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



Bee-Keepers' Exhibit at the San 

 Antonio International Fair 



There was a very creditable exhibit of 

 apiarian products and bees, although 

 the season was not a very favorable 

 one for Texas honey -producers. The 

 different races were well represented. 

 There was, however, very little light 

 honey on exhibition, and a lack of 

 comb honey, due to the short crop and 

 the great demand for honey that pre- 

 vailed throughout the entire season, 

 hence the honey was sold long before 

 the Fair. The prizes awarded are as 

 follows : 



For the best and largest industrial 

 exhibit, Udo Toepperwein received a 

 Gold Medal. This exhibit consisted of 

 all kinds of bee-keepers' supplies and 

 appliances, apiarian products, bees and 

 queens, and products made from honey 

 and wax. 



Best display of special designs of 

 comb honey— H. W. Toepperwein, 1st, 

 $5 ; 2d, $3. 



Best 12 pounds of white bulk comb 

 honey in friction-top pails — Wm. Cra- 

 vens, 1st, S3 ; 2d, $2. 



Best 6 pounds of white bulk comb 

 honey in friction-top pails — Wm. Cra- 

 vens, 1st, $3 ; 2d, $2 



Best 3 pounds of white bulk comb 

 honey in friction-top pails — Wm. Cra- 

 vens — 1st, S3 ; 2d, S2. 



Best display of bulk comb honey — 

 Wm. Cravens, 1st, S5 ; 2d, S3. 



Best dozen jars of white extracted 

 honey— Wm. Cravens, 1st, $3 ; 2d, $2. 



Best dozen jars of light amber ex- 

 tracted honey — Wm. Cravens, 1st, $3 ; 

 2d, $2. 



Best display of extracted honey — 

 Wm. Cravens, 1st, $5; J. W. Griffin, 

 2d, S3. 



Best display of extracted honey in 

 granulated form — Wm. Cravens, 1st, 

 $3 ; 2d, $2. 



Best sample cake of bright yellow 

 beeswax, not less than 2 pounds — An- 

 ton Fournier, 1st, S5 ; Wm. Cravens, 

 2d, $3. 



Best and largest display of beeswax 

 — Wm. Cravens, 1st, S5 ; Moritz Rom- 

 pel. 2d, $3. 



Best display of special designs in 

 beeswax — Wm. Cravens, 1st, S5 ; Moritz 

 Rompel, 2d, S3. 



Best display of fruit preserved in 

 honey— Wm. Cravens, 1st, $5 ; 2d, $3. 



Best honey- vinegar — Wm. Cravens, 

 1st, S3 ; Daniel Wurth, 2d, S2. 



Golden Italian bees and queen in 



single-comb observatory hives — Daniel 



SVurth, 1st, $5; Bee and Honey Co., 



!d, S3. 



Three-banded Italian bees and queen 



—Bee and Honey Co., 1st, $5 ; Daniel 

 Wurth, 2d, $3. 



Carniolan bees and queen — Bee and 

 Honey Co., 1st, S5 ; Grant Anderson, 

 2d. $3 



Caucasian bees and queen — Bee and 

 Honey Co., 1st, S5 ; Daniel Wurth, 2d, 

 $3. 



Cyprian bees and queen— Bee and 

 Honey Co., 1st, $5 ; Daniel Wurth, 2d, 

 S3. 



Holy Land bees and queen — Bee and 

 Honey Co., 1st, $5 ; Daniel Wurth, 2d, 

 $3. 



Blackbeesandqueen— Daniel Wurth, 

 1st. $5 ; Wm. Cravens, 2d, $3. 



Best display of bumble-bees — Wm. 

 Cravens, 1st, $5 ; 2d, $3 



Best display of ground bees — Wm. 

 Cravens, 1st, $5 ; 2d, S3. 



Best and largest display of various 

 races of bees in observatory hives — 

 Daniel Wurth, 1st, S10 ; Bee and Honey 

 Co., 2d, $6. 



Best and largest display of queens of 

 various races, in mailing cages — Dan- 

 iel Wurth, 1st, $5 ; Wm. Cravens, 2d, 

 $3. 



