1898 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



849 



bronze medal. Bennett & Dieshum, Garden City, 

 Kau., bronze medal, I. I,. Dieshum, Garden City, 

 Kan,, bronze medal. 



Ivinden Comb Honey. — Nebraska Commission, York, 

 Neb., silver medal. Douglas Co., Omaha, Neb., silver 

 medal. E. Kretchnier, Red Oak, la., silver medal. 

 Iv. G. Clute, Greeley, la., bronze medal. 



Sweet-clover Comb Honey. — Wni. Stolly, Grand Is- 

 land. Neb , silver medal. 



White-clover Comb Honey. — Dr. E. C. Jaques, Crys- 

 tal, Minn., .silver medal D. A. PVeeman, Hinckley, 

 Minn., silver medal. Mrs. H. G. Acklin, St. Paul, 

 silver medal. U G. Clute, Greeley, la., silver medal. 



E. Kretchnier, Red Oak. la., silver medal. lyOve.sy & 

 Bourk, ,Salt I<ake City, I'tah, honorable mention. 



Honey in Different Stages of Granulation. — 1< D. 

 .Stilson, York, Neb., honorable mention. E. Kretch- 

 mer, Red Oak, la , honorable mention. 



Samples of Honey. — Aug. C. Davidson, Omaha, sil- 

 ver medal. L,. D. "Stilson, York, Neb., gold medal. 

 State of Minnesota, .S! . Paul, silver medal. 



Heartsease Extracted Honey. — Douglas Co., Omaha, 

 silver medal I.,. D. .Stilson, York, Neb., silver medal. 



Sweet-clover Extracted Hone}'. — Douglas Co., Oma- 

 ha, silver medal. Wm. Stolly, Grand island. Neb., 

 bronze medal. Nebraska Commission, York, Ntb., 

 bronze medal. E. Kretchmer, Red Oak, la., bronze 

 medal. 



White-clover Extracted Honev.— Lovesy & Bourk, 

 Salt I^ake City, Utah, bronze medal. G. M. Whitford, 

 Arlington. Neb., silver medal. E. Kretchmer, Red 

 Oak, la., silver medal. I^. G. Clute, Greeley, la., silver 

 medal. Dr. E. K. Jaques, Crystal, Minn., silver med- 

 al. J. B. Jardine, Parker. Minn., silver medal H. t,. 



F. Witte, Minneapolis, silver medal. D. A. Freeman, 

 Hinckley, Minn . silver medal. Mrs. H. G. Acklin, 

 St. Paul, Minn., silver medal. W. J. Stahmann, Wea- 

 ver, Minn., bronze medal. Scott lyamont, Jerrett, 

 Minn., bronze medal. 



Extracted Buckwheat Honey. — Douglas Co., Omaha, 

 no recommendation. 



Alfalfa Extracted Honey. — G. W. ,Swink. Rocky 

 Ford Colo., silver medal. Lovesy & Bourk, Salt 

 lyake City, Utah, bronze medal. E. Kretchmer, Red 

 Oak, la., bronze medal. A. G. Forney, Turner, Kan., 

 honorable mention. Fred H. Glick, Atchison, Kan., 

 bronze mecal. Bennett & Dieshum, Garden City, 

 Kan., honorable mention I. I,. Dieshum, Garden 

 City, Kan., bronze medal Nebraska Commission, 

 York, Neb., honorable mention. 



Linden Extracted Honey. — Nebraska Commission, 

 York, Neb., silver mer'al. Aug. C. David.son, Omaha, 

 bronze medal. L. G. Clute, Greeley, la., silver medal. 

 Douglas Co., Onraha, silver medal. Nathan Jones, 

 Howard L,ake Minn., bronze me al. 



Raspberry Extracted Honey. — Nate Williams, Nim- 

 rod, Minn., silver medal. 



Honey in Marketable Shape. — Aug. C. Davidson, 

 Omaha, bronze medal. Nebraska Commission, York, 

 Neb., bronze medal. 



Honey Sugar. — ly. D. Stilson, York, Neb., silver 

 medal. 



Honey-producing Plants. Pressed and Mounted. — 

 Winnie I,. Stilson, York, Neb., gold medal. Douglas 

 Co., Omaha, bronze medal. Cleveland Cross, York, 

 Neb., bronze medal. Clark E. Bell, York, Neb., 

 bronze medal. 



Unrefined Beeswax. — E. Kretchmer, Red Oak, la., 

 silver medal. Douglas Co., Omaha, honorable men- 

 tion, ly. D. Stilson, York. Neb., bronze medal. 



Designs in Beeswax. — Mrs. E. Whitconib, Friend, 

 Neb., gold medal. Douglas Co., Omaha, silver medal. 

 Mrs. Mary Segar, Omaha, Neb , silver medal. Mrs. 

 Delia Ben.son, Omaha, silver medal 



Reproduction of Bee Culture .50 Years Ago. — Douglas 

 Co., Omaha, silver medal. 



