April, 1908. 



[American Hee Journal 



those two dear children is perfect. It 

 isn't often that anything so natural, and 

 so beautiful, can be gotten up for the 

 camera to catch. There is something 

 so sweetly restful and satisfying in the 



appearance of their faces, that it seems 

 almost impossible to cease admiring 

 them. " Grandpa Hutchinson " must 

 have developed into a wonderful story- 

 teller as well as bee-keeper. 



. — ^,~' -^.vow 



■ t'Bee -Kcepind 



Conducted b> E.MMA JI. WILSON, Marengo. II 



Is She Wrong? 



Miss Trevarrow says this in the Cana- 

 dian Bee Journal: 



"How is that now? The side of a 

 cell is the bottom, the opposite side is 

 the top, the bottom is one side and the 

 top the other. H this be wrong, please 

 correct in vour next issue." 



Honey as Food. 



Late investigations lead to the belief 

 that honey, the earliest form of sugar 

 that human beings could obtain, is still 

 about the best. It is counted, as the 

 result of these experiments among the 

 most nutritious and delicate of foods. 



Not only does honej' seem to act as 

 a cure for diseases of the throat but as 

 a soinewhat remarkable purifier of the 

 blood. The only obstacle in the way of 

 itj more general use appears to be that 

 many people cannot eat it without 

 stomachic pain. — Prairie Farmer. 



Cleaning and Casing Honey. 



While I was at Mr. Gill's their daugh- 

 ter, Mrs. Marian Fuller, of Beloit, Wis., 

 cleaned and cased 125 cases of honey 

 from 7 to S o'clock with half an hour for 

 noon. She had the doubletier case, 24 

 sections, Ij^x4j4. She had to wipe the 

 glass, place 8 strips of wood in position, 

 and put paper in, and she had to carry 

 a good deal of it into the next room ; 

 also had to wait for cases part of the 

 time. I think she could clean- and case 

 150 in 10 hours with the single-tier case, 

 and no waits to make and no sticks 

 to space. — F. J. Farr, in Gleanings. 



Tutting Comb Foundation in Frames. 



Mr. T. P. Robinson, speaking of 

 putting foundation in frames, says in 

 Gleanings: — "It is often claimed that it 

 is a slow tedious job to put it into the 

 frames. This is the case, without a 

 doubt, unless a person is fixed for it 

 and acquires some skill in putting it in. 

 I must say that I am no adept at this 

 art. but Mrs. Robinson is, and can put 

 in foundation in a rdiirl. I do not wish 

 the bee-folks to think I am lazy, and 

 that my better half is making the liv- 

 ing, when I say that Mr^ R. puts all 

 my foundation into the frames. We use 

 a VanDcusen wax-tube in the work; so, 

 to redeem myself, I must make known 



the fact that I bring supers of empty 

 frames, take away the full ones, imbed 

 the wire, keep the wax warmed to the 

 right heat, keep foundation handy, etc. 

 You may think this is an easy job for 

 me to do while Mrs. R. puts in the foun- 

 dation. It isn't so easy when she 

 puts in 120 Hoflman frames per hour, 

 or two per minute. She can do this all 

 day long, and put in some 1200 sheets of 

 full-size brood foundation. To make 

 the matter of more importance, she much 

 enjoys the work". 



Upon which Mr. Scholl comments : — 

 "The above is quite a good record for 

 a woman." "For a woman," indeed ! 

 But then the comment is well enough — 

 for a man. 



A Contrast in Honey Results. 



At the Massachusetts convention as 

 reported in Gleanings, page 159, "Miss 

 Cutter, of Princeton, gave her exper- 

 ience with the seventeen-frame Latham 

 hive from which she obtained III lbs. 

 of honey while her other colonies gave 

 her no surplus." 



Honey Gargle for Sore Throat. 



Prepare yi pt. strong sage tea and add 

 to it 2 tablespoonfuls each of strained 

 hone\', strong vinegar and table salt, and 

 I rounding teaspoonful cayenne pepper. 

