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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 22, 1904. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



National at St. Louis. — The annual session of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association for l'*04 

 will be held in September, at St. Louis, Mo. 



Sept. 27 and 2» will be devoted to Association 

 work and its' interests. We expect many prom- 

 inent foreign bee keepers to be present on these 

 days. 



Sept. 21, National Day. 



Sept. 30, Inspectors' Day. Twenty bee-in- 

 spectors from all over the United States and 

 Canada are counted on to introduce and discuss 

 " The Diseases of Bees," etc. 



Mr. N. E. France will e-xhibit, in the Conven- 

 tion Hall, a large map of the United States, 

 Canada, Cuba and Europe. Each State and 

 Country will have a shelf attached to the map 

 with a one-pound sample of each kind of honey 

 produced. Many other exhibits of special in- 

 terest will be shown. 



We expect to see the largest gathering of bee- 

 keepers ever held in this country. A more de- 

 tailed program will appear later. 



Geo. W. Brodbeck, Sec. 



Los Angeles, Calif; 



IVllssouri.— The Missouri State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will meet Sept. 2t.. in St. Louis, in 

 the same hall to be used by the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association. Further particulars 

 later. Arrangements are being made for our 

 accommodation by C. P. Dadant, in connection 

 with the National Association. 



Wakeuda, Mo. W. T. Cary, Sec. 



Wisconsin.— The committee on arrangements 

 for the Northeastern Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' 

 Association met Sept. 1, and the following pro- 

 gram was formulated for the next annual 

 meeting, which will be held at the Opera House, 

 in Mishicot, Oct. 25, W04: 



How can we increase the demand for honey ? 



—J. COCHEMS. 



Winter feeding of bees.— C. W. Voigt. 

 Bee-pasturage.- Dr. J. B. Rick. 

 Laws relating to the adulteration of honey.— 

 A. S. Chloupkk. 

 The cause of spring dwindling- Fred Tr app 

 Question-box. 

 Mishicot, Wis. Dr. J. B. Rick, Sec. 



Fine Breeding (Jiieens, $2 



Sample of Bees, free. 

 J. F. MICHAEL, RT. 1, WINCHESTER, IND. 



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might not yield some surplus, but when 

 a man is to make of bee-keeping his 

 sole business, the securing of the best 

 possible location is time and money well 

 spent. What a .s;ood, solid foundation 

 is to a "sky-scraper," a good location is 

 to the building up of a successful, ex- 

 tensive bee-business. 



Having settled in a locality, the bee- 

 keeper can not study it too thoroughly. 

 Especially must he understand its honey- 

 resources; the time when each flow be- 

 gins, its probable duration, its quantity 

 and character. He must know whether 

 to e.xpect a spring-flow, like that from 

 dandelion, hard maple, or fruit-bloom, 

 that will build up the colonies for the 

 main harvest that is to come later. If 

 there is likely to be a season of scarcity 

 between the early flow and the main 

 harvest, it must be known and prepara- 

 tions made to keep up brood-rearing by 

 means of feeding or the uncapping of 

 honey. The management will depend 

 largely upon the source of the main 

 honey-flow, whether it be raspberry, 

 clover, basswood. buckwheat, alfalfa, 

 sage or fall flowers. Whatever the 

 source, the bee-keeper must know when 

 to expect it, and plan to have his colo- 

 nies in exactly the right condition to 

 gather it when it comes. This is one 

 of the fundamental principles of suc- 

 cessful bee-keeping. 



Having secured the most desirable lo- 

 cation, the next step is to procure the 

 best kind of bees that can be obtained. 

 There are several different varieties of 

 bees, each with its peculiarities, but, 

 aside from this, every bee-keeper who 

 has had experience with several strains 

 of the same variety, knows that some 

 strains are far superior to others — that 

 there is scrub-stock among bees, just as 

 there are scrub-horses, cattle, sheep and 

 poultry. With scrub-stock, the cost of 

 hives, combs and other appliances re- 

 main the same ; it is no less work to 

 care for such stock ; and it requires the 

 same amount of honey to rear and feed 

 it as it does the best stock in the world. 

 In proportion to its cost, no investment 

 brings the bee-keeper greater profit than 

 the securing of superior stock. 



Having secured a good location, and 

 good stock, the bee-keeper should adopt 

 such hives, implements and methods as 

 will enable him to branch out. estab- 

 lish out-apiaries, and keep a large num- 

 ber of colonies. At the present time 

 the great failing of professional bee- 

 keepers is the keeping of too few bees — 

 of clinging to some other hampering 

 pursuit. Many keep enough bees to 

 furnish them a fair living in a good 

 season, but when winter losses, and poor 

 honey seasons follow one another in 

 quick succession, there is sufifering. or, 

 at least, great inconvenience. If a man 

 is going to follow bee-keeping as a pro- 

 fession, his only hope of success is in a 

 good location, good stock, and the keep- 

 ing of bees in such numbers that when 

 a good year comes he can pile up the 

 honey, ton upon ton — enough to keep 

 him several years. The larger a busi- 

 ness the more cheaply can it be con- 

 ducted in proportion to the results ; not 

 only this, but the very fact that bees 

 are scattered about in out-apiaries, sev- 

 eral miles apart, adds to the certainty 

 of the crop, as one locality often yields 

 a fair crop while another only a few 

 miles away yields nothing. 



It has been urged against bee-keeping 



