408 



December, 1913. 



American Hee Journal 



if he does not know all lines he must 

 know where to get experts for spe- 

 cialty work. 



Moving Pictures 



I am a kodak and camera enthusiast. 

 To take pictures is my delight. A 

 clump of trees, a lane, some grassy- 

 plots, fields with cattle grazing, and 

 the mountains in the background; 

 these are things I like to arrange pleas- 

 ingly on my film. And often it takes 

 long searching to find the right spot 

 where a real pic/iire can be had. 



I also enjoy looking at pictures. It 

 would be hard to say how much of my 

 education has come from them, but I 

 dare say more has come that way than 

 in the four years spent in high school. 



Several dollars each year, and many 

 hours, are spent looking at the mov- 

 ies — I've seen billions of them without 

 doubt. I will not apologize for their 

 shortcomings — the National Board of 

 Censorship can do that. 



Every new ra,ifc, as Mr. Scholl calls 

 this one, has its critics, and they need 

 them. The worst thing about the mov- 



ies is the commercialism of the thing ; 

 the race for the nickels in Denver ; the 

 dimes in Boulder; the quarters in 

 Telluride; and in Reno, I suppose they 

 charge you a dollar to see the movies. 



I object, however, to paying my good 

 nickel, dime or quarter to see a dys- 

 peptic husband abuse his good wife's 

 cooking, throwing dish after dish on 

 floor, and almost breaking up the home 

 before the film is run through. Every- 

 thing comes out sweet in the home 

 (wrong with me) when the wife dis- 

 covers that " Buncombe " brand prod- 

 ucts are all that is needed to make her 

 cooking faultless. Perhaps "Bun- 

 combe" products have saved many a 

 home from dissolution, but I don't 

 want to pay to be told so in a moving 

 picture. And I would just as strongly 

 resent it if I were told in a picture 

 (after paying my dime) that honey was 

 the only sweet fit to enter a human 

 stomach. 



People will be entertained and in- 

 structed if they are shown in moving 

 pictures the life and work of the bee, 

 and how honey is produced and pre- 

 pared for market, but don't make any 

 special plea — it will defeat its own end. 



The Front Colony Filled 224 Sections this Season. 



OF Hammonton. N. J. 



It Belongs to H. F. Edsall. 



Bee-Keeping 



In Dixie^ 



Conducted by J. J. Wilder. Cordele. Ga. 



Pleasant Emotions 



I hope no one will think any the less 

 of me if I express myself on my situa- 

 tion as a beekeeper from a business 

 standpoint. 



I am experiencing a general good 

 feeling over business affairs, and the 

 result is that my ambition is several 

 notches higher than it ever has been. 

 Things are going at a higher pitch for 

 the approaching season. 



It was about the middle of October 



when I made my last round for the 

 season to my Suwanee river apiaries. 

 The general manager and foreman, 

 with all the hands, met me with smiles 

 and glad hearts, and each one gave me 

 a hearty hand shake. In every way 

 they could they showed me kindness 

 and love. When I reached their homes 

 I found that they had made great prep- 

 arations for me, especially in the way 

 of something to eat. In every particu- 

 lar my stay among them was a feast 



and a joyous occasion. One young 

 man, who has been with us but one 

 season, and who was recently married, 

 said : " Mr. Wilder, I want to stay with 

 you in the bee-business as long as I 

 live." We got together and had a con- 

 vention such as I never experienced 

 before. 



Practically all the season's work was 

 covered in conversation, in questions 

 and answers, each one telling the most 

 serious problems that had come up 

 during the season, and how he solved 

 them ; and if such problems come up 

 in the future he could solve them in a 

 better way, etc. The result was that 

 we were all made wiser. When we 

 talked of the future side of business, 

 they all wanted to make a big increase 

 next season, and those who did not 

 have 600 or 700 colonies in their care, 

 wanted to reach that number as quickly 

 as possible. Some of them wanted to 

 run as many as 1000 colonies, and to 

 this end they are now making prepara- 

 tions. 



Their orders for the necessary sup- 

 plies are placed, and some of them are 

 large ones, too, consisting of over a 

 half carload of goods. Our little bee- 

 hive plant has been running full time 

 for over three months, that we might 

 keep up with orders and give them the 

 supplies so they can have them set up 

 in ample time for next season. The 

 business situation looks better and 

 brighter than ever before. 



Not Mucii Difference in Locations 



The more I learn about the honey- 

 flora, or the amount of honey secured 

 in different locations all over our 

 country, the more I am convinced that 

 there is not much difference in locality 

 as regards the amount of honey secured. 

 If beekeepers would recognize this 

 they would be more content. There 

 are too many discontented and restless 

 beekeepers wanting to move here or 

 yonder to better locations, where they 

 can keep more bees and produce more 

 honey per colony; hunting or desiring 

 to hunt " the good spot " for the busi- 

 ness when they are already located in 

 as good a spot as there is. 



I know a good beekeeper who for 

 years was not pleased with his present 

 location, and said that it was the poor- 

 est one in the world. He made great 

 efforts to get out to some '" better 

 place," but finally finding that he could 

 not make a change, " he took off his 

 coat and rolled up his sleeves " and 

 resolved to make the best of the situa- 

 tion. And so he did, scattering api- 

 aries about over the country. Today 

 he is doing well, making money every 

 season, and says that he is perfectly 

 contented, and has as good a location 

 as he could find. 



I know a number of old apiary sites 

 from which the bees were moved years 

 ago, as the beekeepers said they were 

 in poor locations. Since then other 

 beekeepers have come into the same 

 sections and located apiaries on the 

 same old sites, and they are doing well. 

 I dare say that it is a fact in nearly 

 every case where a beekeeper wants to 

 move to some good spot, that the differ- 

 ence in the net returns from his bees, 

 located there for years, would not pay 



