July 9, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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2d. They are cooler during the summer heat. 



3d. They do away with the necessity of summer shading. 



4th. They will admit a 20x20 super, which contains 16 

 Langstroth frames. 



5th. They are quite a protection against robbing. 



6th. You will not find them carrying out brood during 

 cold, rainy spells or frosty nights, as you see them do in 

 thin-walled hives. 



7th. You will be blessed more with large swarms. 



8th. The bees will not leave the super for either comb 

 or extracted honey every cold night, as they do in the thin- 

 walled hives with the ordinary flat cover. 



Lastly. They are less easily handled by thieves. 



The little expense, the bulkiness, and the extra weight, 

 should not be taken into consideration for its adoption. 



The advantages of this hive will pay in a few days for 

 the expense of remodeling by the results obtained. 



With reference to a bee-cellar above ground, I will say 

 that such a repository can be made suitable and bee-proof, 

 which is a necessity ; also ventilation accommodation, so 

 that it can be increased toward spring. The ventilator must 

 be screened from below, and a trap-door must be replaced 

 by a screen. Water must also be given in sponges at the 

 entrance of each hive to supply the necessary moisture re- 

 quired for brood-rearing, which begins to take place in all 

 the hives at that time in a dry repository like the one I 

 have just mentioned, and also to prevent restlessness and 

 over-heating. 



The outer casing of this hive practically does not cost 

 any more than an ordinary hive, and the inner one can be 

 made of much cheaper lumber and still be first-class. 



KEEPING BEES IN THE CITY AND MOVING THEM SHORT 

 DISTANCES. 



I kept bees for several years practically in the heart of 

 the city, from 30 to 70 colonies in the rear of my residence, 

 between it and the stable, where I kept eight horses, one 

 cow, and four setters. The buildings are situated on a cor- 

 ner lot opposite two stores, and the next door is a butcher- 

 shop which does a large business, as also did the stores. 



One block and a half away is the largest church, which 

 has the largest congregation of any church in the city. 

 Opposite the church is a school-house with 600 pupils, one- 

 half of them passing our residence four times a day. Some 

 of my hives were within two feet of the sidewalk. 



I had Carniolans and Italians. If I had a cross colony 

 I would supersede the queen. All of the queens were 

 clipped. 



I had poplars all around the yard, and some fruit-trees 

 in the yard. By the way, it is on account of the fruit-trees 

 I got the bees. The boys, as vandals, wouldn't only take 

 the fruit before it ripened, but would even break the trees. 



I bought some cross bees in the valley 10 blocks away. 

 I moved them in the middle of the summer. My residence 

 being 80 feet higher, I think the difference in altitude in the 

 short distance kept my field-bees from returning to nuclei 

 that were placed where the hives were taken. 



I placed a colony on four stilts under every fruit-tree in 

 the yard in a very flimsy way, thinking the boys would dis- 

 turb them when they came after the fruit, but they have 

 never disturbed fruit or bees since, so the bees could not 

 ■give them a reception. 



How it came about that the bees did not disturb the 

 neighbors, or the daily pedestrians, was by the bees taking 

 an upward flight as they left the yard, the same as if they 

 came out of a kettle, and the same in descending on their 

 return to the yard. 



I would advise any one in like circumstances to provide 

 for water in the yard proper from the very first day, as that 

 is the only thing bees carry from the immediate neighbor- 

 hood. I have seen them on a water-barrel as much as a 

 swarm at a time in the nest lot, the river being three blocks 

 away, and a large creek four blocks from the residence. 

 . E. E. NussLE. 



Dr. Nussle — I have an entrance-gate that is an improve- 

 ment on the former gates, preventing the air from getting 

 into the hive in cold weather. It was simply a strip of 

 wood under the front of the hive, and another gouged out 

 of a block of wood which would be put in front of that so 

 that the bees would have to go through a kind of a tunnel 

 into the hive. A friend of mine has used that extensively, 

 and he says he has never had a case of robbing since. He 

 has used it more extensively than I. There is one advan- 

 tage in it. It is very cheap, and any person can make it 

 easily himself. It prevents cold wind entering the hive. 



