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American Hee Journal 



October, igio. 



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do more for its members. There ought 

 to be wisdom enough among the whole 

 membership to devise waj-s and means 

 that will insure the Association being 

 a greater help in the future than it has 

 been in the past, although its record so 

 far is nothing to be ashamed of. 



It may be that some who attend the 

 convention will be able to bring some- 

 thing for exhibition. Vice-President 

 Wright expects to have a small room 

 adjoining the convention hall where 

 everything of an exhibition nature can 

 be placed for inspection by those at- 

 tending the meeting. Bee-keepers are 

 always looking for something new, so 

 if you have anything that shows prog- 

 ress be sure to take it with you. 



The program referred to above, and 

 which we published last month, follows : 



Program of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention at Albany. N. Y. 



The National Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will hold its annual convenlion Oct. i; and 

 11, loio. in the Common Council Chamber in 

 the City Hall of Albany, N. Y. 



There will be 5 sessions, beginning with 

 the first on Oct. I2th. at 10:30 a.m., with an 

 afternoon and an evening session the same 

 day, and a morning and an afternoon session 

 on the second day. 



The papers selected are to take up not 

 more than 5 minutes each, so that there will 

 be sufficient time for the discussions of the 

 subjects; and also allowing ample time for 

 the " Question-Box." which is to be taken 

 up at the conclusion of the subjects on the 

 regular program at each session. 



October isth— Morning Session, 10:30 A.M. 



The first session will open with the recep- 

 tion of members, paying of dues, and such 

 other matters, so these will not interfere 

 after the regular program is taken up. 



" BeeKeeping as a Business "— W. B. Cav- 

 anagh. Hebron. Ind. 



"What a Woman Can Do With Bees"— 

 Mrs. S. Wilbur Frey, Sand Lake, Mich. 



October i2Th— Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. 



" Comb Honey— from Nectar to Market "— 

 S. D. House. Camiilus, N. Y. 



" Extracted Honey— from Nectar to Mar- 

 kef '—J. L. Byer. Mt. Joy. Ont., Can. 



"Bulk-Comb Honey and Its Future" — 

 Louis H. Scholl. New Braunfels. Tex. 



"Ripening Honey on the Hives "—W. P. 

 Southworth, Salix, Iowa. 



October i2th— Evening Session. 8 p.m. 



"President's .Address"— George W.York, 

 Chicago, III. 



"Selection in Breeding to Increase the 

 Honey Crop"— Geo. B. Howe, Black River, 

 N. Y. 



"Co-operation Among Bee-Keepers— Ad- 

 vantages and Procedure"— Frank Rauchfuss, 

 Denver, Colo. 



October 13TH— Morning Session, g .4 m. 



" -Advertising to Create a Larger Demand 

 for Honey "— F. J. Root, Newark, N. J. 



"Methods of Retailing Honey" — Wesley 

 Foster. Boulder. Colo. 



"Shipping and Grading Honey"— H. H. 

 Root. Medina. Ohio. 



"Methods of Rendering Beeswax "—H. R. 

 Boardman. Collins. Ohio. 



October i3TH— Afternoon Session, : 



"when and How to Requeen with a 

 Honey-Flow" — F. A. Cyrenius, Oswego, 



"Southern Honey - Production — Pr^ 

 Conditions and Future Possibilities" 

 Wilder. Cordele. Ga. 



" BeeKeeping in Maryland as I .See 

 N. W. Saunders. State Entomologist, 

 villp MH 



vi'lle.Md. 

 "Question-Box" after each session. 

 Loins H. .SciKJM 

 New Braumfels, Tex. 



Fall 

 . N.Y. 

 esent 

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It"- 

 Rock- 



/itn/inx, and not a >iiiclei. And after he 

 has learned that nm/ri/s is the singular 

 and ««(-/<■/ the plural, he is still inclined 

 to make the mistakes of using the plu- 

 ral form instead of the singular when 

 using the word as an adjective; as, 

 "nuclei plan of increase," instead of 

 " nucleus plan." Even so scholarly a 

 writer as D. M. Macdonald lately wrote, 

 " At present I will deal with nuclei- 

 forming," and the error escajied the 

 eagle eye of the proof-reader of that 

 correct publication, the British Bee 

 Journal. 



Possibly the beginner thinks, "If I 

 use the plan for making several nuclei 

 it must be a ' nuclei ' plan, while a nu- 

 cleus plan would be for only one 

 nucleus." But if he will think of paral- 

 lel cases, he will view the matter dif- 

 ferently. If a man is engaged in build- 

 ing houses, he is engaged in house- 

 building, not in houses-building ; if 

 two cows are in a pasture, it is a cow- 

 pasture, not a cows-pasture. 



So let it be remembered that when 

 we use the word as a noun, iiiu/i-its is 

 the singular and inula' the plural ; but 

 when used with the significance of an 

 adjective the singular form, luaiciis is 

 always used. 



Bees Capture a Ship 



A swarm of bees recently settled on 

 the steamship " Alleghany," at Port de 

 Paix, Hayti, and at the expense of the 

 Hamburg-American line rode to St. 

