570 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Best exhibition of extracting on the 

 grounds — E. Kretchmer and L. D. Stil- 

 son. 



Best extractor— E. Kretchmer and 

 Stilson & Sons. 



Best all-purpose single-walled hive — 

 E. Kretchmer and Stilson & Sons. 



Best chaff-hive— E. Kretchmer and 

 Stilson & Sons. 



Best bee-smoker — Stilson & Sons and 

 Chas. White. 



CONFINED TO NEBRASKA EXHIBITORS. 



Best display of apiarian implements 

 and surplus comb foundation, full to 

 partly-drawn ; bees, queens, etc. — Chas. 

 White and Stilson & Sons. 



SPECIALS. 



Wax-flowers— Mrs. E. Whitcomb re- 

 ceived $10. 



Honey-sections— E. Kretchmer, $5. 



Section-folder— Chas. White, $5. 



Foundation starter —Chas. White, $5. 



Metheglin— A. E. Davidson, $2. 



Double-walled hive— A. E. Davidson 

 received diploma. 



Flowers, mounted— Fred Clements, 

 diploma. 



Lettering in honey— J. M. Young, di- 

 ploma. 



Self-spacer— S. A. Smith, diploma. 



York, Nebr. 



Experience with Prime Swarms, 

 Alter-Swarms, Etc. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY J. E. PRICHARD. 



I have read very much about prime 

 swarms and after-swarms. Last spring 

 I had three prime swarms, two of them 

 Italians, and one black. I also had two 

 after-swarms, and divided one parent 

 colony and let them rear their own 

 queens. Now for the result : 



To date, prime swarm No. 1, Italians, 

 have stored no surplus. Prime No. 2, 

 Italians, have stored 45 pounds. Prime 

 No. 3, blacks, stored none, with the ex- 

 ception of mid-summer, when there was 

 nothing to store, they put about im- 

 pound in each of four sections, since 

 when they have not stored a pound. 



Now about after-swarms: One has 

 stored 12 sections, and one has about 

 15, not capped. 



Now about divided colonies : One 

 stored 20, and another 23 one-pound 

 sections well filled. The parent colony 

 of blacks have done nothing, but if the 



season is as late as last year (Oct. 10), 

 they should all store as much as I have 

 taken from the few, which is about 150 

 pounds. I have a ready sale for it at 

 25 cents per section, or 5 for $1.00. I 

 have it displayed in my bulk window, 

 and the passers-by all stop to look at 

 the first display of honey ever made in 

 our town. As I sit by the window to 

 write this, its fragrance is delightful, 

 and I fancy that there is not an old 

 apiarist in the West that can show a 

 prettier sample than my first effort in 

 bee-culture does, even with their larger 

 productions. 



There is not a moth-miller or worm in 

 my bee-yard, unless they are in the one 

 solitary old box-hive that yet disgraces 

 it, and which defies inspection. But its 

 days are numbered, and if its colony 

 survives the winter, it will give place to 

 an 8-frame double-walled hive next 

 spring. 



Although there is no crop that the 

 farmers raise here that affords a respect- 

 able living for bees, yet out in God's 

 garden there is an abundance, and I 

 have been watching the bees to find out 

 which of the wild flowers yield nectar, 

 and find many heretofore despised plants 

 are the most liberal in giving. 



Port Norris, N. J., Sept. 13, 1892. 



October Days. 



Out in the field is the golden-rod, 

 Waving and bending Its yellow plumes ; 



White is the silk in the milk-weed pod, 

 In the yellow days of October. 



Crimson are trees of the forest land, 

 Berries hang red on the climbing vines, 



Maples are touched by a golden hand, 

 And the nuts are ripe In their brownness. 



Close to the grass are the asters white, 

 Brown on the ground lie the fallen leaves, 



Circling around summer's birds take flight, 

 And the quails whirr up near the fences. 



Over the land is the autumn haze ; 



Slowly at eve comes that great, round moon ; 

 Silent and sweet are the country ways 



In the golden days of October. 



— Ladies' Home Journal. 



The Globe Bee- Veil, which we offer 

 on page 581 of this number of the 

 Bee Journal, is just the thing. You 

 can get it for sending us only three new 

 subscribers, at $1.00 each. 



Read our great offer on page 557. 



