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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



January 



mention in the next annual issue of 

 that " Bee Pep," and they are not Iowa 

 beekeepers, either, Chas. and Carol 

 Schmidt, of Marysville, Kan. In answer 

 to one of our circular letters urging 

 them to renew without delay, here is 

 what they wrote : 



Dear Sirs: — We received your last 

 letter. 



We understand what you intend to 

 do about improving the paper, and be- 

 lieve that you will keep your promise. 

 We would like to take the American 

 Bee Journal very much because it is 

 interesting. 



We are only ten and twelve.'and are 

 very busy with our school work. For 

 this reason we will subscribe next 

 spring. We followed the Stephens 

 method, and we got one thousand 

 pounds off of six hives and no swarms. 

 We used the double hive method ex- 

 plained by Mr. Geo. W. Stephens, page 

 163 in the May issue of the American 

 Bee Journal. There is but one objec- 

 tion to the plan that we have, and that 

 is it is hard to find the queen, because 

 of the crowds of worker-bees. We have 

 thought of a way to avoid that trouble. 

 This is the plan : 



Prepare an empty hive, and have it 

 handy at the side of the hive in which 

 you wish to operate. First take a 

 frame out of the full hive and look over 

 it. In case you do not find the queen 

 put the frame in the empty hive. Then 

 take out the next one; look at it. If 

 you do not find the queen in that put it 

 in the empty hive beside the first. Do 

 likewise with all the rest, and if you do 

 not find the queen in any of them look 

 around the inside of the hive you took 

 the frames from. 



We hope you will find this plan to 

 an advantage. Yours truly, 



Chas. and Carol Schmidt. 

 Marysville, Kan. 



The secretary of the Kansas associa- 

 tion will please note that here are two 

 boys who will want to be joining some 

 of these times. Perhaps he needn't 

 mind; they'll undoubtedly hunt him up 

 when the time arrives. 



CUPID AND THE BEE 



Cupid once upon a bed 

 Of roses laid his weary head; 

 Luckless urchin not to see 

 Within the leaves a slumbering bee! 

 The bee awaked— with anger wild 

 The bee awaked and stung the child. 

 Loud and piteous are his cries; 

 To Venus quick he runs, he flies! 

 " Oh mother!— I am wounded through — 

 I die with pain— in sooth I dol 

 Stung by some little angry thing. 

 Some serpent on a tiny wing— 

 A bee it was— for once. I know 

 I heard a rustic call it so." 

 Thus he spoke, and she the while 

 Heard him with a soothing smile; 

 Then said. " My infant, if so much 

 Thou feel the little wild bee's touch. 

 How must the heart, oh. Cupid! be. 

 The hapless heart that's stung by thee ? 

 Thomas Moore." Odes of Anacreon. 



Departmental Changes — The increased 

 appropriation of $5000 for extension 

 work in beekeeping has added three 

 men to the government staff under Dr. 

 Phillips. 



C. E. Bartholomew, formerly at Ames, 

 Iowa, as instructor, will be located at 



Memphis, Tenn., where his extension 

 work will be conducted in cooperation 

 with the Tennessee State Department. 



Geo. H. Rea, of Pennsylvania, is 

 doing work in the Carolinas, taking up 

 the work where E. G. Carr, out last 

 year for a short time only, left off. 



Kennith Hawkins, formerly a queen- 

 breeder in Illinois, wifl do general 

 extension work in the South, changing 

 locations as demands are made upon 

 his time. 



The place of Prof. Bartholomew at 

 Ames is to be taken Jan. 1 by F. Eric 

 Millen, State Bee Inspector of Michi- 

 gan in 1916; while Mr. Milieu's place, 

 in turn, will be taken by B. F. Kindig, 

 formerly of Indiana, and connected 

 with bee inspection there. 



first of the series of bulletins on honey 

 plants and nectar secretion which are 

 under way in the Botanical Department 

 will shortly be published. He expects 

 to have two of these bulletins ready for 

 distribution before the close of the 

 school year. Dr. Pammel is working 

 along new lines and the bulletins from 

 his department will be the first from 

 any institution in America dealing with 

 these special problems. The appear- 

 ance of these bulletins is awaited with 

 much interest. 



