

4 2d YEAR. 



CHICAGO, ILL, FEBUARY 6, 1902. 



No, 6, 





Hesult of the "National" l-Ilection. 



— We have received the result of the balloting 

 for camlidati'S in the election just held by the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Assoeiatiou. The re- 

 port of the committee is as follows: 



Toledo, O., Jan. 27. inos. 



We, the undersigned, havini; this daj' 

 counted the ballots oast tor (ieneral Manager 

 and three Directors of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, to fill the vacancies caused by 

 the expiration of the terms of Eiigenp Secor 

 as (Jeneral Manager, and J. M. Hambaugh, 

 Ur. C. C. Miller, and C. P. Dadaut as Directors, 

 find that 338 ballots have been cast ; of which 

 Eugene Secor received 172,- the other ICti bal- 

 lots being cast for 29 different members, the 

 largest number of votes cast for any one of 

 them being 33. 



For Directors, J. Ji. Hambaugh received ISO 

 votes. Dr. C. C. MiUcr. 332, and C. 1'. Dadant, 

 215 votes. The other votes were cast for 109 

 different members, the largest number cast 

 for any one being 29. 



We have also counted the votes cast for 

 and against the laiijioscd amendments of the 

 Constitution, antl liiid that 214 votes were cast 

 for the first amendment, and 93 against it; 

 and 263 votes were cast for the second amend- 

 ment, and 47 against it. 



A. B. Mason, 

 ) S. J. Griggs. 



So all were re-elected. Congratulations to 

 all the honored ones. 



Dr. Mason, when sending us the foregoing 

 report, quoted this sentence in his letter : 



Committee • 



" Hardly any use to have any election, is it? 

 or so often; " 



Then he added this comment, which we be- 

 lieve we agree with : 



"Me, TOO. I feel »juKi like giving the Consti- 

 tution another whirl, and provide for elect- 

 ing all olticers and changing the Constitution 

 at our annual meeting. Other organizations do 

 it. Our way is a nuisance. There were 30 

 different persons voted for for General Man- 

 ager, and 109 for Directors in the recent elec- 

 tion." 



This is a matter worth thinking about. 

 There is quite a little expen,se and work con- 

 nected with a ballot by mail, and it is going 

 to increase with the growth of the member- 

 ship. The members better thiulv about it and 

 discuss it before the next annual meeting. 



Propolosin — which seems to be some kind 

 of a preparation from propolis — is spoken of 

 in very high terms in some of the foreign bee- 

 papers, it is said to be a very liealing appli- 

 cation in wounds and sores, and it is also said 

 that if one's hands are rubbed with it they will 

 not be stung by the bees. An objection is 

 that it is expensive. If it is reaily a good 

 thing, Yankee ingenuity ought to succeed in 

 getting it prepared so as to be sold at a mod- 

 erate price. 



"The Truth Ahoiit Honey "— Mr. C. H 



Dililicrn, of Kock Islanil Co., 111., writes 

 as follows, Jan. 21 : 



Epitok Amei!I(v\n Bee Jouhnai.:— I am 

 greatly interested in your articles on "The 

 Truth Aliout Honey." I have been making 

 some efforts along this line myself, and en- 

 close one of my dodgers, that I furnish with 

 each package of extracted honey I send out. 

 The daily i)aper printing them kindly inserted 

 the entire matter as an item of news, and it 

 has helped my .sales considerably. 



I should think that in cases like the Chi- 

 cago Tribune, a suit for damages l)y the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Association would be in 

 order. How do liee-keepers generally feel 

 about it i Yours truly, 



C. H. DlBBEIiX. 



As to bringing a suit for damages against 

 the Chicago Tribune, we think it would be a 

 hard matter to get at, though we do wish 

 there might he some way to compel newspa- 

 pers to stop publisli in g falsehoods about honey. 

 You see, it is quite a little diflerent when an 

 industry or pursuit is libeled, from what 

 would be the case if an individual or firm is 

 libeled. The latter would be able to claim 

 damages, but a pursuit like farming or bee- 

 keeping could hardly have the same standing 

 in court that a firm or individual would have. 

 Of course, that is only our think.. We are not 

 experts in law. 



Here is a copy of the wording of Mr. Dib- 

 bern's honey dodger or circular, which, by the 

 way, is a good one: 



Pacts About Honey. 



