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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



ences change the condition of the 

 honey in a measure. 



" Vvhy is it that Syrian bees do not 

 cap their honey as soon as Italians V" 

 Mr. Simon thought it was the lield 

 bees that capped the lioney. Mr. 

 Moore said, it was the yousg bees 

 under ten days old. 



" How far will bees travel to gather 

 honey V" Mr. Page said, he had 

 known his Italians to go 2)^ miles. 



•' How shall we keep our empty 

 combs over winter?" Mr. Simon 

 said, after a few cool nights in late 

 fall, store them in a loft of a house or 

 barn, so that mice will not get at 

 them. Mr. Carson said, he left his in 

 the liives and placed them in a cool 

 dry place, and kept the mice from 

 them . 



"What would you do with combs 

 that are moldy '?" Mr. Page said, he 

 put a few frames at a time into a 

 strong colony, and let them clean 

 them. 



"Which is the best, old or new 

 foundation to put in frames ?" Mr. 

 Carson said, that his bees work on 

 foundation a year old, as well as new. 

 Mr. Page preferred new. Mr. Streeter 

 preferred the new. Mr. Hubbare, of 

 Kew York, has a Given press he puts 

 the wire and foundation in at the 

 same time. Mr. Pierce said, he had 

 used some of this kind of frames and 

 liked them very much. 



" Can we rear as good queens arti- 

 ficially as by natural means V" Mr. 

 Pierce preferred a queen reared by 

 the natural means. It was generally 

 concurred in by all. 



" Has any one had any trouble from 

 killing ants on the hives, and does the 

 odor from the dead insect irritate the 

 bees V" Mr. Oviatt had not noticed 

 any inconvenience. Mr. Pierce said, 

 he had been troubled a great deal by 

 ants. Mr. Carson said, sprinkle salt 

 around your hives. 



Mr. S. Oviatt placed on exhibition 

 one can of extracted and live one- 

 pound sections. Mr. C. B. Page one 

 can and two cups of extracted honey, 

 also two cages of Italian bees. Mr. 

 L. Carson one can of honey. 



The executive committee then an- 

 nounced that the next meeting of the 

 association will be held at Newton 

 Falls on the first Saturday of No- 

 vember. 



The Chair then appointed the fol- 

 lowing essayists for our next meeting: 

 C. P. Page and II. A. Simon. 



Adjourned to meet the lirst Satur- 

 day in November, at Newton Falls, O. 

 E. W. Turner, iScc. 



For the American Bee JoumaL 



Posey County, Ind., Honey Show. 



J. M. HYNE. 



Our Fair closed yesterday. The dis- 

 play of bees, honey and implements 

 was very good. I took the tirst pre- 

 mium on the best Italian bees, also on 

 the best Italian queen. 1 obtained 

 eleven dollar's worth of premiums, 

 and sold some implements, bees, and 

 300 lbs. of honey. Our show had a 

 good effect. We have awakened up 

 the bee interest beyond my expecta- 



tion, and I think next season I shall 

 be able to show a good report from 

 Posey county. I think the only way 

 to get reliable statistics, is to work up 

 each county, say one man take charge 

 of each county ; if he does not wish to 

 travel all over it himself, let him ap- 

 point one man in each township ; 

 surely there is one in each township 

 that will take enough interest to see 

 every man and get his report. Then 

 we can have a report that will be reli- 

 able. I am willing to canvass this 

 county. I have talked with men of 

 some of the townships that are willing 

 to help in the good work. The report 

 I have taken is as follows : 42 bee- 

 keepers, 602 colonies last fall, 518 last 

 spring, 1,0-5.5 now, 5,3.55 lbs. of comb 

 honey, 4,800 lbs. of extracted honey ; 

 total, 10,155 lbs. The above report 

 shows a poor season ; at this time last 

 season, bees were doing well. If it 

 had rained in time, bees would have 

 done well this season, as we had a fine 

 prospect, but everything is drying up 

 now, and I expect to hear of a great 

 many box and gum hive men going 

 out of the business, as their bees are 

 already swarming out. My bees are 

 in good condition for winter. 

 Stewartsville, Ind., Sept. 15, 1883. 



Do Not Slaughter your Crop. 



