Tune, 1913. 



American ISae 'Journal 



merits in the Bee-Keepers' Review. 

 Editor Tyrrell foot-notes the article 

 thus: 



" The conclusion that I come to after read- 

 ing the above is. that Mr. Hand, after tryine 

 both kinds of hives, does not consider the 

 advantage of either over the other of suffi- 

 cient importance to warrant a change from 

 one to the other being made. I would 



guess." however, that if he were starting 

 anew, he wouldadopt theregular Langstroth 

 hive." 



Neeting of Illinois Bee-Keepers A. 



L. Kildovv State Inspector of Apiaries. 

 and Deputy I. K. Pyles, while out in the 

 interest of tlie bee-business, met by pre- 

 arranged plans at Casey, Clark county. 

 And on the afternoon of May 10th the 

 bee-keepers of that vicinity assembled 

 at the home of Oscar Shawver, for the 

 purpose of gaining information con- 

 cerning foul brood and its treatment. 



There were bee-keepers from Green- 

 up, Casey, Martinsville, and the sur- 

 rounding country at this meeting, and 

 a general interest was shown. Mr. An- 



derson, of Greenup, Cumberland county, 

 brought a frame of European foul 

 brood, which contained the disease in 

 its various stages. This was thoroughly 

 examined and e.xplained, and many 

 questions asked, which showed that 

 all were interested in this matter, and 

 anxious to gain information. 



Mr. Shawver deserves special mention 

 for the interest he took in this meet- 

 ing, which was very satisfactory to all 

 present. It was gratifying to see the 

 fine condition in which Mr. Shawver 

 keeps his bees. 



If these meetings could be held in 

 different parts of the State great bene- 

 fits could be derived from them, and 

 the State Inspector would be glad to 

 meet with them and give all assistance 



possible. 



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Honey for Baby's Hiccongh Mother, 



when your baby has the hiccough, give 

 it a drop of honey on the end of your 

 finger. That will stop it. Try it. 



determinedly swarming, I would feel myself 

 gieatly their debtor. I shall be unable to 

 procure Caucasian queens until too late for 

 the proposed experiments this spring. 



D. E. Light. 



Bee-I^eping ^ For Women 



Conducted bv Miss Emma M. Wilson, Marengo, 111. 



A Story—Man Put to Flight 



The honey crop will be a failure in this 

 vicinity this season, owing to the drouth. In 

 consequence, all are feeling blue, so I will 

 tell a bee-story to cheer them up. In the 

 spring of i'>oo one of my neighbors, who had 

 bought quantities of honey of me. thought 

 he would go into the bee-business himself. 

 He bought one colony of what was called 

 Italians, a very tame bee he was sure o( 

 that. He chose a place under the granary to 

 set the colony, because it would be shady 

 there. There was about 3 feet of space be- 

 tween the granary floor and the ground, and 

 all went well until one hotday in July, when 

 he telephoned to ask me whether I would 

 come down and help him take off his honey, 

 as he did not have a smoker. Gathering up 

 my bee-dress, smoker and gloves. I was soon 

 on the scene. He wore a mosquito-net over 

 his hat, and cotton-flannel gloves. We filled 

 an old pan with smoking rags, had the 

 smoker going, nnd started for the colony. 



We pried off the super. The bees were 

 mad, and soon were stinging Mr. A. pretty 

 bad. I handed him the smoker and pan of 

 burning rags, and told him to go to the house. 

 He did as 1 said, but as Mrs. A. had fastened 

 the screen-doors, he could not get in the 

 house, so he commenced to run around the 

 house with about 7.000.000.000 bees after him. 

 He soon threw the smoker away, then the 

 pan of burning rags, but kept running 

 around the house. I finally called to him to 

 go into the cellar, which he did. and stayed 

 there, a very badly stung man. 



I could not lift the super of honey, so I 

 carefully turned it. *vheel fashion, from one 

 side to another until I got it some tiistance 

 away, and then pried out the sections of 

 honey. I am afraid you can not see any 

 laugh in this, but I have laughed many times 

 when I recollect how Mr. A. speeded around 

 the house, jumping about a foot in the air 

 at each step. Was it wicked to laugh ? 



