January, 1910. 



American l^ee Journal 



ing, and she concluded that she was 

 not quite ready to bury her bees alive, 

 after all — -at least not without giving 

 them a fighting chance. So she sent a 

 sample of the diseased brood to Mr. N. 

 IZ. France, and he sent back the joyful 

 news that it was not foul brood, but 

 /•ickled brood. 



She was more fortunate than some of 

 the rest of us. What particularly in- 

 terested me was the way she faced the 

 situation. Wasn't she plucky to tackle 

 digging that big hole, all by her lee- 

 lane self. 



But, really, I can't tell you all the 

 good things of the convention. How I 

 wish every lady bee-keeper in the land 

 liad been there to see and hear for her- 

 self. Why can't we have more lady 

 bee-keepers at our conventions? 

 .in 

 ? 



Honey for Chapped Hands 



Mnie. Qui Vive advises the use of 

 honey for chapped lips, thus, in the 

 Chicago Record-Herald : 



If you don't happen to have aiiytliiiij; else 

 in the house to aiiply to chapped lips, try 

 honey. It is very soothing, and any time yon 

 don't want it there you can eat it. The flavor 

 is preferable to that of cold cream. 



The Bee a Symbol of Industry 



The Youth's Companion prints the 

 following paragraph which shows that 

 the German housekeeping sisters still 

 consider the bee as a symbol of indus- 

 try: 



The busy bee is not so persistently held up 

 as an example to girls as it once was. But 

 there are some women in New York who 

 still believe in it. The German Housewives' 

 Society gives badges of honor to model ser- 

 vants every year. Twenty-five who had 

 been two years in their places received 

 golden bees the other day— the symbols of 

 consistent industry. 



Honey-Cakes 



Clara Van Buren, of Elgin, 111., gives 

 the following in the Chicago Record- 

 Herald : 



Melt one-fourth a cup of butter. .\AA oju- 

 cup of strained honey. Let fool, then add 

 the grated yellow rind of a lemon, one tea 

 spoonful of lemon juice, two ounces of sweel 

 almonds, blanched and chopped fine, one- 

 fourth a leaspoonful of mace. half a teaspoon- 

 ful of soda and two cups and a half of flour 

 sifted together. Mix thoroughly, then set 

 aside, covered, in a cool place for 12 hours. 

 Koll into a sheet half an inch thick, cut into 

 squares and bake about 20 minutes in a mod- 

 erate oven. 'When baked brush over the 

 tops of the cakes with a cup of sugar and 

 half a cup of water, boiled to a thick syrup. 

 Let the syrup cool slightly before using. 



Honey-Production in India 



Mrs. M. C. Mason, a missionary at 

 Tura, India, writes Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture as follows : 



There is not much inducement to bees to 

 make any amount of honey here, as Ihey can 

 eat directly from the fresh flowers: still, 

 they do produce some very nice honey, and 

 once in a while we get some that is eatable. 

 If we could get it first hand or in the comb it 

 would be all right; biU the natives are much 

 given to straining it through any cloth, and 

 that may be one taken from off the body, 

 often so dirty that Mrs. Root would notallow 

 her Moor to be scrubbed with it. 



The likelihood is that the bees in In- 

 dia are just as eager to store honey as 

 their sisters in the farther North. A 



colony here with 100 pounds of surplus 

 on the hive works just as hard as if no 

 supers were there, so long as it has 

 room to store. However it may be 

 about "inducement" for tlie bees, there 

 would be little " inducement " for hu- 

 mans to eat honey strained in the man- 

 ner mentioned. Ugh! 



Bee-Keeping in the Public School 



If bees as teacliers of children in the 

 public schools were appreciated else- 

 where as they are in School No. U)0, in 

 New York city, there would hardly be 

 a large school in the ' land without at 

 least one colony of bees. The school 

 mentioned has 4 colonies. It is prob- 

 ably generally supposed that the only 

 object in having bees as a study for the 

 pupils of public schools is to learn 

 something of their natural history. 

