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NOVEIVIBKR. 



BY K. H. DISHL. 



How study the beauties of Autumn, 

 On foliage, grasses and flowers ; 

 Vapidity soon will have caught 'em 

 Embraced within Winter's cold powers. 

 Magnificent views in their splendor 

 Bedeck ev'ry hillside in glory ; 

 Enjoy them with hearts true and tender. 

 Revere the great Source of their story. 

 Leesburgh, Ills. 



—Illustrated Home Journal. 



Father Langstroth has been again 

 heard from. The Keokuk Convention voted 

 to send him a reminder of its affection and 

 esteem, by requesting the Treasurer (E. R. 

 Root) to send him $50 from the treasury. 

 This was done, and his reply is as follows : 



Deak Friexd Root ;— In reply to your 

 letter, inclosing a check for $50, sent to me 

 by request of the North American Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, recently held at 

 Keokuk, I would return my sincere thanks 

 for their very kind and helpful remem- 

 brance of their old bee-keeping friend. I 

 am still in a feeble and suffering condition, 

 although much better than I have been for 

 nearly two years. Thanking you for your 

 many acts of kindness in the past, I remain 

 Yours affectionately, 



L. L. LanCtSTkotu. 



Dayton, O., Nov. 7, 1890. 



Columbian Fair.— The following 

 from Dr. A. B. Mason is of importance, 

 and we would call special attention to it : 



ACBURSDALE, O., Nov. 17, 1890. 

 Friend Newman :— I sent a portion of my 

 address, read at Keokuk, to the Director- 

 General of the World's Columbian Fair, 

 and a part of the reply,received yesterday, 

 reads as follows : 



In response, I have the honor to say, that 

 at the present time it is not possible to give 

 you definite information as to the plan of 

 organization of such a Department, further 

 than to say, that the bee-culture industry 

 will be amply provided for in the classifi- 

 cation of exhibits. Your letter will be filed 

 for consideration at an early date when 

 this subject is acted upon. I remain, 

 Yours very truly, 

 Geo. R. Davis, Director Ocncral. 



I would like to suggest that the President 

 or Secretary of each State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association let me know, at once, about 

 the amount of space the bee-keepers of their 

 State will be likely to want at the Colum- 

 bian Fair. 



I expect to ask for about 3,000 square 

 feet of space for Ohio, and if the other 

 States that should exhibit, will do so in 

 proportion, we shall need from 10,000 to 

 150,000 feet of space, and will " astonish 

 the natives" with the magnitude of the 

 display. 



In a"P. S.," Gen. Davis says: "We 

 will soon send you classification and appli- 



cation for space," so it will be seen there 

 is no time to lose. 



Let each State Society at its next meeting 

 choose a committee to have charge of get- 

 ting up the State exhibit, and the securing 

 of an appropriation by their next Legisla- 

 ture to defray expenses, for it will take 

 money to make a creditable display. 



If any one should write me for any infor- 

 mation they will do me a favor if they will 

 enclose one or more stamps for a reply ; 

 and then be sure and sign their name to 

 their letter. Yours very truly, 



A. B. Mason. 



Great and ">Vonclerful inventions 

 are just within sight, and more marvelous 

 ones are just beyond our ken. Conceriring 

 the former, the following from the last 

 number of Olcanings, relative to the late 

 visit of beekeepers to the Dadants, will be 

 read with interest : 



The next day we visited the Dadants, 

 and saw their f actory f or^ the production of 

 the beautiful foundation that rivals any- 

 thing else made in the world, and I had 

 another treat. The Dadants have perhaps 

 the finest factory for foundation in the 

 world. Their output during 1890 was 

 something like 85,000 pounds, while our 

 own was only about 30,000 pounds. 



" But why in the world, friends, do you 

 not use steam power, when you are doing 

 so large a business *" 



Our good friend C. P. replied : 



" Mr. Root, there is just one thing that 

 makes us hold on. A company is already 

 organized, w'ith a capital of two millions 

 of dollars, to take the Mississippi river at 

 the rapids, you observed, and make it turn 

 water-motors that shall move dynamos to 

 send electricity all over the surrounding 

 country, to furnish power wherever it is 

 needed ; and we would rather have a big 

 wire, and have the power, than to have a 

 steam-engine and be obliged to haul coal 

 away out here." 



