Nov. IS, 1906 



947 



American Itee Journal 



Cod, where we find little else but sand and 

 sea-breeze. Tbis hooey, however, was most 

 delightful in quality and color. 



As a result of experiment, Mr. Latham 

 demonstrated by a super of tine comb honey 

 that the same can be obtained without sepa- 

 rators. In the whole super (and he had more 

 like them) there was absolutely no trace of 

 ■cross-comb or burr-comb building; all was as 

 trim as could be The hive, of which there 

 has been some comment ot late, Mr. Latham's 

 inventiou — Paroid paper covered, and deep 

 frames parallel to the entrance — was among 

 ■other things which he exhibited. 



For competition the displays were numer- 

 ous. Entries were particularly noticeable in 

 the classes of comb and extracted honey. It 

 was seen that the judges awarded the first 

 prize for the best 5 pounds of extracted honey 

 in glass to apple-blossom honey, which, not 

 long ago, was said in one of the bee-publica- 

 tions to be tit only to feed bick to the bees. 



Vinegar made from honey was also exhib- 

 ited. Mr. Latham had the finest sample, be- 

 ing clear, of fine color, and sharp. 



The display of beeswax attracted much at- 

 tention. Exhibitors prepared their samples 

 with much care. In this line Mr. Latham had 

 an interesting show of a 5-pound cake of fine, 

 soft, yellow wax from which in the comb had 

 been taken 150 pounds of honey, and in ren- 

 dering which gave a ball of slumgum less 

 than the size of a large marble. 



The displays of bees which interested the 

 public particularly, included Caucasian, 

 Punic from an English strain, Italian, Car- 

 nioian, and blacks. 



Cookery, examples of which were numer- 

 ous, interested the ladies. In all instances 

 the recipes were attached, serving as material 

 to transcribe into many a note book. 



Phoiographs of apiaries and swarms also 

 proved of interest. 



The judges of the displays were Dr. Phillips 

 aud Messrs. Miller aud Latham. 



Several of the bee-supply dealer?, local.and 

 from a distance, all the prominent bee-papers, 

 and much of the literature on bees, were rep- 

 resented. Akin to the desire for verbal in- 

 formation of bees, there was an endless de- 

 mand for bee-liteiaiure, every available scrap 

 of sample-copy material being u?ed up; in 

 «ome cases before the eod of the first day. 



Considering the 6how as a venture and as a 

 whole, it was a most prooounced succiss All 

 the effects were not to be perceived imme- 

 diately; they will he fejt throughout the year, 

 not alone by the bee-keeper, but by the sales- 

 man, and by both directly and indirectly. 

 The 6how demootirated two things: First, 

 that we nave the stuff in tbis region where- 

 with to produce a bee show worth seeiog; 

 and, second, that there is here a ready, re- 

 sponsive, aod iuquisilive public to appreciate 

 the bee-keepers' efforts. 



Another year, with similar efforts upon the 

 part of the beekeepers, an even better and 

 more instructive display can be brought to- 

 gether. This is what the society hopes to do. 



Worcester, Mass. 



At this show the American Bee Journal was 

 awarded a "certificate of merit,'' which is 

 greatly appreciated. 



The Apiary of H. A. Rushton.— 



When sending the picture shown on the first 

 page, Mr. R. wrote as follows on Oct 29: 



The photograph I send you is of my home 

 jard, which cootains 29 colonies. 1 started 

 in the spring with 6, and increased to 20, and 

 this fall I have bought 9 co.ooics, some of 

 them being in box hives, which ( intend to 

 transfer in the spring. I took 2UU pounds of 

 comb honey from this yard, for wuich I find 

 ready sale at 10 cents for the dark, and 15 

 ■cents for the white. I get all my surplus 

 from basswood, sweet clover and buckwheat, 

 and s ell direct to consumers. 



In addition to my home yard, I run a small 

 yard of 12 colonies about 20 miles from here. 

 I started in the spring at that yard with T 

 ■colonies, and increased to 12, and took 400 

 pounds of extracted honey (all white), and 



about 30 pounds of comb honey. The ex- 

 tracted honey sells readily at 10 cents a pound, 

 and I did not have nearly enough to supply 

 my customers. 



I am a great lover of bees, and anxiously 

 read everything pertaining to them. I have 

 two bee papers, and look forward to their 

 coming with eagerness. 



The dog in the picture is one that came to 

 my home, and she is not at all afraid of the 

 bees. She is always with me when I am 

 working with them. H. A. Rushton. 



