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AMERICAN BEE JOuFNAL, 



May 25, 1899. 



Painting Queens. — Instead of clipping the queen's 

 wing-s, C. Boesch advises in D. Iniker to paint her thorax a 

 bright color. That would make it easj' to tell whether a 

 queen had been replaced by the bees, and in case of a run- 

 away swarm it would be possible to prove property. 



More Wax and Less Honey is somewhat favored by 

 W. A. H. Gilstrap, in Gleanings. He g-ives some fig-ures 

 which seem to show that under some circumstances, instead 

 of extracting and saving the combs to use over again, it is 

 possible it mig-ht be better to melt up the whole and get 

 more than twice as inuch wax. 



Density of Buckwheat Honey Varies in different local- 

 ities, according to a discussion reported in the Canadian 

 Bee Journal. Mr. Brown said it was thinner than other 

 honey. Mr. Darling had it average 14 pounds to the gal- 

 lon, and so thick that he could lift I'/i pounds with a spoon. 

 In a dry season it was said to be thicker than in a wet one. 



Importance of Good Queens is urged by J. J. Cosby, 

 who rears his queens by the Doolittle plans and thereby ac- 

 counts for the fact that his bees in a poor season secured 

 72,'2 pounds per colony, spring count, and increast from 80 

 colonies to 100, while a neighbor with 23 colonies got 56 

 sections in all, and another neighbor with 60 colonies got 

 nothing, all three apiaries working on the same field. — 

 Gleanings. 



Bees and Colors — Elias Fox discusses this matter in 

 Gleanings. He gets many stings with black pantaloons, but 

 very few with light ones. A black ribbon or feather worn 

 by his wife is a^distinct point of attack. If he wears no 



veil, the attacks will be upon the mustache, eyes, eyebrows, 

 or right under the hat-rim, and nine times our of ten a sting 

 on the hands will be near or under the shady edge of the 

 sleeve. A team of horses past his apiary ; the white horse 

 escaped with few stings, while the dark bay with black 

 mane and tail was stung to death. 



Taking the Travel-Stain Off from the surface of section 

 honey, according to an editorial in Gleanings, is a thing 

 that may yet be accompHsht. Byron Walker is confident 

 that he has discovered a successful method. If it is true 

 that the dark color of sections is due to bits of old comb 

 brought up from the brood-combs, it hardly seems that the 

 sections can be made white otherwise than by reversing 

 the process and removing the outer portion, a thing that 

 seems hardlj' possible of accomplishment. Mr. Walker will 

 certainly do a great service if he gives a successful plan. 



The Hungarian Bee is praised in Bienen-Vater by 

 Maurus. An inexperienced eye cannot distinguish it from 

 the Carniolan. But its flight is different. It goes straight 

 as an arrow, while the Carniolan has a more circling flight. 

 It is grayer than the Carniolan, with yellowish rings and 

 yellowish down. In southern Hungary it is almost as 

 highly colored as Italians. It is more inclined to swarm 

 than the Italian, but less than the Carniolan. It also holds 

 middle ground between the Italian and the Carniolan as to 

 the amount of brood reared. Among the places to which it 

 has been sent are mentioned Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. 



Albinos as to Wintering. — J. O. Grimsley reports, in 

 the Ruralist, that the winter in Tennessee was exception- 

 ally severe, the mercury' at one time g-oing down to 20 de- 

 grees below zero. In an apiary composed of albinos and 

 Italians he reports the loss not so heavy as expected, but 

 says : 



■' To our surprise it was confined mainly to the albinos. 

 A few light colonies of Italians were lost, and we barely 

 ' saved seed ' of the albinos. We were not surprised so much 

 at the loss of albinos, as we expected a greater loss all 

 around, but the test has proven that for the extreme Xorth 

 and severe winters, albinos must be well protected. 



Hildreth & Segelken, 



UM T20-122 W. Broadway, 

 NEW YORK. 



JOBBERS AND 

 COMMISSION 



MERCHANTS 



Beeswax, Haple Sugar and Syrup. 



We desire to inform our friends and patrons that our firm has been re-organized and additional capi- 

 tal added. The business will be conducted under the firm name and style of 



HILDRETH & SEGELKEN, 



at the old stand, where we have had the pleasure of serving our friends for the past 11 years. Manage- 

 ment and supervision will be the same and our business methods — those of square and honest dealings — 

 will be practiced as heretofore. 



We believe we have now the esteem and confidence of our shippers thruout the country, and that our 

 dealings, as a rule, have been of the most pleasant nature. 



Our additional capital will put us in position to increase our already lai'ge business still farther, 

 if possible, and at the same time enable us to treat our shippers even more liberally than heretofore, in 

 making advances, etc. 



Records will show that we handle by far the bulk of all the honey sent to our market. We make 

 honey the principal part of our business, are personallj- acquainted and have trade connections all over tlie 

 country, which enable us to handle any amount of honey to better advantage than any other house. 



(_)ld shippers know us and will bear us out in what we have said. Those bee-keepers who do not know 

 us and have had no dealing's with us. we would cordially invite to correspond with us and make our ac- 

 quaintance. We not only handle on commission but buy largely as well, from small lots to carloads, for 

 spot cash. 



We wish to call the attention of the Southern bee-keepers to the fact, that our market never was in 



better condition than this season. Old stock is disposed of and the market is bare, with a good demand. 



New crop will find ready sale and at higher prices than have ruled for years past. We would advise them 



to send their honej', while there is a good demand at good prices, as later on conditions of the market may 



change. 



We also handle MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP very extensively, and would be pleased to hear from 



tho.se having any of these goods to offer. 



' In conclusion, we wish to extend our thanks to all of our shippers for their past favors, and trust to 



receive their kind consideration in the future. 



21A4t l*lense nifmioii the .\merican liee JouriKiI. 



