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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 19, 1901. 



but it is quite impossible for us to leave oiii' 

 office at that season of the year. 



A number of the more prominent bee-keep- 

 ers are to be present, and no tloubt one of the 

 best conventions of the ,vear will result. 

 Pres. George E. Hilton knows how to plan for 

 a successful meeting. There will be reduced 

 rates on all the railroads leading to Petoskey. 

 See particulars on another page. 



The closing paragraph of the letter we re- 

 ceived, reads as follows : 



There is no place like these conventions for 

 exchanging views, receiving and imparting 

 knowledge, and, as we are all more or less 

 dependent on each other, let us meet in that 

 spirit of friendship and harmony that has 

 always prevailed at our meetings, and make 

 it possible for us to go back to our homes 

 and tell our friends that we were glad we 

 went; that it was just that "feast of reason 

 and flow of soul '' that we needed. 



Better go, if you can, and help make it tlie 

 best that the Michigan Association ever held. 

 Beginning with the Buffalo convention, there 

 have been some good meetings of Ijee-keepers 

 this year. The Colorado, Chicago, Minne- 

 sota, and Ontario, were all exceptionally fine 

 ones, we understand. Of course, we know 

 that the Chicago was all right, as all will 

 agree when they read the full report to be 

 published in these columns later. 



Apiary of the Misses Yount is shown 

 on our first page of this week. There are 7 

 hives that do not show. The girl with the 

 mandolin in her hand is MissAdnah; the 

 other is her older sister, Miss Audrey. These 

 young lady bee-keepers hope by another fall 

 to send us a picture showing 60 colonies. 

 Miss Audrey now owns 6 colonies, and Adnah, 

 21 colonies. We wish them every success in 

 their effort to become leading bee-keepers in 

 their great State. 



Mk. W. A. Pbtal, whose bees are in Ala- 

 meda Co., Calif., writing us Dec. B, had this 

 to say : 



I was over to the old place yesterday, and I 

 noticed that the bees were working as merrily 

 as they would be in March. They find many 

 kinds of flowers to work upon. The winter 

 has been a mild one so far. We have had no 

 really cold weather yet. This morning has 

 been the first cold day so far this season. 

 You may know how warm it has been when 

 I inform you that tomato plants are still 

 green and fresh in the open ground. Calla 

 lilies are growing grandly, and blooming as 

 if it were spring. 



In this portion of the State the rains so far 

 have been liberal — I might say, abundant. 

 Within the fraction of an inch the rainfall 

 has been the same as up to the same time last 

 year. The difference in the two years is that 

 it has not been so cold, and we have not had 

 so much tog, though for a day or two last 

 week we had fog that was worse than any- 

 thing we had for years past. It was in one of 

 these fogs one ferry boat on San Francisco 

 Bay ran into and sank her sister boat of the 

 same ferry. This was the first accident of the 

 kind in over 20 years; the former was not 

 attended with loss of life, while four are 

 accounted as lost in this last disaster. 



I noticed by last night's paper tliat the 

 lower counties of the State have lieen having 

 some heavy fogs, too. One of the very best 

 counties in the State prides itself on the 

 amount of its fogs. This county has an 

 abundant crop every year. I refer to Sonoma 

 county, a short distance north of this city. 

 The^south has had but little rain so far, as 

 the reports show, but in good time I am sure a 

 fair amount of rain will visit that portion of 

 the State. W. A. Pkyal. 



I The Buffalo Convention. | 



f5 Report of the Proceedings of the Thirty- 

 •"? Convention of the National Bee-Kee 



^-Second Annual ^ 



■Keepers' Asso- ^ 



ciation, held at Buffalo, New York, S'- 



Sept. 10, 11 and 12, 1901. ^ 



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(Coutiuued from page 700.j 

 FEEDING BEKS FOR WINTEK. 



''Would heavy candied combs of 

 honey alone, be safe to winter bees on, 

 or cakes of candy alone, be safe, with- 

 out any combs of honey? " 



A. I. Root -I think the most success- 

 ful feeding' I did was with cakes of 

 maple sugar. I have taken late colon- 

 ies in the fall with almost no combs at 

 all, and laid cakes of maple sugar over 

 the frames and wintered them all right. 

 But there is a good deal of difficulty 

 about wintering bees without combs; if 

 the candy gets damp and sticky, the 

 bees will stick to it and will die, and if 

 they get the dysentery they will die. 

