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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



661 



the State is to be an itoportaDt factor In the production of fine 

 alfalfa honey. 



The annual meeting of the Nebraska Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation was held in Honey Hall, on the State Fair grounds on 

 Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. E. Whitcomb was re- 

 elected as President ; AuR. C. Davidson, Vice-President, and 

 L. D. Stilson Secretary and Treasurer. 



The followinK resolution was unanimously adopted : 



"Resolved, That the Nebraska Bee-Keepers' Association 

 request the Board of Directors of the Trans-Mississippi E.Kpo- 

 sitiou to appoint E. Whitcomb superintendent of the apiary 

 department of the Exposition." 



The following resolution was adopted on the deaths of Mrs. 

 J. N. Heater and Mrs. A. L. Hallenbeck, two honored mem- 

 bers of this Association : 



"Your committee especially endorse the well chosen 

 words of our President on the death of two of our members — 

 Mrs. J. N. Heater and Mrs. A. L. Hallenbeck. In their death 

 this Association has lost two of our most active and advanced 

 bee-keepers; and while we all mourn the loss of these esti- 

 mable members, we humbly submit to the will of Him who 

 doeth all things well." 



" We especially endorse the action of our President in in- 

 viting the United States Bee-Keepers' Union to hold its next 

 meeting at Omaha, Nebr." 



The following are the premiums awarded in the apiarian 

 department of the State Fair : 



Basswood and white clover comb honev — E. Kretchmer, 

 of Iowa, 1st; G. M. Whitford, of Nebraska, 2nd. 



Alfalfa comb honey — Lovesy & BoucU, of Utah, 1st; E. 

 Kretchmer, 2nd. 



Sweet clover comb honey — E. Kretchmer, 1st ; August C. 

 Davidson, of Nebraska, 2nd. 



Comb, fall honey — E. Kretchmer, 1st; Don Westcott, of 

 Nebraska, 2nd. 



White clover honey, 20 pounds — E. Kretchmer, 1st; G. 

 M. Whitford, 2nd. 



Alfalfa honey, 20 pounds^-E. Kretchmer, 1st; Lovesy & 

 Bouck, 2nd. 



Sweet clover honey, 20 pounds— E. Kretchmer, 1st; Aug. 

 C. Davidson, 2nd. 



Heart's-ease honey, 20 pounds — E. Kretchmer, 1st; 

 William James, of Nebraska, 2nd ; Mrs. E. Whitcomb, of 

 Nebraska, ord. 



Alfalfa extracted fall honey, 20 pounds — Roy Kretchmer, 

 of Iowa, 1st; E. Kretchmer, 2nd. 



Sweet clover extracted honey, 20 pounds — E. Kretchmer, 

 1st ; Aug. C. Davidson, 2nd. 



Largest display of honey by any one — E. Kretchmer, 1st ; 

 Aug. C. Davidson, 2nd ; Roy Kretchmer, 3rd. 



Exhibit in beeswax — Mrs. E. Whitcomb, 1st : E. Kretch- 

 mer, 2ud ; Aug. C. Davidson, ord. 



Display of apiarian supplies— E. Kretchmer, 1st. 



Display of honey in marketable shape — E. Kretchmer, 

 1st; Aug. C. Davidson, 2nd; Mrs. E. Whitcomb. 3rd. 



Display of honey candy and cake — Mrs. E. Whitcomb, 

 1st; Mrs. E. Kretchmer, 2nd. 



Honey-vinegar — Mrs. R. M. Lewis, of Nebraska, 1st; 

 Aug. C. Davidson, 2ud. 



Display of bees and queens — E. Kretchmer, 1st ; Aug. C. 

 Davidson, 2ud. 



Extractirjc honey — E. Kretchmer, 1st ; L M. Lewis, 2ud ; 

 Roy KretcbiiH r. 3rd. 



Honeyexirdctor— E. Kretchmer, 1st; R. M. Lewis, 2nd. 



All-purpose single- walled hive — E. Kretchmer, 1st ; Don 

 Westcott, 2nd. 



All-purpose chaff htve — E. Kretchmer, 1st; L. D. Stilson, 

 of Nebraska, 2ud. 



Bre-smoker — E. Kretchmer, 1st. 



Display of apiarian supplies — Don Westcott; 1st; Aug. 

