January, I QIC 



American Hee Journal j 



o ne of the hind wheels and puts in its place 

 a pulley, and runs macliinery for making 

 bee-hives and doing various kinds of carpen- 

 ter work. He runs it up hill and down, 

 through mud and sand; and there <?re* some 

 hills, let me tell you. in Stark Co.. Ohio. 



Now. one thing that commends this ma- 

 chine to me besides its cheapness, is that it 

 has no water-tank and other machinery to 

 keep it cool. It is r;;>-cooled. .Secondly, 

 there is no ffcjri/re about the transmission. 

 There is not a cogwheel to rattle and get dry 

 in the whole machine. Last, but not least, 

 it has solid cushioned tires instead of pneu- 

 matic ones that have made and are making 

 so much trouble and worry by puncturing 

 and patching. Just think of it, friends, you 

 who have had some experience with auto- 

 mobiles. No water is needed; no tire trou- 

 bles, and no gear to rattle where you can 

 not get at it. 



To make a good, thorough test of the ma- 

 chine, Mr. Gesaman took Huber and myself 

 (three good-sized persons^ on a 24-mile trip 

 after dark. We made this trip easily inside 

 of two hours, taking in a good many quite 

 bad hills, and passing a dozen or 20 teams 

 after dark; and as the road was new to all 

 of us. Huber had to get out every little while 

 and strike a match to look at a guide-board. 

 It is true the machine does not run as still 

 as some of the higher-priced ones, but we 

 passed horses and buggies with very little 

 trouble, and ran the machine right close to 

 them. It is true, also, that there is a litle 

 more jarring with the solid tires than with 

 the pneumatic; but after riding about 30 

 miles the same day with one of the best 

 pneumatic. I rather preferred my 20-mile 

 ride on the cheap machine. The -light jar 

 in running rapidly gives my blood a better 

 circulation than the more luxuriant and 

 high-priced car. 



Last, but not least, the entire expense for 

 repairs on this S305 auto-car. although it has 

 been run every day more or less, was less 

 than $10. The expense for gasoline is, as 

 nearly as he could figure, one cent a mile. 



house, which might take in cities and sur- 

 rounding country. 



I have worked both methods for a great 

 many years, and am still working them. In 

 a few instances I have worked both methods 

 in the same cities at the same time, and 

 never have had but one grocer find fault, 

 and he was a notorious crank. 



In my experience, the more we educate 

 people to eat honey land that is what we 

 have to do in selling from house to house' 

 the more honey the grocer sells. After we 

 have told all the people in town all the good 

 things about honey, and have induced them 

 to taste our samples, they will naturally 

 want to have a package, but think .Snyder's 

 packages are larger than they care for (we 

 put the honey up in vib., 5-lb.. 7-lb. and 12-lb. 

 packages!, so they will go to the grocery and 

 get a small package to try. We also put up 

 honey in suitable packages to retail for loc. 

 15c. 2bc and 25c. and don't you see that the 

 grocer gets this trade which he would not 

 have gotten if we had not educated the peo- 

 ple to eat honey ? Almost invariably, when 

 a family gets to eating honey, they keep right 

 on eating honev. 



Sweet Clover Food and Drink 



Another item in favor of sweet 

 clover is scored by Henry Stewart, in 

 Gleanings. He reports that 3 horses 

 in a sweet-clover pasture were not 

 known to drink from the first of June 

 until July 10, when they began drinkjng 

 a little. 



Special Mail-Bags for Queens 



New Zealand is nothing if not up-to- 

 date. Its Post-Office Department pro- 

 vides special mail-bags of red-color 

 and small size in which to carry queens 

 in cages. To provide for ventilation, 

 there are half-inch holes in the bags, 

 these holes being bound with brass, 

 presumably so the cloth will not ravel. 



Bees and Cranberries 



Every now and then comes fresh 

 evidence of the value of bees as ferti- 

 lizers. Gleanings says : 



"We notice in the Boston Transcript that 

 Prof. H. J. Franklin, who has charge of the 

 cranberry experiment station at Wareham. 

 Mass,, states that the bees have an essential 

 duty to perform in cranberry work, and that 

 the fertility of the cranberry-bogs depends 

 upon the presence of the bees. An experi- 

 ment was tried, consisting of screening a 

 portion of the bog to keep the bees away, 

 with the result that there were few berries 

 in the screened portion, while in the outside 

 there was a fair crop. Further experiment 

 will be done next year." 



Working Up a Home Market 



A. Snydqr says this in the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Review, and he knows what he is 

 talking about: 



There are two separate and distinct meth- 

 ods in working one's home trade; one is to 

 sell to the grocery trade in all towns or 

 cities n^ithin reasonable distance, say 50 

 miles; the other way is to sell from house to 



Bees in Gen. Lee's Statue 



Hundreds of pounds of honey have been 

 found in the great equestrian statue of Gen. 

