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Published Nonthly at $1.00 a Year, by American Bee Journal, First National Bank Building 



C. p. DADANT. Editor. 



DR C. C. MILLER. Associate Editor. 



HAMILTON, ILL., APRIL, 1915 



Vol. LV..— Ho. 4 



Editorial 



Comments 



International Congress of Bee- 

 keepers 



According to the Western Honey 

 Bee the committee of the California 

 State Beekeepers' Association has con- 

 ceived the idea of organizing an Inter- 

 national Beekeepers' Congress at San 

 Francisco next fall, in September or 

 October, Good! There ought to be 

 no difficulty in getting a good attend- 

 ance from all over the United States 

 and Canada, and perhaps some visitors 

 from foreign countries. We volunteer 

 to do all we can to help it along. 



Briti.sli Colambia 



In his report on the " Honey Pro- 

 duction of British Columbia," Mr. F. 

 Dundas Todd, inspector, estimates the 

 total crop for 1914 at about 200 tons. 

 The average per colony was about 55 

 pounds. 



Cauipauilla Honey 



We are in receipt, from Mr. D. W. 

 Millar, of Holguin, Cuba, of an excel- 

 lent sample of white honey, which he 

 reports was harvested from the white 

 campanula (blue bell or bellflower). It 

 is very fine. Mr. Millar is a very active 

 man, and is likely to make a success of 

 his undertakings. 



Winter Consumption 



Page 54, column 3. Bees wintered 

 in cellar will consume more after put 

 out than those wintered out. I never 

 heard that before. I wonder if it is 

 true; and if so, why? c. c. m. 



Evidently that is not true everywhere 

 or Dr. Miller would have noticed it. 



But we found it true at Hamilton 

 Cellar-wintered bees breed very little 

 previous to removal from the cellar, 

 while the bees on summer stands be- 

 gin breeding often as early as January. 

 It is therefore indispensable for the 

 cellar-wintered bees to hasten their 

 breeding operations when taken out. 

 The return to daylight has a tendency 

 to do this. We ascribe the extra con- 

 sumption to that cause. 



This item was brought out at the 

 Wisconsin meeting. If those who dis- 

 cussed it wish to express their views 

 on this, we will gladly publish them. 



c. p. D. 



Dr. Phillips Made Vice-President 

 of Entomologists 



We read in " Science " that Dr. E. F. 

 Phillips, the well-known head apiarist 

 at the Bureau of Entomology in Wash- 

 ington, has been elected one of the 

 vice-presidents of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Economic Entomologists. 

 Dr. Phillips is worthy, if we judge by 

 his devotion to the cause of apiculture. 



Honey in Attic 



Adrian Getaz says, page (53, that fall 

 honey kept throughout the whole win- 

 ter at a high temperature in " the little 

 room in the attic " not only did not 

 candy but ripened unusually well. 

 That's quite true; and I want to carry 

 it a little further. There are a good 

 many attics, but probably not one in 

 ten that can be kept as warm through- 

 out the winter as the one mentioned. 

 It is possible that that honey might 

 have kept without candying if there 



had been no heat in the attic in winter 

 and indeed if there had been no heat 

 but that from the sun in summer. 

 Years ago, in Johnstown, Pa., my 

 mother kept sections of honey in an 

 attic that was freezing cold in winter 

 but roasting hot in summer merely 

 from the heat of the sun. The honey 

 kept perfectly through the winter, the 

 heat in the latter part of summer seem- 

 ing to have ripened it for winter. 



Mr. Getaz says: "I presume that 

 where there is a furnace in the house, 

 the furnace-room would be the best 

 substitute for " the little room in the 

 attic.'" The presumption is correct. 

 Section honey has kept nicely beside 

 the furnace in winter in my cellar. But 

 in summer that same cellar is about 

 the worst place I could keep it. 



c. c. M. 



Iowa Report Exhausted 



Mr. Pellett informs us that the Iowa 

 Inspector's Report is entirely exhausted 

 except a few bound copies to be sup- 

 plied to those members who remit 50 

 cents for their membership in the Iowa 

 Beekeepers' Association. 



The rapid demand is a testimonial to 

 the value of the work. 



Feeding Sugar Syrup 



I have read what J. L. Byer says 

 about fall feeding of sugar syrup, page 

 85, with much interest — read it more 

 than once. J. L. Byer always seems to 

 mix in some thinking with what he 

 says, so that it is worth considering ; 

 and yet I could wish that we might 

 have some more positive and definite 

 knowledge on this whole subject; for 

 I suppose the time is not likely to 

 come soon when there will not be 

 some for whom it will be a conven- 

 ience to feed sugar syrup, provided it 

 may be safely done. 



No one will be likely to question 



