Bees in Colorado, a souvenir of the Denver meeting. September 3-5, 1902

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Preface.

VERY well-regulated Book needs a Preface. This par-
ticular Preface is written to tell you that the Advertiser
supplies the money to pay the Printer. If you feel like
thanking anybody for it, please thank the Advertiser: he

is a Gentleman and the Friend of the Busy Bee and the Busy Bee-

master. If you don’t feel like thanking any one, take the advice of
good old Izaak Walton and “be quiet and go a-angling”’---or talk it
over with the undersigned.

D. W. WORKING.

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Two Doctors.

A. B. MASON, Toledo, Ohio. C. C. MILLER, Marengo, Illinois.

Secretary National Bee-Keepers’ A Director of the National
Association. Association.

Two Men

Who Worked

for the Success of
the Denver Meeting.

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GEORGE W. YORK. Chicago, Illinois.
Editor American Bee Journal.

ERNEST R. ROOT, Medina, Ohio.
Editor Gleanings in Bee Culture.

Che Bee Industry in Colorado,

Scraps of History.
HE LONGMONT TIMES of October 4, 1892,--

Aa) Honey Day Edition,--contains more information con-
cerning the growth and importance of the bee-keeping
industry in Colorado than any other publication known

to the Compiler of this Booklet. Connected with the occasion com-
memorated by the Times there is a good deal which bee-keepers
are now inclined to dignify by calling it history. Two short para-
graphs from the Times of the date mentioned will serve very appro-
priately to introduce the various subjects
included in this Souvenir:

“Neither a fair nor a festival, yet partak-
ing of their characteristics and being something
more than a combination of them, the meeting
at Longmont on September 28th and 29th of
the Colorado State Bee-Keepers’ Association
was an event in the history of the bee industry
in Colorado.

“For months the officers and members of
the Northern Colorado Bee-Keepers’ Association
had been preparing to make the meeting pleas-
ant and profitable for all who should attend,
helpful to every owner of a hive of bees in
Colorado and instructive to every one who
should read the proceedings. Now, that the D. W. WORKING, Denver.
meeting is past, and the task of telling what Secretary; Colorade Shite Beé-
was done is undertaken, it is with much satis- Keepers’ Association.
faction that the Times can say that it wasa
success in a very large and liberal sense of the word. The hundreds
that came to listen and to see could not but learn something; and
the thousands who will read the proceedings and papers as given in
the Times will be sure to learn much of Colorado’s honey industry,
and will in turn tell others what they have learned.”

Besides the proceedings of the Longmont meeting, the Times
contained a number of special articles, several of which seem to be
of more importance after ten years than they were thought to be at
the time. Among these, the one of the greatest permanent value
was written by Mr. Harry Knight, Secretary of the State Associ-

First
Bees in
Colorado

ation at the time and one of the most useful workers in building it
up and making it a power in developing and protecting the industry
which it represents. Mr. Knight’s article is here reproduced just as
it was written a decade ago.

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Colorado Apiculture.
By H. Knight.

HE honey-bee is not a native of America. The first were
brought here and landed in Boston in 1670. Since that
time the little honey gatherer has traveled either by
natural swarming or some enterprising bee-keeper has

taken them, hive and all, into every state and territory in the Union.

The first brought to Colorado was in 1862 by Isaac McBroom
of Fort Logan, who hauled one colony across the plains by ox team.

They did not increase any, but after one season died. In 1866 ex-

Gov. A. C. Hunt brought a colony to Denver by wagon. These

also died without increase, the second winter.

Shortly after the railroad reached Denver in

1870 a car load of bees were brought here and

sold to several that wanted to buy, at $25 per

colony. From these the industry grew.
The object of bringing them to Amer-

Useful ica, and later to Colorado, was two-

Bees fold. First, because of their healthful

and delicious product, and second, the
great benefits derived from their work in the
fertilization of blossoms. The great naturalist,

Darwin, truly says: “ The more bees the more

flowers; the more flowers the more seeds; the

more seeds the more flowers; the more flowers
the more seeds.” If all the bees were taken out

H, KNIGHT. :
Aioemer Secretary of thé less fruit grown, because the honey-bees are

State Association. the principal agents by which the pollen is
carried from one flower to another and thus the
bloom is fertilized and becomes seed-bearing.

of the country, less seed would be raised and

Before the introduction of alfalfa into Colorado, wild flowers Boney-
furnished a scanty supply of nectar, and the bees were often short of Producing
stores for winter, and spring would bloom forth to find but few bees Plants
to kiss her flowers, they having died of starvation.

With alfalfa came the red, white, alsike, and sweet clovers,
until now, thousands upon thousands of acres of alfalfa, thousands
of acres of red clover, and miles of ditches and streams are lined
with sweet c over and many pastures and fields of white and alsike
clovers are to be found.

Of the indigenous plants, Cleome (Rocky Mountain bee plant,
skunk weed) is the best, and it has increased rapidly since the advent
of civilization, so that to-day the honey flow is considerably pro-
longed in regions where it abounds.

