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Nov. 1, 1906 



American Ttee Journal 



opening at the cellar bottom, turns in 

 the pipe preventing the entrance of 

 light. 



In almost any cellar it will be better 

 to have some kind of a tube, whether 

 it be a square board one or a stovepipe, 

 to carry out the foul air. A stovepipe 

 running from near the bottom and en- 

 tering a chimney is good. If no chim- 

 ney goes down into the cellar a pipe 

 may run up through the floor, and en- 

 ter a pipe or chimney above. 



The temperature is secured by hav- 

 ing the walls well banked outside, or 

 by making a double wall at the upper 

 part inside. If still too cold, a low fire 

 may be kept in a stove in the cellar. 



Coming to the gist of your question, 

 you will no doubt be safe in putting 

 part of your bees in what you think is 

 the poorer cellar. Most likely there is 

 communication between the 2 cellars, 

 and that will equalize the temperature. 

 Even if the second cellar is not so good 

 there will probably be a gain sufficient 

 to balance the loss in the better win- 

 tering in the other cellar, as compared 

 with too much crowding in that. For 

 plenty of pure air can not be had so 

 well in a crowded cellar ; and plenty 

 of pure air is a matter of first impor- 

 tance for bee or man — to say nothing 

 about woman. 



Burned While Smoking Out Bees 



The following appears in the Chi- 

 cago Record-Herald of Sept. 20 : 



Litchfield, III.— Mrs. J. B. Hutchinson, 

 aged 70, was fatally burned yesterday while 

 -attempting to smoke out a swarm of bees. 



Foreign Missions and Bee-Keeping 



At the meeting of the Presbyterian 

 Women's Board of Foreign Missions, 

 in Chicago, Dr. George A. Ford, a mis- 

 sionary of Sidon, Syria, in telling of 

 what they were accomplishing in dif- 

 ferent industries of the mission, gave 

 the following item : 



"Our apiary of about 60 colonies, whose 

 hives are of our own manufacture, yielded, 

 last year, about a ton of superior honey, much 

 of it from the orange-blossom." 



With what interest would one look 

 upon an apiary located on that sacred 

 ground trod by the feet of our Savior 

 1900 years ago. 



Honey for Influenza, Massage, and 

 Soap— Propolis Corn-Planter 



Here are 4 items taken from the 

 British Bee Journal : 



Influenza Cure.— In 1 teacupful of hot 

 honey put the juice of 1 lemon, and take as a 

 dose 2 teaspoonfuls occasionally, or as often 

 as 6eems necessary, and as hot as can be en- 

 dured comfortably. 



Honey Massage.— Take the yolk of 2 eggs, 

 2 ounces of ground bitter almonds, 2 ounces 

 of almond oil, add 4 ounces of extracted 

 honey, and make a paste, which rub on hands, 

 arms or face. 



Propolis Corn-Plaster. — Make small 

 plasters of propolis slightly warmed, and ap- 

 ply to corns, and you will feel relieved from 

 the pain of this worrying trouble. 



Honey-Soap. — Take 1 pound of common 



soap and add rain-water. Place the mixture 

 in a pan and boil till the soap is dissolved. 

 Then add an ounce or two of honey, and con- 

 tinue stirring until the water is evaporated. 

 Such soap is excellent for the complexion. 



Honey for the Toilet 



Apart from the medicinal uses to 

 which honey is and may be applied, 

 are those connected with the toilet. A 

 small jar containing honey should be 

 kept on every washstand and in every 

 nursery. Honey proves a panacea for 

 most of the ills that flesh, or rather 

 skin, is heir to, in the shape of cracked 

 lips, roughness of the skin, blotchy 

 patches around the mouth, which are 

 most disfiguring to even the most beau- 



tiful ; chilblains or chapped hands, 

 sore and cracked heels, wind-caught 

 ears, etc., which can all be prevented 

 by this simple remedy. 



The application is so easy, and no 

 one can object to it, as they do to so 

 many other remedies. After washing 

 any part of the body suffering from 

 any of the above unpleasantness, ap- 

 ply to the part affected, while still wet, 

 a very little honey with the finger, 

 and then smear it over. To those 

 who suffer habitually in winter from 

 any of these distressing complaints, 

 the continued use of honey will prevent 

 them from appearing. Begin to use 

 as soon as the weather gets cold, or as 

 soon as the wind begins to nip. — Irish 

 Bee Journal. 



anadian 

 I Beedo 



Conducted by Morlet Pettit, Villa Nova, Ont. 



Keeping Mum on Apiarian Dis- 

 coveries 



A contrast between say two things 

 always adds strength and beauty to 

 the deserving side. This may be illus- 

 trated by contrasting a log "gum" 

 with a frame hive ; the old method of 

 obtaining strained honey with that 

 obtained by the extractor; and such 

 men as Mr. Davenport with such as 

 Ivangstroth, Quinby, and all those 

 men who discover no idea too valuable 

 to impart to others. 



Perhaps Mr. Davenport's opinion 

 differs from mine as does one locality 

 from another. I am led to wonder, 

 however, why he sees fit to take a bee- 

 paper (which, I suppose, he does). Is 

 it not because he deems it beneficial 

 and apt to help him increase his pro- 

 duct ? He objects to giving away his 

 secret, however, fearing that some 

 may derive this benefit. 



It is a blessing for beekeepers and 

 editors of bee-papers that all improve- 

 ments and discoveries have not been 

 so jealously guarded. Mr. D. says his 

 discovery, if known, would increase 

 the crop of honey too much to justify 

 him in making it known. I wonder 

 what he thinks we take bee-papers for. 

 And I also wonder why he mentioned 

 the subject at all. H. A. Smith. 



Palermo, Ont. 



Queenless Colonies in the Fall 



The swarming season is liable 

 to leave some colonies queenless, 

 and as a queenless colony will not 

 cluster well for winter, it is very im- 

 portant that every colony be seen to 



have a laying queen before it goes into 

 winter quarters. The surest indica- 

 tion of the presence of a queen in the 

 brood-chamber is the finding of brood 

 or eggs in the combs. The laying of 

 the queen is discontinued as soon as 

 there is no honey being gathered, and 

 in 21 days the last bit of brood hatches 

 out. So the inspection for queen con- 

 dition should not be delayed. If after 

 the honey-flow no brood is found, but 

 plenty of bees and other conditions 

 apparently normal, it is quite safe to 

 conclude the queen is present. Another 

 hive with a younger queen may have 

 some brood, and if there is any doubt 

 about the broodless hive, give them a 

 comb containing eggs or a very small 

 unsealed brood, and look again in a 

 couple of days to see if they start 

 queen-cells. If they do not start cells 

 their queen is probably all right, but if 

 cells are started they are queenless and 

 of practically no value, because if they 

 have been queenless any length of 

 time the bees are all old and would 

 nearly all die in winter, even if they 

 were given a queen or united with an- 

 other colony. 



During the season the queens should 

 be looked after regularly, then there 

 will not be much of this to do in the 

 fall. Queens are sometimes lost in 

 hiving swarms, so it is a good plan to 

 look into a newly-hived swarm a few 

 days or a week after hiving to see if 

 the queen is laying. This is especially 

 the case with second swarms, whose 

 queens are virgin when the swarming 

 takes place, and must go through the 

 danger period of mating afterward. It 

 takes about 3 days for them to get to 

 laying, and another 3 days to get 

 enough eggs laid to be noticeable in 

 the combs without such careful hunt- 

 ing. All parent colonies, as we call 



