1918 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



423 



Extractors 



What Extractors will take four shallow ex- 

 tracting frames 5J^ inches deep. Will a two- 

 frame Cowan take four shallow frames 5f£? 

 WASHINGTON. 

 ...Answer. — The Cowan extractor with pock- 

 ets 12x16 will take four shallow frames 5H 

 inches deep, outside measure. Also the 

 Novice, with pockets of the same size. 



Winter Cases 



Is Bartlett's winter packing case, such as 

 shown on page 7S0 of the edition of 1917, of 

 "A B C — X Y Z of Bee Culture," a good 

 packing case for my location It gets down 

 pretty well below zero here, so I will want 

 something warm. Last year I did not pack 

 them at all and lost three out of twelve. It 

 wasn't so bad in accordance with the other 

 losses about here. There was one man lost 6 

 out of 7, another all he had, and the rest in 

 proportion. PENNSYLVANIA. 



Answer. — I think you might expect good re- 

 sults from using Bartlett's packing case. 



Alsike Clover 



1. About how many coloniei would you ad- 

 vise to keep for a 50-acre field of alsike clo- 

 ver, provided t weather, etc., were suitable, 

 and a good stand of clover, there being no 

 other honey olants in the vicinity? 



2. Is alsike clover the best yielder of all 

 the clovers? How is the quality? 



ILLINOIS. 



Answers. — 1. Just exactly how many colo- 

 nies of bees would be required to keep 50 

 acres of alsike cleaned up is a secret that I'm 

 afraid will never be found out. It might be 

 100 colonies, and it might be two or three 

 times as many. It might be something differ- 

 ent from either guess. Even if we know the 

 exact number, it might not be advisable to 

 have that number without considering some- 

 thing about what the bees could do before and 

 after the blooming of alsike. 



2. I don't know whether alsike or sweet 

 clover takes the lead as a honey-yielder. Al- 

 sike honey is of best quality. 



Goldens 



1. Have you ever given those Golden Italian 

 bees a fair test in your apiary with your 3- 

 banded Italians for section comb honey? 

 Read what Doolittle and O. O. Poppleton say 

 about those Goldens for section comb honey. 

 They say they get very much better results 

 from those bees than any others. Also, Mr. 

 John M. Davis, of Spring Hill, Tenn., says 

 that he can't find any difference in wintering 

 or honey gathering qualities of the Goldens 

 compared with his 3-banded Italians, and he 

 has Moore's long-tongue bees. Our State In- 

 spector for Tennessee says he thinks this is 

 just a notion of the people, as his Goldens are 

 tine, and so do others. I have tried both plans 

 of putting on the supers — both beeway and 

 plain sections — and I get 100 per cent better 

 results to put the empty supers on top when 

 tiering up, and sometimes I have as many as 

 2 to 5 supers on hive at once, and my locality 

 is very poor for bees, too. So I am requeen- 

 ing some of my black colonies of bees with 

 Ben G. Davis's Golden Italians and some with 

 Curd Walker's 3-banded Italians, and I want 

 to see next year, if the season is good, if the 

 Goldens come out winners in wintering and 

 honey gathering. As Doolittle says, they are 

 best of all for comb honey. Well, I had one 

 colony of Goldens about 25 years ago and they 

 were the best workers I ever saw in all my 30 

 years of work among my bees. I would 

 like for some of the leading apiarists who run 

 for comb honey to give their experience with 

 the Goldens for comb honey through the 

 American Bee Journal. 



I would like for Mr. J. W. Lawrence, of 

 Rustburg, .Va., Route No. 3, to give his ex- 

 perience with the Goldens. Will you please 

 ask him to send in his report at once. I see 

 he says in Ben G. Davis's advertisement that 

 he got 320 pounds of comb honey the first sea- 

 son. TENNESSEE. 



Answer. — I gave the Goldens the same 

 chance as other colonies, if you call that a fair 

 test. Yet, : ile I gave a fair test to the 

 colonies I had, I cannot say that I gave a fair 

 test to Goldens as a whole, for I had only a 

 few of them, and one cannot always judge 



many by the few. My own opinion of Goldens 

 is rather from the testimony of others than 

 from my own experience. It looks as if there 

 were Goldens and Goldens, some good, some 

 poor. While you quote those who praise them, 

 a larger number might be quoted who do not. 



You say Doolittle says Goldens are best of 

 all for comb honey. Do you so understand 

 from what he says in Gleanings for 1914, page 

 0, which you quote? He there says: "If I 

 were producing comb honey altogether, I 

 would procure a good queen of the golden 

 variety, rearing all queens from her, and allow 

 them to mate with any drones they might 

 chance to meet, the most of which, without 

 doubt, would be froi.. an entirely different 

 blood from themselves, which would give a di- 

 rect cross. Such direct cross always gives the 

 greatest vigor, and in reference to your ques- 

 tion as regards the best bees for comb honey 

 I should not care one cent whether the young 

 queens from such a mother mated with drones 

 from black or hybrid stock, as all my experi- 

 ence goes to prove that throughbred Golden 

 Italians, mated to drones from black or hybrid 

 mothers, give bees equal to the very best for 

 comb-honey production." That certainly does 

 not teach that he thought Goldens the best of 

 all for comb honey, but does teach that he 

 thought the right kind of hybrids as good as, 

 if not better than, Goldens. 



No matter what however may be the gen- 

 eral opinion, if you can get better results with 

 Goldens than with others, then Goldens are 

 best for you. 