 Marc, a distance of about 1!)0 miles by 

 sea. According to the chief officer, 

 the " Alleghany " was lying off Port 

 de Paix, on the northwest coast of 

 Hayti, June 23d. As the liner was 

 about to weigh anchor, the swarm set- 

 tled on the port of davits. A watch 

 was kept on them throughout the day 

 and night, and the next morning when 

 the "Alleghany", was ofT St. Marc in 

 Gonaive Bay, the swarm buzzed around 

 the proffered hives, but soon made a 

 bee-line for St. Marc. Captain Meiss- 

 ner was furious. No bees, no passage 

 money, and empty hives ! 



The foregoing is according to the 

 Baltimore News of July 13, 1910. 



"Nucleus" and "Nuclei " 



Perhaps no words give more trouble 

 to inexperienced apicultural writers 

 than the two words iimiiits and niulet. 

 It takes some time for the beginner to 

 learn that when he has only one it is a 



Our Front - Page Brood - t'ouib 

 Picture 



We are not quite sure how the en- 

 graving on the first page this month is 

 going to print, but if it looks anywhere 

 near as beautiful as the original photo- 

 graph it will be very attractive to bee- 

 keepers. Mr. Walter C. Lyman, now 

 and for many years past a bee-keeper 

 at Downers' Grove, 111., furnished the 

 picture for the special purpose it is 

 used this month. 



In the original photograph even the 

 tiny bee-eggs show in the empty cells 

 in the center of the picture. This is 

 the first time, we believe, that we have 

 ever seen the eggs of a queen photo- 

 graphed where they had been laid in 

 the comb. 



It also will be noticed that many of 

 the cells contain the curled up larva;, 

 whose pearly whiteness, of course, does 

 not show so well in the picture, al- 

 though some of them are very distinct. 

 Just below the sealed cells of honey 

 near the top of the picture, and also in 

 the lower left-hand corner, will be 



seen cells filled with pollen. The lower 

 part of the comb that is sealed over is 

 worker-brood; while, of course, the 

 top of the comb is sealed honey. 



It seems to us that all this picture 

 lacks is a lot of bees on the comb. 

 That would make it about perfect. 

 However, the eggs in the bottom of 

 the cells could not be seen if the bees 

 were present as in the natural condi- 

 tion in the hive. 



We are hoping that this picture will 

 appear very distinct when printed on 

 the front page this month. The en- 

 graving is a very good one, as is also 

 the original photograph. Of course, it 

 would look better if printed on enam- 

 eled paper, but such paper would not 

 do at all in a publication like the 

 American Bee Journal. It would also 

 be too expensive. 



We dare say that this number of the 

 American Bee Journal will be pre- 

 served for the originality and beauty of 

 its front-cover page, if for no other 

 reason; although its contents, like its 

 predecessors, should be well worth 

 reading and preserving. 



If you have any bee-keeper neighbors 

 or friends who would like to have this 

 number of the American Bee Journal, 

 just show it to them, and ask them to 

 send in their subscription at once, and 

 we will begin it with this October 

 number, and thus they, too, will have 

 the unusual picture shown on the front 



page. 



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Honey-aud-3lHuimy Medicine 



Honey is now and has always been 

 an important item in the list of medi- 

 cines, but in medieval times, according 

 to an article in the London Hospital, 

 it was used in a grewsome combina- 

 tion. The article says : 



Here is a somewhat disquieting recipe ac- 

 cording to the manuscript of the Persian 

 poet Nizami : 



"Take a man with red skin and hair; feed 

 him with fruits up to the age of 30 Then 

 plunge him into a stone vat filled with honey 

 and divers other drugs; close up the vat and 

 seal it hermetically. One hundred and 

 twenty years later the honey and body will 

 be mummified. Open the vat and serve up 

 the contents." 



The mummy extract, says the German 

 savant, was in common use in the lath cen- 

 tury, and as late as 1853 it figured in Austrian 

 pharmacy. 



"The Practical Bee-Guide" 



Six years ago the first edition of the 

 Irish Bee Guide was published. A sec- 

 ond edition has now appeared, and the 

 title has been changed to "The Practi- 

 cal Bee-Guide." Concerning this 

 change the author says; 



"The alteration in the title of thcGuidi' 

 has been made partly in ac-kuowledgement 

 of the fact that the sale of the book hitherto 

 has not been chieliy in tliis country, and 

 partly in deferenci' to the wishes of the 

 booksellers and of a large number of practi- 

 cal bee-keepers, who have assured me that 

 the former title led to the erroneous impres- 

 sion that the Guide was suited only to bee- 

 keeping in Ireland." 



Certainly the character of the work 

 warrants the change of name. 



It is a work of something more than 

 230 pages, measuring 7x4^4 inches each, 

 written by Rev. J. Ci. Diggcs, M. A., the 

 genial editor of that sprightly monthly, 

 the Irish Bee Journal. The style is 

 clear, and of such character as to make 

 the book pleasant reading, in spite of 



