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March, 1913. 



American l^ee Journal 



is put for heating. Great care must be 

 used not to overheat the honey. 



SELLING CANDIED E-\TR.\CTED HONEY. 



Mr. Starkey told his experience in 

 selling candied extracted honey. He 

 used common pasteboard oyster pails 

 and put one pound of honey in each. 

 He rosined the pails, then put the 

 honey in liquid and let it granulate. 

 They were soon all sold out in the 

 grocery stores, and calls came for 

 more. The pasteboard pail can be 

 torn off, leaving the solid chunk or 

 brick of honey, if any prefer it in that 

 way. They retail at 20 cents each. 

 This is a simple way to put extracted 

 honey on the local or home market. 



OTHER PAPERS. 



Mr. S. King Clover read an interest- 

 ing paper on "Weather Conditions 

 Favorable for the Secretion of Nectar 

 in the Bloom". 



Two interesting papers were read. 

 One by Mr. C. P. Dadant, Editor of 

 the American Bee Journal, on Educa- 



tion in Bee-Keeping and the other by 

 Mr. E. B. Tyrrell, Secretary of the 

 National Association, on Benefits of 

 the National Association to Bee-Keep- 

 ers. 



OFFICERS ELECTED — BANQUET. 



The Officers elected for the ensuing 

 year are: 



President, Dr. A. E. Burdick of Sun- 

 nyside; Vice-president, Lee G. Sim- 

 mons of Ellensburg; Secretary, J. B. 

 Ramage of North Yakima; Treasurer, 

 Robt. Cissna, of North Yakima. 



The banquet occurred at 12:00 

 noon. It was indeed a "banquet". 

 The wives of the bee-keepers had pro- 

 vided all the good things to eat they 

 could think of, and placed it on tables 

 arranged in the roo s in the court- 

 house where the meeting was held. 

 Of all the things to tempt one's palate, 

 those Washington women surely had 

 a great abundance. It was a very 

 enjoyable occasion, and might well be 

 duplicated in many other places 

 where bee-keepers' conventions are 

 held.— Geo. W. York, Sandpoint, Idaho. 



Contributed ^ Articles^ 



Michigan Prospects 



BY E. D. TOWNSEND. 



{President's address at the Mkhiean Stale 

 Meeti/ie.) 



THE season of 1912 was a peculiar 

 one in Michigan. The winter, to 

 begin with, was of more unusual 

 severity upon bees than for sev- 

 eral years. The winter was fol- 

 lowed by a spring of only ordinary 

 weather for the breeding up of diminu- 

 tive colonies, the result of a hard win- 

 ter. Then followed a summer of rain- 

 fall. But bee-keepers were more fortu- 

 nate than some of their brother agricul- 

 turists. 



We had very good weather during 

 the honey-flow from clover, raspberry 

 and basswood in the latter part of 

 June and the first part of July. The fall 

 flow was a failure, with an abundance 

 of flora at hand, and the weather was so 

 bad that bees could not take advantage 

 of it. The shortage of the fall flow of 

 honey has left many bees in bad shape 

 for winter; for they did not breed up 

 as they usually do in a good season. 

 Many colonies were short of honey for 

 winter stores, and where not fed, may 

 starve before spring. The enterpris- 

 ing bee-keepers, the ones who may ex- 

 pect good returns from their bees an- 

 other season, have provided them with 

 stores to last them until the honey-flow 

 next June. 



It has been said that there is a " sil- 

 ver lining to every cloud." I know 

 that there is a silver lining to the cloud 

 of winter loss, and brood diseases 



among our bees, for I see our State 

 nearly free from the " cheap John " 10- 

 cent comb honey so prevalent in past 

 years. These bee-keepers are nearly 

 " ofif the map," leaving the territory 

 and market for the more enterprising, 

 the leading bee-keepers of the future. 

