January, 1915. 



American IBae Jonrnal 



packages should also be labeled, and 

 would just the words " Eat Honey" be 

 more effective than the label ? Per- 

 haps I am to understand that we are to 

 stick these stickers upon the fences 

 and bill boards and telephone poles, 

 etc. If that is the idea, it might be all 

 right, but most of us are too busy to do 

 that. We might hire a boy to do it 

 and then we might get into trouble 

 with the Civic Federation that are 

 fighting the bill board nuisance. 



A phrase that the writer has printed 

 across the top of his letterheads reads, 

 "Your sweet tooth is a wisdom tooth 

 if you'll eat a little honey." This 

 might be improved bychanging to this, 

 " Is your sweet tooth a wisdom tooth ? 

 Eat honey." 



While I am writing this a package 

 of the stickers has just come to hand 

 from the publishers of the American 

 Bee Journal. I believe that I shall 

 stick them on about everything that I 

 consider it safe to. 



The National 



The convention of the National Bee- 

 keepers' Association will be held at 

 Denver, Colo., in the Auditorium Hotel, 

 corner of 14th and Stout Streets, Feb. 

 16, 17 and 18, 1915. The convention 



will be a notable one in many particu- 

 lars. The number of highly valuable 

 addresses and papers presented will be 

 very large. The e.xhibits will be ex- 

 tensive, and a custodian and demon- 

 strators will assure the best possible 

 service to the exhibitors and visitors. 



The entertainment features will be 

 ample t i give diversion from the seri- 

 ous proceedings of the convention. A 

 banquet is being arranged for. There 

 will be an automobile trip if the 

 weather permits. The ladies are to be 

 given a place in the meeting, and 

 special arrangements made for their 

 comfort and pleasure. 



The 17 county apiary inspectors of 

 Colorado are all expected to be pres- 

 ent, and a special inspectors' confer- 

 ence will be held. Lectures, illustrated 

 with the stereopticon, are being ar- 

 ranged. Beekeepers from many States 

 have already signified their intention 

 of attending. Every one is welcome, 

 and the more the better. 



The Local Arrangements Commit- 

 tee: Wesley Foster, chairman, secre- 

 tary of the Colorado Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation. 



N. L. Henthorne, president of the 

 Colorado State Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion. 



L. F. Jouno, treasurer of the Colo- 

 rado State Beekeepers' Association. 



Conducted by J. L. Bter. Mt. Joy. Ontario. 



Smoke Method of Introducing Queens 



The discussion of the smoke method 

 of introducing queens is tabooed in 

 the American Bee Journal for the sea- 

 son, page 404. Judging by the remarks 

 of our friend A. C. M , in the Decem- 

 ber issue, the Editor's decision is wise, 

 as a continued discussion would cer- 

 tainly show up "fireworks" on the 

 part of our friend, and where there is 

 " fire " there is sure to be " smoke." As 

 one of the wretches who have griev- 

 ously offended our super-sensitive up- 

 holder of the smoke method of intro- 

 duction under any and all conditions 

 as being infallible, I wish to humbly 

 apologize for being so stupid as to 

 lose two queens by this new (?) method 

 and for being so doubly stupid as to 

 report my experience. 



as hunting out the old queens and re 

 placing with young queens, not to 

 mention the fact that no matter what 

 plan was used, many of the latter 

 would turn up missing either from be- 

 ing lost in mating or other causes. 

 But if I had some sure plan that en- 

 tailed very little work at a time when 

 we are very busy anyway, and could 

 have all my 2-year-old queens replaced 

 with good stock, I would jump at such 

 a proposition. 



Systematic Requeening 



Referring to the advisability of sys- 

 tematic requeening as compared with 

 the let-alone plan so long as the queen 

 is doing good work, I agree with Dr. 