Fruit is scarce. The drought and 

 frosts will make butter high, and 

 honey is only a partial crop, in very 

 many places, after all of the flatter- 

 ing promises held out in the early 

 part of the season, and now let us 

 look for and get prices that will en- 

 able us to pay the high figures that 

 we must for other products that we 

 do not produce and must have. Here 

 the crop is only about one-half of an 

 average of early honey, and the late 

 crop being a total failure, we can 

 boast of only one-third of a crop for 



1883. It is of excellent quality, how- 

 ever, and it' we get a fair price (which 

 we shall try hard to do), we will live, 

 and live to hope for better results for 



1884. James Heddon. 

 Dowagiac, Mich., Sept. 12, 1883. 



White Clover Yield. 



Bees in frame hives have done very 

 well around here this season. White 

 clover was very abundant and yielded 

 the finest honey I ever saw. We have 

 no basswood around here, but have to 

 depend on clover alone for surplus 

 honey. VVe get no surplus from fall 

 bloom. Bees in box hives did very 

 poor, having swarmed too much. I 

 am using the Quinby closed end 

 frame hive, and I am well satisfied 

 with it; have not lost any during 

 the winters. I think I can winter 

 them every time by packing with chaff 

 or fine cut straw. Comb honey is sell- 

 ing for 18 to 20 cts.; extracted, 12i^cts., 

 home market. Green R. Shires. 



Adamsville, Ohio, Sept. 9, 1883. 



100 Lbs. to the Colony. 



On page 444 of the Weekly Bee 

 Journal for Sept. 5, you give me the 

 credit in my communication of ex- 

 tracting 2,200 lbs. of honey, instead of 

 22,000 lbs. 110 lbs. to the colony is 

 small enough when Messrs. Harriman 

 & Adams' yield was over 200 lbs. 

 Please correct the error. 



O. M. Blanton. 



Greenville, Miss., Sept. 8, 1883. 



[The omission of the cypher was an 

 oversight of the printer, but makes a 

 vast difference. — Ed.] 



Frozen Honey. 



On the nights of the 8th and 9th of 

 this month, there was frost enough 

 here to kill most every green thing. 

 Corn was cut very bad, and the farm- 

 ers are busy cutting it up. One man 

 told me, the other day, that his corn 

 stubble was just alive with bees. 

 Another said his hands felt as though 

 he had honey daubed all over them 

 after cutting corn. I shall watch and 

 see how much of that kind of sweet 

 they get ; perhaps not enough to be 

 of value to them for wintering. What 

 I have seen of that kind of honey, 

 is thick and has a good taste. No 

 fall crop here yet to speak of, and 

 the prospect is slim now of our getting 

 any to speak of. W. H. Shirley. 



Glenwood, Mich., Sept. 12, 1883. 



Filling Empty Combs with Syrup. 



In the Bee Journal, Mr. Doolittle 

 speaks of tilling empty combs with 

 honey or sugar syrup for stimulative 

 feeding. 



1. How is it to be done V 



2. What is the proper space between 

 the bottom bar of the frames and the 

 bottom board of the hive V 



Will Mr. Doolittle please answer 

 through the Bee Journal "i" 



T. C. GiDDINGS. 



Aspen, Colo., Sept 1, 1883. 



[Replies to the above queries, may 

 be found in Mr. Doolittle's article on 

 page 497.— Ed.] 



Curious Freak of Bees. 



In reply to Mr. Heddon's question, 

 on page 433, I would say that it was 

 the next day after they had swarmed 

 that I looked, and from all appear- 

 ances the cell was capped before they 

 swarmed. A. Rickenbacher. 



Gahanna, Ohio, Sept. 3, 1883. 



A Large Yield. 



We have had the best honey season 

 ever known in this part of the State, 

 to my knowledge. Clover and bass- 

 wood, were in bloom longer than usual. 

 From 5 colonies, spring count, I took 

 900 pounds of comb noney, and an 

 increase of 13 ; did not take a pound 

 from the brood-chambers, wliich are 

 full of honey; will extract some when 

 I put them in winter quarters, to 

 make sure to leave them enough until 

 next spring. The fall flowers yield 

 but little nectar, because it is too dry. 

 I have one swarm that I hived June 

 3, from which I took 180 pounds of 



