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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



March 



average cellar in most places honey 

 will attract moisture from the air, and 

 it will not be so very long before the 

 thinned honey will ooze out and weep 

 dow^n over the cappings. Yet in the 

 dampest cellar in Iowa, honey may 

 keep well if there is a furnace in the 

 cellar and the honey is placed beside it. 



is iron. It is quite generally known 

 that a very important part of the blood 

 is the iron it contains, albeit in very 

 small quantity. Iron and other min- 

 erals are contained in honey in the very 



best form of assimilation, and we 

 would be a sturdier race if a large part 

 of the sugar consumed were replaced 

 by that best of all sweets produced in 

 the laboratory of the bee. 



Booklet About Various Kinds of Honey 



In the Ladies' Home Journal appears 

 conspicuously the following item about 

 honey: 



" American wives would do well, ex- 

 perts say, to use more honey, both in 

 cooking and in the natural state. Your 

 government has published a booklet 

 telling all about the various kinds of 

 honey, their value as food, and con- 

 taining more than 50 recipes for using 

 them. Free as long as the free supply 

 lasts — after that 5 cents." 



Considering the immense circulation 

 of that most popular magazine, that 

 item ought to give honey quite a boost. 

 Here's a vote of thanks to the Ladies' 

 Home Journal for the favor it has done 

 beekeepers and — the public. 



A Beekeeper Seven Years Without 

 Being Stung 



Miss Anna Piel, of Columbus, Ind., 

 has the unique distinction of having 

 run a profitable bee-business in this 

 country for more than seven years 

 without being stung, either figuratively 

 or literally. At the recent convention 

 of the Indiana Beekeepers' Association, 

 Miss Piel rounded up practically the 

 entire vote of the convention for women 

 suffrage by a skillful analogy of life in 

 a bee-hive and a suffrage camp. She 

 said that drones were always antis, and 

 that only the workers should be en- 

 titled to "honey." Woman suffragists 

 she added, were all " workers," and 

 far more entitled to the vote than a 

 number of masculine " drones " that 

 she knew of who spent most of their 

 time "buzzing" lazily with their neigh- 

 bors while the so-called " Queen " of 

 their establishments took in washing 

 to make both ends meet. — .Vational En- 

 quirer. 



Teach the Value ot Honey 



Here are some things that should be 

 known by each housekeeper, especially 

 each mother: 



It cannot be too widely known that 

 honey is not only a delicious condi- 

 ment, but a valuable article of food. It 

 has value because of its flavor, which 

 increases the flow of saliva and pro 

 motes digestion. 



The average consumption of sugar in 

 this country is something more than 80 

 pounds for every man, woman, and 

 child. Some have less than the aver- 

 age, some very much more, and in that 

 lies danger of sickness and death. For 

 the cane sugar we have on our tables 

 and use in cooking must be inverted 

 by the digestive system into grape 

 sugar before it can be assimilated, and 

 too much of this inversion overburdens 

 and brings disease. The sugar in honey 

 is always inverted, ready to be taken 

 directly into the blood. 



Honey has special value because of 

 the minerals it contains, which are 

 entirely lacking in sugar. One of these 



Miscellaneous ^ News Items 



Farmers' Week at Amherst, Mass 



The novel feature of the year is the 

 devotion of one session, namely, Tues- 

 day afternoon, March 27, to the discus- 

 sion of the value and uses of honey in 

 the home and in cookery. Miss E. B. 

 Shapleigh, of Columbia University, will 

 give the cooking demonstrations. The 

 writer will prepare for exhibition a 

 collection of type honeys as well as of 

 some brands. This is presumably the 

 first effort to introduce honey for home 

 consumption by means of Farmers' 

 Week or through college extension 

 work. 



The progra n has not as yet been 

 prepared. The sessions will open, how- 

 ever, March 27, at 9:00 a.m., and con- 

 tinue until Thursday noon, March 29. 

 A number of prominent speakers are 

 being engaged. The Thursday pro- 

 gram, beginning at 9:00 o'clock, will 

 include a joint meeting of the Hamp- 

 shire, Hampden, Franklin Beekeepers' 

 Association, Mr. O. M. Smith, of Flor- 

 ence, president, under whose auspices 

 the program will be conducted. 



The beekeepers' section, Section 8, is 

 merely one section of an elaborate 

 program for the week, during which 

 about a thousand visitors are antici- 

 pated. The general program will cover 

 all phases of agriculture. Application 

 for the beekeepers' program can be 

 made to Burton N. Gates. 