 It is better to steep the pepper with the 

 tea, and strain before adding other in- 

 gredients, then bottle. Gargle four to six 

 times a day. — ^Mrs. Jennie M. in Farm 

 and Home. 



Producing Bulk Comb Honey. 



Mrs. Frances Thompson deserves, and 

 is hereby given, very hearty thanks for 

 sending such full and satisfactory par- 

 ticulars when making inquiries. Some 

 seem to think it is only necessary to 

 say, "I got no surplus honey last sea- 

 son; what was the matter?" that they 

 may then get minute instructions just 

 what to do to get a bouncing crop at 

 the next harvest. 



Mrs. Thompson, your problem of get- 

 ting comb honey in frames to be cut out, 

 and at the same time to keep down in- 

 crease, is not the easiest in the world. 

 You ask about the Scherzinger plan. By 

 that plan, when a colony swarms the 

 swarm is hived in a lower slory, over 

 which is placed an excluder, and over 



this the old hive with its brood, all 

 queen-cells being removed. Then you 

 ask, "After the brood is all hatched, is 

 the old hive taken away or placed at 

 the bottom?" Neither; it is left above, 

 and becomes an extracting chamber. 

 You see the plan fits extracted honey. 

 The plan of piling up, with abundant 

 ventilation, (only one queen in the pile) 

 also fits extracted honey ; but there is no 

 trouble, as you fear, from the rain get- 

 ting in between the stories. 



It might be well worth your while 

 to try the plan on page 70, under the 

 head of "Prevention of Swarming." 



It is not easy to say why you should 

 have so much trouble in uniting bees. 

 Do you really think cross bees are worse 

 than gentle ones about uniting? Oui 

 bees are cross enough, and there is sel- 

 dom any trouble about their uniting. But 

 it makes a difference how and when it 

 is done. When bees are busy gathering 

 there is no trouble. In one case you 

 dumped the bees in front of the hive 

 you wished them to enter, drove them 

 in with smoke, and they were slaughter- 

 ed. Are you sure the bees of both 

 lots were well filled with honey? That 

 makes quite a difiference. It would have 

 helped, too, if you had dumped in front 

 of the hive both lots of bees, letting both 

 run in together. Being confused by 

 such a proceeding, they would be busy 

 thinking about finding their home rather 

 than killing the other bees. 



Glad to hear from you again. 



Tlierapeutic Value of Honey. 



".■\ccording to Dr. Pol Demade, who 

 writes on ,this subject in La Rcfortne 

 Atiincntaire for January, honey occupies, 

 or should, at least, occupy, an honorable 

 place in therapeutics. Since up to the 

 present date this right has not been 

 generally accorded to it, the Doctor 

 draws the attention of his confreres to 

 certain experiences of his own, and also 

 gives his reasons for the conclusions to 

 which he has been led. He relates that 

 the Lady Superior of a certain convent 

 asked his advice about a tiny, emaciated 

 baby. The child, which lay in its moth- 

 er's arms, was 9 months old, and gave 

 one the feeling that it had but to close 

 its little eyes for death to assert itself. 

 The infant was sufTering from diarrhea, 

 which had refused to yield to all rem- 

 edies tried; the poor little creature was 

 emaciated to an extreme degree, with 

 black rings under the eyes, and the low- 

 er stomach fearfully large. The poor 

 sufferer had no appetite whatever, but 

 was in its place plagued with almost in- 

 cessant vomiting and diarrhea. 



"This sickness, it appears, the French 

 and Flemings call 'old man.' 'What,' says 

 Dr. Demade, 'could a medical man hope 

 to do with such a wretched specimen, 

 which any breath might send into Para- 

 disc? And yet there stood the mother 

 pressing this renmant of life to her 

 heart, her ninth child, which she told 

 me she loved better than all the rest. 



"'I ordered her to feed the infant on 

 honev and wat-cr, nothing else absolute- 

 ly, for 8 days, and, turning to the Lady 

 Superior, I added that if the child were 

 still living at the end of that time, to 

 give goat's milk and water in the pro- 

 portion of I to 2 parts, respectively. I 

 dismissed the case from my mind, sinee 