So you see, dear friends, what there is 

 before us in the future. 



You may perhaps know that a company 

 has been incorporated under the laws of 

 New York, and they have already begun 

 the work of digging a very deep canal, 

 parallel with the rapids of the Niagara 

 river, for the purpose of taking advantage 

 of the great descent of the river here for 

 about half a mile above the Falls, and end- 

 ing near the base of the cataract. When 

 the full capacity of the fall is employed, it 

 is believed that it will be equivalent to 

 700,000 horse-power, and this at no ex- 

 pense save for repairs, as the supply is 

 jierfectly uniform the year round. To do 

 these great things, however, we must work 

 together. No man can accomplish any- 

 thing by being a Robinson Crusoe. AH 

 these great projects and movements are 

 the result of the combined efforts of great 

 numbers of earnest thinkers and workers. 



Xlie "Farm-Poultry" is a 20 page 

 monthly, published in Boston, at 50 cents 

 per year. It is issued with a colored cover 

 and is finely illustrated throughout. 



We have arranged to club the American 

 Bee Journal with the FaiTn-PouUry at 

 $1.35 per year for the two. Or with the 

 Jllustrateu Home Journal at $1.75 for 

 the three. 



miES % MEFMES, 



Do Queenless Colonies Gather 

 Pollen i 



Written Jor the American Bee Journal 



Query 740. — Do bees gather pollen when 

 they are queenless ? — Conn. 



Yes. — Eugene Secor. 



Yes. — C. C. Miller. 



Yes. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



Yes. — A. B. Mason. 



Yes. — P. L. ViALLON. 



Yes. — H. D. Cutting. 



Yes, certainly. — R. L. Taylor. 



Yes, sir. — J. P. H. Bkown. 



They do. — M. Mahin. 



Sometimes a little ; not much. — A. J. 

 Cook. 



They do in my bee-yard. -J. E. Fond. 



Very sparingly unless they have queen- 

 cells. — C. H. Dibbern. 



Sometimes, to a limited extent, for a 

 short time. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Yes. lots of it, as combs full of pollen in 

 queenless colonies testify. — G. M. Doo- 

 little. 



Yes, but not as abundantly, nor in as 

 large loads as those that have queens. — 

 James Heddon. 



Yes, if they have a drone-laying worker, 

 but they never gather much. — Dadant & 

 Son. 



Yes ; but in small quantities if there is no 

 unsealed brood in the hive. If there is 

 plenty of unsealed brood, the bees gather 

 the usual quantity of pollen. — G. L. Tinker. 



Yes ; but not always in a large quantity. 

 Last season, after the honey harvest was 

 over, I had several colonies to turn up 

 queenless, and I did not notice them until 

 about the time I was over looking my api- 

 ary preparatory to putting them in winter 

 trim. These queenless bees had nearly 

 ruined a lot of combs by crowding them 

 with pollen.— G. W. Demakee. 



Yes ; but more sparingly than when a 

 queen is present— The Editor. 



Frank Leslie's Illustrated News- 

 paper for the week ending Nov. 33, contains 

 interesting glimpses of Gov. Hill's home, 

 the new Executive Mansion, at Albany, 

 N. Y. It also illustrates Indian craze over 

 the new "Messiah," showing Sitting Bull 

 fomenting disaffection among the Sioux. 

 Other illustrations ei^brace sketches of the 

 Hospital for Crippled Children in New 

 York, the New Union League Club Build- 

 ing, in Brooklj-n, the busy East River front 

 of New York, and other subjects. The 

 leading contribution is an article on 

 " What is Volapuk ;" by Chas. E. Sprague. 



^e'w Subscribers can have the Beb 

 Journal and the Illustrated Home Jour- 

 nal from now until the end of 1891 for 

 $1.35. This is a rare opportunity for club- 

 bing two valuable periodicals for a slight 

 advance upon the price of one, and getting 

 the rest of this year free. 



