1917 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



193 



them as far as it pertains to bees or 

 any phase of beelteeping. If your town 

 council undertakes to pass an ordi- 

 nance prohibiting the keeping of bees 

 within the limits of the town we will be 

 glad to take the matter up with them 

 and do what we can to protect the 

 rights of the beekeeper. There are 

 many other questions which we can 

 help to answer, and this service will be 

 rendered freely to every subscriber of 

 this Journal. 



The Service Department will be in 

 charge of our staff correspondent, Mr. 

 Frank C. Pellett.of Atlantic, Iowa, who 

 is a licensed attorney in the State of 

 Missouri, although he gave up all 

 thought of practice ten years ago in 

 order to live in the country and keep 

 bees. Questions of general interest 

 will be answered through the Bee Jour- 

 nal, other questions will be answered 

 direct. Letters may be sent direct to 

 Mr. Pellett or to this office. 



Beekeepers who are interested in 

 legislation for the benefit of the indus- 

 try may also call upon us for sugges- 

 tions in regard to the form of drawing 

 bills and also organizing a campaign 

 to get them passed. Mr. Pellett has had 

 considerable experience in legislative 

 matters, and should be able to give 

 valuable assistance in such cases. It 

 was the demand for assistance in such 

 matters from our readers that led us to 

 establish the Legal Service Department- 

 On the urgent request of Iowa bee- 

 keepers we sent Mr. Pellett to Chicago 

 to attend the rate hearing on comb 

 honey. Our readers will remember 

 that as a result of this hearing the 

 freight rate on comb honey in the West 

 was greatly reduced. At the request 

 of prominent beekeepers we also sent 

 Mr. Pellett to Washington in company 

 with Mr. Root to urge upon the mem- 

 bers of congress the importance of 

 extension work in beekeeping. A spe- 

 cial appropriation sufficient to place 

 three men in the field was the result of 

 the combined efforts of this committee 

 and of the other beekeepers working 

 in the same direction. 



Calls of this kind are becoming in- 

 creasingly frequent and demonstrate 

 the need of a special source of infor- 

 mation and assistance in such matters. 

 President Jager, of the National Bee- 

 keepers' Association, has recently re- 

 appointed Mr. Pellett, as a member of 

 the legislative committee of the Na- 

 tional, and has outlined a rather elabo- 

 rate program of work to be undertaken 

 for that organization in the interest of 

 beekeeping. 



It should be borne in mind that we 

 do not propose to start new things or 

 promote litigation, but only to offer 

 assistance in bringing to a successful 



termination such efforts as have been 

 undertaken by the beekeepers and in 

 which they manifest an interest. There 

 are several States which have no in- 

 spection laws; there are places where 

 the beekeeping interest, should be 

 protected from fruit growers who spray 

 while trees are in bloom, there are 

 questions of freight rates, adulteration 

 and misbranding of honey and many 

 other problems affecting the beekeeper 

 which need attention. When you meet 

 these problems we offer you our assis- 

 tance. 



for his beeswax, he has to pay also a 

 higher price for foundation. But it in- 

 dicates a tendency to the firmness in 

 price of honey for the coming winter. 



luspentioii in Mii-hi(^aii 



A circular letter to Michigan beekeep- 

 ers from their inspec{or, Mr. B. F. Kin 

 dig, announces that there is available 

 for inspection $1,500 more than in lillti. 

 This money becomes available July I. 



There is also a new law in Michigan 

 making it a misdemeanor punishable 

 by fine to keep bees in boxhives or 

 hives with crooked combs. 



College Work in Beekeepius 



Mr. Pellett announces to us that 

 Prof. Millen has now 75 girls taking 

 the special course in beekeeping at 

 Ames College. Let the good work 

 go on. 



The Price of Beeswax 



The price of beeswax is greater than 

 it has been since 1884, or for 33 years. 

 Its high price then was caused by the 

 new use of comb foundation. But the 

 high prices lasted only a few months. 

 Now, although beeswax is fairly abun- 

 dant, its price is evidently a reflection 

 of the price of all commodities. 



This is a two-edge sword, for if the 

 beekeeper secures a remunerative price 



Wide Si)a<"ing lor Kxtracting 



Since the Bee Journal advised wide 

 spacing of combs in the extracting 

 super, I use only seven frames for the 

 eight-frame hives, and I find that this 

 is a gain. Thebees will build the combs 

 very thick, and I find that in this man- 

 ner seven combs will give even more 

 honey than eight combs in the same 

 super would have given. Besides this, 

 I need to uncap only seven combs in 

 the eight-frame hives, and should I be 

 short with combs, then I am able to 

 supply eight supers instead of seven, 

 with the same number of combs with 

 no shorter crop of honey from this 

 source. Bro. Al Veith. 



St. Meinrad, Ind. 



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