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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Feb. 14, 1901. 



think that it was a {food move, and believe 

 that the provision vpould be taken advantage 

 of if local bee-keepers understood about it, 

 and especially it they were informed concern- 

 ing the good work already done by the Na- 

 tional, and also as to what it purposes to do. 

 In the interest of every bee-keeper in America. 



We trust that the board of directors of the 

 National Association will act on the sugges- 

 tion made by the Chicago Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation. 



We also think that it would be a good 

 thing if all the bee-papers would carry a 

 standing notice, that every one desiring to 

 learn about the work of the National Associa- 

 tion could do so by sending to the general 

 manager for literature that would explain the 

 objects of the Association. It can not be ex- 

 pected that bee-keepers will unite with an 

 organization until they know something 

 about it. They must be led to see that it will 

 pay them to do so before they will hand out 

 their doUar-a-year dues. We believe that any 

 legitimate organization will not suffer tor the 

 lack of funds if those who should be inter- 

 ested are shown that it is to their interest to 

 support it, and that its objects are really wise, 

 and for the advancement and defense of right 

 principles and purposes. 



Let the board of directors of the National 

 Association prepare at once suitable litera- 

 ture as suggested, and begin its circulation as 

 soon as possible thereafter, so that by the 

 time of the next annual meeting its member- 

 ship can be counted by the thousands instead 

 of by the hundreds. We are ready to do our 

 part in pushing the work of securing member- 

 ship, thru the columns of the American Bee 

 Journal, and have no doubt that the other 

 bee-papers will do all they can along the same 

 line. With united effort we believe there is 

 no reason why the National Bee-Keepers' As- 



sociation should not have a larger member- 

 ship than any of the other agricultural or- 

 ganizations now in existence in this country. 

 We believe the miichinery of our Association 

 is all right, and all that is needed is to work 

 it. It needs to have its joints limbered uj) 

 with the oil of enthusiasm, and the motive 

 power of earnest effort applied to start it and 

 Iceep it going. 



Mr. 0. O. PoppLETON, of Dade Co.. Fla., 

 wrote us as follows, Jan. 29th : 



" Bees are breeding nicely with an abun- 

 dance in the hives. They would be gathering 

 quite a little surplus honey now if the 

 weather was only a little warmer. 



"I had the misfortune, a couple of weeks 

 ago, to drop the ax on my left forefinger, just 

 above the knuckle joint, cutting it quite 

 badly, and breaking the bone. The surgeon 

 thinks the finger can be saved without its be- 

 ing stiff. It is doing fairly well now, but it 

 will take a week for the bones to knit so the 

 hand can be used. I don't find any special 

 fun in being one-handed." 



We regret to learn of Mr. Poppleton's ac- 

 cident, and trust that in time his finger may 

 be all right again. 



Editor Wili, Ward Mitchell, of the 

 Progressive Bee-Keeper, after quoting the 

 account we publisht in the American Bee 

 Journal of Jan. 10th, concerning our ''fire- 

 water " disaster, gives this appreciated para- 

 graph : 



We regret our brother publisher's misfor- 

 tune, and hope his many patrons will pay up 

 any back dues at once, as Bro. York has been 



giving us his best efforts, and the " Old Re- 

 liable " is far ahead of what it ever was be- 

 fore. We know of nothing that would be 

 more cheering to Bro. York than for delin- 

 quents to " pay up" and send in their re- 

 newals. 



The Wiscoxsix Convestiox was held at 

 Madison last week as previously announced. 

 It was a good meeting, and quite well at- 

 tended, considering the poor honey season the 

 past year. 



The officers were all re-elected for the en- 

 suing year, as follows: President, N. E. 

 France; vice-president, Jacob Huffman; sec- 

 retary. Miss Ada L. Pickard ; and treasurer, 

 Harry Lathrop. 



Next week we will have more to say about 

 the meeting and some of those who attended. 



A Dozen of the wealthiest capitalists in 

 the country — men who wield absolute control 

 over immense business enterprises — will tell 

 the readers of the Saturday Evening Post 

 (Feb. 16th) why they remain in the race which 

 they have already won. 



