1918 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



277 



in place of butter on bread, or sugar 

 or for health. Just now beekeepers 

 are sending in their wants for sugar 

 for the bees. Each beekeeper sends 

 his request to the President of the 

 Beekeepers' Association, of Born- 

 holm (there are about 400), who 

 sends them to the Board of the Na- 

 tional Beekeepers' Association, of 

 Denmark, who, in, turn, hands them 

 to the Sugar Department at Copen- 

 hagen. No beekeeper, whether he is 

 a member of the Association or not, 

 can get sugar for his bees in any 

 other way. 



In March, 1917, the National Bee- 

 keepers' Association of Denmark ar- 

 ranged a course for teachers in bee- 

 keeping at the Agricultural High 

 School at Copenhagen. The course 

 lasted 11 days, and was attended by 

 26, of which I was one. There was a 

 lecture on beekeeping (special bac- 



teria pertaining to bee-diseases), en- 

 tomology and botany. 



I will send you a copy of the Dan- 

 ish Beekeepers' Times containing a 

 picture from the course. The paper 

 used to be issued twice a month, but 

 will this year have only 14 numbers, 

 on account of scarcity of paper. It 

 has about 10.000 subscribers, which is 

 almost equal to the number of mem- 

 bers in the National Association, as 

 every member gets the paper. 



Wishing you prosperity, I hope and 

 pray that God may speed the time 

 when these fearful conditions that at 

 present prevail in Europe may cease, 

 thanking Him with full heart that 

 our dear little Denmark has been 

 saved from the direct sorrows and 

 cruelties of the war. 



ANNA SOMMER, 

 Lobbeck, Bornholm, Denmark. 



brood, let it stay a few days, then re- 

 move to a new location? 



I am trying it out, but thinking that 

 other amateurs may be as anxious 

 for more colonies of bees as I am, I 

 wish to get to the attention of bee- 

 keepers while yet there is time to 

 start new colonies. A. F. BONNEY. 



(This, of course, would have to be 

 over a queen-excluder, if there is a 

 queen in the hive. If there is no 

 queen, the introduced queen or cell 

 will be as safe below. — Editor.) 



MISCELLANEOUS 

 * NEWS ITEMS f 



Bee Statistics in the U. S.— Bulletin 

 No. 685, of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, gives all sorts 

 of statistics on beekeeping, distribu- 

 tion of colonies in the different 

 States, increase, wintering, yields, 

 quality of honey, sources of honey 

 and pollen, conditions and prospects. 



We judge that this Bulletin is in- 

 dispensable to the beekeeper. Like 

 all statistics, it is probably incom- 

 plete, but, like all statistics, it will 

 supply some information worth hav- 

 ing and will lead to further efforts 

 and greater accuracy. It can be ob- 

 tained in the usual manner, by writ- 

 ing to the Bureau of Crop Estimates. 



Meetings are organized all over the 

 State and the prospects for beekeep- 

 ing are fine. But if you want your 

 share of the information and of the 

 success, you should put your shoulder 

 to the wheel. Every State needs to 

 do its share for the general success 

 of the industry. 



West Virginia Beekeeping — This is 

 the title of a 52-page Bulletin, pro- 

 fusely illustrated, and published by 

 the State Commissioner of Agricul- 

 ture. The author is Charles A. Reese, 

 Assistant Entomologist and Apiarist. 

 The bulletin contains the most in- 

 dispensable information for modern 

 beekeeping. Every West Virginia 

 beekeeper should secure it. It is pub- 

 lished at Charleston by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



Wisconsin Association — The Wis- 

 consin beekeepers who are not mem- 

 bers of their State Association should 

 send their names to Mr. Edward Has- 

 singer, of Greenville, Wis., so that 

 they may see what their State is 

 doing for the good of beekeeping. In 

 fact, every beekeeper who cares to 

 succeed should belong to his State 

 Association. Wisconsin has arranged 

 to send its members at regular in- 

 tervals suggestions on the prices to 

 be secured for honey. They base 

 their information on crop reports and 

 markets. 



