1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



615 



like me you'll never see the time when there are do questioos 

 you'd lilje to have answered. But X wouldn't be glad to have 

 you stop asking, for when a man writes as plain a hand as 

 you, and seems to know just what it is he wants to know 

 about, and goes straight to the mark in asking the question, 

 distinctly numbering each question, then I am glad to get bis 

 questions. So send on some more and I'll do my best with 

 them. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Db. Tinslab, of Kankakee county, Illinois, made us a 

 very pleasant call on Sept. 12. He is a dentist as well as a 

 bee-keeper ; also Secretary of the local bee-keepers' society 

 organized last spring. 



Mr. C. O. Pebbine, once famous for his extensive market- 

 ing of honey (?) in Chicago, and later for his enterprise in 

 moving bees up the Mississippi, is now engaged in business in 

 the city of Riverside, Calif. 



Mr. J. T. Calvert, of The A. I. Root Co., was appointed 

 one of the judges of the honey exhibit at the Minnesota State 

 Fair held at Hamline recently. He reported the exhibit a 

 very good one, a dozen or more entries being made in most 

 classes. 



Mr. G. W. Wilson, of Wisconsin, reports in Gleanings a 

 record of 300 pounds net gain of a colony kept on scales for 

 26 days — from June 20 to July 16. It made a gain of 29 

 pounds in one day. It was extracted honey, gathered during 

 basswood bloom. Mr. W. wants to know who can beat it. 



Mr. E. B. Kauffman, of Brickerville, Pa., has been mak- 

 ing an exhibit of bees at the Lancaster County Fair. The 

 local paper said this about it : 



"One of the most interesting exhibits at the Fair is that 

 of E. B. Kauffman, of Brickerville, who has three hives of 

 bees on exhibition. Mr. Kauffman is very obliging, and will- 

 ing to impart instruction concerning the habits and handling 

 of the bee." 



Editor Holtebmann, of the Canadian Bee Journal, re- 

 cently sent out a number of questions to his subscribers in 

 order " to give bee-keepers and others a better opportunity to 

 judge of the present condition of bee-keeping and the honey 

 crop " for 1896. He published the replies from between 50 

 and 60, which serve to show that generally a good season has 

 prevailed this year throughout Canadian beedom. Of course 

 there were exceptions, but we believe that over there, as here, 

 in the main, bee-keepers have reason to feel encouraged. 



Mb. Jewell Taylor (son of the late B. Taylor), of Min- 

 nesota, wrote us as follows, on Sept. 15 : 



A traveling man representing C. R. Horrie & Co. called on 

 me last week. He was just about as "breezy" as their cir- 

 cular letter — a copy of which I received some time ago. I set 

 the letter down as a genuine fraud as soon as I saw it, 

 although I had never known anything of the firm. 



I allowed the traveling man to pour forth bis eloquence 

 for awhile, and then I told him just what I thought of the 

 firm, and he dropped his plumes, ending up by saying they 

 would just as soon buy the honey at our railroad station. But 

 of course I will never hear from them again. The gentleman 

 (?) said : 



"York is giving us fits because we took our advertisement 

 from the American Bee Journal, and put it in the Shippers' 

 Weekly." 



You deserve great credit for the part you have taken in 

 the matter. Jewell Taylob. 



Yes, of course they took their advertisement somewhere 

 else when we dropped them out of the Bee Journal. Accord- 

 ing to agreement their advertisement was to run several weeks 



longer in the Bee Journal, but when we found how they were 

 doing business, we just took their advertisement out quick, 

 not waiting for the expiration of the contract. 



Tub Leahy Mfg. Co., of Missouri, have been doing a 

 little figuring, the result of which they give in the Progressive 

 Bee-Keeper for September. It is as follows : 



Forty thousand feet of lumber has been used at the Hig- 

 ginsvllle factory for shipping-cases the past season. As the 

 average amount of lumber used to each case is about IX feet, 

 you will see that we have made about 30,000 cases, and as 

 these cases will average about 18 pounds of honey, you will 

 see that our customers have produced over half a million 

 pounds of comb honey. This at 14 cents a pound would bring 

 over ^75,000. As about only half the honey is put up in 

 sections (the rest of it being extracted), we estimate that our 

 customers have produced from !|125,000 to $150,000 worth 

 of honey, not counting the beeswax. We think this is a fair 

 estimate, as shipping-cases are usually the last thiugs ordered, 

 and are seldom ordered till honey is in sight, and then again 

 there is a great deal of honey used and marketed that is never 

 put in shipping-cases. Now as our customers only pay us 

 from $20,000 to $25,000 a year for all of their supplies, you 

 will see from the above figures that they have made from 400 

 to 500 per cent, of their investment, if you do not count the 

 labor. Then, again, if we would count that all sections sold 

 were filled with honey, the figures would be much larger, as 

 we sell over a million sections each year. 



Ho, for Lincoln ! — As all our readers know, the 

 North American bee-convention will beheld at Lincoln, Nebr., 

 on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 7 and 8 — next month. 

 Now, the Nebraska bee-keepers are going to a good deal of 

 work and expense, intending, during the convention, to take 

 care of every member outside of their State /ree. With such 

 a generous offer, and in view of the excellent program 

 arranged by Secretary Mason, it seems to us that so far as 

 possible every bee-keeper, who is a bee-keeper, should arrange 

 to go — especially as the Homeseekers' Excursion rate of about 

 half fare can be taken advantage of on Oct. 6. 



For all who can possibly start from Chicago — and those 

 east of this city — we may say that we have arranged for a 

 through sleeping-car to Lincoln without change, on the Chi- 

 cago and Northwestern railroad. It will leave here at 6 

 o'clock Tuesday evening, Oct. 6, and arrive at Lincoln at 11 

 a.m. the next forenoon. Of course, the first session of the 

 convention would be missed, though that perhaps would not 

 be much, as very little will be done before the afternoon of 

 the first day. 



We do hope that a large enough company will gather here 

 in Chicago, so that we can fill at least one sleeping-oar. What 

 a fine time such a crowd would have going on such a journey I 



On the return trip we would leave Lincoln at 1:45 p.m., 

 on Friday, Oct. 9, arriving in Chicago at 7 o'clock the follow- 

 ing morning. 



Now we want to hear from all who will go with us from 



Chicago. Please let us know at once about it. If any further 



information is desired, we shall be pleased to give it, if yo\i 



will write us. 



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Every reader should get it, and preserve the copies of the Bee 



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reference, and at the low price of the Binder you can afford to 



get it yearly. 



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given in Dr. Howard's pamphlet on " Foul Brood ; Its Natural 

 History and Rational Treatment." It Is the latest publication 

 on the subject, and should be in the hands of every bee-keeper. 

 Price, 25 cents ; or clubbed with the Bee Journal for one year 

 —both for $1.10. 



