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Dec. 20, 1906 



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Women Bee-Keepers in Austria 



England is not the only country in 

 the world whose bee-keepers have a 

 woman in the highest place of honor. On 

 the occasion of the Austrian associa- 

 tion of bee-keepers obtaining its io.oooth 

 member (only think of a membership 

 of io.ooo !), the president, Herr Oswald 

 Muck, issued in Bienen-Vater a con- 

 gratulatory letter which closed with the 

 following words : 



"And so shall we also in the future, 

 to the joy of our highest protectress, 

 her most Serene Highness, the Arch- 

 duchess Maria Josefa, remain a united 

 nation of bee-keepers." 



Bienen-Vater never fails to fly at its 

 mast-head the additional fact that for 

 30 years the society was under the 

 wing of Her Majesty, the Empress 

 Elizabeth. 



A Somewhat Feminine Convention. 



One-fourth of the special car-load to 

 San Antonio were of the female per- 

 suasion. If the same proportion held 

 good at the convention, it was no doubt 

 the most feminine convention ever held 

 on the continent. 



Black Color and Bees 



That picture of Mr. Whitney's 

 ■"Black-Stockinged Little Girl" with ex- 

 planatory note, page 978, is evidently 

 intended to prove that bees have no 

 special antipathy to black. But doesn't 

 it prove too much ? Doesn't it prove 

 just as well that bees have no antipathy 

 to bare heads, and that bee-veils are 

 never necessary? If Mr. Whitney's 

 bees were so gentle that he felt en- 

 tirely safe to trust a confiding child to 

 hold a frame of bees bare-headed, one 

 would hardly expect them to sting any. 

 clothing, even the blackest. For it is 

 not believed that black has such an in- 

 fluence upon bees that it will enrage 

 good-natured bees so as to make them 

 sting; only that when they are cross, 

 or inclined that way, they will sting 

 black more readily than white. Proofs 

 of that, Mr. Whitney, have not been 

 lacking in this locality. 



Money Caramels and Cookies 



I wonder how many of the sisters use 

 as much honey as they might while 

 planning their Christmas menu. Two 

 of the standard articles in our local- 

 ity are honey-caramels and honey-cook- 

 ies. We don't get tired of either of 

 these, and we think them delicious. I 

 have had a good many calls for the 

 recipe for these honey-cookies, and this 

 holiday season is the season of the 

 year when these calls are likely to be 

 most frequent. 



If any of the sisters have never as 

 yet indulged in these excellent cookies, 

 here is the recipe: 



One cup of sugar; 1 cup of honey; 1 cup 

 shortening (a good, generous one); J4 cup sour 

 cream (this may he omitted if you don't have 

 it, but it is an improvement); i teaspoonful 

 soda; cinnamon and nutmeg to suit taste; 

 enough melted chocolate to color a good brown. 

 Mix enough flour to roll out. lie caieful 



nut to get too much flour. Try one cooky, 

 then if more flour is needed, add until you 

 get just right. 



When company comes and some of 

 the cookies are on the table, be sure to 

 mention the fact that they are honey- 

 cookies. That opens the way to do a 

 little advertising that can be in no pos- 

 sible way objectionable. Just say some- 

 thing in effect like this : "I like these 

 honey-cookies so much better than cook- 

 ies made with sugar. Not only do they 

 suit the taste of most people better, 

 but they are so much more wholesome 

 for children — yes, and for grown-ups, 

 too. Then you may not know that 

 honey has that peculiar quality that 

 makes honey-cookies keep moist and 

 fresh for weeks where sugar-cookies 

 w-ould become dry and stale." 



If each of the sisters would do her 

 share along this line it would, in the 

 aggregate, amount to something worth 

 while. 



The recipe for honey-caramels is as 

 follows : 



One cup extracted honey of best flavor, 1 

 cup granulated sugar and 3 tablespoonfuU 

 sweet cream or milk. Boil to "soft crack," 

 or until it hardens when dropped into cold 

 water, but not too brittle — just so it will form 

 into a soft ball when taken in the fingers. 

 Pour into a greased dish, stirring in a tea- 

 spoonful extract of vanilla just before taking 

 off. Let it be J^ or 34 inch deep in the dish; 

 and as it cools, cut in squares and wrap each 

 square in paraffine paper, such as grocers wrap 

 butter in. To make chocolate caramels, add 

 to the foregoing 1 tablespoonful melted choco- 

 late, just before taking off the stove, stirring 

 it in well. For chocolate-caramels it is not 

 so important that the honey be of best quality. 



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Conducted by Louis H. Scholl, New Braun6fels, Tex. 



The Old Year and the New 



Another year is nearly gone, and the 

 new one is coming. What have been 

 your successes and what your failures 

 for the past season, and what are you 

 contemplating for the coming year? 

 What improvements will you make, and 

 what will you do to improve bee-keep- 

 ing? These and many other things 

 could and should be profitably discussed 

 in "Southern Beedom," and a lot of 

 such discussions and brief articles will 

 be greatly appreciated, to make our de- 

 partment the best in the " Old Reliable." 



To those who have so kindly corres- 

 ponded with me during the present year, 

 I wish to extend many thanks, and hope 

 I may be favored with many letters 

 again during 1907. With many earnest 

 intentions to make everything better 

 than ever before, I wish one and all 



A Merkt Christmas 



and 

 A Happy New Year. 



Louis H. Scholl. 



phuric acid, 1 oz. ; honey, 1 gallon ; and 

 hot water ]/ 2 gallon. Mix, and sprinkle 

 the combs, bees and brood with the 

 warm solution thoroughly. Three ap- 

 plications should effect a cure. As the 

 disease is caused from constipation, the 

 podophyllin acts as a laxative, and the 

 acid as a disinfectant. 



San Antonio Convention, Fair, 

 Etc. 



Another Remedy for Bee- 

 Paralysis 



Mr. J. K. Hill, of Uvalde, Texas, at 

 one time lost about 50 colonies one 

 season from bee-paralysis, and says that 

 although this disease is very common 

 in the southern portion of the United 

 States, in most cases it does but little 

 harm to the colonies. But in other cases, 

 and under certain conditions, it is very 

 destructive. There is no treatment yet 

 discovered that is an absolute cure, but 

 the best remedy, to his knowledge, is as 

 follows: 



Tincture of podophyllin, 3 oz. ; sul- 



The National Bee-Keepers' Conven- 

 tion held in San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 

 8, 9, and 10, was a grand success, al- 

 though not so well attended by our 

 Texas bee-keepers as I had hoped for. 

 We suppose this was owing partly to 

 the very short honey crop of Texas. 



The Honey at the San Antonio Fair. 



We were somewhat disappointed in 

 the honey exhibit at the Fair at San 

 Antonio. Not in the style and neat- 

 ness of the exhibit, for that was a credit 

 to any fair, but in the quality of the 

 honey exhibited. For instance, we saw 

 honey labeled, "Honey from the Cotton- 

 Blooms" that was almost as dark as 

 honey-dew. The same was true of the 

 honey labeled, "Sumac Honey." This 

 was a great injustice to our almost 

 water-clear cotton-honey, and beautiful, 

 straw-colored sumac-honey. Perhaps, 

 however, this was the best that could 

 be done owing to the poor season for 

 bees. 



Next Year's Prospects. 



The prospects for a honey crop for 

 1907 are not so bright as we sometimes 

 have, owing to the very dry fall we 

 have had. For this locality, however, 

 we do rot feel in the least discouraged, 



