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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Oct. 12, isys. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



George W. York & Company, . 



116 Michigan St., Cliicago, III. 



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United States Bee- Keepers' Association. 



Org-anized to advance the pursuit of Apiculture : to promote the interests 

 of bee-lieepers ; to protect its members ; to prevent the adulteration of 

 iiouey ; and to prosecute the dishonest honey-commission men. 



Alembersliip Fee—91.00 per Anntun, 



Executive Committee— Pres., E. Whitcomb: Vice-Pres., C. A. Hatch- 

 Secretary, Dr. A. B. Mason, Station B, Toledo, Ohio. ' 



Board of Directors— E. R. Root; E. Whitcomb; E. T. Abbott- C P 

 Dadant; W. Z. Hutchinson; Dr. C. C. Miller. 



Gen'l Manager and Treasurer- Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



VOL. 39. 



OCTOBER 12, 1899. 



NO. 41. 



Note— The American Bee Journal adopts the Orthography of the follow- 

 ing Rule, recommended by the joint action of the American Philolog- 

 ical Association arid the Philological Society of England: — Change 

 d or • ed" final to "t" when so pronounced, except when the "e" af- 

 fects a preceding sound. 



The Philadelphia Convention Report is again delayed, 

 we regret to say. The copy did not reach us in time for the 

 usual installment to appear this week, on account of the 

 illness of Secretary Mason. We hope that it will not again 

 be delayed, as it is quite trying to us as well as to our 

 readers. 



A Consolation it may be to many a bee-keeper this 

 year, when prices of supplies are advancing, to know that 

 such advances do not directly affect him. He does not need 

 to pay the advanced prices for shipping-cases, nor yet for 

 sections for the next season. All of which consolation 

 comes from the fact that he has had no crop this year, so 

 needs no shipping-cases, and the sections (if he has any on 

 hand) intended for the crop of 1899 are all right for the crop 

 of 1900. 



Cleaning Up Unfinisht Sections.— This is a good time 

 of the year to recall the views of experience as to sections 

 having too little honey in them to be put on the market. A 

 large number are agreed that such sections, if properly 

 cleaned out, are valuable for use the following season. But 

 there is no means by which the bee-keeper can properly 

 clean them, unless he has it done by the bees. If they are 

 extracted, and the least particle of honey remains in them 

 till next season, that least particle will granulate, and if the 

 bees store honey in it subsequently it will be a spoilt sec- 

 tion. So it is the practice of some to let the bees do all the 

 work of emptying and cleaning without at all resorting to 

 the use of the extractor. The trouble is that the average 



beginner will have not only the whole of the honey emptied 

 out, but the larger part of the comb as well. 



Two quite diverse methods of avoiding this tearing of 

 the combs by the bees have been advanced. Dr. Miller says: 

 "Put j'our supers of sections in piles where the bees can 

 rob them, but give them so small an entrance that only one 

 bee at a time can enter." The late B. Ta3-lor gave nearly 

 opposite advice, saying: "Put your supers of sections 

 fully exposed, so the bees can all get at them from all 

 sides." Both ways are right used under the right condi- 

 tions. 



Suppose you have an apiary of 50 colonies. If you have 

 a single super of unfinisht sections to offer the bees for a 

 job of polishing, the Miller plan will succeed perfectlj-, 

 while the Taylor plan will leave most of the comb chewed 

 up fine. If you have 50, or even 20, such supers to offer the 

 50 colonies, either plan will succeed, but the Taj'lor plan 

 will make a much quicker job, and in some cases that is 

 quite important, as a closing down of the temperature may 

 prevent work on future days. So if you have manj' sec- 

 tions to be cleaned out, give them all the publicitj' possible, 

 but if less than perhaps ten sections to a colony, give en- 

 trance to only one bee at a time. In any case, get the 

 cleaning up done by the bees as early as possible. 



Illinois State Fair Apiarian Exhibit. — It was our pleas- 

 ure and privilege again to attend the State Fair of Illinois, 

 held at Springfield the last week in September. Of course, 

 we were most interested in the exhibits made by bee-keep- 

 ers, and doubly so as it was our duty to act as judge in 

 awarding the $268 in cash premiums offered in the api- 

 arian department. 



Before giving a list of the winners of the premiums, 

 we wish to congratulate the bee-keepers of Illinois upon 

 two things. First, their good fortune in having so able 

 and interested a man as Mr. H. J. Cater as superintendent 

 of the department ; and, secondly, we feel that they deserve 

 special commendation upon the large and attractive exhibit 

 put up this year. "We believe it exceeded in extent and 

 general display anything that has hitherto been attempted 

 by the bee-keeping industry of the State. 



The following is the premium list, with those who 

 secured them, and the several individual amounts : 



Display of comb honey — 1st premium, J. O. Smith & 

 Son, of Logan County, $20 ; 2nd, W. Z. Hutchinson, of 

 Michigan, $15 ; 3rd, Jas. A. Stone & Son, of Satigamon 

 County. $10. 



Collection of labeled cases containing 12 ormore pounds 

 of white honey from different flowers — 1st, Chas. Becker, of 

 Sangamon County, $8 ; 2nd, J. Q. Smith & Son, $5 ; 3rd. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, $3. 



Collection of labeled cases containing 12 or more pounds 

 of amber or dark honey from different tlowers — l«t, J. Q. 

 Smith & Son, $8; 2nd. W. Z. Hutchinson, $5; 3rd, Geo. 

 Poindester, of DeWitt County, $3. 



Case of white clover comb honey, 12 to 24 pounds — 1st. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, $4 ; 2nd, Jas. A. Stone & Son, S3 ; 3rd. 

 J. Q. Smith & Son, $2. 



Case basswood comb honey, 12 to 24 pounds — 1st, Chas. 

 Becker, $4; 2nd, W. Z. Hutchinson, $3. (No 3rd entry here.) 



Case amber coinb honey, 12 to 24 pounds — 1st, J. Q. 

 Smith & Son, $4 ; 2nd, W. Z. Hutchinson, $3 ; 3rd, Chas. 

 Becker, $2. 



Display of extracted honey — 1st. J. Q. Smith & Son, 

 $20; 2nd, Chas. Becker, $15; 3rd, Jas. A. Stone & Son, $10. 



Display of honey extracted on the ground^lst, J. Q. 

 Smith & Son. $5 ; 2n"d, Chas. Becker, $3; 3rd, \V. Z. Hutch- 

 inson, $2. 



Frame of comb honej- for extracting — 1st, Jas. A. Stone 

 & Son, $5 ; 2nd, J. O. Smith & Son, $3 ; 3rd, Chas. Becker,$2. 



Display of candied honey — 1st, Jas. A. Stone & Son, 

 $20; 2nd, W. Z. Hutchinson, $15; 3rd, J. Q. Smith & Son. 

 flO. 



Display of beeswax — 1st, Jas. A. Stone & Son, $12 ; 2nd. 

 J. Q. Smith & Son, $8; 3rd, Chas. Becker, $4. 



One-frame observatory hive of dark Italian bees — 1st. 



