1921 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



71 



A New York Meeting 



The Ulster County, New York, 

 Honey Producers' Co-operative As- 

 sociation Iield their annual meeting 

 January 8, 1921. The association is 

 affiliated with the State Association 

 and this winter is buying supplies co- 

 operatively. Later they e.xpect to 

 sell their surplus honey through the 

 State Association in the same way. 

 It was voted to have an outing trip 

 (by autos) May 25, 1921, visiting 

 many of the apiaries of Ulster County 

 and making an advertising campaign 

 of the trip as well. 



Mrs. Blaker Dies 



We regret to have to announce the 

 death of Mrs. C. D. Blaker, wife of 

 the efficient Minnesota State Bee In- 

 spector, which occurred in Minneapo- 

 lis on December 30. Our sympathy 

 goes to Mr. Blaker. 



Watson to Texas 



Mr. Lloyde R. Watson, Assistant 

 Apiculturist in the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology at Washington, will shortly 

 take up his duties as assistant to Dr. 

 Tanquary, at College Station, Texas. 

 Mr. Watson will have charge of the 

 State Experimental Apiaries, and will 

 devote his entire time to experimen- 

 tal work in apiculture. 



Queen Best Second Year 



"There is no doubt whatever that 

 the queenbee is in her prime for 

 breeding, the second year of her ex- 

 istence, after which her vigor sensi- 

 bly declines." — American Bee Jour- 

 nal, 1866. 



Italian Bees and Alsike Clover 



In an early issue of the American 

 Bee Journal the fact is stated that 

 Samuel Wagner, first editor of this 

 Journal, was the first to call the at- 

 tention of American beekeepers to 

 Italian bees and alsike clover. Both 

 have proven to be especially adapted 

 to American conditions and have be- 

 come so widely established in this 

 country as to be taken as a matter of 

 course. Their introduction has been 

 worth untold millions of dollars to 

 agricultural interests in this country. 



Honey as an Energy Producer 



A new bulletin recently issued by 

 the Department of Agriculture of the 

 Province of Quebec, gives a table of 

 comparative values of honey and 

 other sugar as producers of energy. 

 Honey, according to this authority, 

 produces 100 calories of heat with 

 one tablespoonful, while granulated 

 sugar requires two tablespoonfuls to 

 produce 100 calories, or twice the 

 amount. 



Honey Changing Quality 



American Bee Journal, November, 

 1920, page 376: "What is the trou- 

 ble? Who can tell"?. Answer: Per- 

 centage of invert sugar in honey 

 varies from 49.59 to 93.96. (Neufeld 

 Der Nahrumgsmittelchemiker als 

 Sachverstandiger, Berlin, 1907, page 

 275). In this case, too low percentage 

 of sugar allowed activity of some 



kind of organism which might have 

 been prevented had temperature of 

 honey been raised slowly to 150 de- 

 grees and then dropped quickly. A 

 saccharometer might determine the 

 necessity of using heat. Capped honey 

 does not always contain same per- 

 centage of sugar. 



William O. Dyer. 

 Rhode Island. 



Bee Hunting 



The September number of the Dixie 

 Beekeeper has a two-page article by 

 its editor, on bee hunting in the Blue 

 Ridge Mountains of Northern Geor- 

 gia. Mr. Wilder is an enthusiastic 

 man and enjoys the sports of hunting 

 game, fishing and bee hunting, and 

 his descriptions make us wish to be 

 with him a few days at such times. 

 He does not think only of making 

 money, and evidently can see the 

 beauties of nature and enjoy the re- 

 laxation from work which such sports 

 entail. 



Queenless Swarm Filling Its Hive 



The British Bee Journal of October 

 21 inserts the letter of a beekeeper, 

 A. Lewis, giving the account of a 

 natural swarm which lost its queen, 

 but filled the hive full of comb and 

 honey, without a single one of the 

 cells having been occupied with brood. 

 I remember a similar occurrence 

 which I witnessed in my young days. 

 Having gone to buy bees from a box- 

 hive beekeeper, we examined to- 

 gether all his colonies, about the last 

 of October. We found one, a new 

 swarm, in which there was not over a 

 handful of bees, and no queen. The 

 hive had been filled with honey to the 

 bottom, leaving not over 4 square 

 inches of empty comb. But I cannot 

 remember whether there had been no 

 brood at all. It was a fine box full 

 of virgin honey. The swarm must 

 have been very strong and the sea- 

 son good. I never saw anything like 

 it since. 



