February. UM4. 



American Tiee Jonrna^i 



if tlii'V are kejil in ten-lr.iiiie liives. 

 This may be your case. 1 have bees 

 in alnio.st all kind of locations and in 

 lifty-one yards and I don't know that 

 I have even one location where 1 

 could use a ten-frame hive. Many 

 small beekeepers scattered near my 

 yards use ten-frame hives and 

 make but little honey, some of them 

 n-jt cnnuKh for table use except when 

 they take it from the brood nest. 



lion faciliti<'s both by rail and boat to 

 northern markets. After looking ov- 

 er the section well you can best de- 

 cide on a location for youself. 



Congratulations 



Wants a Location 



DEAR .MK. \V1LL)ER:~1 want to 

 keep in touch with beekeeping for 1 

 am strongly thinking of laying asidi' 

 all other business and going into 

 beekeeping. Do you know of a good 

 unrccupied locality? 



Monetta, S. C. J. O. H.-\ll.vi.\n. 



ANSWER:— It you will refer back 

 a few numbers of the American Bee 

 .lournal you will find that 1 give this 

 information. It should be just what 

 you w'ant; namely, beekeeping in the 

 Blue Ridge Mountains of northern 

 Ceorgia and .North Carolina for those 

 who desire high attitude and in south- 

 cast Georgia for those who desire a 

 lower level. Should you come to the 

 latter you will have good transporta- 



.Many congratulations have come in 

 on the crop of honey I made the last 

 season. It was a lot of honey all told 

 but when we take into consideration 

 the number of apiaries and colonies 

 it was not a large average per colony 

 a little less than 60 pounds. But 

 that is good for our location. 



Be Ready, Is My New Year's Wish 



The busy season is just ahead. We 

 are fast approaching it. Are you 

 ready, anxiously waiting to see how 

 well you can care for it, whether it 

 be small or large? If not, line up at 

 once and by all means be ready. 

 Don't neglect the business, it is not 

 sound logic or economy to do so. Buy 

 two supers where you only bought 

 one for each colony last year. Use full 

 sheets of foundation where you only 

 used starters. Be sure you have 

 plenty of new hives for increase. My 

 new year wish is "Be ready and 

 anxious." 



Contributed 



Articles^ 



The Interstate and Washington 

 State Fairs 



By .GEORCE \V. YORK. 



IT was my privilege to judge the ex- 

 hibits in the bee and honey de- 

 partment of the Spokane Inter- 

 state Fair, held in Spokane, Wash., 

 beginning Sept. 1-5, 1!U3, and also 

 the Washington State Fair, held at 

 North Yakima, Wash., beginning Sept. 

 30, 1913 A good view of the apiarian 

 exhibit at the first-named fair is shown 

 herewith. Unfortunately no views were 

 taken of the fair at North Yakima, 

 owing to a failure to secure good views 

 the preceding year, so no attempt was 

 made this year, although 1 had ex- 

 pected that pictures would be taken 

 and forwarded to me. 



I will here speak of the Interstate 

 Fair, as that was held first, the superin- 

 tendent of the apiary department be- 

 ing Mr. L. C. Barrett, who is a good 

 man for the place. 



THE INTERSTATE FAIR. 



Had it not been for the efforts of 

 Mr. J. P. Kingsland, of Spokane, one of 

 the liveliest bee-men in all the north- 

 west, there probably would have been 

 but a very small e.xhibit, if any, in the 

 beekeeping line at the Interstate Fair. 

 As it was, it was not up to the display 

 made at the fair of 1012, but all the ex- 

 hibits this year were very good, so 

 they made up in quality what perhaps 



they lacked in quantity. 



Prizes were distributed among the 

 following winners: J. P. Kingsland, 

 Mrs. M. E. Baker, John F. Sprague, 

 Mrs. F. P. Dodge, and Miss Fannie 

 Brake. 



The total cash offered in prizes was 

 a little less than $200. 



It is hoped that another year an 

 effort will be made to get together a 

 larger exhibit and more exhibitors in 

 the bee and honey department of the 

 Interstate Fair, for this is really one 

 of the great fairs of the United States, 

 as it includes Washington, Oregon and 

 Idaho. 



THE WASHINGTON i;TATE FAIR. 



The exhibits in the bee and honey 

 building of this fair covered a wall and 

 counter space of perhaps 100 feet in 

 length. They were located in what had 

 been used before for both apiary and 

 dairy products, but the dairy end of 

 the narrow and somewhat L-shaped 

 building was practically empty. 



The beekeepers in the locality of 

 North Yakima (which is also one of 

 the most famous apple regions in the 

 world) are wide awake, and know how 

 to get up a good display. Mr. C. A. 

 Beardsley was the superintendent of 

 the apiary department, and putin about 

 two months of hard work preceding 

 the fair dates. To him belongs a large 

 portion of the credit for the fine suc- 

 cess of the apiarian displays. 



Among the exhibitors were several 

 beekeepers who are well known to the 

 fraternity as very successful producers 

 of honey. I might name J. B. Ramage, 

 the hustling secretary of the Washing- 

 ton -State Beekeepers' .-Kssociation ; 

 Robert Cissna and Virgil Sires, also 

 members of the organization. Messrs. 

 Cissna and Sires have between them 

 about 1000 colonies of bees. 



I must not fail to mention the good 

 women who added much to the interest 

 and value of the apiarian display at this 

 fair. I don't think I ever saw so great 

 a variety of eatables made with honey 

 as a component part. It was almost 

 necessary to have an assistant to the 

 judge to help taste all the good things 

 in pastry and honey candies that the 

 women had made, and all of which were 

 entered for prizee. 



The total cash premiums at this fair 

 were around $300. 



I want to emphasize particularly the 

 great variety of most tempting honey 



Apiarian exhhibits at the Spokane Wash.) Interstate Kair. 



