September, 1908. 



American ^ec Journal j 



in the United States. They are Glean- 

 ings in Bee Culture, the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review, and the American Bee Jour- 

 nal. The last named is in its 48th year, 

 Gleanings in its 36th year, and the Re- 

 view in its 2lst. 



The Canadian Bee Journal is the only 

 other bee-paper on the North American 

 continent. And it seems to be doing 

 very nicely under its new management. 



Later — Since the foregoing was put 

 in type, we have arranged to take over 

 the list of subscribers of the American 

 Bee-Keeper. So those whose subscrip- 

 tions were paid in advance to that paper 

 will begin with this copy to receive the 



old American Bee Journal each month. 

 We trust that they will be pleased with 

 it, and after the expiration of their 

 present subscription will continue among 

 our regular readers. 



Those American Bee-Keeper subscrib- 

 ers who were already getting this Jour- 

 nal will be properly credited on our list 

 the length of time they were paid in 

 advance on the American Bee-Keeper 

 list, in addition to their present advance 

 subscription on our list. We will ad- 

 just all these matters as rapidly as pos- 

 sible, and hope that the uniting of the 

 two "colonies" of readers may be peace- 

 ably accomplished, and enjoyable to all 

 concerned. 



harm to bce-keeoing 

 else. 



Lyons, Kans. 



No, Dr. B., we don't think that those 

 mentioned are going to monopolize all 

 the time of the convention. At San 

 Antonio there was a wide opportunity 

 given for any one present to ask and 

 answer questions. You can't stop any 

 one from talking at a bee-keeper's con- 

 vention, if he is gentlemanly or cour- 

 teous, and "sticks to the text." But a 

 few in nearly every convention have a 

 way of wanting to occupy most of the 

 time by talking all ovqr creation, includ- 

 ing No-Man's-Land. 



scellaneous 

 He cos - Items 



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Apiaxy of George Kirker 



The picture herewith [See first page. — 

 Ed.] is of my apiary. I have 34 colo- 

 nies now. I harvested about 1000 

 pounds of comb and extracted honey 

 this year. It has not been a very good 

 season here. George Kirker. 



Bancroft, Mich. 



Not a Candidate 



Mr. Hutchinson, Secretary of the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Association, sends 

 us the following: 



Editor York: — I note that a call has been 

 made for a postal card vote nominating candi- 

 dates for election to office in the National 

 Association, and, in this connection, let me 

 ask my friends not to vote for me for any 

 office. Other duties are too numerous to allow 

 me to do justice to an office. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec. 



"Judge" France at the Fairs 



General Manager N. E. France has 

 been judging honey at several State 

 Fairs this month. He was at the Wis- 

 consin, Minnesota, and several others. 

 Surely, Mr. France is a busy man. But 

 he seems to enjoy it as he goes along, 

 which is fortunate. His work in the 

 interest of bee-keeping and bee-keepers 

 can never be fully paid. 



Bee-Keeping Quite a Business 



Dr. E. F. Phillips says this in the 

 Journal of Economic Entomology : 



"Every year the manufacturers of supplies 

 in this country make from 60,000,000 to 75,- 

 000,000 sections for comb honey, and prac- 

 tically all of these are used in the United 

 States. A study of market conditions will 

 reveal the fact that there is three or four 

 times as much extracted honey as comb put 

 on the market, mainly because of the heavy 

 demand for confectionery and baking purposes. 

 A species of insect which forms the basis for 

 an industry adding from $20,000,000 to $25,- 

 000,000 to the resources of the country an- 

 nually is well worthy of consideration in 

 economic entomology." 



Suppose we take the smaller number 

 of sections mentioned, call them the 



common 4^4^4/4. and 17 inches long 

 while unfolded. (By the way, like as 

 not you've always thought of these sec- 

 tions as 17 inches long. Well, they're 

 not ; they're yi inch short of that. But 

 call them 17 for easy figuring.) If laid 

 end to end in a straight row, 60,000,000 

 of sections would reach 16,098 miles, 

 or about two-thirds of the way around 

 the earth. 



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Foul Brood at the National 



Editor York: — Do you understand that at 

 the coming convention at Detroit, Drs. Phil- 

 lips, White, and a few bee-inspectors are to be 

 "the whole show" in discussing foul brood and 

 other diseases of bees? If so, I can learn fully 

 as much by staying at home and reading the 



Apiary of D. E. Wood 



1 his apiary is located on Long Island, 

 New York, and consists of 40 colonies 

 of Italian bees. Mr. Wood runs en- 

 tirely for extracted honey, securing lo- 

 cust and white clover in the spring, 

 buckwheat and sumac in the summer, 

 and goldenrod and aster in the fall. 

 His average crop is 75 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey per colony, which he sells 

 locally, and most of it in 60-pound cans. 

 For the locust and white clover he re- 

 ceives ID cents per pound, and for the 

 summer and fall honey $5 per can. 



Mr. Wood has a fine place of 22 acres, 

 and has just built a new house. When 

 he is settled in his new home he in- 

 tends to devote his time to raising bees 

 and chickens. 



On the Wabash to Detroit 



We have taken up the matter of trans- 

 portation with the Wabash Railroad, 

 frorn Chicago to Detroit, during the 

 National Convention, Oct. 13, 14 and 15, 

 and find that the rate from Chicago to 

 Detroit, one way, is $5.50. 



Those desiring to make this trip a 

 pleasure trip as well as one to attend 

 the Convention, can purchase a ticket 



Apiarv of D. E. Wood. 



report. In snort, while I wish all the light 

 that the revelations of the microscope can give 

 us, I am not ready to turn the whole sub- 

 ject over to the above-named two men from 

 Washington, and a few inspectors. For I have 

 reason to believe that there are a number of 

 bee-keepers, who are not inspectors, who know 

 fully as much, through practical experience, 

 about foul brood and its diagnosis, as any who 

 are aided by the microscope. In other words, 

 I hope we will have a full, free-for-all dis- 

 cussion of this foul-brood subject, for to my 

 mind that disease is at this hour doing more 



reading Chicago to Niagara Falls, Gorge 

 Route to Lewiston, Niagara Navigation 

 Co.'s Boat to 1 oronto, returning Canad- 

 ian Pacific to Detroit, and Wabash di- 

 rect, for $19.50. This ticket is good for 

 30 days from date of sale. 



In addition to the above those de- 

 siriner will have the option of a boat-ride 

 between Detroit and Buffalo on either 

 steamers of the Anchor Line, Detroit & 