British Bee Magazines ' 



We have had several enquiries for 

 the addresses of British bee maga- 

 zines. The following are the ones we 

 know of: 



The British Bee Journal (weekly), 

 23 Bedford St., Strand, London, W. 

 C, England. 



The Bee World appears only quar- 

 terly, at present, Benson, Oxon, Eng- 

 land. 



Bee-Craft (very small), J. C. 

 Whettam, 18 Kingswood Avenue, 

 Chatham, England. 



Beekeepers' Record (monthly), 

 same address as British Bee Journal. 



The Irish Bee Journal, Lough 

 Rynn, R. S. O., Co. Leitrim, Ireland. 



Iowa Beekeeping Important 



F. B. Paddock. State Apiarist of 

 Iowa, estimates that in 1919 there was 

 produced 13,350,000 pounds of honey, 

 worth $2,670,000, and that the total 

 investment in bees and equipment 

 amounts to $4,500,000. He states, 

 further, that Iowa produces 6 per cent 

 of the total output of honey of the 



nation, and that it is exceeded only 

 by California, which produces IS per 

 cent, and Texas with 7 per cent of 

 the whole. According to his informa- 

 tion, the consumption of honey in 

 Iowa h^s increased 33 1-3 per cent in 

 the last three years. 



Honey So!d 



The Illinois crop of honey for 1920 

 is largely disposed of. In fact, likely 

 many localities will be under sup- 

 plied. Another case of lack of 

 proper distribution of our product. 



Lavender Seed 



There have "been numerous letters 

 from our readers asking where' lav- 

 ender seed can be secured. We find 

 by correspondence that many of the 

 seed houses carry it at 10 cents per 

 packet. Look in your flower-seed 

 catalog. 



Salt 



Of two drinking vessels, that con- 

 taining slightly salted water seemed 

 to be slightly preferred by the bees. 

 — Bienen-V'ater, quoted by the Bee 

 World). 



A New Kind of Honey 



A lady stopped and enquired for 

 honey. I asked what kind she 

 wanted, and she replied: "She (fe- 

 male) honey. He (male) honey is bit- 

 ter." I showed her some comb honey. 

 She then said: "That is all right; 

 there is no 'he' honey in that." 



'\'ew York 



What Puzzled Her 



Lady to Beekeeper: "So you keep 

 bees! I think they are just perfectly 

 adorable little creatures; I have just 

 read Maeterlinck's 'The Life of the 

 Bee.' But one thing has always puz- 

 zled me: How do you put that little 

 wooden box around the cake of 

 honey without crushing that delicate 

 wax?" — Beekeepers' Item. 



CLASSIHED DEPARTMENT. 



Advertisements in tliis department will be 

 inserted for 5 cents per word, with no dis- 

 counts. No classified advertisements accepted 

 for less than 35 cents. Count each initial or 

 number as one word. 



Copy for this department must reach us not 

 later than the 20th of the month preceding 

 date of issue. If intended for classified de- 

 partment it should be so stated when adver- 

 tisement is sent. 



BEES AND QUEENS 



Lower Price. Top Quality. Atwater's Honey. 



FOR SALE — Utopian quality Italian queens, 



the kind that satisfy. May 15 to June 10, 



untested, $2 each. After June 10, untested, 



$1.60 each. 6. $8. Virgins, 90c each; 6, $4.76. 



Utopian Apiaries, Amboy, Minn. 



FOR SALE — Twelve colonies Italians in 2 

 stories packed in quadruple cases according 

 to Government Bulletin; 5 hives, 12 tons and 

 bottoms; all 10-frame Standard Hoffman; 25 

 supers equipped for comb honey; 1,000 sections, 

 10 lbs. foundation, feeders, excluders, traps, 

 etc. All new equipment; $400 cash. 



Wm. Elges, Heyworth, 111. 



FOR SALE — 50 colonies Italian bees in 8-frame 



new hives, on full sheets foundation and 



wired, equipment. All in good condition. All 



goes together for $10 per colony. No disease. 



Lee Elliott, Greenview, 111. 



