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THE AMERJCAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 



5, 1905 



I'oratioDP. ami drop down ; but infitead of 

 dropping with a ibud or a jar to the ground 

 or in the grase, suttaininfj more or less of a 

 shocli, and wearing out their wings in the 

 scramble to take wing in the grass, they 

 catch wing hefan they actually strike the 

 ground, and fly up again. They no more 

 than get a little sip of syrup than down they 

 go again, catch wing, liy up, take a sip and 

 down again, and so on. 



The under side of the tin is so smooth that 

 there is nothing for the bees to cling to, and 

 they can not do very much scrambling. But 

 just the minute two or three get to tuggiug 

 at the same hole, down they go. The result 

 is, we have produceil almost ail the condi- 

 tions of an artificial houey-llow. It takes the 

 bees so long to get a load of .'yrup that they 

 .iy back and forth to the hives quietly, and 

 without excitement. 



Two fiO-pound cans of dilute syrup will 

 keep a yard of some auo colonies during an 

 absolute dearth of hooey i|iiiet for a couple 

 of days, so that the hives can be opened in- 

 discriminately, and combs exposed without 

 any robbing. It begins to develop now that 

 the bees that do most of the robbing repre- 

 sent but a very small portion ot the whole 

 yard. It is these that we keep busy by out- 

 door feeding. As they can not do any 

 scrambling to any extent, there is not the 



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same wear and tear that we experienced in 

 our early experinients. We fed up for winter 

 all of our Hill) colonies at the home-yard by 

 this outdoor feeding. What is more, this 

 syrup is ripened in Nature's way, and there- 

 fore must make an ideal winter food. 



Adulterated Honey in Minnesota 



Mr. 1". 1. Eckn\an,of Wiitonwan (o., Minn., 

 sent us a clipping taken from the Farm, 

 Stock and Home, of Minneapolis, dated Sept. 

 15, 190.5, which gives a list of " Impure 

 Foods," reported by Hon. E. K. Slater, Min- 

 nesota's dairy and food commissioner. In 

 that list we find the following paragraph ; 



Strained Honey. "Purity" brand. E. tJ. 

 Bailey Co., Detroit, Mich. Illegal. Adul- 

 terated with commerctal glucose. Sold as 

 pure honey. 



If only all the States would get after the 

 adulterations, and warn the public against 

 them, it would be a good thing for the con- 

 sumers, and also the producers of pure prod- 

 ucts. Some day we hope it will be so. 



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NoniinationH Tor National Klection 



have been made, and the ballots counted with 

 the following result, as per notice received 

 from the General Manager : 



For President— C. P. Dadant, O. I.. Her- 

 shiser, J. (J. Harris. 



Fob Vice-President — Geo. E. Hilton, C. 

 P. Dadant, .T. A. Green, O. L. Hershiser, F. 

 Muth, W. •/,. Hutchinson, Dr. Miller, J. U. 

 Harris. 



For Skcretaht — W. /.. Hutchinson, J. A. 

 Green, L. Seholl, E. T. Abbott. 



For (Ienerai. Manauer— N. E. France, 

 W. Rohrig, W. H. Laws, F. Kauchfuss. 



For Three Directors — F. Wilcox, M. H. 

 Mendleson, M. M. Baldridge, Dr. Miller, C. A. 

 Hatch, W. S. Ponder, E. W. Alexander, J. M. 

 Hambaugh, E. R. Root, .T. Mclnfyre, G, W. 

 York, ti. B. Howe. 



The foregoing, then, are to l)e the candi- 

 dates, although their nomination does not 

 prevent any member of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association from voB^ng for some 

 other member not included in the above list, 

 if he so desires. 



The National I'l'og^riiin was already on 

 the printing press last week *hen we received 

 the following from the Secretary : 



Friend York;— .lust after M. A. Gill's 

 paper, in the forenoon session of the second 

 day, in the program of the National conven- 

 tion, add the following: " Producing Both 

 Comb and Extracted Honey On the Same 

 Colony "—.las. A. Green, Grand .lunction, 



Colo. W. /.. HlITOIlINHON, ,'<rr. ■ 



l/.Vpicoltore, the leading Italian bee- 

 paper, published in Milan, in its September 

 editorial menlions the passage in Italy of Mr. 

 Frank lienton, the American Government 

 apiarist, who visited .several of the leading 

 Italian apiarists, and pre,sented to the ItaliaTi 

 .•\6Socialion a photographic view of the Na. 

 ional apiary at Washington. The ediforof 

 L'Apicoltore incidentally mentions the mag- 

 nitude of the bee-interests in America, tlie 

 reports of whose crops seem to be disbelieAd 

 by many F,uro|)ean apiarists, so great is She 



difference in methods and results between 

 Europe and America. 



In the same number is to be found a trans- 

 lation of the visit of the editor of the Ameri- 

 can Bee .fournal to Dadant & Sons, which 

 was published in our issue of .luIySO. The 

 publisher of L'Apicoltore introduces the sub- 

 ject as follows: 



We owe to the kindness of Signor V. Asprea 

 the translation of the following article taken 

 from a late number of the American Bee .Jour- 

 nal. In presenting this to our readers we are 

 sure to please them. The name of the great 

 American apiarist, Gharles Dadant. will bring 

 back to their memory his many writings pub- 

 lished in the columns of our journal, attract- 

 ing the attention of Italian bee-keepers to the 

 methods of bee culture in use across the 

 Atlantic, and recognised by him as the most 

 practical and protitablc. They will learn with 

 interest of his son, Camillo, justly esteemed 

 collaborator and to-day worthy continuator 

 of the work of his illusirious father, and 

 head of the new house. We regret to be un- 

 able to present also the photographs of the 

 Signor Dadant and of his sons, so splendidly 

 executed, which adorn the cover page of the 

 American Bee .lournal, but we will talce the 

 liberty to repeat to our leadHr.-^. with good 

 cause, the words of the editor of the Ameri- 

 can Bee rlournal. 



