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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAI.. 



Wavelets of News. 



The Live-Stock Men met in Spring- 

 field last Tlmrsday, and resolutions 

 were adopted asking the Legislature to 

 appropriate $50,000 to be awarded in 

 cash prizes for live-stock owned in 

 Illinois and exhibited at the World's 

 Columbian Exposition. 



A bill was approved, and will be pre- 

 sented to the General Assembly, provid- 

 ing for at least the amount named, and 

 that the State Board of Agriculture be 

 instructed to apportion the prizes on the 

 basis of 42 per cent, to breeding rings 

 for horses, 25 percent, to breeding rings 

 for cattle, 15 per cent, for swine, 12 

 per cent, for sheep, and 6 per cent, for 

 the standard varieties of poultry and 

 pet stock. 



A committee, of which the Hon. D. 

 W. Smith, of Springfield, is chairman, 

 was appointed to assist in securing the 

 passage of the bill. 



As the bees arc not included in the 

 above enumeration and apportionment, 

 we must get our request for an appro- 

 priation for bees and honey in separately, 

 or go without. 



Seasonable Hints. 



Bees have not flown here in Central 

 New York since Nov. 10, or during a 

 period of about 95 days. As bees are 

 natives of warm climates, where they can 

 fly quite often, so as to avoid their ex- 

 crement, this confinement is beginning 

 to tell on them; some colonies are spot- 

 ting their combs. If a chance to fly and 

 empty themselves does not occur soon, 

 diarrhea and loss will be the result. 



Owing to the poor honey season of the 

 year 1890, many colonies went into 

 winter quarters light in stores, and on 

 this account, it is well to look to them a 

 little, to see that they do not starve. As 

 long as sealed stores are seen in the 

 combs, which the bees are clustered 

 upon, they are all right. If none are 

 seen, they should be fed, so as to make 

 sure that they do not starve in some cold 

 spell of weather when they cannot move 

 about to get the few cells of honey which 



may be scattered about the hive, near 

 the sides and elsewhere. 



To best feed bees at this time of the 

 year, set in some frames of sealed honey 

 on any warm day wiien the bees can fly, 

 or if such a day does not occur, remove 

 a frame that has no honey in it, which is 

 next to the cluster, and* place one of the 

 frames of sealed honey up against the 

 bees. If no frames of honey are at hand, 

 place some sections of honey over* the 

 cluster in such a way that they can cluster 

 upon them, and thus lengthen out the 

 limited supplies which they may have. 

 If no honey of any kind is at hand, make 

 a thick syrup of granulated sugar, and 

 pour it into a comb while slightly warm, , 

 and set this comb of syrup in the hive 

 the same as you would a frame of sealed 

 honey. Another good way to feed at this 

 time of year is to mix pulverized sugar 

 and honey together, having both warm, 

 and kneading in so much of the sugar 

 that a stiff loaf is formed, similar to a 

 loaf of broad before baking, when this 

 loaf is to be laid on the frames imme- 

 diately over the cluster of bees, on which 

 the bees will subsist until warm weather. 

 — G. M. DooLiTTLE, in RumlHome. 



Bees and Honey. 



This book of 192 pages is not only a 

 practical, exhaustive guide for those who 

 handle bees, but it is full of interest and 

 information for the general reader, es- 

 pecially the young. There are 237 

 illustrations. The author is Thomas G. 

 Newman, editor of the Ameeican Bee 

 JouRNAi-, Chicago, Ills. — Children's Era. 



Catalogues and Price-Lists for 1891 

 have been received from 



Joseph E. Shaver, Friedens, Va. — 40 

 pages — Supplies for Bee-Keepers. 



G. K. Hubbard, Fort Wayne, Ind.— 16 

 pages — Bee-Hives, Section Press, etc. 



Thomas S. Wallace, Clayton, Ills. — 

 pages — Bees and Queens. 



Roe & Kirkpatrick, Union City, Ind. 

 — 8 pages — Apiarian Supplies. 



J. B. Kline, Topeka, Kans. — 24 pages 

 — Supplies for Bee-Keepers. 



A I\ice Hofliet Oictioiiary will be 

 given as a premium for only one new 

 subscriber to this Journal, with $1.00. It 

 is a splendid little Dictionary— just right for 

 the pocket. Price, 25 centt$. 



