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CHICAGO, ILL, APRIL 17, 1902, 



No, 16, 



« Editorial. ^ I 



A New Director of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Assoi'ialion has just been elected to 

 succeed Mr. Abbott, who resigned as director 

 to take the position of General Manager. The 

 new director is Mr. R. C. Aikin, ot Colorado. 

 This is an excellent choice, and should give 

 unanimous satisfaction to all the bee-keepers 

 of the great Middle West. 



National Association Notes will be 

 furnished to the various bee-papers by Gen- 

 eral Manager Abbott from time to time. His 

 first '' batch " appears on page 24S. This is a 

 good move, and will help the membership to 

 keep in close touch with what is trying to be 

 done by the Association. If you are not now 

 a member, send four dollar at once to Mr. 

 Abbott, and get in line to help the whole bee- 

 keeping industry as well as yourself. 



One Colon.v Continuously Starting 



Cells. — After a colony has beeu queenless for 

 a considerable time, it can not be counted on 

 for doing good work at starting iiueen-cells. 

 But by the right management there need be 

 no difficulty in having good cells continuously 

 started throughout the entire season in the 

 same hive, if not entirely by the same bees. 

 All that is needed is the addition from time to 

 time of frames of brood. This has a two-fold 

 effect ; It keeps up the supply ot young bees, 

 and also furnishes young brood to be fed, 

 thus keeping up the preparation of a bounti- 

 ful supply of the right kind of nourishment 

 for the prospective queens. 



Next National at Denver. — We have 

 received the following notice from Pres. 

 Hutchinson, announcing that the executive 

 committee have selected Denver: 



THE SE.XT NATIONAL CONVENTION TO BE 

 HELD IN DENVER. 



Denver, Colo., has been selected as the 

 place for holding the next meeting of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association. Time — 

 the first week in September. The exact date 

 has not been decided upon, but the first ses- 

 sion will probably be held Tuesday evening 

 or Wednesday morning. The West has sev- 

 eral times asketl for the convention, and been 

 put oft with promises — that we must follow 

 the G. A. K., or something of this sort, in 

 order to secure the needed reduction of rail- 

 road rates. This year the (i. A. R. meets at 

 Washington, away to one side of the country. 

 We met there several years ago, and only 

 about 20 members were present— the most of 

 those from near by. The West has been 



going ahead with great leaps and bounds, and 

 can rightfully claim recognition. The Col- 

 orado Stale cnavcntion. last fall, was the 

 equal of many meetings of the National Asso- 

 ciation. And in all probability the Colorado 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association will meet with 

 us in joint convention. If held at Denver, 

 the bee-keepers of L'tah, California, Texas, 

 and all of the great West will be able to " get 

 there." I firmly l>elieve that a convention 

 can be held at Denver that will be the equal 

 of any ever held. 



Of course, the first question asked will be: 

 "What about rates?" Well, they are all 

 satisfactory, or, of course, we could not go to 

 Denver, as a convention without low rates on 

 the railroads was never a success. The Na- 

 tional Letter Carriers' Association holds its 

 annual convention in Denver during the first 

 week in September, and an open rate to every- 

 body will be made at that time. A represen- 

 tative railroad man told Mr. Working (the 

 Secretary of the Colorado State Bee-KeeperS' 

 Association) that the regular fare outside of 

 Colorado would be one fare, plus .$2.00, for 

 the round trip, with a regular rate of one fare 

 for a round trip in Colorado; while there have 

 been made some specially low rates from some 

 points in the East. From Chicago the fare 

 will be only .$2.5 tor the round trip. From St. 

 I.ouis it is .$21. From St. Joseph, Kansas 

 City, and Omaha it will be only §15. Rates 

 from points still further East have not yet 

 been definitely settled. 



Bee-keepers in the West will need no urging 

 to come; to the bee-keepers of the East I will 

 say, take the trip. It will open your eyes, 

 not only in regard to bee-keeping, but to the 

 wonderful possibilities of the great West. 

