American Bee=Keeper 



^RRY E. HILL, 

 ITHIR C. MILLER, 



1905- 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



187 



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Try to finish before the end of this 

 lonth all work which necessitates 

 sturbing brood-nest or opening the 

 ves so that the bees may have a 

 lance to give the final touch to their 

 rangements before the cold stops 

 leir labors. 



The Bee-Keeper inaugurated the 

 "actice of having a selected poem in 

 ich issue, of scattering quotations, 

 •Qverbs, etc., through its pages and 

 giving the valuable bits of news of 

 e bee-keeping world. Other papers 

 e now following our lead. Thank 

 )u gentlemen for the complitnent. 



We wish to urge all bee-keepers 

 who possibly can attend the next 

 meeting of the National Association 

 to be held at San Antonio, Te.xas, to 

 do so even at some inconvenience and 

 cost to themselves. Matters of great 

 importance are to be considered so 

 be sure to go. We shall have some- 

 thing more to say about this next 

 month. 



See to it that your bees have more 

 than what you think are enough stores 

 to carry them through the winter. A 

 good colony will consume much more 

 food from the time of tfie first flight 

 until the spring honey flow, than 

 through the cold months. A full lar- 

 der means a big colony, other things 

 being equal and it means it without 

 any fussing with feeding and its ac- 

 companying danger — danger to the 

 bees and your reputation. 



In treating of wax-rendering a 

 writer in the Australasian Bee-Keep- 

 er says that he finds the instructions 

 against boiling the mass of combs 

 and water to be useless, and that just 

 as nice wax will be secured by boiling 

 as by avoiding it. His deductions are 

 right, but will be misleading if the 

 quality of the water used is not con- 

 sidered. Water that is considerably 

 alkaline will seriously effect wax that 

 is boiled with it, but if the water is 

 neutral or slightly acid no harm will 

 ensue. 



For the benefit of veteran as well as 

 novice we wish to call attention at this 

 time to three factors essential to the 

 successful wintering of bees. They 

 are: First: An abundance of young 

 bees, hence do not unite a lot of old 

 bees from nuclei and expect to carry 

 the resulting colony through to next 

 spring. Second: A vigorous queen, 

 for without this the strongest colony 

 will dwindle before they can rear a 

 new queen. Third: An anundance of 

 sound stores. This does not mean a 

 few combs of honey tucked in at the 

 last minute, nor a lot or syrup fed 

 after all hopes of stores from the 

 fields have gone. It means weTI ripen- 

 ed honey, placed by the bees where 

 their instincts direct and hence avail- 

 able as needed. 