With these changes in the flora, the progress of the bee-keepers Bee-
changed also. When wild flowers were the only dependence for Keeper's’
honey the apiarian asked for a wet season, as it was the best for Progress
honey. Now he prays, if he has time, “Please give us a dry season
with an abundance of irrigating water, and keep foul brood out of
my apiary.”” Another season he will add, “and please kill all the
grasshoppers.”

Twelve years ago (1880) J. L. Peabody, E. Milleson and Mrs. State
Olive Wright, met in Denver and formed the Colorado State Bee- Association
Keepers’ Association. There were then but few bee-keepers and
about 250 hives of bees in the State. Nine years ago the coming
winter the writer had the pleasure of attending a meeting of the
Association held in the county commissioners’
room, upstairs, corner Fifteenth and Lawrence
streets, Denver. About ten persons were in
attendance.

In December, 1888, the Association was
incorporated under the laws of the State.

In 1890, the apiculturists of
the western slope met in Mon- Other
trose and organized the Associations
Uncompahgre Valley Bee-

Keepers’ Asosciation with J. T. Hartop as
President.

In 1891 two associations were born. First
the Northern Colorado Bee-Keepers’ Associ-
ation at Longmont, with R. F. Coffin, Presi-
dent, D. L.Tracy, Secretary. This association

ELISHA MILLESON, Denver.

A former President of the
State Association.

Colonies in
Colorado

now has 73 members. In September of same year the Weld County
Bee-Keepers’ Association was organized at Greeley, with D. S. Beal,
President, H. E. English, Secretary. This association numbers 60
members,

All of these associations are in a thriving condition, and ere
another year rolls around as many more will be formed.

This is a difficult problem, but after getting statistics from
assessors, and county inspectors and from correspondence with bee-
keepers, the number can safely be put at 64,000
colonies. Boulder County leads them all with
18,000 hives. Of these bees it can be said
that fully four-fifths are in moveable frame
hives. One-fourth are owned by specialists
and another fourth by semi-specialists, and
one-half are in the hands of farmers that only
about half take care of them. The last named
get only comb honey and average from nothing
to thirty pounds per colony, and save about
one-tenth of the increase. Those making a
specialty of the business get from 50 to 150
pounds section honey or 75 to 200 pounds
extracted in the average season. The past
season (1892) is the poorest in the history of
bee-keeping in the State, and the average yield
will be very low.

Placing the honey production at

MRS. RACHEL A. RHODES, Boney sixty pounds per colony with the
Fort Lupton. Produced specialist, thirty pounds with the
Treasurer State Association. semi-specialist, and ten pounds by

Beeswax

the farmer bee-keeper, which I think a fair
estimate, would make a honey crop of 1,760,000 pounds. The aver-
age price of which has been about eleven cents per pound, making
the honey crop worth $193,600 per year, 1892 not taken into con-
sideration, as there is not one-fourth of a crop.

The amount of wax saved by bee-keepers is very small as so
many of them throw all scraps away; but nevertheless about fifteen
hundred pounds is put onto the market each year in this State, the
price of which is twenty-five cents, or $375 on the yearly crop.
This amount could be greatly increased by the saving of all scrap-
ings and scraps of wax.

The amount of cash represented in the business each year is—

64,000 colonies bees at $5...-.-__-___-. $320,000
1,760,000 pounds honey at JJ cents- ---- 193,600
1,500 pounds beeswax at 25 cents-----.- 375
Necessary supplies each year-.....----. 48,000

Making a grand total of .-.....--- $561,975

This, you see, does not include wages paid to hired help, which
is considerable, as many bee-keepers have so many bees that it
becomes necessary to have assistants.

The prospects are not flattering. Each year in the last five the
honey crop has grown less than the crop of the previous year, and
the price has dropped from eighteen cents per pound in 1877 to ten
cents in 1891. Foul brood is here, which will kill off some bees,
although I believe that it can and will be eradicated in a couple of
years. Grasshoppers may be worse next year than they have been
this, and we may have a law making it a misdemeanor to allow
sweet clover to grow on our farms; but notwithstanding all these
drawbacks I believe the business will increase and get more into the
hands of the specialists, and that honey can, and will be produced
for less money than it now is.

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Later History.

R. KNIGHT’S article brings the history of the bee-

M keepers’ industry down to the fall of 1892. There has

been growth during the years that followed---and some

rather remarkable changes. For example, Boulder

County, according to Mr. Knight’s estimate, had 18,000 colonies;

in the fall of 1900 Mr. Frank Rauchfuss and the Compiler of this

publication united in estimating the nnmber of bees in the State, and

gave Boulder County credit for having 6,000 colonies, while Arapahoe
was put at the head of the list with 7,000 colonies.

In December, 1900, the writer of this prepared an article for the
New Year’s edition of one of the Denver papers, setting forth ina
popular way the status of the bee industry at the end of what was
one of the most prosperous years for the bee-keepers of Colorado.
It seems worth while to reprint that article here, with no change
except the omission of a single unimportant paragraph.

Gash
Repre-
sented

Prospects

Colorado's Honey-Producing Tndustry.
By D. W. Working.

