February, 1913 



American Hee Journal 



creased demand for bees for this pur- are required by law to exterminate, in 



P°«^5" „ ,, „ , . „ . Iowa, are the following : 



Mr. C. H. Root, of Red Bank, was n i , ^ 



elected President. Mr. E. G. Carr, the ^'"""^ S'^.^l\ ■ 'f,':"/>"-"« >■^/"■"■'^■ 



present very efficient Secretary, was re- Canada thistle, Crrcnan arz'e„se. 



elected. Mr. Carr was also chosen to R?^ ,' -\;"'^^"'"«.'-«'"'«''''"<; 



represent the bee-keepers at the State ^^''f "^^^Y '/ "^'"'''- "''''"""■ 



Board of Agriculture meeting in Tren- burled dock A.anex c,;spus. 



►„„ T7.K Q II 111 11 iniQ A4^ tr \A smooth aocK, Kumex a/Ussimus. 



ton I'eb. o, y. Id, II, Wild. Mr. Harold n i u n, , > t . 



Hr T-ii -1 J 1 1 ■ r> 1 t. riuckhorn, I lanta^o lanceotata, 



ornor, of Philadelphia, Pa., was elect- \\t\a ■ „ ,■ 



J J , .. ■. iu iTi »; I T> 1- Wild parsnip, /asi/naca sa/n'a. 



ed delegate to the National Bee-Keep- tt .^i ,, , ,■ 



, _, °.- t /"■ ■ »■ T-1 Horse nettle, holanum earolinense. 



ers meeting at Cincinnati. Ihemem- \r i ^ j ,, ... ,, ,, 



bership has about doubled since the \ elvet-weed, -/6«Wo» /A.o/A;«_.//. 



summer meeting in July. Burdock, ArcUum lappa. 



In addition to the condemned, the 

 following are ranged among the nox- 



Prolits and Losses. — A carefully made ions weeds: 



yearly account of profits and losses in ,..,, , , ^. 

 . , . r V 1 • ■ Milkweed, or asc!,-pias, morning- 

 the business of bee-keeping is some- glory, wild timothy, squirrel tail or 

 ing which we rarely get. Either there wild barley, foxtail, shoofly, chicory, 

 is no such account kept or the careful dodder and wild carrot. 

 man who keeps it does not care to give We are glad to see that none of our 

 it to the public. A great deal more friends, the honey-producers, are in- 

 satisfaction would be secured out of eluded in the list. One, however, is 

 the business side of apiculture if each forgotten which has richly deserved 

 of us would keep a strict account of all the name of noxious. It is the rag- 

 incomes and expenditures. weed, which infests many stubble- 

 No. cols. No. cols. No. sec. No. lbs. No. lbs. Total Total e.\p. Cap iuv. Percet 

 Year Spring: Fall comb extracted wax sales labor sup. bees sup. return 

 count count produced produced produced rent. etc. appli Jan. 1 capital 



1902 9 ■ 



1903 8 17 466 58.25 35.60 32.00 71 



1904 14 24 493 61.62 61.50 77.35 00 



1905 12 15 24 4.60 24.80 173.75 *11.5 



1906 7 19 62 7.75 18.65 169.75 *06.4 



1907 4 12 172 9.00 13.85 179.50 *02.2 



1908 11 18 694 127.25 25.50 166..35 61 



1909 16 19 58 12.65 36.40 134.75 *17.6 



1910 18 22 450 56.25 21.40 158.95 22 



1911 20 19 816 106.40 23.05 163.75 51 



1912 15 24 1039 133.87 39.30 149.10 63 



lO-year averaere 12.3 18.8 417 57.76 30.00 140.53 19.7 

 * loss. 



It took me several years to learn the lesson not to increase too rapidly, also to be sure 



that each colony had enough stores at the end of the season to carry them through winter. 



