[American liee Journal 



Contents for January, 1908 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY 



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National Bee Keepers' Association 



Objects of the Association. 



ist.— To promote the interests of its members. 

 ■ 2d.— To protect and defend its members In their 

 lawful riKhtB. 



3d.— To enftprce laws against the adulteration of 

 honey. - - 



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Books for Bee-Keepers 



Every bee-keeper should have a bee- 

 book besides a bee-paper. On another 

 page will be found all the best books 

 offered — either at a price, postpaid, or as 

 a premium. If you can not earn them 

 as premiums for getting new subscrip- 

 tions, it will pay you well to purchase 

 one or more of them. You will find 

 them of great value. There are so many 

 things in the books that are needful to 

 know, and that of course could not be 

 told over and over again in the bee- 

 papers. If a bee-keeper can afford only 

 one, it would better be the book rath- 

 er than the paper. But now that the 

 American Bee Journal is only 50 cents 

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Illustrations— 



Display of Honey at the World's Pure 

 P\)od Show 9 



General View of the Pure Food Show 

 from the Balcony of the Coliseum ■■• 8 



Hilton, Hon. Geo. E First Page 



Hilton's Thompsonville Apiary in Ben- 

 zie Co., Mich 7 



Preparing Comb Honey for Market 10 



Editorial Notes and Comments— 



Dual Virgin Queen Plan 6 



Exhibiting Granulated Honey 6 



How Soon Do Bees Discover Queenless- 



ness ? 6 



Light in the Bee-Cellar 5 



Loss in Feeding Bees 5 



Plural-Queen Question 6 



Profits on Comb and E.xtracted Honey. 6 



Pure Air in the Bee-Cellar 5 



Testing Honey as to Ripeness 5 



Miscellaneous News-Items- 



•'ABC and X Y Z of Bee-Culture " 8 



Arnd Honey & Bee-Supply Co 9 



Chicago Annual Poultry .Show 9 



Complete 1907 Volume for 50 Cents 9 



Do Bees Store Honey Below the Brood ? 7 



Honey in Demand 7 



Mercy in the Comb 9 



New Jersey Convention 9 



Ontario Union Counties Convention--. 9 



Pasting Labels on Tin 7 



Preparing Comb Honey for Market 10 



Pres- Geo. E. Hilton, of the National. -- 7 



Reports on Bees and the Honey Crop - ■ 7 



Sweet Clover as a Fertilizer 7 



Wisconsin Convention 9 



World's Pure Food Show 8 



Our Bee-Keeping Sisters— 



Are Hive-Lifters Valuable? 11 



Bee-Keeping for Women 10 



Bees Charmed by Music 10 



Honey Wafers 10 



Women at the Chicago-Northwestern-- 10 



Southern Beedom— 



Caged Queens at the Entrance 11 



Divisible Hive Again 12 



Friendly Criticism Desired 11 



Good 1908 Honey Prospect II 



Our 1908 Honey-Vielders Already Grow- 

 ing 11 



Quality of " Marigold " Honey 11 



Supersede Those Old Queens II 



Canadian Beedom— 

 Amount of Syrup to Feed for Winter 



Stores 13 



Growing Mustard for the Bees 13 



Ontario Convention Again 12 



Time for Fall Feeding of Bees 12 



Contributed Articles— 



Honey-Eaters' League 16 



More Bees or Better Yields— Which ?.. . 14 



Overstocking 15 



Report for the Season of 1907 16 



Two Queens in One Hive 14 



Wonderful Queen-Food 15 



CONVENTio.N Proceedings— 



Minnesota-Wisconsin Convention 19 



Reptirt of the Pennsylvania Convention 17 

 Western Honey-Producers' Convention 19 



Reflections ok California Bee-Keeper 



Bees Still Shaded at the University.... 19 



Bees that '• Make" the Honey 20 



Cytisus in California 19 



Dandelions and Morning Glories 20 