 The thoroughly posted bee-keeeper is 

 not afraid of hard winters, or disease 

 among his bees, for he knows how to 

 eradicate the disease, or refill his hives 

 with bees after a hard winter. 



During the year much has been 

 printed about the advisability of pro- 

 ducing more comb honey instead of 

 extracted, the comb-honey crop being 

 short. This agitation will likely cause 

 more comb honey to be produced an- 

 other year, and if one is fitted up for 

 the production of extracted honey I 

 see no reason for an expensive change 

 in apparatus. 



Michigan's product is the finest 

 honey in the world, and her intelligent 

 bee-keepers, whether comb or ex- 

 tracted honey be produced, will never 

 have trouble to find a market at the 

 highest /r/ii: Michigan's 191ii crop 

 of both comb and extracted honey 

 will all be sold long before the 11U3 

 crop is ready for the market. This is 

 a healthy condition that should be ap- 

 preciated. 



Since our last meeting in Saginaw, a 

 year ago, we have lost two valuable 

 members, Hon. R. L. Taylor, of Lapeer, 

 Mich., and Byron Walker, of Clyde, 

 111., who claimed Michigan as his 

 home. The committee which I will 

 appoint later will kindly see that suit- 



able resolutions of sympathy be ex- 

 tended to the bereaved families. 



We need a new law on bee and brood 

 diseases. Two years ago we secured a 

 very good law through the Legislature, 

 which was forthwith vetoed by Gov. 

 Osborn. We now have a Governor- 

 elect, who, I am quite sure, knows the 

 value of the bee to agriculture and 

 horticulture better than does our pres- 

 ent Governor, so we hope for better 

 usage next time. A Legislative Com- 

 mittee of three members was appointed 

 at Saginaw a year ago to hold over 

 until this meeting. We will hear from 

 them later. I hope something tangible 

 will come from this committee, as we 

 are sorely in need of a better law than 

 we now have for the suppression of 

 disease among bees. 



Northstar, Mich. 



An Aastrian's Impressions of 

 Japanese Bee-Keeping 



M 



BY ALEX SCHROEDER. 



|RS. SCHROEDER and myself 

 crossed the United States this 

 year (1912), coming from Jap- 

 an, where we passed some most 

 interesting weeks. 

 On March 23 last, the meeting in 

 Gifu, Japan, of which your number for 

 October, 1912, brought such nice pic- 

 tures, was held by over 700 Japanese 

 bee-keepers, representing the towns of 

 Wakajama, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Saga, 

 Ehime, Kagawa, Kanazawa, Aichi, and 

 Miye, and proved a very interesting 

 one. The discussions were animated, 

 and about most important points, as, 

 for instance, the uniformity in dimen- 

 sions of frames and hives, the neces- 

 sity of having a better race of bees, etc., 

 proved that the little Japs are progress- 

 ing also in this branch of agriculture, 

 which the Austrian bee-master, Baron 

 Ehrenfels, called "the Poesie of Agri- 

 culture." 



We had occasion to visit a promi- 

 nent bee-keeper, Mr. S. Tamura, of 

 Chiojima, in one of the suburbs of 

 Kioto, the thousand temple town in 

 Japan, and found him to be quite up- 

 to-date. I beg to enclose a photo- 

 graph taken in his interesting bee- 

 yard on April 1, with a changeable 

 weather between sunshine and snow. 

 Mr. Tamura received us in the Japanese 

 style of extreme politeness, showed us 

 all about his yard and magazine of bee- 

 supplies, which were full of the most 

 exactly-made implements of all kinds 

 and tastes. 



His hives are made in the American 

 style. He winters his bees outdoors 

 in double cases, filling the space be- 

 tween the body of the hive and the 

 outer bo.x with rice-bran, and covers 

 the frames with newspapers. He showed 

 me a strong Italian colony containing 

 brood in all stages, and even some be- 

 ginnings of queen-cells, and provided 

 with lots of sealed honey. 



It was a pity that I could not speak 

 Japanese, or that he did not know any 



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