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I shipped 5,000 pounds to one man, 

 which was re-loaded twice on the cars, 

 and none was broken. In the last live 

 years I have shipped about 40,000 

 pounds of comb honej^, of my own pro- 

 duction, some of it going over 1,600 

 miles, and onlj- two broken crates 

 were reported ; therefore I would ad- 

 vise bee-keepers to pack all the sec- 

 tions upside down, which are not 

 solidly attached to the lower part of 

 the sections. By so doing, the shipper 

 will save money, and also those who 

 buy the honey. 



Besides my own experiments, I wish 

 to give a little further information, 

 which I witnessed a few days ago. 



Last week I went to St. Paul, Minn., 

 on business ; while there I called on a 

 man to whom I have sold most of my 

 last year's crop of honey. He showed 

 me a lot of rather bad-looking comb 

 honey of last year's crop, from all 

 parts of the United States. Some was 

 from California, some from Chicago 

 and other places ; some was broken, 

 and some was partly candied. There 

 was 14 crates of it, from almost as 

 many bee-keepers, judging from the 

 appearance of the crates. 



This man handles about 30,000 

 pounds of honey annually. He asked 

 me if that honey could not be brought 

 back to its liquid state. I told him 

 that it could. 



" How much would you charge me 

 to do it ?" he asked. I told him that it 

 was quite a task to do it, and after it 

 was done, it would not be very nice 

 for table use ; the combs would have 

 to be broken in order to liquefy it, 

 without spending too much time with 

 it, and then it would be only bee-food, 

 or honey for pickling meats, etc. After 

 some more talk, he sold me the honey 

 at a low figure. 



After the honey an-ived at my home, 

 I unpacked it, and found it to be as I 

 expected. 



The honey was put up by many dif- 

 ferent parties, only a small part of it 

 being put upside down. Among it 

 was two crates of California honey, 

 with very tender combs, and only the 

 outside sections were candied ; this I 

 found but little broken, but most of 

 what was put up in the same way as 

 the bees had built it on the hives, was 

 badly smashed, and a good deal had 

 leaked out of the crates. This latter 

 class was almost worthless to the trade. 

 My customer could probably sell what 

 was not broken so badly — the upside 

 down part ; but he said that he would 

 let that go with the lot, if I would take 

 it all. There was a loss of 75 per cent. 

 on this honey. 



By the above, it will be seen that we 

 should be careful not to pack the sec- 

 tions with the weakest part of the 

 comb downward ; if they have a good 



footing, they will withstand a great 

 deal of rough handling. 



The weather is nice here, but we 

 have no sleighing. 



Thielmanton, Minn., Jan. 30, 1889. 



BEE-DIARRHEA. 



The Diilance Bees Go for 

 Honey, etc. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY C. F. WEBB. 



I have handled bees for 40 years or 

 more, and 1 do not pretend to know 

 much about them either ; but what little 

 I do know, that I think would be of 

 interest to any one, is freely given. I 

 have 200 colonies of bees, of which 

 two-thirds are pure Italians, the rest 

 being crossed with the big German 

 gray bee, and as honej--gatherers I 

 like them best. 



I keep my bees during the winter in 

 a cellar under tlie dwelling-house, and 

 my plan for ventilation is the same as 

 a stove — pure air comes in at the bot- 

 tom, and impure air escapes at the 

 top. In summer I keep them on the 

 north side of a hill, where the combs 

 will not melt down, and when it is 

 warm enough for the bees to fly there, 

 it will be warm enough for them to fly 

 anywhere ; also there will be no danger 

 of them flying away, and getting 

 chilled, and never returning to the 

 hive. 



I have found a great many bee-trees 

 in my lifetime, and with one or two 

 exceptions, I have found all on the 

 north, northwest and northeast side of 

 the timber or hill. 



I>istance Bees Travel. 



I never knew bees to go quite 40 

 miles, for honey, but I have known 

 them to work all of six miles away, 

 and work strongly. I would refer the 

 reader to the Agricultural Report of 

 1870-71, where it claims that bees 

 worked 8J miles away. 



TUe Cause of Bee-Diarrliea. 



In regard to what is called "bee- 

 diarrhea," I will say that my bees are 

 never troubled with it. I believe if the 

 hive is so arranged as to prevent the 

 bees from sweating, there will be no 

 danger of the diarrhea. That is my 

 experience. 



Bees can be given the diarrhea in 20 

 minutes by sweating them. I hare had 

 some 8 or 10 colonics succumb to the 

 disease right in midsummer, by not 

 giving them plenty of air, and thereby 

 causing them to sweat. Upon exami- 

 nation I found them all dead, and an 

 almost unbearable stench arising from 

 them, the same as from cholera. 



Where wild bees are in hollow trees 

 with porous or worm-eaten wood 

 above, so that the impurities may pass 

 out, the bees never have the diarrhea ; 

 but where the trees are solid above 

 the hollow, 1 have known them to die 

 from that disease. If any one knows 

 anything to the contrary, I would like 

 to hear it through the Bee JouRNAi. 



Union Centre, Wis., Feb. 6, 1889. 



COLORADO. 



Report of the State Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Coiiveutioii. 



Condensed from the Colorado Farmer. 



The Colorado Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion met at Denver on Jan. 10. at 10 

 a.m., President Milleson in the chair. 

 The minutes of the last meeting were 

 read and approved. 



The Secretary and Treasurer pre- 

 sented their reports, which were re- 

 ferred to the executive committee. 



A discussion ensued on adulterated 

 honey, and Elwood Easley asked if 

 artificial comb honey were now manu- 

 factured. Both the President and Sec- 

 retary answered that no market had 

 ever been aftected by such artificial 

 honey. If such could be made, why 

 did they not produce it this year, when 

 honey was scarce ? 



" Dr. King," said Mrs. Plumb, of 

 Boulder, "had some honey in a store 

 window ; some men were looking — one 

 agreed to show that it was artificial 

 because the ' holes ' were of difterent 

 sizes, and that showed that two difl:ei- 

 ent machines were used. He alluded, 

 of course, to the drone and worker 

 cells." 



E. B. Hutchinson objected to the 

 idea that if bees were fed something 

 that was not right it was adulterated. 

 It is pure honey if the bees gather it 

 from buckwheat, although it might be 

 poor, just as turnips fed to a cow will 

 injure the taste of the milk, although 

 it will be of poor quality. 



The convention then adjourned until 

 1:30 p.m. 



At the afternoon session Mr. Pratt 

 I'cported, from the Committee on Leg- 

 islation, in favor of county inspectors to 

 prevent foul brood. Adopted. 



Mr. Pratt suggested that each bee- 

 keeper should write a personal letter 

 to the Legislator with whom he is best 

 acquainted, showing the necessity for 

 Legislation to check foul brood. 



The Secretary urged members to fill 

 out his statistics blanks. He had re- 

 ports already showing 129,000 pounds 

 as our honey product. The President 

 said if he made it 200,000, it would not 

 be incorrect, as bee-keepers were too 

 slack in reporting. 



