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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov, 15 



been appointed to fill his place, and I be- 

 lieve has now already begun the duties of 

 his office. These duties will not necessari- 

 ly interfere with the work of publishing 

 the. Review, and all together the appointment 

 is a most happy one. It is presumed that 

 no one is more interested in bee-keeping in 

 his State than our friend W. Z. ; and, be- 

 ing editor of a bee journal, he will be able 

 to disseminate information regarding foul 

 brood, from a large experience that he will 

 acquire, that will be not only of value to 

 the bee-keepers of his State but the whole 

 United States. 



IDAHO FOR YOUNG MEN. 



In the Industrial and Oil Review for Oct. 

 18 appears an article from Mr. Wm. Allen 

 White, a well-known writer who has trav- 

 eled extensively over the West, and who 

 was a pioneer in the early days of the Crip- 

 ple Creek district of Colorado. At that 

 time he made a prediction regarding that 

 portion of the State, which has been liter- 

 ally fulfilled in later years. The same 

 writer now says, concerning Idaho: 



" Idaho is to-day the State of greatest opportunity for 

 young men. It has been my misfortune to have been 

 knocking around in the West during the fore part of 

 the present year looking for health, and I have been 

 in every Western State and Territory but Montana 

 and Nevada, and it seems to me that there is no other 

 State in the Union that offers the opportunity for 

 young men that is oifered in Idaho. 



■' This State is a young man's State. Horace Gree- 

 ley's advice, • Go West, young man,' is not good advice 

 to-day unless it be amended to read. ' Go to Idaho, 

 young man.' In nearly every other .State in the Union 

 the conditions are settled. The country is developed. 

 Here it is all neve. The mines are not made. The 

 water is not stored. The farms are not opened. The 

 towns have hardly been started that will spring up in 

 this State in the next twenty years. Idaho is to-day 

 where Colorado was twenty j'ears ago, and Kansas 

 was just after the war. The undeveloped resources of 

 this State are amazing to one who is used to seeing 

 things running vip to their limit." 



Gleanings has no desire to boom any lo- 

 cality, province, or State, for speculative 

 reasons ; but considering the fact that so 

 much of our country is overcrowded and 

 overpopulated I deem it a real favor to our 

 subscribers to point out certain States 

 where they can take beeswithout encroach- 

 ing upon the rights of other bee-keepers, 

 and there are many portions of Idaho unde- 

 veloped. 



Mr. White has confirmed a great deal 

 that I have said in these columns concern- 

 ing Idaho. But let me urge, as I have al- 

 ready done, that, if any one desires to re- 

 move from his present location, he should 

 make a trip, going himself alone, and look 

 over the various fields. Better stay awhile 

 and hire out for a few months to see wheth- 

 er you like the locality; then when you size 

 things up pretty thoroughly you will be in 

 position to decide whether you can move 

 your family. 



NOMINATIONS FOR THE OFFICE OF GEN- 

 ERAL MANAGER. 



In our last issue, in referring to this 

 matter I did not know then that Mr. E, T. 

 Abbott, of St. Joseph, Mo., had been an- 



nounced as a candidate for General Man- 

 ager or I should have mentioned his name 

 in connection. The fact was, Mr. Herman 

 F. Moore, in the American Bee Journal, 

 some time ago, put in nomination the names 

 of Mr. E. T. Abbott, Mr. C. P. Dadant, and 

 Mr. R. L. Taylor as suitable persons for the 

 office in question. I had learned, throujih 

 private sources, that both Mr. Dadant and 

 Mr. Taylor refused to make the run, but at 

 that time I was not aware that the name of 

 Mr. Abbott had been announced with theirs 

 in the first place. The fact is, my time has 

 been so taken up in the final preparation 

 of the new edition of our ABC book, and 

 getting out our catalog for 1903, that I have 

 had little or no time to look over our ex- 

 changes of late, and consequently overlook- 

 ed the name of Mr. Abbott. I hereby stand 

 corrected and offer him my apologies. Mr. 

 Dadant and Mr. Taylor having withdrawn 

 their names, Mr. A. still remains with Mr. 

 France. 



While still believing, as stated in our 

 last issue, that some one should be selected 

 for General Manager (whether it be Mr. 

 France or some equally good man, I care 

 not who) who has been in no way connect- 

 ed with the recent Association complica- 

 tions, I will say that, if Mr. Abbott should 

 receive a majority of votes at the coming 

 election. Gleanings will do all it can to 

 make his administration a success. 



Our readers would, perhaps, like to 

 know whether Mr. Eugene Secor will be a 

 candidate for the office of General Mana- 

 ger. In a letter recently received from 

 him he says, "It has been my intention all 

 along, and still is, to step out at the end of 

 the year. My annual report will so state." 



THE AMOUNT OF HONEY ANNUALLY PRO- 

 DUCED IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN 

 CUBA. 



At the Philadelphia convention of the 

 National Bee-keepers' Association a few 

 years ago I gave a set of figures going to 

 show the approximate amount of honey an- 

 nually produced in the United States. This 

 estimate was based on the number of sec- 

 tion boxes made and sold by all the manu- 

 facturers in the United States, for during 

 that year we learned the entire output. 

 Then the amount of goods sold in various 

 parts of the country would also give some- 

 thing of an idea of the amount of extracted 

 honey produced. Well, this estimate, with- 

 out going into details as to how the results 

 were arrived at, show that there was 

 50,000,000 lbs. of comb honey and 100,000,000 

 lbs. of extracted, or a total of 150,000,000 

 lbs. all told. The actual valuation of this, 

 conservatively figured, would be about 

 $10,000,000. In answer to a correspondent 

 in our issue for Feb. 15, page 155, I repeat- 

 ed these figures, and the editor of the Pa- 

 cific Bee Journal compared them with the 

 United States census report of the annual 

 honey crop. He has prepared a new set of 

 figures by putting them in such a shape 



