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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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unless the coloDy is taken out too early. Don't take them out till 

 soft maples are in bloom, and not then unless the weather is 

 favorable for bees flying. 



2. No, don't put on supers till the full flow of honey has 

 started. If white clover is your staple, don'» put on supers 

 till it is in bloom. 



3. That depends. If you use 8-frame hives, and the 

 frames are kept filled with brood till late, they may be short 

 of winter stores. With lU-frame hives you are safer. Of 

 course you musn't leave a super on after the sections are tin- 

 isht. 



Honey Griping in Medicine. 



Will honey (fripe some people, if it be made into medicine 

 and taken ? J. E. 



Answer. — I should hardly think so. 



Taxing Bees in Wisconsin. 



Are bees taxt, or taxable, in Wisconsin? Why I ask if, 

 that I have been assest at the rate of .S3 a colony, and there 

 are some 800 or 1,000 colonies of bees within 3 or i miles 

 of my two yards, that were not taxt. Our assessor has over 

 100 colonies. I do not find a person yet In this (Clark) 

 county, except myself, whoso bees were taxt. I don't intend 

 to do anything about it, but I would like to know if they had 

 a right to tax my bees, and, if so, why the rest were not taxt ? 



H. C. 



Answer. — Each State has its own laws about taxing, and 

 I don't know what the Wiscotsin law is. Any lawyer or jus- 

 tice of the peace ought to be able to show you the law. Xo 

 matter what it is, there seems no shadow of justice in taxing 

 one man's bees and not those of another. There seems to be 

 more irregularity about taxing bees than almost anything 

 else. In some places they are not taxt at all. But is there 

 any good reason why they shouldn't be taxt everywhere? If 

 a man steals or destroys my bees I appeal to the courts for 

 protection, and I ought to pay for that protection in the way 



of taxes. 



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Siiippiug Honey in Jclly-Tuuiblers— Honey Cougli 

 Cures. 



1. I waut to ship extracted honey iu jelly-tumblers. How 

 shall I pack them for shipping? 



2. How can I make a cough and cold medicine out of 

 honey ? I mean by adding other ingredients. Would such be 

 good for croup also ? Minnesota. 



Answers. — 1. Pack in boxes in sawdust. But unless the 

 honey is candied solid it will be likely to leak out under any 

 covering you may put on. 



2. Yes, for an ordinary cough honey alone is a very good 

 thing, and it may be compounded with almost any of the other 

 articles good for a cough. Probably you can't count much on 

 it for croup unless you give enough to sicken the patient, and 

 that would hardly be wise. Among other medicines for coughs 

 is the following : 



Honey-and-Tar Cough-Cure. — Put into boiling water a 

 shallow tin dish containing a tablespoonf ul of tar. When the 

 tar is hot, add a pint of extracted honey, and stir well for half 

 an hour, adding to it a level teaspoonful of pulverized borax. 

 Keep in a bottle well corkt. Dose, a teaspoonful every one, 

 two or three hours, according to severity of cough. This 

 recipe was given in a former number of the Bee Journal by 

 Dr. Peiro. 



Here's another that's good : .Steep half a cup of flaxseed 

 in a cup of hot water. Strain out the liquid and mix with a 

 cup of honey in which is put the juice of two lemons. 



Ifloving Bees to Wasliinglon, etc. 



Having a 10-acre orchard in the State of Washington, 

 and a desire to introduce some bees in it, I subscribed for the 

 American Bee Journal as one of the necessary ways to start 

 right. Having never kept bees, it is unnecessary for me to 

 tell of my limited knowledge of them. I also found the Bee 

 Journal a little too heavy for a beginner. Can you spare space 

 to give a little advice and answer a few questions. The ques- 

 tions are these : Can bees stand a journey from this locality 

 to Spokane, by freight ? About two weeks' time is necessary. 



Had I better send full colonies, or nuclei? — 48 hours by ex- 

 press. Any general information you deem proper will be ap- 

 preciated. Do not bee-keepers ever sell bees ? I cannot find 

 an advertisement to that effect. E. J. M. 