HE honey-bee is not the smallest animal that works for

fa) man, though it is the smallest which can be said to be

truly domesticated and to work under direct personal

management. It is the only domesticated insect. And

what a wonderful worker the honey-bee is! The “‘honey-bee” is

proverbial, and is useful in more ways than one---is more than a
maker of the choicest of sweets.

It is an old story that red clover seed could not be raised in
Australia till bumble-bees were imported to aid in the fertilization
of the blossoms. It is not so well tnderstood that in Colorado we
could not raise alfalfa seed without the help of the honey-bee. And

comparatively few of our fruit-growers realize

=] the importance of the work of the bees in fer-
tilizing their fruit blossoms. “Be sure,” writes
M. B. Waite in the concluding paragraph of
an article in the Year Book of the United
States Department of Agriculture for 1898,
“that there are sufficient bees in the neighbor-
hood, or at least within two or three miles, to
properly fertilize the blossoms. When possible,
endeavor to favor the bees by selecting shel-
tered situations for the orchard or by planting
wind-breaks.”” And Mr. Waite was not writ-
ing as a bee-keeper, but from the standpoint of
the fruit-grower.

So the reader is reminded-—-bluntly enough,
it may seem---that the money value of the
honey-bee to Colorado is not measured by the

MISS SUSIE R. COOK, Littleton.

market price of the honey and beeswax pro-
duced. Every orchard is debtor to the honey-

A Member of the Reception bee; every berry patch and flower garden

Committee. owes him something. The alfalfa fields, with

their purple blooms that yield the nectar for
the best and sweetest and whitest honey, get as much as they give.
Wherever he goes, the bee pays his way if given an honest bee’s fair
chance. No loafer or shirk is he, but a worker of the workers.
Though he gives due respect to his queen, he is no sycophant at the

feet of royalty, A democrat of the democrats, he chooses his own
queen, and he lives and works as if he believed the doctrines of
industry, thrift, and equality which he preaches. The queen-mother
of his social democracy must not contract the habits of indolence.
She rules by her power of service, and when her power to serve is
spent, she must give place to the young queen, chosen by the
workers.

The history of honey production in fragmentary. The loose
ends have not been gathered up and tucked in as they might have
been. The early bee-keepers were too intent on getting honey to
write history.

A year ago Frank Rauchfuss, Secretary of the Association, in a
summary of the history of the industry in Colorado, stated that the
first statistics of the business were gathered in 1885 by Secretary
Shiff of the State Association. Shiff estimated that there were about
500 bee-keepers and 6,000 swarms of bees. “Two bee-keepers had
150 colonies each and reported a crop of five tons of honey for that
season.”

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Apiary of F. H. Hunt, Edgewater, Jefferson County,

In 1899 the Association had thirty-eight members, who owned
3,578 swarms of bees, yielding 130,000 pounds of comb honey.
How many bees were owned by persons not members was not
known. ‘The business was growing and prospering.

"Secretary Rauchfuss estimated the number
of bees in the State in 1897, putting the total at
about 70,000 colonies. The yield of honey that
year was twenty-six pounds per hive, and the
total value of the honey was about $80,000.
The Association then had forty-three members,
From this time on the organization grew faster
than the business it represents.

In 1899 Mr. Rauchfuss was able to report
165 members in good standing, and now the
membership roll includes about 290 names.
The industry represented has grown in import-
ance. The bee-keepers are learning the need of
organization and proving the value of co-opera-
tion. They save by buying together; they gain
by selling together. They have established a

FRANK RAUCHFUSS, Denver. system of grading that has given Colorado
a aa Colorado Honey Producers’ honey an honorable name in the markets of
ssociation; a Former Secretary
of the State Association; Mem- Eastern cities, where the choicest of our pro-
ber Executive Committee. ducts are consumed,

Among American associations of bee-
keepers the Colorado organization is one of the foremost. Among
its members are some of the best known bee-keepers in the United
States, as well as a number of the most competent writers for the
bee journals. Colorado is famous for her alfalfa honey and her
wide-awake honey producers, some of the most successful of whom
are women.

Most people like to read of big things. The business that is
represented by millions appeals to them. They are interested in
things in the mass---in carloads of needles and pins, in train loads
of apples and strawberries. In speaking of the bee industry in
Colorado we are not forbidden by the truth to use large figures. The
bee is small, but his name is legion. An average swarm of bees
weighs five pounds; but there are 25,000 of the little workers in the
swarm. There are, approximately, 75,000 swarms or colonies in the
State---nearly 2,000,000,000 of bees! To keep these myriads of tiny
workers busy, two Denver firms distributed fifteen carloads of bee

supplies---hives, sections, wax foundations, shipping cases, smokers,
veils, gloves and a hundred other things known only to the men and
women who are acquainted with bees. Twenty-five thousand
dollars is the sum paid by the bee-keepers for these supplies. But the
bees must be kept busy. And there seemed to be a rivalry during
the year just ended, the bees keeping their owners on the run; their
masters trying to give the bees a chance to do their utmost during
the honey flow. The result was satisfactory.

