1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



617 



course, all of the old bees will leave for the old stand if 

 allowed to do so, but I have never had a queen leave. 



In destroying the queen-cells, Mr. Kloer finds it advisable 

 to shake the bees off the combs, and in this way he has never 

 missed a cell in six years of practice. 



Mr. Kloer's greatest difficulty was in introducing the 

 queen after the bees had been so long queenless. As a rule, 

 hopelessly queenless bees accept a queen with no objections, 

 that is, unless they have been a long time queenless, when it 

 is sometimes well-nigh impossible to get them to accept a 

 queen. 



The Way Foundation is Put In. — Gleanings calls atten- 

 tion to the fact that bees do not always, in building comb nat- 

 urally, have two parallel sides of the cells perpendicular, and 

 the inference is drawn that it makes no particular difference 

 which way foundation is put in, that is, regarding the direc- 

 tion that is given the side-walls. It probably makes no differ- 

 ence so far as the drawing out of the foundation is concerned, 

 but it has been asserted that the foundation is less likely to 

 sag if two parallel side-walls of the cells are hung perpen- 

 dicularly. ^^_^^_^ 



IjAte-Reabed Qukens are pronounced superior by Geo. 

 L. Vinal, in Gleanings. He has experimented six years by 

 rearing queens under the same condition, as near as possible, 

 at different seasons of the year, and, as a rule, the late-reared 

 queens have been larger and better-developed. They begin 

 laying earlier in the spring, and their progeny is larger and 

 more industrious. He thinks it is because they are not called 

 upon to lay to their full capacity for several months, and are 

 enabled to develop into full maturity before laying many eggs. 



Apis DoKSATA. — W. K. Morrison, of Bermuda, has an 

 article in Gleanings in which he is inclined to defend Apis 

 dorsata. The points that he makes in their favor are as fol- 

 lows : 



" 1. A larger number of flowers visited having deep 

 nectaries. 



2. A larger area covered by its greater power of flight. 



3. More wax produced. 



4. Honey to come to us now going to bumble-bees. 



5. A greater power to take care of itself against wasps, 

 etc." 



It may be different in some parts of the country, but in 

 this locality there are no honey-producing blo.ssoms that 

 amount to anything that cannot be visited by our common 

 bees. Red clover was once raised here extensively, but the 

 insects have been so destructive to it that its cultivation has 

 been abandoned and Alsike used in its place. 



Does Apis dorsata have a greater power of flight than our 

 common bees ? That is what I should be glad to know. A 

 larger bird or insect does not always have the greater power 

 of flight. Apis dorsata ni'iy have a greater power of flight 

 than the bees we now have, but what proof have we? 



If they produce more wax, how do we know that it is not 

 at the expense of honey ? 



The honey that goes to the bumble-bees you can " stick in 

 your eye." 



Ability to contend with wasps and hornets may be of some 

 value in some localities, but would amount to nothing here. 



I don't wish to prejudice people against Apis dorsata, but 

 I do think it an unwise thing to do to import this race of bees 

 without knowing more about it. 



"Any Fool can keep bees, but it takes a man or 

 woman with brains and energy to get the bees to keep them." 

 — Australian Bee-Bulletin. 



Tbe South-western "Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will meet iu annual session at Wauzeka, Wednes- 

 day and Thursday, Oct. 7 and 8, 1896. The 'Secretary, Mr. 

 M. M. Rice, of Boscobel, Wis., extends this general invitation: 



In behalf of the Association, we extend you a most cordial 

 invitation to attend this meeting which promises to be the 

 best ever held. The meetings of this society have always been 

 interesting and profitable to those attending. If you are not 

 a member we invite you to come just the same. We wish every 

 one that is interested In apiculture to be present. Our com- 

 mittee on foul brood has done more hard work to get a foul 

 brood law, and he needs the help of every bee-keeper in the 

 State. We have the dreaded disease in southwestern Wiscon- 

 sin at the present time, and it becomes every bee-keeper to 



better himself by having a law to protect their interests. You 

 cannot afford to miss this meeting, as it will be very interest- 

 ing and profitable to all attending. Many of our noted bee- 

 keepers of the State will be in attendance. 



