The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-23

keep the bees all the time 1eeulng, Wnen
| they cannot gather honey from the flowers.
Sugar syrup is as good as honey fer feed
ing, but uses honey os he gets it without
buying. 1t costs him not exceeding one
cent per pound to produce honey. Thinks
| he hasSraised 900 pounds from single
colony, but did not weigh it. lie offered
at Cleveland to sell all his bees except ten
stocks and to take his pay on condition
that he secured 10000 pounds Of honey in
one season from ten stocks. The offer is
still open. He has the best honey district
in the world. The bees gather honey in
cessantly from May until September. He
added that it was not unusual for twelve
natural swarms to issue from one in sea-
son. M aa.- a.-s Id.
AFTERNOON SESSION. -
Mrs. E. Upper. In the spring she in-
creased her bees as fast as possible by
feeding. Early bees make all the honey.
By the last of May she divides every
hive, by taking out "a strong colony. gives
each queen, afterwards prevents swarm
ing. Gives the queen as much empty
comb as she will fill with eggs. The
| queen lays in the spring in proportion to
the room she has and the amount of food
| and temperature. Makes the hives as
close as possible in spring Jas does Hosmer,
to retain heat. a5s szI1, 5r sr LIE
| Mr.. Moon. Equalizes his stocks early
in spring, so as to have all strong. Where
they have increased enough to bear it he
goes among his hives and takes one frame
o. brood and adhering bees from each hive,
and two from such as can spare it, and re-
turns empty combs. Fills as many hives
as his sheets OF comb will. Gives queen
cell to each which he raises by taking
queens away from enough hives to produce
them in time. This can be repeated every
three or four days throughout the season.
The next topic was, "How to secure the
greatest amount of surplus honey" p q
DIR. Bohre1 said, 1t required, LIST, A
good locality. I'd, Good season. 3D., Strong
colony of bees. 4th, A good movable
comb hive of some sort. 9th, A honey
extractor. If box honey is desired, the
boxes should be put as close to the brood
as possible. Stimulate, by feeding early
in the spring TO get them strong. If they
have honey they may be induced to use it
by handling them often. bl4
w. r. King. Got $50 ponds of comb
honey from one hive. They were the Grey
: bee, not Italians. His hive had twenty
four frames in it, Adair's and Gallup's
, "New Idea." Thought model was in
, the patent Office before they published it.
The bees made all the comb in which to
store the honey except strips that were
used for guides. Bees will make more
, honey in single chamber than in several
: Mr.. Wilkinson, of Indiana, asked, "Will
r bees construct comb of sugar syrup as well
as from honeyw Lli4 attT
, DR.. Bohrer. Had bees to build comb
) of syrup in winter. st.gI "a
| Mr.. Moon. Prepare honey boxes with
pieces of comb in them, so as to induce
, the bees to commence in them as soon as
possible, and put boxes as close to the CEN
tire as possible. He once kept bees in a
dark room fourteen weeks, and had twenty
boxes filled with honey and wax made o.
! sugar syrup, and took, premiums at the
! fairs with it. ss.t
!, Mr.. Southworth, ILL.,, had considerable
: comb and honey made from sugar, the past
! season.
Mr.. Moon assisted Mr.. Southworth ii
feeding the sugar, and the honey took thu
: premium at the Illinois State Fair. ~ q
4 Mr.. McFetridge. Moved his bees to the
pasturage twenty or thirty miles first to
: poplar grove, and then to Underwood.
Sixty hives gathered ton from the poplar,
,, and 2,400 lbs. from the linden. a.e9t4
Il NC. Mitchell. Tried two colonies of bees
t on Hosmer's plan of quart to the colony
! two years ago. Fed them early and haG
/ them strong enough to gather surplus
) honey from fruit blossoms. They yielded
enormously during the season, but he kept
! no account of the amount. s,frsr.5 Is.
s Mr.. Wheedon, Greensburg, Indiana
thought there should be more caution ii
) advising making honey from sugar. Many
would not buy extracted honey now, anC
, if the idea gets out that bee keepers are
making honey of sugar, it will be further
| injured in reputation. 5
, Mr.. Merrill was Of the opinion that that
thing of selling molasses for honey, and
s, the statement gong out that it took
premiums at state fair, was calculated tc
degrade bee keeping and ignore honest bee
, keepers.
Mr.. Southworth. Did not make prac
tice of making honey in that way, MOI
had he sold any of it. 1t was tasted OF
!, the grounds and pronounced the best o
! honey. ta'
Mr.. Moon said every bee keeper knows
that sugar cannot be made into wax ant
honey, without loss to the bee keeper. The
waste is so great that the cost is too much
If sugar could be had at three cents &
pound it might pay the bee keeper for bis
labor, but would leave him no profit. Iii
only stated what he did to convince the
gentleman who asked the question that wax
could be made fro m sugar.
DR.. Lucus said, in 1871 he took enough
honey from his apiary in two months to
pay for bees, Italian queen, hives, and an
extractor Without the extractor he could
not have done it but would have come out
in debt. The extractor will pay. Wax
is indigestible and positively injurious.
There is no acid that will dissolve it. Fl
F Mr.. Wilkerson thought sugar might be
fed out of which to construct comb to hold
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