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November, 1S13. 



American Hee Jionrnal 



Jacob Huffman Passes Away 



On Oct. 3, 1913, at Monroe, Wis., oc- 

 curred the "death of Jacob Huffman, 

 one of the leading beekeepers of the 



The Late Jacob Huffm.^n. 



State of Wisconsin, as well as one of 

 the most progressive. 



Mr. Huffman had always been a man 

 of good health, but early in July he 



suffered a slight sunstroke while work- 

 ing with his bees on his farm near 

 Monroe. He never fully recovered. 

 He entered a hospital two weeks be- 

 fore his death, and shortly afterward 

 was stricken with paralysis. 



Jacob Huffman had been president 

 of the Wisconsin State Association 

 four years, and president of the Chi- 

 cago - Northwestern .Association for 

 two years. He was also the choice of 

 his association as delegate to the Na- 

 tional Association in both 1911 and 

 1912. 



Little known as a writer, he was rec- 

 ognized as a thorough beekeeper by all 

 who heard him in lectures and discus- 

 sions at the conventions. 



Wisconsin was his native State. He 

 was born only a few miles from Mon- 

 roe, to which town he removed in 1901. 

 A carpenter by trade, he was a bee- 

 keeper by profession, depending upon 

 this alone as a means of support. 



He was operating 300 colonies of 

 bees at the time of his death, and had 

 harvested a crop of 30,000 pounds of 

 honey during the season just ended. 

 His death will be a loss to his asso- 

 ciate beekeepers as well as his family. 

 Mr. Huffman was 66 years old at the 

 time of his death. 



Bee-K£eping ^ For Women 



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



Southern Face Bleach 



Here is a good bleach which will 

 whiten the skin and help to keep it in 

 good condition : 



Pure honey, 2 ounces; almond meal, 

 4 ounces; bicarbonate of soda, Ji 

 ounce; almond oil, 1 ounce; alcohol, 

 1 ounce; boracic acid, h ounce. 



After this paste has remained on the 

 face for several hours, wipe it off with 

 olive oil, then bathe the face in warm 

 water and pure soap. Two or three 

 applications will whiten the skin beau- 

 tifully. 



Introducing Queens 



"I had -5 colonies of mixed bees that 

 I wished to requeen, also one good Ital- 

 ian colony that had lost its queen. I 

 ordered si.x untested queens and intro- 

 duced them according to directions. 

 Two days afterward, when I looked in 

 the hives, two of the queens had been 

 released and killed. The ne.xt day I 

 found that the queens in the other four 

 hives had been released and were be- 

 ing 'balled ' so badly they were almost 

 dead. I put each one back in her cage 

 and introduced her as before, putting 

 candy in the entrance. Then I looked 



at them not long afterwards, and all 

 four were dead. 



" What must I do ? I am feeding the 

 bees a good quantity of sugar syrup, 

 and some of the colonies have a good 

 deal of honey. I had carefully removed 

 the old queens, and none of the colo- 

 nies had any queen-cells, so I am at a 

 loss to know what could have caused 

 them tobe so hostile to the new queens. 



" It would seem very risky to buy six 

 more queens and introduce as I did 

 when the outcome would very prob- 

 ably be the same. I am a ' woman bee- 

 keeper,' and very much discouraged. I 

 bought my bees in the spring, and 

 have worked faithfully with them. Can 

 you help me with some of your good 

 suggestions through the American Bee 

 Journal .'"' 



Mt. Sterling, Ky., Sept. 28. 



One of the things in beekeeping that 

 seems to go a good deal by luck and 

 chance is the matter of introducing 

 queens. It is just possible that you 

 might try introducing another six 

 queens in exactly the same way, and 

 make an entire success at it. Very 

 many ways of introducing queens have 

 been advanced, each one a "sure 

 thing," only to be found more or less 

 uncertain in the hands of others. Of 



course, there must be reasons for suc- 

 cess or failure, and if we only knew all 

 about those reasons we could make 

 queen introduction a matter of cer- 

 tainty instead of a matter of chance. 

 Unfortunately we don't know all about 

 them, and so must work a good deal in 

 the dark. 



There are, however, some things that 

 should be understood by any bee- 

 keeper who has to do with introducing 

 queens; and introducing queens is one 



J. M. Butler, of Rupert. Idaho. Examin- 

 ing His Bees. 

 The queen in ihe colony open was named 



Yellow Rose of Texas, on account of her 



prolificness and beauty. 



of the things that every bee-keeper 

 should have to do with who expects to 

 be well toward the front rank. It may 

 be well to recite some of those things 

 that we know^or suppose we know. 



Young bees receive a new queen 

 more kindly than old ones ; it seems 

 to be the field bees that object to the 

 new comer. A strange bee will be 

 more kindly received when bees are 

 gathering freely. In the midst of a 

 heavy flow a queenless colony w^ill 

 sometimes receive a new queen kindly 

 if she is merely dropped without any 

 ceremony among the bees on the mid- 

 dle of a frame of bro'od. One of the 

 most important things in the estima- 

 tion of most beekeepers, is that the 

 new queen shall acquire the " hive 

 odor'' of the colony to which she is 

 introduced by being imprisoned for a 

 certain length of time in the hive. 

 Whether this theory of " hive odor " be 

 correct or not, it is true that a queen 

 will generally be killed if the bees are 

 able to get at her as soon as she is put 

 in the hive, and just as sure to be re- 

 ceived if imprisoned safely for several 

 days. 



A colony should be conscious of its 

 queenlessness before it is ready to re- 

 ceive another queen — at least that is 

 the general opinion — and if queen-cells 

 are started it is well enough to have 



