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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Sept. V\ 1901. 



lar'e coue escape of wire-clotli. It ought 

 hardly to be called a cone escape, for instead 

 of being a cone it is a pyramid, each side of 

 the pyramid being an equilateral triangle, and 

 each side of the triangle measuring 10 or 1 1 

 inches. This allows the light to shine freely 

 on the top super, and the remaining bees 

 inalie their way out with no danger of robbers 

 entering. If "robbers are troublesome, then 

 the supers are taken immediately from the 

 hive (a liftle more smoke being used than 

 usual), and put directly on the pile under the 

 escape. The robbers may be in thick clusters 

 at the base of the escape, but they do not 

 seem to know enough to enter at the top. 



■• Some one may ask why I do not use 

 escapes on the hive, to which I reply that, 

 like some others, I haven't time to wait for 

 them.'' _^ 



Rather Serious Accusations against 

 the editor of the American Bee .lournal are 

 contained in the following paragraph from 

 the Rocky Mountain Bee Journal ; 



Under the head of '• Contributed Articles " 

 the American Bee Journal recently published 

 Mr. VV. L. Porter's paper on "Co-operation," 

 which appeared originally in the June issue 

 of the Rocky Mountain Bee Journal. The 

 article was not credited to the R. M. B. J., 

 and appeared as original correspondence to 

 the A. B. J. We have no objection to the 

 republication of articles from the R. M. B. J , 

 but we do insist most strenuously that proper 

 credit be given. So far as we are aware the 

 \. B. J. has never mentioned the existence of 

 the K. M. B. J., and it would seem that to 

 carry his policy of unfriendliness toward 

 Western bee-journals lo the extreme limit, 

 Editor York deems it legitimate to take from 

 iheir cohinins free-handed and without ren- 

 dering credit. Whatever may l)e the motive, 

 this is a species of piracy roundly condemned 

 Ijy all reputable journalists, and we are sorry 

 lo see it indulged by a member of the apicul- 

 tural press. All we ask is, treat us fairly, 

 Mr. York, or hands off, please. 



We haven't read anything in a long time 

 that has amused us so much as has the above. 

 And yet we do truly feel sorry for our new 

 brother editor. He didn't notice that right at 

 the head of the article in (|uestion we had this 

 credit : 



■'Read at the Lougmont meeting of the 

 Colorado State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 April 80, 1901, by W. L. Porter." 



You see, we did not publish it " as original 

 correspondence in the A. B. J.," as he 

 charges. No other credit than what we 

 Ijave was needed. Of course, our good brother 

 editor didn't know that anything read at a 

 convention is public property — even the re- 

 port of discussions is, also, unless the journal 

 publishing it has paid for such report, as we 

 have done for that of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association. 



So it is clearly seen that Mr. Porter's article 

 wasn't even written originally for the Rocky 

 Mountain Bee Journal, but for the Colorado 

 State convention. If it had been written e.\- 

 pressly for that paper, why was it necessary 

 to have at its head these words when appear- 

 ing there also ? 



•• A paper read at the Longmont meeting of 

 the Colorado State Bee-Keepers' Ass'n., Apr. 

 ao, 1901: 



Again, our worthy fellow editor says this : 

 •So far as we are aware, the A. B. J. has 

 never mentioned the existence of the R. M. B. 

 .1,. etc." 



Of course, again he wasn't "aware," for he 

 evidently did not know of the following 

 notice, which we printed on page 212 of this 

 journal for April 4, 1901 : 



■ The Rocky Mountain Bee Journal is the 

 name of the latest claimant to the patronage 



of the bee-keeping public. It purports to be 

 published ' For Colorado and the Great Inter- 

 Mountain Region.' It is to be issued monthly, 

 is neatly printed, and presents a good general 

 appearance.'' 



Our hist inclination, upon reading the accu- 

 sations made Ijy our fellow editor, was to 

 ignore them entirely, as they deserved to be 

 treated. And yet. after second thought, we 

 felt it was an opportunity for us to enlighten 

 him in a kindly manner, which we felt sure 

 he would appreciate, for even editor's have 

 much to learn, especially young ones. 



Now, after having said that much, we will 

 go further, and say that we wish the Rocky 

 Mountain Bee Journal all kinds of success in 

 the very difficult Held in which it has chosen 

 to enter. 



But we would also like to suggest, that, 

 sometimes it is better to write privately to a 

 supposedly offending brother, and see if with 

 his help a rather ridiculous side-show of one's 

 self can not be avoided. 



I YVeekly Budget. | 



w. /.. in rcuissox. 



