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CHICAGO, ILL, AUG, 11, 1904. 



Vol, XLIV-No. 32, 





Editorial Comments 





The St. Louis Convention. 



Arrangements have been made for the hall in which to 

 hold the St. Louis convention of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. A letter from General Manager France says 

 this about it : 



The annual convention of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will be held Sept. 27, 28, 29 and 30 in the audi- 

 torium of the Christian Endeavor Hotel, within lOd feet of 

 the south entrance of the St. Louis Exposition. Vice-Pres. 

 C. P. Dadant has just returned from the Fair, and has 

 secured the best possible accommodations for the members. 



Special rates : Send at once 50 cents to General Mana- 

 ger N. E. France, of Platteville, Wis. , to secure charter 

 certificates to insure your special rates at the above hotel — 

 SI. 00 a day for lodging, or .S2.00 a day for board and lodg- 

 ing. Otherwise higher rates will be charged. Make it a 

 point to attend the Fair the week before or after the con- 

 vention, and thus continue your reduced board-rates. Other 

 hotels near, but higher rates charged. Market Street street- 

 cars, west bound, in front of the Union Depot, will bring 

 you direct to the above hotel without transfer. 



N. E. France. 



Is it a New Bee-Disease? 



Heavy losses in Utah are reported in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture, 2000 colonies having succumbed last year in Cache 

 valley. The question is raised whether it is paralysis in an 

 aggravated form or some new disorder. As to the symp- 

 toms, B. P. Critchlow says : 



"While there is no trembling, they drop down in the 

 grass in front of the hives, and are unable to fly ; and they 

 seem to mount the grass and twigs with great difficulty, 

 and in taking them up in my hands they were unable to 

 fly away, and, if thrown into the air, would drop to the 

 ground. They seemed to have no desire even to sting. It 

 appears to be contagious, for it seems to affect a certain 

 part of a row, while another section of the row seems to be 

 strong and swarming. 



Importance of Advertising Honey. 



Advertising honey in some kind of a wholesale way 

 seems to be in the air just now, and something may come 

 of it. AH may not be agreed as to just what is the best 

 way, but almost any way would be better than no way. 

 Nowadays the business man who does not advertise is likely 

 to be left at the tail-end of the procession ; why should there 

 be an exception in the case of bee-keepers ? 



This will be one of the live subjects at the St. Louis 

 convention. 



Thick Combs for Extracting. 



E. D. Townsend makes a strong plea in the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review for using only 8 frames in a 10-frame upper story, 

 thus making the spacing about 1 '4 . He says : 



" With this wide spacing we get great, fat combs of 

 honey, and then we run our uncapping knife deep, cutting 

 the comb clear down even with the frame, and there are 

 hardly ever any combs so uneven but what the knife will 

 uncap them the first time over. This makes it possible to- 

 uncap much faster, and there are less combs to handle. I 

 do not think it would be putting it too strong to say that 

 two lOframe upper stories, with 8 combs in, can be un- 

 capped as quickly as one with 10 combs in ; and then the 8 

 frames can be extracted in one-fifth less time. Besides 

 this, we get a good deal more wax ; and I can not see that it 

 costs anything extra, this drawing out of the combs each, 

 year." 



"Bees Need No Attention." 



The above words appear in an advertisement in an 

 Eastern paper. A copy was sent to us by one of our read- 

 ers, who desired to know if something could not be done to 

 stop the appearance of an advertisement containing such a 

 staiement. 



Of course, bees d6 need attention, and lots of it at 

 proper times. No one can hope to succeed at any thing- 

 without giving all needful attention, and just when neces- 

 sary. 



It's a mistake to publish such a misleading advertise- 

 ment, but we do not see that it can be prevented. 



Marketing Unripe Honey. 



Mr. R. A. Burnett, of R. A. Burnett & Co., one of Chi- 

 cago's leading honey-firms, had this to say for publication 

 in " The Packer " for July 1<) : 



"It is becoming better understood amongst the con- 

 suming classes that unripe honey is not palatable; there- 

 fore, the chief thing now in selling honey is to get the 

 aroma as well as appearance ; especially is this true when 

 Wisconsin, or any of the States east of the Missouri 

 River, seek to put their honey in competition with that west 

 of them. The trade is beginning to discriminate more and 

 more each season with regard to flavor of honey. If a pro- 

 ducer is known so to manage the product of the bees as to 

 get this aroma to the utmo.st, he will stand a better chance 

 of marketing at a little higher price than his neighbor ; 

 certainly it will be taken in preference, and where there is 

 an abundance of honey, as there was last year, this is quite 

 an advantage. 



" People buy honey for the relish ; therefore, the ripen- 

 ing of honey and not exposinj^ it to the atmosphere in such 

 a way as to eliminate this delicate aroma are essential in 

 getting a honey that the market wants. This volatile oil 

 distilled by the blossoms which secrete the nectar is, there- 

 fore, the chief factor in sellini,'^ honey produced in the Mid- 

 dle States. This fact applies equally to extracted and comb 

 honey. 



" We are of the opinion that it is more diflicult to retain 