 " Nature study " is nowadays quite a 

 fad, and a good fad it is. But accord- 

 ing to the ideas of Miss Goldie. the 

 principal of School No. 190, the pupils 

 get from the bees something of vastly 

 greater importance than anything that 

 can be classed under the head of nature 

 study. Listen to what she said to a re- 

 porter of the New York World: 



"It is astonishing what the children have 

 been able to get out of watching and study- 

 ing those insects. In all my years of teach- 

 ing I have known nothing that would so de- 

 velop a child's power of observation and 

 ability to relate, orally or in writing, a mass 

 of true scientific information derived from 

 actual investigation. Almost any child in the 

 school can. at a glance through tin- glass, tell 



the old bees from the young ones, picking 

 them out from thousands, and they know 

 that by litttle characteristics that the ordi- 

 nary eye would be stone blind, too. 



"It is worth something to get nearly a thou- 

 sand girls in such a frame of mind that they 

 are frightened by the buzzing of an insect 

 that can sting. It is worth something to get 

 a herd of boys in such a frame of mind that 

 under no circumstunces would one of them 

 step on or otherwise intentionally kill or in- 

 jure a useful insect of any sort. If any boy 

 in this school ever finds a bee lying outside 

 numbed by the cold, he picks it vip and 

 brings it in to the hive. 



"In rainy or stormv weather when hees 

 are interrupted in their work, they make a 

 noise that is much more threatening and an- 

 gry than thecontented hum with which they 

 do their task in pleasant weather. The chil- 

 dren have observed that, too. and of their 

 o«-n accord made comic little parables to 

 the effect that they ought not to grumble 

 about the school work that they have to do 

 at home. 



"The children have drawn their valuable 

 lessons in loyalty to the school, the city and 

 their homes from the care and devotion with 

 which the bodyguard looks after the queen 

 of the hive. We have had two swarmings 

 caused by rival queens, and the pupils know 

 all about the results of factional war in a 

 hive. They know that the old-fashioned 

 expression. ' neater than «-ax.' is based on 

 the fact that no creature is cleaner than the 

 bee. A bee that is sick or dying always 

 knows and voluntarily goes out of the hive 

 to die rather than allow her dead body litter 

 the quarters of her fellow-workers. 



"The pasteboard cases in which we put 

 the boxes of honey taken from the hives are 

 made by the boys of the school as part of 

 their shop-work, and there is no part which 

 they do better, because that appeals to them 

 as being very practical and commercial so 

 long as they kno\\' that they are also inter- 

 ested in the production of the article that is 

 to go in the cases. And of course the fate of 

 the drone offers such an obvious lesson that 

 the smallest youngster in the school can ab- 

 sorb it without much teaching. " 



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iBouthern 





IKeedoiR M 



Conducted by LOUIS H. SCHULL, New Braunfels. Tex. 



Bulk Comb Honey—The Hives and Super 

 Arrangements 



The beauty of the whole thing is that 

 any kind of hive can be used for bulk 

 comb honey production. So, no mat- 

 ter what kind, style, size or shape hives 

 you now have, whether you have been 

 unsuccessful with them in producing 

 section honey or not, or whether they 

 are not just suited for extracted honey, 

 makes no difference. .'\ny hives that 

 can be made to receive a shallow super 

 above can be converted into a bulk- 

 comb-honey hive, so that no matter 

 what kind of hive one now uses, or how 

 inany one has, the change to bulk- 

 comb honey will be very slight as 

 compared with the advantages of its 

 production as a more profitable venture. 



Of course, I might admit that some 

 hives arc better than others, no matter 

 what kind of honey is produced, and 

 although this is a fact, it is nothing 

 compared with the difference in hives 

 for the successful production of comb 

 honey in the small, miserable I -pound 

 section bo.xes. The majority of the 



hives now in use are of standard size 

 and variety, and sucli that allow tiering 

 up of supers above, especially hives 

 that have been used for section-honey 

 production. With these the supers can 

 even be converted into shallow-frame 

 supers — just the ideal for bulk comb 

 honey. 



Many bee-keepers are already using 

 shallow frames for extracting purposes, 

 and hence need make no change in 

 their hives and super arrangements. If 

 the deep frames are used for extracted 

 honey, it would be advisable to turn 

 these sets with deep bodies into brood- 

 chambers for increase whereon shal- 

 low supers can then be added. The 

 deep or Langstroth frames, or like 

 ones, are unsatisfactory for our pur- 

 pose, being too deep, and a deep super 

 of them is too much room for most 

 satisfactory results; besides, they do 

 not allow the use of full sheets of thin 

 super foundation ; and possess other 

 disadvantages. 



The majority of hives in Texas are of 

 the 10-frame Langstroth size, on which 

 we use shallow su])ers as shown in Fig. 



