1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



839 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. J. M. Harding, of Maine, writes: " I find the American 

 Bee Journal very valuable— more tlian the year's price in some 

 single numbers." 



Mr. J. Messinger— another Wisconsin bee-keeper— left for 

 Florida last week, where he will spend a few months. If a few 

 more Northern bee-keepers go down there, we'll feel like going, 

 too. There are Mrs. L. Harrison, Frank McNay, O. O. Poppleton, 

 and J. Messinger, now in Florida. Yes, and possibly many more 

 we haven't heard of. All right; let them have a good time. It 

 may be our turn some time. 



Mr. L. E. Evans, of Michigan, gives this estimate of the Bee 

 Journal when renewing his subscription for 1897: 



" The good ' old reliable ' American Bee Journal, that comes 

 every Thursday, is a welcome friend. I have had several years' 

 experience in bee-keeping, and think I am quite expert in handling 

 bees, but I quite often find a single article in the Bee Journal that 

 is worth more than twice its subscription price. I hope the good 

 work of Editor York will never grow less." 



Mr. C. Theilmann, of Minnesota, has been spending a few 

 days in Chicago looking after the marketing of his crop of honey. 

 He had some 13 thousand pounds of fine honey, some 000 pounds 

 being extracted, taken from about 300 colonies, spring count. He 

 has 250 colonies now, wintering in two cellars. Mr. Theilmann is 

 one of the unfortunates that fell into the trap of a crooked Chicago 

 commission house. He will have an interesting experience to tell 

 a little later on. 



Mr. E. E. Hasty, the Review's " inimitable " " viewer of cur- 

 rent bee-writings," in the November number makes a few compar- 

 isons of the Bee Journal of the fall of 1894 with the Bee Journal of 

 to-day. He sees some points of improvement, and among them 

 mentions this : 



"Two years ago the American Bee Journal was half-sized, and 

 had twice as many pages as now— and wore an air of trying to 

 make matter cover as much space as possible. It does not look 

 that way at present— rather wears the look of trying to crowd as 

 much matter as possible into the available space." 



Mr. Wm. A. Prtal, of Oakland, Calif., an old contributor to 

 the American Bee Journal, lost his beloved mother by death on 

 Dec. 4, after an illness of four months. Mr. Pryal writes : "A 

 more devoted mother never lived ; I could write pages about our 

 good mother." Of course he could. How blessed are our dear 

 mothers; and how sacred their memories after they have passed 

 over to the other shore. And what a rejoicing there will be some 

 day when all their children and loved ones meet again. Blessed 

 mothers; happy meeting. 



Mr. Chalon Fowls, of Ohio, writes us as follows: 



"The American Bee Journal is doing a good work in showing 

 up the dishonest commission men, and pushing the war against 

 adulterators. I hope the United States Bee-Keepers' Union will 

 be a 'go.' I will be ready to join as soon as the new organization 

 is ready for business." 



That's just what a good many are saying about the New 

 Union. It will be a " go " all right, don't fear that. It must " go," 

 for it is right that it should— it is just what bee-keepers need at 

 this very time. Let all get ready to join in the good work. 



Dr. C. C Miller was recently pictured in the local news- 

 paper published at Marengo, 111., by our esteemed friend, Mr. 

 J. B. Babcock, who copied the Doctor's address to the students 

 at Lincoln, Nebr., and also the words of the song he sang for 

 them. That our readers may know just what Dr. Miller's 

 neighbors and intimate acquaintances think of him, we ex- 

 tract the following, with which Editor Babcock closes the 

 two-column article: 



"Of Dr. Miller, we may say that we esteem him highly as 

 a personal friend, and have for more than 40 years, and he is 

 so esteemed by everybody in our community. He is a very 

 useful man, a member of the Presbyterian church, but jumps 

 over sectarian division fences very easily, and, seen in a Meth- 



odist meeting, he Is as zealous and enthusiastic as the most 

 pronounced follower of Wesley. He is serving his third term 

 as President of the McHenry County Sunday School Associa- 

 tion, and of the District Association ; is President of the State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association ; is a musical author and a book 

 author. More might be said, but enough for the present. 

 There is no fulsome praise in what has been said — it is the 

 truth, but not the whole truth, for the whole truth would 

 only be more of the same kind. 



" Dr. Miller is worthy of all the good things that may be 

 said of him, and it wil not make him giddy either, but possibly 

 be a stimulus in his life-work." 



Mr. John H. Hodgkins, of Winnebago Co., 111., wrote 

 thus when sending his renewal for 1897 : 



" We have had three years of failure in the honey-crop 

 here, but I do not see how I can get along without the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal." 



Fcedins to Rear Bees for the Harvest. 



From a given date (say Aug. 1), how many weeks back 

 should I begin feeding for the purpose of rearing the popula- 

 tion of the hive, in order to have young bees old enough to 

 work in the field on that date ? E. M. 



Stamford, Conn. 



Answer. — At any time when bees are flying and getting 

 nothing, so that the queen has slacked up in laying, if you 

 commence feeding you may probably expect the queen to com- 

 mence laying within two days. Then in 21 days the young 

 workers will emerge and be ready in about 16 days more for 

 field-work. Adding 2, 21, and 16 together, gives 39 days. 

 So according to those figures you should commence feeding 

 about 39 days before the time you want the bees to Segiji on 

 the harvest. Another element comes in that may not be so 

 easy to figure on. That is, as to the number of workers you 

 want to have ready. For if you want a large nu uber on hand 

 you must commence before the 39 days. On the other hand, 

 it is prohble that an increase in the number of nurse-bees will 

 make a difference as to field-work, and the increase in nurse- 

 bees ought to te 16 days sooner, or in about 18 days. Taking 

 all things into consideration, perhaps it may not be out of the 

 way to suggest feeding six weeks before the time you expect 

 the storing to begin. 



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jVIicliigan State Convention.— The Michigan State 

 bee-keepers will hold their annual convention Jan. 1 and 2, at the 

 Donovan House, in Mt. Pleasant. The first session will be held on 

 the evening of the 1st. There will be papers and speeches from 

 such men as the Hon. R. L. Taylor, of Lapeer, who has charge of 

 the Michigan State Experiment Apiary ; M. H. Hunt, of Bell 

 Branch; L. A. Aspinwall, of Jackson; T. F. Bingham, of Farwell; 

 and W. Z. Hutchinson, of Flint. All are cordially invited to at- 

 tend and give their experience, and to ask questions. Rates will 

 be low on all the railroads. 



Honey as I^ood and IMedicine.- A new and revised 

 edition of this 33-page pamphlet is now issued. It has 5 blank 

 pages on which to write or paste recipes taken from other sources. 

 It is just what its name indicates, and should be liberally dis- 

 tributed among the people everywhere to create a demand for 

 honey. It contains a number of recipes on the use of honey as 

 food and as medicine, besides much other interesting and va'iaable 

 information. Prices, postpaid, are : Single copy, 5 cts. ; 2.5 copies 

 75 cts. ; 50 for jfl.lO ; 100 for *1.50. Better give them a trial. Send 

 all orders to the Bee Journal office. 



A New Clubbing Rate has been arranged for 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture and the Bee-Keepers' Review with 

 the American Bee Journal. Hereafter either of the two 

 papers named will be clubbed with the Bee Journal for one 

 year, for $1.90. Heretofore the rate was $1.75. 