ExTUACTEO HoN'ET Is honey thrown out 

 of the comb by means of the honey-e.xtractor. 

 It is simply honey without any wax, as in 

 comb honey, and not some sort of "extract 

 of honey " as many people suppose. The rea- 

 son it is cheaper than comb honey, is that the 

 combs are returned to the bees, to be refilled 

 again and again, thus saving them the labor of 

 building comb, and enabling them to send a 

 much larger force into the fields. It is esti- 

 mated that bees consume 15 to 20 pounds of 

 honey to produce a pound of wax, and it can 

 thus easily be seen that there is a great saving 

 in returning the combs. 



There has always been some prejudice 

 against extracted honey, especially if granu- 

 lated. People seem to fear that it is adulter- 

 ated. If honey granulates (looks like lard) it 

 is one of the best tests that it is pure. It is a 

 fact that there is now very little adulterated 

 honey in the market. The pure-food laws are 

 so strict, and detection so easy, that no one 

 can alTord the risk, to say nothing about the 

 dishonesty of adulterating it. 



If honey is jireferred liquid and clear place 

 for a short time in a pan of hot (not boiling) 

 water. 



Honey bearing my labels is warranted 

 fibisohitrli/ pure, just as gathered by the bees 

 from the fields. It is cheaper than comb 

 honey, but just as good. Y'ou get as much for 

 10 cents as of comb honey for Ih or 20 cents, 

 and you have left a jelly-glass worth 2 cents, 

 instead of a worthless frame. My honey is 

 filled in glasses while liquid, and left till it 

 granulates, so it will not leak when handled. 

 It is fine. D T")-*/ (7. ■ C. H. Dibbern. 



Strong VH. Weak Colonien Tor Win- 

 ter.- L'lr. (iubler. in the Kcvue Inlerrjatioiialc. 

 says that the smaller the number of bees the 

 greater burden upon each individual bee to 

 keep up the heat. In a colony of 30,000 Ijees 

 each bee will have only one-third as much 

 heat to produce as in a colony of Io,(J<XJ. 

 So in the spring the bees of the weaker colony 

 will be much more exhausted and fatigued 

 than the others. Besides, a colony of :iO,000 

 will consume much less than three colonies of 



10,000 each. 



♦ 



Get a Te.xt-Book on Bees.— That is 

 sound advice to offer several times each year, 

 because there are all the time, and especially 

 at this time of the year, fresh additions to the 

 readers of this journal. You may think you 

 can get along and keep bees without a text- 

 book. So you can. There are bee-keepers 

 living to-day who began with neither a text- 

 book nor a bee-paper, and they have made a 

 success of bee-keeping. But their success 

 would have been more rapid if they could 

 have had access to the various good Iwoks 

 and papers published to-day in the interest of 

 bee-keeping, and you could not now induce 

 them to do without such valuable printed 

 helps. 



The question is sometimes asked, "If I can 

 afford to get only one, shall it be a text-book 

 or a bee-paper; " This journal is anxious to 

 get as many subscribers as possible, but if you 

 must get along with only one, by all means let 

 the paper go and get the text-book. In it you 

 will find the things that every bee-keeper 

 should have as foundation-stones of knowl- 

 edge, and without which you will do more or 

 less stumbling. If you have only a single 

 colony of bees, the dollar or so that you pay 

 for a test-book will be very likely to come 

 back to you the first season. If you continue 

 at the business, you will get back its value 

 many times in the future. 



Whatever else you get, or don't get, if you 

 can get it without stealing, get a text-book on 

 bee-keeping. 



The Size and Place of Entrance be- 

 ing asked. Editor Gravenhorst of lUustrierte 

 Bienenzeitung replies that it should be 3 or 

 4 inches wide, ?b inch deep, and about 3 

 inches aljove the bottom-board or floor. He 

 considers it bad to have the entrance clear 

 down to the bottom-board, on account of the 

 danger of having it clogged with dead bees. 

 In this country the tendency is toward a 

 larger entrance, and probably few entrances 

 are to be found as tar as 3 inches above the 

 bottom-board. Undoubtedly there is an ad- 

 vantage in having the flight-hole so far above 

 the floor that thtre is no danger of clogging 



