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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



November 



year, and a five-year average of 40.4 

 pounds. Condition of honey plants 

 IS only 77 per cent as against 85.8 

 per cent for last year, and condition 

 of colonies is given as 87 per cent, 

 as against 90 per cent in 1920. 



C. A. Hatch Dies 



Word has recently reached this of- 

 fice of the death of C. A. Hatch, of 

 Richland Center, Wis., a well-known 

 beekeeper of that State. Mr. Hatch 

 has been in failing health for some 

 time past. He passed away on Sep- 

 tember 19. 



California Short Courses 



Two short courses in beekeeping 

 will be offered by the University of 

 California this winter. The first at 

 Berkeley, from December 5 to 10, is 

 intended primarily for beginners. 

 The advanced course will be given at 

 the same place from December 12 to 

 17. An extension school will also be 

 held at Los Angeles from December 

 5 to 10. 



These courses are under direction 

 of Prof. G. A. Coleman, and those 

 interested should address him at the 

 University, Berkeley, Calif., for com- 

 plete program. 



Co-operation Needed 



We need an extensive educational 

 campaign in the interest of American 

 beekeepers and the extracted honey 

 producer especially. In our exhibit- 

 ing we met with distressing circum- 

 stances. A contention exists be- 

 tween the beekeepers in a locality, 

 through the poor policy of some of 

 cutting the prices below what it is 

 actually worth to undersell their 

 neighbors. I was told of one man 

 who sold his honey at 65 cents for a 

 5-lb. pail. How is that for a fair 

 price for Michigan white clover? I 

 live in hopes that some time soon we 

 may have better control of the retail 

 trade and the small producer. 



Roland Adams. 



Michigan. 



Why Not "Bee Jelly?" 



The three-year-old son of a friend 

 was having his first taste of honey, 

 and his mother explained how honey 

 was produced, and showed him a bee 

 gathering honey on a blossom. 



The next day the boy wanted more 

 honey, but forgot the name for it. 

 What more natural than that he 

 should ask for "bee jelly?" Just yes- 

 terday he was heard trying to explain 

 v.'hy a bumblebee was not a "jelly- 

 bee." 



Perhaps those people who are anx- 

 ious to rid ou*" vocabulary of the 

 term "extracted honey" as a mis- 

 nomer, would be willing to compro- 

 mise on "bee jelly." 



Apple Trade 



Recent reports would indicate that 

 the apple trade has slackened up ow- 

 ing to advances in prices made by 

 handlers. "The Packer," of Kansas 

 City, says: 



The keen edge seemed to have dis- 



appeared from the active apple mar- 

 ket of last week, due in a large meas- 

 ure to the high prices prevailing. 

 Some receivers were asking as high a= 

 $12 a barrel for high-colored, good- 

 sized fruit on Monday of this week, 

 fruit that sold the preceding week for 

 $9. Demand was moderate Monday 

 and average Wealthies and Snows 

 sold from $5 to $7. Gravensteius 

 brought $8 and $9 and Mcintosh Reds 

 from $9 to $10 on the best and $7 and 

 $8.50 on unclassified. Crab apples 

 have been in very light receipt and 

 have sold from $8 to $10. Washing- 

 ton boxes of Mcintosh Reds, orchard 

 run, medium and large sizes, have 

 sold at $4 to $4.50, small sizes at 

 $3.50 and No. 1 Mcintosh Reds from 

 Maine at $3.50 to $4. 



Trying for Lower Freight Rates 



The International Apple Shippers' 

 Association, the National League of 

 Commission Merchants and the West- 

 ern Fruit Jobbers' Association of 

 America, co-operating, are gathering 

 facts on the effects of high freight 

 and express rates on the fruit and 

 vegetable industry. 



This information, when tabulated, 

 is to be presented to the Joint Com- 

 mission of Agricultural Inquiry of 

 Congress and to the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission in an effort to 

 have rates reduced to a workable ba- 

 ns. 



It is promised that this is the mor;t 

 exhaustive survey of food distribution 

 costs ever undertaken. 