If I understand you correctly, you get 100 

 per cent better results when tiering up section- 

 supers by putting the empty supers on top 

 than putting them under the others. If you 

 can get even 10 per cent better results, then 

 putting empties on top is the way for you. In 

 my locality I get good results by putting the 

 second super under, when a good flow is on, 

 later putting an empty both above and below, 

 and toward the close of the flow putting the 

 empty on top. 



Winter Entrance 



If I put on winter case with entrance not 

 even with entrance in hive, say hive entrance 

 faces east, and I put entrance of case to 

 south, with passage way to entrance, will the 

 bees find this readily, and will it be O. K.? 

 ILLINOIS. 



Answer. — I know nothing about it from ex- 

 perience, but should judge that such would 

 depend upon the amount of opening. If the 

 parts are so open, for instance, that the light 

 entering the entrance to the case at the south 

 can be seen at the entrance to the hive at the 

 east, there should be little or no trouble. On 

 the other hand, if it should be that no light 

 from the south can be seen at the east en- 

 trance of the hive, there might be trouble, the 

 bees Deing slower to fly on a warm day, or 

 failing to fly altogether. 



Illinois State Beekeepers' Association 



The eighteenth annual meeting of 

 the Illinois State Beekeepers' Asso- 

 cition will be held in the Sun Parlor 

 of the Leland Hotel, in Springfield, 

 on the 17th and 18th of December, 

 next. 



Mr. Morley Pettit, of Ontario, Can., 

 will be with us ; also Hon. N. E. 

 France, of Platteville, Wis.; F. Eric 

 Millen, State Apiarist of Iowa, and 

 C. P. Dadant, Editor of the American 

 Bee Journal. 



With all these prominent men 

 present we feel that we are assured 

 of a good meeting. 



Programs will be sent out to our 

 400 bee members before the date of 

 the meeting. 



Fellow members of the Association, 

 remember the value of our published 

 report depends upon what is done 

 and spoken at this and the Chicago 

 Conventions. 



JAS. A. STONE, Sec. 



Index to Vol. LVIII 



SUBJECTS 



Acacias — 273. 



Advantages of Large Hives — 367. 



Advertising Honey — 50, 89, 155, 228. 



Alfalfa— 316. 



Antiseptic Treatment for Bee Diseases — 89. 



Ants — 61, 410. 



Apiary Building and Equipment — 127, 152, 379. 



Apiary, Distance From — 244. 



Apiary Inspection in Ontario — 17. 



Apicultural Don'ts — 297. 



Arkansas Valley, Beekeeping in — 372. 



Asters — 331. 



Atkins, E. C, to Iowa — 347. 



Banat Bees— 100. 



Bee and Queen Situation — 118. 



Bee Diseases (See Foulbrood, Paralysis, Etc.) 



Bee Diseases, Antiseptic Treatment — 89. 



Bee Diseases of Adults — 406. 



Bee Diseases, Treating with Drugs — 119. 



Bee Clubs— 48. 



Bee, History of Italian— 415. 



Bee Hunting in a Hot Air Balloon — 343. 



Beekeeping Extension Work — 62. 



Bee Literature — 205. 



Bees, Blacks Short of Stores — 405. 



Eees, B lying— 169. 



Bees Deserting Hives— 244. 



Bees in Packages— 13, 58, 88, 130, 134, 243, 



264, 252. 

 Bees of Mine— 22. 



Bees on Shares, Agreement for — 97. 

 Bees, Orientation of— 420. 

 Bees, Price of— 59. 

 Bee Trees— 345. 



Beeswax From Honey and Pollen— 350. 

 Beeswax Production — 335, 339. 

 Beeyard Control, Centralizing — 193 

 Being Sweet Without Sugar — 198. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY— 



Beekeeping Essentials — 347. 



Beekeeping for the Fruit Growers — 242. 



Contro L'apicidio — 165. 



Environment Influences on Nectar Secre- 

 tion— 118. 



Iowa Apiarist Report — 301. 



Insect Pollination of Timb 

 —118. 



Le Ape E II Miele — 227 



Life of Grasshopper — 420. 



Manual on North Carolina— 99. 



Ontario Bulletin on Wintering— 25. 



Practical Queen-Rearing — 118. 



The Flower and the Bee— 242. 



Transferring from Box Hives— 300. 



Victorian Bee Journal — 370. 



Weather and Honey Production— 118. 



West Virginia Beekeeping — 277. 



Wintering Bulletins— 335. 

 Bitterweed Honey— 386. 

 Boneset — 267. 

 Breeding of Bees— 279. 

 British Columbia, Bees in— 15, 83. 

 Brood Chamber, Enlarging — 135. 

 Brood, Loss of— 370, 393, 388. 

 Brood, Pickled— 352. 

 Buckbrush— 54. 



Line Flowers 



Burle 



-20. 



California, Weather and Prospects — 405 



Canadian Beekeeping — 414. 



Candy, Sugar— 102, 420, 428. 



Carbon— 422. 



Carniolan and Banat Bees— 10, 102. 



Caucasian Bees — 279. 



Caucasus, Bees of — 16. 



Cell Protectors— 279. 



Cells. Are they Hexagons?— 82. 



Chaff Cushions— 169. 



Christmas — 416. 



Claims for Damages to Honey — 21. 



Clover, Alsike — 423. 



Clover, Red— 347. 



Comb — 388. 



Comb, Brittle — 59, 64. 



Comb Honey— 243. 35J. 



Comb Honey, Storehouse for— 20. 



Comb Honey Losing Popularity — 46. 



