. holding 4S pounds, but some 

 thought them too heavy. After some time 

 -imilar cases were made holding just half the 

 amo;int. and finally l"2-pound single-tier ca.scs. 

 The hitter were so convenient that naturally 

 t lie 24-pound single-tier appeared. Bee-keep- 

 ers and commission men, after using the lat- 

 ler. decided that it was just Ihe thing. The 

 ohicclion to the double-tier cases was that 

 should any of the combs in the upper tier of 

 sections become broken they would leak down 

 over the lower tier, and thus daub them also. 

 During the past few years there has beer 



scarcely a double-tier case used in" ths East 

 and central West, but in Colorado the bee- 

 keepers seem to hold to the double-tier cases 

 with two glasses separated by a strip of wood. 



Editor Root says that during all the time 

 the many were advocating single-tier cases 

 Dr. Miller still clung to the 24-pound two- 

 story ease. The Root Company, like many 

 others who handle large quantities of comb 

 honey, advocated the single-tier cases either 12 

 or 24 pound, but it seems that after getting 

 and disposing of some car-loads of honey from 

 Colorado the past few months, put up in 

 double-tier 24-pound cases, their prejudice 

 against them began to wane ; and now Mr. 

 Boyden, their honey-man, and also the 

 freight-handlers, prefer the 34-pound double- 

 tier cases, Mr. Root thinlis that while it may 

 not be possible to give fully the reason, it may 

 be on account of the double-tier case being 

 cubical in form, and thus more easily lifted 

 and handled than when spread out in a single 

 tier. He says, " Handle a car-load of it and 

 be convinced."' He thinks the double-tier 

 case is more symhietrical in appearance, con- 

 forming more with other packages holding 

 staple goods. 



Mr. Root also says that the double-tier case 

 is now used "• with drip paper under the upper 

 set of sections as well as under the lower one. 

 so that the one objection to honey leaking 

 from the upper to the lower set has been re- 

 moved." 



Gal vanized Iron vs. Tin; — A Stray 

 Straw in Gleanings in Bee-Culture says: 



" Australians seem agreed that galvauize_d 

 iron does well to hold honey so long as honey 

 without air touches the surface; but let the 

 surface be simply daubed with honey so the air 

 can get at it, and chemical action at once 

 takes place. — [A short time ago the Aus- 

 tralians sppnicd to be agreed that galvanized 

 iron «a> iii.i lit fur either extractcn-s or cans. 

 for liiiMiii'^ h'lury. The verdict in this coun- 

 try seems to In- that for extractors it is safe, 

 because the honey is supposed to remain in 

 the machine only long enough to run out. 

 But I believe myself that storage-cans of less 

 than one or two barrel capacity should be 

 made of tin. If Larger, galvanized iron will 

 be all right. — Editor.]" 



Qiieens by Mail. — In the American Bee- 

 Keeper Editor Hill refers to the discussion at 

 the Chicago convention in regard to the effect 

 on queens sent by mail. It will be remem- 

 bered that there were those present who 

 thought that queens were quite a good deal 

 injured in going thru the mails, and also 

 others who did not think they were materially 

 affected. Referring further to the matter. Mr. 

 Hill says this: 



To take a queen fioni active egg-laying and 

 confine her in a mailing-cage for several days 

 is such a very aliiiipt change, resulting in a 



suspension of her natural function, that even 

 a casual thtnight of it impresses one with the 

 probability of its detrimental effect ; and, in- 

 deed. It may be that very prolific queens are 

 sometimes injured in this way. We believe, 

 however, that it will rarely be found that the 

 injury is permanent. Some of the best queens 

 that we have ever owned have come to us 

 thru the mails, during the honey season. 

 Some very inferior ones have likewise been re- 

 ceived. We might be prone to charge this 

 inferiority to the above cause, but the most 

 inferior lot of queens that we have ever 

 bought were confined only about 20 hours; 

 and then, upon three full frames of brood and 

 bees. There were 50 of them in the lot, and 

 but five or six of them proved to be worth 

 keeping, altho they were of the high-priced 

 kind. 



The National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion. — We received the following letter re- 

 cently : 



Editor American Bee Journal :— I have 

 just learned thru the Rural New Yorker the 

 result of the Utter vs. Utter suit against the 

 bees. Hin-rah for the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association ! Had it not been for it that suit 

 would never have been appealed, and then 

 bee-keepers the whole world over would have 

 had to take a liack seat, and would have been 

 hounded around by anybody and everybody 

 who chose to do so. I wonder if beekeepers 

 thruout the country realize the benefit they 

 have already, and will hereafter receive from 

 the actions of the Association. Too many 

 good things can not be said in praise of it. It 

 seems to me the Association is the mainspring 

 to bee-keepers: that is. it is the foundation 

 upon which we as lire Kr, i.. i> ran Imild our 

 hopes of having our i i^lii- pi ..ii.tcd. 



1 am glad my id( us Ikim- 1 ii stirred up 



sutliciiiiily 1.1 rause iiM- t.. Iiriome a member 



of til!' l"-i ;i iaiicii \M- ,\,i- liad. Enclo.sed 



find ¥1011 u liiih .V..U will pli-asc forward to 

 General .Manager Secor. Aaron Snyder. 



Ulster Co., N, Y., Dee. 31. 



We are glad Mr. Snyder wrote us as he did. 

 His letter ought to stir up others to follow his 

 good example. 



Really, we don't see how any one that is at 

 all interested in bee-keeping, and in seeing 

 their rights upheld, can fail to appreciate the 

 great value of the National Bee-Keepers" A,sso- 

 ciation. There ought to be a grand stampede 

 on the part of those still outside the Associa- 

 tion. They should join by the hundreds, and 

 do so at once. 



Wc are ready at all times to receive the an- 

 nual dues ($1.00) from any and all, and then 

 forward the money to General Manager Secor. 

 who will promptly mail a receipt to each. 



Pasteboard-Candy Qneen-Cages. — 



During the past season a number of (pieen- 

 breeders used mailing cages which had a piece 

 of pcrforatcil cardboard at the candy end of 

 the cage, instead of the usual cork that has 

 been used for years. Tlie idea was that the 

 bees would tear away the pasteboard, then eat 

 thru the candy, and thus liberate the queen. 

 It seems that some bee-keepers who received 