The Apiary of K. E. Merrill.— The 



picture on the first page, showing the apiary 

 of Mr. Merrill and also his experiences, are 

 described in the following, under date of 

 Sept. 26 : 



This is my first year in the bee-business for 

 myself. I have 8S colonies of bees now, hav- 

 ing started in the spring with 63. I did not 

 get any white clover honey this year, on ac- 

 count of late frosts in the spring. It opened 

 up along about May 20, and continued bloom- 

 ing off and on until about June 20. AH of it 

 seemed to have a dead center or ouler edge, 

 and the bees did not touch it in this locality. 

 I received a fair crop of buckwheat honey — 

 about 4000 pounds. The bees just rolled it in 



for a 6hort time, although the weather was 

 very hot. There is a little goldenrod and 

 smartweed in this locality. 



1 have a good market for my honey, and all 

 of it is put out with my name on it. 



My father has had bees for about 16 years 

 on a small scale, and I was his main helper. 

 Thinking that I liked the business, I started 

 in for myself after spending one year with a 

 prominent bae-keeper in Illinois. I expected 

 to start io for myself the spring of 1905, but 

 failing to get any bees I had to wait till last 

 spring. 



My chief object the past summer was work- 

 ing among diseased bees, for some of those I 

 started with in tho spring were diseased, and 

 I tried to cure them. I have been successful 

 in all colonies I tried to cure except one. I 

 had at one time ti diseased colonies, but now 

 I have but one, so far as I know. 1 am not 

 ready yet to say how I have treated the dis- 

 ease until I find out what will become of it, 

 or whether it will show up again next year. 

 The reason I sav I still have one diseased col- 

 ony is because I worked 5 under one method, 

 and one colony'under another, and the one is 

 still diseased. 



I get a great deal of information out of the 

 American Bee Journal, and I think much of 

 it. Every bee-keeper should read it, but not 

 only this Journal, but all the other bee-papers 

 as well. R. E. Merrill. 



T-Supers vs. Wide Frames for 

 Section Honey 



BY DR. C. C. MILLER 



I have read with much interest the 

 article of F. Greiner, on page 833. It 

 must be a bit amusing to the veterans, 

 and perplexing to beginners, to see 

 such opposite views held by two men 

 apparently familiar with their subject, 

 and with no selfish purpose on either 

 side. Mr. Greiner sums up the matter, 

 viewed from his standpoint, by saying : 



" The wide-frame 6uper has all the advan- 

 tages of the T super, and few, if any, of its 

 disadvantages." 



From my standpoint, I would make 

 a slight variation in the words, and 

 say : " The T-super has nearly all the 

 advantages of the wide-frame super, 

 with some additional advantages, and 

 few, if any, of its disadvantages." 



It is not likely that Mr. Greiner and 

 I will come to have the same views, - 

 unless we could spend some time to- ' 

 gether, with the two kinds of supers 

 before us to experiment upon. Pos- 

 sibly we might be of the same opinion 

 still, for he has just twice as much 

 German blood in him as I, so, of course, 

 he would expect me to be the first to 

 yield. On the whole, it may be for me 

 the safer plan to have the columns of 

 a bee-paper for the bloody arena, and 

 possibly some facts may be brought 

 out of use to beginners. 



Starting out to quote my reasons for 

 preferring the T-super, I was surprised 

 that Mr. Greiner should say : 



"The principal one is that a T-super is 

 more compact, and brings the sections closer 

 to the brood than any other contrivance." 



And further surprised to learn upon 

 looking at page 642, that he had some 

 ground for saying so. There's where 

 you caught me napping, Mr. Greiner, 

 and you might well have pitted 

 '! Phillip sober against Phillip drunk," 

 for I have more than once said I didn't 

 want sections too close to brood-frames 

 because of the danger of bits of dark 

 comb being carried from brood-combs 

 to sections ; and that was one of the 

 reasons for liking thick top-bars. 



No, that's not a principal reason, nor 

 a reason at all. for my preference. 

 Please remember that in the "Ques- 

 tion-Box " my answers must be brief, 

 and to the question, " What is their 

 advantage?" I gave on page 642 only 

 two points, and unfortunately not all 

 the chief ones. It might have been 

 better if I had said, " My chief reason 

 for preferring the T-super is that after 

 having tried various supers, I think I 

 can with the T-super secure a satis- 

 factory crop with the expenditure of 

 less time and labor than with any 

 other kind." 



Yet the other part of the state- 

 ment, which you pretty much ignore, 

 is not by any means unimportant. 

 While there is an advantage in having 

 some space between top-bars and the 

 first super, I do not know of any ad- 

 vantage in having more than a bee- 

 space between the sections of one super 

 and the next one above it. With the 

 T-super there is a space of l i inch be- 

 tween the top of one section and the 