Our Calit'ornia Hoiiey-lj**(tei*. — One 



of our correspondents, located in San Fran- 

 cisco, Calif., wrote as follows Sept. l^: 



Editor American Bee .Ioi'rnal — 



Our local market is quiet just at this time, 

 but prices are extremely tirm. The following 

 prices rule here to-day: New crop, comb, per 

 pound. 111 to 12 cents. Extracted, water- 

 white, B cent.s; light amber. 5 to ."ji.j cents; 

 dark amber, 3 to 4 cents; and Hawaiian, "J to 

 :i'.^ 'cents. 



Fair grade <J( beeswax would bring '3f) to 2.s 

 cents per pound. 



The figures covering the exports of various 

 commodities from the port of Sau Frtnciseo 

 during the past year are now avnilaiile, and 

 the following dat;v culled ther(!from may be of 

 interest to the houey-irade. The figures ap- 

 ply only to shipmeuts made by steam or sail- 

 ing vessels leaving this port between .luly I. 

 I'.IIM, and .luly 1, UlOo; 



To the Atlantic United States were shipped 



.514 cases: to Europe, HM: to Mexico, l- i„ 

 Central America. 4; to South Ameriua. 2i' in 

 Hawaii. 50; to the Pacific Islands (such as 

 Tahiti, Sunoa, etc I, 5; to the Philippine, 

 ;tM4 ; 10 .Japan, 17; to China, 9.5; to tbe Far 

 East, 32; to Australasia. 1; to the British 

 Posse- sions, IGlj. In all a total of ;373fl cases 

 against some 'J23i' cases during the samB 

 period of 11103-01. 



Of beeswax the statistics show that some 

 i'irp44 pounds went to the Atlantic Tnited 

 States, and some lo.2!i7 pounds to Europe- 

 the balance of the '2.5,400 pouuds (year's total 

 report! being scattered between Central 

 America and the Philippines. The figures 

 show that during the same period of 190:^-01 

 there were but 105 pounds shipped out of the 

 port of San Francisco, which certainly shows 

 an extraonlinary dilTcrcnce. 



Reports from authentic sources in Southern 

 California lead me to believe that there will 

 be from a third to a half crop of honey, with 

 prospects a little better in the central portions 

 of the State. The California National Honey- 

 Producers' Association is advising its mem- 

 bers to hold their crop at tbe following 

 figures: White, 5 cents; light amber, l?^ 

 cents; amber, 4 cents. One authority gives 

 as his estimate of the honey crop of Southern 

 California something like 125 carloads of 20 

 tons each; while another party% equally well 

 thought of in the trade, and supposed to ba a 

 good judge of conditions, estimates the crop 

 at 175 carloads. Figuring on that basis would 

 mean a proportion of about 125,000 cans of 

 the extracted product, and possibly 15 cars of 

 comb honey. They say that the National 

 Biscuit Company has made purchases aggre- 

 gating 75 carloads, this concern being the 

 largest single consumer of the product ot the 

 busy bee in the United States. 



From all present indications I am warranted 

 in believing that we will soon see materially 

 higher prices out here for our product. We 

 are told that Arizona's crop is almost a fail- 

 ure, that Colorado will have only about IJO 

 percent of a crop, that the crop throughout 

 the Eastern States is light, and the market 

 well cleaned up ; so it does not take so much 

 of a guesser to figure out that an advance is a 

 very probable result. Our honey is worth 

 more money than we are asking for it, and 

 we will probably wake up to the fact in a few 

 days or weeks. " San Franciscan." 



The Apiai-y of J. M. Butler appears 

 by picture on the first page this week. .Vlr. 

 B. wrote us as follows, Aug. lU: 



I want to thank you for the valuable infor- 

 mation I have received through the columns 

 of the American Bee .lournal. I also seoii a 

 photograph of my apiary of 42 colonies, 

 spring count, which I increased this season to 

 53. I notice that some have been hoasiing of 

 early swarms; my firsi sw;irm issued May J. 

 and I had ij swarms before May 10. I never 

 fed my bees any thing, either. 1 put them oat 

 ot the cellar April 1, and everything loijkeil 

 favorable for a big honey crop, but it failed, 

 as it was too cold at night for the bees to do 

 much. I secured only a few hundred pounds 

 of honey where I should have had as many 

 thousand pounds. 



The picture was taken in fruit-bloom, and 

 the trees the hives are under are cherry-trees; 

 they were one solid mass of bloom. 



It ismyself examining a fraroeof brood and 

 liees, and further back are my wife and a little 

 boy who is making his home with us. 



.J. M. BfTLEK. 



Mr. <'ha*i. MonOeng rei|uesls us to 

 publish the foUovviog notice: 



Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. -*• /'''''i 

 lam now out of the Mondcog Mfg. i-U-. 

 and so am no longer rcspou.Mlde for quee 

 and bee orders sent to the .Mondeiig »'!p-^"u 

 as they are not turned over to me. 1 "' 

 that ail mail orders for queens and bees, ""' 

 iir-e intended for me, would be sent U> me pe ^ 

 tonally lat :I10 Newton Ave., -North), anu 

 will see that they are promptly taken cnie 

 CiiAS. .MoNi'ENi- 



