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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Aug. 14, 1902. 



and also a certain number of capped cells, so 

 that probably all the conditions were present 

 which would be met with in a i)ad case of 

 foul lirood. 



After the gas had spread through the hive, 

 and the smell of the gas could be noticed 

 issuing at the hole at the top, this top hole 

 was closed, and almost immediately after- 

 wards the formalin apparatus was discon- 

 nected and that lower opening plugged up, 

 and it was kept there from one to four hours. 

 At the end of that time the hive or box was 

 opened and the combs taken out and a care- 

 ful examination made, not only of the capped 

 cells but all of the foul-broody cells and also 

 certain marked cells which contained honey 

 and also spores of the foul-brood bacillus. 



In not a single instance did foul-brood 

 germs grow from these combs after they were 

 treated. And since then I have performed 

 the experiment three separate times with 

 three other distinct comlis and with the same 

 success, and in each ease the germs were 

 killed, whether ihey were in dead larv;e, 

 whether they were in honey, or whether they 

 were in capped cells. 



Pure Queen-Fertilization. — Among 



several plans given by Mr. Doolittle in Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culture, he prefers the following, 

 adding that for securing honey the mismated 

 queens will give just as good results as those 

 purely mated : 



Give to all colonies which have good Italian 

 (|ueens one or two frames of drone-comb, so 

 that large numbers of drones will be reared 

 in these Italian colonies, which will be very 

 likely to secure the pure mating of from one- 

 fourth to one-half of your young queens ; and 

 when one is found that is impurely mated, 

 kill her and give the colony a queen-cell from 

 your best pure breeder, and try again. As 

 your colonies increase, your drones will in- 

 crease also; and the more drones reared in 

 your Italian colonies the better will be your 

 chances of having all purely mated. 



\ Weekly Budget. 



Mr. ,1. T. Calveht, of the A. I. Root Co., 

 passed through Cbicago last week on a west- 

 ern trip with stop-offs in Colorado, L'tah, 

 California, Oregon, Washington, and then 

 back through Minnesota. It will be quite a 

 " swing around " among the bee-supply 

 dealers. He expects to be home again about 

 the middle of September. He reports a good 

 season's business for 1002 at the Root factory. 



QcESTioss FOB THE CONVENTION. — Secre- 

 tary Mason, of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, requests us to publish the fol- 

 lowing: 



ST.i. B, TOLEUO, Ohio, July :«, H1u2. 

 Editor American Bee .Ioi'rnal— 



Please say to your readers that if any of 

 them who have any questions to ask that they 

 would like to have answered at the Denver 

 convention, will send them tome soon, I will 

 present them for replies. 



Very truly yours, 



A. B. Mason, Sec. 



QfoTiNG THE Honey Market. — A sub- 

 scriber sends us the following in reference to 

 this subject, which was discussed by the com- 

 mission men in these columns recently : 



Mr. Editor: — In that interesting sympo- 

 sium giving views of the middlemen as to 

 (juolations, part of them think it better to 

 quote the market a little too high than too 

 low, while another part think it better low 



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On the Way to Denver 



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scene near kearnev. nebr., on the union pacific railroad. 



than high. That makes us producers suspect 

 that i)art of the ({notations are a little up and 

 part a little down As we want to get noth- 

 ing but the truth from the " Old Reliable," 

 what are we to do i Couldn't you stick a 

 tag on the end of the high fellows, saying, 

 "Shave these figures down a little." And 

 another for the low fellows, reading. " Boost 

 these figures a trille V Pkoducer. 



Look here, do you want to get us into 

 trouble, and perhaps be the cause of a mur- 

 der ; The idea of wanting us to " stick a 

 tag un the end of the high fellows!" W/ilcli 

 iiul ! And what if we couldn't reach up '. 

 And another on the low fellows! Isn't that 

 awful ; 



Then, what kind of " figure " do you sup- 

 pose the market-quoting "fellows" would 

 Cut after they had been "shaved" or 

 "boosted;" No, sir, we'll not "play tag'' 

 with them, nor allow any shaving or boosting 

 of their "figures. " Why, it might (/^figure 

 them, and perhaps get us into a peck of 

 trouble. Excuse us, please ! 



Daniel Whitmer's Oak Leaf Afiart. — 

 When sending the picture of his apiary 

 (shown on the first page; Mr. Whitmer wrote 

 US as follows: 



This apiary was established about 18S0, and 

 has never known a failure in a crop of good 

 honey. Neither has it ever been diseased in 

 any way whatever. It has never been in- 

 fested with the liee-rnoth except in a limited 

 degree. I have never fumigated a particle of 

 the honey, neither do I think it is necessary 

 if the apiarist is on duty and observing. 



I have kept the Italian bees almost exclu- 

 sively, believing theui to be the most desir- 

 able, although I have manipulated other races 

 in a limited way. 



The " Oak Leaf Apiary "' started with 2 

 colonies, and the maximum number consisted 

 of 24? colonies, and were manipulated suc- 

 cessfully in one yard by myself when at 

 home, otherwise my wife and daughter did 

 the work. 



I produce both comb and extracted honey, 

 and have never taken less than U) cents per 

 pound for the extracted, and have had as 

 high as IN cents; and for comb honey I have 

 received from 10 to 22 cents per pound. 



It will be noticed in the front row, just 

 north of the tub ot water, an observatory hive 



upon a stand one foot high.'^This colony' I 

 denominate my "Missionary Hive," the entire 

 proceeds ot which I appropriate to the mis- 

 sionary work of the church. One year I 

 secured §8.00 from it for that purpose. 



1 have my hives placed 4 feet apart each 

 way, and do not experience any difficulty in 

 running my apiary. 



The picture does not show nearly all of the 

 hives in the apiary. 



Last fall, after the first zero weather, I 

 brought 20 colonies from an out-apiary in a 

 wagon-bed on a stoneboat, and hauled them fi 

 miles with the hives open, and but one bee 

 escaped and took wing that I saw. I placed 

 them in the cellar without a (light, and they 

 wintered finely. Daniel Whitmer. 



On the Wat to Denver. — Here are a 

 few questions from a Wisconsin reader that 

 may interest all who are preparing to go to 

 the Denver convention, Sept. 3, 4 and 5: 



Editor York:— I am thinking of taking 

 in the Denver meeting, and would like to 

 know — 



1. If the rates will be low from all points, 

 or just from central points like Chicago ? 



2. For how long a lime are those excursion 

 tickets good ; 



3. Can a person stop off in going to or 

 coming from Denver ? 



4. Can a person go one way and return 

 another ( 



Please post us up a little more fully. 



B. T. Davenport. 



We reply as follows, after interviewing a 

 representative of the Chicago & North-West- 

 ern Railroad Company : 



1. Low rates cover all points. 



2. By having the time on the tickets ex- 

 tended at Denver, they will be good until 

 Oct. HI. 



3. Yes; at points west of the Missouri 

 River. 



4. No — not at the low rates. 



Close Saturdays at 1 p.m. —Our custo- 

 mers and friends will kindly remember that 

 beginning with .July I, for three months we 

 close our office and bee-supply store at 1 

 p.m. on Saturdays. This is our usual custom. 

 Nearly all otner firms here begin the Saturday 

 afternoon closing with May 1st, but we keep 

 open two months later on account of the local 

 bee-keepers who find it more convenient to 

 call Saturday afternoons for bee-supplies. 



