1921 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



149 



From liis 100 colonies on July 27. 

 Mr. Bodily extracted 60 cans, that is 

 3,600 pounds, and that was just the 

 lieginning of his season's work. His 

 wife helps him in the uncapping of 

 the comb, hut her chief success is 

 with turkeys. 



The State Farm Bureau helped last 

 year in the sale of Uintah honey. 

 The bee men had contracted to sell 

 their boney to a local firm at the 

 Denver market price, less the cost 

 of freight. The contract was not 

 lived up to, and the Uintah bee men 

 were feeling rather sore, when the 

 county agent began to sell it for them 

 through the other county agents of 

 the State. The first sold in Coal- 

 ville at $3 less than the local price 

 for 5-gallon cans. It sold everywhere 

 in the State, from Grouse Creek to 

 Kanab, at a better price than the 

 Denver market price which had been 

 offered, although in every case it was 

 lower than the local price and came 

 into competition with honey from 

 other parts of the State. Some of 

 the honey even traveled to Oklahoma 

 and, though it cost the buyer there 

 $17.50, he sent back for two more 

 cans. "Beats anything in honey I 

 have ever .eaten," was his comment. 

 An agricultural college professor 

 ordered five cans, thinking that there 

 was a gallon in each. He was much 

 surprised when his bill was over $50. 

 However, as he was a botanist with 

 much sympathy for bee men, he 

 coughed up the cash cheerfully and 

 his children are the happier for his 

 carelessness. 

 Utah. 



food, waiting for the cell bars. In 

 using artificial ccll-cu'ps I found that 

 the bees eat up the given royal jelly 

 first and clean the cups before they 

 take care of the transferred larvx. 

 In doing this work some of the larvae 

 perish. I advise beekeepers to read 

 Pellett's book on queen-rearing. 

 Texas. 



CELL PRODUCTION 



By H. Brenner 



To receive the largest percentage of 

 prolific .queens it is important that 

 the larvas be supplied, from the earli- 

 est stage, abundantly with food. Take 

 a comb with just hatching larvae from 

 the best hreeders. Cut out single 

 cells containing larvae of the same age 

 and fasten with hot wax to the top- 

 bar of the empty frame, space the 

 cells so you will have about 18 to the 

 bar. Destroy with a toothpick the 

 larvas in the double cells and on the 

 under side of the mid rib and give 

 the frame to the cell-rearing colony. 

 Prepare according to the strength of 

 the colony another bar or two, and 

 fasten in the same frame. If the 

 colony is in the right condition for 

 cell-rearing you will find the cells un- 

 der the top bar started already when 

 you insert the second bar. With this 

 method the larvae are never starving 

 or without food. I take larvae of the 

 same age so the cells ripen at the 

 same time. To prepare the colony 

 for cell rearing. I make it queenlcss 

 and do not bother it for three days. 

 The third day I take away all the 

 sealed brood, larvae and eggs, de- 

 stroy ihe queen-cells and leave in the 

 center, between two frames of sealed 

 brood, space for the cell frame. I 

 have then a queenless colony without 

 any larvae or eggs, ready to supply 

 any number of queen-cells with larval 



ODDS AND ENDS 



Where Bees May Be Kept 



Whereas some country yieldeth one 

 fruit, some another; some beareth one 

 grain, some another; some breedeth 

 one kind of cattle, some another; 

 there is no ground, of what nature 

 soever it be, hot or cold, wet or dry, 

 hill or dale, woodland of chamlpian, 

 meadow, pasture or arable; in a 

 word, whether it be hattle or barren, 

 which yieldeth not matter for the lice 

 to work upon. — Chas. Butler. The 

 Feminine Monarchic, 1623. 



accusations from beekeepers in the 

 Chicago district, nor was any such 

 statement made at the December, 

 1920, meeting of the Chicago North- 

 western Beekeepers' , Association, I 

 believe it is the duty of the American 

 to inake a statement defending the 

 article mentioned. If they have iproof 

 of their statement, then the beekeep- 

 ers should, through the League and 

 the bee journals, oorreot this situa- 

 tion. If the paper cannot show that 

 adulterated honey was commonly 

 sold, then this paper owes to the bee- 

 keepers and honey dealers of Amer- 

 ica an apology. H. B. Parks, 

 Secretary American Honey Produc- 

 ers' League. 



