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December, ipo/. 



American ?ae Journal 



ready taken up so that the "cream of 

 the bee-keepers' toils of 1908" may be 

 hoarded together for the bee-keepers' 

 exhibits at College Station, during the 

 annual July meeting of the Texas Bee- 

 Keepers' Association; at Dallas, during 

 the State Fair; and then at the Inter- 

 national Fair in San Antonio. There- 

 fore, fellow bee-keepers, remember 

 this during the coming year. When 

 you have something for exhibition, let 

 me know about it. Such exhibits are 

 great advertisers of our own industry, 

 you know. 



W. H. Laws and D. C. Milam were 

 the judges who passed upon the merits 

 of the exhibits in the Bee and Honey 

 Department of the Fair. The number 

 of exhibitors and exhibits this year was 

 the largest and most varied since the 

 Fair was instituted, and as a result the 

 judges had hard work in making their 

 awards. 



This year's display attracted great 

 attention from nearly every visitor to 

 the Fair. The observatory hives were 

 a great source of constant interest, not 

 only to the experienced bee-keepers, 

 but also to the curious uninitiated. 



The following rewards were made : 



Best collection of Texas honey-yielding 

 plants, pressed and mounted — ist, L. H. 

 Scholl; 2d, Miss Meta Hillge. 



Golden Italian bees and queen in single- 

 comb observatory hives — ist, John W. Pharr; 

 2d, Grant Anderson. 



Three-banded Italian bees and queen in 

 single-comb, observatory hive — ist, W. O. Vic- 

 tor; 2d, Udo and Max Toepperwein. 



Carniolan bees and queens in single-comb 

 observatory hives — ist, Grant Anderson; 2d, 

 Udo and Max Toepperwein. 



Caucasian bees and queens in single-comb 

 observatory hives — ist. Southwestern Bee Com- 

 pany; id, Udo and Max Toepperwein. 



Cyprian bees and queens in single-comb ob- 

 servatory hives — ist, Udo and Max Toepper- 

 wein. 



Holy Land bees and queens in single-comb 

 observatory hives — ist, Udo and Max Toepper- 

 wein; 2d, Southwestern Bee Company. 



Banat bees and queen in single-comb ob- 

 servatory hives — 1st, Grant Anderson; 2d, Udo 

 and ^lax Toepperwein. 



Black queen and bees in single-comb ob- 

 servatory hives — ist. Southwestern Bee Com- 

 pany. 



Best display of bumble-bees — 1st, F. h. 

 Aten. 



Best and largest display of bees of various 

 races in observatory hives — ist, Southwestern 

 Bee Company; 2d, Udo and Max Toepper- 

 wein. 



Best and largest display of queens of vari- 

 ous races, in mailing cases — ist. Southwest- 

 ern Bee Company; 2d, John W. Pharr. 



Best case of white section comb honey, 

 twelve pounds or more — ist, W. O. Victor; 

 2d, Wald C. Conrads. 



Best case of light amber section comb hon- 

 ey — ist, Southwestern Bee Company; 2d, W.O. 

 Victor. 



Best and largest display of section comb 

 honey — ist, W. O. Victor; 2d, Udo and Max 

 Toepperwein. 



Best display of special designs of comb 

 honey — ist, Udo and Max Toepperwein; 2d, 

 Frank Kraut. 



Best twelve pounds friction-top pail white 

 bulk comb honey — 1st, L. H. Scholl; 2d, 

 L. Jones. 



Best six pounds friction-top pail white bulk 

 comb honey — ist, L,. H. Scholl; 2d, L. Jones. 



Best three pounds friction-top pail white 

 bulk comb honey — 1st, J. W. Pharr; 2d, L. H. 

 Scholl. 



Best display of bulk comb honey — L. H. 

 Scholl, both prizes. 



Best dozen jars white extracted honey — 

 1st, Southwestern Bee Company; 2d, Udo and 

 Max Toepperwein. 



Best dozen jars amber extracted honey — 

 ist, Otto Sueltenfuss; 2d, Southwestern Bee 

 Company. 



Best display extracted honey, granulated 

 form— ist, W. O. Victor; 2d, L. H. Scholl. 



Best sample cake of bright yellow bees- 

 wax, not less than two pounds — ist, A. Four- 

 nier; 2d, h- C. Rosseau. 



Best and largest display of beeswax — L. H. 

 Scholl; 2d, Udo ai.d Max Toepperwein. 



Best display in special designs in bees- 

 wax — ist, Southwestern Bee Company; 2d, 

 L. H. Scholl. 



Best display of fruit preserved in honey — 



Southwestern Bee Company,- both prizes. 



