1917 



liatc it nuicli worse than the Ijccs do, 

 also tried it for iiitnxiucing the year 

 l)ef()re and failed. This is what I did 

 this year: I hunted out the queen in 

 the hive I wanted to rc-qucen and 

 took her and a frame of brood to a 

 new place. 1 filled my aluminum 

 clothes sprinkler with water and into 

 it I put enough oil or anise to make 

 it smell strong. 1 opened the hive 

 and sprinkled the frames thoroughly, 

 enough so that I knew some of it ran 

 down onto the bottom-board, and I 

 sprinkled the entrance. I then took 

 my queen cage and sprinkled that so 

 that queen and attendants were well 

 sprinkled, then I opened the cage and 

 tucked it in between frames where 

 the frame of brood had been taken 

 out, put on the cover, contracted the 

 entrance and left them. Ne.xt morning 

 I examined them and found them all 

 one happy family. 

 The next experiment was similar 



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except that 1 took two frames of 

 l)rood, i)ees and honey and placed 

 them in an empty hive, sprinkling 

 with peppermint water instead ol 

 anise, this hive was nlaced on a new 

 stand. Again I placed two frames of 

 brood sprinkled with peppermint wa- 

 ter on the old stand, moving the old 

 hive away. 1 felt a little doubtful of 

 how the returning field bees would 

 like the innovation, but apparently 

 finding no mother of their own and 

 rather liking the flavor of the new 

 hive, they decided to do the best they 

 could with what they had left and so 

 made no trouble. Perhaps ne.xt year 

 I may lose them all, but it seems to 

 me that the principle of the thing is 

 the same as that of the honey meth- 

 od, only that it is much less sticky to 

 perform. I prefer the peppermint, as 

 the anise might possibly entice rob- 

 bers. I like peppermint in mv winter 

 candy, also. JE.AN WHITE. 



Miscellaneous ^ News Items 



Pennsylvania Meeting. — The Penn- 

 sylvania Beekeepers' Association will 

 hold a meeting at the apiary of L. K. 

 Hostetter, five miles northeast of 

 Lancaster, on August 16. All persons 

 interested in beekeeping are invited 

 to attend. 



L. K. HUBER, Chairman. 



Miller is the man who operates 400 

 colonies of bees in five yards, work- 

 ing on an average of two days a 

 week. He will show and explain his 

 system of management, wdiich you 

 will all want to see. 



JOHN C. BULL, Sec.-Treas. 



Eastern Massachusetts Meeting. — 



The Eastern Massachusetts Society 

 of Beekeepers is to hold its annual 

 field day at the Independent Agricul- 

 tural School at Hawthorne (Dan- 

 vers), Mass., on Saturday, August 11. 



The Annual Field Meeting of the 

 Chicago Northwestern Association 



will be held on Tuesday, August 14, 

 at the home of the apiary of the 

 President, Mr. E. S. Miller, of Val- 

 paraiso, Ind. The day will be taken 

 up with various talks and demon- 

 strations of interest to beekeepers. 

 I lie Ladies' Aid of the Christian 

 church will serve dinner at noon, at 

 the church, two blocks north of the 

 court house. The dinner will be 50 

 cents a person. All wdio expect to at- 

 tend will notify me at least three 

 days in advance, as the ladies require 

 that much time and number expected 

 so tliey can prepare accordingly. The 

 apiary is located just outside of the 

 city, east, about a mile from the de- 

 pots. Mr. Miller or myself will try 

 and meet all incoming trains till 

 noon with autos and escort beekeep- 

 ers to the apiary. Valparaiso is lo- 

 cated 44 miles southeast of Chicago, 

 on the Grand Trunk, Nickel Plate 

 and Pennsylvania railroads. We also 

 have interurban lines from Crown 

 Point, Gary, Chesterton, La Porte 

 and South Bend. We will not meet 

 interurban cars, but if you wish to 

 ride to the apiary call phone 571 R 

 and we will meet you. President 



Death of Mrs. H. S. Duby.— Mrs. H. 



