November, 1910. 



Amc»rican Hee Journal 



Case of sweet clover honey. 12 to 24 pounds 

 — ist. Becker. S4. 2d, Coppin. Si: 3d. Stone. S2. 



Case of bassword comb honey. 12 to 24 

 pounds— ist. Coppin. $4; 2d, Becker, %i, 3d. 

 Stone. $2. 



Case of amber comb honey. 12 to 24 pounds 

 — tst. Becker. $4; 2d. Stone.S3: 3d. Coppin, S2. 



Display of samples of extracted honey, not 

 less than I-2 pound eacii— 1st. Becker. $5: 2d. 

 Stone, $i; 3d, Coppin. $2. 



Display of extracted honey — ist, Becker. 

 |2o; 2d. Coppin, S15; 3d, Stone. Sio. 



Honey extracting on the grounds, execu- 

 tion and explanation considered— 1st. Cop- 

 pin, $5: 2d. Stone. Si. 3d. Becker. S2. 



Frame of comb honey for extracting— ist, 

 Coppin. $5; 2d. .Stone. $3: 3d, Becker. $2. 



Display of candied honey— 1st. Becker. $20; 

 3d. Stone. $is; 3d. Coppin. $10. 



Display of beeswax— ist. Coppin, S15. 2d. 

 Becker. Sio; 3d. Stone $5- 



Kor a full colony of bees of any race in ob- 

 servatory hive— ist. Stone. Ss 



One-frame observatory hiveof dark Italian 

 bees with queen — ist. Coppin. S4: 2d. Becker. 



One-frame observatory hive of Golden 

 Italian bees with qeeen— ist, Coppin, $4; 2d. 

 Becker. St. 



One-frame observatory Iiive of Carniolan 

 bees with queen— ist. Becker. S4. 2d. Coppin. 

 $3. 



One-frame observatory hiveof Caucasian 

 bees with queen— 1st. Coppin. $4; 2d. Becker, 



Honcyvinegar. 'A gallon, with recipe for 

 making— 1st. Becker. $4; 2d. Coppin. $3: 3d. 

 Stone. S2. 



Display of designs in comb honey executed 

 by the bees under the control of the apiarist 

 —1st. Coppin. S15; 2d. Becker, S12; 3d, Stone, 

 $8. 



Display of designs in beeswax— ist. Stone. 

 $20; 2d. Becker. S12; 3d. Coppin. S8. 



For manipulating swarm of bees in cage— 

 1st. Coppin. $13 



Two Wheelbarrows to Save Labor 



Two wheelbarrows used for wheel- 

 ing honey into the honey-house for ex- 

 tracting, allows one of them to remain 

 in the house while the other is being 

 filled in the yard, thus the saving of 

 unloading each time the " outside man " 

 comes in with a load. — Bee- Keepers" Re- 

 viezi'. 



Oalieo for Hive-Cover.s 



L. S. Crawshaw says in the British 

 Bee Journal that he has for years had 

 in use hive-covers covered with calico. 

 Some of them had the calico glued on 

 before painting, and are all right if 

 painted from time to time, but are not 

 so satisfactory as those which had the 

 calico laid down on paint. » 



Bee->Ioth and Stone Bee-House 



We take the following paragraphs, 

 as well as pictures, from the Second 



bee-keeping part of the Report being 

 prepared by George S. Demuth, assis- 

 tant in charge of the Divsion of Api- 

 culture : 



The Bee-Motii. 



Formerly considered a great pest, but the 

 intelliuent apiarist of today seldom gives it 

 a passing thought except to protect combs 

 not occupied by bees from their ravages. 



Very often we hear the expression from 

 farmers that they useil to keep bees, but the 

 worms got in and ato them up. The "worm" 



The Front-Page Picture 



The picture on the front cover-page 

 this month shows the " Cleonie Apiary " 

 of Geo. D. Caley, of Cozad, Nebr. 

