42 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Jan. 17, 1901. 



are governed^by attendant conditions and their 

 immediate requirements, from the standpoint 

 of independent reason, and not according- to 

 any set of stereotypt rules, as is too frequently 

 the case with bee-keepers. He is, obviously, a 

 case of " the rig-ht man in the right place ;" and 

 there is ample evidence on every side, of the 

 wisdom of his choice injadopting apiculture as 

 his profession. 



At the present time a week seldom passes 

 in which we do not have occasion to recall some 

 of the advice and admonitions given with his 

 characteristic earnestness and kindly manner, 

 15 years ago, when he labored to eliminate the 

 erroneous ideas which we had previously ac- 

 quired, and to establish in their stead a clear 

 understanding of what thej' appeared to be a 

 most obscure subject. 



That our younger readers may fully appre- 

 ciate the picture, we have pleasure in reproduc- 

 ing a few paragraphs from the Canadian Bee 

 Journal's report of the meeting of the Ontario 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, held at Toronto, in- 

 December, 1899. Mr. McKnight's motion was 

 evidently a spontaneous outgrowth of the same 

 sense of obligation and high esteem to which 

 every man is subject who has been intimately 

 associated with the gentleman whom he sought 

 to honor. It is a sense of obligation and es- 

 teem which, as we know by actual experience, 

 constantly increases by long and very intimate 

 association : 



"Mr. McKnight— There is a little matter 

 which I would like to bring up. We have a 

 gentleman with us during this convention who 

 is here only bj' the solicitation of a great many 

 members. This Association has been a great 

 success right from the first until now. and that 

 is something creditable. There have been men 

 who have done more than Mr. J. B. Hall has 

 for this Association in a purely business way ; 

 but I want to tell you there is not a man be- 

 longing to this Association now, or ever did be- 

 long, who has made its meetings so interesting 

 and practical as our friend Hall. [Applause.] 

 He has been the life and soul of our Associa- 

 tion meetings for the last 19 years. Like my- 

 self, the world is largely behind him : he has 

 not many years to be here, and I think it would 

 be a graceful thing to do anything in our power 

 to show our appreciation of the value of his 

 services. Altho he does not say very much out- 

 side of this Association, Mr. J. B. Hall is known _„ 

 all over the continent of America. I would like ^^ 

 to move that this Association make J. B. Hall a life mem- 

 ber— that is all. [Loud applause]. I would like, if it were 

 in my power, to confer some higher honor upon him, but I 

 know he does not want it; and I am not sure whether he 

 would appreciate even this ; but I know it is our duty to 

 show Mr. Hall some mark of the appreciation of the val- 

 uable services he has rendered to the bee-keeping interests 

 of this Province. I hope this will not be made a precedent ; 

 it would be very little honor if all the old men were asso- 

 ciated with him ; I would like to see Mr. J. B. Hall the one 

 and only life member of this Association during my life- 

 time. 



•Mr. Brown — I have very much pleasure in seconding 

 Mr. McKnight's motion. I can indorse every word he has 

 said with reference to Mr. Hall. 



"The motion was carried by a rising vote, and the 

 singing of 'He's a Jolly Good Fellow,' after which Mr. 

 Hall briefly and suitably replied." 



Mr. J. B. Hall, of Ontario, Canada. 

 American Bee-Keeper. 



" The Hum of the Bees in the Apple-Tree Bloom " is 

 the name of the finest bee-keeper's song — words by Hon. 

 Eugene Secor and music by Dr. C. C. Miller. This is 

 thought by some to be the best bee-song yet written by Mr. 

 Secor and Dr. Miller. It is, indeed, a " hummer." We can 

 furnish a single copy of it postpaid, for 10 cents, or 3 copies 

 for 25 cents. Or, we will mail a half-dozen copies of it for 

 sending us one new yearly subscription to the American 

 Bee Journal at $1.00. 



*-»-* 



Queen°Rearing is a very interesting part of bee-keeping. 

 Mr. DooHttle's book tells practically all about the subject. 

 See the offer we make on page 30 of last number. 



\ Questions and Answers. | 



CONDUCTED BY 



OR. O. O. MILLER, Marengo, 772. 



[The Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal office, or to Dr. Miller 



direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the 



Doctor to send answers by mail. — Eimtor.1 



A Beginner's Questions. 



This is ni3' first year with bees, and I would like to 

 know how to keep them successfully. I want to increase 

 as well as to work for comb honey. 



We have cold weather and snow usually from Dec. 15th 

 to March 15th. It has been from 5 to 10 degrees below zero 

 here for 10 days, and lots of snow on the ground. 



1. What kind of hives and supers should I use for best 

 results ? 



2. I took the third frame of brood from an 8-frame dove- 

 tailed hive last summer, and put it into a hive with founda- 

 tion, in order to get the swarm to stay, as well as to 

 strengthen them. The colony was strong at the time with 

 bees and honey. On examining, before I put them into the 

 cellar, I was surprised to find how few there were dead, 

 and I now have a colony with eight brood-frames of honey. 