The 75,000 stands of bees in Colorado are scattered throughout
the State substantially as follows:

Arapahoe County ------ 7,000
Boulder County -__. ---- 6,000
Delta County -.._ .._-.. 5,000
Fremont County - ---.-- 3,000
Huerfano County. ------ 3,500
Jefferson County -----.-- 5,500
Larimer County.-_----- 5,000
Logan County ----. -.-- 1,000
Montrose County - -----. 5,000
Mesa County --.-_.---- 6,500
Morgan County-.--. ---. 1,500
Otero County... ------ 6,000
Prowers County -.------- 3,000
Weld County -------.-- 6,000
Other counties... -_. ----33,000

These estimates will seem low to many
well-informed bee-keepers of the counties
named, But the figures may stand. They eo eeu seen
furnish a basis for other estimates. Editor Rocky Mountain

At the recent annual meeting of the State Bee Journal.
Bee-Keepers’ Association a member who suc-
cessfully handles a large apiary estimated the value of every good
swarm of bees, including hive and one super, at $5.50. But there
are swarms that are not good. Call the average swarm worth $4.00
and we have $300,000 as the value of the bees in Colorado. Add
the cost of buildings, tools and appliances, and the total investment
represented by the bee industry will amount to fully $500,000. This
does not include the value of ‘‘bee pasture.”

The value of the honey produced in the State is not easily esti-
mated. Most of the 2,000 bee-keepers in the State are not members
of the State organization. A large share of them have only a few

stands and use the entire product at home. Many of them follow
primitive methods, and sell only broken honey. Manifestly it is
impossible to “get at” the average product per hive. Numerous
examples could be given of single hives that produced 200 pounds
of comb honey during the season; large apiaries could be named
from which honey was sold by the ton at the rate of 100 or more
pounds per colony. Many small apiaries have done as well.
Unfortunately conditions were not favorable in all parts of the
State, and all bee-keepers are not equally skillful in handling bees.

It is a low estimate to put the average production of surplus
honey at 20 pounds per colony, or a total of 1,500,000 pounds for
the State. For home use and for sale this honey was worth about
10 cents a pound, or $150,000. The value of the natural increase
by swarming is not far from $50,000.

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Some Later Figures.

F THE EDITOR thought it necessary to apologize for
anything in the foregoing article,* it might be for the item

“other counties” in the table and for the lack of accuracy

in the use of a few words that have particular meanings

to bee-keepers. But it is not worth while to apologize; though it
may be worth while to remark in passing that the Working who
wrote the foregoing article was an amateur

; bee-keeper, while the Working who writes this
é is also an amateur, but not quite so amateurish.

The estimates given above were for the
end of the year 1900. They may be called
fairly intelligent guesses. In comparing them
with the eitimates of the Census, which follow,
it will be well to keep in mind the fact that the
Census estimate of the number of colonies was
for the first of June, 1900, and to remember

*The article referred to was in the printer’s hands
before the paragraphs under the heading, Some Later
Figures were written and before the Census bulletin was
examined,

LEVI BOOTH, Denver.
Whose Wife is the Bee-~Keeper.

that the increase in the number of colonies by swarming was excep-
tionally great during that year; also that several car loads of bees
were shipped into the State. A Census bulletin on Colorado agricul-
ture, dated June 2, 1902, gives the following paragraph under the
heading Honey and Wax:

“In 1900, 4,518 farmers reported, in the

aggregate, 59,756 swarms of bees. They
obtained, in 1899, 1,732,630 pounds of honey
and 24,930 pounds of wax, the gains in the
last decade being 87.4 per cent in the former
item, and more than twofold in the latter.
The leading counties in 1900, as in 1890, were
Jefferson, Arapahoe, Montrose,- Delta, Lari-
mer and Weld.”

It might be well to add that the bulletin
referred to does not give details, either by
counties or otherwise, and that it estimates
the value of the 59,756 swarms of bees at
$195,096, an average of $3.26 per colony.
During the spring of 1902 many colonies

changed hands at $6.00 per colony, and some
at even higher prices. At the present time
prices are much lower, and doubtless will
remain low until next spring.

Since the figures of the Census were collected there has been
a large increase in the number of bees in Colorado, and there are
reasons for believing that at the present time (August J, 902) there
are nearly eighty-five thousand colonies‘in the State. This, of course,
is a guess, but not an entirely unintelligent guess. It will have been
noticed that the number of bee-keepers given by the Census bulletin
is largely in excess of any local estimate; and it would seem that
the Census figures in regard to the number of persons owning bees
ought to be substantially accurate,

The following approximate estimate of the number of colonies
in the State is given on the authority of Mr. Frank Rauchfuss, his
figures being prepared independently of those above given and after
the foregoing paragraphs were written:

MRS. BOOTH, Denver.

