AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Mr. Carlzen also said that a poor grade 

 of California honey is being sold in the 

 Denver market for Colorado honey. 



Mrs. Boyd asks why most of the honey 

 this season is dark colored, which the 

 Secretary said was caused, by so many 

 yellow flowers. 



Mr. Devinney had an idea that it was 

 gathered from sweet clover. 



Mr. Ranchfuss and President Millison 

 both said that sweet clover yields white 

 honey. Mr. R. said that their bees got 

 yellow honey in the first of the season, 

 and white the latter part, which is an 

 exception to the general rule. 



The question-box was opened, but only 

 three questions were found. 



No. 1. What will be the result of put- 

 ting two or more swarms into one hive ? 

 Answered by Ranchfuss, that the bees 

 will destroy all queens but one. Possibly 

 kill them all, and leave the colony 

 queenless. To unite colonies, sprinkle 

 them with flour, while they are getting 

 the flour off, they will become ac- 

 quainted. 



No. 2. Why • do bees have surplus 

 comb uncapped, though filled with honey, 

 during a honey-flow ? Mrs. Hartman 

 answered that the weather was not 

 warm enough to make wax. 



Mr. Ranchfuss added that the weather 

 turned suddenly cold which caused the 

 bees to desert the outside sections. 



No. 3. Has any one had experience in 

 the cellar wintering of bees in Colorado? 

 Mr. Devinney said that he had, but 

 would not recommend it here. 



A committee was appointed on co- 

 operation, looking forward to the con- 

 trolling of the prices on honey in the 

 northern counties of the State. Chas. 

 Adams, of Greeley ; G. C. Miller, of 

 Longmont ; J. A. Ferguson, of Love- 

 land; B. Honnett, of Arvada; H. Knight, 

 of Littleton, were appointed as the com- 

 mittee, when the President was added 

 as chairman, and H. Knight made Sec- 

 retary. 



The Rev. Mr. Stone then made a few 

 very appropriate and pleasing remarks 

 which were followed by Mr. Honnett on 

 "The Benefits of this Meeting," in 

 which he struck the key-note, by saying 

 that it had done us all much good to 

 meet together. 



Mr. Honnett then introduced a resolu- 

 tion, thanking Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes for 

 the entertainment, which ^was seconded 

 by every one present. 



The President, in a .short speech, 

 closed the meeting. 



Littleton, Colo. H. Knight, Sec. 



ADiarlaii ExMMts at a California Fair, 



The entries tor premiums were few, 

 and the display of bees and honey rather 

 below what it has been in years past. 



C. F. Jost, of Banning, who owns and 

 handles 200 colonies of bees, exhib- 

 ited 48 pounds of comb-honey, the 

 very best in sight, but made no entry for 

 a premium. 



W. W. Bliss, of Duarte, had four small 

 sheets of comb-foundation entered, com- 

 peting for a diploma, which the judges 

 awarded to hira. 



J. Archer, of Ventura County, exhib- 

 ited his new hive. He says it gave 830 

 pounds of extracted-honey and 60 

 pounds of comb-honey in one year. He 

 had about 30 pounds of honey and 50 

 pounds of extracted-honey on the com- 

 petitive list, and took the blue ribbon, 

 and scores Al for both bees and honey. 



Mr. Archer is very confident that his 

 hive is superior to any other, and offers 

 to compete with any one in the produc- 

 tion of both comb and extracted-honey, 

 or either article. He will use his hive 

 and no foundation whatever, the com- 

 petitor to use any but Mr. Archer's hive, 

 and be compelled to use foundation. 



Mr. Archer will put up 150 colonies 

 of bees as a forfeit if he does not produce 

 one-third more honey in one season than 

 any other party, either of comb or 

 extracted, in any good year in the local- 

 ity of Ventura County, the competitive 

 hives of bees to be put in the same range 

 and have equal chances, two judges to 

 be selected, one by Archer and one by 

 competitors, the judges to select one 

 colony of bees from Mr. Archer's apiary 

 and one from the competitor's apiary, 

 and the judges to determine at the end 

 of the season as to the quantity of honey 

 produced, and in case they cannot agree 

 then they are to select a third party, as 

 additional judge, to determine the con- 

 test. 



Mr. Archer will meet competitors half 

 way from the respective apiaries, the 

 judges to select the locality for the con- 

 test, and the bees all to be kept in one 

 hive for each one of the contestants. 

 And further, the contestant to put up as 

 a forfeit in case he gets less honey from 

 his one hive than J. Archer does from 

 his one hive, either 150 colonies of bees 

 or their value in money. 



Mr. Metcalf, of Santa Paula, had on 

 exhibition a newly patented honey 

 extractor that deserves the attention of 

 producers of extracted-honey. We think 

 it is as near perfection as any machine 

 we have seen, and its capacity to do a 



