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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 19, 1905 



days after ihey had been treated. That colony had not suf- 

 fered very much. 



From another apiary that had gone down from a large 

 to a small number, the apiary having been treated, those 

 bees had been taking first and second premiums at our Wis- 

 consin State fair. It doesn't hurt a boy to have a new suit 

 of clothes. The cost is a very minor affair. The worst diffi- 

 culty with me, for the first few years at least, was to adjust 

 myself to the peculiar condition of each individual bee-keeper. 

 There is the worst feature I find as an inspector. One man 

 is glad you have come, and will do anything, even leave the 

 harvest, if you please, to have that work attended to ; tlie 

 other man is the very opposite — he would sooner you would 



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get away from there; he would promise anything to get rid 

 of you; and the surroundings correspond. That is the man 

 who needs an inspector, not the other man. In order to help 

 out I have taken with me for the last two years a German 

 wax-press, having a case made so that I could check it as 

 baggage. Where I find a badly infected yard, with the 

 class of bee-keeper whose surroundings are not favorable, I 

 take off my coat and I stay there and clean up the premises 

 myself, and take my wax-press and go on. If 1 leave it to 

 him a neighbor who is making his living out of the business 

 will suffer from the indifference of this friend. 

 (Continued next week.) 



Conducted by EinMi M. Wilson, Marengo, 111. 



Squab-Raising with Bee-Keeping 



The question as to what may be run in con- 

 nection with t>ee-keepiDg is one that is always 

 in order. An article in White's Class Adver- 

 tising with reference to the Pljmouth Rock 

 Squab Company, contains a paragraph which 

 suggests the possibility of squab-raising as a 

 side-line for the bee-keeping sisters. The 

 paragraph is as follows : 



"The records at the Boston ofliee show that 

 women are singularly successful in this in- 

 dustry, for it is eafy work, and work to which 

 they are especially adapted. Squab-raising 

 is also a business which is run by a great 

 many in conjunction with poultry." 



5 or 50 colonies. In a good location, with no 

 other bees near, the average from 5 colonies 

 might be very much more than from 50, and 

 130 pounds of comb honey would be as good 

 as about 195 of extracted. 



In any case. Miss Treverrow did well, but 

 just how well can be better understood if we 

 can have the desired light on those two points. 



Finding Queens 



Mr. D. M. Macdonald, copying in the British 

 Bee Journal some instructions given in this 

 department for finding queens, adds this com- 

 ment: 



"There is no royal road to flnding a queen, 

 and practice is what the novice needs. It be- 

 comes, in general, a simple process — although 

 at times some queens, especially young ones, 

 prove very elusive, and are really adepts at 

 the art of hide and seek." 



Good sense in that. Practice is everything. 

 Just keep at work finding queens and it will 

 soon cease to appear such a difficult thing. 



Sisters, Use Honey in Cooliing 



Any sister who has never tried honey in 

 cooking is making a mistake. Cake is not in 

 great favor at our house, but honey-cookies 

 are a standard article. Besides being univer- 

 sally liked, they keep indehnitely — if not 

 eaten before the termination of that uncer- 

 tain period. 



A Canadian Sister's Success 



The Canadian Bee Journal says that Miss 

 Treverrow is, " so far as we know at present, 

 the most extensive and successful lady api- 

 arist in Ontario, her average this season 

 amounting to fully 130 pounds to the colony 

 of white honey. Miss Treverrow uses the S- 

 frame Langstroth hive exclusively. Referring 

 to this she humorously stated that she was 

 not one of the ' big fellows,' and does not in- 

 tend to be." 



That is decidedly interesting, but it is just 

 a bit exasperating that Editor Craig leaves us 

 in the dark on two very important points. 

 Please, Mr. Craig, won't you kindly tell us 

 how many colonies there were in that apiary 

 that averaged 130 pounds, and also whether 

 the honey was comb or extracted? You see 

 it makes a big difference whether there were 



Honey for Chapped Lips 



Either white vaseline or honey will make a 

 pleasant application for chapped lips. Don't 

 bite the lips. It is evidence of nervousness, 

 and will keep your cupid's bow in very rag- 

 ged, unlovely condition. — Chicago Record- 

 Herald. 