Arapahoe (Gounty 5 <<..e-) ccasieceeceee 8,000
Bent Cognty--2.4schiecccuceedseeenses 2,000
Boulder County --..-. -----------. ------ 8,000

Chaffee: County a.--2+ s2sces ceeds scedte 200

Delta Gounty: 2222..eec ssc eee eeece 4,000

Douglas ‘County- 2.2. : 222 ecc2e0annse-se 300
Elbert: County 222: sees se ss aren vex eee 200
E! Paso County.--.. ------------------ 800
Fremont County -.----. ------ ---------- 2,000
Garfield County ..----.----------- ----- 5,200
Huerfano County- .__.-. ------ ---------- 2,000
Jefferson County .----. -.-------- -------- 8,000
La Plata County - ..---.----...--.------ 4,000
Larimer County -----.-.---- sg Shamees 6,000
Las Animas County .--.-----. ----- .--- 1,500
Logan County --_-_..-----.-----. ------ 2,500
Mesa County -----.---------- _...---- 5,000
Montezuma County ...----.-----.------ 2,500
Montrose County-.----- ---------------- 5,000
Morgan County --.--.-----. ----..------ 3,000
Otero County-----_---.-----. ---.------ 7,000
Pitkin: County: 2-2-ces sees a censte 300
Pueblo: Countyssce. = esis cece se cseeonece 1,500

Rio Grande County. -------------------- 300
Weld County ---_.. .--.------.----.---. 6,000

Apiary of Gill and Francis, Boulder County.

A Talk with a Pioneer.

N MR. KNIGHT’S SKETCH it is stated that Mr.

J. L. Peabody was one of the three organizers of the State

Bee-Keepets’ Association. Mrs. Wright, one of the three,

has passed away. The other two, Mr. Peabody and Mr.

Elisha Milleson, live in Denver, the latter still a bee-keeper, the

former out of the business, but interested, nevertheless, in the bees
and those who care for them.

Mr. Peabody, like other early bee-keepers,
has a fund of interesting reminiscences of the
early days; and as he has the name of being
the first President of the State Association, it is
worth while to know something of his experi-
ence. He came to Colorado in 1873, he says,
“to get away from bees, for a time, at least, on
account of his health.” But the bees followed
him and he could not be contented without a
few at least, if only for pleasure and to have
an opportunity to make experiments. Not
before 1881 did he give much attention to
increase and honey-production, having the year
before sold all his bees but two colonies.

In 1881, with his two colonies to start
with, Mr. Peabody secured 400 pounds of J. L. PEABODY, Denver,
honey, mostly extracted, and increased his The First President.
apiary to fourteen colonies. The extracted
honey sold at twenty cents a pound and the comb at twenty-five, the
total income from this source being about $90. Six swarms of bees
were sold for $60. Valuing the other six new swarms at the same
rate, Mr. Peabody figures that his income from the two colonies was
a little better than $200. The increase was all artificial, and the
queens were bought at seventy-five cents each. The honey was
nearly all from the Rocky Mountain bee plant, Cleome.

Of course a yield of 200 pounds of honey per colony is extra-
ordinary, especially when the bees are increasing so rapidly. But
Mr. Peabody says that the season of 1881 was “fa great year for the
bloom all over the city,” though he admits that it may not have
been better in that respect than some other particularly favorable
years. His explanation of the large yield is as follows: “It was a
moist season, with little rains every few days, which made the honey

thin, so the bees could fill themselves very quickly. They could
work most of the day which they can not do in this climate when
it is so extremely dry, as the honey in the flowers seems to get thick
during the middle of the day.”

From 188) to 1884 Mr. Peabody was in the supply business, as
well as keeping bees and dealing in honey and queens. He handled
Root’s goods for the most part, but manufactured all the hives
he sold.

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JAMES U. HARRIS, M. A. GILL,

Grand Junction. Longmont.
President State Bee-Keepers’ Vice-President State Bee-Keepers’

Association. Association.

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Bees in Boulder Qounty.

R. J. B. ADAMS, of Longmont, is the authority for the
following facts about the bee industry in Boulder County:

“The pioneer bee-keeper of Boulder County was

David J. Lykins. Mr. Lykins, who came to Colorado

in 1859, began his work with bees some time in the sixties, after
receiving from an uncle in Missouri two colonies in rough box hives.
Like other pioneers he had many interesting and exciting experiences

with Indians and became familiar with the men and events that
made the early days so full of what has come to be of so much
interest at the present day.

“Like many others, Mr. Lykins, whose home was and is in
Little Thompson Canon, neglected his bees, and the increase for
many years went to the trees in the mountains where are to be
found the only full blood black bees in this county. After Mr.
Lykins was married his wife took charge of the bees, and bought
twenty-five colonies of Italians from Mrs. Baker of Upper St. Vrain,
paying eight dollars a colony for them. She sold honey to the
amount of $175 the first year, 1885. She had a swarm come off on
September 9th and afterwards make honey enough to winter on.

“Dr. King of Boulder and Mr. Barten and W. S. Flory of
Hygiene were among the first to handle bees according to scientific
principles, Mr. Flory shipped four colonies direct from Italy. Others
bought Italian queens from breeders in the East. From these nearly
all the bees in this country have become Italianized.”

A Corner of one of W. B. Hopper’s Apiaries,
Otero County.

F, H. C. KRUEGER, Brighton. B. Ww. HOPPER. La Junta
Bee Inspector, Arapohoe County. Bee Inspector, Otero County

Apiary of the Sterling Bee Company.
Harry McCombs, Apiarist.