Best case of white section honey — 

 Wm. Cravens, 1st, S5 ; 2d, $3. 



Best case of light amber section 

 honey— Wm. Cravens. 1st, $5 ; 2d, S3. 



Best and largest display of section 

 comb honey— Wm. Cravens, 1st, S5 ; 

 2d, S3. 



Best instructive display of apiarian 

 products and the various uses made of 

 honey and beeswax — Wm. Cravens, 

 1st, S20 ; 2d, $10. 



Largest and best display of bee- 

 keepers' supplies— Udo Toepperwein, 

 Diploma. 



Does Corn Yield Honey ? 



This much-disputed question has 

 been asked me several times of late, 

 and what my opinion is in regard to 

 the matter. The same question is 

 asked about sugarcane or sorghum. 



It is supposed that most plants yield- 

 ing pollen also yield some honey, how- 

 ever small in quantity. The general 

 belief is that sorghum yields some 

 honey, but there is much doubt as to 

 whether the corn-tassels yield any 

 honey at all, although giving much 

 pollen. This question has quite fre- 

 quently bobbed up at conventions, but 

 no absolute or satisfactory proof has 

 ever been given. 



H. H. Hyde, at the 1900 annual meet- 

 ing of the Texas Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, cited a case whereby he thought 

 he had proven, to his own satisfaction 

 at least, that corn yielded honey, and 



sometimes in large quantities, as some 

 of his bees had stored surplus honey 

 from this source. It was during a dry 

 summer, when nothing else was in 

 bloom for the bees to work on, that a 

 late field of corn near one of his api- 

 aries came into bloom. The bees 

 worked vigorously on the tassels, and 

 Mr. Hyde claims that they did not only 

 get pollen in large quantities, but also 

 honey in abundance, and stored it in 

 supers. Mr. Hyde was very positive 

 that this was the only source from 

 which the honey came, as there was 

 absolutely no other bloom anywhere — 

 to the best of his knowledge— from 

 which the bees might have gathered 

 the honey, except from thecorn-fassels. 

 There is room for investigation, and 

 by this an old, much-disputed question 

 might be solved. Mr. L,. B. Smith, of 

 Rescue, Tex., referring to this same 

 subject in the Dallas News (Tex.), has 

 this to say regarding his observations : 



It is claimed by some of our able writers 

 on apiculture that sorghum cane, milo maize, 

 corn-lassel and the various oaks are all honey- 

 producers. With no desire to provoke con- 

 troversy, I will say this is not in accordance 

 with my observations, and I have been a close 

 observer of such things from early childhood. 

 I have examined the honey-sacs of hundreds 

 of bees when working on the bloom of the 

 above-named plant6, but have never been able 

 to discover that they were getting aoy honey. 

 By taking a little pains any one can easily 

 tell when bees are getting honey from any 

 bloom. Find a bee that is working on the 

 bloom that you are in doubt about, catch it 

 by both wiogs so that it can't sting you, as 

 we do in caging to send off by mail with 

 queens. Now place the bee on a clean, 

 smooth surface, say a newly painted hive- 

 cover, or a sheet of note-paper will do. Now 

 gently press on the abdomen of the bee with 

 one finger of the other hand, and if it has any 

 honey whatever in its honey-sac it can be 

 made to disgorge it without hurting the bee 

 in any way. 



I have examined hundreds of bees in this 

 way while working on cane-heads, corn-tassel, 

 maize-heads, etc., and could never make one 

 disgorge a particle of honey. So I conclude 

 they get nothing but pollen from them. 



We would be glad to hear from any 

 other bee-keepers who have made ob- 

 servations on this question. 



Honey as a Health- Food. — This 



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 increase the demand for honey. The first 

 part of it contains a short article oo " Honey 

 as Food," written by Dr. C. C. Miller. It 

 tells whereto keep honey, how to liquefy it, 

 etc. The last part is devoted to " Honey- 

 Cooking Recipes" and "Remedies Using 

 Honey." It should be widely circulated by 

 those selling honey. The more the people are 

 educated on the value and uses of honey, the 

 more honey they will buy. 



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