12 AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. January 



If nectar is not abundant in the because such entrance obscured the 



fields, or if the comb is not well stock- view. Perhaps so in Medina, but not 



ed with stores, feeding should be re- in Providence. 



sorted to. Place the bottle on the -. . , -. ^ ^^ ^ 



.J ^ ^, J r , . c Providence, R. I., Nov. 12, 1906. 



side screen at the end farthest from 



the hive entrance. The larger mouth- PENNSYLVANIA STATE 



ed the bottle, and the coarser the 



cloth over it, the faster they will take MEETING. 



the food. Once well supplied _ with Harrisburg, Pa., Dec, 6, 1906. 



food feeding should be discontinued 



until the little colony is seen to be Editor of American Bee-Keeper. 

 encroaching largely on its reserve. As you know, we intend to hold 

 Experiments with slow and rapid our annual meeting of the Pennsyl- 

 feeding will quickly show the advant- vania State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 age of the latter. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, January 

 A variation of above way of stock- 17th to 19th inclusive. The first meet- 

 ing an observation hive, one which the ing will be on the evening of Thurs- 

 writer has used for several years and day, the 17th, and the session will 

 which has revealed the innermost ?e close Saturday noon, the 19th. The 

 crets of the bees' home life, has the meetings will be in the Capitol Build- 

 comb built in narrovy^ strips about ings and there will be an exhibiton of 

 three-quarters of an inch thick placed bees, bee products and supplies. Up- 

 so the cells lie parallel with and on the program there will be such 

 against glass. In a hive to be so used prominent men as Dr. E. F. Phillips. 

 the inner glasses are but three-qnar- of Washington, D. C, and Mr. Charl- 

 ters of an inch apart. The comb es Stewart, Inspector of Apiaries of 

 strips are one and one-half inches New York State, as well as considera- 

 from center to center so that we have ble Pennsylvanian talent. Excursion 

 virtually a cross section of a colony rates of one and two-third cents per 

 instead of a longitudinal one. By mile within the State have been ob- 

 these and other arrangements it is tained by writing to me for card 

 possible to see every act of the bees, orders, which we shall furnish free. 

 They cannot hide their innermost se- Will you kindly make this announce- 

 crets from you provided you look ment, as it will clear up a little mis- 

 with fair and unprejudiced eyes. A take in the dates that I made in my 

 hive so arranged requires more or lo.-s former announcement to you. 

 skill to start, but once establiiheJ Very truly yours, 

 the colony goes as normally as does H. A. Surface, President, 

 any colony. It was in such a hive Pennsylvania State Bee-Keepers' 

 that I discovered how prllen was \ssociation. 

 packed, how bees store and ripen 



nectar, how the egg hatches, larva is Baltimore, Md., Dec. 13, 1906. 

 red, cocoon spun, etc., etc. Phjtc-- 



graphs and detailed dose iption tor Editor American Bee-Keeper. 



rstablishing colonies in these hives Your postal card in reference to 



will appear here I'ater. honey to hand. In reply, we presume 



I particularly wish to call the at- Baltimore uses less honey than any 



tention of Mr. E. R. Root and some other city of its size in the United 



other sceptics to these facts. He has States, and there is enough of it in 



said that it was impossible to tell our own state to supply all the de- 



what a bee did when it entered a cell mand. California has been trying to 



