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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Julj- 11, 1901. 



while your best oolODies have triven no in- 

 crease. Don't you see that such a course. 

 continued indefinitely, will inevitably result 

 In run-out bees: By keeping matters under 

 your own control, you can make the current 

 run the other way. 



Introducing Queens With Tobacco- 

 Smoke. 



Here are instructions that I am sending 

 out this year for introducing queens, and 

 yruaranteeing the safe introduction. After 

 giving notice of the date when the queen 

 will be sent, I say ; 



As soon as you receive this notice, remove 

 the queen from the colony to which you ex- 

 pect to introduce the new queen. When she 

 arrives, put her away in a sate place until 

 after sundown, just at dusk, then light your 

 smoker, and when it is well to going put in a 

 pipeful of smoking-tobacco, put on the cover, 

 puff until you get an odor of tobacco, then 

 puff one or two good puffs into the entrance 

 of the hive. Wait two or three minutes, then 

 send in another good puft". remove the cover, 

 drive the bees down with a pull of smoke, 

 open the cage and allow the queen to run 

 down between the combs, following her with 

 a putT of smoke, and put on the cover. Half 

 an hour later, light up the smoker again, put- 

 ting in the tobacco as before, and blow two 

 more good puffs in at the entrance. If no 

 honey is coming in. feed the colonj' a pint of 

 syrup each night from the inside of the hive, 

 but don't disturb the brood-nest for four or 

 five days. — Bee-Keepers' Review. 



Weight of Wax-Scales. 



E. F. Robinson gives this interesting bit of 

 information in the Canadian Bee Journal : 



While making a display of the natural his- 

 tory of the bee a few weeks ago, I took the 

 trouble to sort out a lot of wax-scales from 

 some fine refuse, and arranged these, the 

 natural scales, into the word WAX, but be- 

 fore doing so I weighed a number on a pair of 

 jeweler's diamond scales to find out how 

 many went to the pound, for I could not find 

 any reference to this inanv of the many books 

 on the bee. I find there are just 192 to the 

 grain, and of course 1.4r4,.'](iO to the pound. 



Inversion of Brood-Combs. 



This has been found profitable by Mr. L. L. 

 Esenhower. of Pennsylvania. In the fall he 

 takes away all combs not covered by the 

 bees, taking good care of them, and in the 

 spring he returns them, upside dvwn. He uses 

 an invertible frame of his own make, and 

 slightly opens the eappings of the combs 

 when he returns them to the hive. He be- 

 lieves that he has prevented many cases of 

 spring dwindling by this practice. He ad- 

 mits that inversion has been cast off long 

 ago, but. very wisely, .says that we sometimes 

 cast away something that we think we have 

 tried, whereas, we have scarcely made its 

 acq uaintance. — Bee-Keepers' Review. 



Co-operation Among Bee-Keepers. 



The .Tune number of the Rocky Mountain 

 Bee Journal is almost entirely taken up with 

 the matter of co-operation among bee-keepers. 

 Those Coloradoans are not merely theorizing 

 on the matter, but have been putting in prac- 

 tice some excellent co-operative work, some- 

 what to the advantage of their pockets. It 

 seems that they have so enlarged the work 

 that they now have, under the title of " The 

 Colorado Honey-Producers' Association." an 

 office kept open the year round in Denver, 

 with Frank Rauchfuss as its energetic mana- 

 ger. The following interview with Mr. 

 Riuchfuss is given in the paper mentioned : 



"1. What advantage, it any, accrues to 

 stockholders in the Colorado Honey-Pro- 

 ducers' As.'Ociation, besides dividends on their 



Lanostroilion... 



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Revised by Dadant — 1900 Edition. 



This is one of the standard books on 

 bee-culture, and ought to be in the 

 library of every bee-keeper. It is bound 

 substantially in cloth, and contains 

 over SOO pages, being revised by those 

 large, practical bee-keepers, so well- 

 known to all the readers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal — Chas. Dadant & Son. 

 Each subject is clearly and thorol)- ex- 



plained, so that by following the in- 

 structions of this book one cannot fail 

 to be wonderfully helpt on the way to 

 success with bees. 



