1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



881 



a beautiful sprins day, and he seemed as full of life and hap- 

 piness as his little friends just awakening to Nature's new 

 beauties ; but before six o'clock in the afternoon his heart 

 had ceased to beat, and the sad news sent a chill through the 

 city where he lived. 



Christopher Grimm was a man of such sterling worth, 

 uncompromising honesty, so kind and helpful to every one, so 

 sought after for advice, so unl3inching in the discharge of 

 duty, and so true to friendship, that his many virtues almost 

 made one forget the fact that his fortunes and his character 

 were, so far as suc'h can ever be, the result of his own efforts. 



The American Bee Journal has always found in Mr. 

 Grimm a careful and appreciative reader, and we feel our loss, 

 and extend to those more closely linked our hearty sympathy. 



The Apiarian Premium List of the Minnesota 

 State Fair tor 1895 is on ray desk. The Fair will be held at 

 Hamliue, Sept. 9 to 14 inclusive. There should be a good 

 display of apiarian products, as the list of premiums is quite 

 generous. Mr. J. P. West, of Hastings, Minn., is' the Super- 

 intendent of the bee and houey department. Those interested 

 can address E. W. Randall, Secretary, Hamline, Minn., for a 

 copy of the complete premium list of the 36th Annual Fair of 

 Minnesota. The apiarian premiums offered are as follows : 



DIVISION H. — HONEY, BKE8 AND APIARIAN SUPPLIES. 

 iiOt. lst.2nd.3rd. 



1. Most attractive display and best quality of 



white clover honey $12 $8 $4 



2. Most attractive display and best quality of 



basswood or linden honey 12 8 •! 



3. Most attractive display and best quality of ex- 



tracted white clover honey 12 8 i 



4. Most attractive display and best quality of ex- 



tracted basswood or linden honey 12 8 4 



5. Most attractive display and best quality of 



fall comb honey 12 8 4 



6. Most attractive and finest display of comb 



honey 8 4 2 



7. Most attractive and finest display of extracted 



honey 8 4 2 



8. Most attractive and finest display of comb 



honey, not less than 20 lbs., and the manner 



of putting up for market considered 8 4 2 



9. Nucleus of Italian bees, and queen ' 8 4 



10. Collection of different races of queens 8 4 



11. Beeswax, not less than 10 lbs.,soft,bright yel- 



low to have the preference 3 2 



12. Honey-vinegar, not less than one gallon, to be 



exhibited in glass 2 1 



13. Display of apiarian supplies and implements. 8 5 



14. Largest and best variety of uses that honey 



may be applied to : illustrated by individual 

 samples of different things into which it en- 

 ters : cakes, pastry, meats, etc 15 5 



GRAND SWEEPSTAKES. 



15. Largest, best and most attractive exhibition 



in this department, all thingsconsidered. .. . 15 8 5 



RULES GOVERNINfi EXHIBITS. 



Exhibitors must be residents of Minnesota. 



A breach of these regulations, or of any rule of this society 

 will forfeit all premiums that may be awarded. 



All honey must be the product of bees within the State, 

 and the bees owned by the exhibitor. 



Exhibitors in Lot 14 must be bee-keepers, and produce 

 their own honey. 



No entries received after]^Sept. 7. 



A It 4^ of Bee-Cailtiire. — We have some of these books 

 left, and in order to close them out quickly, we renew the low 

 offers we made on them. This is the fine cyclopedia of bee-keeping 

 by A. I. Root, containing 400 pages and nearly 200 engravings. 

 The regular price is SI. 35. but we will send the American Bee Jour- 

 nal one year and the "ABC" bound in cloth— both for only -SI. 80 ; 

 or the parchment cover (very heavy paper) "A B C" and the 

 American Bee Journal one year — both together only $1.50. 



/Vr90t;)g \\)^ Bee-Papers 



Conducted by " GLBAX^ER.' 



WAX FROM CAPPING8. 