Ohio Bek-Woman. 



syringas of a simple, old-fashioned garden 

 there is a neat little row of modern white 

 bee-hives, while under a fine, old flowering 

 catalpa. in the middle of a small clearing, 

 stands a modern observation hive wherein 

 the bees are compelled to build their combs 

 between glass partitions, oneover the other, 

 so that the entire interior of the structure 

 may be available for study. Here the young 

 bee-keeper spends her leisure hours during 

 the summer months, earnestly trying to 

 master the rules of perfect communism so 

 rigidly followed in the miniature world she 

 possesses but can not rule. Twice a week 

 she gives afternoon " bee-talks " to the chil- 

 dren of her acquaintance; and so persuad- 

 ingly does she speak, so full of insidious en- 

 chantment are her words, that one leaves 

 her presence with a growing conviction that 

 life without bees is but an arid waste. 



One Woman's Method of Bee-Keeping 



Here is a clipping from the Woman's 

 Home Companion giving a pleasing 

 picture of the activities of one of the 

 sisters whose name and address one 

 can but wish had been given : 



In the M-ry heart of a city in the Middle 

 West, there is a young woman whose hobby 

 is bees. Among the sheltering lilacs and 



Caucasians and Italians 



Dear Miss Wilson ;— hrom your criticism 

 of my paper, published in the March number 

 of the American Bee Journal. I see that I 

 failed to make my meaning clear. In regard 

 to the expression that the Italians were not 

 good for extra-early brood-rearing. I had in 

 mind bees that would respond to the same 

 stimulative feeding after the first flight in 

 March or April (or even before) that Mr, 

 Alexander recommends for Italians after 

 fruit-bloom. You would hardly recommend 

 just that for the Italians, would you ? 



I am aware that with my very limited ex- 

 perience with the Caucasians I ought to 

 speak modestly, for it is quite possible that 

 the chameleon which appears to me to be 

 " honest Indian " white, may really be green 

 to some one else. But is it true that the 

 c:aucasians have been found anywhere near 

 equal to the Italians for the production of 

 comb honey? I have never noticed if it has 

 been so reported. If this should prove true, 

 it would be to me like one of our old friend 

 A. I. Root's " happy surprises." and I would 

 discard the Italians. 



The Caucasians build up such beautiful 

 white comb, or mine did. and were so much 

 more hardy, prolific, and gentle, and in 

 every way satisfactory. But. " in this local- 

 ity, ' they were like the Carniolans. in that 

 they would not bear crowding for comb- 

 honey production. 



If any one would suggest to me any system 

 of management ithat did not reiiuire too 

 great labor and expensci by which the Cau- 

 casians could be induced to enter and work 

 in the supers as the Italians do. instead of 



Getting a Swarm Under Difficulties 



The colony here represented came out as 

 a swarm about May 7th of last season. They 

 were about 15 feet from the ground, but by 

 tying a rope around the hive, and placing 



Fifteen Feet Above the Ground 



the end overalimb (after climbing a ladder*, 

 I finally got the hive in place, and came out 

 the victor. I secured a fine colony of bees, 

 which gave me two supers of honey. 

 Williams. Nebr. (Mrs.) L. C. Lamb. 



Using 



a Queen-Excluder to Prevent 

 Swarming 



Dear Miss Wilson:— I greatly appreciate 

 your thought and interest in my troubles, 

 I have learned more from your leply than all 

 of my readings in books, and am most 

 pleased. 



I do not want more bees than the ^ colo- 

 nies I have. Now. if they will swaruL why 

 can't I hive them in a box and put on top of 

 it one of those bee-escapes that permits the 

 bees to BO out and not the queen, then will 

 not the bees go back to their old home i' I 

 can have a glass front in the box so that 1 

 can see what is going on. I have put up 

 some extractini; frames, and shall put theni 

 on. I wish I could get all my queens and 

 clip their wings, but that is beyond me. 1 

 am dull at finding them. 



Ellen B. Spofkord. 



It is not entirely clear just what your 

 plan is with the box, but it seems that 

 in some way you are depending upon a 

 queen-excluder to hold the queen and 

 allow free exit for the bees, with the 

 expectation that the bees will be oblig- 

 ing enough to go back to their old 

 home. You may as well make up your 

 mind that nothing of that kind will 

 work. If the bees are hived in a box 

 with an excluder over it, they will ac- 

 cept that box as their home just as if 

 no excluder were present, tlie presence 

 of the (lueen being to them the thing 

 that matters. Some have thought to 

 prevent swarming by placing a queen- 

 trap or excluder at the entrance, rea- 