 C. Davidson, 2nd. 



Surylus honey stored during 1897 — C. M. Lewelling, of 

 Nebraska, 1st ; Wm. Stollcy, of Nebraska, 2ud and 3rd. 



County collective exhibit — Don Westcott, 2nd. 



Collection of honey-producitig plants — Aug. C. Davidson, 

 1st ; Lee Smith, of Nebraska, 2ud ; Abraham Cocheline, of 

 Nebraska, 3rd. 



Metheglin — Aug. C. Davidson, 1st. 



The reports of experimental colonies was of the most sat- 

 isfactory kind. Mr. 0. M. Lewelling reports 184 pounds 



stored, of which 1()6 pounds was comb honey. Wm. Stolley 

 reports two colonies, one manipulated entirely for comb 

 honey, and the other for extracted. In the first he reports 8-t 

 pounds of comb, and in the second liS pounds of extracted 

 honey. Saline Co., Nebr. 



BEEDQIVI BOILED DOWN. 



Hardiness of Bees.— Doolittle says that after years 

 of careful observation he thinks there is no difference as to 

 standing severe winters between blacks and Italians. — Glean- 

 ings, p. 704. 



Drawn Foundation. — Gleanings gives a number 

 of reports favorable to the new deep-cell foundation, but one 

 man reports that his bees workt out common foundation more 

 rapidly than with the deep cells. 



Bees Loose in tlie mails.— Gleanings gives an 

 account of a case in which bees were loose in a mail-sack in 

 New York city, and repeats the warning that such a careless 

 trick of some queen-shipper may lose us the privilege of send- 

 ing queens by mail, just as it did once before. We'll be glad 

 to help "drum him out of camp" — the fellow that would be 

 guilty of such carelessness. 



Does Honey Preserve the Teetli?— Here's a 

 new argument for the use of honey, drawn from one of the 

 foreign bee-journals : Sugar spoils the teeth because it fur- 

 nishes a favorable field for the multiplication of the microbes 

 that destroy the enamel, while honey — thanks to its anti- 

 septic properties — preserves the teeth by destroying the or- 

 ganisms that attack them. Now who can tell us just how 

 much truth there is in that? 



Smoker Fuel. — N. F. Boonhower gives in Gleanings 

 a kind of fuel greatly liked, originating with W. L. Coggshall. 

 Old phosphate sacks that have been washt out by the rain are 

 used, or burlap of the same nature. Roll up lengthwise a 

 sack very tightly, then at intervals of five inches, or about the 

 right length to fit in a smoker, tie cotton twine around it, and 

 chop into pieces with an ax, cutting between the ties. One of 

 such charges will last two or three hours in a smoker. 



Bees in Ha'waii. — Wm. Thompson, a bee-keeper 

 with 500 colonies of bees all in one apiary on the island of 

 Hawaii, has been making a call at Medina. The area of de- 

 sirable bee-pasturage on tlie i>land is quite limited — a narrow 

 belt along the coast. In this area the honey is of fine quality, 

 is all extracted and shipt to London. The climate is so favor- 

 able for the growth of bees that he had to give up the'use of 

 perforated zinc, the workers being too large to pass through. 

 And this, even from queens mailed from this country. 



ExtractiH{>: Only Part of tlie Comtos.— At 



the Buffalo convention J. F. Mclntyre said he always found 

 that bees stored less for a day or two after extracting, their 

 time being taken up repairing the breaks and bruises made in 

 extracting. Editor Hultermann, of the Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal, says : "If this is the case, we have a strong argument 

 in favor of extracting only a portion of the combs of a hive, 

 the bees can then repair and prepare one lot, while going on 

 storing in the other." 



A Moth-Trap. — "Australian Yankee," in the Aus- 

 tralian Bee-Bulletin, describes his moth-trap. Take a hive- 

 body that can be shut up very closely— all but a 3-inch hole 

 somewhere in the side — put in it two or three old combs con- 

 taining some pollen, cover up close, and in due course it will 

 contain worms an! moths. Turn in a little bi-sulphide of car- 

 bon, quickly close thp 3-inch hole, and in a few minutes all 

 moths and worms will be dead. Open the hole and leave it 

 for a week or ten days, when a fresh dose may be needed. 



'Winter Passages. — In the Caaadian Bee Jouroal 

 appears a repurt from the Ontario Government as to the im- 

 portance of allowing free passage from one comb to another 

 In out-door wii,tering. A colony was in a two-story hive with 



