October, 1916. 



American ^ee Journal 



as susceptible as blacks. Caging 

 queens for a period of time sometimes 

 effects a cure but killing old gucens 

 and giving young vigorous ones is 

 anotbcT metl.od. toulb ood siems to 

 grow less rampant after being in a 

 locality two or three years and grad- 

 ually wears itself dowii. Mr. DeMut i 

 has visited a large number of beo- 

 keepers in the wetern end of the 

 state and they all report a small 

 amount of Eluropean fou. brood. The 

 most of them treat it by one of the 

 foregoing methods and consider it tlie 

 same as weed in your garden; eradi- 

 cate it this year and you may or may 

 not have any next year. With a little 

 help it can be held in check so as not 

 to be as serious as might be otherwise 

 expected. 



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Michigan Beekeepers to Eat Thanks- 

 giving Dinner in Lansing 



On November 30, December 1, and 2, 

 Michigan beekeepers will gather at 

 Lansing for the fifty-first meeting of 

 the State association. 



The opening day coming on Thanks- 

 giving will enable beemen to renew 

 acquaintance with one another over 

 the festive board, and will be an 



every share should, and in many cases 

 does, return a fine profit the next 

 season. 



Many of our most successful bee- 

 keepers will be in attendance, beemen 

 who count their crops in tons rather 

 than in pounds, and a few minutes 

 conversation with these men will be 

 worth all the expense and trouble of 

 coming to the meeting. If you are 

 looking forward to making beekeep- 

 ing a profitable part of your work in 

 the future, by all means take in these 

 meetings in Lansing. 



We do not want the beekeepers to 

 forget the exhibit side of the conven- 

 tion. We shall have plenty of room 

 to display honey and other exhibits, 

 and as we are planning to give di- 

 plomas and medals to be won outright, 

 besides the challenge medals, we are 

 expecting a nice showing of honey that 

 will add to the general interest of the 

 convention. 



We hope to include other features 

 which will tend to enliven the pro- 

 ceedings and with the banquet which 

 Messrs Root & Hunt are providing 

 all beekeepers present, we should 

 easily have a convention that will 

 rank among the largest and most en- 



joyable ever staged by a Stale Asso- 

 ciation. We will do our part and 

 hope and expect you to join with us 

 in making this coming meeting a 

 hummer. Eat your Thanksgiving 

 dinner in Lansing. 



F. Eric Millen, S cretary-Treasurer 

 Michigan Beekeepers' Association. 



What About Mexico ? 



Bl Agricultor Mexicano, a farm pa- 

 per published in Spanish at San 

 Antonio. Texas, had in one of its 

 recent issues a nice article on bee- 

 keeping in Mexico. From what we 

 have learned in the past, there Is an 

 unlimited field for the develoi m nt of 

 beekeeping in this country, and we 

 hope that the time is fast coming 

 when condi'ions will be settled so 

 that beekeeping may be developed 

 there at least to the extent that it may 

 relieve a portion of the suffcing in 

 that strife-ridden country. 



Illinois-Wisconsin Meeting 



The annual meeting of the Northern 

 Illinois and Southern Wisconsin B:e 

 Keepers' Association, will be he'd in 

 the supervisors room in the Court 

 House in Rockford, Illinois, on Tues- 

 day, Oct. 17, 1916. All are cordially 

 invited to attend. 



B. Kennedy, Sec'y, 2507 W. St. 

 Rockford, Illinois. 



J. ROY LINCOLN'S APIARY OUTSIDE OF NIAGARA FALLS 



Bees Have a Color Sense 



The following, a part of an article 

 written in a late issue of the St. 

 Paul News, is copied, not so much 

 from the fact that we are offe-'ing our 

 .subscribers something new, but to il- 

 lustrate that the general public is 

 being educated as to the value of 

 bees, and are also getting an insight 

 into beekeeping in general. 



"The bee confuses red with black 

 and blue-green with gray. It dis- 

 tinguishes only "warm" from "(old' 

 colors and confuses orange red wi h 

 yel ow and green blue with violet and 

 purple-red. Thus its sense of color 

 is comparable to that of a man who 

 is red-green color-blind. 



auspicious day on which to unite and 

 discuss the summer's work, and 

 make plans for a more successful 

 .season in nineteen seventeen. The 

 holiday will also enab e beekeepers 

 to bring their wives along, so that we 

 expect this meeting will be largely a 

 family affair. Many ladies have al- 

 ready intimated that they would be 

 present to help swell the attendance 

 and enjoy a good time. 



We are preparing an interesting and 

 a profitable program, which will be 

 published in the November issue, and 

 we can assure all those planning to 

 attend, that we are going to have the 

 best meetings that the Michigan Bee- 

 keepers Association has ever had. 



There are many beekeepers who do 

 not yet fully realize the value of these 

 conventions. A beekeepers' convention 

 is an investment for the beekeeper, 

 and it remains with him to secure as 

 many shares as possible, because 



APIARY OF WM. VOLLMER. OF AKRON, N. V. 



