October, 1918. 



347 



American Vee Journal 



jar for a time and then settles on the 

 side next to its home. Carry it on this 

 line and try again. It will always set- 

 tle on the side nearest the hive. In this 

 way he says he has lined many trees 

 with only a single bee in captivity. It 

 was an entirely new idea, and if I ever 

 get old so as to have enough leisure 

 time to hunt bee-trees I will try it. 

 Bridgeport, Wis. 



Bee-Keepers I 

 S. W. 



Have Known— 

 Snyder 



BY FRANK C. PELLETT. 



LEAP YEAR ladies have overlooked 

 a promising prospect in Simon 

 Snyder, of Center Point, Iowa, 

 secretary of the Iowa State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, and senior 

 member of the firm of Snyder Bros. 

 Mr. Snyder is a man of affairs, and in- 

 terested in nearly every import?nt en- 



during the fruiting season quantities 

 of fine quality fruit are shipped to vari- 

 ous markets. 



The nursery is under the direct su- 

 pervision of the younger brother, Davis 

 Snyder, though the subject of our 

 sketch occupies a good deal of time 

 there, also. While Simon has a gen- 

 eral supervision of the whole business 

 of the firm, the apiary receives his per- 

 sonal attention ; and although he did 

 not tell me so, I liave a secret notion 

 that the bees helped to put some of the 



S W Snyder. Secretary of the Iowa 

 Bee-Keepers" Association. 



terprise of his home community. He 

 is president of the local bank and tele- 

 phone company, and has been com- 

 pelled to decline similar positions of 

 trust in other local enterprises. 



The firm of Snyder Bros, is engaged 

 in general farming and fruit growing 

 on rather an extensive scale, and a 

 number of men are employed the year 

 around. The Snyders are prominent 

 in Iowa horticultural circles, and the 

 home farm is a most interesting place 

 to one interested in horticultural sub- 

 jects. In the trial orchard is to be 

 found nearly every important variety 

 of fruit suited to Iowa conditions. Of 

 plums alone nearly 400 varieties are 

 represented, besides apples, peaches, 

 pears, grapes, berries, etc. Several 

 fruits, grapes and berries especially, 

 are grown on a commercial scale, and 



Grading Extracted Honey 



BY MAJOR SHALLARIJ. 



ON page 1.54, May number, rules are 

 given for grading comb honey, 

 but I never see any for extracted, 

 and as practically all the honey 

 produced in .Australia is of the 

 latter variety, the former rules are not 

 of much use to the apiarists here. I 

 want to get a well thought-out set of 

 points for judging or grading extracted 



Snyder Brothers Ai'iarv at Center Point. Iowa. 



other branches of the business on their 

 feet in the days before success was 

 assured. 



When Simon was a boy his father 

 kept a few colonies of bees in box- 

 hives on the old-time let-alone plan. 

 On one occasion the senior Snyder 

 was severely punished by the bees 

 when he failed to take proper precau- 

 tions against their stings, and he de- 

 clared that he would have nothing 

 further to do with them. He accord- 

 ingly gave them to the boy Simon, who 

 has been a bee-keeper since that day. 



The Snyder apiary consists of more 

 than 200 colonies in one yard, which is 

 an unusually large number for one 

 location under Iowa conditions, but 

 the press of other work and the diffi- 

 culty of securing satisfactory help pre- 

 vents the operation of extensive out- 

 apiaries. The locality is good, and the 

 firm is considering the establishment 

 of a system of out-apiaries if satisfac- 

 factory men can be secured to take 

 charge of the work. 



As secretary of the Iowa State I'.ee- 

 Keepers' .Association, Mr. Snyder has 

 done effective work. At the conven- 

 tion in Des Moines a plan of work to 

 be attempted by the society was out- 

 lined, and remarkable results have 

 already been secured. 



It is only on the theory that he has 

 been too busy that I can account for 

 the fact that Simon is a bachelor. 



Atlantic, Iowa. 



honey. I am not making any sugges- 

 tions on the matter myself, as I want, 

 if practicable, to get the views of the 

 most experienced-honey producers 

 available. 



The daily papers here, in the interests 

 of the agents, quote honey from the 

 various districts. They quote from 4 

 cents for one district's honey up to 8 

 cents for another in spite of the fact 

 that some honey which comes from 

 the former is quite equal to any from 

 the latter, and some from the latter is 

 quite as inferior as any from the 

 former. By this means some of the 

 agents are enabled to make returns at 

 market-quoted rates to the producers 

 from the cheaper district, while at the 

 same time thev sell the best honey 

 from that district at the higher price 

 quoted for the dearer district. In other 

 words, they "take the producer down." 



To prevent this state of things, I 

 want to get suggestions for a set of 

 grading rules which will be accepted 

 by a conference of delegates from all 

 the bee-societies in New South Wales. 



I have tried on several occasions to 

 get the papers to quote honey on its 

 merits, no matter where it came from, 

 but have had no luck. The trouble is 

 that these agents are advertisers, and 

 the honey-producers are not. My idea 

 is to get enough producers to care 

 enough to agitate on the matter, and 

 keep on agitating. 



Glenbrook, Australia. 



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