THE GERMAN HONEY MARKET 



The honey market is returning to 

 what it was before the war. Imported 

 honey is in direct competition with the 

 native, and when, by this competition, 

 honey prices are cut, then the German 

 beekeeper must retain his product. In 

 other words, this misfortun-.' has come 

 upon us. 



How was it before the war? In 

 Hf.mburg foreign honey could be 

 bought for 5 cents per pound, while 

 native honey brought 25 cents, or five 

 times as much. The honey-consuming 

 public knew the difference between 

 German and imported honey and 

 1 ought the former from the beekeeper 

 at 25 cents a pound, since he could 

 oily get the darker imported honey 

 from the storekeeper in glass at 15 to 

 20 cents a pound, and it did not suit 

 him. 



How is it today? The public got 

 used to substitutes during the war, 

 g'ucose, adulterants, etc. Now again, 

 it. place of the substitutes conies the 

 foreign honey, especially from Amor- 

 ica. where the crops yield immense 

 ]'rofits compared to ours. But how 

 does it taste compared to our native 

 iiroduct? One need have no sweet 

 tooth to find that the imported honey 

 lacks the property whi-h riakes honey 

 n^al honey, the fine, pleasant .iroma. 

 There is lacking, as is said of wine, 

 the "smack." 



Foreign honeys are many times low 

 grade, which can in very few ways be 

 mixed and blended to advantage. Also 

 adulterants are not lacking. Anyone 



with a knowledge of honey, therefore, 

 will not buy the foreign product. If 

 thi native honey costs 2 cents a pound 

 more, it is worth it. Before the war, 

 native honey sold for five times as 

 much as imported. Now it brings only 

 one-third more and, unfortunately, 

 cur beekeepers cannot sell our honey 

 as cheaply since a beekeeper's needs 

 (sugar, beeswax, hives and supplies) 

 are raised out of all proportion. 



Whoever desires honey, therefore, 

 should buy no worthless, flat honey 

 J'loni abroad, but the uncoataminated, 

 age-tested home product. — Der Bien- 

 cnpflege for August. 



BEARS ATTACK APIARIES 



G. M. Newton Gets 300-Pound Bruin 



With His Rifle A Loss of 20 



Colonies at Beausejour. 



It is a well-known fact that bears 

 will often attack wild bees in the 

 woods, being very fond of honey, but 

 it is not often that a beekeeper has to 

 reckon with bears as a problem in 

 practical bee culture under civilized 

 conditions. Yet some of the yards m 

 Manitoba have been attacked by beai's 

 this year. 



On September 4, Mr. G. M. New- 

 ton, the President of the Manitoba 

 Beekeepers' Association, went to one 

 of his outyards at the mouth of the 

 Red River, near Selkirk, and brought 

 home a 300-pound bear which he shot 

 with a rifle. Residents of the neigh- 

 borhood have seen a number of bears 

 hanging around the yard, but there 

 was no actual attack on the bees. Re- 

 ports place the number of bears at 

 eight. 



At Beausejour a Polish beekeeper 

 is said to have lost 20 hives through 

 their being carried off by bears and 

 broken open in the woods. — Western 

 Gardener and Poultrvman, Septem- 

 ber, 1921. 



Winnipeg. 



A Safe Introducing Cage 



Take a piece of wire screen six 

 inches square, cut the corners so you 

 can turn all four sides down half an 

 inch. Shake the bees from a comb of 

 emerging brood and release queen 

 and attendant bees on this comb. 

 Place your wire cage over the queen 

 and push the edges well into the comb. 

 The frame, with cage attached, can 

 now be replaced in the queenless 

 colony and left for three days. After 

 three days open the hive and with a 

 lead pencil punch a hole through the 

 comb near the center of the cage. 

 This will provide a way of escape for 

 the queen. After punching the hole 

 the frame should again be replaced in 

 the hive and the hive closed for five 

 days more, when the cage can be re- 

 moved. 



This plan has worked for me for 

 ten years. Try it with one queen or 

 a thousand. George R. Shafer. 



Arizona. 



