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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 9, 1902. 



EUGENE SECOR, 



General Manager National Bee-Keepers' Association. 



THE SCORE-CARD FOR JUDGING APIARIAN EXHIBITS 



as revised by the Special Committee appointed at tiie Convention of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association, at Buffalo, N.Y., 1901. 





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I I Perfection of capping- lo 



I Completeness of capping 10 



Quality 40 -j ^Neatness of capping lo 



COMB i Straigrhtness of comb 5 



HONEY j I Cleanliness of sections S 



Variety 20 



Quantity 10 



[Attractiveness 30 



EXTRACTED 

 HONEY 



w 



2; 



I Style of packag-e 5 



-; Kinds of packag-es 5 



1 Variety 20 



I Quantity 10 



i Attractiveness 30 



20 sections, no more or less, graded as white, amber 

 and iJAKK. 



r Perfection of filling- IS 



Completeness of capping' 15 



*Neatness of capping^ 25 



COMB I Qualityoo ; Uniformity IS 



HONEY I Color 10 



I I Straightness of comb 5 



I I Cleanliness of sections 5 



I Attractiveness 10 



25 pounds, no more or less, in g-lass; graded as white, 



AMUER and DARK. 



LIQUID 



EXTRACTED 



HONEY 



Granulated 



EXTRACTED 



HONEY 



Color 20 



Body 35 



Flavor 35 



Style of package 10 



Fineness of grain 30 



Color 30 



Flavor 30 



Style of package 10 



* Neatness of capping is understood to include freeness from travel- 

 stain, etc., and also the work of the wax-moth. 



Size of workers 10 



Marking's of workers 10 



Uniformity of workers 10 



Markings of drones S 



Uniformity of drones 5 



Presence of queen 10 



Size of queen 10 



Markings of queen 10 



Worker-brood 10 



Drone-brood S 



Quietness of bees 5 



Style of comb S 



Style of hive 5 



NUCLEUS 



OF BEES IN 



SINGLE-COMB 



OBSERVATION 



HIVE 



QUEEN-BEES 



BEESWAX 



IMPLEMENTS 

 AND SUPPLIES 



Quality [size and markings] 50 



Variety 25 



Style of cages 25 



Color 25 



Purity 25 



Grain ■ ki 



Aroma 10 



Attractiveness 30 



Number of kinds. ■■- 50 



Appearance and attractiveness SO I 



Contributed Articles. 



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Selling Comb Honey By Weight vs. Case. 



BY R. A. BURNETT & CO. 



WE have read the article by D. W. Working, secretary of 

 the Colorado Bee-Keepers' Association, on page 822 

 (1901). also the editorial on the same, which, in our 

 judgment, is all that is necessary to say on the article referred 

 to. 



Our purpose has never befen to enter into a controversy on 

 the matter in question, but to set before those interested, our 

 opinions. We think this has been accomplished ; now we will 

 let the matter percolate through the many minds that have 

 been giving it consideration from the different standpoints, 

 and we arc quite agreed in thinking tliat some ignorance will 

 be dispelled by what has been written and said. 



Since the time this matter was before the Colorado Assso- 

 ciation, we have been privileged to meet the earnest, active, 

 and well-meaning manager of said Association, in the person 

 of Jlr. Frank Ranchfuss, and we are now more convinced than 

 ever before, that limited experience is liable to give erroneous 

 impressions. While his experience with bee-keepers in Colo- 

 rado, and that of selling their honey as an Association, seems 

 to work reasonably well so far as their necessities were con- 

 cerned, also the methods pursued to get the producer to grade 

 their honey seemed to us without objection, yet when it came 

 to si^ttling with the producer for the amount of honey tendered 

 the Association, and the selling of it to the wholesale dealers, 

 Mr. Kauchfuss himself explained, "It was not quite equit- 

 able." As, for instance, a producer who furnished honey 

 properly lilled and capped that averaged 21 pounds, and no- 

 more, and got just as much for the number of sections he had 

 as the producer whose honey averaged 23 pounds or more to 

 the case of 2-i sections. 



As to the question of light-weight sections, the honey be- 

 ing equally desirable in appearance, should sell for just as 

 much as that weighing the maximum, but should be kept by 

 itself, so that the light and the heavy sections would not be 

 put in tlie same case, for, while there may not be any higher 

 price obtained for the light weight than the heavy, there are 

 some retailers who prefer one and some the other, and the 

 wholesale dealer wants to be able to furnish what the retailer 

 desires. In case there should be a greater demand for the 

 light-weight sections than the heavy, they would be sold more 

 readily, but not often at any higher price. 



Jlr. Kauchfuss meeting with the different dealers in honey 

 will no doubt be greatly to the advantage of the Association, 

 and it will give the buyers confidence that they are in saf& 

 hands, even if they do at times have to pay the money befora 

 they get the goods. Cook Co.. 111. 



Honey-Vinegar— Directions for Matiing. 



BY C. P. DADANT. 



MR. DADANT ;— Would you please tell rae the best and quickest 

 way of making houey-vinepar, aad how long it takes to make it ?' 

 It will be better to tell you I want to make it in large quantities for 

 market. Do you know of any waV'in which the process could be 

 materially hastened by means of a little machinery ? I mean, for instance, 

 by the means used in ordinary vinegar-making-. I do not know of any one 

 more willing to give me information, or more able. Will you please help 

 me out? You probably know better what I need than I am able to ask. 



Ontakio, 



From time to time, the question of honey-vinegar comes 

 up as a new thing, and yet has been debated and discussed 

 many times over in the bee-papers. Upon receipt of this en- 

 (juiry, I concluded to refer our friend to some previous article 

 of mine in the American Bee Journal, but I soon found that 

 it was quite a task to hunt it up in back numbers, and after 

 considering that very few, probably, keep their bee-papers on 

 file, I concluded it was best to give the matter a special article. 



There are evidently many bee-keepers, even among th& 

 most practical, who do not consider the honey-vinegar ques- 

 tion as of any importance, if I judge by the number of persons 

 who send us their beeswax still soaked with honey. Yet, to 

 a large apiarist, there is quite a loss in throwing away the 

 water in which the eappings have been melted. I see that 

 I'rof. Cook quotes Bingham as saying that the eappings of 

 1,000 pounds of honey will give honey enough for 45 gallons 

 of vinegar. I should hesitate to set a figure as representing 



