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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAl- 



July 24, 1902. 



■ested in the subject of correct market ciuota 

 lions on honey. 



We hope that our readers will suspend 

 judg-ment until they have read what all the 

 market luoters have to say. We expect to 

 •complete it next week. 



Use Soft Water for Kenderins Wax. 



— This is a matter of considerable importance. 

 as will l)e seen from the following by H. W. 

 -Brice. in the Bee-Keepers' Record : 



In rendering wax in water containing lime 

 or acids, either the cerotic acid or the 

 luyricine is dissolved out. and its composi- 

 tion becomes changed and forms a secondary 

 product, as may be seen by the dirty -gray, 

 spongy residue on the underside of a calie of 

 wax after cooling. This residue has to be 

 scraped away and wasted. Rain or distilled 

 water should be used in the operation. 



Blacks TS. Italians. — I venture to as- 

 sert that a careful and unprejudiced examina- 

 tion will show things that will prove a de- 

 cided surprise to many. 1 have in my apiaries 

 some of the best strains of Italians to be ob- 

 tained, also some pure blacks, and many 

 shades of the crosses of the two races. Accord- 

 ing to the generally accepted view regarding 

 Italians, such colonies should excel the others, 

 but that has not proven to be the case. The 

 black bees have bred up the fastest, have 

 •stored the most honey, and entered the 

 ^supe^s most readily. Also, they have proved 

 to be better tempered. The hybrids came 

 ■next to the blacks in the possession of these 

 virtues, and the Italians last. Such has been 

 my experience this spring, and the contrast 

 has been so marked that I have considered it 

 ■worth recording. 



The above by Arthur C. Miller, in the 

 American Bee-Keeper, will, no doubt, be as 

 he says, -a decided surprise to many." But 

 does it prove that, as a rule, blacks are supe- 

 rior to Italians ? Surely, all bee-keeper.s in 

 this country are not deficient as observers 

 who have testified to the superiority of Ital- 

 ians. 



When Italians were new, it was charged 

 that those who had them for sale had an ax 

 to grind in recommending them. Now that 

 Italians are common that can hardly be 

 charged, especially against men who have no 

 stock for sale, and are only interested in hav- 

 ing the bees that will yield the best results. 



It should not be forgotten, however, that in 

 England and in Germany there are good men 



who prefer blacks to Italians. Are there bet- 

 ter blacks across the water, or do conditions 

 make the diiHerence '. 



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Weekly Budget. I 



Secretary D. W. Workinc, who is push- 

 ing for a big attendance at the Denver con- 

 vention, wrote us on July 14: 



" There is nothing new to tell you yet about 

 the coming meeting. We are hoping that 

 there will be a large attendance from the 

 other side of the Mississippi. In this State 

 we expect to stir up a good deal of interest, 

 and have our people out in good force." 



We think " the other side of the Missis- 

 sippi" will be well represented. We hear 

 almost daily of more bee-keepers that are ex- 

 pecting to go. It looks now as if the Denver 

 meeting might be tthnosf as large as was the 

 National when it met in Chicago in 1900 ! 

 Even such a crowd would surprise Denver ! 

 Of course, Chicago is accustomed to such 

 things ! ! 



Mrs. Chas. Becker, of Sangamon Co., 

 111., after an illness of more than five months, 

 passed away on May 2, 1902. This was learned 

 just last week. We wish to extend our 

 sympathy to our bereaved brother and 

 his daughter who rt^main to mourn the depar- 

 ture of a beloved wife and mother. 



The Apiart of A. Henthorn & Son is 

 shown on this page. When sending the 

 photograph, they wrote as follows : 



We send the picture of our home apiary. 

 There are 96 colonies in this yard. We use 

 the old standard (iallup hives, and run for 

 extracted honey alone. Our average for 11)01 

 was 72 pounds per colony. 



We run one out-yard of 40 colonies, the 

 average being S."> pounds per colony from 

 white clover and basswood. We run on the 

 non-swarming plan of nuclei for increase, 

 and kill the rest of the queens. 



We have one colony that stored 40 pounds 

 of red clover honey after the basswood How 

 was over last season. 



Those trees seen in the picture are cherry- 

 trees ; we use them because they make fine 



shade, and are nice, clean trees to work 

 around, and on account of the fruit. Tlie 

 large tree on the left of the picture is a hick- 

 ory it is full of nuts every year. 



We winter our bees in a cellar under the 

 dwelling-house. The temperature was about 

 r>2 degrees all winter, until lately (March 8) 

 we have been having very warm weather for 

 this time of the winter, and had to open the 

 outside door and let fresh air in at night. We 

 wintered the bees last winter in the same 

 cellar with a loss of 2 colonies ; the tempera- 

 ture was down near HO degrees all winter. 

 A. Henthorn ct Sox. 



Mr. H. H. Hyde, of Wilson Co., Tex., 

 writes us that he is planning to attend the 

 National convention in Denver in September. 

 Say, you hustling Denverites, get ready for 

 bee-keepers from everywhere. They're com- 

 ing. 



Prof. Cook's " Bee-Keepers' Guide, or 

 Manual of the Apiary," is thus kindly re- 

 ferred to by Editor Root, in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture for July 1 : 



The new revision of the nineteenth thou- 

 sand of the " Bee-Keepers' Guide, or Manual 

 of the Apiary," by Prof. A. J. Cook, pub- 

 lished by George W. York ct Co., of Chicago, 

 is now out. It has been most thoroughly 

 revised, and is enlarged by the addition of 

 aljout 80 pages and 7.5 engravings. I have 

 read over in a hurried way several of the 

 chapters, and they all seem to bear the brand 

 of 1902, and all of it orthodox, at least from 

 my point of view. ,So skillfully has the old 

 matter been blended with the new, that one 

 would never suspect the book had not been 

 written from beginning to end this year. The 

 scientific, as well as the practical, part has 

 been gone over completely ; and while the 

 hook has always been a standard, both in 

 Europe and America, it is now ''clear at the 

 front in bee-keeping science and practice." I 

 congratulate the publishers as well as the 

 author. 



P. D. Jones, of this State, hived 4S swarms 

 on a single day recently; again in a few days 

 he hived 47 swarms on one day. Mr. Jones 

 must have the swarming kind of bees. 



Mr. E. S. Lovesy, president of the Vtah 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, expects to attend 

 the Denver convention. He should take a 

 large delegation with him from his Associa- 

 tion. 



Uil.ME AI'IAKY OF A. HENTHORN .v Mi.N. tjt liii HLANO COCNTY, WISCONSIN. 



