Dec. 7, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



779 



Bee-Keeping- in Colorado. 



It is generally concoded that Colo- 

 rado is one of the leading honey-pro- 

 ducing States, and the opinions of its 

 bee-keepers should have weight alike 

 ■with bee-editors and supply-dealers. 

 Realizing this, Editor E. R. Root is 

 now attending the annual Colorado 

 Bee-Keepers' Convention, at Denver, 

 to become better acquainted with 

 the Western bee-keepers and their 

 methods. The readers of Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture will get the benefit of this 

 in forthcoming issues. He has with 

 him, of course, his camera, so as to 

 present to our subscribers views of the 

 West as he saw them. The first in- 

 stallment of these writings may be ex- 

 pected in our Dec. 15th issue. 



Other Leading- Bee-Keepers. 



Gleanings in Bee-Culture Oct. 15th 

 <:ontained a biographical sketch of the 

 most extensive bee-keeperin the world, 

 Capt. J. E. Hetherington. This is fol- 

 lowed in Dec. 1st issue by biographical 

 sketches, with portraits, of the Cogg- 

 shalls, David and W. L. In this arti- 

 cle will be a discussion of the 4-frame 

 non-reversible extractor, with which 

 Mr. W. L. Coggshall and his " light- 

 ning operators " have made such phe- 

 nomenal records. Special features of 

 Dec. 15th issue will be given in this 

 colvimn next week. 



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THE fl. I. ROOT GO., 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



so long boiling. He made experiments 

 under tbe eye of Dr. Moore, of Cornell 

 University, one of the World's best author- 

 ities upon the colon group, and found that 

 between 10 and 1.5 minutes of actual boiling 

 killed the spores as well as the vegetation 

 stage of Jj'iciUiis nhri. and a temperature of 

 150'' F. for several hours would kill them. 

 Sunlight is almost surely fatal to all bacte- 

 ria that do not normally live in it.— Bee- 

 Keepers' Review. 



Ilw^v I><>e<^ I li e i^iieen - Wet 

 Water"." seeing she never leaves the hive 

 when mating or swarming, is askt in the 

 Australian Bee-Bulleiin. The answers are 

 not of the most direct kind, but say. " Bees 

 supply the queen's needs." or something to 

 that effect, the one who most nearly meets 

 the question squarely, saying, "The work- 

 ers supply her with food and drink." If 

 this Boiler might be allowed a guess at the 

 answer, he would say that the queen is a 

 total abstainer, never drinking even water, 

 there being always enough water in the 

 food given by the bees to avoid the neces- 

 sity ot taking water clear. 



Heaxling' OH S«ariiiliiig'.— O. J. 



Hetherington gives his plan in the Bee- 

 Keepers' Review. When the swarming 

 season arrives, he drives the bees from the 

 hive, and hives them in a new hive on the 

 old stand, putting on supers. The old hive 

 is put on a new stand and given a queen- 

 cell, or, preferably, a laying ijueen. Five 

 such driven swarms last season gave him 

 fiO pounds of honey each, while the old col- 

 onies gave 00, 00, and less. When the har- 

 vest is over, he puts a queen-excluder over 

 the old hive, sets the driven swarm over it, 

 leaves it two or three days, then smokes 

 down most of the bees into the lower hive, 

 and kills the upper queen. The plan saves 

 watching for swarms, secures a good yield, 

 and leaves the colonies with young queens. 



I.,arse ts. ^niall 4'oloiiieM. — 



Critic Taylor comments in the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Review upon the article of Adrian 

 Getaz, (American Bee Journal, page.'iOS), 

 and thinks Mr. Getaz in error in assuming 

 that a colony in a 12-trame hive would 

 average ,50 percent stronger than one in an 

 S frame hive. His experience teaches him 

 that the smaller the hive, within reasona- 

 ble bounds, the stronger the colony in pro- 

 portion to the amount of room. He is es- 

 pecially surprised that Mr. Getaz should 

 think there would be less swarming from 

 the larger hives. He thinks it must inevi- 

 tably be greater, as he counts a large pop- 

 ulation the principal factor in the produc- 

 tion of swarms. 



Editor Hutchinson thinks the article by 

 Mr. Getaz is so " sensible and fair " that he 

 copies it, reserving, however, the right to 

 think that even if it be true that as much 

 honey prr rumb can be secured with the 

 larger hive, there are reasons why North- 

 ern bee-keepers might prefer the smaller 

 hive, the system of management being 

 such that a small, readily movable hive is 

 desirable, such a hive being especially de- 

 sirable for cellar-wintering. 



Ciiottiiis' ISees Out ot Scetions. — 



The following from the National Stockman 

 is good advice for those who have no Porter 

 bee-escapes, or have not time to wait for it: 

 Take a piece of cotton cloth large enough 

 to cover the super and hang down two or 

 more inches on each of its four sides when 

 finisht. On two opposite sides nail pieces 

 of lath about as long as the super, and in 

 the hem of the other two sides put buckshot 

 to weigh it down. You have now what is 

 called a ' robber-cloth,' which is very con- 

 venient to cover up frames of honey or 

 brood when robbers are troublesome, for 

 you can take it off or throw it on with one 

 hand while holding a frame of honey in tbe 

 other. To complete it as a bee-escape, make 

 a pyramidal wigwam of wire-cloth with a 

 hole at the top big enough so you can 

 thrust your finger into it, cut a three-cor- 

 nered hole in the center of your robber- 

 cloth and sew your wigwam onto it. A 



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