1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



553 



session to addresses of welcome by Gov. Holcomb, in behalf of 

 the State, and by the Chancellor, Hon. Geo. E. RfcLean, in 

 behalf of the State University. Responses will be made by 

 Hon. Eugene Secor, of Iowa, and others who will be named 

 later. Ex-Gov. Saunders, an old-time bee-keeper, will also 

 address the convention ; and at some session Prof. Chas. E. 

 Besse will tell us something about "Botany as Related to the 

 Honey-Flora." 



I am informed that there will be from 1,500 to 1,700 

 students at the State University, and it is probable, if time 

 will admit, that from 600 to SOO of them will desire to listen 

 to one or more brief addresses on apiarian subjects that will 

 be of interest to them. 



It IS possible that too many papers and addresses have 

 been provided for, but it is fair to presume that the Nebraslia 

 bee-keepers are " hustlers," and we know that those whose 

 names are on the program are also " hustlers," or they would 

 not have been put there, for this is to be a meeting of 

 " hustlers." 



Mr. E. Whitcomb, President of the Nebraska State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, writes me that "No pains will be spared 

 to make the meeting the most pleasant ever enjoyed, and 



Lincoln will be yours on that ojccasion ;" and the editor 



of the American Bee Journal says, " Let's simply astound the 

 Nebraska people with numbers." 



It is expected that the Amalgamation Committee will 

 make a report that will be of interest to every bee-keeper on 

 the continent, and it is hoped as many will be present as 

 possible. A. B. Mason, Sec. 



Judging from the above list of papers, with the exception 

 of the first, we are looking forward to a very profitable con- 

 vention, especially when we consider the other attractions 

 mentioned by Dr. Mason. It seems to us that every bee- 

 keeper who possibly can go, should be present. Then think 

 of the heretofore unknown generous hospitality to be ex- 

 tended by those Nebraska bee-keepers ! Why, tliat's simply 

 wonderful. 



If this convention is not the largest and best ever held, it 

 won't be the fault of the Nebraska bee-keepers. 



Next week we hope to be able to say something about 

 railroad rates from Chicagb. We would like to arrange to 

 have those from the East, and those near Chicago, all go to- 

 gether from here. It would make a pleasant company — a sort 

 of preparatory meeting for the greater convention after reach- 

 ing Lincoln. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Pres. a. I. Root will be at the Lincoln convention, noth- 

 ing preventing. 



Db. Miller writes us : " If all is well I expect to be at 

 Lincoln." Good. 



Editor Ernest R. Root, of Gleanings in Bee-Culture is 

 " booked " for the North American convention in October, at 

 Lincoln, Nebr. That's all right. 



Mr. T. p. Bingham, of Farwell, Mich., writing Aug. 1.3, 

 said : " The honey season has been good." A good many tell 

 the same good story this year. Good enough ! 



Rev. Emerson T. Abbott, of St. Joseph, Mo., expects to 

 be at the Lincoln convention. Providence permitting. We 

 would be glad if others, who fully intend being there, would 

 let us know, so that we can announce it. 



Prof. A. J. Cook writes: "The entire failure of the 

 honey crop in California will result in the starvation of many 

 colonies, unless bee-keepers are keenly alive to the necessity 

 of feeding." Surely, no real bee-keeper will allow his bees to 

 starve ! 



Pbof. Cook, in a recent number of the Bee Journal, was 

 made to say that Mr. Mclntyre was holding his last year's 

 honey crop to get 30 cents per pound. It should have been 

 6 cents per pound, and not 80. The latter figure would be 

 rather steep, these days. 



Mr. R. McKnioht, of Owen Sound, Ont., contributed to 

 the Toronto Saturday Globe for August 1, a lengthy article 

 on " Bees and Honey," which is illustrated with 12 large and 



beautiful half-tone engravings. Mr. McKnight has in this 

 rendered a distinct service to Canadian apiculture, which will 

 help in popularizing honey as well as in conveying correct and 

 helpful information about bees and their habits. It were well 

 for the whole people if more such valuable work could be done 

 in other places. Mr. McKnight deserves the thanks of all 

 lovers of the honey-bee, for his excellent effort. 



