1921 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



415 



SOME APIARY NOTES 



The usual plan of unitinfj with a 

 weak colony set on top of a strons; 

 one, with a newspaper between, 

 proved a failure with nie. About a 

 quart of the bees were found dead 

 outside before I discovered i;iy mis- 

 placed confidence and reversed the 

 chambers with a wire screen between 

 them over night. The stronger col- 

 ony confined up stall's soon loses its 

 fighting instinct and the weaker col- 

 ony on a strange stand likewise. This 

 is the nearest 100 per cent method 

 which I have tried. 



Robbing 



To stop robbing, coal oil is the 

 surest remedy I have found. Just 

 smear it all over the cracks they try 

 to enter and reduce the entrance to 

 a small space. The oil should be 

 smeared on both sides and above the 

 entrance as well as alightir.y board 

 and entrance blocks. The robbers 

 soon forget what they came after. So 

 far this has been 100 per cent suc- 

 cessful with me. 



Large Hives 



My experience with the large hives 

 as compared to the standard is de- 

 cidedly in favor of the Dadant or 

 Jumbo depth, and ten-frame width. 

 I only use 8 frames in a ten-frame 

 super, which gives thicker combs with 

 less uncapping. 



N. A. Clay, Oberlin, Ohio. 



New Hampshire 



The New Hampshire Extension Ser- 

 vice publishes Bulletin No. 15 on 

 "Beekeeping for New Hampshire, ' 

 written by Wm. H. Wolff. It is a 16- 

 page Bulletin giving excellent ele- 

 mentary information on the subject, 

 with several good cuts. Address the 

 New Hampshire College of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Connecticut Bees Registered 



Attention has recently been called 

 to the fact that Connecticut has a pro- 

 vision which requires every owner of 

 bees to apply to the town clerk for a 

 eertifica^ of ^-egistration. A fee of 

 25 cents is required for registration. 

 A fine is provided for those who neg- 

 lect to take out the required license. 



Bees Cause Wreck 



Several accidents of similar na- 

 ture have been reported from differ- 

 ent sections. In each case the driver 

 of an automobile has been stung or 

 frightened by a bee, with the result 

 that the machine, has gone into the 

 ditch. While the details are varied 

 somewhat according to circumstances, 

 the newspaper reports of those acci- 

 dents are very much alike. 



A Progressive Illinois County 



Henry County, Illinois, is leadina; 

 the way in organization in Illinois 

 counties. Field meetings were held in 

 June and September and they expect 

 to supplement these with indoor meet- 

 ings during the winter. 



the business of packing and selling 

 honey. A store has been opened at 

 30 West Main Ave., Si)okane, and the 

 business will be conducted under th'3 

 name of York Honey Company. 



Hawaii Wants Honey Plants 



A Hawaiian enthusiast recently vis- 

 ited California to secure some of the 

 more important honey plants, includ- 

 ing sage, for introduction into the 

 Islands. There are some very large 

 apiaries there and some of the more 

 important sources upon which the 

 beekeepers now depend have been in- 

 troduced from the mainland. 



Honey in a Thresher 



A newspaper clipping states that 

 Zena Briggs, of Hancock, Iowa, found 

 his threshing machine occupied by a 

 big swarm of bees when he prepared 

 to get ready to open the last thresh- 

 ing season. Briggs took more than 

 600 pounds of honey from the ma- 

 chine, according to the newspaper 

 story, and so gummed the outfit up 

 with honey and wax that he found it 

 difficult to get it ready for operation. 



Worker Mates With Drone 



H. O. Hutton, of Arlington, Wash., 

 reports that on one occasion he ob- 

 served a worker bee mating with a 

 drone and enquires whether this has 

 often been known. He states that he 

 examined the insects carefully so that 

 no mistake was made. He is famil- 

 iar with the fact that occasionally 

 queens are very small, but in this in- 

 stance the female was plainly a 

 worker bee. 



This is certainly not a common oc- 

 currence, and we will be glad to hear 

 from any of our readers who have 

 made a similar observation. 



