L Dec. 21, 1905 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



887 



although burnt candy doesn't hurt children seriously, it 

 means death to bees if given for winter stores. For every 

 3 pounds of sugar take a pint of water. When the water is 

 boiling hot, sift in the sugar slowly, stirring it as you sift 



it in, so it will not burn on the bottom before it is dissolved. 

 Try it from time to time, and as soon as a little of it dropped 

 into cold water becomes brittle, take off and pour into 

 greased dishes, making cakes X to 1 inch thick. 



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 ^^^i^B^HH incu)>ation. This ts possible 

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Glass Jars for Honey 



We can ship by return freight at the 

 following prices : 



i.j-lb. Tip-Top Jars— case of 24 doz., $8.00; 

 3 cases, $23.00. 



%-lb. Tiptop Jars — 1 case of 14 doz., for 

 $5.25; 3 cases for $15. 



1-lb. Tiptop Jars — 1 case of 12 doz., for $5; 

 3 cases for ?14. 



Hand.'' Comb Foundation Mill 



We have for sale a 6-inch Second-Hand 

 Comb Foundation Mill. Used scarcely any; 

 good as new. If interested write for price. 



50 l)oxes good 3nd-hand ogal. Tin Cans, 2 

 in a bos — 10 boxes for *4 00. 



When sending for sample jars include 15 

 cents each to cover postage, etc. 



YORK HONEY "^^^^^^ CO. 



(Not incorporatrd) 

 141 Ontario Street. - CHICAGO, ILL. 



The Rietsche Press 



Made of artificial stone. Practically lude- 

 Btrnctible, and g^iving- entirely satisfactory re- 

 snlts. Comb foundation made easily and 



?uickly at less than half the cost of bnyiug 

 rom the dealers. Price of Press, $1.50— cash 

 with order. Address, 



ADRIAN GETAZ, 



4SA.tf KNOXVILLE, TENN. 



lyj.G. Goodner, of this State, writes me that 

 he "prefers to pay 125 for a Rietsche Press than 

 do without it."— A. G. 



Christmas Holiday Excursion Rates 



via the Nickel Plate Road between 

 ChicaKO and Buffalo. Dates of sale 

 Dec. 23, 24, 25, 30 and 31, 1905, and Jan. 

 1, 1906, at a fare and a third for the 

 round-trip, with return limit of Jan. 3, 

 1906. Through train service to New 

 York City, Boston, and other Eastern 

 points. No excess fare. Individual 

 Club Meals served in Nickel Plate din- 

 ing cars. Three through trains daily 

 from La Salle and Van Buren St. Sta- 

 tion. The only depot in Chicago on 

 the Elevated Loop. 39— 49A3t 



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Bees In the Cellar 



I put my bees into the cellar Oct. 28, but it 

 warmed up again, so I think I made a mistake 

 by putting them in so early. I had 65 colo- 

 nies, spring count, and got about 2000 pounds 

 of honey from them. We have about a foot 

 of snow here now. Chas. J. Miller. 



Long Prairie, Minn., Dec. 2. 



Results of the Past Season 



I have put 63 colonies into winter quar- 

 ters- They did fairly well the past season, as 

 I got 3500 pounds of honey from them. I run 

 for comb honey only. I don't lose very many 

 colonies in winter, as I winter them on the 

 summer stands packed with chaff cushions, 

 and have a row of evergreen-trees on three 

 sides to protect them from the cold winds, 

 and it works very nicely. Kdw. McCor. 



Lima, N. Y., Dec. 8. 



Bees Did Poorly 



Bees did not do well here this year. There 

 was no horsemint in the spring, nor broom- 

 weed in the fall— nothing but cotton to work 

 on ; while this was a fine quality of honey, it 

 amounted to only about 35 pounds per col- 

 ony, on an average {two-thirds comb). This 

 country is nearly all under cultivation, con- 

 sequently cotton is our main honey-plant. I 

 came out in the spring with 35 colonies, hived 

 18 prime swarms, and now have 31. I lost 

 heavily in early summer. 



I sold what honey I had to spare for 10 

 cents per section, and 75 cents per gallon for 

 extracted. One thing is strange to me, if I 

 were to ask $1.00 a gallon for honey I don't 

 believe I could sell a single gallon ; but after 

 I sold what I had to the merchants here, they 

 had no trouble in getting $1.35 and $1.50 per 

 gallon for it. F. R. Knauth. 



