Dec. 14, 190S 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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only 50 per cent of them are mated. With the double 

 wire-screen there is no trouble. 



Mr. Atchley experimented much with different methods 

 of queen-rearing. He has lost much sleep over the matter. 

 His whole aim was to arrive at a method by which more 

 and better queens can be produced in all seasons. Most 

 of the orders for queens are received when none can be 

 mated successfully in the baby boxes. On this account 

 he uses both the old and the new method. The baby 

 nuclei worked all right during the honey-flow and swarm- 

 ing-time, but the larger 3-frame nuclei must be resorted to 

 when the dearth sets in later. Both kinds are used 

 throughout favorable seasons, so that one or the other can 

 be depended on. If everything is favorable the queens 

 are drawn from the baby nuclei and the others are left 

 until last. The most essential thing with a queen-breeder 

 is plenty of colonies, lots of bees and plenty of honey. 

 Unless he has these he would better stop queen-rearing. 



Matters Relative to the Farmers' Congress. 



Upon the request of Prof. Connell the question was 

 put before the bee-keepers' section of the Congress 

 whether it should be retained at College Station for future 

 meetings, or whether, on account of the inadequateness at 

 the College to care for the delegates properly, the Congress 

 meetings should be removed to another place. This was 

 left for the discussion of the members, and that the dele- 

 gates appointed should be instructed how to vote at the 

 executive meeting of the Congress at the night session. 

 After a lengthy discussion it was moved that the meetings 

 be retained at College Station, and the delegates were in- 

 structed to vote to that effect. 



Prof. Connell also called attention to the fact that each 

 section of the Congress must elect an executive coinmittfe- 

 man to meet with the Executive Board of the Congress at 

 its meeting. Mr. W. H. Laws was elected. 



The reports of the committees were then called for. 

 On Resolutions. 



Resolved, That the thanks of this Association be ex- 

 tended to the railroad officials of Texas for courtesies 

 shown the members in enabling them to attend the 

 Farmers' Congress. 



Resolved, That the thanks of the Association be ex- 

 tended to the Board of ^Managers of the A. & M. College 

 for the use of the grounds and buildings. 



Resolved, That we extend the thanks of the Associa- 

 tion to the Galveston News, for the manner in which they 

 have reported the proceedings of this meeting. 



Willie Atchley, 

 C. A. Butts. 

 L. W. Bell, Commiltcc. 



On the Examination of the Experimental Apiarv. 



We, the committee chosen to inspect the experimental 

 apiary at College Station, have given the apiary a thorough 

 inspection, and heartily report same in excellent condition. 

 The equipment is entirely adequate for apiarian manage- 

 ment and educational purposes. The hives are of different 

 construction and for that reason afford ample opportunity 

 to investigate them so as to show the best to use in prac- 

 tical apiculture. We therefore recommend the manage- 

 ment as practised by Prof. I^. H. Scholl. If the students 

 have been benefited as the apiary suggests, the State has 

 been entirely justified in placing the apiary here for 

 educational purposes. 



W. O. Victor, Jas. W. Traylor, 



T. P. Robinson, J. M. Hagood. 



John W. Pharr, Committee. 



On motion both reports were put to a vote and carried. 

 (Continued next week.) 



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Report of the Chlcago-Northwesteru Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Convention, held at Chicago, 111., 

 Nov. 30 and Dec, 1, 1904 



[Continued from page 8t7.J 



samples of honey. 



• As a drawing card for the National convention that 

 was held at St. Louis, Mr. France collected pound-samples 

 of different varieties of honey from different States. After 



securing them it was impossible to display them, as out- 

 siders kept slipping in and carrying them off. It was quite 

 interesting to see how the same variety of honey differed 

 in different parts of the country. Mr. France had with him, 

 and placed upon exhibition, small samples of the varieties 

 of honey that he had gathered. 



"brick honey." 



Mr. Root exhibited a sample of candied cut up as they 

 cut it up into "bricks," and surround the packages with para- 

 ffined paper, with parchment paper over that. It can be sold 

 only in a local market, as the public in general does not 

 understand about the candying of honey, and, if kept over 

 until warm weather, it will become too soft; in fact, only 

 such honey as candies hard can be used. 



Mr. France — Have you tried Southern honey? 



Mr. Root — No, we have not. 



Mr. Kimmey — How will it be next summer? 



Mr. Root — It will be soft. As I have said, it must be sold 

 while the weather is still cold. I would not advocate it for 

 use away from home. 



Mr. Duby — I have calls for candied honey here in Chi- 

 cago. 



Mr. Moore — There is no trade in candied honey here in 

 Chicago, unless it has been worked up. 



HOW shall we best market comb honey? 



Mr. Abbott — It depends upon the locality. 



Mr. Becker — My plan is to put the honey up in an 

 attractive package. I make three grades. There is a first 

 and a second grade, and then the culls. Sell in the home 

 market if possible. A home market is lasting, once it is 

 established. Shipping honey without loss from breakage 

 is an art. I have bought lots of honey from Mr. York, and 

 never yet had a particle of loss from leakage in shipping. 



Mr. Reynolds — An agent, or seller of honey, sometimes 

 makes sales, and gets the start of some other seller, by show- 

 ing that his honey is of light-weight — that is, the sections do 

 not quite weigh a pound each, and there is more profit in 

 their sale. 



Mr. Becker — I have seen that done, but I alwavs sell by 

 weight. 



Mr. Moore — I found, in Indiana, merchants who were 

 selling 2,000 or .'5,000 pounds of honey each year. I found 

 that they did it by keeping it in sight — put up in nice show- 

 cases. Sell honey close at home, then it will not be smashed. 



Mr. Duby — I have sold as much as 1,000 pounds of honey 

 at a fair, and I find it an excellent place to advertise. 



Mr. Meredith — At Mill Park, where there were excur- 

 sions from schools, I have sold as much as 400 pounds of 

 honey in one day. 



Mr. Wilcox — First decide at what price honey will sell. 

 Put it up in the best style. Sell it near home. If not pos- 

 sible, then put it in the hands of commission men. 



Next came an address by Prof. E. N. Eaton, State 

 Analyst of the Illinois Food Commission, on 



FOOD FRAUDS AND FOOD OFFICIALS. 



Again I have the privilege and the honor — and I assure 

 you it is a privilege and an honor — of appearing before the 

 Chicago-Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Association. I believe 

 I feel as much interest in your Association, its members and 

 its meetings, as I would had I as large an apiary as Mrs. 

 Stow, or as much knowledge of the bee as Dr. ^lillcr, in- 

 stead of no knowledge of the ways of the bee except as a 

 warrior, and no earthly possessions in that line — not even a 

 bee in my bonnet. Last October I read before the National 

 Association a paper on "Food Frauds," laying special stress 

 on the misrepresentation of comb honey, and the damage such 

 misrepresentation has done to the sale of that commodity. 



Mr. York has suggested that I bring the same subject 

 before this Association, inasmuch as there are many in at- 

 tendance at this convention who were imable to get to the 

 National, and the records of that convention will not be 

 available for some time. 



Many years ago Dr. Wiley, now chief chemist of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, stated that comb 

 honey was being made artificially, comb and all. That story 

 went the rounds of the press, and, despite frequent denials, 

 appears in papers to this day, even in such reliable publica- 

 tions as the Ladies' Home Journal, the Chicago Tribune, and 

 the Philadelphia Press. When cornered Dr. Wiley claimed 

 that the statement was "a scientific pleasantry," and that the 

 bee-keepers — simple children of Nature — were too obtuse to 

 see the joke. The public and the public press, however, took 



