June, 1913. 



American Vee Journal 



utes" to decide that the appropriation- 

 was needed. 



The bulletin containing the inspec- 

 tor's second annual report, and a lot of 

 useful information, can be had for the 

 asking of either A. L. Kildow, inspec- 

 tor, of Putnam ; Jas. A. Stone, State 

 Secretary, Rt. 4, Springfield ; or Louis 

 C. Dadant, Secretary of the Chicago- 

 Northwestern, of Hamilton. 



With France in Wisconsin, Ki'dow 

 in Illinois, and Pellett in Iowa, there 



ought to be some educational work 

 performed among the bee-keepers of 

 those three States this summer. 



New Jersey Meeting. — A Field Meet- 

 ing of the bee-keepers' association of 

 New Jersey will be held on Wednes- 

 day, June 25, i;)I3, at the apiary of 

 George Grover, near Trenton, N. J. We 

 hope there will be a large attendance. 

 E. G. Carr, Se<- 7'i-cas. 



Bee-I^eping W) For Women 



Conducted bv Miss Emma M. Wilson, Marengo. 111. 



of combs, extracted the honey from 

 them, and when he went to shake the 

 bees on the empty combs he found 

 they had not killed the queens, as they 

 had too much room. A large swarm 

 went to the woods and the rest all took 

 wing and settled on a plum tree. He 

 carried 7 swarm-catchers full, and as 

 he was tired of carrying bees he left 

 the rest on the tree, but they all went to 

 the hives through the day. I got 75 

 pounds of honey to spare, and left 40 

 pounds for winter. This is the most 

 bees I ever hived in one day. We now 

 have 1.50 colonies. 



Mrs. Ina Banker. 



Sleepy Eye, Minn. 



You certainly had a unique experi- 

 ence. Others have had trouble with 

 swarms uniting, but you deliberately 

 united them. To be sure, others have 

 united swarms, but it is doubtful that 

 any case has been before reported in 

 which so many as 8 were united. It is 

 interesting to know that the queens 



A Large Comb 



This colony of bees was in a corner 

 of a house-wall. There were five sheets 

 of comb; one was solid from top to 

 bottom, l(i inclies wide and 101 inches 

 long. We took out 50 pounds of honey 

 and left about 30 pounds for the bees. 

 This was on Dec. 10, 1010, at Soquel, 

 Santa Cruz Co., Calif. 



(Mrs.) Bertha Anthony. 



Oxnard, Calif. 



Is not this one of the largest combs 

 on record ? To realize the length of 

 it, let it be recalled that the ceilings of 

 many dwelling rooms are only 8 feet 

 high, and this comb is 5 inches more 

 than that. 



For White Hands 



It is the simplest thing in the world 

 to make cosmetic gloves. All that is 

 necessary is to make a pair of loose 

 mittens out of woolen cloth and spread 

 a good hand paste over the inside of 

 them, after which cut off the mittens 

 at the ends, as it will not do to exclude 

 the air from the hands. An effective 

 glove paste can be made thus : Put 

 two ounces of yellow wax into a double 

 boiler and heat until it dissolves, then 

 add one ounce of powdered myrrh and 

 beat thoroughly. Four ounces of honey 

 should now be added to the mixture; 

 finally, sufficient rose water is added 

 to make a spreadable paste. This is 

 quite the daintiest glove paste I know 

 of. — i'hicaifo Kfcord- Herald. 



Seven Swarms in One Hive 



I want to tell you what I did with 8 

 swarms of bees that came out one day 

 last August, when Mr. Banker had 

 gone to town and I was alone with the 

 bees. I was not very strong, but I 

 could not see those bees go off if 

 I could possibly help it, as they were 

 all large swarms, so I got 7 hives and 

 tiered them in one pile, hiving all the 

 swarms together. 



When my husband came home he 

 said he never saw so many bees in a 

 hive in his life. The next morning he 

 went to look for combs. He got a lot 



A Long Comb. 



