Jan. 23. 19t'2 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



61 



coiiil)-fi>iiiiil.ilinii liuiu'v wr can only an 

 IS ci-iilN. Sn k-l 11^ have charily fm' 

 ll'ic MirhiK^ui visitiif while Ic-stiiig liniu-y 

 )ii the ChicaKo market. 



Have you seen the ncw-stylc section? 

 Ilccs will huikl the coinhs more (me 

 and perfect than with foundation fur 

 nislied lheni, as tlicre is no sagK'niK, 

 stretching, or warping of the conihs. 

 I). II. .\1ktc.\i.i-. 



Calhoun Co.. Midi., Dec. j8. 



Give Us Food and Air. 



It is s.-ud ihal liulnns don't like lo 

 live in houses hecause they cannot stand 

 the enclosed air. -Many a little bird will 

 die when caged — not in want of food 

 lint in want of open air. Life is light. 

 When the air is shut up it will cease 

 to linrn. , -Animal life needs, for the 

 production of heat, one part of the 

 atmospliere that is given free by plants, 

 and the plants need that part which is 

 given free by animals. Thus the at- 

 mosphere is always the same as long as 

 the parts of it can l)e exchanged. 



.•\nimals or plants heavily fed need 

 jilcnty of air, because the fresh air 

 only helps to burn up the food, like 

 it helps to burn up the oil in a lamp. 



Now it is a fact that the physiolog- 

 ical activity m plains, aiui oie rc|)vo- 

 ductive activity in animals, becomes 

 dormant below 43 degrees, Fahrenheit. 

 For this reason a colony of bees with 

 about 50 degrees, Fahrenheit, will not 

 rccpiire much food and not much fresh 

 air; and for the same reason the sup- 

 jily of food and air must conform to 

 the temperature. 



As a rule the cluster of bees in win- 

 ter has a temperature of about 70 de- 

 grees, F. ; with this the respiration is 

 decreased, but the bees cannot live en- 

 tirely without fresh air. The supply 

 . admitted at the entrance is sufificient 

 provided the bad air can pass ofif with- 

 out any draft or condensation. The 

 bees ttse up from the fresh air only 

 I one part, and give by breathing free 

 i another part that does not agree with 

 their organism. Thus the air sur- 

 rounding them becomes foul, if not re- 

 newed, and is converted into poison. 

 ' The moisture it contains is condensed 

 I on the inside of the hive-cover, and the 

 ;j place of habitation becomes damp. 

 The bees suffer badly, and if they are 

 able to live until they have to go for 

 pollen or water some day in April, they 

 ji succumb under the influence of work 

 ( and exposure. To remedy this the 

 hives are ventilated : that is, in com- 

 mon practice the entrance is fully 

 opened, or even the whole hive is raised 

 on blocks at every corner. No doubt 

 there is plenty of fresh, cold air to force 

 out the foul air, and to dry up the 

 moisture, ibut this rude attempt of ven- 

 tilation is made at the expense of com- 

 fort. What would you think of a, man 

 who should attempt to ventilate his 

 hen-house that way? No doubt there 

 would be more fresh air in that house, 

 or hive, than the inhabitants would like 

 to have, and still they could have even 

 more without a house or hive. Such 

 rough treatment results in retarded ac- 

 tivity when spring comes, if there is 

 anything left of activity at all. 



For ventilation in winter it is best 

 to provide an air-space with absorbing 

 material above the cluster which allows 

 foul air and moisture to pass off. This 



5\ICCCSSIUI Brooder (T1.. cbik, 



Tlioy tako core of tlnrn. 

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Controling the Mating. 



We prm)ose lo conirul inatiug- t>i tiueens in 

 the followiii^j way, but it will be carried on iu a 

 liniiicd way ouly. for the present; 



We are perfecllntr plans lo carry on the raat- 

 intr of ijueens in Norih Dakota. We have a spot 

 selected that lias no trees or anylhin^r where 

 bees could make their abode, except a bouse 

 now and then. There are no bees here, far or 

 near, and there can be no (|uesiion about the 

 niatinj; when we select our stock in Illinois, 

 and send nothldt'' but the finest to this place 

 that has no bees. And as it is quite windy here, 

 the chances are that nothintj but stronjj-winjjed 

 bees will mate. We shall try hard for the very 

 best results. 



D. J. BLOCKER, Deinbeigh, N. Dak. 



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ran lie done I'V means of a cushion with 

 iliatT plated ni ihe suptr. 'llii; only 

 iroiililc is ih.ii the super docs not shut 

 up tight, and the cover cannot be sealed 

 up liglil. 'I'lien, too, if you want to 

 look after a colony only once in the 

 whole winter you have to take up the 

 whole roof from that little house and 

 let the warm air out and the cold air 

 m, With thai movable roof you can not 

 |iiit the hives so close together that they 

 shelter themselves. No, every hive is 

 put up separately, wilh five sides ex- 

 posed to the change of tcntperature. 



The sttpply of food and air is dic- 

 tated by climatic conditions, and an 

 even temperature secured in any way 

 whatever is llu-rcfore just as important 

 as this supply. 



Cellar-wintering with its troubles 

 and vexations, is advocated and prac- 

 ticed by many for the benefit of an even 

 tcm[)erature. which could be secured 

 nut-doors just as well as indoors, if our 

 hives had not so many loose parts and 

 were not opened on top. This feature, 

 linwevcr, is s') nredominant that one 

 initrlit ask. Why did I-angstroth in- 

 vent movable hive-parts or movable 

 frames? There is more comfort in a 

 solid house titan in a booth, especially 

 for winter. .X eood shelter is a saving 

 in food, and if the question of air has 

 no relation to the nocket-book. the ques- 

 tion of food certainly has. 



J. VOLKERT. 



Chesterfield Co., Va., Dec. 17. 



Must Have Fine Honey In Chicago. 



I have been reading those articles in 

 the American Bee Journal about adul- 

 terated and manufactured comb honey in 

 Chicago, with a mixture of amusement, 

 nidignation, and pity for those poor, ig- 

 norant fellows wlio have been trying so 

 hard and long to find a pure article of 

 comb honey in your city ! You must 

 have an exceptionally fine lot of honey 

 in Chicago if they cannjt find any that 

 looks dirty and crooked enough to in- 

 sure purity. Oh, my, just send those fel- 

 lows out here to Tioga Co.. Pa., where 

 we have not had a decent crop of honey 

 in three years, nectar being -so scarce 

 in the fields that bees could not com- 

 plete a box of any kind of honey, but 

 would patch it up with from two to three 

 or even four different shades, and as 

 many flavors, and capped yellow, black 

 and almost anything except white. It 

 is enough to convince the most incred- 

 ulous persons of its genuineness, allow- 

 ing that they judge honey by that stand- 

 point. And even if they had their 

 doubts it would take them the remainder 

 of their days to analyze it and find out 

 what ingredients it was composed of. 



I think you people have raised the 

 standard of your bees too high in per- 

 fection of comb-honey building. Better 

 leave it on the hive a while longer, and 

 let the bees run over it with their dirty 

 feet and smear a little bee-glue on it : 

 .ind possibly it would be better to put 

 it on the market with the boxes all be- 

 smeared with propolis, then the ear- 

 marks of the bees would be more prom- 

 inent ! 



I well remember, a few years ago, 

 takinp- some nii-e white honev to 'he 

 grocery, and a friend told me that after 

 I went out a minister of the gospel 

 came in and looked at the honey, and 

 remarked that bees did not make that 

 honey. It was too nice : it was man- 