Amherst, Mass. 



Indiana Beekeepers to Meet Under 



the auspices of the Indiana State Bee- 

 keepers' Association we are going to 

 hold a one day beekeepers' meeting on 

 March 9, at Washington, Ind. I believe 

 this is the first meeting of the kind ever 

 held in this State, and if it proves suc- 

 cessful, I hope that several will be held 

 next year. 



The program will be as follows : 



o;ooA M— Opening Address by S. H. Bur 

 ton, Washington. 



o'3o A.M. — Discussion of American and 

 European Foulbrood by D. W. Erbaugh. of 

 Onward. 



10:30 A.M.— Possibilities of Purchasing 

 Pound Packages of Bees from the South, by 

 S H. Burton. 



1 :3o P.M.— Queen Rearing, by Jay Smith, of 

 Vincennes. 



2:00 p M —Beekeeping Industry Recognized 

 by Our State, by Mason J. Niblac. of Vin 

 cennes. 



2:30 P.M.— The Work of Inspectors and 

 Tfieir Importance to Beekeepers, by F. N. 

 Wallace, State Entomologist. Indianapolis. 



3:00 P.M.— Question Box. 



Northwestern Kansas Neeting The 



Northwestern Kansas Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation was formed at Manhattan, 

 Kans., on Jan. 22, with a membership 

 of 22. A constitution was adopted and 

 the following officers were elected : 



President, D. Von Riesen, of Marys- 

 ville; Vice-president, John W. Lewis, 



of Manhattan; Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, Harry A. Huff, of Chapman, and 

 two directors, Samuel Winsor, of 

 Wakefield, and C. H. Failyer, of Man- 

 hattan. 



A petition was prepared and sent to 

 the Kansas legislature, asking them to 

 vote for an appropriation of $5000 for 

 the next two years for fighting foul- 

 brood in the State. After the comple- 

 tion of the organization the following 

 program was given : 



Equipment, by J. H. Merrill ; Honey 

 Plants, by Prof. Roberts, of the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College ; A demon- 

 stration of the treatment of bee dis- 

 eases, by J. H. Merrill ; Bees as cross 

 pollinators, by Geo. O. Greene, of K. S. 

 A. C. ; Spring Management, by Chas. 

 Mize ; Relation of Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College to Apiculture, by Prof. 

 G. A. Dean, K. S. A. C. 



An invitation was extended to the 

 association to hold a field meet at 

 Chapman some time in May, and was 

 accepted. This makes the third auxil- 

 iary association in the State, and it is 

 expected that there will be a fourth 

 formed in a short time. 



The Quebec Beekeepers. — The meet- 

 ing of the Quebec Province Beekeep- 

 ers' Association was held at Montreal 

 Nov. 15 and 16, with a very full attend- 

 ance. 



The president. Dr. Lalonde, an- 

 nounced the successful passage of a 

 law against adulteration of honey and 

 beeswax. This was entered in the 

 record. 



Addresses were heard from the fol- 

 lowing : Beekeeping in School Gar- 

 dens, by Charles Magnan; A Year with 

 the Bees, by J. F. Prudhomme; Classi- 

 fying, Packing and Shipping Honey, 

 by Art Vaillancourt ; Statistics on Bees, 

 by F. N. Savoie, representing the Min- 

 ister of Agriculture ; Beekeeping in the 

 District of Quebec, by J. Verret; Epi- 

 lobium as a Honey Producer, by the 

 president, Mr. Lalonde; Report on the 

 Crops of Maniwaki and Mont Laurier, 

 by Dr. A. O. Comire, showing that 

 large crops are harvested in that sec- 

 tion; Cooperation in Beekeeping, by 

 Aug. Trudel; Successful Beekeeping, 

 by A. L. Beaudin ; Honey as Food, by 

 E. A. Fortin; Queen Rearing, by E. 

 Barbeau; Sugar Feeding of Bees, by 

 Mr. Peloquin, etc. 



Lectures with lantern slides were 

 given by Messrs. J. I. Beaulne, of the 

 Ottawa Department of Agriculture, and 

 Morley Pettit, of Guelph. Mr. Sladen, 

 Dominion Apiarist, also lectured on 

 the wintering of bees. 



Some 35 prizes were given to exhibi- 

 tors of honey, beeswax and impletnents. 



After numerous discussions of inter- 

 esting bee subjects, inspection, honey 



