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June, 1914. 



American IS^e Journal 



was held in connection with the fruit 

 market in Breslau from Nov. 12 to 14, 

 and good sales resulted. Nearly all the 

 societies used the privilege of tax-free 

 sugar for winter feeding. While the 

 highest honey production of a colony 

 was 24.9 pounds, there was a consider- 

 able variation in the colonies, the low- 

 est result being 4.19 pounds. The aver- 

 age was 12.1 pounds against 15.4 pounds 

 the year before. 



The widespread attention given to 

 apiculture makes this district a good 

 market for beekeepers' supplies. A 

 list of special dealers in various cities 

 of Silesia and Posen is forwarded [and 

 may be obtained from the Bureau of 

 Foreign and Domestic Commerce]. 



The list also contains the addresses of 

 the six members of the Silesian Cham- 

 ber of Agriculture that constitute the 

 standing committee on apiculture, 

 poultry breeding, etc., who would prob- 

 ably be interested in catalogs of 

 American firms. 



Unfortunately it is difficult to get 

 business from circulating printed mat- 

 ter in Knglish, and the consulate is un- 

 able to predict results when this is re- 

 lied upon. If manufacturers will in- 

 form the consulate to what extent they 

 are prepared to go after the trade and 

 what methods they have hitherto used 

 in foreign business, more detailed sug- 

 gestions will be cheerfully furnished. — 

 fiajly Cofisit/cir and Trade Report. 



Bee-I^epinc ^ For Women 



this, a Pennsylvania correspondent 

 says he has looked it up in the book 

 and does not comprehend it. He 

 seems to tliink that he must go from 

 page 1()7 to 1(38, 184, 18(i, and 189, and 

 says : " Now I would be pleased to see 

 this plan set forth in one body of state- 

 ment from A to Z." Then he says he 

 is against finding queens, and does not 

 want to have clipped queens, and that 

 when on page 1(17 the return of queens 

 is mentioned that seems to presuppose 

 clipped queens. 



All of which leaves one a bit dazed 

 as to how to meet the case. Our Penn- 

 sylvania friend plainly understands the 

 plan to involve the finding of queens 

 and the clipping of queens, but wants 

 the plan to be given in detail. What 

 good to give the plan if he rejects two 

 of the important factors ? Sounds like 

 saying, "I've decided I'll not follow the 

 plan, but I want you to give it all very 

 clearly in detail." 



Let ui, however, do what may be 

 done to straighten matters out. In 

 the first place, if Pennsylvania will 



Conducted bv Miss Emma M. Wilson. Mareneo. 111. 



Encouraging the Use of Honey in Cooking 



I thank you for your prize of the 

 American Bee Journal I received at 

 the Northern Michigan State conven- 

 tion. We had a nice time. I also re- 

 ( eived a prize on my honey candy. In 

 my display I had both comb and e.x- 

 tracted honey, honey candy, honey 

 cake, a mince pie sweetened with 

 honey, and honey fried cakes. I think 

 if the beekeepers' wives would go to 

 the conventions and take some of the 

 good things that can be made with 

 honey with them, and then do as we 

 did, cut them up and pass them to the 

 visitors, we would have more call for 

 honey. [Mrs.] Jos. Burkholder. 



Mancelona, Mich. 



Your idea of having beekeepers' 

 wives display their honey and the 

 toothsome things made with it at con- 

 ventions is good. Such a display will 

 stir up other beekeepers' wives and 

 daughters, and then if they in turn can 

 be induced to offer such displays 9t 

 State and county fairs where the mass 

 of the people can be reached, larger 

 results may be obtained. 



communication between the two hives 

 His trouble probably comes from not 

 making the proper distinction between 

 "hive" and " hive-body." and he has 

 made the mistake of supposing that a 

 hive-body is put up instead of a hive. 

 When a hive is mentioned, its bottom- 

 board is generally supposed to be with 

 it, and if the bottom-board be taken 

 away the hive-body is left. As here 

 stated, each hive has its own bottom- 

 board. 



The accompanying outline sketch 

 shows a hive with its supers, and a 

 " put-up " hive over all. 



Variation of " Put-Up " Plan 



On page 121, something was said in 

 this department about what we did last 

 year in the way of treating colonies 

 that swarmed or were likely to swarm, 

 saying that we followed the plans laid 

 down in " Fifty Years Among the 

 Bees," generally the put-up plan, which 

 is given on page 167. Referring to 



Ventilating Comb-Honey Supers 



Referring to what is said on page 83, 

 Harry Bell writes that what was said 

 on page 30, was based on actual experi- 

 ence and not on supposition. He says: 



"We know our colonies in double- 

 walled hives and double walls around 

 the comb-honey supers with the ■>»- 

 inch entrance have given us the best 

 results. It may be all right to venti- 

 late in your locality, but it would not 

 work here in the production of comb 



honey." 



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"Put-Up" Hives 



A correspondent who has read " Fifty 

 Years Among the Bees," and has also 

 read what is said about "put-up" hives 

 on page 121 of this journal, is puzzled 

 to know how bees get out of the upper, 

 or "put-up," hive, seeing there is n" 



The " I'uT-ui'" Plan. 



Mrs. Burkholder. of Michic-.an. 



again turn to page 167, and read straight 

 through to the end of the first para- 

 graph on page 170, he will find the 

 plan " set forth in one body of state- 

 ment from A to Z." To be sure, the 

 matter is referred to again further on, 

 but does not militate against the fact 

 that the whole plan is given all in one 

 statement in the place mentioned. 



On page 167 the statement opens by 

 saying: "When a swarm issues and 

 returns." Pennsylvania is quite right 

 in thinking that this presupposes that 

 the queen is clipped, for swaimswith 

 undipped queens do not usually re- 

 turn. His queens are not clipped, so 