S. Duby, of St. Anne, 111., passed away 

 July 3, aged 51 years. She was a bee- 

 keeper from youth. While still in 

 her teens she persuaded her father to 

 adopt the movable-frame hive, and 

 she did practically all the transferr- 

 ing alone, in the operation saving $30 

 worth of beeswax. When she married 

 H. S. Duby she married a beekeeper, 

 and together they went into bee- 

 keeping in earnest. She never wore 

 gloves or veil and seldom used smoke, 

 as she knew how to handle bees so as 

 to provoke them the least. 



Mrs. Duby often entertained bee- 

 keepers, including the editor, who 

 still remembers her charming hospi- 

 tality. She will be missed by many 

 who were in the habit of calling on 

 her during "swarming time." Her 

 husband has the deserved sympathy 

 of the fraternity. 



Ohio State Meeting. — On Thursday 

 and Friday, September 6 and 7, at 

 Wilmington, Ohio, will be held 

 "Ohio's Greatest Field Meet." The 

 full program follows : 



Thursday, September 6 

 10:30 a. m.— 



Prayer — Rev. J. J. Richards. 



Minutes of Medina meeting — Er- 

 nest Kohn. Grover Hill. O. 



President's Address — Melville 

 Hayes, Wilmington, O. 



Educational Value of Inspection 

 Work— A. C. Ames, Weston, O. 



Appointment of Committees. 

 1 :.30 p. m.— 



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Cuban Bee Industry -U. H. .Morris, 

 Springfield, O. 



Queen Rearing — J. P. Moore, Mor- 

 gan, Kv. ; l-red Leininger, Dclphos, 

 O. : Mel Prichard, Medina, O. 



(General Discussion — Free for all. 

 7:30 p. m.— 



Prevention of Swarming — C. P. Da- 

 dant, Hamilton, III. 



What Ohio State University is Do- 

 ing for Beekeeping— Jas. S. Hine, 

 Columbus, O. 



Successful Beekeeping — E. K. Root, 

 Medina, O. 



Friday, September 7 

 9:30 a. m.— 



Meet at Walker Memorial Building 

 for automobile ride over Clinton 

 County, under auspices of Wilming- 

 ton Commercial Club. 

 Opera House , 1 :30 p. m. — 



Mother Goose's Melodies CPara- 

 phrased)— Mrs. G. P. Phillips, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Flowers (Pollenization and Cross 

 Pollenization)— E. R. Root, Medina, 

 O. 



Tliis meeting will be attended by 

 pupils of Wilmington Public Schools 

 under charge of Prof. E. P. West, Su- 

 perintendent, and by the ladies of 

 \\'ilmington. 

 Walker Memorial Building, 7 :30 p. m. 



Wintering — Dr. E. F. Phillips, of 

 Bureau of Entomology, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Question Box — E. R. Root, Medina, 

 O. 



Sweet Clover as Chicken Feed. — 



One of our French correspondents, 

 Mr. Lefeuvre, suggests the use of 

 melilot hay, grovmd fine and mixed 

 with bran, as feed for chickens. He 

 bases the advice upon the experi- 

 ment of a miller who tried it. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT 



OF AGRICULTURE 



Bureau of Markets 



Semi-Monthly News Bulletin 



Honey — No. 3 

 Washington, D. C, July 13, 1917. 



This is the third of a series of sim- 

 ilar reports which will be issued by 

 this office on the first and fifteenth 

 of each month during the honey 

 shipping season. The information is 

 secured by representatives of the of- 

 fice located in the markets, and is 

 transmitted by wire to Washington. 

 For the present the bulletins will be 

 issued onlj' from Washington. These 

 bulletins will be sent by mail free to 

 any persons requesting them. All in- 

 quiries should be addressed to Chas. 

 J. Brand, Chief. 



Telegraphic Reports From Today's 

 Markets — Jobbing Prices 



(L. C. L. iirices on large lots to 

 jobbers). 



New York — 6 barrels Florida, 38 

 barrels and 17 cases West Indian, ar- 

 rived ; no comb honey arrivals. Ex- 

 tracted stock: market active, de- 

 mand good,, stronger ; active buying 

 for Italian export, resulting in wide 

 range in prices ; Southern : 12-13c ; 

 some sales reported at 15c; West In- 

 dian, 12-14c ; some ISc per pound. 

 Beeswax: Arrivals unreported: sup- 

 plies adequate; demand light; yel- 