Jefferson County.

SIIHIE Rev. R. H. Rhodes, now of Fort Lupton, gives the
i] following interesting account of the beginning of the bee
industry in Jefferson County:

“The first colony of bees of which we have any
authentic knowledge was brought to the county in 1864.

“F, J. McQuiston of Ralston Crossing (post office address,
Golden, Jefferson County) bought a colony of bees in a log gum, on
Coon Creek, Iowa, and paid the sum of four dollars for it, and then
placed it with his household goods upon an ox wagon, in the fall of
1863, and migrated with others across the plains, arriving in Denver
the first day of January, 1864, safe and sound. From Denver he
moved with his effects to his present home, where he unloaded his
household goods including his bees.

“During the time he kept the bees he was twice or thrice offered
the sum of $100 for his one colony. And for the first honey that
was taken from the hive to Central City he received one dollar a
pound for all that he had, and Mr. McQuiston says that if he had
known how to keep bees in modern style he could have made a
fortune with them.”

APP -S—DENVER

HARRY McCOMBS, Sterling. J. S. BRUCE, Montrose.

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NO 2 HONEY.

Grading Rules

OF THE
Colorado State Bee-Keepers’ Association.

COMB HONEY RULES.

ECTIONS to be well filled and capped, honey white or
slightly amber, comb white and not projecting beyond
the wood, wood to be well cleaned; cases of separatored
honey to average 21 pounds net per case of 24 sections,

with a minimum weight of not less than 20 pounds for any single

case; cases of half-separatored honey to average not less than 2334

pounds net per case of 24 sections, with a minimum weight of 2034

pounds for any single case; cases of unseparatored honey to average

not less than 2212 pounds net per case of 24 sections, with a minimum
weight of 2114 pounds for any single case.

Includes all amber honey of a pronounced tinge, and all white
and amber honey not included in No. J; to be fairly well sealed,
uncapped cells not to exceed fifty in number exclusive of the out-
side row, wood to be well cleaned; cases of separatored honey to
average not less than J8 pounds net per case of 24 sections; cases of
half-separatored honey to average not less than 19 pounds net per
case of 24 sections; cases of unseparatored honey to average not ies
than 20 pounds net per case of 24 sections.

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Extracted honey shall be classified as white and amber, shall
weigh twelve pounds per gallon, shall be perfectly free from particles
of wax, and shall always be marketed in new cans, All rendered
honey, whether obtained by solar heat or otherwise, shall be classed
as strained honey and not as extracted.

It is recommended to sell all cull honey around home as much
as possible; to grade only in daylight, near a window; to use the
standard 41{x414x1% inch section and the 24-pound double-tier
shipping-case, in order to have uniformity in loading cars; to stamp
all cases of No. J honey with the owner’s name above the hand-
holes; to mark all cases of No. 2 honey with two dashes in the
handholes at each end of the case, and with no other marks what-
soever; to use no second-hand cases for No. } and No. 2 honey; to
pack all sections with paper below and above, and in double-tier
cases to put a sheet of paper between the tiers; to store comb honey
ina warm, dry place, protected from flies and dust; and to haul
carefully, well protected from dust and rain.

No. 1

No. 2

Extracted
Roney
Rules

Recom-
mendations

PART OF THE COLORADO STATE BEE-KEEPERS’ ASSOCIATION, AS PHOT(

IED BY W. Z. HUTCHINSON, ON THE CAPITOL STEPS, NOVEMBER, 1901.

PROP. C.. 'P.. GILLETTE,
State Agriculture College, Fort Collins, Colorado
An authority on long-tongued bees.

Bee-Keeping in Delta Qounty.
By Frank H. Drexel.
F THE COUNTIES on Colorado’s western slope none

offer to bee-keepers greater inducements in the way of

honey resources, climatic conditions, and congenial

environments than does Delta County. ’Twould be

putting it rather too strong, however, to say that this is the bee man’s

paradise, or to endorse what appeared only recently in Gleanings in

Bee Culture regarding this county; but we have, undoubtedly, a fine
country here with prospects most promising.

Bee-keeping in Delta County had its birth shortly after Uncle

Sam’s regulars cleared out the Indians. Some of the first settlers

Apiary of Frank H. Drexel, Crawford, Delta County.

found bees in trees and in caves; and it may be worthy of mention
that these bees were not the common black ones, but;were in fact
nicely marked. Indeed, a colony of black bees is a rare thingjhere
even now, although very little has been done by anyone to import
fresh blood.

It was in 1883 that Mr. W. D. Brown of Delta shipped in about
twenty colonies of bees in frame hives. He retained part of these

for his own use and sold the balance to his neighbors at twenty-five
dollars per colony, thereby setting Delta County’s agricultural ball
a-rolling.

A start in bees was expensive in those days, and it was likewise
expensive to run them in an up-to-date way; for hives, sections,
shipping cases, and in fact everything was high in price and diffi-
cult to obtain. So it transpired that notwithstanding bees increased
very rapidly and honey sold for twenty-five cents per pound in the
local market, bee-keeping as a business made but little headway. By
this time (1893) bees were in the possession of nearly every ranch-
man, but declining prices in honey and the panicky times brought
to an untimely end many high hopes.

