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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



more is stored than is needed. Possibly this 

 ma3' not be true in every case where it is sus- 

 pected. In spring a large amount of pollen is 

 used to carry on brood-rearing, and if a stock 

 of it had not been stored up in the previous 

 summer the amount of brood reared might be 

 curtailed. It is an interesting (luestion to 

 know whether the bees use enough judgment 

 to let up on gathering pollen when they have 

 a large stock on hand, or whether, like honey, 

 it is gathered at all times when it can be had, 

 whether the stock on hand be large or small. 

 One way to help decide the matter would be 

 to take from a colony that had been queenless 

 a long time all its combs of pollen and give 

 them to a colony with a laying queen. Then, 

 if the bees use any judgment in the matter, 

 the bees with the laying queen might lessen 

 their pollen-gathering and the queenless col- 

 ony increase it, unless there is something in 

 the nature of the ease that makes old bees 

 cease to gather pollen. 



The National Association. — We have 

 received the following announcement from 

 Pres. Hutchinson, giving the result of the 

 election held by the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association in December, 1902 : 



Having received from Ellis E. Mason, Sec- 

 retary of the National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, the results of the December election for 

 General Manager and three Directors, I make 

 the following announcements: 



Whole number of votes cast for General 

 Manager 610, of which N. E. France received 

 489; E. T. Abbott, 11"; scattering, 4. Mr. 

 N. E. France is hereby declared elected as 

 General Manager. 



Whole number of votes cast for Directors 

 567, of which G. M. Doolittle received 364 ; 

 W. F. Marks. 262; Thomas G. Newman, 349; 

 Udo Toeppervvein, 149 ; Wm. A. Selser, IO.t; 

 Wm. McEvoy, 86 ; G. W. Vangundy, 74. The 

 rest of the votes are scattered among 120 

 members, no one of them receiving more than 

 32 votes. Mr. G. M. Doolittle having received 

 a majority vote, is hereby declared elected as 

 Director. No other candidate for Director 

 having received a majority vote, as is required 

 by the Constitution, no other is elected. The 

 Constitution says that the Directors' term of 

 office '• shall be four years, or until their suc- 

 cessors shall be elected and qualified;" thus 

 Mr. W. F. Marks and Mr. Thomas G. Newman 

 retain their ollices, at least for the present. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, 

 Preaidetit yational Bee-Keepers'' Ansoclaiion. 



On the subject of the election muddle In 

 which the National Association now finds 

 itself, Mr. Herman F. Moore, an attorney, 

 and Secretary of the Chicago-Northwestern 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, has this to say : 



Cook Co., III., Jan. 27, 1903. 

 Editor American Bee Joi knal — 



I have read everything that has been 

 printed on the General JIanagership trouble. 

 There is no doubt but that the words, " has 

 been regularly and properly nominated, and 

 is believed to be worthy of your support," 

 should never have Ijeen printed on the ballot. 

 I can not excuse Mr. Eugene Secor for their 

 presence there. He, a practical politician, 

 must have known their impropriety at the 

 time. Perhaps he thought this was only a 

 family matter, and the ordinary rules of 

 ethics did not apply. I hope lam not unjust 

 or uncharitable when I say that I believe the 

 Iriie reason for his action was a desire to " get 

 back " at Mr. Abbott. The presence in his 



Annual Report, of words indicating that Mr. 

 Abbott had never turned over the money, 

 goes to prove this view. 



Mr. Abbott never was my personal prefer- 

 ence for General Manager, nor was Mr. France. 

 But I felt that, as Mr. Abbott had agreed to 

 submit his status to the election in December, 

 there should have been no attempt to prevent 

 such a submission. I believe the said words 

 so printed on the ballot were the result of an 

 effort on the part of some of our otlicers or 

 members to " do up " Mr. Abbott, at all 

 events. If so, such action is on a par with 

 the most disreputable party politics, and must 

 be openly condemned. 



However, I think the old National is in no 

 danger of immediate dissolution, any more 

 than the family is in danger when the boy 

 comes home and announces to father and 

 mother that he is " not going to school any 

 more." The young man gets a certain needed 

 chastisement, and the great institution goes 

 along very much as before. 



Let me say while I am writing, that our 

 great body ( the greatest bee-keepers' society 

 in the world) must be governed by strict 

 parliamentary rules. All bodies of men, asso- 

 ciated for a common interest, have from time 

 immemorial submitted themselves to certain 

 rules that make for harmony and the dispatch 

 of business. There are " Roberts' Rules of 

 Order," " Reed's Rules," etc. Some of the 

 errors into which our officers have fallen 

 would have been easily avoided by following 

 closely the rules of order applicable to such 

 cases. This great body of loOO American 

 citizens can be controlled in no other way. 



I am satisfied that no new election is pos- 

 sible under our Constitution, which says. 

 '■ The election shall be held in December each 

 year." No new ballot can be cast until 

 December, 1903, and none of us desires 12 

 months to elapse and nothing doing. The 

 matter has gone to the voters in the regular 

 way, and they have decided for Mr. France. 

 This should end the dispute. I think even 

 Mr. Abbott would not desire to go to the 

 voters again for another beating. 



I think I am within the facts in saying that 

 Mr. N. E. France, the General Manager-elect, 

 has no enemies, and will make a good officer, 

 satisfactory to all. Let him serve his term, 

 and let our National Bee-Keepers' Association 

 move on to victory. Herman F. Moore. 



