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VOL. XLIII. 



SEPTEMBER 1, 1915 



EDITOMEAL, 



NO. 17 



Till' ('o\(.'i- picture for (liis number illus- 

 trales (he apiary of G. W. Barge, of Union 

 Cenler, Wis. 



More than Enough Honey to Pay the 

 Freight on Carloads of Bees 

 from the South 



Our Virginia and Texas carloads of bees 

 gathered more than enough honey to pay 

 the freight and other expenses on them up 

 here, but not enough to pa}' the entire cost 

 of them. About July 1 it looked as if 

 we would have to feed the 600 colonies; 

 but the hives are full, and some colonies are 

 four and five stories high. After all, we 

 do not think much of the proposition of 

 moving bees two or three thousand miles in 

 carlols. The railroads are exacting too big 

 a toll to make it jDay. It is much cheaper 

 to " make" bees out of cheap honey or sugar 

 syrup right at one's own home, and at the 

 same time avoid the great risks of extremely 

 hot weather or wrecks. The "made" bees 

 will be any strain desired — not the mixed 

 bloods that one finds when he goes after 

 them. We solicit articles from those who 

 ha\e made colonies by feeding sugar syrup, 

 or cheap honey for increase. 



Automobiles - 75 per cent of Them in 

 the Hands of Farmers 



Our old friend the Practical Farmer, 

 which, a few years ago, was opposed to the 

 use of automobiles on the common high- 

 ways, must have modified its opinion 

 somewhat ; at all events, it is authority for 

 the statement that 72 per cent of the ma- 

 chines in use are owned by farmers. Farm- 

 ers would, of course, have to use the com- 

 mon highways. Our esteemed contempo- 

 rary (one of the best papers in all the 

 world) must, therefore, approve of farm- 

 ers purchasing machines and using the same 

 roads used by horse-drawn veWcles. What 

 is good for the farmer is good for the bee- 

 keeper. 



Automobiles are wonderful time-savers; 

 and when one buys a moderate-priced ma- 



chine the u])keep and depreciation are not 

 nearly as great as is the case with a horse 

 and wagon, and the cost per mile only half 

 as much, and, moreover, the machine has 

 nearly ten times the range. 



Drone-laying Queen Brood Sometimes 

 a Stinking Mess 

 A COUPLE of months ago we had a scare 

 at our home yard. We found several frames 

 of brood that were a stinking mess. The cap- 

 ped cells had tlie characteristic perforated 

 capping; and while the dead matter did not 

 rope it seemed lo be a ease either of Euro- 

 pean foul brood or sac brood. The possibility 

 of the former gave us a great deal of un- 

 easiness until we learned" it was drone 

 brood. Our Mr. Mell Pritcliard in charge 

 of our queen-rearing then recalled that we 

 had had a number of cases of this kind in 

 past years from drone-laying queens. We 

 sent a sample of the brood, to make sure, 

 to Dr. E. F. Phillips, of the Department of 

 Agriculture, for examination. The report 

 came back, " Xo disease." We merely men- 

 tion this that others may be advised who 

 find laying-worker brood; and if it occurs 

 in considerable quantity during late June 

 or July, much of it may be dead or stink- 

 ing. 



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Honey-crop Conditions and Prices 



In- most and practically all localities the 

 clover yield is over. Tlie flow, more or less 

 intermittent in most of the clover belt, con- 

 tinued up to the 15th of August; in other 

 words, clover has continued to yield nectar 

 at least a month later than usual. Appar- 

 ently the aggregate yield this year of clover 

 and some basswood is very much heavier 

 than a year ago, and prices will run from 

 15 to 25 per cent lower, depending on the 

 grade. There probably is not much more 

 comb honey produced this year tlian last. 

 Wliile a year ago tliere was a larger percen- 

 tage of comb to the extracted, this year the 

 reverse is true. The intermittent yield of 

 nectar, interspersed witli cold rainy wet 

 weather was very unfavorable for the pro- 