The book we mail for $1.25, or club 

 it with the American Bee Journal for 

 one year — both for $1.75 ; or, we will 

 mail it as a premium for sending us 

 THREE NEW subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal for one year, with $3.00. 



This is a splendid chance to get a 

 grand bee-book for a very little money 

 or work. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



144 & 146 Erie Street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



Please mention Bee Journal "when "writina 



stock, in the purchase of supplies through 

 that Association ;" 



■• You should emphasize the fact that the 

 Association was formed to enable its members 

 to market their honey profitably. We kept 

 up the price of honey last year very success- 

 fully. We handled a large share of the 

 honey crop. Our members got the best prices 

 for their honey ; and at the close of the sea- 

 son we were able to return them 95 percent of 

 the usual commission. Handling only honey 

 we could not afford to keep a store open the 

 whole year. By expanding our business we 

 are able to keep the store open all the year ; 

 to keep in closer touch with the bee-keepers 

 and the trade, and to handle the business 

 more successfully, because more intelligently. 

 You know that supplies are cheaper than last 

 year. We claim part of the credit for that. 

 The State Association deserves part of the 

 credit, perhaps the larger part. Any one who- 

 will compare the price-list of last j'ear and 

 this year can figure out the advantages for 

 himself." 



■"2. Has the handling of supplies by the 

 Association tended to cheapen the price of 

 supplies in the city of Denver ;" 



"Compare the lists,'' said Mr. Rauchfuss. I 

 compared. Eight items from last year's price- 

 list footed up s;9.42: the same eight items 

 from the price-list for this year amount to 

 sS.34. These are staple articles. The differ- 

 ence amounts to a trifle less than 13 percent 

 of present prices — a saving worth considering. 



" 3. Would you favor the establishment of 

 branch associations for the handling of sup- 

 plies, subsidiary to the main association in 

 the smaller cities throughout the State ;" 



Mr. Rauchfuss answered with an emphatic 

 " Y'es!'' and then walked away to wait on an 

 impatient customer. 



Horehound Honey. • 



II. H. Hyde says in the Southland Queen 

 that horehound is in his locality in Texas, 

 " and sometimes it ruins a good deal of honey 

 in the fall, but in the spring it fortunately 

 l:ilooms early enough so that all the honey is 

 consumed in brood-rearing." 



Fastening Foundation. 



C. Davenport fastens foundation in brood- 

 frames or sections by means of something like 

 a large medicine-dropper or pipette. He says 

 in Gleanings in Bee-Culture: 



Mine is made of a tin tube about 4 inches 

 long, aud not quite '.j inch in diameter. The 

 lower end of this tube is gradually tapered 

 dowu toa point, so the hole at the extreme 

 end is a little less in size than what it would 

 be on an ordinary lead-pencil if the lead were 

 removed to the upper part of the tube. A 

 rubber nipple or bulb is attached, and it is 

 important to have this rubber fit over the 

 tulie tight enough to exclude air. When the 

 lower end is placed in melted wax, or any 

 other liquid, with the rubber bulb compressed 

 between the thumb and finger, as soon as it is 

 allowed to expand by air suction, it draws 

 some of the liquid up into the tube. By 

 allowing the rubber to remain expanded the 

 tul)e will not leak when withdrawn, no mat- 

 ter what position it is held in. Pressure on 

 the rubber forces the liquid out slow or fast, 

 just as desired. 



Does a Queen Carry Foul Brood? 



The editor of the Australasian Bee-Keeper 

 says : 



ily opinion on the matter is so decided 

 that should I need a queen from a foul-broody 

 apiary I would introduce her into a healthy 

 colony of bees without the slightest hesita- 

 tion or fear of conimunicating the disease. I 

 would, however, deal very deliberately with 

 any bees accompanying the queen. Every 

 one would be crushed and afterwards burnt. 

 In my opinion, it is the bees only that com- 

 nuinicate the disease, and not the ciueen. To 

 back up my assertion, I may say I know of 

 numerous queens from foul-broody colonies 

 having been introduced to healthy bees, and 