Mr. Wm. McEvoy — the Foul Brood Inspector of Ontario — 

 we have secured to take the place of the late Allen Pringle in 

 replying to the questions in our "Question-Box " department. 

 Mr. McEvoy is well and favorably known in Canada, and no 

 doubt our subscribers there will be pleased to know that he 

 will " keep up Canada's end '' of the " Question-Box." 



Mr. R. C. Aikin expects to drive through from Colorado 

 to the Lincoln convention, according to this letter received 

 from him last week : 



Friend York : — in a week or so we will start by wagon, 

 and expect to travel in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska, 

 reaching Lincoln for the convention. K. C. Aikin. 



Hon. J. M. Hambaush, of Escondido, Calif., was recently 

 visited by the "Skylarking" contributor of Gleanings. As 

 most of our readers know, Mr. Hambaugh was formerly a 

 resident and legislator of Illinois. He, with Mr. Jas. A. Stone, 

 had charge of the large Illinois State honey exhibit at the 

 World's Fair, in 1893. Mr. Hambaugh was also the hard- 

 working President of our State bee-keepers' association, and is 

 greatly missed at its meetings as well as elsewhere. 



Mr. John M. Smith, Secretary of the East Tennessee 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, writes : 



" Bee-keeping is now on a higher plane than ever before 

 in East Tennessee. Almost everybody is discarding the box- 

 hives and log-gums, and taking up modern bee-culture. I 

 wish the American Bee Journal success." 



Let the good work go on until all shall see that in order 

 to be successful the old methods of bee-keeping must give way 

 to the new. 



Mr. Wm. F. Clarke, of Guelph, Ont., who has been for 

 years a writer on general farm topics in the Montreal Weekly 

 Witness, had this good word to say for the American Bee 

 Journal, in reply to a questioner, in the issue for Aug. 4 : 



" I am asked to say which, in my opinion, is the best 

 practical bee-publication ? I answer without a moment's hes- 

 itation, the American Bee Journal, of Chicago, 111. It is a 

 weekly, a marvel of cheapness, being only a dollar a year, 

 and its contributors are among the best bee-keepers on the 

 continent. What they do not know about the pursuit is not 

 worth knowing." 



Our thanks are hereby tendered for the expression of 

 appreciation. 



Miss Anna C. Marchant, of Oak Park, 111., is one of the 

 new lady bee-keepers. (We don't necessarily mean by this 

 that she's one of the " new women " people read about.) 



We had the pleasure of calling on Miss Marchant, on Sat- 

 urday, Aug. 8. By the way, she is one of the teachers of 

 drawing in the Chicago public schools. She also spends a part 

 of her time now in "drawing"' beautiful squares of comb 

 honey out of her hives ! 



Miss M. began with one colony in May, 1895. By divid- 

 ing, she had three colonies by fall, and had taken 170 fin- 

 ished sections of honey ! Talk about helpless and inferior 

 wovnan ! We'd like to know the name of the J7ia)i that can 

 equal that result in his first season with bees ! 



The three colonies wintered nicely, and when we called on 

 Miss M. she had nine colonies, and had taken nearly 100 

 pounds of comb honey from one of the old colonies. The in- 

 crease was all made by dividing. She gets a good price for 

 her honey, and is very enthusiastic about her growing apiary, 

 located about eight miles west of Chicago, in the midst of 

 acres upon acres of sweet clover, which was blooming in all 

 its beauty when we were there. 



Miss Marchant wintered her bees successfully on the 

 summer stands, with a special winter case for each hive, 

 about six inches larger than the hive, and having a gable 

 cover. 



Her apiary is under a nice group of large willow trees at 

 the rear of the house, which make a delightful shade, but not 

 too much, as the lowest limbs are quite high above the ground. 



We wish Miss Marchant continued success with her bees. 