Granger, Tex., Dec. 4. 



Bee-Keeping in the South 



I will try to say something relative to api- 

 culture in the South. I can not understand, 

 except in a meager way, what bee-keepers in 

 the North mean by ''wintering bees." I have 

 been told that it is very cold there, that you 

 have snow and ice, and that you have to pro- 

 tect your bees in order that they may live 

 through, and then many are lost, and you 

 have " spring counts." f don't know what 

 this means. I never saw but one snow in my 

 life of any importance, and it was 4 inches 

 deep on a level, and lasted one day. The ther- 

 mometer showed 12 degrees above zero. Half 

 the winters here the mercury never reaches as 

 low as 12 degrees. I have seen several win- 

 ters where the mercury never fell below 28 de- 

 grees. Three times in my life I have eaten 

 watermelons on Christmas, and once I con- 

 sumed one in February of the previous year's 

 crop. Isn't this delightful for the apiarist? 



Twice in my life I have seen the mercury as 

 low as 3 degrees above zero. I had on so 

 much covering that I could not turn over, and 

 still froze on the edges. I had to cover up my 

 head to save my nose. When I arose the next 

 morning I " smoked " all over like a leaky 

 stove, and my knees quaked like a bone-yard. 

 I thought that I never would get into my 

 pants, and when I did thej' seemed to be en- 

 tirely too thin, much more so than usual. 

 This was fearful on me, but never seemed to 

 bother my bees. I beg pardon for the above 

 digression. 



Here in Texas we leave our hives just as 



they were when we last "robbed" them; at 

 least I do. I extract out the last honey the 

 last of October, or by Nov. 15, aod return 

 the combs to the hives just the same as if 

 I were expecting another honey-flow. No 

 further attention is paid to the bees except to 

 walk through the yard occasionally to see if 

 none of the covers have blown off. 



The bees b"rlng in pollen every month in the 

 year. I have seen them toddling in rapidly 

 on Christmas day, ladened with pollen. I 

 never made any investigations to see whether 

 or not they brought in any honey. Cotton 

 and mesquite are my principal honey-bearing 

 plants here in Bell Co., Texas, and from them 

 we get enormous yields, sometimes. 



As yet I never have had any disease among 

 my bees except paralysis, and that not seri- 

 ous ; and I have operated bees 20 years. From 

 what I can learn, foul brood is practically un- 

 known in the State. It is honey here with 

 practically no labor attached. Lastyear(I904) 

 I put in 26 days' work, all told, for operating 

 and "robbing," and hired one hand two days, 

 and took off over 9000 pou nds of honey . Nearly 

 half this time was consumed in transferring 

 a few colonies and straightening combs and 

 building up weak colonies, the weak ones 

 being those that I had found. We have as 

 many colonies in the spring as we do in the 

 fall— never lose one except through failure 

 of the queen. T. P. Robinson. 



Bartlett, Texas. 



Imbedding Wires In Comb Founda- 

 tion by Heat 



Mb. Editor:— While thanking Mr. Adrian 

 Getaz for his desire to credit me with the in- 

 vention of the plan of imbedding wires in 

 foundation by the use of heat, I must dis- 

 claim all right to such credit. The credit be- 

 longs to one of the sisters. Miss EmmaM. 

 Wilson, who first conceived the idea of using 

 a lamp or gasoline stove to heat the wires 

 Then I think it was The A. I. Root Co. who 

 varied the plan by using electricity. Not 

 every one can conveniently use electricity, 

 but a gasoline stove, oil stove, or a lamp, is 

 easily accessible. 



The illustration on page 843, shows an im- 

 provement that I suppose is the invention of 

 Mr. Getaz— haying the frame supported by 

 wires suspended from above. That's easier 

 than to hold the frame in the hand, and the 

 the proper distance from the lamp is thus 

 automatically gauged. 



One who has never tried it may think that 

 there is danger of spoiling the foundation by 

 melting it. As a matter of fact the heat of 

 the lamp has very little effect on the wax, and 

 it would work just as well if no direct heat 

 touched the wax. Remember that the wire is 

 under the wax. The wire is one of the very 

 best conductors of heat, wax one o£ the 

 poorest. So the wire becomes heated imme- 

 diately, and a slight pressure from above 

 melts its way into the wax before any other 

 part of the wax has found out that any heat 

 is present. c. C. Miller. 



Marengo, 111. 



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