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liives and transferred the bees from the 

 boxes into the ten-frame hives, making six 

 colonies of them. When fall came they had 

 filled the brood-cliamber, and some had 

 made some surplus. When I took off my 

 honey in the fall I^had a market for all 

 that I had in the large extracting-frames. 

 I found 1 had about 1200 lbs., for which I 

 received ten cents a pound. 1 now had 

 thirteen to winter, and successfully tried 

 the same plan as the year before. 



In May, while I was away from home for 

 several weeks, there was much cold wet 

 weather; and when I came back 1 found 

 that four of the colonies had been robbed. 

 There remained only a few bees in each 

 hive. I placed them all in one hive and 

 gave them a frame of larva?. They went to 

 work and raised a queen; and while they 

 jiroduced no surplus they had plenty for 

 winter. By fall I had seventeen colonies. 



A NOVEL SCHEME FOR PRODUCIXG COMB 

 HONEY. 



The past summer I produced nothing but 

 comb honey in sections. My friend the 

 beeman told me that I would have trouble 

 in getting the bees to work in sections, and 

 that I had better stay by rny old method. 

 But I had already ordered my supplies for 

 running for comb honej'. John said if I 

 made twenty-five cases I would do well. 

 After my robbing experience I had nine 



colonies. I knew that any sensible bee 

 would go into an extracting-super when the 

 super is filled with full sheets of foundar- 

 tion. I said, " Why not fill the section- 

 holders with full sheets of foundation? " I 

 did. Then I took my sections, ripping them 

 to make two sections of one. Then when 

 the section-holders were about half filled 

 with drawn comb I took the press which I 

 had made, placed four of the narrow sec- 

 tions I had ripped on each side of the 

 section-holder, pressed them down solid, 

 and then put the section-holder back into 

 the super to await results. The bees seemed 

 to be struck with the scheme, and just 

 went at it and filled them. I tried this upon 

 each colony, and without exception they 

 went into the suj^er and worked fine. 



When I took the sections off there was a 

 line where the two halves of the section met. 

 Over this I placed a strip of white paper, 

 and I had a strong and clean section. I 

 used this scheme to get the bees started to 

 work. I had no extracting to do. 



I had an oi'der for 500 lbs. of honey in 

 large frames. I produced this and almost 

 1300 finished sections from my little yard 

 of nine, spring count, after four had been 

 robbed out. 



So much for my bee trials and joys. I 

 still have the fever. 



Blackfoot, Idaho. 



EASTERN NEW YORK BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



BY S. DAVENPORT 



The seventh annual convention of the 

 Eastern New York Beekeepers' Association 

 was held at the City Hall, Albany, Dee. 30, 

 1914. The unfavorable season for honey 

 production during the past year evidently 

 had a depressing influence on the beekeep- 

 ei"s of this part of the state, as was in- 

 dicated by the slim attendance at this meet- 

 ing. The association has never before had 

 so few members in attendance; but those 

 who were present were all live wires, and 

 what was lacking in numbers was amply 

 made up in the very interesting sessions. 



After the report of the treasurer, show- 

 ing a handsome balance in the treasuiy, the 

 president made his report as delegate to the 

 joint convention of horticulturists and bee- 

 keepers held at Syracuse during fair week. 

 The president also gave a long and interest- 

 ing report of the annual convention of the 

 State Association of Beekeepers' Societies. 



Charles Stewart, state bee inspector, al 

 I he suggestion of the president, repeated 

 his remarks given at the annual meeting of 



the State Association on the subject of 

 feeding back and feeders. 



After .some remarks by the secretary in 

 appreciation of the several persons men- 

 tioned, who have shown much interest in 

 the association and its objects, they were 

 made honorai-y membei*s as follows: Chas. 

 Stewart, state bee inspector, Sammons- 

 ville, N. Y. ; Dr. G. G. Atwood, horticultur- 

 ist of the State Agricultural Department, 

 Albany, N. Y. ; Dr. Burton N. Gates, apia- 

 lian professor at the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, Amherst, Mass.; Rev. I. 

 V. Lobdell, Middleport, N. Y. ; Audubon 

 Johnson, Simi, Cal. The three last-men- 

 tioned gentlemen were formerly active and 

 valued membei-s of the asosciation. 



A vote of thanks was given to the State 

 Agricultural Department for the assistance 

 of the state bee inspectors given to the bee- 

 keeping industry by their work and their 

 attendance at the conventions of the bee- 

 keepers of the state. 



The subject of advertising honey to create 



