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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



July 



members, sending out experts to ren- 

 ier assistance, and similar activities. 



Bad Spring in 



It has been a hard 

 in Northern Vermont 

 have been dried out 

 No fruit bloom, and 

 dandelions made it n 

 heavily to get the 

 strength. (May 19 

 C 



Vermont 



row for the bees 

 this spring. We 

 and frozen up. 

 a small stand of 

 ecessary to feed 

 bees up to full 

 ). 

 H. Carpenter. 



Third Beekeepers' Chau,tauqua 



Prof. H. F. Wilson, of the Wiscon- 

 sin State University, announces that 

 their third annual beekeepers' sum- 

 mer meeting will be held at Chippewa 

 Falls from August 15 to 20. In addi- 

 tion to a number of prominent Wis- 

 consin beekeepers at least three 

 speakers are expected from outside 

 the State. Those so far announced 

 are Dr. E. F. Phillips, of Washington ; 

 E. R. Root, of Ohio, and C. P. Dadant, 

 senior editor of this Journal. 



The previous summer meetings 

 have been very interesting and suc- 

 cessful, and a good attendance is ex- 

 pected at Chippewa Falls. 



small bees could be seen to enter and 

 leave. We wondered why the chil- 

 dren did not get stung, but learned 

 that the bees have no stings. They 

 are about the size of large house flies 

 and have a pretty striped body, but no 

 sting. The hives are made of hollow 

 logs suspended to the tops of the huts 

 to keep the ants from eating the 

 honey. A board is stuck into the end 

 and a hole about an inch in diameter 

 in the center is used for the exit. 

 When it is desired to rob the hive, 

 the board is removed and the honey 

 taken out, and then it is replaced as 

 before." — Onward, San Jose, Costa 

 Rica, March, 1921.) 



door hands, comes along and rams it 

 down with his head and packs it into 

 the cell as the dairy maid packs but- 

 ter into a firkin." — The Pastoral Bees. 

 Burroughs, like Roosevelt, was a 

 universal nature observer, and his ob- 

 servations are nearly always correctly 

 rendered, but with an artless simplic- 

 ity which appeals to the casual reader 

 and which is to be envied. 



To Paint Foundation 



To paint beeswax on foundation to 

 furnish additional support, I use a 

 small atomizer made of metal. It 

 sends the finest spray of wax. I use 

 it also on aluminum combs. This ma- 

 chine was used for spraying "amber- 

 ine," which is made mostly of bees- 

 wax, to make an artificial skin over 

 bad burns. — Lillian E. Bland, British 

 Columbia. 



Keeping Quality of Beeswax 



Mr. James Johnson, of Pocahontas, 

 Ark., sends us a sample of beeswax 

 rendered at Galena, Ohio, in 1880, by 

 Mrs. Joe Scratz, with the question as 

 to how long it would keep. This sam- 

 ple is apparently not different, after 

 41 years, from wax rendered last 

 year. As far as we know, there is ijo 

 reason why beeswax should not be 

 as good after a thousand years, if 

 kept in a clean, dry place. In fact we 

 understand that wax that was much 

 older than that has been recovered 

 from ancient cities. 



Stingless Bees of Central America 



"Leaving Santa Cruz, our trail led 

 northward, and a few minutes after 

 leaving town we crossed a small river 

 which was of considerable size at that 

 time, but it completely dries up in 

 the dry season. We passed several 

 palm-thatched huts along the road- 

 side, and many of them had hollow 

 logs about 4 feet long hanging to the 

 roofs of the huts, and out of the end 



Pollen Depositing 



What a delight it is to read a 

 writer like John Burroughs! He can 

 give you a new idea of something you 

 have seen before. Listen: 



"When a bee brings pollen into the 

 hive, he advances to the cell in which 

 it is deposited and kicks it off as one 

 might his overalls or rubber boots; 

 making one foot help the other. Then 

 he walks off without ever looking be- 

 hind him; another bee, one of the in- 



New York Reports 



New York produced 3,223,323 

 pounds of honey in 1919. Number of 

 colonies has decreased from 156,360 

 in 1909, to 127,858 in 1919. The 

 per colony average for 1919 was 25 

 pounds. 



Tongue and Sting 



Anger a woman, you shall learn 

 the length of her tongue; vex a bee, 

 it will give you the length of its sting. 

 Offer sweet words and things to 

 either, you shall enjoy peace. — (R. 

 Stanistreet, in Irish Bee Journal). 



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