Gypsum for Alfalfa Yields 



A recent article in "Cement, Mill 

 and Quarry" calls alitention to the 

 great value of agricultural gypsum in 

 increasing the yield of alfalfa in the 

 west. Who knows but that the addi- 

 tion of some fertilizer may result in 

 increasing secretion of nectar from 

 alfalfa in the east? Our experiment 

 stations are yet in their infancy. 



A Live Organization 



The Vigo County, Indiana, beekeep- 

 ers have an organization which keeps 

 things moving. They hold summer 

 tours and winter meetings, and never 

 allow interest to lag. They held a 

 short course of two days at Terre 

 Haute on February 24 and 25, attend- 

 ed by about 60 beekeepers. The in- 

 structors were C. O. Yost, Jay Smith. 

 E. W. Atkins, beside local beekeepers, 

 including R. B. Davis, of Staunton, In- 

 diana, and the officers of the Associa- 

 tion. 



William A. Hunter was re-elected 

 President, Frank Teel Vice President 

 and George E. Osburn was chosen to 

 succeed Mr. Rainbolt as Secretary. 



Adulterated Honey 



Relaitive to the article in the Chi- 

 cago Evening American by Brice 

 Belden, M. D., stating that honey is 

 one of the things most extensively 

 adulterated, I wish to say 1;hat the 

 editorial in the February issue, is 

 timely. Some action must be taken 

 when charges like these are made. 

 On December 28, 1920, I received a 

 letter from Frank C. Pellett, contain- 

 ing the same information as published 

 in the Journal. The same day I 

 wrote to the American and to Dr. 

 Belden through that paper asking for 

 a confirmation of this statement and 

 offered the aid of the League to help 

 in rectifying this situation. Up to this 

 day (Feb. 4, 1921), I have received no 

 reply to these letters, neither have 

 the letters been returned. 



As I have no such information or 



Bee Stings Kill Team 



Danville, Va. — Two horses belong- 

 ing to a Patrick County orchard com- 

 pany were stung to death, and Mrs. 

 Audrey Rickman was rendered un- 

 conscious when attacked by a swarm 

 of bees. The horses, harnessed, 

 overturned a beehive in their rest- 

 lessness, and brought out the bees. 



Goaded hy stings, the team ran amuck 

 and upset 18 more bee stands, with 

 the result that a cloud of many thou- 

 sands settled on the beasts which, be- 

 coming entangled in the harness, fell 

 helpless to the ground.— News Item. 



A Good Start 



I had one colony on 10 Langstroth 

 frames and 6 shallow extracting 

 combs to begin with. I have trans- 

 ferred onto Jumbo frames with V/i- 

 inch spacing. I have increased that 

 one colony to six colonies, all on 

 Jumbo frames, in Dadant hives. July 

 4 I bought a 3-pound package of bees 

 and queen. My first nucleus was 

 made June 25, and the last one on 

 July 10. I bought queens to introduce 

 to the new divisions. As to the 

 amount of honey: I have taken 101 

 sections, the lightest weighing 14J4 

 oz. net, and the heaviest weighing 16^ 

 oz. net. Then I have 80 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey, beside frames of 

 honey that weigh 38 pounds that I 

 saved to feed if it were necessary.^ I 

 have now 7 rousing big colonies, with 

 their combs solid full of honey for 

 winter, and have stored away 56 

 shallow extracting combs for use 

 next spring. 



This has been my introduction to 

 the bees, and I have had royal good 

 time, beside a profitable one, having 

 sold 73 sections for SO cents each, and 

 50 pounds extracted honey for SO 

 cents a pound. 



I am afraid spring is a long time in 

 coming. 



Yours truly. 



Ransom A Race. 



Massachusetts. 



Honey From City Shade Trees 



In the city of Washington there are 

 al)out 10.000 basswood trees within a 

 radius of two miles of Iowa circle. 

 An enterprising beekeeper, Harold L. 

 Kclley, of Forest Glen, Maryland, 

 moves his bees into the city for the 

 flow and gets an average crop of 