The foregoing is a 10-year statement fields and roadsides. Its rank-smelling 



of the apiary of Mr. G. W. Fehleisen, pollen causes hay-fever in one form, 



who has already furnished some infor- The only plant that will destroy it by 



mation in our columns. Studying his overshadowing it is sweet clover. 



report, we find the average income of .^ 



$27.76, all expenses paid, from an aver- observing Hives 250 Years Ago.- 



age of 12 colonies, or about $2.25 per .. ^j^^^ j;„,^^^_ t^ ^I^_ Evelyn's; he be- 



coiony. This after deducting all ex- j^^ ^\,t02.A, we walked in his garden, 



penses and labor. The gross income ^„j ^ ,^^^1^^ ^^^le ground he hath 



is about $4.70 per colony. We would j^j^^^j ,^^^^^ ^j^^r rarities, a hive 



like to know how much of the expense ^f ^ees, so as, being hived in glass, you 



IS counted as labor. The selling price ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ making their honey 



of the honey is about 14 cents per and combs mighty pleasantly.-'-CA'/v's 



5^<=tlon. DUny, May J2, J66S.) 



It would be interesting to have com- 

 parative statements of the profits in 



producing comb and extracted honey Consular Report of Great Britain.-- 



. •, ,• , „, The current (Nov. 2ii, 1!)12) wholesale 



under identical circumstances. We prices in London of Jamaica honev, in 



hope some of our experimenters will nickel-plated screw-cap glasses are: 



furnish them to us. Per dozen 1-pound nominal, $1.70 for 



one dozen ; per dozen 1-pound nominal, 



"* $1.64 for three dozen; per dozen 1- 



" Unlawful Iowa Weeds and Their Ex- PO"nd nominal, $1.58 for six dozen. 



. ^. „ „, . . ^, ^.^, , For extra hne quality, 1-pound nominal, 



termination. -This is the title of a j^^^y gj^^^ j^^^^ t,,^ pr,^^ is >j;i gg per 



pamphlet (No. 5) published by the dozen. For original casks, the prices 



Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station are $7,30 to $11.25 per hundredweight, 



of the Iowa State College of Agricul- Terms are 28 days net. 



ture. The weeds which land-owners While the present retail prices of im- 



ported honey are little higher than in 

 1911, the fact that the domestic produc- 

 tion is so limited will undoubtedly very 

 materially affect the wholesale rates. 



Names of some London importers of 

 honey are forwarded [and may be ob- 

 tained from the Bureau of Foreign and 

 Domestic Commerce]. 



Quebec Provincial Association. — We 



take pleasure in giving our readers a 

 portrait of Mr. A. O. Comire, M. D., 

 secretary of the Quebec Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. This Association, organ- 

 ized 4 years ago, is quite flourishing, 

 thanks to the efforts of a few devoted 

 men. They are successfully fighting 

 diseases, and have six inspectors em- 

 ployed. The annual meeting took place 

 Nov. 13, with over 100 members 

 present. 



A very significant indication of the 



A. O. Comir^. of St. Francois du Lac, Que, 



progressiveness of this Association is 

 to be found in the following resolu- 

 tions passed at this meeting: 



"That the Minister of Agriculture 

 be requested to take steps to amend 

 the law in such a manner that it be 

 made illegal to keep bees in hives with 

 fi.xed combs or immovable frames, be- 

 cause such hives encourage foul brood, 

 and because it is impossible to treat 

 the disease conveniently in them." 



"That the Minister of Agriculture 

 be asked to cause the law to be amend- 

 ed so that inspectors may be author- 

 ized to destroy at their discretion dis- 

 eased colonies which the owners refuse 

 or neglect to treat according to their 

 instructions, and that said owners may 

 be indemnified according to the valua- 

 tion made by the inspector." 



"That inspectors who shall be nomi- 

 nated shall be compelled to undergo 

 examination before a committee named 

 by this society." 



Mr. Sladen, of Ottawa, gave a lecture 