TuK ExECfTivE Committee of the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Association for 1902, 

 elected at Buffalo last week, are as follows: 



President— W. '/.. Hutchinson, of Michigan. 

 Vice-President— O. L. Hershiser. of New 

 York. 

 Secretarv— Dr. A. B. Mason, of Ohio. 



The Koof-Ai>iaky of August Asmussen, 

 of Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, helps out our 

 tirst page this week. Here is what he wrote 

 us about himself and his bees : 



Editor Americas Bee JOLUXAL:~Ten 

 vears ago I started with one colony of bees, 

 and. finding it both pleasant and profitable, I 

 liave kept bees ever since. 



I am a harness-maker by trade, and since 

 last spring have lived on the main street next 

 to my shop. In order to care for the bees 

 properly I decided to keep them on the roof. 



and I was forced to move them at night, as 

 some of the citizens strongly objected to bee- 

 keeping in town. 



If it were not for the swarming habit of the 

 bee, no one would have known the bees were 

 on the roof. I have prevented the bees from 

 swarming, to a great extent, by giving them 

 plenty of room, and controlling them by clip- 

 ping the queens' wings. 



The bees did well during the month of 

 June, but on account of lack of rain during 

 July they decreased instead of increased, 

 judging by the hive on the scales 



August Asmussen. 



Mr. Wm. Duncan, of Dupage Co., Ul., 

 began in the spring with 10 colonies, now has 

 15, and will likeiy harvest 100 pounds of comb" 

 lioney per colony, spring count, in 4x5 sec- 

 tions. Mr. Duncan combines bee-keeping 

 v^ith the office of Justice of the Peace, and it 

 seems to be a good arrangement. 



■We had the pleasure of visiting Mr. Duncan 

 and his apiary, Aug. 29. He lives 17 miles 

 southwest of Chicago, in a fairly good sweet 

 clover district, so his. honey is mainly from 

 that source. He will have no difficulty in 

 selling all he can take off the hives at $3.50 

 per case of 20 .sections. He now uses the 

 Danzenbaker hive, but expects hereafter to 

 use the regular Langstroth 10-frame brood- 

 chamber with Danzenbaker super. Some 

 other bee-keepers find such a combination all 

 right for the production of comb honey. One 

 great advantage is that in buying or selling 

 bees, there is no difficulty about the brood- 

 frames, as the Langstroth size is practically 

 standard. And, then,'some tear the Danzen- 

 baker frame is too shallow for safe wintering 

 of bees in a cold climate. 



Mr. Duncan has a very neat apiary. But, 

 then, if you knew the man you would expect 

 that. He lives in a neat and pretty town. It 

 is a peaceable town. too. He has not had a 

 case on his court docket for months. Very 

 likely one cause of this happy condition of 

 affairs is "no saloon." The people in that 

 beautiful Chicago subtu-b have better sense 

 than to tolerate the presence of that pest-hole. 

 Mr. Duncan tot>k us to see several other 

 near-by apiaries, in one of which (the elder 

 Mr. Schramm's) was a colony in a straw-skep 

 —the first occupied skep that we had ever 

 seen. Mr. S. said he got nothing but swarms 

 from it, but this year he has not had even 

 that from It, though it was a powerful colony. 

 It is a novel and interesting sight. 



About 3 p.m. Mr. D. ordered up a good 

 horse and buggy, and took Mrs. Duncan 

 along, to visit Mr.' G. W. Stephenson's apiary, 

 about three miles away. We found Mr. S. at 

 home with his nearly SO colonies of bees. He 

 also expects to harvest an average of 100 

 pounds of comb honey per colony, spring 

 count, which was tiO colonies. Mr. Stephen- 

 son not only knows how to produce a good 

 crop of honey every year, but all the sections 

 are always uniformly lilled. Perhaps one 

 reason why he secures such good results is 

 because he has strong colonies in 10-frame 

 Langstroth hives, and only 24 bee-way sec- 

 tions in the regular 'JS-section T-super, leav- 

 ing a large open space at each side to be filled 

 with bees. In this way the outside rows of 

 sections are sometimes sealed over first, and 

 all are as evenly filled as could be desired. To 

 hold the sections in the super he has a 3V,j 

 inch follower board at each side of them, with 

 wedges between the followers and the sides of 

 the supers. He also wedges the sections up 

 to one end of the super, so there is an open 

 space at the opposite end also. Mr. Stephen- 

 son is well satisfied with this arrangement, as 

 he well may be, for with its use he gets the 

 results he wants. 