Each of them writes frankly wlu'ther he 

 makes money for its own sake, for the sheer 

 joy of working, or to gain the power with 

 which vast capital invests itself. Ci'rtis 

 PiBLisHiNG Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mr. H. C. Binger, one of our subscribers 

 in Shiawassee Co., Mich., wrote us Jan. 28th 

 as follows ; 



" Father past away Jan. 15th, at the age of 

 67. He was born in Mecklenburg, Germany ; 

 when 38 years of age he came to this country 

 and settled at Rochester. N. Y.. and there he 

 was married to Miss Friedericke Fischer, who, 

 with five children, survive him. In faith he 

 was a Lutheran, and was a kind and loving 

 husband and father.'' 



I Contribyted Articles. | 



No. 12.— Interesting Notes on European Travel. 



BY C. P. D.\D.\NT. 



BEFORE I leave Paris and its surroundings, I must tell 

 you of fwo very pleasant trips I took in company with 

 my daughter and our good friend Mr. Gariel, of whom 

 I have often spoken. The first was a visit to a manufac- 

 tory of bee-hives and implements located in a small town — 

 Chartres— some 60 or 80 miles out of the capital. The fly- 

 ing express took us there in the morning and brought us 

 back in the evening. 



Of the factory itself I shall say nothing. It was a 

 busy place, but those of our friends who are acquainted 

 with American factories would find nothing of interest in 

 anything I might depict, for their methods are not as prac- 

 tical as ours, and the work turned out is not to be compared, 

 as I said in a former article, to anything that is made here. 

 But I could perhaps give instances of the great economy 

 practiced in the saving of material. This factory manufac- 

 tures hives only as a secondary business, their main occu- 

 pation being the making of railroad supplies of different 

 kinds. Well, I saw large piles of old railroad ties (which 

 would be sold here for fire-wood) cut up into small pieces, 

 and a good portion of the material set aside for the manu- 

 facture of a number of small articles which could very 

 readily be cut out of this refuse. It takes more time, it is 

 true, to pick out the sound wood, but the Europeans can not 

 use our axiom, "Time is money," to as much of a purpose 

 as we can, for altho with them time is also money, there 



are many things that are more valuable than man's time 

 over there. 



The cheapness of labor is very certainly responsible 

 for some very queer notions. For instance, a certain manu- 

 facturer seriously asserted to me that it was cheaper for 

 them to have the lumber planed by hand than by steam. 

 "It costs so little," he said, "and the work of a smoothing- 

 plane is always neater than that of a steam planer. And 

 in the use of second-hand lumber we need not be so afraid 

 of the nails which would very soon spoil the steam knives." 

 I tried to discuss the matter but it was of no use, and it is 

 also evident that many working men do all they can to dis- 

 courage the employment of time-saving devices which they 

 consider as their enemies. 



We were splendidly treated by the manager, who is evi- 

 dently an able man and who askt me a number of ques- 

 tions about America and its factories. He was well ac- 

 quainted with a gentleman who was in the employ of the 

 railroad company as civil engineer, and who liad been sent 

 to America to buy a number of locomotives, and whom I 

 happened to meet on our trip across the ocean, so we had 

 quite a talk about the great steps that America is making 

 in her trade with the world at large, and the numerous ex- 

 ports which are just beginning to bring the New World into 

 competition with the Old. 



We partook of a very nice dinner in his home, close by 

 the factory, and employed the afternoon hours previous to 

 the departure of the train, in walking about the old city, its 

 walls, and the little stream which runs at their foot and in 

 which the housekeepers were busy washing their linen. It 

 was very picturesque. On another day we went with Mr. 

 Gariel again, to visit an old and experienced bee-keeper — 

 Mr. Delepine — cure of Meulan, within an hour's ride of 

 Paris. Mr. Delepine is not only a practical apiarist, but is 

 also a writer on bee-culture. He writes regularly for the 

 weekly journal entitled, "La Gazette du Village," which 

 might very properly be called the " Farm Journal" of 