The Honey Book 



The Texas Honey Producers' As- 

 sociation has issued an attractive lit- 

 tle book of recipes with") title "The 

 Honey Book." It contains 32 pagco 

 and cover and is designed to suggest 

 numerous ways in which the house- 

 wife can utilize honey for her table. 

 H. B. Parks had its preparation in 

 charge and we anticipate that it will 

 prove to be a piece of effective ad- 

 vertising for the Association. 



A New Way to Dislodge the Bees 



A painter at Peekskill, N. Y., re- 

 cently found a colony of bees in the 

 cornice of the roof. In an effort to 

 dislodge them he applied a torch to 

 the crevice which served as a flight 

 hole, and set the house on fire. Prompt 

 arrival of the fire department saved 

 the building from destruction. Since 

 we frequently receive letters asking 

 how bees can be removed from houses 

 we pass on the New York plan — burn 

 the house. 



York Honey fibre 



Our readers who knew George W. 

 Y'ork in years past will be interested 

 in hearing that he has returned to 



More Spray Poisoning 



For some time beekeepers have 

 been complaining of the loss of bees 

 through the spraying of fruit trees. 

 Now complaints are beginning to be 

 heard from the South, where cotton 

 fields are sprayed in an attempt to 

 control the boll weevil. Where cal- 



cium arsenate has been dusted on the 

 plants as recommended by the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, no dam- 

 age seems to have been done to the 

 bees, but where the liquid sprays have 

 been used the bees are reported killed 

 in large numbers. 



A Remedy for Bee Stings 



If you are stung on the hand, at 

 once put the place to your mouth and 

 suck it vigorously, at the same time 

 scraping it with your teeth. You can 

 often suck but enough of the poison 

 to taste it distinctly, but it is perfect- 

 ly harmless in the mouth, though, of 

 course, you would prefer to spit it 

 out. With so much of the poison re- 

 moved, the result of the sting is 

 bound to be that much less. 



Of course, if you are stung on the 

 face, you cannot apply this remedy, 

 but if you have a companion with you 

 he will do it for you, especially if you 

 are a pretty girl and he is sufficiently 

 chivalrous. Dr. A. A. Ames, 



Missouri. 



Harrison County Association 



The beekeepers of Harrison County 

 have been recently organized, the As- 

 sociation having held its midsummer 

 meeting and picnic at the large apiary 

 of George Young, near Woodbine. 

 F. B. Paddock, of Ames, State Api- 

 arist; M. H. Pelton, of Woodbine; 

 Mrs. Marvin, of Logan, and C. R. 

 Smith, spoke. County Agent C. R. 

 Fritzsche was in charge. While the 

 social phase of this meeting was worth 

 all our effort, the value of insti'uc- 

 tion received could hardly be esti- 

 mated. C. R. Smith, 

 Secretary-Ti-easurer. 



Hard Luck 



"Sweetenin' " sometimes comes 

 hard in Missouri. Says the Green- 

 field Vendette: "Uncle Jim Morris 

 reports that one day last week, at 

 noon, while he had his shoes off and 

 was resting his feet, a swarm of bees 

 came along. He never took time to 

 put his shoes back on, but ju.st 

 grabbed the good wife's washtub and 

 a plow handle and took after them, 

 making as fine music as a bee ever 

 heard. After running them about a 

 mile and knocking a toenail off, he 

 treed them in a big oak tree. He says 

 it took him two hours in the hot sun 

 to cut the tree and get the hive — and 

 then the dadgum things came out the 

 next day and left. He says honey is 

 not very good this year anyway." — 

 Kansas City Times. 



Bologna Association 



A beekeepers' association has lately 

 been organized in the Province of 

 Bologna, Italy, under the name of 

 "Associazione Provinciale Apicultori 

 Bolognesi." One of the most import- 

 ant purposes of this organization is 

 "to regulate the work of the indi- 

 vidual apiaries for the preservation of 

 the purity of the Italian bee, its im- 

 provement and its defense against the 

 propagation of contagious diseases." 

 Bolongna is in the heart of Italy and 

 has very fine bees. 



