February, 1913. 



American V^e Journal 



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of flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls of 

 powdered ginger, half a cupful of Sul- 

 tana raisins, half a cupful of preserved 

 cherries, a quarter of a cupful of 

 chopped citron peel, half a cupful of 

 butter, three-quarters of a cupful of 

 honey, two eggs, a quarter of a tea- 

 spoonful of salt, and a quarter of a 

 cupful of milk. Sift the flour, salt, 

 baking powder and ginger into a basin, 

 add the raisins, the peel, and cherries 

 cut in halves. Melt the butter, honey 

 and milk together in a saucepan, then 

 cool and add to the flour with the eggs 

 well beaten. Mix, turn into a buttered- 

 and-floured cake-tin, and bake." — La- 

 dies' Home Journal. 



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Plan of Requeening— Forming a Part- 

 nership 



1 would like to suggest to "Sub- 

 scriber," page 343, a plan for requeen- 

 ing that is absolutely safe, and by 

 which there is no loss of brood or 

 stoppage of brood-rearing. The plan 

 is not original with me, though I do 

 not now remember where I read it. 



When your queen-cells — however ob- 

 tained — are nearly ready to hatch, 

 form nuclei with bees obtained wher- 

 ever you can best spare them. I use 

 three or four shallow extracting 

 frames, making the boxes for them 

 myself from old dry-goods boxes, and 

 I like rather strong nuclei. 



In these allow your young queens to 

 hatch and mate. But at the time that 

 you give these nearly-ready-to-hatch, 

 cells to nuclei, go to the hives which 

 you wish to requeen, raise half or 

 more of the brood, after the Alexander 

 plan, /. c, place it in a hive-body above 

 the parent colony, with an excluder be- 

 tween, making sure that the queen and 

 at least one frame of lirood are in the 

 lower hive. By the time your young 

 queens in the nuclei are laying, this 

 brood in the upper story is all sealed. 

 Then shake all the bees from it in 

 front of the entrance to the lower hive- 

 body, exchanging the excluder for 

 wire screen. A young queen can now 

 be safely dropped into the upper hive- 

 boUy, and by the time a sufficient Dody- 

 guard of young bees has hatched to 

 protect her, the old queen can be 

 hunted out and removed from below. 

 If you want to be very careful, replace 

 the wire screen with the excluder for a 

 few days. When the young queen has 

 considerable brood, the excluder can 

 be removed entirely, and there is no 

 danger that she will not be accepted. 

 It might be well to examine the lower 

 hive for queen-cells. 



Some advocate allowing the cells to 

 hatch in this upper brood-chamber, 

 and to mate from a rear entrance, but 

 there are more young queens lost that 

 way, though it is less trouble and ex- 

 pense in bees than to form nuclei, and 

 it would be necessary to rear the brood 

 in the hives to be requeened sooner. 

 Otherwise if the excluders were left on 

 so the bees from below could care for 

 the brood, tlie young queen might be 

 destroyed. Or if the wire screen were 

 put in its place a good deal of unsealed 

 brood would be lost. 



Now, Miss Wilson, I wish to put to 

 you a hypothetical question : Suppose 

 an elderly lady, who has had years of 

 experience in bee-keeping, but is hardly 



equal to the necessary work, wishes to 

 take into partnership a younger woman 

 to help with this work. We will sup- 

 pose the home, with only these two 

 women, 100 hives and fixtures, 20 colo- 

 nies going into winter quarters, and to 

 be increased indefinitely, also one of 

 the best bee-locations, with a chance 

 for a dozen or more out-apiaries in 

 extra-good locations, and then the at- 

 tendant hired help. Now, what kind 

 of a bargain should these two women 

 make ? 



It is not a case of renting the bees — 

 half the honey and half the increase — 

 but a partnership in which the older 

 woman is, for the present, manager, 

 and will work to the extent of her 

 ability. 



Now, please hold out the lamp of 

 your e.xperience and knowledge to 

 illumine our bewilderment. 



Delight. 



