1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



583 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mb. I. Isaac Ibwin, of Oceanside, Calif., shipped 10 car- 

 loads of San Diego county honey to Liverpool, England, dur- 

 ing the past year. So says the San Diego Sun. 



Mr. M. M. Baldbidge gave us a call of a few minutes 

 last week. He reports about half a crop of honey In his 

 locality — Kane county, Illinois, about 40 miles west of Chi- 

 cago—mostly from sweet clover. 



Mrs. a. a. Simpson, of Greene county. Pa., has sent us a 

 copy of "The Woman's Centennial Paper, 1796-1896,"' all 

 of which was gotten up by prominent ladies of that county — 

 especially of Waynesburg. It is indeed a real credit to the 

 ladies who undertook the work, and carried it out so com- 

 pletely. 



Mr. J. T. Calvebt, of The A. I. Root Co., made this office 

 a call last week. He was on his way to St. Paul and other 

 places, visiting the various bee-supply branches established by 

 The A. I. Root Co. He reports a good business done this 

 year at the home office in Medina, Ohio. Mr. Calvert also 

 called upon other dealers and manufacturers of bee-keepers' 

 supplies while out on his trip. 



Mr. C. Tueilmann, of Theilmanton. Minn., was in 

 Chicago last week, looking after a large shipment of honey 

 that he had sent here. He has had a fairly good season this 

 year, having had between 12,000 and 15,000 pounds of 

 comb honey. He expected to make an exhibit of about 500 

 pounds at the Minnesota State Fair, held at Hamline the past 

 week. Shouldn't wonder if he would capture some of the 

 premiums offered there. 



Dr. Miller now reports in Gleanings that he has one col- 

 ony that this year has given S supers of 24 sections each — 

 192 finished sections of honey. Think of the Doctor paying 

 ail his expenses attending the Lincoln convention, from the 

 profits of one colony of bees ! Yes, and he'll have enough left 

 over to take himself and A. I. Root to hear "Sweet Marie,'' 

 at the " variety show," If Lincoln tolerates such things. Prob- 

 ably either Mr. Whitcomb or Mr. Stilson will find time to see 

 that the Doctor takes in all the sights while in " Bryantown " 

 — if not possible during the gold-en sunshine of day, then in 

 the silver-y moonlight. 



Mr. J. 0. Grimslet, of Texas, suggests in Gleanings that 

 another bee-keepers' congress be called to meet during the 

 Tennessee Centennial, at Nashville, which opens in May, 

 1897, and continues six months. We might be in favor of 

 the National convention being held there next year, if as low 

 railroad rates can be secured, and as general, as the Grand 

 Army of the Republic always secures. But we are not in 

 favor of holding any more national bee-conventions until we 

 can be assured in advance that there will be no doubt that at 

 least a rate of one and one-third for the round trip will be in 

 force. Few can afford to spend from .$20 to .§50 to attend a 

 bee-convention. 



Mr. Francois S. Haabhoff, of Pretoria, South African 

 Republic, says in Gleanings that modern bee-keeping is but 

 little practiced there, but that the farmers are beginning to 

 awake to their opportunities in the bee-keeping line. Pure 

 honey, either comb or extracted, sells readily at 60 cents per 

 pound, or section. With a good, big honey-crop each year 

 there, it seems that a bee-keeper would soon feel like singing, 

 " Every Day'll be Sunday By-and-By." Let's see. With 100 

 colonies like the one of Dr. Miller's that produced 192 sec- 

 tions of honey this year, there would be 19,200 pounds; at 

 60 cents per pound— well, something oyer $11,500. How 

 inspiring those figures are ! 



Mr. Roderick McKenzie is a bee-keeper at Hammond, 

 Ind. We called on him on Saturday, Aug. 29. He has about 

 SO colonies, having had -40 colonies to start with in the 

 spring. He expects to get half a ton of honey, mostly in the 

 comb. 



Mr. McKenzie uses two-pound sections, and some one- 

 pounds. He thinks that a two-pound section is filled almost 

 as quickly as a one-pound. He uses only a small comb foun- 

 dation starter in each section, about % inch deep, and reach- 

 ing within about % of an inch of the sides of the section. We 

 were surprised to see how well the completed sections of 



honey were fastened all around. Some of the two-pound sec- 

 tions of honey weighed 28 ounces each. He finds just as 

 ready sale for such as the one-pounds. 



