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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 30, 1903. 



can see very easily that you will get more honey in propor- 

 tion from an 8-frame than from a 10. You can rear all the 

 bees you want in a 10-frame. No reason in the world. You 

 can put a story under. You can make a 16-frame hive, and 

 take one story out when the flow begins, then you will have 

 all those bees to work in the super. I have run both 8 and 

 10 frame hives. I tested it, and I found out that my 8- 

 frame hives gave me more honey than the lOframe. I had 

 several 10-frame hives that gave me no honey, and only one 

 8 that didn't give me any, because they swarmed a great 

 deal. I let them swarm. I wanted some more swarms, but 

 the experience I had taught me that the 8-frame hives are 

 the best for comb honey. You have to produce 32 sections 

 in 10-frame hives every time you produce 24 in an 8-frame 

 hive ; that would allow four sections to a frame. I say that 

 if a bee-keeper has time to attend to 8-frame hives, give 

 them the proper attention, that he will get more salable 

 honfey from an 8-frame hive than from a 10-frame hive. We 

 know the bees have to fill these two extra frames with either 

 brood or stores before they will go into the supers. I noticed 

 also that the bees filled up the supers on the 8 better than 

 the 10, on account of their being a little bit crowded. 



Mr. Abbott — You say the 8-frame hives are the best, 

 yet you compare a 16-frame with a 10. 



Mr. Horstmann — Now, you take an 8-frame and put a 

 story under and that makes it 16; you take the extra 8 

 frames off when the honey-flow is gone. 



Mr. Abbott — But the 10-frame man could add below, too. 



Mr. Horstmann — He would have just as much work if 

 he wanted to handle dummies. You have a large super on 

 a small brood-nest — that's the disadvantage. 



Mr. Wheeler — I use a different hive, consequently I can't 

 talk about 8 or 10 frames. When I want to enlarge my 

 brood-nest I put on top. I gauge the amount of brood by 

 my strength of bees. Very often in the spring I hive 

 some swarms in shallow brood-chambers. When the honey- 

 flow comes I take off when I want to. 



Mr. Horstmann — Before Mr. France goes away I wish 

 to make a motion that a vote of thanks be given him for 

 his presence and instructive address on foul brood. 



Dr. Miller — I take pleasure in seconding that motion. 



Mr. France — I will say that these samples of foul brood 

 I have carefully selected; we have not had sufficient 

 light to see the disease in its various stages. For those of 

 you who will take care of them I will leave these samples ; 

 after thorough examination destroy it by fire. I want you 

 to see the scale by daylight. 



Mr. Horstmann's motion was carried unanimously, 

 after which the convention adjourned to meet at the call of 

 the Executive Committee. 





Contributed Articles 





The Future of the National Association. 



BV HERMAN F. MOORE. 



IN view of the nearness of the annual meeting of our Na- 

 tional Bee Keeper's Association, at L,os Angeles, it may 

 not be out of order for a private in the rear rank to make 

 a few suggestions. 



It seems to me that in view of the fact that there are 

 700,000 (or a few less) bee-keepers in one great country, 

 that as a class having certain rights and interests in com- 

 mon, they are falling far short of wielding the power and 

 exerting the influence to which they are entitled. 



Notice a few of our commercial combinations to illus- 

 trate the fact that numbers, brains and money form a union 

 impossible to beat. 



I wish briefly to note a few of the means by which the 

 objects of our National Association can be best carried out, 

 said object being. Promoting the intarests of bee-keepers; 

 protecting and defending the members in their lawful 

 rights; and enforcing laws against the adulteration of 

 honey. 



First let us amend Article II of the Constitution, " Ob- 

 jects," so as to read as follows, after the word " honey," 

 " and to procure the enactment of new laws whenever and 

 wherever necessary to protect the members." 

 c:3 But some one may say, "Let each State look out for 



itself in such matters." The answer is, there are very few 

 States where the bee-keepers are prepared with either the 

 knowledge or money necessary to place a new law on the 

 statute books, about foul brood, or adulteration, or spraying 

 fruit-bloom. Witness our own State of Illinois with no 

 spraying law and until recently no foul brood law. 