 Robert E. Lee at Richmond. Va. Both the 

 horse and the rider are hollow, and it ap- 

 pears that for two years bees have been 

 going in and out at the parted lips and nos- 

 trils of Gen. Lee and his steed. There is no 

 way of getting inside the statue without 

 damaging it, and the bees will be left alone 

 in their iron home. 



The foregoing is taken from the 

 Ferdinand (Ind.) News, and kindly 

 sent us by Bro. Alphonse Veith, one of 

 the regular readers of the American 

 Bee Journal. We are always glad to 

 have our subscribers send to us all 

 items relating to bees that perhaps we 

 would not likely see otherwise. While 

 we might not often use them, still there 

 might be found among them an occa- 

 sional item of general interest. 



how much influence the bee has had 

 in the development of our flowers and 

 plants ? Perhaps Prof. Cockerell can 

 tell us something of this. 



Herman Rauchfuss will tell how he 

 rears the best of queens for very little 

 money, and Oliver Foster will give 

 some of his actual experience in win- 

 tering bees and the lessons he has 

 learned from it. 



Mr. Frank Rauchfuss will make a 

 plea for uniform shipping-cases, and 

 some invaluable advice on local ship- 

 ments of comb honey. 



There will be a symposium on bee- 

 diseases, and a definite work outlined 

 for the Association to carry forward in 

 combating bee-diseases and furthering 

 the bee-interests of the State through- 

 out the whole year. 



We have the free use of the Conven- 

 tion Hall of the Albany Hotel, which is 

 the most centrally located convention 

 hall in Denver, and the Albany will be 

 the convention headquarters. 



The programs will be out shortly, 

 and all the bee-keepers whose names 

 we can secure will be mailed a copy. 

 We are sure to have a fine gathering, 

 as this slight suggestion of a program 

 will show. We are to have music when 

 practical discussion weighs too heavily 

 on the mind. Come and bring your 

 wife and children ; we will make you 

 feel the warmth of the bee-keepers' 

 fellowship. 



Wesley C. Foster, Acting Sec. 

 Boulder, Colo. 



The Colorado Convention 



The annual convention of the Colo- 

 rado State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held in Denver, Jan. 20 and 21, 

 1911, at the Albany Hotel Convention 

 Hall. This date is during the week of 

 the Live Stock Show when one-fare 

 rates will apply on all railroads of the 

 State. The Live Stock Show will be 

 well worth attending, and also the 

 Poultry Show the same week. So we 

 want to see a big attendance at the 

 convention. Come and spend several 

 days, and help make the convention a 

 memorable one, such as we have had 

 in the past. 



Prof. Gillette, of the Colorado Agri- 

 cultural College, will give an illustrated 

 talk on " Some Interesting Facts Con- 

 cerning Bees," the evening of the 20th ; 

 and Mr. Collins will also have some 

 pictures to show the same evening. 



Saturday morning, Prof. Cockerell, 

 of the University of Colorado, at Boul- 

 der, will give a talk on "The Evolution 

 of the Bee." Prof. Cockerell is prob- 

 ably the best authority on the wild 

 bees, of any man in the United States. 

 He has shown the writer the fossil of 

 a wild bee that gathered pollen and 

 visited our wild flowers away back in 

 prehistoric ages, a million years or so 

 ago. He will tell us how the bee de- 

 veloped her pollen-baskets, wax-secret- 

 ing organs, and many other wonderful 

 things. And along with her develop- 

 ment went the development of the 

 flowers. Wouldn't you like to know 



Wisconsin State Convention 



The Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will meet at Madison, Feb. 23 

 and 24, 19n. Cash prizes of $5.00. $3.00, 

 and $2.00 will be offered, respectively, 

 for the best three papers written on 

 topics of value to Wisconsin bee-keep- 

 ers. 



The State Inspector will have on dis- 

 play many valuable articles of special 

 interest, among them being a success- 

 ful uncapping machine that costs less 

 than $5.00, and 2 cents a day to keep it 

 in working order. He will also in a 

 single stroke use a practical double 

 brush that cleans all the bees from a 

 comb. Any one can use it, or make it 

 for himself. A self-measuring faucet 

 that will weigh any amount and never 

 run over the can will be shown. It 

 may be used in any common barrel or 

 can. He will also tell how he makes 

 his 2-story hives for $1.00 each. 



Prominent bee-keepers from abroad 

 will also be present. All are invited. 

 Admission free. Gus Dittmer, Sec. 



Augusta, Wis. 



Ohio State Convention 



The Ohio State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will hold its annual convention 

 at Grand Hotel, Hall Nos. 1 and 2, at 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 16 and 17, 1911. 

 Henry Reudert, Sec. 



Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Bee Journal Saved Her $25 



From following the instructive reading in 

 the American Bee Journal for the year igio. 

 I have saved $25 on my bees. 



Mrs. a. a. Good. 



Arlington. Wash.. Dec. 17. i«io. 



