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VOL. XLI. 



FEBRUARY 15, 1913 



NO. 4 



Editorial 



DEATH OF D. H. COGGSHALL. 



We were pained to learn that our old 

 friend and valued contributor, D. H. Cogg- 

 shall, dropped dead the 18th of January 

 while waiting for the train. He was just 

 starting to spend the winter in Florida, as 

 lias been his custom for several years. De- 

 tails will be given later. 



DEATH OP GRANDMOTHER WILSON. 



Our readers will remember how, two 

 years ago, on page 659, Ave showed a pic- 

 ture of Grandmother Wilson in Dr. Miller's 

 family, who had been making honey one of 

 her chief articles of diet for many years, 

 and who, at the age of 93, seemed to be 

 strong in body and mind. We have been 

 in Dr. Miller's home, and have seen this re- 

 markable old lady whose life was indeed 

 sunshine filled with the love of God and the 

 hope of the beautiful hereafter. Dr. Miller 

 thus speaks of her death: 



Dear Ernest: — You will recall Grandmother Wil- 

 son sitting in her window amid the sunshine and 

 flowers. The sunshine and flowers are still there, 

 but the brightness of her presence is gone. January 

 24, when within 22 days of being 94 years old, she 

 very suddenly breathed her last without a struggle, 

 at 10 p. M., having retired afr her usual bedtime, 

 without having been confined to her bed for a day. 

 I had not realized how empty the house would seem 

 without her. — C. C. M. 



HAY OR STRAW FOR PACKING FRAGILE ARTI- 

 CLES LIKE SECTION HONEY. 



One of our correspondents, in the Heads 

 of Grain department, Mr. E. F. Robinson, 

 of Canada, makes the statement that "straw 

 once flattened remains so, to a certain ex- 

 tent. . . I always use hay, as it is much 

 more resilient than straw." Tliis is inter- 

 esting and valuable if true, and we are in- 

 clined to think it is true or our correspon- 

 dent would not say so. Straw, however, is 

 a commodity that can be found in all of the 

 eastern States and many of the western, 

 while timothy hay, the kind referred to, will 

 be found mainly in the northern and east- 

 ern States, and a few States east and north 

 of the Mississippi. If hay is more resilient 



than straw, let us by all means use it in our 

 comb-honey carriers and in our packing- 

 boxes. The matter is well worth investiga- 

 tion on the part of our comb-honey ship- 

 pers. 



DANGER FROM COLD IN FEBRUARY. 



From all parts of the country came re- 

 ports of warm weather in January. In 

 some localities, even in those where flying 

 days in January are usually very infre- 

 quent, the bees were able to get pollen, so 

 that brood-rearing was started in earnest. 

 All this means that there is danger of a con- 

 siderable amount of brood being chilled 

 during this cold weather in February which 

 seems to be quite general. 



Another bad feature resulting from ex- 

 cessive brood-rearing in January is that 

 many colonies will run short of stores; 

 whereas if the weather had been cold enough 

 to prevent brood-rearing until later on they 

 would have had plenty. 



the OHIO STATE BEEKEEPERS' CONVENTION. 



This convention was held at Columbus 

 in one of the recitation halls of the State 

 University, a little way out of the city. 

 There were jDresent Mr. C. P. Dadant, of 

 the American Bee Journal; Mr. E. B. Tyz*- 

 rell, of the Beekeepers' Review, and Secre- 

 tary of the National Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion ; also Professor W. A. Matheny, of the 

 State University at Athens; and Professor 

 J. S. Hine, of the State University, Colum- 

 bus. In this connection it is proper to re- 

 mark that both universities have already in- 

 stalled (or are about to do so) lectures and 

 brief courses in apiculture under the charge 

 of the professors mentioned. 



The first session of the convention was 

 quite well attended, made up of beekeepers 

 from various parts of the State, and stu- 

 dents in the agricultural department of the 

 college, particularly those who are interest- 

 ed in bee culture. Of course we had with 

 us the Secretary, Prof. N. E. Shaw, Foul- 



