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and southern Indiana seem to have ex- 

 perienced the greatest drouth. In 

 northern Illinois and in Iowa the crop 

 has been large and prolonged. In 

 nearly all instances bee-keepers agree 

 that bees are going into winter quar- 

 ters in the best possible shape ; plenty 

 of good stores and lots of young bees. 



Death of William Bader On Aug. 



6, 1913, at Oklahoma City, occurred the 

 death of Mr. William Bader, age nearly 

 87 years. 



Mr. Bader's early life was spent in 

 Schuyler Co., 111. He had much to do 

 with the early history of this section of 

 the State, and was well known; the 

 town of Bader was named in his honor. 



Although a very busy bee-man, Mr. 

 Bader always found time for caring for 

 his own bees and for helping others 

 engaged in this industry. On one of 



The Late William Bauek. 



his visits to the State of his birth, Ohio, 

 he enjoyed a visit with Mr. L. L. Lang- 

 stroth. 



The latter years of his life were 

 spent in Oklahoma City. It was while 

 caring for his bees there that he was 

 stricken with paralysis from which he 

 never recovered, dying within a year. 



Fires in Caliiornia There have been 



very damaging forest tires in Riverside 

 Co., Calif., late this summer. To one 

 unacquainted with the Cali'ornia coun- 

 try; to one not familiar with the na- 

 ture of the undergrowth in the sage 

 country, it would seem that such fires 

 could be easily kept within certain 

 bounds. This is not the case, how- 

 ever, and it requires the efforts of hun- 

 dreds of men to keep the fire from 



spreading. The writer recalls a short 

 hunting trip in southern California. 

 The quails were so thick that you 

 could " knock them down with a stick," 

 but, alas! the undergrowth was nearly 

 impenetrable. 



The Western Honey Bee comments 

 on the fires as follows : 



"Many erroneous reports have been 

 published regarding the fire, but a trip 

 over the 40 or 50 miles of devastated 

 territory makes it plain that this is the 

 worst fire that has ever visited this 

 section of Riverside countv. 



"The fire running westward is con- 

 fined to the heavy growth of under- 

 brush, and will do a great deal of dam- 

 age. Thomas Rawson, a bee-rancher, 

 lost a large apiary in the fire this eve- 

 ning, and the residence of Mrs. Rosa 

 Miller was burned, together with a 

 large amount of hay and other pro- 

 ducts 



"The fire will reach its worst to- 

 morrow, when it is feared it will burn 

 through the big cattle ranches of the 

 Tripps, Bergmans, and Magees, and 

 numerous other small ranchers living 

 in the sage country. Year by year these 

 fire losses are cleaning out the best of 

 our old-time ranges, and it would seem 

 that it will only be a question of time 



when the acreage of sage, sumac 

 buckwheat, wild alfalfa, etc., will be 

 reduced to such an extent that the big 

 honey production of southern Califor- 

 nia will be a thing of the past." 



Northern Illinois and Southern Wis- 

 consin Meeting The meeting of the 



Northern Illinois and Southern Wis- 

 consin Bee-Keepers' Association wili 

 be held in the Court House at Free-J 

 port, 111,, on Oct. 21. 



All interested in bee-keeping are 

 cordially invited to attend. 



B. Kennedy, Sec. 



Illinois SUte Meeting.— The 2.3d an- 

 nual meeting of the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will be held at 

 the State House in Springfield Nov. .!j 

 and 6. 



Prizes of $5 00, $4.00, $3.00 and $2.00 

 will be given for the first, second, third 

 and fourth best articles of not to ex- 

 ceed .500 words. See page 83 of the 

 last (12th) annual report, or write the 

 secretary for particulars. No limit to 

 qualifications. 



The report of this meeting will go 

 to make up a good part of our 13th an- 

 nual report, so let us make it a good 

 one. Further notice will be given to 

 members. Jas. A. Stone, Sec. 



Bee-I^eping ^ For Women 



Conducted bv Miss Emma M. Wilson, Mareneo. 111. 



What a Woman Can Do in Bee-Keeping 



My son takes the American Bee Jour- 

 nal and keeps bees. He is not very 

 well, and I would be glad to help him 

 with the bees if I could learn how. He 

 has a photograph gallery, but can work 

 only part of the time as he needs fresh 

 air. 



I want to learn bee-keeping so I can 

 help him in place of a hired man. Do 

 women do much work with bees ? 



Kansas. 



You may rest assured that not only 

 can women do part of the worlc at bee- 

 keeping, but they cando.anddo, inmany 

 cases, all the work. The only dan- 

 ger in your case is that if you become 

 interested and efficient at the work you 

 may do so much of it that your son 

 may be crowded out from the full ad- 

 vantage of the outdoor life that bee- 

 keeping affords. But your maternal 

 heart will look out for that. 



There is a good deal of work, how- 

 ever, that is not necessarily done out- 

 doors, and you could probably do all 

 of that. Still, there is one thing out- 

 doors that might naturally fall to your 

 care as a matter of convenience. That 

 is watching for swarms, provided you 

 allow the bees to swarm naturally. You 

 could have an eye out for that — or, 

 rather, an ear open for it — and could 

 no doubt break in upon your house- 

 hold duties at any time long enough to 

 hive a swarm, while it might be very 



inconvenient for your son to do so 

 during the time occupied at his calling. 

 Like enough, however, he may prefer 

 not to allow natural swarming to any 

 extent, preferring artificial increase. 



If you produce comb honty, you can 

 do all the work of preparing the supers 

 and sections, such work generally be- 

 ing done indoors. It can be done in 

 winter or early spring, and in some 

 respects that is the better time, for it 

 isn't the nicest thing to put foundation 

 in sections on a hot day when the foun- 

 dation, soft with the heat, crumples un- 

 der your fingers. When the sections 

 are taken off, you can scrape them 

 ready for market, and the deft fingers 

 of a woman are generally better for 

 such work than those of a man. 



If you produce extracted honey, you 

 can do the uncapping, or you can turn 

 the extractor, and you can see to hav- 

 ing the honey put up neatly in cans, 

 jars, or whatever containers you use. 



Whether you work for comb or ex- 

 tracted, you can do any or all of the 

 work of putting foundation in brood- 

 frames and getting the hives ready for 

 increase. 



Beside all this, there is a way in 

 which you may be a very big help in a 

 direction you may not have thought of. 

 If your son is built like bee-keepers in 

 general, one of the things that he 

 greatly longs for is some one with 

 whom to talk bees; some one who 

 can talk intelligently about them, and 



