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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 26, 1905. 



have been keeping bees for a longer or shorter time. Some 

 who arise and speak (or write) as in a bee-keepers' conven- 

 tion, have had a larger and perhaps a more varied experi- 

 ence, hence their ability to impart more information. But 

 taking together all that is written (or printed) in any one 

 issue of a bee-paper, it makes a nice " apicultural meal "• 

 And where a bee-keeper takes several of the bee-papers (as 

 all should do if they wish to gain every advantage to be 

 had from bee-literature), he will have several such " square 

 meals " during the month. 



Now, as ye have enjoyed and been profited by reading 

 the experiences of others, so should ye contribute your ex- 

 perience in return. No one bee-keeper knows it all. But 

 by each adding a little to the general fund of bee-lore, so 

 will all be helped on to success. 



The National Pure Food Bill. 



We have received the following, and also a newspaper 

 clipping, from E. Woodall, of Charlevoix Co., Mich., refer- 

 ring to the Pure Food Bill before Congress in Washing- 

 ton: 



Editor York :— I notice the daily press states that the 

 Whiskey Trust has held up the Pure Food Bill which passed 

 the House last session, and is now in the United States Sen- 

 ate on the shelf and no prospects of the Senate taking it up 

 this sitting. Give bee-keepers another jog to write their 

 United States senators, and put it through. 



E. Woodall. 



The clipping mentioned reads as follows, sent out by 

 the Associated Press : 



Washington, Jan. 9.— Friends of the Pure Food Bill, 

 passed by the House and now pending in the Senate, and 

 especially members of the International Pure Food Con- 

 gress, believe the whiskey rectifiers of the country have 

 killed the measure so far as the present session is con- 

 cerned. 



It is asserted that a powerful lobby, representing the 

 whiskey rectifiers of the country, who, according to Dr. H. 

 W. Wiley, produce 85 percent of the whiskey drank in 

 America, has been on the ground ever since the session be- 

 gan. The rectifiers oppose the bill because it would com- 

 pel them to label their product as adulterated whiskey. 



Why not all bee-keepers write at once to their senators 

 at Washington, D. C, to take up that Pure Food Bill and 

 pass it during this session of Congress ? It ought to be 

 done for the best interest of all the people, for all must eat, 

 and should be assured that they are buying pure food. 



inisccllancous 

 Hetps ♦:- 3 terns 



J' 



The FlFSt Double Number of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal for 1905 is before you. In it is completed the report of 

 the St. Louis convention of the National Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation. It is a rather long report, but will well repay a 

 close reading. Especially is the paper by Mr. Frank Ben- 

 ton very interesting, as it gives a careful, though con- 

 densed, review of the work done in the interest of bee-keep- 

 ing by our National Government. We regretted the neces- 

 sity of dividing his paper, a part of it appearing in last 

 week's number. 



Geo. A. Ohmert, of Dubuque Co., Iowa, writing us Jan. 

 10, had this to say : 



i;h .d a $500 fire the other day, burning farm tools and 

 gasoline engine, but it did not burn any bees. 



The weather is pretty cold here, being 14 degrees below 

 zero this morning. Bees in the cellar seem to be all right 

 so far. Geo. A. Ohmert. 



The Washinjfton State Association meets in North 

 Yakima, Wash., Feb. 8, 9 and 10, 1905. Among the subjects 

 on the program are the following : 



" How to Market Honey " — Isaac Hayes. 



" Food Value of Honey as Compared with Other Prin- 

 cipal Foods " — Prof. G. L. Tanzer, Analytical Chemist. 



" The Value of Bees to the Orchard and the Time to 

 Cut Alfalfa " — W. S. Lawrence, Assistant Botanist of 

 Washington State Agricultural College. 



"What We Should Do at Lewis and Clark Fair "— Legh 

 R. Freeman, editor Northwest Farm and Home. 



" How to Start an Apiary " — Robert Cissna. 



" Profits in Bee-Keeping "—Prof. F. A. Huntley. 



" How State Associations Should Buy Supplies " — 

 Ernest R. Root. 



" Bee-Keeping in Eastern Washington " — R. W. Keis- 

 ling. 



"The Irrigator's Bees "—Dr. F. S. Hedger. 



" History of the Honey-Bee "—Prof. G. A. Balmer. 



" The Various Ways of Marketing Honey " — Anson 

 White. 



" Washington Bee-Pastures, and How to Maintain 

 Them "— C. Rose. 



" Bee-Keeping in Yakima County " — Hiram H. Cole. 



" Bee-Keeping in Western Washington "—-Thomas 

 Wickersham. 



"The Brotherhood of Bee-Keepers "—Rev. J. P. Berg. 



Judging from the foregoing list of papers to be read, 

 any bee-keeper in that region that fails to attend will miss 

 a treat. Such a list may also help other bee-keepers' asso- 

 ciations when preparing their programs. 



" Bee-Pranlcs " is the title of a neat 20-page pamphlet 

 just issued by the G. B. Lewis Co. Its preface contains 

 these words : " Compiled from clippings taken from news- 

 papers published all over the United States, and therefore 

 gives as nearly as possible a complete and authentic daily 

 record of common, uncommon, strange and unique happen- 

 ings in the busy life of the bee during the year just passed ". 

 So far as we know it is the only thing of its kind ever pub- 

 lished. It certainly is an original piece of work, and at- 

 tractively gotten up by White's Class Advertising Co., of 

 Chicago. It is mailed for 12 cents in stamps by the G. B. 

 Lewis Co., Watertown, Wis. 



Henry Field, Seedsman, of Shenandoah, Iowa, has 

 sent us his annual catalog for 1905. At the top of the first 

 page it reads : " The seeds that yield are sold by Field ". 

 This is also a case where a Field is in the field to sell honest 

 and true-to-name seeds. His specialty is seed-corn, but he 

 has many others. His advertisement appears in another 

 column this week. 



©pinions v of 

 Some (Experts 



J 



YVhich Finished First, Bait-Sections or Sections 

 witli Fuil-Slieet Foundation? 



31. — What bait-combs {tfiat l&^unjjuished sections of the previous 

 year) are ^lsed in a super along with sections filled with foundation^ wliich 

 will be Jinishecl first, the baits or the sections with foitnOaiiont 



Adrian Getaz (Tenn.)— The baits. 



C. H. DiBBERN (111.)— The bait-sections, every time. 



R. L. Taylor (Mich.) — The sections with foundation, 

 as a rule. 



Prof. A. J. Cook (Calif.)— Usually there will be little 

 difference. 



P. H. Elwood.(N. Y.) — With us the baits are usually 

 finished first, unless in the extreme corners of the super. 