 When the picture was taken he had 

 about 50 colonies, but the cleome 

 plants were so large that they hid part 

 of the hives. Mr. Caley thinks that 

 Cleome inleffti/oha, or Rocky Moun- 

 tain bee-plant, is one of the best nectar- 



Brood-Comb Destroyed by the Bee-Moth. 



referred to is the larva of the bee-moth, and 

 it is never to be found in a healthy, well- 

 cared-for colony. The moih is liable to in- 

 vade the home of a weakened colony, and 

 with the old type of box-hive it may become 

 an injurious pest. The newer types of 

 frame hives leave no place of refuge for the 

 young larva, and the bees can readily de- 

 fend themselves. Furthermore, the Italian 

 bees defend their homes against the attacks 

 of the bee-moths much better than do the 

 black or German bees. Invariably the pres- 

 ence of the bee-moth is an evidence of care- 

 less work on the part of the bee-keeper. 



Notice in the picture how the comb has 

 been eaten away, and the remains covered 

 with the webs of the bee-moth. 



The old stone bee-house shown in 

 the picture is in Southern Indiana. It 

 figured in Edward Eggleston's "The 

 Hoosier School-Boy." The hives were 

 arranged on shelves on the inside, and 

 the bees entered through the entrances 

 indicated in the picture. 



yielders in Nebraska. When in blootn 

 the bees work on it from daylight until 

 dark. The plant grows from 4 to 5 

 feet high, and branches out several 

 feet. We remember seeing it for the 

 first time when attending the Denver 

 convention of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association some years ago. It is 

 a rich honey-plant, and the flavor of 

 the honey is very pleasant. 



Mr. Caley has attended several of the 

 National conventions, and is an up-to- 

 date apiarist, having been engaged in 

 the bee-business for many years. 



An Old Stone Bee-House. 



.Annual Report of the State Entomolo- 

 gist of Indiana, Benj. W. Douglass; the 



"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." Certainly the charac- 

 ter of the work warrants the change of 

 name. It has something more than 230 

 pages, measuring 7x4^4^ inches each, 

 written by Rev. J. G. Digges, 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 

 the fact that it is so compactly written 

 that it would be hard to get more facts 

 into the same number of pages. Each 

 paragraph is consecutively numbered 

 in bold-faced tyye, making the constant 

 reference to these different paragraphs 

 a matter of great convenience. The 

 bee-keeper who desires to increase the 

 size of his library should add to it a 

 volume of "The Practical Bee-Guide." 

 We can order it for you. bound in art 

 linen, for $1.10; or with a year's sub- 

 scription to the American Bee Journal 

 —both for $1.90. 



Sequoyah Co., Olda., Association 



Recently there was organized the 

 Sequoyah Co., Okla., Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, at a meeting held in Salli- 

 saw, Okla. H. B. Clark, of Sallisaw, 

 was elected President, and P. F. Dooley, 

 of Brushy, Secretary. A Purchasing 

 Committee composed of John Kester- 

 son, Ben Brackett, and J. R. McMurtrey 

 were selected. 



The next meeting will be held this 

 month, at which time all the local bee- 

 keepers will be notified. 



We wish this new Association a very 

 successful career. 



Chicago - Northwestern Conven- 

 tion 



Time— November .10 and December i. i«io. 



PLACE-Chicago. Saratoga Hotel. 150 Dear- 

 born Street, opposite First National Bank 

 Building. ,,, , , 



MEETiNGS-Begm io;3o a.m.. Wednesday, 

 and continue until Thursday afternoon. It 

 is the 31st annual session. 



As stated in the October issue of the 

 .\merican Bee Journal, the Saratoga Hotel 

 makes rates for rooms Ji.oo per day and up. 

 Meals may be secured at the hotel or at any 

 other place desired. 



Chicago is centrally located, and reached 

 by nearly all railroads. This meeting is held 

 during the week of the International Live 

 Stock Exposition, and bee-keepers can ar- 

 range to visit the Exposition during their 

 stay in the city. , ■ . 



PROGKAM-There will be several s-minute 

 talks and papers by bee-keepers who are 