Mr. McKenzie's bees are hybrids. There are other api- 

 aries very near him. One is owned by Mr. F. F'urnlval, about 

 20 rods away. This has some 60 colonies. Then Mr. W. B. 

 Washington has about as many a mile from Mr. McKen- 

 zie's. They all think that the locality is somewhat over- 

 stocked, and that some one will have to move before very 

 large honey-crops can be harvested there. 



Hammond is a city of 15 to 20 thousand people, about 

 25 miles southeast of Chicago, and is connected with the 

 latter city by an electric street railway. It is about a two- 

 hours' ride, and makes a nice afternoon outing. Before re- 

 turning to the city Mr. McKenzie's good wife kindly prepared 

 a delicious supper for us, after which we again took to the 

 street-car, arriving home about 9 o'clock, p.m., as we live 

 about an hour's ride on the street-car north of Chicago. 



Many fall flowers were in blossom all along the way, 

 mainly golden-rod, horsemint, etc. Sweet clover does not 

 seem to do well there ; perhaps on account of a too sandy soil. 

 If the weather is propitious the fall honey-crop may be very 

 good. This is what the Hammond bee-keepers depend upon. 

 "We hope they may yet have a good honey-flow. 



Mr. Wm. M. Barnum, who for some time answered ques- 

 tions in our "Question-Box " department, is now the editor of 

 Colman's Rural World, of St. Louis, Mo., a fine agricultural 

 periodical in newspaper form. In a recent number Mr. Bar- 

 num had this to say about the American Bee Journal, for 

 which he has our thanks : 



" Our bee-keeping friends should send for a copy of the 

 'old reliable' American Bee Journal. Every number is filled 

 to the brim with practical apiarian Information, including 

 happily worded and well-edited letters from contributors. 

 Every number is worth the price per year to every bee-keeper 

 in the land." 



Mr. O. 0. Poppleton, of Stuart, Fla., called on us Aug. 

 31. He was on his way to the Grand Army meeting at St. 

 Paul. He has about 130 colonies, and has taken 100 pounds 

 of extracted honey per colony this year. He practices migra- 

 tory bee-keeping to some extent, but not so much as before 

 the great freeze in Florida in 1894. 



Mr. Poppleton kept bees in Cuba two seasons, a few years 

 ago. Cuba is only 20 or 30 miles across the water from 

 Florida. The first year he had 38,000 pounds of extracted 

 honey, and the second year 52,000 pounds. He had some 

 400 or 500 colonies. He says there Is no limit to the amount 

 of honey that can be produced on that island. Also that the 

 30st per gallon that Cuban honey can be delivered to New 

 York for, is the price that Southern U. S. extracted honey 

 must be sold for in the same market. In other words, Cuban 

 honey sets the price for ours. Hence, if our tariff on honey is 

 higher, Cuban honey will be higher, and so will be ours. 

 But just now there Is scarcely any Cuban honey com- 

 ing into this country, as the war on the island has destroyed 

 nearly all the apiaries, and everything is pretty much at a 

 stand-still. 



We enjoyed Mr. Poppleton's call very much. Some 10 or 

 12 years ago he was one of the prominent correspondents of 

 the American Bee Journal, he then living in Iowa. He is now 

 one of Florida's leading bee-men. He would write more for 

 the bee-periodicals were it not for a trouble of the eyes and 

 head which he contracted during the Civil War. 



The AlsiUe Clo'^-er I^eaflet consists of 2 pages, 

 with illustrations, showing the value of Alsike clover, and 

 telling how to grow it. This Leaflet is just the thing to hand 

 to every farmer in your neighborhood. Send to the Bee Jour- 

 nal office for a quantity of them, and see that they are dis- 

 tributed where they will do the most good. Prices, postpaid, 

 are as follows : 50 for 2o cents ; 100 for 40 cents ; or 200 



for 70 cents. 



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Xlie ?{anies and Addresses of all your bee- 

 friends, who are not now taking the Bee Journal, are wanted 

 at this office. Send them in, please, when sample copies will 

 be mailed to them. Then you can secure their subscriptions, 

 and earn some of the premiums we have offered. The 

 next few months will be just the time to easily get new sub- 

 scribers. Try it earnestly, at least. 



See " Bee-Keeper's Guide" offer on page 5S9. 



