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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 23, 1903. 



PUBLISHBD -WEEKLY, BY 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 COMPANY 



144 & 146 E. Erie St., GtiicaQO, III. 



EDITOR, 



DEPT. EDITORS, 



Dr.C.C.Miller, E.E. Hasty, Emma M.Wilson 



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 plication. 



i Weekly Budget. I 



Mr. W. a. Petal, of Alameda Co., Calif., 

 wrote us as follows, April 0: 



" This is a grand year for this end of Cali- 

 fornia, and from reports it will be so all over 

 the State. We have had abundant rains at 

 the right time. The days are now perfect, 

 and there is a profusion of flowers, wild and 

 cultivated." 



A Correction. — In Mr. F. Greiner's arti- 

 cle, on page 214, near the end, read as follows 

 instead of the way it was printed : 



" Twenty-tive years ago honey sold for not 

 materially more, although a very fancy lace- 

 trimmed lot brought me ^'J and 23 cents in 

 Xem York : this year my honey bruught, f . o. b. 

 here, 15 and 16 cents. At this latter price the 

 bulk o/ mj/ /((Mtey sold in New Yorl< (on com- 

 mission) in 1876." 



Mr. H. C. MoREHorsE, editor of the Kocky 

 Mountain Bee Journal, has lately been adding 

 to his " force." He tells of it in the follow- 

 ing paragraph : 



The rapid expansion of our business has 

 made necessary the employment of addi- 

 tional help. We have been looking for some 

 one whom we hoped would prove a capable 

 assistant for some months past, and on Sun- 

 day, March 15, he made his appearance. He 

 arrived hatless, coatlcss, pantless, shirtless, 

 baldheaded, and— nameless. He is nameless 

 still, but is otherwise pretty well provided for 

 so far as his immediate necessities are con- 

 cerned. We have engaged him to tarry under 

 our roof for at least 2\ years, and we shall 

 hope to admit him to an ei|ual partnership at 

 the expiration of that time. As this is the 

 first assistant to the firm of Ourselt tV; Wife, 



we feel considerably "stuck up" over the 

 the matter, and any discrepancies in this issue 

 of the iournal must be attributed to that 

 cause. While our feet are still stumbling 

 over the clods of Mother Earth, our head is 

 (it feels like it is) floating somewhere away 

 up in the etherial blue. 



Our congratulations to " The House of 

 Morehouse." 



Of course, Mr. M. is excusable for typo- 

 graphical errors this time. " Etherial blue " 

 is " ethereal blue" in this "locality." 



Mr. Tofield Lehman and Miss Emma 

 Butikofer, of Fayette Co., Iowa, were married 

 Feb. 17, 1903. A local newspaper, when an- 

 nouncing the happy event, said: 



Mrs. Lehman is a young lady of amiable 

 traits of character, and will make a splendid 

 helpmate. Mr. Lehman is a well-to-do farmer, 

 and a gentleman in every respect. 



Mr. Lehman is also a wide-awake bee- 

 keeper, and doubtless that new home will have 

 plenty of the sweet things of life. 



A. B. Carpenter, of Tulare Co., Calif., sent 

 us the picture of his apiary and the following 

 concerning it, dated Feb. 14, 1903: 



I send an amateur photograph of my apiary 

 taken by my son, and finished to put on our 

 Christmas tree last December. I stand on tne 

 right, son-in-law next on the left. My wife 

 stands behind a prop, being near-sighted she 

 did not see it. My daughter on the left with 

 a black cat in her arms. In the background 

 is the extracting-house. 



I have 90 colonies of bees, and shall lose a 

 few, possibly. There have been but a few 

 days this winter that the bees have not llown 

 more or less. This morning was the coldest 



apiary of a. b. carpenter. 



of the winter, the mercury 21 degrees above 

 zero; at noon the bees were flying more or 

 less. The apiary is under two silkworm mul- 

 berry trees. The shade will measure 26 by 18- 

 yards. They grow yearly long enough to- 

 place a row of stands around the outside. The 

 trees have to be propped strongly to hold them 

 up. When in full foliage they make a dense 

 shade, and, of course, it is pleasant working 

 under them in the hottest weather. 



With me, last year was not a remarkably 

 prosperous one. 1 do not know tliat 1 can be- 

 called more than an amateur, having had only 

 four years experience with the extractor, andl 

 two years previously with comb honey. I 

 love to work with the bees, but it begins to be- 

 heavy work for me at "5 years of age. 



A. B. Carpenter. 



Through an error made by our engraver, 

 the picture of Mr. Carpenter's apiary was 

 made only about half the size we had in- 

 tended. It must be u cool, shady spot in 

 which to work with the bees when the trees 

 are in full foliage. 



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The first few pages of the new book are devoted to an interesting 

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 bee-keeping. Seventeen years ago he wrote a small book, called "A Year 

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 of years. While some of the matter used in the former book is found in 

 the new one, it all reads like a good new story of successful bee-keep- 

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