Only a few of our pioneers—-Miss Rose Kennicott, Mr. Geo. T.
Conklin, and Mr. Geo. Fogg---kept on producing honey for market
in a large way, honey then being worth only seven to eight cents
per pound. This marked the ebb tide in the bee industry of our
county.

It was at this stage that the writer, having come to this country
from Baltimore in 1892 at the age of twenty-three years, for his
health, entered the field of apiculture. To find an out-door occu-
pation, not requiring very heavy work and yielding fairly good
teturns for money invested and labor performed, was the object
sought. Two bee papers, a text book, fifty colonies of bees in box

Apiary of Coggshall & Weeks, Delta. Delta County.

hives, some lumber, and a beginner’s outfit formed the stock on
hand. Interest in the work ahead, determination to stay with the
business and the most powerful incentive in the world to back up
the enterprise was to compensate for the total lack of learning or
experience in bee matters. Eight years of service in a large hard-
ware house under a tireless and exacting employer had not, I soon
found, been for naught. Business is business---be it hardware or bees
or profession or anything else. Eight years of bee-keeping has not
brought all the success dreamed of in the start, but it has brought
health, has made possible the estabiishment of a home and a nice,
clean business; the fifty colonies in one yard have grown to some

Apiary of R. T. Stinnett, Delta, Delta County.

four hundred, in four yards; and there is no doubt that in more
competent hands the results would have been much better in many
ways. All things considered, I have never felt the least regret in
making Delta County my home or bee-keeping my business,

The foregoing was written, not so much with any idea of mak-
ing known my small accomplishments, as to more forcibly impress
the reader with the fact that this ts a honey-producing country; for
it must be admitted that not in every country can a man start in the
bee business as a specialty without any knowledge of the work
before him and make it pay.

Some time around the year 1898 a bee-keeper and his wife from
near Denver came into this county and purchased several hundred

colonies of bees. Being practical bee-keepers with plenty of hustle,
they made the business pay from the start. Each year the number
of their colonies and the size of their honey crops increased and suc-
cess to them came quick and sure. But, mind you, it took work.
Partly through their instrumentality a better grade of supplies at
closer figures than before were handled by Delta supply houses.
With an increased output of fine honey, fine fruit, fine cattle, and
what not, Eastern buyers were attracted to our market, the price of
honey ruled higher and higher, so that in 1903 the bee industry of
Delta County was thoroughly alive and awake to its possibilities.

The beginning of the present year witnessed several large deals
in bees as well as the building of a new line of railroad through the
county---a line which will put Delta County many hours nearer to
Denver.

Mr. W. L. Coggshall and Mr. C. H. Weeks, both of New York,
became the owners of one thousand colonies of bees located in nine
yards in a very fine portion of the county. These yards are under

the management of Mr. Weeks, an enterprising

young man who has been in the West long
enough to know Western requirements. Given
a county such as Delta County, and a man with
grit such as Mr. Weeks no doubt possesses, and
there can be little question as to the result of
the enterprise.

Simultaneously with Messrs. Coggeshall and
Weeks came Mr. R. T’. Stinnett, who purchased
avery fine hay and fruit ranch together with 160
colonies of bees. Mr. Stinnett, while thoroughly
practical, having served under such men as
W. L. Coggshall of West Groton, N. Y., and
N. C, Alford of Fort Collins, Colorado, and
having kept bees on shares and for himself in

New Mexico, where he had 1,150 in his care,

R. T. STINNETT, Delta. is also qualified to “tackle” the scientific side of

apiculture. At the College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts of New Mexico, from which he graduated in 1897,
he pursued a scientific course and made a thorough microscopical
study of the anatomy of the bee. He now considers himself per-
manently located in what he thinks is the finest State, for a home, in
the Union. Having lived in Virginia, where he was born in 1874,

in New York, in New Mexico, and in Colorado, his opinion in the
matter should deserve recognition. :

Several other ventures in bees have been made, but space will
not admit of making further mention of them than that they are
indications of a healthy growth, auguring well for the future. These
men are all intelligent, wide-awake pushers. It has been my privi-
lege as bee inspector for the county to meet them, to see their yards
and get their views; and I am sure that any one coming to our
part of the State will find them as ready to extend the right hand of
fellowship, if rightly and intelligently approached, as he will find
them resolute in standing up for their proper rights,

Our county is not a large one, but the greater portion of it I
think is under cultivation. Each year sees improvements in irriga-
tion which admit of an increase in tillable land. Fruit and alfalfa
hay are our main products. We have no infallible crops. We have
no boom. We do not produce twenty-five cars of honey per season
---only about three. We haven’t abundance of room for squatters---
locations must be bought---or at least old apiaries must be. We have
no room for idlers---we want pushers. Neither have we any foul
brood---not one case has been found.

But we have a glorious climate, and we have beautiful scenery.
We have good schools and churches. We havea rich county any
way you wish to look at it.