The State Association has voted $50 

 to make a display at the State Fair 

 showing the uses of honey. Premi- 

 ums to the amount of $449 are of- 

 fered at the State Fair in addition to 

 this. 



Do Not Contract Too Closely — I 



should like to refer you to the Offi- 

 cial Bulletin of June 24, a copy of 

 which can be consulted at your post- 

 office if you do not happen to have a 

 copy. In this are given the regula- 

 tions and restrictions for the use of 

 sugar which are put in force for July 

 1. You will notice that under the less 

 essential uses they class "Honey 

 Manufacture." By this they undoubt- 

 edly mean the use of sugar for feed- 

 ing bees. In view of these regula- 

 tions it might be desirable to recom- 

 mend that they do not extract too 

 closely, so that they will be able to 

 get their colonies through the winter 

 with very little or no feeding of 

 sugar syrup. It is impossible at this 

 time to learn how much sugar will be 

 available next fall, and these regula- 

 tions and restrictions are changed 

 from time to time so that it must not 

 be assumed that the present regula- 

 tions will apply next fall. In any 

 event we must see to it that there is 

 no tendency on the part of beekeep- 

 ers to extract all of their honey to 

 sell at high prices and then expect 

 the Government to furnish them with 

 sugar at a low price to take the place 

 of honev which they have sold. 



E. F. PHILLIPS, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Honey Vinegar — I sent you under 

 separate cover a sample of honey 

 vinegar. This was made about a year 

 ago. following directions from the 

 A, B, C Bee-book, and also from the 

 articles in the American Bee Journal, 

 by Mr. C. P. Dadant. It is stored on 

 the second floor. Please state how I 

 can make it more sour. Or. in other 

 words, how can I improve it? 



WISCONSIN. 

 Either of two things is the cause 

 for the failure of fermentation. The 

 liquid may be too sweet. In that 

 case it would require more water. 



However, I am under the impres- 

 sion that the trouble lies in lack of 

 fermentation. Put your vinegar into 

 a boiler and bring it to the boiling 

 point. This will kill noxious germs 

 which may have developed and might 

 prevent fermentation and cause the 

 vinegar to become ropy. Then let it 

 cool; add about as much water as 

 you may have evaporated in the boil- 

 ing and put in about a gallon of fruit 

 juice. Keep the bung off and put it 

 in a warm place. If you have no 

 fruit juice, wait till the grapes are 

 ripe and use unboiled grape juice. To 

 keep insects out of the keg, use a 

 small sand-bag on the bung. But be 

 sure and keep the keg where it wil' 

 be warm. — Editor. 



Texas Inspector to Kansas — W. E. 



Jackson, until recently in charge of 

 bee inspection work for the State of 

 Texas, under F. B. Paddock, the State 

 Entomologist, has recently been 

 called to the colors. Mr. Jackson re- 

 ported for duty on May 31, and has 

 been assigned to the medical labora- 

 tory at Ft. Leavenworth, Kans., for 

 work in bacteriology. Mr. Jackson's 

 place under Mr. Paddock has not yet 

 been filled. 



Will It Work?— If putting a valua- 

 ble queen in a hive above a strong 

 colony, for heat, with emerging 

 brood is a good plan, and there is, of 

 course, no safer way of introduction, 

 will it not be equally good to put a 

 ripe cell in the same location with, 

 say five or more frames of emerging 



Nebraska Meeting — The Nebraska 

 Beekeepers' Association will hold a 

 meeting at the Nebraska State Fair 

 for the purpose of changing and ad- 

 ding rules to the by-laws of the asso- 

 ciation. 



The meeting will start at 9 o'clock 

 in the morning of Thursday of the 

 fair week, which is the first week in 

 September. 



Frank C. Pellett is expected to be 

 present at this meeting and also sev- 

 eral more good authorities. Some 

 very important matters will come up 

 and it is the business of every Ne- 

 braska beekeeper to be present. 

 O. E. TIMM, Secy., 

 Bennington, Nebr. 



