1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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were superseded by the bees, but such a guess is hardly satis- 

 factory. There's a bare possibility, as you say they had good 

 young queens in the fall, that they were virgin queens, reared 

 too late to be fertilized, but your saying they were good makes 

 me think they were probably laying in the fall. If any one 

 knows the answer to your riddle, I'll be glad to have him rise 

 and recite it. 



2. I don't know. 



3. As no change is made in the cells exce at the outer 

 surface, they are all right yet for worker-brood. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. J. H. Martin (Rambler) is now the editor of a de- 

 partment in the monthly Rural Californian called "Practical 

 Bee-Keeping." He will be a success in his new position. 



Mr. John M. Seiler, of Minnesota, wrote us Oct. 2 : 

 " The bees are done swarming and the work for this season is 

 over, but the American Bee Journal is just as interesting and 

 profitable as in the busy time." 



Mr. S. T. Pettit, of Canada, reports a splendid crop of 

 honey and wax. He says : "If tor no other reason, I would 

 have the bees cap the honey for the wax ; but it pays in the 

 quality of honey." He regretted exceedingly that .he could 

 not go to the Lincoln convention. 



Mr. Geo. R. McCartney — inventor of the McCartney 

 combined section-press and foundation fastener — has just suf- 

 fered a severe aflliction in the very sudden death of his little 

 three-year-old child, of membraneous croup. Only two hours 

 before his death«the child was as well as ever. The Bee Jour- 

 nal extends sincerest sympathy to the bereaved parents. 



Mr. Chas. Dadant dropped into our olHce a week ago 

 last Saturday, when on his way home to Hamilton, 111., from 

 Sturgeon Bay, Wis., where he had been for about two months 

 to avoid an attack of hay fever. Though nearly 80 years old, 

 Mr. Dadant is well and hearty, and indicates no good reason 

 why he should not reach the 100-year mark. We hope he 

 will. 



Mr. Wm. McEvot — the everywhere-known foul brood 

 inspector of Ontario — could not attend the Lincoln meeting 

 last week on account of being behind in his official duties. He 

 says some of his trips are over 300 miles from home. He re- 

 ports getting along well in putting the disease out of the api- 

 aries, and also in showing their keepers how to manage the 

 business to take the dollars out of their bees. Success to that 

 untiring Inspector ! 



Col. Chas. F. Mills, of Springfield, 111., is the efficient 

 Secretary of the Illinois Farmers' Institutes. We met him at 

 the State Fair. He is very friendly toward bee-keeping, and 

 will do all in his power to aid them in anything they may 

 desire. He is now arranging to have bee-culture represented 

 among the subjects to be talked on at the institutes. Mr. 

 Mills is a worker, and has lots of friends among farmers and 

 others. 



Mr. F. Grabbe — the judge of the apiarian exhibits at the 

 Illinois State Fair — is an old bee-keeper, having a large and 

 prosperous apiary in Missouri at the present time. He also 

 has bees at his home in Libertyville, III. Some 2.5 years ago 

 he was one-half owner of the Bee Journal, with Wm. F. 

 Clarke. Mr. Grabbe used to be quite an exhibitor of bees and 

 honey at Fairs. He now, with his son, has a honey store in 

 Chicago, and bottles pure honey for the grocery trade, having 

 on hand enough honey, he thinks, to last through the selling 

 season. 



Mr. Jas. a. Stone is the faithful Secretary of the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association. When at the State Fair we 

 were sumptuously entertained by Mr. S. and his good wife. 

 They live 6J^ miles from Springfield, on a large farm, in one 

 of the richest agricultural spots of the world. On account of 

 the rain and shortness of our stay we could not look over the 

 place as we would have been glad to do. But we could see 

 that it was an ideal country home. Mr. Stone has now 40 



colonies of bees, though in good seasons he prefers to have 

 120. The past has again proven to be a poor season with 

 bees there, but the prospects are good for next year. 



Mr. and Mrs. Stone have one son — " Percy " — who is a 

 veritable " chip of the old block," as the saying goes. He is a 

 graduate of the Springfield High School, and, also, we believe, 

 of the State University, at Champaign, having taken honors 

 at both institutions. We bespeak for him a successful and 

 prosperous career. 



Miss Susie Trendley is a young school teacher living at 

 St. Peters, Mo. She also takes a hand with the bees occasion- 

 ally. Here is a record she made the past season, when ex- 

 tracting some gallons of honey gathered from Spanish-needle: 



Aug 



to 28, 5.5 gallons; Sept. 4, 60; the 8th, 60; the 



9tb, 85; the 11th, 42; the 12th, 72; the 14th, 55 ; the 

 15th, 54 ; the 16th, 54; and the 17th, 12; with perhaps 

 100 gallons still on the hives and to be extracted. Counting 

 12 pounds to the gallon, there would be over 8,000 pounds 

 in all. Pretty good for a little Missouri schoolma'am ! 



Mb. Geo. McKerrow, of Madison, Wis., is the pushing 

 Secretary of the Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes. We met him 

 at the Illinois State Fair two weeks ago. He used to be inter- 

 ested in bee-keeping, and told us of one of his colonies, some 

 20 years ago, that cast a large swarm, and from the swarm 

 he took $40 worth of honey that year. That was before 

 section-boxes were in use, and honey in those days was worth 

 something. With such a record, we felt that Mr. McKerrow 

 had made a mistake in not following up the bee-business. But 

 he became more interested in general farm stock, and now is 

 a champion of the Oxford Down and South Down sheep, 

 which he had on exhibition at the Springfield Fair. We 

 should judge that he is a hustler at farmers' institutes. 



A Ne'W Binder for holding a year's numbers of the 

 American Bee Journal, we propose to mail, postpaid, to every 

 subscriber who sends us 20 cents. It is called "The Wood 

 Binder," is patented, and is an entirely new and very simple 

 arrangement. Full printed directions accompany each Binder. 

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

 Journal as fast as they are received. They are invaluable for 

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



get It yearly. 



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The Alsike Clover L,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 25 cents ; 100 for 40 cents ; or 200 



for 70 cents. 



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Only One Cent a Copy for copies of the American 

 Bee Journal before Jan. 1, 1896. We have them running 

 back for about 10 years. But you must let us select them, as 

 we cannot furnish them in regular order, and probably not 

 any particular copies. Just send us as many one-cent stamps 

 as you may want old copies, and we will mail them to you. 



Tlie Sanies 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. 



Xbe BIcEvoy Foul Brood Treatment is 



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. 



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Ttte Great Campaig'n Book offered on page 

 666, ought to he in the hands of every voter. It shows all 

 sides of the political questions of the day. Better send for a 

 copy of it. Orders filled by return mail. 



No'w is the Time to work for new subscribers. 

 Why not take advantage of the offer made on page 669 ? 



