Nov. 29, 1906 



American Ttee Journal 



may as well make up your mind that 

 any honey you may extract will sooner 

 or later granulate. 



r It is hardly correct to say that honey 

 does not keep well when it granulates. 

 Indeed, many prefer to have it granu- 

 late. Neither is it difficult to bring it 

 back to the liquid state. All that is 

 necessary is to heat it. But care must 

 be taken not to overheat it. It may be 

 set on the top of the reservoir of the 

 cook-stove, where it will take several 



days to liquefy. Or, the vessel con- 

 taining the honey may be placed in 

 another vessel of water on the stove 

 where it will not heat too rapidly. 

 Don't set the vessel of honey directly 

 on the bottom of the kettle or vessel 

 containing the water, lest it heat too 

 rapidly, but let it rest on a bit of shin- 

 gle or something of the kind. You 

 will probably find that after being 

 thus heated it will granulate more 

 rapidly than it did before. 



Conducted by Louis H. Scholl, New Braunsfels, Tex. 



"The Brood-Diseases of Bees" 



In a recent letter Dr. E. F. Phillips, 

 Apicultural Expert of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, Washington, D. C, wrote 

 among other things : 



"I also enclose the latest publication on 

 apiculture, Circular No. 79. This is for free 

 distribution." 



This is a brief treatise on foul brood 

 and other diseases of bees, especially 

 discussing both American and Euro- 

 pean foul brood, with treatment of 

 them. Further mention on this sub- 

 ject will be given later. Address the 

 author as above. 



The Texans are proud of the meet- 

 ing that convened at San Antonio. 

 The largest number ever enrolled on 

 the first evening of any meeting of the 

 National was in attendance at the 

 opening session on Thursday evening, 

 Nov. 8. There were 102 members en- 

 rolled then. " And they all behaved 

 so well," was one of the remarks heard 

 by the writer ; and I think it is true 

 that there was less wrangling and 

 wasting of time than at any of the 

 meetings I have attended for several 

 years. Long will this meeting be re- 

 membered by Southern bee-keepers. 



Value of Empty Combs 



The Convention at San Antonio 



The "Texas National" has been 

 held, and will be on record as a thing 

 of the past. The Texans were glad it 

 took place in their midst. They en- 

 joyed the pleasure of being able to 

 meet face to face with bee-keepers 

 from nearly all States of the Union, 

 and, in censequence, the visitors were 

 given a " warm welcome." The Mexi- 

 can supper should be an evidence of 

 this fact. 



The coming of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association to the extreme 

 South was a good thing in many re- 

 spects. It gave the "other fellows" 

 an opportunity to see what the South 

 looks like, and to become better ac- 

 quainted with its bee-men. The latter 

 was true for the bee-keepers of the 

 South ; and this meeting brought the 

 North and the South closer together 

 than ever before, as regards bee-keep- 

 ers at least. Besides, the convention's 

 being held at San Antonio stirred up 

 much enthusiasm in new bee-keepers, 

 and awakened that of the older bee- 

 keepers who have allowed themselves 

 to drift into an old rut. As an evi- 

 dence of this we had the enrollment of 

 some 40 members to the Texas Bee- 

 Keepers' Association during the few 

 days the National was in session here. 



Empty combs are like money in the 

 bank. A lot of them should always be 

 kept on hand, ready to be placed on the 

 colonies whenever a spurt of honey 

 comes on. Now is the time to begin 

 preparing them. Order the frames and 

 foundation (full sheets) early, and fix 

 them up during the long winter 

 months. 



The Bees of the South in Winter 



stores and lots of young bees to last 

 until late into the springtime. Some 

 protection to the outside of the hives is 

 desirable, especially when the apiary 

 is located in a bare location. 



If your bees are not in such a condi- 

 tion already, they should be attended 

 to yet, as long as the weather will 

 allow it. Putting it off any longer 

 may result in heavy winter losses. 

 You can't afford this In the first place, 

 it is cruelty to let your bees starve ; 

 and, secondly, it means whether or not 

 your bees will earn for you a living or 

 not during next season. 



There is no cellaring of bees in the 

 South during the winter. There are 

 many days throughout the winter when 

 bees fly, and if there are no early frosts 

 some honey will be gathered from a 

 few late fall flowers up to nearly 

 Christmas, our broomweed {Gutterezia 

 texana) and bitterweed, or sneezeweed 

 (Helenium tenuifolium), being two of 

 the main ones on this list. 



Cottom blooms until frost during 

 favorable seasons, i. e., whenlate sum- 

 mer and fall rains have prevailed, 

 which causes the cotton to put out an- 

 other growth known as "top crop," 

 and unless the Mexican cotton-boll 

 weevil destroys the buds and blooms, 

 some honey is gathered from this 

 source until late in December. 



The two essentials to successful win- 

 tering here in the South are plenty of 



Texas Honey Imports 



Although our State is a great honey- 

 producer, it has been impossible to fill 

 the demand with the home products, 

 hence many carloads of mostly ex- 

 tracted honey are shipped in from Col- 

 orado and some other Western places. 

 The Texas producers have nearly 

 always orders far ahead of the harvest, 

 hence the crop is disposed of early in 

 the season. After buyers are unable 

 to obtain any more Texas honey, they 

 seek it in Colorado and California. 



A thing of interest, however, was a 

 recent carload shipment of comb honey 

 in sections, and we reproduce a clipping 

 from the Dallas Semi- Weekly News : 



Big Shipment of Honet. 



Dallas, Tex., Oct. 18. 

 It is not in the memory of local dealers 

 when such a thing occurred before, therefore 

 the fact is noted with more than ordinary in- 

 terest by all concerned, that a carload of comb 

 honey in sections reached Dallas yesterday. 

 The shipment was consigned to A. A. Jackson 

 & Co., and is said to be the first car of Col- 

 orado honey ever shipped into the State of 

 Texas. This 30.000 pounds of fancy No. 1 

 honey was placed on the local market yester- 

 day afternoon, and is said to be finding a 

 ready sale both to the local trade and outside 

 consumers. The current price quoted for 

 honey is 15}-2 cents. 



Comb honey in sections is a rare 

 product in Texas, as the honey is either 

 bulk comb or extracted. Very few 

 beekeepers here produce section honey 

 to any large extent, as comb honey in 

 bulk is more profitable. 



Bee-Keepers' Souvenir Postal-Card. 



— We have secured a somewhat comic Souve- 

 nir Postal Card for bee-keepers, primed in 4 

 colors— red, yellow, blue and black. At the 

 left end the following are pictured: An old- 

 fashioned straw bee-hive with bees circling 

 around and above it; a sad-eyed bear with his 

 "hands "over hi6 sweet-loving heart; a jar 

 and a section of honey ; also a spoon with a 

 card attached, reading, " Come let us spoon 

 awhile." At the bottom of the card, and to 

 the right, are these words: " Eat thou honey 

 because it is good."— Prov. 34:13. At the 

 left of the bear's head, and encircled with 

 bees, is this sentence : "lean not BEAR to 

 lose you ;" and at the top, and to the right of 

 the bear's head and bees, is this stanza : 



O won't you BEE my HONEY, 

 And cheer this loDely heart? 



For I would hug you all the time, 

 And we would never part. 



Prices, postpaid : 3 cards for 10 cents 

 (stamps or silver), or free with the American 

 Bee Journal oneyearat SI. 00; 10 for25 cents; 

 or 25 for 50 cents. There is a blank 6pace on 

 the card about 2 by 2}{ inches in size for 

 writing. Send all orders to the office of the 

 American Bee Journal. 



