March, 1910. 



American Vae Journal 



Ur. Lyon's delivery ranked among tlie first- 

 class orators in every respect. The story of 

 the honey-bee was never so well and enter- 

 tainingly told as it was yesterday, by Dr. 

 Lyon. He is on for se\'eral lectures in the 

 Kast, I think it would be a wise thing for 

 the Xatii^nal Hee-Keei)ers' -Association to 

 get Ur. Lyon to lecture on the honey-bee be- 

 fore Chautauciua assemblies, or on any 

 other good lecture course. He would do the 

 bee-keepers at large a wonderful amount of 

 good. I thitik. 



Ur. Lyon is a first-class man. and as an 

 orator among the bee-keeping ranks I have 

 not seen his equal. If ever a man made 

 honey-eaters, or if ever a man made it plain 

 .about I)ee-keeping. it was I^r. Lyon in his 

 lecture. It was worth a trip from Chicago 

 to Cincinnati several times to listen to him, 

 and (luite a number of people who heard 

 him say the same. Freu W. Muth. 



Honey in Crane C^ellular Cases 



KniTOR York:— I notice on page 41. that in 

 a sketch of my life. I am reported as receiv- 

 ing s cents a pound more for honey i>ut up in 

 my improved shipping-case, than other«'ise. 

 Now .s cents a pound is a good deal — in fact, 

 a great deal more than the facts warrant. 

 Had you stated that we get 5 cents a case 

 more when honey is packed in our improved 

 cases, you would have stated the exact 

 truth. We think 5 cents a case extra is 

 pretty good, as they weigh only about one- 

 half that of glass-and-wood cases. The sav- 

 ing in freight, with the extra 5 cents, half 

 pays for the cases, which is worth looking 

 after these days, J, E, Cr.\ne, 



Well, yes, that makes quite a differ- 

 ence, whether it is 5 cents a case or .I 

 cents a pound more for honey. We are 

 glad to make the correction, as we do 

 not wish to misrepresent in any par- 

 ticular in the American Bee Journal. 

 The truth is good enough for us, and 

 of course our readers want only that. 

 But mistakes will occur in the best reg- 

 ulated families as well as offices. 



To lUinoi.s Bee-Keepers 



Some may have been overlooked in 

 the sending out of 1200 blank petitions 

 for a foul brood law, and if they will 

 notify the Secretary, Jas. A. Stone, 

 Route 4, Springfield, 111., they will be 

 supplied with proper blanks. 



Also, if any in this State wish to be- 

 come members of the Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, $1.00 will pay 

 the annual fee and entitle to member- 

 ship as well in the National Associa- 

 tion for one year, and also a cloth- 

 bound copy of the Ninth Annual Re- 

 port, which will be published some 

 time in March. It will embody the re- 

 ports of the last conventions of the 

 Illinois State, Chicago-Northwestern, 

 and National Associations. 



Jas. a. Stone, Str. 



Rt. 4, Springfield, 111. 



A Japane.se Bee-Paper 



If Japanese bee-keepers do things 

 wrong side foremost, as their bee-jour- 

 nal is printed, it must be a confusing 

 business. This office is in receipt of 

 "The Friend of Bee-Keepers," now in 

 its second volume. Besides the name, 

 there is an advertisement of queens in 

 English, the rest being in hieroglyphics 

 worse than Greek. A picture of Lang- 

 stroth occupies a full page, and he ap- 

 pears to be in the English language. 

 The last page is the first, the lines on 

 the page run from top to bottom in- 

 stead of from left to right, and even 

 the numbers seem to be wrong end to, 

 for in is written 01. Yet doubtless 

 honey tastes just as sweet in Japanese 

 as in plain English. 



Important Questions on Honey- 

 I>e\v 



We have received tlie following from 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips, In Charge of Api- 

 culture, in the Bureau of Entomology, 

 U. S., Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D, C, : 



Df.,\k Mr, Vokk,— Since honey-dew was 

 so abundant in many parts of the Eastern 

 United .States during the past season, it 

 would be well for the bee-keeping industry 

 to know, if possible, what conditions brought 

 this on, I should very much appreciate it 

 if the readers of the American Bee Journal 

 who had honey-dew last year would answer 

 the following questions, and in addition give 

 any facts which might help in solving this 

 problem : 



1. Was there any honey-flow from flowers? 



2. Did bees work on honey-dew and flowers 

 at the same time? 



i. What was the average amount of honey- 

 dew per colony? 



4. On what kind of trees were the insects 

 which produced the honey-dew? 



5. Give dates showing the duration of the 

 honey-dew yield. 



b. Was much honey dew used for winter 

 stores? 



7. Is the mortality of colonies up to the 

 present date any greater than usual among 

 your own and neighboring bees? 



8. What information have you as to the ex- 

 tent of territory in which houey-dew w'as 

 abundant? 



