1911 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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are handicapped on account of being unable 

 to maintain the desirable temperature for 

 wax secretion; or if the combs are already 

 built the bees will be slow in storing honey 

 in them if they are cold. This is especially 

 true when the nights are cool. 



Another objection to the deep super is 

 that it is very heavy and clumsy to handle. 



Such a super holds about 50 lbs. of honey, 

 which, with the added weight of the combs 

 and the super itself, is too much for an av- 

 erage person to lift and carry around all day 

 during the extracting season. 



Again, in our locality we often have light, 

 unexpected honey-flows of about five days' 

 duration, and at such a time the bees will 

 not store honey as well in deep supers as in 

 the shallow ones, and, as a consequence, 

 they clog the brood-chambers instead. Bees 

 enter shallow supers more readily when the 

 flow is light or when the weather is cool. 

 Thus the brood-chambers are not so apt to 

 become the storage-places for honey, pro- 

 vided the colony is of average strength. 



I can remove honey faster from the Ideal 

 shallow supers than from any other that 

 has come to my notice. I have taken off as 

 much as 100 lbs. in one minute's time. 



Elmendorf, Texas. 



REPORT OF THE OHIO STATE CONVEN- 

 TION. 



BY HENRY REDDERT, SEC. 



The second annual convention of the Ohio 

 bee-keepers was held at the Grand Hotel, 

 Cincinnati, February 16. The following of- 

 ficers were elected for the ensuing year: 



President, D. H. Morris, Springfield, O.; 

 Vice-president, Frank Hammerle, Hamil- 

 ton, O.; Secretary, A. N. Noble, Spring- 

 field, O.; Treasurer, Chas. H. ^yeber, Cin- 

 cinnati, O.; Executive Committee, G. G. 

 Lingo, Cincinnati; Wm. Schmees, Cincin- 

 nati; C. A. Brooks, Cincinnati; J. C. Creigh- 

 ton, Harrison, O.; Fred W. Hammerle, 

 Hamilton, O. 



Owing to the desire of the majority of vis- 

 iting bee-keepers, the meeting was limited 

 to the first day. This necessitated the cur- 

 tailing of the program to ''Visits to Points 

 of Interest," which had been set for the sec- 

 ond day. 



The members engaged in some very spir- 

 ited discussions, owing to the fact that this 

 convention was the first State meeting 

 since the one at Toledo in 1888. Interesting 

 and instructive papers were read by Mr. C. 

 H. Weber, on shipping comb honey to mar- 

 ket. Mr. Chalon Fowls' paper was en- 

 titled '"How to Increase the Demand for 

 Honey by Building up Trade at the Gro- 

 ceries;" Mr. E. R. Root, "Modern Methods 

 of Extracting Honey," and "American 

 Foul Brood Differentiated from European 

 Foul Brood." The paper from Mr. J. G. 

 Creighton, of Harrison, Ohio, entitled 

 "Foul Brood in and around Cincinnati," 

 gave an account of the history of the dis- 

 ease from the time it started, twenty years 

 ago, up to the present. 



At the evening session Mr. N. E. Shaw, 

 Chief Foul-brood Inspector of Ohio, held his 

 audience spellbound by a chart indicating 

 the alarming situation of foul brood in Ohio, 

 which showed that practically one-third of 

 the State is infected with the disease. He 

 said, however, that the map could be greatly 

 changed if sufficient funds were forthcom- 

 ing by an appropriation from the State leg- 

 islature. Bee-keepers from the entire State 

 should assist him by urging their Senators 

 and Representatives to vote for the necessa^ 

 ry funds required for his valuable work the 

 coming year. 



Mr. E. R. Root's stereopticon lecture, 

 "The Value of Bees in Fertilizing Fruit- 

 blossoms," was very instructive, both to 

 bee-keepers and horticulturists. He showed 

 how these two industries are partners, and 

 that one can not exist without the other. 



During the day's session the cooperation 

 of bee-keepers with farmers to preserve 

 sweet clover, and promulgate its culture for 

 the benefit of both, aroused a great amount, 

 of interest. 



Red-clover queens and how to get the 

 most wax out of a given quantity of cap- 

 pings was explained in detail by Mr. Root. 



Taken as a whole, the convention was a. 

 success. The next one will be held in 

 Springfield, Ohio. Feb. 15 and 16, 1912. 



Eighteen new members were enrolled on^ 

 the membership list. 



treasurer's report. 



Receipts to date, S15.00. DisbursementSi, 

 S9.65. Balance on hand, $5.35. 



BULK COMB HONEY MORE EASILY SOLD, 

 THAN SECTION HONEY. 



BY J. L. YOUNG. 



I have been watching the discussion of 

 the relative merits of bulk comb and section 

 honey. I sell to consumers, and I can 

 dispose of ten pounds of bulk comb honey 

 as easily as one pound of section honey, 

 getting 15 cts. per lb. for the bulk comb and 

 twenty cents per section. 



At the Agricultural College here, some 

 experimenting has been done to determine 

 the difference in the cost of producing bulk 

 comb and section honey; and it has been 

 decided that the former can be produced at 

 12 cts. per lb. as easily as the latter at 20, 

 and when producing bulk comb honej'^ the 

 swarming tendency is almost eliminated 

 too. Swarming is the bane here of the bee- 

 keeper who tries to produce section honey. 



When I first started to sell honey, every- 

 body asked whether the honey was pure, as. 

 no one had ever heard of a honey-extractor. 

 Then they wanted to know how I could sell 

 it so much cheaper than the section honey. 

 When I explained that I had a machine 

 that threw" the honey out of the combs, so. 

 that I could give them to the bees to refill, 

 thus saving them the trouble of building 

 new combs each time, my questioners would 

 say, "Oh! so you have a separator." I had, 

 no further trouble in selling extracted honey.. 



Manhattan, Kan. 



