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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



November 



ODDS AND ENDS 



Group of beekeepers at the Putnam, Illinois, field 



meeting 



found to work well on a few occa- 

 sions : 



Put the old queen below with a 

 frame of brood and empty combs or 

 foundation. Next, place a queen ex- 

 cluder, then one or more supers, then 

 another excluder, and at the top of all 

 place the brood with a ripe cell fro'n 

 your choice breeder. Shove the hive- 

 body containing the brood and ceU 

 forward, just a little, so that the 

 queen can get out at the back. The 

 two excluders, being a considerable 

 distance apart, will tend to prevent 

 the virgin from "raising a rumpus" 

 in the vicinity of her maternal ances- 

 tor, a proceeding which may result in 

 the exodus of at least one Tjueen and 

 a portion of the bees. Somehow I 

 cannot feel just right toward the fel- 

 low who will bore an auger hole in n 

 perfectly good beehive. 



It is not necessary to discard sec- 

 tions which have become discolored 

 especially if the honey is to be sold 

 locally. By the use of sandpaper 

 they can be made to appear almost as 

 good as new. If the number is 

 large, a pulley belt or a grinder wheel 

 replaced with a wooden disk, covered 

 with coarse sandpaper may be used, 

 but if there are only a few hundred, 

 just place a sheet of the paper on a 

 smooth board and rub the filled sec- 

 tions over it. 



The following will bear repetition : 

 To make a flour paste that will stick 

 to tin, add a tablespoonful of honey 

 to each teacupful of paste. Boil thor- 

 oughly, but do not allow it to burn. 

 I'resh paste should be made for earn 

 li)t labeled. 



Wanted — The best method of dis- 

 posing of cappings. We use a cap- 

 [ling melter after the extracting is 

 all done, but it is a slow and tedious 

 job. 



In the spring of 1919 there was clo- 

 ver, clover everywhere resulting, we 

 might almost say, in not a drop of 

 clover honey. Last spring it was dif- 

 ficult to find a leaf of white clover 

 anywhere, and the sequence — well, 

 it has rained honey all summer. In 

 the future I expect to leave prophcc, 

 to the other fellow. 



Valparaiso, Inrl. 



IOWA CONVENTION 



The Iowa Beekeepers' Convention 

 will be held in connection with the 

 Horticultural Congres-;, at Council 

 Bluflfs, Iowa, November 17, 18 and 19. 

 Secretary Paddock writes that they 



hope to make it the biggest and best 

 convention in the history of the or- 

 ganization. It has been decided to 

 meet at Council Blufifs instead of Des 

 Moines this year for two reasons : 

 first, to accommodate members in 

 the western part of Iowa who felt 

 that the convention should be moved 

 to another city for an occasional 

 meeting, and second, to enable those 

 who intend to exhibit at the congress 

 to attend the convention at the same 

 time, The Mic^west Horticultural Ex- 

 position officials are co-operating with 

 the beekeepers in every way possible 

 and a liberal premium list has been 

 offered for the beekeepers' products. 

 It is hoped that there will be a large 

 display of bees and honey to justify 

 their confidence. Live beekeepers will 

 do well to take an exhibit and help 

 advertise our product to the thou- 

 sands of visitors who will attend the 

 exposition, while helping to pay their 

 own expenses to the convention from 

 the premiums. 



Those who are interested can se- 

 cure premium lists from Prof. F. B. 

 Paddock, State Apiarist, Ames, Iowa. 

 He will also supply programs of the 

 convention when completed. 



Western New York Meeting 



Tile annual fall meeting of the 

 Western New York Honey Produc- 

 ers' Association will be held in Buf- 

 falo, N. Y., at the Genesee Hotel, 

 November 9 and 10. All interested in 

 beekeeping or honey are cordially in- 

 vited to attend. 



Apalachicola Crop Short 



Beekeepers complain that the pub- 

 lication of a report to the effect that 

 the crop of Tupelo honey was unus- 

 ually good, had a bad eiTect on their 

 market. It is stated that this report 

 was unfounded and that there was 

 not to be one-third of a crop in the 

 Apalachicola district. Estimates 

 which are above the true condition 

 have a tendency to depress the mar- 

 ket. 



Honey Supplants Sugar 



Italy is devising means to alleviate 

 the beet sugar shortage. She has 

 been urged to put more bees at work 

 producing honej^ Italy in 1917 had 

 nearly 67,000 miles of railway, and 

 at regular intervals along the lines 

 are little houses where the railway 

 employees, signalmen, track walkers 

 and repairmen live. The manager of 

 the National Institute for Agrarian 

 Assistance recently recommended 

 that they each be given a hive of bees. 

 In conformity with the suggestion, 

 the experiment is to be begun at 

 once on the lines in the Province of 

 Rome, and if successful, it will be ex- 

 tended to all the railways of Italy.— 

 Exchange. 



Course in Beekeeping in Spokane 



Braving the worst thunder storm of 

 the season 62 persons attended the 

 opening lecture of the special course 

 for beekeepers at Spokane. In charge 

 of the course, which will last all win- 

 ter, is George W. York. He will have 

 associated with him several experi- 

 enced apiarists and the course wi'l 

 embrace practical work in some of 

 the beeyards of the vicinity. The ini- 

 tial attendance is regarded as excep- 

 tionally satisfactory and an indica- 

 tion of keen interest in bee culture. 

 The opening meeting took place in 

 the Chamber of Commerce assembly 

 room and was devoted largely to an 

 illustrated address. When the course 

 was announced a local newspaper 

 criticised the suggestion bitterly and 

 denounced the idea of maintaining 

 bees in the citv. 



l,>r. A. V. Bouncy, President Icwa Beekeepers' 

 Association 



A Simple Cure for Ants 



During the early spring I moved 

 several colonies of bees to the moun- 

 tains, setting them on large flat rocks. 

 About June 1 I noticed large red ants 

 in great nuiubcrs, having made nests 

 directly under the hives. I tried sev- 

 eral remedies, without results. I 

 then tried as follows; it worked to 

 |)erfection : I placed two pieces of 

 soft wood 3x4x18 inches, under each 

 hive. These I coated with a heavy 

 roofing composition made by the 