Sweets in which Honey is Made to Take the Place 

 of Sugar. — Mrs. E. Whitcomb Friend, Neb., silver 

 medal. Mrs. Frank J. Preiss, Omaha, silver medal. 



Exhibit of Bees and Queens in Cages. — Nebraska 

 Commission, York. Neb., silver medal. Douglas Co., 

 Omaha, silver medal. 



Exhibit of Queens in Cages. — E. Kretchmer, Red 

 Oak, la., honorable mention. 



Experimental Test of Full Colonies of Bees.— Doug- 

 las Co., Omaha, silver medal. 



Honey Vinegar. — G. M. Whitford, Arlington, Neb., 

 honorable meution. Douglas Co., Omaha, honorable 

 mention. 



Metheglin. — Aug. C. Davidson, Omaha, bronze 

 medal. 



NEBRASKA FARMER SPECIAL PREMIUMS. 



Display of Culinary Products in which Honey is 

 Made to Take the Place of Sugar. — Mrs. E. Whitcomb, 

 Friend, Neb., 1st. 



Display of Honey, Supplies, Bees, and Queens. — 

 Nebraska Commission, York, Neb., l.st. 



Display of Designs in Beeswax. — Mrs. E. Whitcomb, 

 Friend, Neb., l.st. 



Largest and Best Display of Designs in Beeswax. — 

 E. Kretchmer, Red Oak, la., 1st. 



Largest and Best Display of Bees and Queens. — L. D. 

 .StiLson, York, Neb,, l.st. 



Best and Largest Display of Extracted Honey. — Ne- 

 braska Commission, York, Neb.. 1st. 



Best and Largest Display of Comb Honey.— Nebras- 

 ka Commission, York, Neb., 1st. 



Honev-producing Plants.— Winnie L- Stil.son, York, 

 Neb., 1st. 



Display of Apiarian Goods and Implements. — A. I. 

 Root Co., Medina, O., 1st. 



Display of Honey, Bee-supplies, and Queens. — E. 

 Kretchmer, Red Oak, la., 1st. 



THE QUALITY OF SOUTHERN HONEY. 



The editor of the Aiiier. Bee-keeper protests 

 (and rightly too) against the statement where- 

 in I am made to say in the report of the Oma- 

 ha convention, that "Southern honey has a 

 strong flavor which is liked by some." Of 

 course, there are always chances for inaccura- 

 cies in reports ; and while the reporter took 

 my rambling remarks with ordinary accuracy, 

 he made me say some things that I did not in- 

 tend to say. What I actually said, or at least 

 thought I said, was that some Southern honey 

 has a strong flavor. 



In the general discussion, we were talking 

 about the peculiar flavors of difi^erent honeys, 

 and why some preferred a kind of honey that 

 another disliked. I mentioned the fact that 

 buckwheat honey in New York is preferred by 

 some to any thing else, and that, in a similar 

 way, there are certain flavors in Southern 

 honeys that are liked by some and disliked by 

 others. Bro. Hill says he would not for a mo- 

 ment attribute to me the " thought of a will- 

 ful misrepresentation," and that he believes I 

 am " utterh' incapable of studied deception." 

 I thank him most sincerely for such a state- 

 ment ; and while I may not deserve it, I try to 

 be what the language implies. 



DOOLITTLE'S LATEST FEATS IN QUEEN-REAR- 

 ING. 

 G. M. DOOLITTLE, in a private letter, re- 

 ferring to his book on queen-rearing, says: 



".Scientific Queen-rearing" cost me five of the best 

 years of my life, as that number of years were given 

 up almcst wholly to that work, as far as deep study 

 and experimenting and planning were concerned ; 

 and ten years of work since along that line, without 

 a single failure, with one sii/qie batch of cells, has 

 proved the soundness of what I dug out. Letters 

 have come to me from all over the world, and are still 

 coming, fully equal to those of the first two or three 

 years, telling of the great success obtained by the 

 plans given in the book. This summer I have ex- 

 celled any thing I ever did before. I prepared just 

 one colony for cell-rearing the latter part of May; and 

 this one colony, having a laying queen below all of 

 the time, has raised me a batch of 18 queen-cells, 

 every three days, ever since, up to the tenth of this 

 month, at which time I started the last batch of cups 

 for this year. I find by my tally-sheet that the aver- 

 age number of cups given each three days was 21, 

 and the average number of queens obtained was 18. 

 So you can see how successful it has been with me 

 during nearly four months in succe.s.sion. And there 

 are many others who say they do nearly or quite as 

 well. The beauty of the whole thing is, every queen- 

 cell and queen is perfect, and fully equal in every 

 way to those reared during natural swarming, where 

 nature does her level best. No cells were ever moved 

 from this one colony, from the time the cups were 

 given till the ripe cells were taken away. 



Borodino, N. Y., Sept. 28. G. M. DooLiTrLE. 



