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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug-. 4, 1904. 



the experts, perhaps the foul brood inspector of your county, 

 State, or province. If you have no such officer, there still 

 remains the privileg^e of applying- to the General Manager 

 of the National Bee-Keepers' Association, who is at the 

 same time the very efficient foul brood inspector of his own 

 State, Mr. N. E. France, of Platteville, Wis. Mr. France 

 very kindly agrees to give his valuable opinion to any one 

 ■who is a member of the Association, although this imposes 

 on Mr. France a burden that perhaps he ought not to be 

 called upon to bear. As a rule, the Association does not 

 agree to give financial aid to any one who applies for mem- 

 bership after he gets into trouble, but the present case is 

 somewhat diiferent, and if you are not a member of the 

 Association send along with your letter of inquiry a dollar, 

 and you will become a member in full standing. 



So please don't send to Dr. Miller samples of diseased 

 brood, thus making delay when delay is dangerous, but 

 apply at once to your foul-brood inspector, or Mr. France, 

 and don't write without sending a sample at the same time. 



Sixty Acres of Alsike and S-weet Clover. 



From Frank Co verdale comes the report that in Jackson 

 Co., Iowa, the yield from white clover is practically noth- 

 ing, but basswood, at date of writing, was promising, and 

 an apiary of 160 colonies was doing a rushing business on 

 30 acres of alsike, with 30 acres of sweet clover to receive 

 attention later. The sweet clover is an early variety, and 

 he pastures cattle on it from early spring, so the plants are 

 kept low and bushy, not preventing the growth of young 

 plants from this spring's sowing. In this way he expects a 

 crop every year. His report of the crop will be looked for 

 with interest. 





Miscellaneous Items 





Basswood Bloom was abundant in Wisconsin this 

 year, but the nights were too cool for a good honey-flow. 



M. H. Mendleson, the great bee-keeper of Ventura Co., 

 Calif., has been suffering badly in .both arms from poison 

 by a spider bite. 



E. France, the honored father of General Manager N. 

 E. France, has been quite sick lately, but is some better 

 now. He is over KO years of age. 



Two More Complaints have come in from California 

 to General Manager France. They are that bees were a 

 nuisance, and injurious to fruit ; no honey, so the bees 

 work on such sweets as they can find. 



The National Association had 1884 paid-up members 

 on July 25. There are several hundred whose dues expired 

 lately, so that if all were paid up there would be quite a 

 good many over 2000 members of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. Not so bad. Some of these days we may 

 catch up with the bee-keepers' associations of Germany in 

 the point of membership. In the matter of excellent meet- 

 ings perhaps we equal them now. 



Mp. 0. L. HePShiser has lately effected the settlement 

 of a case in Buffalo, in which the National Association was 

 interested. Thus costs of suit were saved. Organization 

 is a great thing. So is good management. General Mana- 

 ger France, with the co-operation of leading bee-keepers in 



various parts of the country, is doing a great work for bee- 

 keepers and bee-keeping everywhere. The National Asso- 

 ciation has important work to do along the original lines for 

 which it was organized. It is fulfilling its mission, and will 

 continue to prove its worth more and more as time goes on. 



Mf. Geo. W. BPOdbeek, of Los Angeles, Calif., who is 

 the present secretary of the National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, has been improving slowly in health since his late 

 long and very severe sickness. In a letter dated July 12, he 

 wrote that he expected in a few days to go to his bee-ranch 

 for a stay of a few weeks, as it always has benefited him so 

 much up in the mountains. He said it would interest him 

 to see his trees and vines growing, and hear the bees hum- 

 ming again after an absence of over six months. 



Death of H. C. MoPehOUSe.— On July 27 we received 

 the following from Mr. M. A. Gill, of Boulder Co., Colo., 

 dated July 25, "announcing the rather sudden and unexpected 

 death of Mr. Morehouse : 



Friend York : — I have just received a message from 

 Boulder, announcing the death of our friend, H. C. More- 

 house. He was taken violently sick in one of his apiaries a 

 week ago with what proved to be inflammation of the stom- 

 ach, and died this morning. A large delegation of bee- 

 keepers will attend his funeral, from Longmont. 



The news came like a shock to me, as I had learned to 

 love him as a brother. He was such a companionable fel- 

 low, and all his actions and arguments were based upon 

 principle, and, had he lived, would have made himself 

 known here in the West. We shall greatly miss him. 

 Surely, in the midst of life we are in death. 



Yours very truly, M. A. GiLi.. 



Bee-keepers everywhere will unite with us in extending- 

 sincerest sympathy to Mrs. Morehouse in her great bereave- 

 ment. Mr. M. was a splendid man. We had the good for- 

 tune to meet him at the Denver convention of the National 

 Association two years ago. And we liked him. Since then 

 some very pleasant correspondence has passed between us. 

 His letters always exhibited a beautiful, kindly spirit. But 

 he is gone. He will be sadly missed not only in his home, 

 but in various walks in life. It will not be an easy matter 

 to fill his place. 



Mr. Morehouse was the very efficient secretary of the 

 Colorado Bee-Keepers' Association. Until recently he was 

 editor of the Rocky Mountain Bee Journal, one of the very 

 best new bee-papers ever started. He was a hard worker, 

 and after selling his paper he devoted his whole time to bee- 

 keeping. Had he lived, as Mr. Gill says, he would have 

 been a great leader among practical honey-producers. 



We hope very soon to publish a biographical sketch and 

 picture of our departed friend and brother. 



A Handy Bee-Tent is shown on the first page this 

 week. Mr. John Newton, to whom it belongs, had this to 

 say about it in the Bee-Keepers' Review : 



The engraving is of the bee-tent used in my apiary ; 

 and I often wonder why so few bee-keepers use tents when 

 they save so much time and excitement in the bee-yard. I 

 find the bee-tent one of the most useful things about the 

 yard, and I would not on any account do without it. It is 

 built very light, so that it can be easily carried around, and 

 when through with, it can be closed up and put away. 



You will see by the engraving that it is made of very 

 light material. The corner posts are 1x1 '2 inches, made of 

 gray elm, so as to make them strong and light. The bottom 

 and top bars are of pine, and of the same dimensions as the 

 corner posts. The frame of the hinged top and the braces 

 are made of lighter material. 



The tent, when open, is 5^2 feet high, 3 feet wide, and 4 

 feet long. It is hinged together at each joint, the braces 

 shutting to the inside when closed, and is held together by 

 means of straps at the corners. The top frame fits inside 

 the frame-work of the tent, being fastened down with two 

 hooks inside the tent, thus holding the tent open and in 



