American Hee Journal 



The Bee-Meeting at Cortez, Colorado. 



From left to rieht. top row— No. i, Mrs. E. M. Jordan. Secretary of the Montezuma Bee-Keepers" Association: No. 3. Mrs. T. G. Wilk- 

 erson; No. 6. .Mrs. Geo. Taylor: No. 8, F. L. Luce. Vice-Pres. of the Association; No q, Frank Rauchfuss. Manager of the Colorado Honey- 

 froducers' Association. Denver. Bottom row— No. i. Frank Taylor; No. 3, T. G. Wilkerson. President of the local Association; No. 4. Geo. 

 Taylor. County Apiary Inspector. 



have an average of il3 sections per col- 

 ony, beside a little extracted, and this 

 includes some poor colonies that never 

 gave us a section. Not so bad for a 

 season that did not open until June 25. 



Oatmeal Bread With Honey 



Measure a cupful of rolled oats into 

 a mixing bowl ; beat into it 3 cupfuls 

 of hot water with a teaspoonful of salt 

 and a tablespoonful of butter dissolved 

 in them. Then beat in one-half cup- 

 ful of honey drawn from the comb. 

 When cooled to blood-heat add one- 

 half yeast cake, dissolved. Stir in flour 

 to make stiff enough for kneading. 

 Let raise over night. Knead and make 

 into two loaves. Let raise again. 

 When double in bulk brush over the 

 tops with one teaspoonful of honey 

 and two teaspoonfuls of milk, blended. 

 Bake an hour, or a little longer, in a 

 medium oven. 



One-half cupful of seeded raisins, or 

 coarsely chopped dates or figs can be 

 added to this bread ; or chopped nuts. — 

 Chiciif^ro lyccofil- /ft raid. 



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Cleopatra Neck Bleach 



Extracted honey, one ounce; lemon 

 juice, one teaspoonful; oil of bitter 

 almonds, six drops; whites of two 

 eggs. Enough fine oatmeal to make a 

 fine paste. 



Spread this thickly on a piece of cot- 



ton cloth 3 inches in width, and tie as 

 a bandage around the throat. Four or 

 five of these applications should bleach 

 the neck to a satiny whiteness. Re- 

 member, this is not a face bleach, and 

 that oil of bitter almonds is a poison, 

 and must not be swallowed or left in 

 the reach of children. — C/n'cag-n Jxccorti- 

 Ilerald. 



Bird's-Nest in a Bee-Hive 



" Wc read that on a farm at Nyon, near 

 Geneva. Switzerland, a pair of linnets built 

 a nest in a bee-hive in the spring, and have 



continued to live on the best of terms with 

 the bees. There are now several eggs in the 

 nest, and the birds and insectsfly in and out. 

 usingthe common entrance." 



The foregoing, clipped from Our 

 Dumb Animals, is sent by a friend, 

 who asks, "Do you believe it ?" Well, 

 yes! maybe. Some little depends upon 

 the kind of hive. In an ordinary hive, 

 with a strong colony, the thing would 

 seem impossible. In a very large hive, 

 with a small colony and a large en- 

 trance, the nest might be so much out 

 of the way of the bees that they would 

 tolerate it. 



E^R Western ^ Bee-Keeping 



Conducted by Wesley Foster. Boulder. Colo. 



Selling Apples at Auction 



The sale of box apples has been in- 

 creased 500 percent in Chicago during 

 the last few years, according to John 

 Denny, before the International Apple 

 Shippers' Association convention in 

 Detroit. This increase has been largely 

 brought about by selling apples at auc- 

 tion. 



Briefly stated, this method consists of 



allowing the buyers to inspect sample 

 cases of all grades and brands in every 

 carload sold. These are then sold at 

 auction, each brand separately until 

 each car in turn is disposed of. 



The objection that this system of 

 selling apples takes the trade from the 

 regular fruit house and turns it over 

 to the huckster is counterbalanced by 

 the fact that these hucksters increase 