 Miller when he says, " I do not believe 

 I would gain enough by taking the re- 

 queening into my own hands to pay 

 for the trouble." If I could have all 

 queens superseded when two years old, 

 I believe it would pay me big if it were 

 not for the simple word "trouble" 

 which the Doctor uses. 



By " trouble " I would include an im- 

 mense lot of work in requeening, such 



Snyder's introducing Plan Practiced by 

 H. 6. Sibbald 



The plan of queen introducing, given 

 on page 405, as practiced by S. W. 

 Snyder, of Iowa, is similar to the one 

 used by our well-known apiarist, H. G 

 Sibbald here in Ontario. Mr. Sibbald 

 kills the old queen and rubs her body 

 over the cage in which the new queen 

 is to be introduced, believing that the 

 odor of the old queen makes introduc- 

 tion doubly sure. He has splendid 

 success. Needless to say, I wish to 

 assure friend Arthur C. Miller that the 

 "otherfellow" tells me itis the "odor" 

 of the oldqueen thatmakes the method 

 successful— this explanation is just to 

 save myself from getting trounced for 

 things I am not responsible for, when 

 goodness knows there is enough I 

 should rightly answer for without as- 

 suming other people's burdens. As a 

 secret for the Editor alone, I will just 



add that I firmly believe that there is a 

 lot in the odor theory, and have yet to 

 see something more convincing than 

 has yet appeared to convince me dif- 

 ferently. 



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"Eat Honey" 



Much has been said during the past 

 few years on advertising honey, much 

 of the discussion being practicable 

 and much of it otherwise. The simple 

 injunction, "Eat Honey," as proposed 

 by Dr. Bonney as a slogan for adver- 

 tising honey, is the best thing I have 



-t seen. The text is extremely short, 

 and if displayed prominently and often 

 by beekeepers all over the country, in 

 many cases the words will be " stick- 

 ers." They will be remembered by 

 multitudes, while lengthy dissertations 

 on the value of the product, etc., will 

 have been forgotten. 



By all means let us use these stickers 

 by the thousands; they are cheap 

 enough, no excuse in that line. Just 

 now, unfortunately, we are not in a 

 position to use any ourselves, as we 

 have no honey to sell and have been 

 turning down orders all fall. 



Granulation of Two to One Syrup After 

 Stored in Combs 



Friend McKinnon, of St. Eugene, 

 Ont., the beekeeper who reported 

 granulation of the two to one syrup 

 after it was stored in the combs writes 

 me this year the colonies wintering in 

 the cellar that have been fed on a much 

 thinner syrup than the standard mix- 

 ture, are showing unmistakable evi- 

 dence that granulation has occurred 

 again with this thinner syrup. He says 

 that granules of the stores are thickly 

 in evidence on the bottom-boards, and 

 I can plainly see that Mr. McKinnon 

 thinks we are all mistaken when we 

 have no granulation under like condi- 

 tions and with a two to one mixture. 



Frankly, I cannot understand where 

 the trouble is, and while firmly of the 

 opinion that we have never had any of 

 this trouble, I shall be very watchful 

 this winter and next spring to try and 

 detect signs, if there are any, of waste 

 of good stores. 



Reciprocal Rights of Neighbors 



Pardon me, Mr. Editor, for asking 

 you to print once more a sentence in 

 last month's American Bee Journal, 

 taken from L'Apicoltore : "But the 

 best way is always that of accommodat- 

 ing gentleness with the observance of 

 reciprocal rights and duties of kind 

 neighbors." More than once I have 

 seen cases where I felt bound to take 

 sides against a beekeeper when my 

 sympathies were naturally with him. 

 If the sentiments expressed in the quo- 

 tation were carried into effect, many 

 times, beekeepers would have done 

 differently. This is not insinuating 

 that beekeepers are always to blame 

 in the little troubles that arise, as peo- 

 ple are often prejudiced and ignorant 

 in regard to bees, and make preposter- 

 ous claims of trouble caused by them 

 But this does not alter the truth that 

 my bees have not the right to cau.'-e 