We as bee-keepers must stand or fall together, and only 

 by the united action of all can such laws as are needed be 

 speedily placed on the statute books of all the States. 



Also let us amend Sec. 9 of Article V, last clause, so as 

 to read, " provided that not more than four assessments 

 shall be made in any one year, and no one to an amount 

 exceeding the annual membership fee, without a majority 

 vote of all the members of the Association." Money is 

 more necessary than any one other thing, and no beeman, 

 with his heart in the right spot would object to $5.00 a year, 

 if the Association opens a campaign of push, and goes to 

 doing things. 



The air of our beloved land is full of electricity. All 

 know what great things are going on about us, and shall the 

 bee-people fall behind the procession ? No ! let us raise up 

 500,000 strong, and march to victory. 



But how to get the 500,000. Ah, there's the rub ! Now, 

 in strict confidence, I'll tell you. 



First, do you know that the price-lists of our hive deal- 

 ers, great and small, go to nearly 200,000 who keeps bees, 

 far and near ? 



Do you know that the bee-papers are read by nearly 

 40,000 ? What an army ! 



Several years ago, when the writer was corresponding 

 with the General Manager regarding the prosecutions in 

 Chicago, he used this expression, "And we can have i,ooo 

 members of the Sational."' I well remember that he feared 

 he was guilty of unjustifiable exaggeration. And now we 

 have over the thousand. 



Oh 1 my brothers and sisters in the sweetest, purest, 

 cleanest business on earth, let us remember, "according to 

 your faith be it unto you." Let us set our faces toward the 

 rising sun, and throw our caps high in air, and shout, io,ooo 

 members for the Natiofial 1 



These are not idle vaporings. Let every bee-paper in 

 America be furnished with a copy for every issue, every 

 week or two weeks, or each month, for a column headed, 

 "What the National is Doing." Let the General Manager 

 be responsible for it, that everything of interest to the 

 members, even down to the smallest details, be set down in 

 this column. In our SO States there can be no lack of ma- 

 terial. 



After seeing the National column appear for a few 

 months the 40,000 readers would get it into their heads that 

 there was a real., live entity bearing such a name. If these 

 all knew the facts about the acts and aims of our National, 

 as do you and I, they would all join, and we would have 

 40,000 members instead of 10,000. 



I believe a mere request would give a page to the " Na- 

 tional " in every price-list mailed to 200,000. Think of it, 

 my friend ! If the National should pay 1 cent postage on a 

 circular to send to each one of these, and have a present of 

 the envelops, paper and printing, it would cost $2,000. Is 

 this not a field worth cultivating ? 



So much for publicity, or promotion, as they said about 

 the World's Fair. How many of you know that they paid 

 Major P. Handy $15,000 a year for three years to do such 

 work for the World's Fair, and $100,000 expenses besides ? 

 (These figures are not accurate.) 



There is unlimited room for growth of our local associa- 

 tions. We are somewhat abashed that our little Chicago- 

 Northwestern, 5 years old, has only 77 members to send to 

 the " National. " But if each State had an association of 77 

 members to join in a body, the National would have 37S0 

 members now. Cook Co., 111. 



Honey Exhibits— Their Value and Advantages 



(Ji'etid at the lust Minnesota Bee-Keeperx' Convention.) 

 BY WAI<TBR R. ANSBI.I,. 



THE title of my paper might suggest that I propose tell- 

 ing you how to prepare for and put up a honey exhibit, 

 but such is not my intention. I should find myself up 

 against too many conflicting methods in the former, and 

 for the latter I possess no qualification. I wish to touch 

 more on the general principles of exhibit.s and, with a view 

 to discussion, to suggest to you some reasons in support of 

 my belief that honey exhibits are helpful to bee-keepers 

 and instructive to them as well as to tlie general public. 



