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GLEANIN,GS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1. 



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He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness.— John 

 8:12. 



OuK bees are all in their winter quarters— in 

 fact, they have been, for that matter, for some 

 time back. How are yours? Better late than 

 never; but— better never late. Better still, if 

 we had not been so last fall. 



saloon-keeper will come in for his fair share of 

 criminality; and, in our opinion, it should be a 

 good big share. We regret to say, however, 

 that the bee-keeper was the first one to resort 

 to the use of the deadly firearm, and he was 

 just as great a murderer nt heart as the one 

 who killed him — yes, more guilty, because his 

 opponent may have been acting in self-defense. 



The official report of the North American 

 will appear in the American Bee Journal, and, 

 later on, will be published in book form, for 

 particulars regarding which, address G. W. 

 York, editor Amei-ican Bee Journal, 56 Fifth 

 Ave., Chicago. 



After the season's sales of queens and nu- 

 clei, and after the fall's uniting, we have, all 

 told, only 106 fair colonies put up for winter. 

 They are all outdoors, packed in chaff or planer- 

 shavings. Some are in two-story chaff hives; 

 some in the one-story, and the rest in winter 

 cases. All the clusters are under absorbing- 

 cushions, with the exception of one, and that 

 has a sealed cover. This is really all we care 

 to risk that way, after last winter's experience. 



Mb. Alley, of the Apiculturist. has a char- 

 acteristic, almost pleasant way of criticising 

 those who differ with him, even if he does go at 

 them sometimes with a club. Our opinions 

 have come in the way of his criticisms at 

 numerous times; and although his views, in 

 our estimation, are. sometimes, extreme, his 

 comments, instead of irritating, rather please 

 us. Of late, our Massachusetts editor has been 

 firing his gun at Dr. Miller. When we saw the 

 doctor last he did not look as if he had been hit. 

 Mr. Alley is evidently shooting too high. 



Elsewhere Rambler refers to an extractor 

 that throws out the honey from combs that 

 revolve edgewise. He says that a 12-year-old 

 boy, Claud Henderson, extracted with this 

 machine 12 tons of honey, and that the machine 

 runs easily. Our readers will remember that, 

 three or four years ago, we were experimenting 

 with an extractor built on this principle. As 

 the combs did not have to be reversed, the idea 

 at the time struck us very favorably, and sever- 

 al times we were on the eve of success. But 

 our experiments showed that extractors of this 

 description did not do the work as clean and 

 with as little expenditure of power as those 

 that receive the combs in the regular way. 

 However, the fact that that boy extracted 12 

 tons with such a machine is enough to com- 

 mand attention. Perhaps Mr. J. F. Mclntyre, 

 who has made the subject of extractors quite a 

 study, can give us some further hints along this 

 line. 



In his article in another column. Rambler 

 tells quite graphically of the murder of a bee- 

 keeper. Both the murdered and the murderer 

 were well-to-do people. Mr. Bohn himself 

 seldom drank, this being only the second time. 

 The question comes up, as it does every time, 

 " VVho was the real murderer — the saloon-keeper 

 who sold the liquor that crazed the men and 

 made them not themselves, or the man who 

 pulled the trigger with result so fatal?" The 

 probabilities are, that both are responsible; but 

 how far either one may be guilty, only God can 

 tell. The time is surely coming when the 



THE BIG ATTENDANCE AT THE CHICAGO CON- 

 VENTION, AND WHAT IT MEANS. 



Elsewhere we have referred to the large at- 

 tendance at the North American convention. 

 (Some of our European bee-keepers, seeing this, 

 might feel that we have not much to brag over, 

 considering the fact that they sometimes have 

 as many as 400 or 500 at their conventions — at 

 least, we have been so informed. But if our 

 European friends will consider for a moment 

 the vast extent of the United States, and that 

 some of our States taken alone are larger than 

 France or Spain, and that England is no larger 

 than Illinois, they will see that the bee-keepers 

 who attended had to come in some instances 

 thousands of miles, and thus they viill get a 

 better idea of what our 225 enrollment means to 

 us Americans. Or let them imagine the whole 

 continent of Europe under one government, 

 having one central bee-association, and that 

 we are to have a convention in Constantinople. 

 How many bee-men in Scotland would feel like 

 taking such a trip? or how many would travel 

 from Moscow to Paris, or fiom London to 

 Athens? These tremendous geographical dis- 

 tances actually confront us here. When a bee- 

 keeper goes from San Francisco, on our Pacific 

 coast, to St. Joseph, Mo., at our next conven- 

 tion, it is equivalent in distance to a man in 

 London going clear across Europe to the Ural 

 Mountains; and yet such a trig takes him only 

 half way across our country, in a bee-line fiom 

 San Francisco to New York. Another thing, 

 our population does not exceed the fifth part of 

 Europe, hence we have five times the area for 

 gaining a subsistence without resorting to api- 

 culture; and this alone would greatly reduce or 

 keep down the number of bee-keepers. Every 

 thing considered, the attendance at Chicago 

 was very gratifying. 



PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. 



An attempt was made to photograph the bee- 

 keepers while in attendance at one of the ses- 

 sions of the Chicago convention. The results 

 were very good, considering the poor light, and 

 the fact that the bee-keepers were scattered 

 over the whole room. Some of the faces are 

 necessarily out of focus, but the majority of 

 them come out very well. In the foreground 

 appears the familiar face of Hon. R. L. Taylor; 

 also that of Hon. J. M. Hambaugh. Between 

 these two is W. L. Coggshall, an extensive bee- 

 keeper of New York. Toward the center of 

 the room will be found the editors of the Re- 

 vieiv, Canadian Bee Journal, the American 

 Bee Journal, and Gleanings. The last two 

 sit in one chair, arm in arm. While this was 

 purely accidental (there being a scarcity of 

 chairs) we are glad to say that it indicates 

 pretty fairly that the editors of two bee-jour- 

 nals can not only be on good speaking terms, 

 but they can sit together in one chair, sleep to- 

 gether in one bed, or ride together in one sleep- 

 er, all of which is literally true, as we speak 

 from personal knowledge. At one other time 

 Bro. Hutchinson and Bro. Holtermann occupied 

 the same chair, and tliere is no Indication that 

 these pleasant relations on the part of any of 

 us will ever be " strained." 



Near the editors of the bee-journals will be 

 seen Mrs. Lucinda Harrison; Dr. C. C. Miller, 