Answer. — A good text-book on bees would be interesting 

 reading for you, and after a careful reading of such a book a 

 bee-journal would be more enjoyable, and not so "heavy." 

 Rightly prepared, a colony of bees ought to stand a two weeks' 

 trip by freight, but there aresome risks. Perhaps it would be 

 as well to have a three-frame nucleus by express. Still better, 

 if you could buy near by where you are going. 



Yes, bee-keepers sell bees very often, and a little later on 

 you'll see plenty of advertisements, but possibly none to suit 

 your case. Possibly the best thing is for you to put in a 

 " want ad.," and you'd likely get offers from which you could 

 select. 



A man that is bright enough to understand that bees and 

 fruit go together ought not to make a failure with either. 

 Success to you. 



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Goidcn's Plan for Comb Honey. 



1. In following Mr. Golden's plan, after the queen has 

 been in the supers five days, then put back into the tive, will 

 the queen-cells be destroyed? What time will it take them to 

 do it? 



2. What efl'ect will it have on the bees in the supers being 

 queenless ? I. C. S. 



Answers. — 1. Your question evidently has in view releas- 

 ing the queen without cutting out the queen-cells. In some 

 cases I should expect the queen-cells to be torn down about as 

 soon as the queen was releast, but in the majority of cases I 

 should expect the old queen to issue with a swarm inside of 2-1 

 hours. On page 83-t {L896) Mr. Golden omits to say that 

 queen-cells are cut out when the queen is run in, but I have 

 little doubt that he always cuts out all queen-cells before let- 

 ting the queen out of her prison, and on page 834, where he 

 gives particulars, he expressly mentions that "Every queen- 

 cell was cut out." At the point where this statement is made, 

 there is evidently an error that somewhat confuses the whole 

 business. On page 834, a little below the middle of the first 

 column, occurs this line : " hive the fifth day. Every queen- 

 cell," etc. Now change the place of that period, and make it 

 read: "hive. The fifth day every queen-cell, "etc., and you'll 

 have what was really intended. 



2. You will see by the account on page 834, that the 

 effect was all right, as he got a good yield of honey, but then 

 the bees were never really queenless in the full sense of the 

 term, for the caged queen was present all the time. 



Tbe California Bee-Keepers' Exctaange 



is now officered by the following representative bee-keepers : 



President — W. T. Richardson ; Vice-President — George W. 

 Brodbeck ; Treasurer — Los Angeles National Bank ; Secre- 

 tary — J. H. Martin, Box 152, Los Angeles. 



Board of Directors— G. S. Stubblefield, C. U. Clayton, R. 

 B. Herron, E. A. Honey, J. la Rue, R. Touchton, J. C. McCab- 

 bin, W. T. Richardson, and F. S. Pond. 



Directors-at-Large — J. H. Martin and Geo. W. Brodbeck. 



Their last meeting was fairly well attended, and the in- 

 terest manifested was surprising after so disastrous a season 

 as 1896 proved to be. But all are looking forward to a more 

 prosperous year now. Prof. Cook, in the Cultivator and Poul- 

 try Keeper, wrote as follows about the Exchange and pros- 

 pects : 



" The outlook for a successful honey-year and for wise 

 action on the part of the Exchange, fills all members with 

 great hope. It is confidently believed that the Bee-Keepers' 

 Exchange is a tremendous step in advance. The officers are 

 so wide awake, capable, conscientious and determined, there 

 can seem little danger of a failure. The honey-producers also 

 have the advantage of the Fruit Exchange, and they hope to 

 steer clear of its necessary mistakes. It is believed that the 

 advantages in improved sales, and also in more desirable pur- 

 chases of supplies, will so commend themselves to bee-keep- 

 ers that very soon we shall have all the bee-keepers of our 

 State as members of this Association." 



Every Present Subscriber of the Bee Journal 

 should bo an agent for it, and get all others possible to sub- 

 scribe for it. See offer on page 170. 