Danger of Glass with Honey 20 



Do Pleasures. Like Bees, Carry a Sting? 19 



Our Fair Bee-Keepers 19 



Weather in California 19 



Wickson's Worth Wins 19 



Winter's Wintery Winds Wither 19 



Beedom Boiled Down— 

 Breeding from Best Honey-Gatherers-. 21 



Hiving Bees in a" Jiffy " 20 



Hunting Bees in Texas 20 



Is Honey aLu.xury? 21 



Likes " Forty Years Among the Bees ". 20 



Melting Honey in Cans 20 



■Somewhat Mixed, Isn't It? 20 



Successful Breeding in the Cellar 20 



Varieties of Wild Bees 21 



Doctor Miller's Question-Box— 

 Advantages of Association Membership 24 



Afterswarms 25 



Age of Larvae for Queen-Rearing 25 



Bait-Sections 24 



Caucasians vs. Italians as Honey-Gath- 

 erers 23 



Changing from Heddon to Langstroth 



Frames. 25 



Disposing of a Laying-Worker Colony. 24 

 Doubling an Apiary and Securing 



Honey 24 



Fastening Comb Foundation, Etc 24 



Hauling Bees Before Cellaring 1 hem.. 24 



Hybrid Bees and Italians 23 



Keeping Bees on Shares 22 



Moving Bees to Northern Michigan 23 



Number of Colonies for the Field 25 



Oil-Cloth for Winter Hive- Protection... 23 



Peach-Belt Location for Bees 25 



Points in Judging Comb Honey 23 



Position of Frames in Spring 24 



Queen-Rearing Book 24 



Requeening 25 



Sections in the Brood-Chamber 22 



Some Prime Essentials in Bee-Keeping 22 



Sulphur Cure for Bee-Paralysis 24 



Supers and Sections 24 



Swarming 22 



Sweet Clover 22 



Transferring Bees 24 



Transferring, Etc 25 



Value of Box-Hive Colonies 25 



Reports and Experiences- 



BeesDid Fairly Well 27 



Bees Neglected, but Fixed Up 27 



Bee-Tree 28 



Clovers for Honey and Hay 28 



Fall-Built Comb 28 



Feeding Sugar Candy in the Cellar 27 



Few Bees Left in County 27 



Fine Crop of Fall Honey 26 



Good Results from Nuclei 26 



Half a Crop : 26 



Handling Bees in the City 28 



Honey-Plants 28 



Late Mating of Queens 26 



More in Regard to Bee-Scouts 27 



Moth-Worms 27 



No Snow Yet 27 



Nucleus Method of Making Increase... 28 



Parcels Post and Bee-Keepers 27 



Pays to Feed Bees for Winter 26 



Plan for Requeening 28 



Poorest Season in His Experience 27 



Poorest Season in 37 Years 27 



Poor Season for Bees 26 



Queer Season 26 



Queer things Bees Do 26 



Reading Bee-Literature 26 



Requeening 26 



Results of the Past Season 28 



Short Fences a Drawback 28 



Some Bee-Keeping Experiences 28 



Some Bee-Keeping Fads. 27 



Sowing Alsike for Honey 26 



Two Queens in One Hive 26 



Very Poor Season 27 



Very Short Honey Crop 26 



Watering Bees in Winter 27 



Why Bees Don't Do Well 26 



Wintering Bees in Out-Yards 26 



Worked for Increase 28 



An IiiTitation to Readers 



As the time of longer evenings is 

 again arriving, we would like to invite 

 our readers to send in their reports of 

 the season of 1907 with the bees. 



It may be, also, that some have been 

 trying experiments, or have had some 

 things to develop that would be of in- 

 terest to all. If so, we would like to 

 have such write out their experiences 

 for publication, and send them in. No 

 doubt what you have read in the Ameri- 



can Bee Journal has been a great help 

 to you, so why not you add your mite 

 to the general fund of information about 

 bees? 



It may often happen that your way 

 of doing things may .<;eem very simple 

 tQ you and of not sufficient importance 

 to describe in print. And yet, such 

 may be of great interest and help to 

 others. Why not let us have it for the 

 columns of the old American Bee Jour- 

 nal? 