Best honey-vinegar — ist, Moritz Rompel, 

 2d, Southwestern Bet- Company. 



Best instructive display in apiarian prod- 

 ucts and of the various uses made of honey 

 and beeswax — ist, Louis Scholl; 2d, South- 

 western Bee Company. 



Best and largest display of bee-keepers* sup- 

 plies — Diploma to Southwestern Bee Com- 

 pany. 



mfor Miller^ 



Send Questions either to the office of the American Bee Journal, or to 



DR. C. C. MILLER. Marengo. 111. 



Dr. Miller does not answer Questions by mail. 



Packing Bees for Winter. 



For out-door wintering, would it be 

 advisable to make a box-shaped frame 

 that would sit over the hive, leaving a 

 space of about 6 inches on each side 

 of the hive to be filled with hay or straw, 

 and leaving the entrance open? This 

 would be kept reasonably dry. 



Kans.\s. 



Answer. — Yes, if you change that 

 "reasonably dry" to "very dry," for no 

 matter how well you pack the sides, if 

 the top is so poorly protected that rain 

 or snow gets in at all, there will be 

 troirble. You say nothing about what 

 you will have over the top, but no doubt 

 you intend to protect it well, for it is 

 more important to pack well over the 

 top than the sides. A good many think 

 it is not well to have the front of the 

 hive packed the same as the other 3 

 sides, but leave it open, so the sun can 

 shine on it when a warm day comes. 



Wide-Top Section-Holders. 



1. What style of section-holder do 

 you use? I take to the wide-top style, 

 although I have never used any, but as 

 J. E. Hand advocated in Gleanings, I 

 think they would be the thing to keep 

 the tops of the sections clean ; but I 

 do not understand how the sections can 

 be removed easily after the bees have 

 propolized them as all bees do. 



2. Therefore, I have an idea that a 

 section-holder could be made in a way 

 that the top-bar could be removed easi- 

 ly, and in a moment's time, so as to get 

 at the sections as in an open-top hold- 

 er. Is such a complicated holder any 

 advantage, or will a solid wide-top bar 

 admit us to the sections without 

 trouble? Missouri. 



Answers. — i. I use the T-super. It 

 is not boomed in the catalogs, and some 

 who have tried it do not like it, but 

 quite a number — some of whom pro- 

 duce honey on a large scale — prefer it; 

 and, rightly used, I believe it the best 

 surplus arrangement in existence. 



2. Different kinds of section-holders 

 have been made that have top-bars cov- 

 ering the sections, and I'm not sure but 



some one tried something in the line of 

 a removable top-bar such as you pro- 

 pose. I have some doubt whether the 

 game is worth the candle. In the wide 

 frame which was extensively in use 

 some years ago, and is still in use by 

 some, there was not so much difficulty 

 in getting out the sections, even with 

 quite a tight fit, and after the bees had 

 glued them in. I've taken out tons of 

 such sections, and in some cases they 

 were probably as tight a fit as you 

 would have with a removable top-bar. 

 Even with this latter, you would prob- 

 ably find that the bees would crowd 

 in streaks of glue between the top-bar 

 and section. Like many others, I pre- 

 fer to have nothing over the sections to 

 prevent the bees from having access to 

 the tops, and bees will not put as much 

 glue on a plane surface as in angles 

 and cracks. What glue they do put on 

 can be scraped off. 



Bees by the Pound — Disease Carried 

 by the Queens, Etc. 



1. Would a pound of bees shipped 

 from the South in the spring make a 

 good colony of bees by fall, say to be 

 shipped from Tennessee or Kentucky? 



2. Would it be best to put such bees 

 on full combs, or just on starters? 



3. If I should send South for some 

 queens and the apiarist from whom I 

 purchased these queens had a disease in 

 his apiary, by introducing them, would 

 my bees be liable to get the disease? 



4. What color is the abdomen of a 

 3-banded Italian bee beside the 3 yel- 

 low bands, black or yellow? 



Minnesota. 

 Answers. — I. Yes, if shipped early 

 enough in a good season. 



2. There would be a decided gain in 

 giving them full combs ; and they should 

 also have the advantage of being kept 

 as snug and warm as possible. 



3. The most common way of carry- 

 ing foul brood is by means of the honey; 

 and if honey from a diseased colony 

 were to be taken by the escort of work- 

 er-bees, or in the cage, you could safely 

 count on introducing the disease into 

 your apiary. It is generally believed 



