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Success. 



BY IRMA TRUE SOPER. 



And what Is success? do you say? 



You workers who toil and who plod — 

 Whose muscles have often grown weary 



In plowing and tilling the sod. 

 You look at the " great men " around you, 



And envy them too, you confess: 

 Dame Fortune has never yet found you. 



Yet money has brought ihem "success." 

 But look at the workers around you — 



The bees that store sweets in the hive; 

 The blessings of nature surround you — 



Breathe deep, and be glad you're alive. 

 Your smile is so cheery! you're healthy — 



You vote with the heart of a man: 

 And, better than being so wealthy. 



You're doing the best that you can. 

 So. say not that Fortune has missed you. 



You men who are honest and poor; 

 With all of her best gifts she's blest you — 



Her treasures she lays at your door. 

 Success is not hoarding of money, 



You workers who toil and who plod: 

 "Tis being so helpful and sunny. 



Content in the love of your God. 

 Jackson, Mich. 



Langstroth versus the Jumbo Depth ; Two-banded 

 Italians. 



What would be the result if I use a ten-frame 

 dovetailed hive-body as an extracted-honey super 

 on a ten-frame hive, using the regular Hoffman 

 brood-frames with frames all metal-spaced, and 

 with full sheets of medium-brood wired founda- 

 tion? All the frames would thus be interchange- 

 able so they could be used below In the hive-body 

 as well as above for storing honey. 



How would a ten-frame Jumbo hive be for fancy 

 comb honey? Would a hive like this one reduce 

 swarming? How would this hive be for producing 

 extracted honey, using one hive-body above the 

 other? 



Are there any two-banded golden Italian queens? 

 or are three bands the least all Italian bees have ? 

 Are the two or three banded bees better than the 

 other bees that have more bands? It so, how? 



Will any honey-extractor take a Jumbo frame ? 



Avon, S. D., Nov. 21. F. C. Saxer. 



[There is no objection to using a full-depth super 

 fitted with metal-spaced Hoffman frames for ex- 

 tracting. The largest producers, however (at least 

 the majority of them), use unspaced frames in the 

 super, putting eight in a ten-frame super so that 

 the comb being biilged will contain more honey, 

 and will be easier to uncap, etc. Such combs, un- 

 til uncapped, however, would not fit in the brood- 

 chamber on account of being too thick; bvit if you 

 uncap down to the thickness of the frame, accord- 

 ing to the general practice, you may then place the 

 empty comb in the brood-chamber if you wish to. 

 There is no question but that it is easier to uncap 

 thick combs than combs In frames that are self- 

 spaced. 



We would not advise you to adopt the Jumbo- 

 depth hive: for in our opinion the deeper combs 

 provide only a larger space above the brood for 

 storing honey, and this means that the best honey 

 will be stored in the brood-combs rather than in 

 the super. Furthermore, when the bees get into 

 the habit of storing in the brood-comb it is more 

 difficult to get them into the super. A few prefer 

 the Jumbo hive, but only a very few. 



When running for exti'acted honey, the ten-frame 

 hive is ample in size, so that swarm prevention is 

 not difficult. In extracted-honey production the 

 swarming problem is not nearly as serious, any 

 way, as in comb-honey production. 



Italian bees are distinguished from mixed bees, 

 or hybrids, as they are called, by the characteristic 

 three bands. If bees have only two bands they are 

 likely to be crossed with black bees, and to be 

 known as hybrids. Quite a good many prefer the 

 three-banded bees to the flve-banded, owing to the 

 fact that the five-banded bees, being bred chiefly 



for color, are apt to be more irritable, and perharis 

 a little less hardy. 



The extractors having extra-wide baskets will 

 take Jumbo frames or two shallow extracting- 

 frames. We may say that the tendency seems to be 

 toward shallower frames for extracting purposes 

 than the Hoffman, rather than wider, like the 

 Jumbo.— Ed.J 



Wintering Colonies Light in Stores. 



I have five colonies of bees which I should like to 

 winter. These are all new stands that came out 

 between May 18 and June 10. One colony is quite 

 heavy, and I think it is all right for stores. The 

 other four are very light. Possibly one month ago 

 they had 12 or 16 lbs. of sealed stores and plenty of 

 comb. Then 1 commenced to feed them. I made 

 a syrup of equal parts of sugar and water for about 

 two weeks. I then made a thicker syrup which I 

 am still using. In all, I have fed the four colonies 

 about 40 lbs. up to the present time. I have a dry, 

 well-ventilated, concrete-bottom cellar. Do you 

 think the bees would winter under these condi- 

 tions? Would you still feed as long as they will 

 take the syrup ? 



Ellsworth Falls, Me., Nov. 8. T. E. Moulton. 



[We are not sure that these colonies that were so 

 light in weight have enough stores now. Forty 

 pounds of syrup distributed among four colonies 

 does not give each colony very much, for the bees 

 consume so much in the process. In fact, the colo- 

 nies would have stood a better chance of having 

 enough if you had fed forty pounds of syrup to each 

 one. The temperature of your cellar should be 

 uniform (between 40 and 5U degrees) to get the best 

 results, and you should darken the room and see 

 that there is plenty of ventilation. — Ed.] 



Are American and European Foul Brood the Same? 



iJr. C. C. Miller:— I have been watching your 

 work with what you call European foul brood. 

 Xow, is this any thing more than American starved 

 brood? Considering the time when It appears, and 

 the cure, leads me to think there might be some- 

 thing in this idea. 



Emerson, 111., Oct. 21. W. H. H. Stewart. 



[Dr. Miller replies:] 



The notion is hardly tenable. If European foul 

 brood were merely starved brood it would appear 

 only where there is starved brood: whereas it has 

 appeared where there was no shortage of stores, 

 and where there was abundance of food lor the ba- 

 bies. As a matter of fact, the large frames of the 

 Dadants, with their abundant stores, did not save 

 them. 



Another thing, for more than 45 years I got along 

 without I'oul brood. During that time there were 

 not wanting cases of starved brood, worse than any 

 thing since, it starved brood were sufficient to 

 start the disease, surely during all those years it 

 would have maae its appearance. Then along 

 came the Infection, nearer and nearer, and finally 

 I was in lor it: and whether " in for life " remains 

 to be seen. While plenty of good food and vigorous 

 physical condition will help in resisting disease, 

 and while the opposite will aggravate the case if 

 the disease appears, the fact remains that Europe- 

 an foul brood, as well as American, is " catching," 

 and you must have the seed before the plant can 

 grow. C. C. M. 



Honey Used Freely in Cooking. 



I do not like sweet things — never touch sugar, 

 and do not like honey. I have to live at a .small 

 apiary away from home, sometimes three days out 

 of a week, cooking on a small oil-stove. Little by 

 little I found that adding a little honey to any kind 

 of food, just enough to make it smooth, but not in 

 the least sweet, did not disagree with me. and also 

 made the food more pleasant. An old camp cook 

 (and a camp cook has to be a cook' came to me tor 

 some honey. This being an off part of the season I 

 had only some that had been heated, and told him 

 so. He did not care — wanted it for cooking only — 

 never ate honey. Then seeing I knew all about it 

 he told me his experience, hitherto with him a se- 

 ci'et. He said he would not boil potatoes nor cook 

 a stew nor bake bread, nor even make tea or coffee. 



