1919 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



267 



of honey in lower body (more will 

 do no harm), two on a side. 



If I want increase, after the main 

 flow, or a few days after making last 

 transfer, I generally make two. If I 

 make increase three, the last one 

 about August 1, set side hive on new 

 stand and give, after two days, a ripe 

 cell, or better, a laying queen. 



In my opinion the primary cause of 

 swarming is a preponderance of 

 young bees in the brood-chamber. 



Have young, prolific (not over 2 

 years old) queens from a gentle 

 strain of Italians. 



This method requires some work 

 (not as much as cutting cells, and no 

 sulking by the bees), but will produce 

 more returns from a small apiary 

 than some of the larger ones I know, 

 this being especially desirable at this 

 time of food scarcity. 



And in this locality absolute control 

 of swarming. 



Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Honey Selling 



By Edward Hassinger, Jr. 



WITH honey producers organiz- 

 ing as they are, it seems that 

 honey advertising should be 

 conducted along an organized line; 

 that is, advertise honey in general 

 with illustrated and printed placards, 

 telling how to use honey to flavor and 

 sweeten ice cream, all kinds of ber- 

 ries, salads, cold and hot drinks, and 

 in fact any food that needs flavoring 

 and sweetening. These placards 

 should be made short and to the point, 

 such as : 



FLAVOR and SWEETEN 

 ICE CREAM 

 HONEY 

 A special one for ice cream parlors 

 could be something like this: 

 Try our 

 HONEYBEE HONEY 

 SUNDAE 

 IT'S DELICIOUS! 

 Every ice cream parlor and soda 

 fountain in the country should have 



two such placards in view, and honey 

 with a good flavor supplied on trial 

 if necessary, for each place. 



Every grocery could have one like 

 this: 



FLAVOR and SWEETEN 



BERRIES and SALADS 



WITH HONEY. 



We sell it. 



The placards could be printed by 

 some company interested in placing 

 honey before the public, and print 

 them as reasonable in price as possi- 

 ble; then advertise them in the bee 

 journals, and supply manufacturers 

 could also list same in their catalogs. 



State and County Beekeepers' As- 

 sociations could spend all surplus 

 funds for such placards and buy them 

 in large quantities and distribute to 

 the individual beekeepers for distri- 

 bution, or have one or more of the 

 officers of a local association as- 

 signed a certain territory to distrib- 

 ute the placards. 



Special placards could be gotten up 

 for schools in connection with bulle- 

 tins teaching the value of honey and 

 its uses in cooking and baking. 



Suppose the editors of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal and some advertising 

 specialist agree on the proper words 

 to use and then thoroughly advertise 

 the proposition to bee-keepers and 

 take orders with the understanding 

 that if the orders are large enough 

 collectively to warrant printing same 

 in large quantities, then same would 

 be printed and orders filled. 



Hortonville, Wis. 



A Few Reasons For Keeping 

 Records 



By Florence B. Richardson 



WHY is it that more beekeepers 

 do not keep records? How do 

 they know the lineage of a 

 queen in a certain hive? 



All these things are definitely 

 known only when true records are 

 kept. Many say, "Oh, I don't have 

 the time to fuss with that kind of 



The small honey sign is the cheapest mode of selling honey locally 



business; but the same person will 

 find the time to "fuss" with a colony 

 whose former record, if on file, would 

 tell that it would never make a pro- 

 ducer. The time thus spent could be 

 made much more profitable if em- 

 ployed in the business of record keep- 

 ing. The beauty of it is that there is 

 no necessity for guess work. When 

 one has only a few colonies it is easy 

 to keep the performances of each one 

 in mind without the use of pen or 

 pencil; then, too, there is an enthusi- 

 asm which does not allow one to for- 

 get. When, however, the number of 

 colonies gets to the point where it is 

 a business instead of a hobby, there is 

 something more to remember, and the 

 aid of a record is a decided advantage. 



The field notes may be only the 

 sketchiest, but if interpreted after 

 the day's work is done, there need be 

 no mistakes. A small block of paper 

 that will fit into the ordinary overall 

 pocket is really the handiest, as after 

 the work of the day is completed the 

 leaves can be torn off, taken to the 

 house and transcribed in a few min- 

 utes, while the block remains in the 

 pocket to be used the next time it is 

 needed. A short stub pencil attached 

 to the operator with a string is the 

 handiest arrangement to save hunting 

 for it when in a hurry. 



The bee business is, today, more 

 than ever before, receiving attention 

 from all classes of people, and if a 

 business is worth going into at all it 

 must be run on a business-like basis. 

 We would think it sheer folly for a 

 man or a woman to go into the dairy 

 or poultry business without keeping 

 records. Not only general records, 

 but itemized records of each individ- 

 ual or pen. Why is it not as neces- 

 sary to know the exact value of our 

 colonies of bees, not only collectively 

 but individually? If we have a cow 

 or a hen who is not paying her way 

 or is diseased, do we tolerate her? 

 Certainly not. We either sell her or 

 bury her. With the bees we do not 

 have to use such extreme measures, 

 for it is generally possible to intro- 

 duce new blood from a high-produc- 

 ing colony and within a reasonable 

 length of time have a greatly im- 

 proved colony where there might 

 have been an empty hive. 



An outbreak of disease can be 

 checked much sooner and with more 

 surety if the record of the colony is 

 known, and there is also less danger 

 of leaving a colony to its own devices, 

 if a record is kept, as in going over a 

 colony's work the time since the last 

 overhauling will be noticed and a 

 special effort made to check up on it 

 soon. 



A small card index can be pur- 

 chased for less than two dollars a set 

 of cards, lined to receive entries and 

 cut to fit the box, also a numbered in- 

 dex can be bought for a small addi- 

 tional sum. More cards can be added 

 at any time and the records are con- 

 tinually on file. A few minutes' time 

 will fill out a card, either on a type- 

 writer or by hand. The initial ex- 

 pense is small and the ultimate re- 

 sults are large. 



In a well regulated apiary there are 

 two sets of these records, the ones at 

 the yard and the one in the card cata- 