As to the right adjustment between 

 Mrs. A, who owns the bees, and Miss 

 B, who is to be the partner, there are 

 so many difTerent conditions and con- 

 tingencies that it is hard to make any 

 very intelligent suggestion. If Miss B 

 knows nothing about the business she 

 might be glad to spend the season with 

 no compensation aside from what she 

 could learn. If she were a very com- 

 petent bee-keeper, and did nearly all 

 work, she might be entitled to the 

 greater part of the proceeds. 



As one way to proceed, let the time 

 spent by Miss B be reckoned at a fair 

 price, and let that be her pay. That 

 would be entirely fair, but there would 

 be no partnership in the case. To be- 

 come a partner. Miss B must in some 

 way depend for recompense upon the 

 success of the business. Suppose, then, 

 after reckoning as before what will be 

 a fair remuneration for Miss B, we find 

 what part of an averaffe crop that will 

 be, whether it be 25 percent, 50 percent, 

 or more. For the sake of illustration, 

 let us suppose it be 50 percent. Then 

 let 50 percent of the crop be hers, 

 whether the season be good or bad. 

 In a year when the crop is twice as 

 much as in an average year, she will 

 get double pay. Thus it will be seen 

 that her reward will depend upon the 



success of the season, making her 

 truly a partner. 



Not unlikely you will ask, "What is 

 an average crop ?" Please don't look 

 in this direction for any light upon that 

 question. The average for one locality 

 is not the same as for another locality ; 

 indeed, the average for two bee-keepers 

 in the same locality may be different. 

 It can be gotten by footing up the 

 crops of a number of successive years 

 in the past and striking an average. 



It is entirely possible that this solu- 

 tion of the problem may not at all fit 

 the case you have in mind, and it must 

 be left for you to evolve something 

 that will entirely meet all the con- 

 ditions. 



Two Winter-Weather Recipes 



In stormy, winter weather the lips 

 are often inclined to crack, and the 

 sensation is frequently very painful, 

 especially on a frosty day with a cold 

 wind blowing keenly. If, when this 

 trouble arises, the lips are rubbed over 

 with a salve of honey and glycerine 

 mixed in equal proportions, it will 

 restore them to a normal condition. 

 As a preventive, a little rubbed O" will 

 keep the lips moist and hinder crack- 

 ing. — D. M. McDoN.^LD, in Brilish Bee 

 fournal. 



For chapped lips, dissolve beeswax 

 in a small quantity of sweet oil by 

 heating it carefully. Apply this salve 

 two or three times a day, and avoid 

 wetting the lips as much as possible. 



To soften and whiten the hands try 

 the following: Honey, one ounce; 

 lemon juice, one ounce; eau de co- 

 logne, one ounce. Apply after bathing. 

 — Woman s Xational Weekly. 



Honey Muffins. — Sift two cupfuls 

 of flour with two level teaspoonfuls of 

 baking powder and a quarter of a tea- 

 spoonful of salt. Rub in two level 

 tablespoonfuls of butter, two eggs well 

 beaten, five tablespoonfuls of milk, and 

 a third of a cupful of honey. Mix and 

 pour into well-greased muffin tins, fill- 

 ing half full; bake in a moderate oven. 

 These may be covered with fruit pud- 

 ding sauce or whipped cream, and 

 served for cottage puddings. — Cliieago 

 Reco rd- He raid. 



Eeji Western ^ Bee-I^eping 



Conducted by Wesley Foster. Boulder. Colo. 



Wrap Honey Neatly 



During the winter days why not put 

 the honey-house in order ? Mr. Good- 

 bee-keeper has his packing table cov- 

 ered with a large sheet of galvanized 

 iron. At one end of the table is a roll 

 of wrapping paper and a spool of twine. 

 Comb honey or pails of extracted, can 

 be quickly and neatly wrapped. In fact, 

 the packages he wraps for his custo- 

 mers are as neat as those put out by 

 any mercantile house. 



Consumers, in these " high cost of 

 living " days, like to buy of the pro- 



ducer direct. Such dealing will in- 

 crease if every producer creates a 

 favorable impression by tying up pack- 

 ages with neatness. 



The Leaf Roller 



The leaf roller, the spraying for 

 which caused such a loss of bees in 

 Fremont Co., Colo., is to be controlled 

 by spraying the trees early with a solu- 

 ble oil emulsion. This emulsion will 

 be applied before the eggs begin to 

 hatch. Since the eggs hatch just as 



