June, 1914. 



American Bag >Joarnal| 



, _ 2 3, Carl Hanneman. 4. E. S. Hiidemann 5- 6. Joseph Kurth. ;. . 3. John Hearn. .;_ A. C. Allen. lo. 



N E France ii. Gus Dittmer. 12. Mrs. W. R. Harte. 13. Mrs. W. Habermann, ij. Mrs. C. M. Soelch. 15. Mrs. Frank kittins;er. 16. J. I. 



McGinty 17, . 18. Mr. .Sayles. 10. Freman lohnson. 20. August Diehnelt. 21, W. H. Habermann. 22. H. H. Moe 23 Harry LathroD. 



24. H. M. Rood. 25. Herman Gloese. 26. Francis Jaeer. 27. L. V. France. 28 Prof. Sanders 20 Chas. Alberts jo. John Wambold 31. fc.. 

 H Rosa. 32 Lawrence Post. 33. N. K. Walsh. 34. Geo. Acker. 35 John Willgrub. 36. Fred Blunck 37,. A A. I mn. .33. Wni. H. Wallace. 

 3g M M. Rice. 40. Mrs. M. M. Rice. 41. G. M. Ranum. 42. Jacob Paulson. 43. Ogden Glacdeii. 4). A. C. Woodbury. 45. E. Engels. 46. A. 



L Kleeber 47 48 - 4g. . 50. . 51. Louis Post. 52. . 53. H. C. Ahlers. 54. W. C. Smith. 55, Mr. Huffmann. 56. 



Frank Kitlinger. 57. Geo. G. Harte. 58. Mr. Sykes. 5Q. F. E. Matzke. 60. L. W. Parman. 



response to an advertisement stating 

 that the honey had a taste of the woods, 

 and was superior to all other honey, 

 etc, When we found the sample infe- 



rior, you all know what we thought of 

 the advertiser. This is an extreme 

 case, no doubt; it simply shows one 

 difficulty in advertising honey. 



Conducted by Wesley Foster. Boulder. Colo. 



Shipping Bees from Soutliern New Mexico 

 — Loss in Weight 



May 4, five 2-pound packages of bees 

 were shipped to me by express from 

 southern New Mexico. They were 

 shipped without queens. Leaving there 

 at HI a.m. of the 4th, they reached 

 Boulder at 9 ::!r) a.m. of the 7th. At 

 11 :30 a.m. they were placed in empty 

 supers over weak colonies of bees with 

 which 1 wished to unite them. By 4 :30 

 p.m. of the 7th, the bees were out of all 

 the shipping-cages in which they came. 

 Counting from the time they were put 

 into the cages to the 4th, the bees were 

 in them about 70 hours. The weight 

 given, gross, for the five packages at 

 the shipping point was 23 pounds. The 

 gross weight when I received them was 

 lfl>^ pounds, showing a loss in weight 

 of V/z ponnds. This was the amount 

 of water and candy consumed and loss 

 in bodily weight of the bees. There 

 might be a slight variation in the scales, 

 but mine are quite accurate, and I as- 

 sume that those at the shipping point 

 were accurate also. 



The weather was almost ideal for 

 springtime when the bees arrived, so 

 that conditions could hardly have been 

 better. The packages were numbereil 

 1,2, :t, 4,5. 



Number 1 weighed 4 pounds and 8 

 ounces gross when put up, and 3 

 pounds and 12 ounces gross when re- 

 ceived. The net weight of the live bees 

 at time of packing was 2 pounds, and 1 

 pound and H) ounces on arrival. There 

 were less than 25 dead bees in the pack- 

 age. The bees ate about one-fourth of 

 the candy provided, and the water can 

 was about two-thirds full. Three- 

 eighths of a pound must represent the 

 loss in bodily weight, or probably more 

 accurately must be the amount of 

 honey the bees were loaded with be- 

 fore they were put in the cages. 



Number 2 weighed 4 pounds and 12 

 ounces when put up, and 3 pounds and 

 12 ounces when received. The weight 

 of the live bees was XYz pounds. There 

 was about \ pound of dead bees in 

 the package. One-half of the candy 

 had been consumed, and also about 

 one-half of the water. The loss in 

 bodily weight of the live bees was 

 about '4 pound. 



Number 3 weighed 4 pounds and 8 

 ounces when put up, and 3 pounds and 

 4 ounces when received. The light 

 weight of this package is explained by 

 the fact that the cover to the water can 

 came off en roiili- and the water was 

 lost. There was I's pounds of live 

 bees and about 's pound of dead bees. 



The loss in bodily weight of the live 

 bees was about 12 ounces, unless there 

 was some loss in the weight of the 

 dead bees, which would equal the loss 

 in weight of the live ones. The great 

 loss in weight is accounted for in this 

 case by the lack of water. There was, 

 however, only half as many dead bees 

 in this package as in No. 2, which had 

 plenty of water. But this cage, No. 3, 

 was needing attention when it came, 

 as the bees had their tongues out and 

 were crying for water. Strange as it 

 may seem the bees in this package 

 were loath to leave it, and the last half 

 of them finally had to be shaken out. 

 They had consumed one-half of their 

 honey. 



Number 4 weighed 4 pounds and 12 

 ounces when put up. and 'i% pounds 

 when received. The weight of the live 

 bees was 1 '4 pounds, and there were 

 over '4 pound of dead bees in the 

 cage. This cage had the most dead 

 bees in it. They had eaten half their 

 candy, and the water can was still full, 

 the little hole in the cover being too 

 small apparently, and also clogged with 

 a speck of dirt. 



Number 5 weighed 4 pounds and 8 

 ounces when put up, and 4 pounds 

 when received. There were less than 

 25 dead bees in the cage, and the 

 weight of live bees was l,",s pounds. 

 This cage came through in the best 

 condition of any. The candy had only 

 been one-third consumed and little of 

 the water used. The hole in the water 

 can also seemed to be clogged, but the 

 bees must have gotten some of the 

 water, as they did not seem to be suf- 

 fering. 



The cages were tacked together with 

 lath, and were spaced about 5 inches 

 apart, so that there would be ample 

 circulation between the clusters in the 

 cages. The express was $1.(14 on the 

 23 pounds weight. If the bees could 

 have been sent by parcels post the cost 

 would have been 98 cents. 



