October, 1916. 



American Hee .Journal 



is kept where the air is warm and dry 

 it will remain in more perfect con- 

 dition. Owing to the strictness of 

 national food regulation there is prac- 

 tically no danger nowadays that honey 

 is adulterated, and the housewife 

 who finds a reputable, standard 

 brand need have no fear. 



Keeping Frames of Honey 



1. What is the proper way to keep 

 frames of honey during the winter to 

 be used in building up colonies in the 

 spring? Can they be stored in empty 

 hives and kept out of doors, or will 

 freezing injure them? 



2. Can frames containing unsealed 

 honey be kept for this purpose? 



3. Can unsealed honey in partly 

 filled sections be kept through the 

 winter to be used next season as 

 baits? Miss R. Maine. 



1. Such combs can be kept where- 

 ever comb-honey keeps well. Out- 

 doors would not be the place for freez- 

 ing would crack the combs and also 

 be likely to make the honey granu- 

 late. In the cellar is a good place if 

 sufficiently dry. Beside a furnace in 

 the cellar is an excellent place. The 

 combs will keep fairly well in any 

 room where it seldom freezes, the 

 ideal place being in a room with a 

 somewhat steady temperature never 

 below sixty, up to a hundred degrees 

 doing no harm. 



2. Yes; but if in a place at all 

 damp the honey will absorb moisture 

 and become watery more readily than 

 will sealed honey. In a warm, dry 

 place, unsealed honey will keep all 

 right. 



3. It is not advisable to try such a 

 thing, for some of the unsealed honey 

 or even the sealed honey, will be pret- 

 ty sure to be candied, and when filled 

 such sections would not be market- 

 able.The thing to do with such sect- 

 ions is to have the bees clean them 

 out this fall, leaving them perfectly 

 dry. If there is enough honey in them 

 they may be extracted before being 

 given to the bees. It is diificult to 

 get bees to clean out sections by put- 

 ting them on the hives, so they must 

 be set out in the open, and when this 

 is done the bees are sure to gnaw the 

 combs to pieces unless a large quan- 

 tity is exposed at once. If you have 

 only a few sections to be cleaned out, 

 allow only a very small entrance to 

 the pile of sections, so that only a 

 single bee at a time can enter. 



Annual Field Day Meet and Joint Meet- 

 ing of the Worcester County Bee- 

 keepers' Association and East- 

 ern Massachusetts Society 

 of Beekeepers 



This year at the invitation of the 

 Worcester County Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation the Eastern Massachusetts 

 Society met with the Worcester Coun- 

 ty Association at the home of Mr. W. 

 E. Parker, West Boyleston, on Satur- 

 day, August 5th. From 11 o'clock till 

 5 the air hummed with the sound of 

 bees — not the insects themselves, en- 

 tirely, but with discussion and genial 



talk about them. The day was rather 

 overcast, but pleasant and there was 

 a good gathering. All enjoyed the 

 kindly hospitality of the host. Dinner 

 was served on the basket lunch plan, 

 after which came the speaking. 



The special guest of honor, Mr. C. 

 P. Dadant, of Hamilton, Illinois, Editor 

 of the American Bee Journal, spoke 

 delightfully and instructively on Pre- 

 vention of Swarming. He was fol- 

 lowed by Mr. Arthur C. Miller, Prov- 



dence, R. I., — subject: "What to do 

 Now" — Mr. Allen Latham, Norwich, 

 Conn., and Dr. Burton N. Gates, Am- 

 herst, Mass. 



Dr. Gates spoke particularly of the 

 symptoms of bee paralysis which has 

 appeared lately in different parts of 

 the country. Later he demonstrated 

 the proper method of opening a bee- 

 hive, with much practical advice. 

 Josephine Morse, Sec. 



South Lancaster, Mass. 



Miscellaneous <^ News Items 



Western New York Honey Producers' 

 Association Meeting 



The basket picnic and field meeting 

 of the Western New York Honey Pro- 

 ducers' Association which was held at 

 the home and apiary of Mr. Roy Wist- 

 erman, at Dysingers Corners, N. Y., 

 was a decided success. Mr. Wister- 

 man does not claim to be a profes- 

 sional beekeeper although he finds it 

 a profitable addition to his extensive 

 farming operations. He says he does 

 not known very much, but the doubt- 

 ful only have to look at some of the 

 fine queens which he reared by the 

 grafting process to know that he is 

 no backlotter at the beekeeping in- 

 dustry. Lunch was served on the 

 spacious lawn by the wives of the 

 beekeepers. Mr. J. Roy Lincoln, of 

 Niagara Falls spoke on the manage- 

 ment of bees in an outyard with the 

 minimum of labor. Shortly before 

 fruit bloom he unpacks his bees and 

 clips his queens also giving a super 

 which is in reality another body. 

 Shortly after fruit bloom he places a 

 frame of brood from the lower story 

 in this super, and leaves them alone 

 until clover starts when he takes one 

 frame of brood and two frames con- 

 taining the most honey and places 

 them in another body the brood in 



center and the honey on outside fill- 

 ing with empty combs or foundation. 

 This body is now placed on the bottom 

 board with an excluder over it and the 

 bees are brushed off the combs. The 

 queen is placed in the lower story 

 with the one frame of brood, and the 

 remaining brood is placed over the 

 excluder to hatch out and combs are 

 then storing combs. Ten days lat- 

 er any queen cells that may have been 

 started are removed. 



Mr. William Vollmer of Akron, N. Y., 

 told of his varied experience in buying 

 bees in combless packages from the 

 south, having bought both one and two 

 pound packages. He says that with 

 the one pound package with queen it 

 is advisable to give them empty combs 

 with a frame of brood if they are re- 

 ceived early in May, in order to make 

 them a remunerative proposition. With 

 the two pound package it is also ad- 

 visable to give a frame of brood but 

 the combs are not quite so essential. 

 With the two pound package one is 

 generally sure to get sufficient honey 

 the first season to pay. 



Mr. John DeMuth, of Pembroke, N. 

 Y. told of his exeprience with Europe- 

 Y. told of his experience with Euro- 

 pean foulbrood. A good strain of 

 in check but some strains are almost 



GROUP AT THE WESTERN NEW YORK HONEY PRODUCERS' MEETING 