TWO LARIMER COUNTY BEE-MASTERS.

A. E. MILLER, Timnath. Ww. C. EVANS, Fort Collins.

Bee-Keeping in Larimer County.
By R. C. Aikin.

ARIMER COUNTY does not stand at the head asa
honey-producer, though it is by no means at the foot of
the list. The annual output of Boulder County exceeds
that of this, having a little better natural conditions of

soil and flora, and a better development of the industry. However,

Larimer puts out at present about from three to six car loads as an

annual product in fair seasons.

The main source of nectar is alfalfa;
second, sweet clover, and third, cleome or
Rocky Mountain bee plant. The latter thrives
best in a somewhat sandy soil, and as we have
much clay, cleome does not abound as in some
other parts of the State. Alfalfa begins yield-
ing nectar about June 15th, and continues until
mown for hay, generally closing about July Ist
to 10th. Cleome and sweet clover begin the
last of July and usually close about August
15th to 20th.

The writer is not able to say when the
first bees were brought into the county or who
brought them in, but possibly among the first
to keep bees and produce extensively were Mr.
Will Amos and Mr. N. C. Alford of Fort
Collins. In 1889 the first car load was shipped
ina tieenanice a EERE PER: out of the county from Fort Collins, Mr.

President State: Association Alford producing eight tons of the amount.
from 1893 to 1901. This honey was bought by the G. G. Liebhardt
Commission Co. of Denver. That year was
one of the best, probably the best, of any in the history of the county.
Not only was the yield large, but the price was well up, making the
business so flattering that many others were led to go into the busi-
ness more or less, and a boom was the result, only to go flat again
within the next three years.

However, it was with the bee and honey industry as with other
lines: some went into the business in a more conservative way and
to make of it a permanent business, and, as above stated, our annual
product is now several car loads. This write up is in no sense a

R. C. AIKIN, Loveland.

boom, but simply more in the nature of an advertisement of the
business as it exists in this territory. To boom the industry here
would be a sin against those now engaged in the pursuit, and a
wrong to any prospective locators. The field is being systematically
occupied by apiarists distributing their stock to the best advantage
and to best utilize the pasture. The year of 1889 has not been
equaled since in either yield or prices, and possibly will not be again
in many years. There is no doubt a fair income to be made from
the business, but it will require a careful and judicious management
and strict business principles.

A. ELLIOTT, Timnath.
Looking for a Queen.

APP =6-BEN Vir

HARRY CRAWFORD, Broomfield. A. ELLIOTT, Timnath.

Apiary of W. C. Evans, Fort Collins.

Our county at present contains several practical apiarists, among
whom we might mention at Fort Collins, Walter Hawley, Wil! Lind-
enmier, W. C. Evans, and others; at Timnath, E. A. Miller and
A. Elliott; at Loveland, E. S. Allen and Sons and R. C. Aikin. In
the Berthoud district we have Mr. A. C. Van Galder, S. C. Rising,
L. P. Milburn, Mrs. Lovejoy, W. Hickox, and others.

OF fate years there is getting to be a more close and careful
farming, and a custom of cutting the alfalfa before it blooms, which
largely decreases the average yield per colony. We do not dare to
overlook two facts---this early cutting of the principal nectar plant
and the large increase of bees to pasture upon the bloom. The
spread of sweet clover, blooming in July and August, in a measure
supplements the early cutting of alfalfa, and at the same time some-
what complicates the management necessary to success. The writer
does not anticipate any decrease in the annual output from this
county, but thinks it will be very materially increased; but it will
be done by carefully utilizing all pasturage, and an intelligent-and
scientific management. In the early days when alfalfa was allowed

Agricultural College Apiary, Fort Collins.
In Walnut Grove.

to bloom freely and there were only hundreds of colonies where now
there are thousands to feed on the bloom, some astonishing yields
were obtained. But conditions have changed. I go back in memory
to the early days in lowa when 75 and 100 bushels of corn were
harvested from the rich virgin soil without much effort; but now it
requires the most careful cultivation, rotating, and manuring to pro-
duce half the former yields. I take it that this fairly represents the
bee industry in this and very many localities throughout our State.
Industry and intelligence will maintain our pursuit and cause it to
prosper, and Larimer County will continue to put out a honey pro-
duct not to be discounted by any.

Apiary of E. A. Miller, Timnath.

iS A LAST WORD, I must acknowledge my obligations

to all who have helped to make it possible to print this

little book. It is not possible to mention all of my helpers.

Two names, however, deserve to stand out conspicuously.

Mr, Frank H. Drexel of Crawford, Delta County, and Mr. Walter

Hawley of Fort Collins, Larimer County, did especially valuable

work, Besides these, Mr. Frank Rauchfuss and Mr. R. C. Aikin

have’ earned particular thanks. Then there are the advertisers: I

am proud of every one of them.

Of course the Souvenir is not as handsome or as valuable as I

originally hoped to make it; but I think it is worth keeping.

D. W. WORKING.

F. H. C. Krueger Examining one of his Colonies.

Established 1876

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References

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Agencies

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