 Your tickets will give you all of the time you 

 wish to see Colorado's wonderful mountain 

 scenery — "The Switzerland of America.'' 

 Don't miss this opportunity of seeing its won- 

 ders, and mingling with its bee-keepers — the 

 men and women with great, big hearts. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Pren. 



We are glad that Denver has been .selected. 

 This choice will not be regretted, for those 

 hustling Colorado and other Western bee- 

 keepers will simply do their best to have even 

 a bigger and better convention than Chicago 

 ever had; and it they succeed (and we be- 

 lieve they will), none will be more delighted 

 than those who helped to make the last Na- 

 tional such a great success in this city, in 

 1900. 



Remember that Denver is the place, and the 

 first week in September the time. 



Another thing: Don't fail to plan to go. 

 There is ample time for everybody to get ready 

 to attend the convention. And those Denver 

 bee-keepers will need to make large prepara- 

 tion for the crowd, in addition to furnishing 

 a generous sample of their fine climate. 



The Formation of Nuclei seems to be 

 considered by some as a complicated affair 

 only to be undertaken by those of much ex- 

 perience. In reality there is nothing mys- 

 terious or difficult about it. Any one can 

 take two or three frames of brood with adher- 

 ing bees and put them in a hive and set the 



hive on a new stand. Thai makes a nucleus, 

 and the only dilliculty in the ca.se is to make 

 sure that the queen is not taken along with 

 the bees, and to make sure that too many 

 bees will not return to the old hive, ."^ome 

 guard against the latter by imprisoning the 

 bees for a certain length of time before put- 

 ting them on the brood. Some do the im- 

 prisoning after forming the nucleus, closing 

 the entrance tightly with green leaves. 

 Within two or three days the leaves will 

 shrivel so as to allow passage for the bees if 

 the bee-keeper himself does not open the en- 

 trance. 



Some take no precaution except to use for 

 the nuclei bees that have been queenless two 

 or more days. Queenless bees are much bet- 

 ter than others as to staying where they are 

 put. Take two or three frames of brood well 

 covered with bees from a queenless colony, 

 and put them in an empty hive, and the 

 work is done. If you want to make more 

 sure, you can brush in some extra bees, or 

 you can fasten the bees in for 24 hours. 



Manufactured Comb Honey Again. 



— Last month we received the following com- 

 munication from Rev. A. E. Taylor, of York 

 Co., Pa.: 

 Editor American Bee .Journal. — 



U',ir Sir : — I clipped the enclosed from the 

 Philadelphia Record some weeks ago: 



" It was recently announced in a Chicago 

 paper that aear-load of manufactured honey, 

 in the comb, had been received in that city 

 from California. In reply to this the pub- 

 lisher of the American Bee Journal has 

 offered $1,000 for the sight ot a single pound 

 of manufactured comb honey. He adds that 

 he has been making this offer for 20 years 

 without finding a taker." 



I send it, first, to say that I manufacture 

 comb honey; and, second, to say that you had 

 better call in your offer, if you made such, as 

 some one may claim it, I do not claim any 

 reward. 



I manufacture comb honey because— first, 

 I get honey in that way, whereas I would get 

 none otherwise; and, second, I get a better 

 product. 



Y'ou may, if you wish, inquire ot W. H. 

 Huntzgurger, principal merchant of our town ; 

 Dr, J. C. Channell, Mr. S. C. Kocker, Geo. 

 Weitzel, or H. L. Keller. 



Respectfully, A. E. Tatlor. 



Upon receipt of the above, we wrote Mr. 

 Taylor, telling him he was just the man we 

 were looking for; we also enclosed 40 cents 

 in stamps for two sample pounds of his 

 " manufactured comb honey," and asked him 

 to forward them, securely packed, by express 

 at our expense, or return the stamps. In a 

 few days we received the following : 



Messrs. George AV. York A: Co. — 



Yours of the Gth at hand. I do not pretend 

 to "manufacture comb honey by machinery, 

 without the aid of bees." That would imply 

 that I am a creator or secreter of wax, and I 