 Candied honey is not exactly satisfac- 

 tory, but sometimes it will answer. In 

 sugar feeding, sometimes the sugar 

 candied in the combs, and I have 

 known the bees to let a lot out on the 

 bottom and then seem to die for want 

 of moisture. The difficult thing is to 

 furnish enougli moisture along with 

 the feed. Up here in New York State 

 where you have colonies by the hun- 

 dreds or thousands you cannot bother 

 with candied honey. Maple sugar is a 

 very nice thing to build up colonies 

 where they are short of stores. I put 

 it on in the fall and left it on all during 

 the winter, and in the spring when 

 they have been short of stores I have 

 put it over the frames to stimulate 

 them. One of our most successful bee- 

 keepers in Ohio wrote to me that she 

 had 50 or 60 colonies of bees and they 

 were short of stores. I told her to buy 

 cakes of maple sugar and put over the 

 combs, and she said that she had one 

 of the biggest yields that they had in 

 Ohio. She attributed it to the maple 

 sugar, but it needs watching and care. 



BEE-STINGS AND THEIR REMEDIES. 



"What can we do if badly stung? 

 Should every bee-keeper have a bottle 

 of ammonia? How is it administered? 

 What is to be done to a horse when 

 badly stung? " 



W. L. Coggshall — I never had any 

 horse stung. 



Mr. Niver — I cover up so I don't get 

 stung. 



W. L. Coggshall^-I feel as if I had 

 been very successful in that line. I 

 have handled a good many bees and we 

 haven't had any accidents yet. 



A Member — My mother was very 

 badly stung at one time when she hived 

 a swarm of bees, and they gave her 

 salt and water to keep the poison from 

 her stomach as much as possible, and 

 we saved her life in that way. It was 

 done by a professional nurse. 



Mr. Alpaugh — I have a remedy from 

 an outsider that doesn't keep bees, that 

 is a complete one, which is simply a 

 little coal-oil. 



Mr. Baldridge — My son was stung 

 when very much heated, just under the 

 chin, and so much affected that he 

 swelled all over. We sent for the doc- 

 tor at once, but before he arrived my 

 son vomited and the swelling went 

 down at once. 



Mr. Longnecker — A remedy which 

 I have seen used is to bathe the part 

 with a strong solution of soda. It is 

 very cooling and satisfactory. 



Mr. McEvoy — The doctors generally 

 recommend aromatic spirits of am- 

 monia, half a teaspoonful ; and if it 

 doesn't work in a few minutes — don't 

 wait long — repeat it. 



Dr. Mason — I believe that whiskey is 

 better than ammonia. 



Mr. Fuller — My remedy is chloro- 

 form. Just a few whiffs inhaled al- 

 ways relieves me. 



SECTION SIZE — BLEACHING HONEY. 



" Which is preferable, the A%, or the 

 4x5 section ? " 



Dr. Mason — That depends upon local- 

 ity. 



"Can extracted honey be bleached ? 

 If so, how ? " 



W. J. Craig — It can be improved. 

 We have had extracted honey exposed 

 in a room where the sunshine could 

 penetrate and we found that the honey 

 which we had exposed in that way was 

 much lighter within a week than the 

 same honey which was confined in a 

 dark place. We put it in 5 or 10 lb. 

 cans. 



EXTRACTING HONEY — COMB HONEY 

 GRANULATING. 



"In running for extracted honej-, 

 should one spread the combs, and then 

 when uncapping cut deep ? " 



W. L. Coggshall — I spread six or 

 seven combs and uncap them evenly. 



" What is the cause of comb honey in 

 sections becoming granulated soon 

 after being removed from the hive, or 

 much earlier in the season than in 

 former years, in some localities ? " 



Mr. Fuller — My experience is with 

 comb honey, if you will keep it at a 

 temperature of about 92 to 95 degrees 

 it won't granulate. 



COMB-HONEV BEES. 



" What strain of bees is the most 

 profitable for comb honey ? " 



Mr. Alpaugh — I would say a good 

 cross between Italian and a black. 

 Blacks are very good of themselves, 

 but I don't like them, for the reason 

 that they are a little awkward to 

 handle ; but I do think that a good 

 cross between an Italian and a black 

 would be all right. 



Mr. Baldridge — I like good yellow- 

 colored Italians for all purposes. 



Mr. West — The best that I have seen 