Convention Notices. — We would like to 

 suggest to secretaries of bee-keepers' associa- 

 tions that they send in notices of their meet- 

 ings at least 30 days in advance of holding the 

 same. Recently we received two notices too 

 late to get them published before the meetings 

 were to be held. W^e are always glad to pub- 

 lish such notices if received in time, but, of 

 course, it is of no use to have a notice appear 

 after the meeting has been held. 



We trust all secretaries who read this will 

 kindly remember it. Also remember to write 

 the convention notice on a separate sheet of 

 paper. 



Mr. .J. S. Barb and Apiary. — When Mr. 

 Barb sent-the photograph for the engraving 

 on the first page, he wrote thus : 



I send a picture showing our home and a 

 part of my apiary. My grandfather, Gabriel 

 iiarb, settled on this place in September, 1821. 

 He had built a log-house where our present 

 home now stands, which was built in 1863. 

 When my grandfather moved here he brought 

 a colony of bees along in the old log-gum that 

 my left hand is resting upon. 



My father, Isaac Barb, was born in the log- 

 house Dec. 18, 1822, and lived all his life on 

 this place until he died, Nov. 21, 1886. I was 

 born in the old log-house March 5, 1850, and 

 have lived all my life so far on the old farm, 

 and will stay here the rest of my life. Bees 

 have been kept continually since 1836, and 

 there will be bees kept here as long as I stay. 

 Is it any wonder that I tuve to work with the 

 bees ? 



In the foreground of the picture are two 

 other pioneer hives, also a straw-hive that 



was made 34 years ago. I have an old box- 

 hive that father used to keep his bees in, and 

 in the season of 1869 he took a box of honey 

 from that hive that held a little over 30 

 pounds, and It sold for 30 cents per pound; 

 it came to -?10, and the next year he took a 

 box from the same hive which weighed 36 

 pounds. This box was sold at 25 cents per 

 pound, and brought S9, or .*19 worth of honey 

 from the same colony in two seasons. 



In 1870 we started with 25 old colonies; the 

 first swarm issued .June 5 or 6, and-from that 

 time until July 3 we had 76 swarms. Our bees 

 were nearly all in bo.x hives, and we did not 

 know then about cutting out queen-cells and 

 returning after-swarms. 



In the fall of 1874 we had 30 colonies when 

 winter began, and in the spring of 1875 there 

 were 8 colonies left. In the fall of 1878 

 father had 36 colonies and I had 9. In the 

 spring of 1879 he had 3 colonies left and I had 

 none. I had some fun that spring taking out 

 honey from the hives and getting out bees- 

 wax. We took nearly 200 pounds of honey 

 from the hives the bees died in. and 60 pounds 

 of beeswax. Those were some of my earlier 

 experiences in keeping bees. I have had 

 some about as discouraging since, still I- stick 

 to the bees (and they stick pretty close to me, 

 sometimes, too). 



You will notice a hive to the left of the ex- 

 tractor; that colony belongs to a stock of 

 bees that were on the farm of my uncle, 

 William Sanger, near North Bristol, Ohio, for 

 over 90 years before I brought it over to its 

 present location, as I am keeping it on shares 

 now. There were 4 colonies when I brought 

 them over four years ago last spring, but only 

 one is left. I got a rousing swarm from it 

 last season. I took nearly 50 pounds of e.x- 

 tracted honey from the 2-story hive back of 

 me at my right. 



There are two hives, one on each side of my 

 wife, and also oue back of the 2-story hive 

 which has two cases of sections on. I traded 

 a 5-weeks old pig for those 3 colonies, and 15 

 cents extra, a year ago the first part of last 

 June. I got about 40 pounds of honey from 

 them last season. I wintered all three of 

 them, and another colony I got on another 

 trade two .years ago last June is shown right 

 back of the hive between my wife and me. 

 From those 4 colonies and their increase (3 

 swarms) I took nearly 150 pounds of comb 

 honey last season. My best yield from one 

 colony is 55 pounds of comb honey; total 

 yield about 2.50 pounds of comb, and nearly 50 

 pounds of extracted honey. 



I commenced the season with 14 colonies, 

 bought 4 swarms at *1. 00 each, I furnishing 

 the hives, and I now have 29 colonies. I gave 

 the boy at my right in the picture two after- 

 swarms put together — one July 2 and one 

 July 4. August 13 they cast a good-sized 

 swarm with a young queen, as I heard two 

 young queens piping in the hive the evening 

 before. 



Those cfiaft hives shown between the two 

 trees in the upper row are empty. The tree 

 back of me is a hard-maple tree which was 

 planted in the spring of 1876 — Centennial 

 year; it measures 5 feet in eireumference a 

 little above the ground. I carried it nearly a 

 quarter of a mile when I planted it. 



The other persons in the picture are my 

 wife, Eliza Barb, her nephew, Harry Royer 

 (who is living with us), and my aunt, Mrs. 

 Elizabeth Duhl, my father's only sister, who 

 was also born in the old log-house Jan. 39, 

 18;i0. 



I call this the Hillside Pioneer Apiary. I 

 commenced taking the American Bee Journal 

 in January, 1S83, and have taken it ever since. 

 It grows better and better. J. S. Barb. 



Keep Them Qolng. 



" One step won't take you very far — 

 You've got to keep on walking; 

 One word won't tell folks who you are — 

 You've got to keep on talking. 

 " One inch won't make you very tall — 

 Y'ou've got to keep on growing; 

 One little ad. won't do it all — 

 Youv'e got to keep them going.'' 

 — The Implement and Vehicle News. 