I find from careful tests, that from each pound of capped 

 honey, the cappings, if saved, will make on an average about 

 H ounce of beeswax. This is quite an item when beeswax is 

 30 cents, and extracted honey 4 or 5 cents. I have saved as 

 much as 50 pounds of wax from 30 colonies, run for extracted 

 honey [spring count], just from cappings with scrapings of 

 hives and frames. — Clark A. Montague, in Gleanings. 



F. L. THOMPSON'S PUZZLES. 



On page 359, F. L. Thompson gives some back talk about 

 the size of hives that will puzzle some of his opponents to re- 

 ply to, and I must confess to being a little puzzled to know 

 just what he means when quoting my expression " frames an 

 eighth larger" he says he thought it was " a fourth." I was 

 speaking of 6 frames 16x9, and then said, "What will be 

 said to that by those who want 10 or 12 frames an eighth 

 larger in size?" Of course I meant the common size, 17%x 

 9J^'. Isn't that an eighth larger thau the 16x9 frame ? In 

 the one frame are 144 square inches and in the other 160, 

 and doesn't 160 come within 2 of being an eighth more than 

 144 ? There's a misunderstanding somewhere, and I am not 

 sure where it is, and it will be a relief to have Mr. Thompson 

 settle whether the joke is on me or him. 



SPRING AND SUMMER FEEDING. 



Spring and summer feeding of bees is so much easier done 

 by feeding out-of-doors that we feed that way almost exclu- 

 sively unless we know of a hive or more that is clear out, 

 and then we give a comb of honey or one good feed in the hive 

 at night. We keep our feeder at the east side of our honey- 

 house, where the water runs off the house and keeps it full of 

 fresh, clean water whenever it rains, and this helps to keep 

 water out for the bees, and at the same time keeps the feeder 

 from drying up if we forget to keep water in it. Just now we 

 are feeding only by putting the syrup in feeders in the even- 

 ing, and on top of the feeder we set some black sections of 

 honey-dew, as we don't care to feed much honey-dew by itself; 

 then we cover over the feeder so as to shed oft' the rain should 

 it come in the night. The bees work at the feed late in the 

 evening and early in the morning, and have it all taken up 

 before the neighbors' bees, two or three miles away, come 

 around, and then they have the day to go to the woods and 

 orchards. — Mrs. L. C. Axtell, in Gleanings. 



CARNIOLAN AND BLACK BEES. 



Bro. Abbott wouders (page 302) that any one has trouble 

 distinguishing between blacks and Carniolans. Have to fix 

 that up, Bro. Abbott, with the friends of the latter race, and 

 those who have them for sale. When they say that the only 

 way to tell them apart is by their actions, it isn't any wonder 

 that those who are not familiar with either blacks or 

 Carniolans should not be able to tell them apart at first sight. 

 There is a good deal in being familiar with a thing, however. 

 What may be easy for you may be difficult for one unfamiliar 

 with Carniolans. I remeinber the time when to me one negro 

 looked about the same as every other negro, for I had never 

 seen half a dozen of them. 



B. TAYLOR'S HIVE AND MANAGEMENT. 



His hive, as reported in Gleanings, has 10 frames lSi4 

 inches long by 8% de?p. As soon as the hive is well filled 

 with brood, a second hive of the same dimensions is added, 

 more or less filled with honey. 



" In this system each colony will have two hives at 

 swarming-time. We will give each colony run for comb 

 honey, cases of sections early, for we do not care whether they 

 swarm early or late. We will keep them storing surplus with- 

 out swarming at all, as long as plenty of room will do it ; but 

 we will use no force measures to prevent swarming ; for, after 

 the most searching effort in that direction, we are now thor- 

 oughly convinced that it cannot be profitably done. When the 

 swarm does finally come (if it does), we will hive it in a hive 

 contracted to eight frames or less; remove all surplus cases 

 from the old to the new swarm ; set it on the old stand, turn 

 the entrance of the parent colony in an opposite direction on 

 the vacant space on the same stand to be requeened, and the 

 two colonies will be united again after the white honey-flow." 



After the white honey-flow (basswood), sections are re- 