Bee-Keeping for Women 



In these days when so many women are 

 engaging in all kinds of enterprises to make 

 a living for themselves, and often to make a 

 living for others, it does seem strange that so 

 few women engage in bee-keeping. With 

 modern methods, so that one need not be on 



hand all the time to watch for swarms, bee- 

 keeping can fit in with almost anything else. 

 Reading in the National Daily Review about 

 what a set of enterprising women are doing 

 with chiclsens and eggs down in a certain 

 part of Tennessee, one wonders why those 

 same women don't join in bees with the bid- 

 dies. From Morristown, Tenn., a place of 

 less than 3000 souls, there were shipped in a 

 year 223 carloads of eggs and 703 carloads of 

 poultry, representing the enormous value of 

 nearly $3,000,000. 



Now that isn't because there are some men 

 of big capiial who have started poultry estab- 

 lishments on a large scale. "To the women 

 of East Tennessee, those living in the small 

 towns and farming communities, is given the 

 credit largely for this enormous volume of 

 business." The chickens and eggs are largely 

 taken to the small country stores all over 

 East Tennessee, and are there gathered up by 

 the hucksters who ship them in to Morristown 

 or other near-by points. 



That shows the power of littles when gath- 

 ered into one great aggregate. Suppose one 

 woman out of 30 throughout the land should 

 keep 5 colonies of bees, and each colony 

 should average 25 pounds of oomb honey 

 yearly, do you think that would add any- 

 thing worth while to the wealth of this Na- 

 tion? Let's see. One out of 30 women, at a 

 very moderate estimate, would give 500,000, 

 and with 5 colonies each, giving an annual 

 yield of 25 pounds at 13 cents per pound, the 

 whole would foot up the neat little sum of 

 $7,500,000. Worth while, isn't it? And that 

 would be just so much that is now going to 

 waste. 



Why under the sun don't more of the sis- 

 ters go at it? 



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ITIn ^asty s (Iftertl^ou^I^ts 



The " Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. 

 By E. E. Hasty, 8ta. B. Rural, Toledo, Ohio. 



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Politeness Defined 



Stinging with sharp words, and then saving 

 our "face "and reputation by offering the 

 honey of a smile I "Afeared"the ladies do 

 not have the monopoly of that naughtiness. 

 How shall we attack this mightily respectable 

 sin? Let'scirculate (vest-pocket holder style) 

 the best of all definitions of the word, polite- 

 ness; Politeness is real kindness kindly ex- 

 pressed. Page 618. 



That Suqae-Watbe Sdmmer Drink 



Also afeared. Sister Wilson, that weakly 

 sugared water exposed four days in summer 

 will have considerable drunk in it. Fraud 

 anyhow. The idea of its specially recom- 

 mending itself to bee-folks because it con- 

 sumes tmo ou/ur.s of honey to over four gal- 

 lons of the stuff I Let us spew it out of our 

 mouths. (In dumb show, without taking 

 any in, best way to do that.) Page 618. 



"Shrinkage" in Scale- Weights. 



It be-wonders me what Geo. H. Kirkpatrick 

 means by " shrinkage " in connection with 

 his scale-hive weights on page 630. Hardly 

 do to say that nectar just brought in decreases 

 in weight so little as one-seventh or one- 



fourth in becoming ripe honey — and what 

 else can it be? Also, I wonder if the figures 

 in the column of gains result from weighing 

 once a day or twice a day. There is a decided 

 loss of weight by night — more when they 

 have much young brood and less when they 

 are rearing little — more whon the gathering is 

 large and less when the gathering is small — 

 more when the nectar is thin and less when 

 the nectar is less thin— and I suppose more 

 when they get through roaring (fanning) 

 long before morning, and less when they 

 don't get the fanning job well done. For 

 steadiness of yield with no cyphers in it this 

 record is rather remarkable. Two maximums 

 a few days apart, one jumping to 16X, and 

 one of the growing kind growing up to 18X — 

 big figures both. 



How Bees Build Honet-Comb. 



After giving so lucid and interesting an 

 account of comb-building as Mr. Doolittle 

 has done — and getting such a trouncing for it 

 as Arthur C. Miller gives him on page 631, I 

 think he should reply — unless prepared to 

 admit that the main statements of his account 

 were worthless. Meantime I guess I won't 

 mix in— any further than to say that I am not 

 yet fully convinced that the bee does not help 



