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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



tion for its publication was to be continued, 

 and as the question is now settled, we desire 

 to say that the said Report will probably 

 not come out until about the end of 1893, or 

 the beginning of next year. 



We wish also to say that copies of the 

 Report will be bound in cloth in sufficient 

 number to supply the members of the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association, and 

 as many as the fund will allow beyond that, 

 in paper covers. Jas. A. Stone, ,Sec. 



Prevention of S^vamiiiig-. — Miss 

 Amanda Atchley, in Uncle *S'(/7»'.s' Live Stork 

 Jonnuil for June, wrote as follows about the 

 cause and prevention of the swarming of 

 bees : 



Some one asks: "What causes bees to 

 swarm ?" Well, it is an abundance of 

 sealed brood that causes them to swarm, as 

 I never knew a natural swarm to issue 

 without an abundance of sealed brood, both 

 drones and workers. But sometimes they 

 may swarm without drone-brood at all. 

 Still they are likely to have sealed drone- 

 brood at the time the swarm issues. Who- 

 ever knew a natural swarm to issue with- 

 out plenty of sealed brood ? Even if they 

 have a full hive of unsealed brood they 

 show no swai'ming sign. When our bees 

 are on a swarming rampage, I always find 

 the hive solid full of sealed brood. In short, 

 bees nearly always have sealed brood, 

 sealed drones, and sealed queen-cells. Then 

 look out. 



If you wish to keep your bees from 

 swarming, keep their sealed brood taken 

 away until they become so weakened that 

 they are willing to give it up, and I will bet 

 you a nickel you can control swarming. 

 Use the brood in strengthening weak colo- 

 nies, or build up good, strong colonies with 

 the sealed brood, and give them a case of 

 sections and a queen-cell, or a young laying 

 queen that is not bent on swarming, and 

 you liave got 'em. I should like to strike 

 that apiary with a swarming-fever that I 

 could not control. Try my plan, and see. 



Xlie Pi-oper 4 'sire oi" Honey.— 



During the past few years of failure of the 

 honey crop directions as to how to keep 

 honey were quite unnecessary, as there 

 was practically no honey to require any 

 care; hut this year, as we hope it will be 

 different, we give below some suggestions 

 that may be of service to those who secure 

 honey, and desire to know how to take the 

 best care of it. 



After the honey is taken from the hive, 

 says the I^muynx Furtinr, a great numy peo- 

 ple jieriiiit it to spoil liecause they do not 

 know how to c^aro for it. Many think it 

 should be kui)t i-ool. and so put it in the 

 cellar. This is the worst thing tluit (-ould 

 be done witli it. If there is any dumimess 

 (I round, honey is sure to absorb it. "But 



our cellar is very dry, and it is the only 

 place we have to keep it," has been the re- 

 mark of more than one to the writer when 

 he has told them not to put honey in the 

 cellar. It may be well to say, once for all, 

 tliat there is not a cellar in the United 

 States dry enough to keep honey in. Put 

 your honey in the dryest and warmest 

 room you have about the house. If there 

 is a fire in it, all the better, as honey should 

 not be left where it will freeze in winter. 



Dry and warm is the rule for honey, if 

 you want it to retain its flavor and rich- 

 ness. Honey properly kept will improve 

 with age, and the older it is the better it 

 will be. But if kept in a damp place, it 

 will absorb moisture, become thin and 

 watery, and soon lose its rich flavor. As 

 soon as it is exposed to cold, when in this 

 condition, it will granulate in the cells, and 

 then it is almost worthless except to melt 

 up and feed to the bees in the spring. 



The above instructions are for comb 

 honey. Extracted honey should also be 

 kept in a dry, warm place. To keep the 

 moth-worm out of comb honey, it is well to 

 fumigate it occasionally by burning sulphur 

 in the room where it is stored. 



Xlie ]S»1>y Carriage advertisement 

 in our columns seems to have worried Mr. 

 Sage, the editor of the Bee- Keepers' Enter- 

 priae. He says this in his June 15th number: 



I see friend York is advertising Baby 

 Carriages. Is that a cash adv., Bro. York, 

 or have you taken one in trade '. 



As we have not had any use for a baby 

 carriage for over 30 years, or since we were 

 small enough to ride in one, it is quite un- 

 likely that Ave are trading for one now. 

 Perhaps Mr. Sage was thinking that he 

 needed a carriage for his two months' 

 " baby bee-paper," the Knterprine. If so, he 

 may be able to borrow one from Bro. 

 Hutchinson, or as soon as his little " Fern " 

 gets through with hers. Of course it would 

 be a second-hand one, but some things are 

 the better for having the " newness " worn 

 ofT a little. We may be a little previous in 

 suggeslBug that a baby carriage could per- 

 haps be borrowed from our Bro. Hutchin- 

 son, in view of the fact that for the past 

 decade or more he has kept one in almost 

 constant use. But if Mr. Sage really needs 

 a baby carriage now, or thinks one would 

 come in handy later on, we would com- 

 mend him to the firm advertising in our 

 columns, who warrant their carriages " for 

 tliree years. " 



Have You Read tli;it wonderful book 

 Pr(!niiuiii ofTer on page 35? 