Mr. Pettit — I would like to hear the dead-air space dis- 



cussed a little, as to how we can get dead-air space for the 

 double-walled hive. I realize that the dead-air space is the 

 best conductor, but the question is to get it air-tight. Take 

 a piece of wood that is placed in front and behind the hive. 

 A casing is around the hive, and the side-boards are placed 

 at it afterwards, so by accurate work you can make a very 

 good hive. It is all in accuracy and right lumber. They 

 were air-tight, I am positive, because you could pull them 

 up and the air would return just the same as out of a barrel. 

 They were air-tight. 



Pres. York — Is there anything else to be said on the 

 paper, or on the air-space mentioned? If not, we will have 

 the report of the Committee on Resolutions. Secretary 

 Moore will read the report. 



RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT ON THE DEATH OF DR. A. B. MASON. 



Whereas, To our Heavenly Father, for reasons which 

 we can not now understand, it has seemed best to call to a 

 higher duty our faithful friend and fellow-worker. Dr. A. 

 B. Mason ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That we, the members of the Chicago-North- 

 western Bee-Keepers' Association, do hereby make an ex- 

 pression of our most sincere sorrow and grief over the loss 

 of one of our truest stand-bys and supports ; and be it also 



Resolved, That we extend to his wife and to the other 

 members or his family, our most earnest and heartfelt 

 sympathy in their loss, which is greater than ours. 

 HuBER H. Root, j 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, ■ Com. 

 F. Wilcox, ) 



Mr. Hutchinson — There are so many things I suppose 

 I might say that I hardly know where to commence. Dr. 

 Mason was a jovial, genial, joking character. The first 

 time I met him was at the State Fair, where he was to 

 award the premiums and I was an exhibitor. He looked me 

 over and says, " Are you Mr. Hutchinson ?" " I am, sir." 

 He says, " Well, I am sorry to meet you." And for some 

 reason or other I got onto the trick of his nature, and I said, 

 " You can't feel any worse about it than I do." That is a 

 key to his joking nature. I have known him personally, 

 and have been a close friend of his for 20 years, and I can 

 say that there never was a man who was a truer friend to 

 me than Dr. Mason. I think all who met him in the Na- 

 tional conventions will say he was the life and soul of those 

 meetings, and I think no man in our ranks will be more 

 missed in these conventions than he will. 



The resolution was adopted unanimously. 



Emerson T. Abbott then addressed the convention on 



BEE-KEEPERS AND PRINTERS' INK. 



Mr. Moore asked me to select a subject. I was at a 

 loss to know what to talk about. I said to myself, "A 

 great many of these bee-keepers know more about bee- 

 keeping than I do, and it would be folly for me to endeavor 

 to tell them anything about how to manage their bees, so 

 I will let the matter rest until I get there." I thought I 

 would select a subject after I got here, and this one came 

 to me : " Bee-Keepers and Printers' Ink." 



You have probably seen on your fence. Sunny Jim, and 

 I leave you to guess what fool raised him. That jingle was 

 written by a woman. The woman has made a good com- 

 petency out of it, and the company for whom she did the 

 work have made a fortune, and Sunny Jim is found all over 

 the world wherever people eat, and more people know about 

 Sunny Jim and that jingle probably than they know about 

 any other one food. 



Now, then, this same printer's ink should be applied to 

 bee-keeping and the work of bee-keepers. It has been my 

 hobby that this principle of printers' ink should be applied 

 to the National Association. You know people who pub- 

 lish papers all believe in advertising. That is. they be- 

 lieve in the other fellow advertising, and in other people 

 paying the cash in advance. Every paper man here will 

 tell you that is so. All of the Chicago daily papers, all of 

 them believe in advertising, and they believe that it can be 

 done perhaps better in their paper than in any other way. 

 We will leave each individual to decide that for himself, 

 as to where the advertising can be done to the best advan- 

 tage, but we want to emphasize the fact that the advertis- 

 ing can be done to advantage. 



Take the National Association for instance. There are 

 over 300,000 bee-keepers in the tJuited States, and I venture 

 to say that there are not 2.5,(100 bee-keepers of the United 

 States, if we could assemble them all to-day, that could tell 

 what the National Bee-Keepers' Association has ever done. 

 There are about a thousand members in the Association, 



