JUNE 1, 1913 



Beekeeping Among the Rockies 



Wesley Foster, Boulder, Col 



COMPENSATION FOR COLONIES DESTROYED. 



Mr. Chadwiek makes a good point when 

 he says that colonies of diseased bees should 

 not be destroyed unless the owner is eom- 

 jiensated, and I believe that there are eases 

 where this compensation should be made. 

 However, thei'e are many extensive bee- 

 keepers whose bees continually have foul 

 brood who think it is a good thing to have 

 a little around to kill oft" the other fellows' 

 bees. These men ship bees to some extent 

 too. If I have a hundred colonies of bees, 

 and half are affected with foul brood with- 

 out my knowledge, how long will it be be- 

 fore 1 have no more bees? About a year, 

 I should say, unless there happen to be good 

 honey-fiows. Suppose I move these bees to 

 another State, and they are inspected and 

 destroyed. Should I be paid for what I 

 shall soon lose any way? Or should I be 

 made to suffer the loss and build up on a 

 firm basis of knowledge of foul brood ? The 

 best plan would be some quarantine method 

 by which I could save my bees and learn to 

 cure foul brood at the same time. Beekeep- 

 ing extension carried to its proper conclu- 

 sion will make bee inspection practically 



unnecessary'. 



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THE NEW IDAHO LAW. 



Idaho beekeepers have a new apiai-y bill 

 before the legislature that has some good 

 features, and some that are not so good. It 

 deals with shipments of infected bees from 

 other States in this way. The inspector is 

 to be notified before unloading and not 

 after. A fine of $250 to $500 i^s provided 

 for failure to notify the inspector of the 

 arrival of an infected shipment within five 

 days. A fine of $100 to $200 is provided 

 as punishment for selling or offering for 

 sale diseased bees or exposing diseased ma- 

 terial in the apiary. 



The examination of bees before unload- 

 ing is a good point ; but a quarantine yard 

 should be provided for in these cases, so 

 that the colonies could be treated and cured 

 without having to be shipped out of the 

 State. The fines provided are too high to 

 be of any use. Five to one hundred dollars 

 would be better. One hundred to two hun- 

 dred dollars as fine for exposing diseased 

 material in an apiary is impractical, for 

 such fines will never be im^^osed, and they 

 will not have a tendency to better conditions 

 in cleaning out foul brood in a district. 

 More work and educational effort along 

 the line of foul-brood instruction will bring 

 better results. The aim of foul-brood legis- 

 lation should be to clean out the disease, or 



at least to control it — not to fine some one 

 for neglect. Many of us are neglectful. 



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THE COLORADO AGRICULTURAL DEMONSTRA- 

 TION TRAIN. 



The honey-cooking recipes are the most 

 popular part of the bee-culture exhibit on 

 the Colorado Agricultural College demon- 

 stration train. Mrs. Frank Rauchfuss pre- 

 pared the goods, and they are so appetizing 

 and toothsome that every lady passing the 

 exhibit wanted to stop and copy the recipes 

 printed on the jars containing the samples. 

 We soon realized that this would clog the 

 traffic through the car, so 3000 copies were 

 ran off on the multigTaph and given out. 



HONEY EECIPES BV MRS. A. RAUCHFUSS. 

 HONEY BROWN BREAD. 



One cup corn meal, 1 cup rye meal, 1 cup sour 

 milk, 1/^ cup honey, 1 te^spoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful 

 soda. Steam 4 hours, then dry in oven 15 minutes. 



AURORA HONEY COOKIES. 



One cup honey, 1 pint sour cream, 1 even tea- 

 spoonful soda dissolved in a tablespoonful of boiling 

 water. Mix honey, cream, and soda together thor- 

 oughly; add a cup of chopped nuts (any kind de- 

 sired), 1 teaspoonful of ground ginger, and a heap 

 ing tablespoonful of ground cinnamon. Add flour 

 enough to make a dough stiff enough to handle easily 

 on the board; roll out part into buttered tins, and 

 lake in a moderately hot oven until nicely browned. 



HONEY GINGER SNAPS. 



One cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup honey, 1 cup 

 water, 1 heaping tablespoonful of ground cinnamon, 

 1 scant teaspoonful of baking soda. Sift the soda 

 into 1% pints of flour; cream the cup of butter with 

 the sugar ; add other ingredients, and more flour to 

 make a dough that can be rolled out. Cut into de- 

 sired shape, and bake in a moderate oven. 



SEAFOAM CANDY. 



Two-thirds cup of honey, 3 cups granulated sugar, 

 V2 cup boiling water, whites of two eggs, 1 teaspoon- 

 ful vanilla, 1 cup of nut meats. Boil the honey, 

 sugar, and water till, if tested in cold water, it is 

 brittle. Pour this in a thin stream over the whites of 

 two well-beaten eggs, beating the whole all the time 

 till like a thick cream, then stir in briskly the nut 

 meats and vanilla, and pour out into a buttered dish. 

 After it has hardened, cut into squares. 



With one week still unfinished, over forty 

 thousand .people have seen the exhibits on 

 the train. Ten lectures on beekeeping have 

 been given, and much interest has been 

 manifested, as is shown by the questions 

 asked. The questions most frequently heard 

 are about the control of foul brood and 

 swarming. Amateurs surely have trouble 

 in the prevention of excessive swai-ming. 

 Many report that yellowjackets kill their 

 colonies; but so far it seems that this occurs 

 only where excessive swarming has been the 

 rule throughout the summer, and none but 

 weak colonies short of honey and with the 

 hive but partly full of comb to go into 

 winter quarters. It is no wonder that colo- 

 nies are soon cleaned out by the yellow- 

 jackets. 