Replies may he directed to the Bureau of 

 Entomology. Washington. D. C. 



Respectfully. E. F. Phii-i.ips. 



/// Charge of Apit'ultttre. 



We hope all of our readers who can 

 do so will send the answers promptly, 

 as requested. 



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The Michigan State Convention 



This was held at Lansing, Mich., 

 Feb. 23 and 24, 1910. There was a good 

 attendance and an interesting meeting. 

 We had the pleasure of being present, 

 and enjoyed once more renewing ac- 

 quaintances among our old Michigan 

 friends, and making some new ones. 

 The officers were re-elected for the en- 

 suing year, as follows : 



President — L. A. Aspinwall, of Jack- 

 son. 



Vice-President — E. D. Townsend, of 

 Remus. 



Secretary-Treasurer — E. B. Tyrrell, 

 of Detroit. 



We expect to publish a brief report 

 of the meeting next month. 



The next annual meeting will be held 

 at Grand Rapids, the date t.o be fixed 

 by the Executive Committee. 



as a barn, -wi- will simply ask to be ex - 

 cused from remaining, if we are there- 

 We ought to have known better the 

 last time. But it takes a long time to 

 learn some things. 



Editor Sick and 48 Pages 



We had planned to have this number 

 of the American Bee Journal out on 

 time, but unfortunately, on returning 

 from the Michigan convention, we 

 were taken with an attack of the 

 grippe, which bordered closely on 

 pneumonia. This, with 16 extra pages, 

 perhaps is sufficient explanation why 

 this number is a few days late. 



We aim to mail the Bee Journal from 

 the 12th to the 1.5th of the month. If 

 we closed the forms earlier in the 

 month than we do, there would often 

 be quite a loss on advertising, which 

 we don't feel that we can afford. And 

 as a bee-paper is not like a newspaper, 

 it is not imperative that it be received 

 exactly on a certain date. Its contents 

 are not of the spoiling character; they 

 will keep all right until used — read. 



We are recovering slowly from our 

 sickness, but whenever another con- 

 vention is held ill a place nearly as cold 



A Night at Dr. Miller's 



It was our great privilege to be at 

 the home of Dr. C. C. Miller, at Ma- 

 rengo, 111., the night of Feb. 21, 1910 

 (our own birthday). As we remained all 

 night we were there the morning of 

 Washington's Birthday also. We found 

 the Doctor and his family all very well 

 indeed. The mother of Mrs. Miller 

 and Miss Einma Wilson (who, as many 

 know is also a member of Dr. Miller's 

 family) was 91 years old, Feb. 15th. She 

 is pretty well for one of her extreme 

 age. 



It is always an oasis in our own life 

 to spend even a few hours with Dr. 

 Miller and his beloved family. The 

 Doctor will be 79 years old next June, 

 but he doesn't seem to be a day older — 

 in heart and manyother ways — than he 

 was when we first met him, some 2.5 

 years ago. May he live to be a hun- 

 dred — " and then some." 



Clean Bee-Keepers in New York 



According to J. E. Crane, New York 

 bee-keepers are not badly sodden with 

 whiskey and tobacco. He reports an 

 interesting convention of New York 

 bee-men at Albany, and says this in 

 Gleanings : 



"And Prohibitionists seemed at the New- 

 York convention about as plentiful as bee- 

 keepers. At any rate. Dr. Miller, or Pres. 

 York, of the National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, would have felt quite at home: and. 

 besides all this, it was quite a comfort to 

 me when I got home not to have my wife tell 

 me that I smelled of tobacco smoke." 



If we were publishing a newspaper 

 instead of a bee-paper, we would call 

 for good reasons for boys and men to 

 use tobacco. We have never heard a 

 real good reason for its use, except 

 perhaps as a poison or insect-killer. 

 Sam Jones once said the reason he 

 chewed tobacco was "to get the juice 

 out!" But he must have had to chew 

 the juice hi before he could chew it 

 out. 



Gleanings had this paragraphic defi- 

 nition of tobacco in its Jan. 15th issue. ' 



" Tobacco— .A nauseating plant that is 

 consumed by but two creatures— a large 

 green worm and man. The worm doesn't 

 know-, any better."— Calvin Moon. 



There doesn't seem to be any 

 "Moon-shine" about that. 



We hope that at least the boys and 

 young men in the families of the read- 

 ers of the American Bee Journal will 

 be smarter than the "large green 



worm !" 



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North Texas Convention 



The North Texas Bee-Keepers' Con- 

 vention will meet Wednesday and 

 Thursday, April li and 7, 1910. All in- 

 terested are cordially invited. 



Blossom, Tex. W. H. White, Sec. 



Illinois Bee-Keepers, Take Notice 



The blank petitions sent out by the 

 secretary of the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association for a foul brood 



