November, 1912. 



[American Bag Joarnal 



Picnic Group at Boulder, Colorado, 



Top row, left to right— W. H. Buckholtz, M. J. Garhart, W. C. Evans, F W. Bader, A, A. Lyons, Chas, Dehn, A. Elliott, Harry Craw 

 ford. E. J. Stevenson. Center row— Oliver Foster. Mrs. Oliver Foster, Mrs. A. F. P'oster, A. F, Foster, Mrs. Chas. Dehn. Mrs. Harry Craw- 

 ford, Mrs. Wesley Foster (the baby), Dora May Foster. Lower row (the children)— Dora Crawford, Fay Lewis. Paul Dehn. Floyd Dehn 

 James Crawford, Miles Crawford. 



the demand for fruit in greater propor- 

 tion than they increase their own sales. 



Montezuma Bee-Keepers' Meeting and 

 Picnic 



A call was issued through the local 

 paper.s of Montezuma county, and also 

 by postal notices for a meeting of bee- 

 keepers at Cortez, Monday, July 29. A 

 basket lunch was included. Mr. Frank 

 Rauchfuss, manager of the Colorado 

 Honey-Producers' Association of Den- 

 ver had been asked to come and give a 

 talk and demonstration on grading 

 comb honey. He was present, and gave 

 a very profitable demonstration. The 

 new rules of the State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association were the standard he used, 

 and it was the first time the writer saw 

 grading done according to the new 

 standards. 



Mr. Rauchfuss advises the production 

 of comb honey wherever a white article 

 can be produced. He pointed out that 

 Colorado has an advantage in comb 

 honey shipments, and is at a disadvan- 

 tage on account of rates in extracted 

 honey. California has a better rate, 

 and a honey that will stay liquid much 

 longer than the alfalfa and sweet clover 

 honey from Colorado. 



.■\bout 20 bee-keepers, half of them 

 ladies, attended the morning meeting. 

 The writer spoke on the foul brood 



situation in Montezuma county, and the 

 methods of treating the disease. Ques- 

 tions were asked, and one could see 

 that bee-keeping is an interesting topic 

 in that county. 



Many of those attending had driven 

 10 to 20 miles to the meeting, and were 

 hungry when the basket lunch was 

 spread out on the grass under the 

 trees, Mrs. Jordan, one of the most 

 enthusiastic bee-keepers, had made a 

 cake lettered with the name of the bee- 

 keepers' society wliich she and many 

 of the others wanted to have formed, 

 and which was organized at the close 

 of the meeting. She called it the birth- 

 day cake of the society. The fruit at- 

 tracted the attention of the writer 

 more than anything else, and he can- 

 not tell how many cherries, as large as 

 plums, he did eat. 



One of the ladies had some Ben 

 Davis apples of last year's production 

 that were still perfect, had wilted but 

 very little and had not been in cold 

 storage. The apples of the Montezuma 

 valley are more highly colored than 

 any I have yet seen. 



Fine exhibits of honey were there 

 from the apiaries of Geo. Taylor, Frank 

 Taylor, and T. G. Wilkerson. 



.After our picnic dinner, when the 

 afternoon meeting opened, about 40 

 gathered in the court room, where our 

 meetings were held. Mr. Rauchfuss 

 went into the comb-honey proposition 



very thoroughly, and the subject was 

 enjoyed by all present. One bee-keeper 

 told me that when Mr. Rauchfuss came 

 back a larger crowd could be gotten 

 together. 



One of the features of the meeting 

 was the showing of most of the modern 

 bee-keeping appliances, each appliance 

 being carefully gone over by those 

 present. It was the intention to have 

 hive nailing and super filling demon- 

 strations, but the time was limited, and 

 all that could be done was to show 

 some of the best things that are used 

 in a bee-keeper's practice. 



At the close of the meeting the Mon- 

 tezuma County Bee-Keepers' Society 

 was formed with 20 members. Mr. T. 

 G. Wilkerson was elected President; 

 H. L. Luce, Vice-President ; Mrs. E. 

 M. Jordan, Secretary-Treasurer. The 

 association is to hold meetings the last 

 Saturday of each month, in the after- 

 noon following a picnic dinner. 



One of the first lines of work taken 

 up by the association, is the making of 

 a display of honey at the Fair to be 

 held in Cortez some time in October. 

 The association will also help in giving 

 backing to Mr. George Taylor, the api- 

 ary inspector. 



Yellow Cleome 



Yellow cleome (Rocky Mountain bee- 

 plant) grows in the Grand valley of 