The display of bee-keeping appliances is well worth your 

 visit to see. 



Board can be obtained at the Wauzeka House at 75 cents 

 per day. 



The program, in part, is as follows — it will be well worth 

 going a good ways to hear : 



Annual Address — Pres. N. E. France. 



Queen-Rearing, Best Method — J. W. Van Allen. 



Management of Swarms — D. Ricks. 



Package for Extracted Honey — A. Dexter. 



Large or Small Hives — A. Arras. 



Best Method of Wintering— B. F. Cooley. 



Song— Miss Evans. 



Comb Honey More Profitable than Extracted— R. P. Green. 



Wednesday evening session, Address on Foul Brood, songs 

 and a general good time. 



Use and Abuse of Comb Foundation— J. Patzner. 



Bees on Shares — H. C. Gleason. 



Upward Ventilation in the Cellar — J. Harker. 



Bees or Fruit the More Profitable — T. Thorson. 



Planting for Honey — C. Zillmer. 



Spring Management of Bees — J. Murray. 



Feeding, Spring and Fall — W. S. Knox. 



The Moral Influence of Bee-Keeping as an Occupatioi — 

 H. Lathrop. 



Which is Mire Instructive, Bees or Fruit ?— J. S. Nichols. 



Marketing Honey — A. McCarty. 



Best Method of Increase — I. P. White. 



Bee-Keeping as a Specialty — I. L. Murray. 



Songs — N. E. France. 



What is the Future Prospect of Honey from Basswood?— 



F. F. Zillmer. 



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Honey Fruit Cake. — The Ladies' Home Journal 

 for September gives this recipe for making honey fruit cake : 



Four eggs, five cups of flour, two cups of honey, one cup 

 of butter, one cup of sweet milk, two tea-spoonfuls of cream 

 of tartar, one tea-spoonful of soda, one pound of raisins, one 

 pound of currants, half a pound of citron, one tea-spoonful 

 each of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. Bake in a slow oven. 



Basswood and Wliite Clover.— We wish to buy 

 for cash a quantity of both light basswood and white clover 

 extracted honey. Who has any for sale ? Do not ship us any 

 until we order, but if you think you have what we want, 

 please mail us a sample, being sure to put your name on It. 

 Also let us know how much you have for sale. We will then 

 write you, in case the samples suit. 



Honey as Food and Medicine. — A new and revised 

 edition of this 32-page pamphlet is now issued. It has 5 blank 



fages on which to write or paste recipes taken from other sources. 

 t is just what its name indicates, and should be liberally dis- 

 tributed among the people everywhere to create a demand for 

 honey. It contaius a number of recipes on the use of hor'-v as 

 food and as medicine, besides much other interesting and Vbiaable 

 information. Prices, postpaid, are: Single copy, 5 ets. ; 10 copies 

 30 cts. ; 50 for $1.00 ; 100 for $1.7.5. Better give them a trial. Send 

 all orders to the Bee Journal office. 



The Alsilte Clover Leaflet consists of 2 pages, 

 with illustrations, showing the value of Alsike clover, and 

 telling how to grow it. This Leaflet is just the thing to hand 

 to every farmer in your neighborhood. Send to the Bee Jour- 

 nal office for a quantity of them, and see that they are dis- 

 tributed where they will do the most good. Prices, postpaid, 

 are as follows : 50 for 25 cents ; 100 for 40 cents ; or 200 



for 70 cents. 



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Tlie Names and Addresses of all your bee- 

 friends, who are not now taking the Bee Journal, are wanted 

 at this office. Send them in, please, when sample copies will 

 be mailed to them. Then you can secure their subscriptions, 

 and earn some of the premiums we have offered. The 

 next few months will be just the time to easily get new sub- 

 scribers. Try It earnestly, at least. 