Changes at the Iowa Agricultural 

 College. — As stated elsewhere. Prof. C. 

 E. Bartholomew has resigned his posi- 

 tion of assistant professor of apicul- 

 ture in the Iowa College of Agricul- 

 ture and has entered the service of the 

 government. 



Prof. F. E. Millen, formerly of the 

 University of Michigan, has been 

 elected to succeed him. While the 

 course in beekeeping at the Iowa in- 

 stitution is good now, there is much 

 interest manifested in its development 

 on the part of the beekeepers, and the 

 college authorities promise to increase 

 the appropriation for the work as rajx- 

 idly as circumstances will permit. 



Doctor Pammel announces that the 



New Jersey Meeting. — The annual 

 meeting of the New Jersey Beekeepers' 

 Association will be held in the Ento- 

 mology Building, Bleeker Place, New 

 Brunswick, N. J., on Tuesday and 

 Wednesday, Jan. 9 and 10, 1917. 



E. G. Carr, Sec. 



Montana Beekeepers to Meet -The 



Montana State Beekeepers' Association 

 will meet this year in Bozeman in con- 

 junction with Farmers' Week at the 

 State College Jan. 21 to 28, 1917. 



S. F. Lawrence, Sec.-Treas. 



Missouri {Meeting 



The annual meeting of the Missouri 

 Apicultural Society will be held this 

 year in connection with a four-day 

 short course in beekeeping (Jan. 2 to 6) 

 at the State University of Columbia' 

 Mo. Our readers are already familiar 

 with Dr. L. Haseman, the Missouri 

 Entomologist, who is active in promot- 

 ing better beekeeping in his State. 



Indiana Beekeepers Meet 



The meeting of the Indiana beekeep- 

 ers at Indianapolis Nov. 27 and 28 was 

 attended by some 40 members. Two 

 of the expected speakers, Messrs. E. 

 R. Root, editor of Gleanings, and Prof. 

 Francis Jager, president of the Na- 

 tional, were absent, having been de- 

 tained by other duties. 



One of the most interesting addresses 

 was delivered by the secretary, Geo. W. 

 Williams, on the subject which has 

 been his hobby for a number of years, 

 " Honey Sales and Cooperative Adver- 

 tising." Mr. Williams is well known 

 for his earnest endeavors to get the 

 value of honey as food properly recog- 

 nized in the household science teach- 

 ing of the public schools. In his ad- 

 dress he compared the timidity of the 

 honey producers regarding advertising 

 to the timidity of a child who does not 

 know the road to his home and is 

 afraid of the street cars that would 

 carry him safely to the very door of 

 that home. The simile is very well 

 taken. The steps that have been in- 

 augurated in different directions to 



advertise honey and recommend it to 

 the consumers as one of the best and 

 healthiest of foods are already show- 

 ing results, and our timid honey pro- 

 ducers will sooner or later recognize 

 the great advantage of liberal advertis- 

 ing. 



The report of the State Inspector, 

 Mr. Frank N. Wallace, who is also 

 State Entomologist, was very interest- 

 ing and showed that foulbrood is be- 

 ing eradicated by energetic action. 

 Box-hive beekeeping is being reduced 

 throughout the State, only 143 "gums" 

 having been found in the inspection of 

 1916, while during the first year of in- 

 spection over 1000 such hives were 

 found. The total number of diseased 

 colonies found in Indiana in 1916 was 

 440 of American foulbrood and 96 of 

 European. 



Prof. Snodgrass, whose wonderful 

 anatomical studies have been published 

 by the Bureau of Entomology at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, was present and read an 

 essay on the individuality of the bee, 

 showing how each bee works on her 

 own independent instinct without or- 

 ders or guidance from others in a re- 



