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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 2, 190S. 



floor first, when the life of the shorthand reporter is saved— 

 or at least he (the reporter) is saved from a useless attempt 

 to write down a senseless jabbering. 



We wish to commend the question-box program to other 

 conventions of bee-keepers. We believe the Chicago- 

 Northwestern is the only one that uses it practically exclu- 

 sively. The old Northwestern that met annually in Chicago 

 for so'many years previous to 1891, never had any other 

 kind of a program. It also never had but one president 

 during its existence. And he was Dr. C. C. Miller, the 

 original question-box-program man. He still helps as a 

 member to make the Chicago meetings so interesting and 

 practical. 



Some members of the Chicago-Northwestern Associa- 

 tion attribute its very successful meetings to its special kind 

 of program. But it has no patent on it. Other conven- 

 tions can copy if they so desire, without being in any danger 

 of infringement proceedings. 



miscellaneous 

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The British Bee-Keepers' Association has 332 mem- 

 bers. For the year 1903 its income was $2150. 



Sir A. Conan Doyle as a Bee-Keeper.— It is re- 

 ported in the British Bee Journal that the author of " Sher- 

 lock Holmes" is to cease writing after this year, retiring to 

 some quiet country place where he will " go in for bee- 

 keeping". 



Mr. P. B. Ramer, secretary of the Fillmore Co., Minn., 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, wrote us Jan. 20 as follows : 



" We have just closed the third annual meeting of our 

 Association, and each one excels the former ones in the in- 

 terest taken. Our Association is proving to be a permanent 

 good to the bee-keepers of this section. Those who fail to 

 attend bee-keepers' meetings do not realize what they are 

 losing." 



The Paid-in-Advance Subscriber.— A country news- 

 paper speaks of a man who always paid for his paper a year 

 in advance. As a reward he was never sick in his life, 

 never had a corn on his toes, or the toothache ; his potatoes 

 never rot, the frost never kills his pears, his wife never 

 scolds, and he has succeeded in serving three terms on the 

 school-board without being criticised. 



We do not know whether such happy results would fol- 

 low paid-up subscribers to the American Bee Journal or 

 not, but it wouldn't do any harm for many others to try it. 



The Michigan State Convention will be held at 

 Grand Rapids, Feb. 23 and 24. We have received the fol- 

 lowing for publication from W. Z. Hutchinson, president of 

 the Association : 



PRIZES ON HONBY AT THE COMING MICHIGAN CONVENTION. 



As an encouragement to attend the coming State con- 

 vention of bee-keepers at Grand Rapids, and, at the same 

 time furnish some valuable object lessons to some of the 

 members, the following prizes have been offered : 



For the best 10 pounds of comb honey, quality and man- 

 ner of putting up for market to be considered, A. G. Wood- 

 man, representing the G. B. Lewis Co., will give $3.00 

 worth of supplies ; for the second best lot, a Bingham brass 

 smoke-engine worth $1.75. Mr. Woodman also offers simi- 

 lar prizes for the best 10 pounds of extracted honey, quality 

 and manner of putting up for market to be considered. 



M. H. Hunt & Son ofifer $3.00 worth of supplies for the 



best 10 pounds of extracted honey, quality and manner of 

 putting up for market to be considered ; a Jumbo Cornell 

 brass smoker as a second prize ; and a Bingham honey- 

 knife as a third prize. 



The A. I. Root Co. offers a complete Danzenbaker hive 

 nailed and painted, ready for use, value $3.10, for the best 

 10 sections of honey produced in a Danzenbaker hive ; for 

 the second best lot, a copy of the " A B C of Bee-Culture ", 

 worth $1.20 ; for the third best, one year's subscription to 

 Gleanings, worth $1.00. 



In addition to the above, the Bee-Keepers' Review will 

 give a year's subscription to the Review to every man who 

 wins any of the other prizes. 



It will be seen that a bee-keeper with a nice case of 

 comb honey, or 10 pounds of fine extracted, might, consid- 

 ering the reduced rates on the railroad, come 100 miles and 

 receive prizes enough to pay all of his expenses. Come and 

 bring your honey. If you don't bring it you may be cha- 

 grined to see a poorer lot than yours take first prize. 



It may be of interest, also, to know that the National 

 Biscuit Co. will make a display of their goods that are made 

 with honey. 



All being well, we expect to be present at this conven- 

 tion, and hope to meet many friends of the American Bee 

 Journal. Not having been invited to offer any prizes ac- 

 counts for the omission of the American Bee Journal from 

 the foregoing paragraphs. 



Some Southwestern Apiaries are shown on the first 

 page this week, the originals of which were kindly sent to 

 us by Prof. Louis H. Scholl, who begins a series of articles 

 this week on " Bee-Keeping in the Southwest". The fol- 

 lowing are brief descriptions of the pictures as noted on the 

 back of each photograph : 



1. M. A. Salazer's apiary on the Nueces River, La Salle 

 County, opposite a beautiful lake. Catclaw, mesquite, 

 guajilla, white-brush and others are the sources of honey. 



2. Where fine honey is produced — mesquite, catclaw and 

 guajilla. Bottom-boards not present in this yard. Hives 

 on rims, and earth the floor. Works all right there. Dry, 

 you know. 



3. 180 colonies kept by W. B. Morse and wife on the 

 "waheah " plains of southwest Texas, which brought in 

 much cash. 



4. Apiary of J. N. Long, of Frio Co., Tex., where Mr. 

 Sbisa used to get his honey ; 140 colonies owned by a man 

 who makes his own hives and fixtures, and who has made 

 some money out of the business. 



5. Another apiary in southwest Texas. Just moved to 

 the new location. Some 80 colonies, and the " rims " still 

 lying on the ground, just taken off, with screws. Mesquite 

 and persimmon trees in the yard, and other honey-plants. 



6. 360 colonies in one yard — the most I ever saw in 

 one place in Texas. On the banks of the Nueces. Thou- 

 sands of acres of guajilla, mesquite, and cacti in the dis- 

 tance. 



7. A southwest Texas apiary with mesquite and white- 

 brush all around — honey-yielders — and the bees have only 

 to go over the fence and fetch it into the hives. 



A Very Successful Meeting of the Kansas State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association was held in the State Capitol building 

 at Topeka, Jan. 10 and 11. A bill was prepared which will 

 be presented to the Legislature, asking for a law to appoint 

 foul-brood inspectors for the different counties. The old 

 officers were all unanimously elected as follows: President, 

 Dr. G. Bohrer ; vice-president, E. W. Dunham ; secretary, 

 O. A. Keene, of Topeka ; and treasurer, J. J. Measer. 



A Queen-Bee Free as a Premium.— We are now 

 booking orders for untested Italian queens to be delivered 

 in May or June. This is the premium offer : To a sub-, 

 scriber whose own subscription to the American Bee Jour- 

 nal is paid at least to the end of 1905, we will give an un- 

 tested Italian queen for sending us one new subscription with 

 $1.00 for the Bee Journal a year. Now is a good time to 

 get new subscribers. If you wish extra copies of the Bee 

 Journal for use as samples, let us know how many you want 

 and we will mail them to you. Address all orders to the 

 office of the American Bee Journal. 



