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39th YEAR, 



CHICAGO, ILL, OCTOBER 26, 1899, 



No, 43, 



A City Bee-Keeper and His Apiary. 



BY \VM. H. HORSTMANN. 



I AM a letter-carrier employed in the city post-office, and 

 find apiculture a very pleasant and instructive as well 

 as profitable business in connection with my other 

 duties. 



In the photograph are my wife and one of ray three 

 sons, Herbert. His work about the apiary is to water the 

 plants on the hives used to hold down the shade-boards, 

 and watch for swarms. Herbert takes a great interest in 

 the bees ; and is sitting on the hive of the colony I gave 

 him, it being the first swarm that issued last spring. Her- 

 bert was born here May 8, 1892, and is a splendid helper in 

 the apiary. 



I was born in Greenup 

 County, Ky., March 14, 1859, 

 came here when 18 years old, 

 and started in the bee-busi- 

 ness in June, 1897, by pur- 

 chasing two colonies of bees 

 from a neighbor. I increast 

 them to 11 colonies in 1898. 

 During the severe winter of 

 1898-99, I lost six colonies, 

 and during June and July of 

 this year I increast by divid- 

 ing and natural swarming 

 until now I have 15 strong 

 colonies. 



My apicultural library 

 consists of four books and 

 four papers, the latter com- 

 ing regularly as issued. I 

 was surprised to find how 

 little I knew about bees, af- 

 ter I started to read my bee- 

 literature. 



My wife was the first vice- 

 president of the Chicago Bee- 

 Keepers' Association ; she 

 also is very much interested 

 in apiculture. Cook Co., 111. 



[The foregoing shows 

 what a man can do with bees 

 even when otherwise en- 

 gaged — especially if he has 

 a good wife and helpful 

 children. — Editor.] 



Worms of the Wax-Moth in Comb Honey. 



BY G. M. DOOLITTLK. 



I HAVE had many letters of late telling me of worms in 

 comb honej', and asking me to give my treatment for the 

 same, in the American Bee Journal, which I will do, 

 tho a little past the season when it would do the most good. 

 When honey is stored in a warm room, as it always 

 should be, there comes a difficulty in the shape of the larva 

 of the wax-moth, and unless this difficulty is headed off, it 

 often results in quite a serious loss. I have yet to see the 

 pile of 2,000 pounds of comb honey which does not have 

 more or less of these worms or larvje upon it, after it has 

 been stored in a warm room for two or three weeks, altho, 

 as the bees are becoming more and more Italian thruout the 

 country, we see less and less of this wax-moth nuisance. 



After the honey has been away from the bees about ten 

 days, if we inspect the cappings of the honey closely we 

 shall detect little places of white dust resembling little 

 patches of flour on the combs, and usually the most abun- 

 dant near the bottom of the sections. Now, altho this place 

 mav not be larger than the eye of a fine needle, still it tells 

 us for certain that a tiny larva of the wax-moth is there, 

 and that unless something happens to it to destroy its life. 



jMr. Win. H. Horstinann and Apiary, of Cook Co., III. 



