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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 3, 1904. 



cockle-burs to grow as high as their 

 heads on their farms, will throw up 

 their hands in holy horror at the sight 

 of sweet clover. They seem to have a 

 particular spite at it because it looks 

 like good stock food ; but livestock will 

 not usually eat it unless taught, and to 

 teach stock to eat it is more of a task 

 than the average farmer is capable of. 

 Sow sweet clover. Keep still about it 

 and let the kickers kick.— Progressive 

 Bee-Keeper. 



Government Apicultural Work. 



The years of quiet, steady, persis- 

 tent, earnest work of Mr. Frank Ben- 

 ton in urging the Department of Agri- 

 culture to recognize apiculture, are at 

 last bearing fruit. Heretofore the only 

 experimenting that has been done, has 

 been done with Mr. Benton's own bees, 

 which has often interfered seriously 

 with his crops of honey. Now there is 

 to be a central, experiment apiary just 



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across the Potomac on the Virginia 

 shore, and sub-stations in different 

 parts of the country— one at Chico, 

 Calif., having already been decided 

 upon. Two special agents in apicul- 

 ture, who will assist Mr. Benton, have 

 been appointed, one being our old 

 friend John M. Rankin, who was once 

 Inspector of Apiaries for this State, 

 and the other a Mr. Leslie Martin, of 

 Tennessee. There is also soon to be 

 appointed an apicultural clerk. Aside 

 from the experiments by which we may 

 expect to profit, we may often find it 

 profitable to thus have friends at 

 court. — Bee-Keepers' Review. 



Extracting Unripe Honey. 



The bee-keeper who extracts green, 

 raw honey for the market is a foe no 

 less to be dreaded than the adulterator. 

 Seeking a personal gain in quantity, 

 a victim of his own ignorance, he deals 

 himself the hardest blow ; for while his 

 own crop is not perceptibly increased, 

 the quality is such as to preclude a 

 second sale to a customer ; and theten- 

 dency is to disgust those who might 

 otherwise become habitual users of our 

 product.— American Bee-Keeper. 



Progress of Apiculture in France. 



Mr. P. Noblecourt, writing to L'Api- 

 culteur from a village in France, says, 

 in showing how slowly improved meth- 

 ods gain a footing in some localities : 



" At Aubencheul frame hives were 

 not known [a short time ago]. During 

 last winter! made four new ones which 

 drew the attention of some friends who 

 made some to transfer in in May. The 

 harvest was good in our country. Bee- 

 keepers here have always been in the 

 barbarous habit of suffocating their 

 bees to get the honey and take the wax, 

 hence they could not profit by good 

 years to build up their apiaries. In 

 winter they saved but a few colonies in 

 straw baskets or skeps. As for an 

 apiary, none exists here except one at 

 Villers, containing four Layeus hives 

 in a magnificent garden. I intend to 

 make the new system known by giving 

 and lending books and pamphlets 

 treating on apiculture. Such is the 

 progress (slow enough) that apiculture 

 is making in our country ". 



That writer is a born missionary. — 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Illinois. — The Chicago-Northwestern Bes- 

 Keepers' Association will hold its ne.xt annual 

 meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 

 31 and Dec 1, !''J4, in the Revere House, south- 

 east corner of North Clark and Michigan Sts.. 

 Chicago. The prospects are that this conven- 

 tion will be the largest and best ever held by 

 the Chicago-Northwestern. Prominent bee- 

 keepers from a distance have said they were 

 coming. It will be a great time. Everybody 

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 Nov, 10, commeociny at Ui:3J a.m. There will 

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