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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



July 13, 1905 



to counterfeit the disposition of Ijoney in the 

 comb as made by the ingenious and busy but 

 non-adulterating bee. 



Honey was the earliest of sweets. It un- 

 doubtedly began the human preference for 

 sweets by its consumption in the days of the 

 Lemur and the later Simian ancestor who 

 succeeded the Lemur in the chain of human 

 development. It produces none of the dietetic 

 disturbances due to either beet or cane sugars. 

 Its production steadily increases in this coun- 

 try. Its consumption grows, and. in time, if 

 The Honey-Producers' League accomplishes 

 all that it proposes, people will undoubtedly 

 understand that no food is so free from adul- 

 teration as honey in the comb. 



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Surely, bee-lieepers owe Editor Smith a big 

 vote of thanks for the above utterance. We 

 hope the honey-producing readers of the 

 Philadelphia Press will write and thank him 

 for it. We have already done so as Manager 

 of The Honey-Producers' League. 



Let us urge again that all of our readers 

 who have any influence with the editors of 

 their local newspapers, request them to pub- 

 lish the short article on " Comb Honey," 

 which was published in the Chicago Daily 

 News. 



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Mr. J. T. Calvert, of The A. I. Root Co., 

 dropped in to see us last week when on a trip 

 among some of the bee-supply manufacturers 

 of the Northwest. 



Southern Bee-Keepers' Association. 



—This Association is sending out a very neat 

 little booklet containing the program of its 

 second annual convention to be held at Savan- 

 nah, Ga., .July 5, with some beautiful illus- 

 trations. Wisely, the program is not so 

 crowded with long papers as to prevent im- 

 promptu discussion. Those who can not 

 attend the convention are asked to become 

 members by sending 50 cents to the secretary- 

 treasurer, Judson Heard, of Macon, Ga. 



Mr. H. G. Quirin, of Ohio, according to 

 a half-column write-up in the Cincinnati 

 Enquirer, Is making a small fortune from 

 producing honey and rearing queens. It 

 figures an annual output of queens at 3000, 

 selling at $1 to $6, or an average of *2 each, 

 or $6000. Then it also estimates $1780 from 

 the sale of honey and bees. We think Mr. 

 Quirin, or any other queen-breeder and 

 honey-producer, would like to see the man 

 (or woman) who gets ¥"780 annually from 

 the sources mentioned. Truly, if such were 

 the ca'se, there would be a grand rush into 

 the business. 



Mr. Jos. Nysewander, of Des Moines, 

 Iowa, is perhaps as large a dealer in bee-keep- 

 ers' supplies as there is outside of the ranks 

 of the manufacturers who also do a retail 

 business. It was our good fortune to visit 

 him on .lune 14, coming from the Kretchmer 

 Mfg. Co., of whom we wrote last week in 

 these columns. We walked into the office 

 about 11 a.m., and found both Mr. and Mrs. 

 Nysewander hard at work taking care of the 

 correspondence which was just bordering on 

 a "rush," as the bees of their many custo- 

 mers had begun to hustle on the thousands of 

 acres of white clover bloom that was begin- 

 ning to yield its nectar so bountifully. 



For 22 years Mr. Nysewander has been in 

 the bee-supply business in Des Moines. He's 

 not an old man, either. He's just about the 

 right age to be in his prime. So is his good 

 wife. They certainly make a big team. They 

 unfortunately have no children, so Mrs. N. 

 helps in the office in the l:)usy season. It is a 

 fine sort of partnership, " All in the family," 

 you see. And all the family in it, too. 



We would hardly iiie to tell how much 

 business Mr. Nysewander did last year, but 



it was quite satisfactory to him. And he 

 must have satisfied a good many customers 

 else the total sales would not have been so 

 large, 



Mr. N. owns the building shown on the 

 first page. The lower two floors in width and 

 the basement are used for the bee-supply 

 business, and the upper two floors are divided 

 into four apartments, which are rented to 

 families at a good price. So it is a profitable 

 as well as a convenient building for its owner. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Nysewander reside some dis- 

 tance from their office. They had just sold 



They had not changed a bit, unless it be for 

 the better. And the success they have 

 achieved is all deserved. May their tall 

 shadows ne'er grow shorter, nor less in width. 



Home Apiary of Stanley Bros.— 



Arthur and William H. Stanley are old-time 

 bee-keepers in Lee Co., 111. And neither of 

 them is yet an old man. We called on them 

 when on our way back to Chicago from our 

 Iowa trip, June 15. They own about 300 

 colonies of bees between them, located in 

 several apiaries besides the home apiary, one 

 of which is in Clark Co., Wis. We believe 

 all are run for comb honey except the Wis- 

 consin apiary, which is devoted to the pro- 

 duction of extracted. 



Mr. Arthur Stanley is the inventor of the 

 Stanley Queen-Incubator, which is a success 

 in the hands of the queen-breeder. 



When we were there the white clover was 

 just beginning to yield, and so the bees were 

 getting busy. Up to that time feeding 

 seemed to be the order of the day, and for 

 many days, as there had been so much cold 

 and rainy weather previous to that time. 



Stanley Bros, were right in the midst of 

 strawberry-time. They also furnished various 

 vegetables for the local market, all of which 

 kept all bands very busy. We arrived before 

 breakfast, our train having reached their 



HOME APIART OF STANLEY BROS., OF LEE CO., ILL. 



their nice residence, and expected to move in 

 a month or two. They will perhaps build 

 another one in a better part of the city, 

 although nearly all parts seemed delightful. 

 Mr. Nysewander gave us a carriage ride for 

 several hours, and we were surprised to see 

 so many miles of beautiful residences,and also 

 lawns and parks. 



We first met Mr. and Mrs. Nysewander at 

 the Philadelphia convention of the National 

 Bee-Keepers' A6.sociation some years ago. It 

 was then that Mr. W. A. Selser gave us that 

 never-to-be-forgotten 30-mile drive along the 

 Wissahickon River. Mr. James McNeill and 

 Mr. and Mrs. Nysewander were also in the 

 two-seated carriige. We had not met them 

 since then until we saw them in Des Moines. 



station, 2>2 miles away, at about 5 a.m. It 

 was a hot morning, at least we thought so 

 after walking out fo the Stanleys and back to 

 town again in the hot morning sun. And we 

 think we are pretty good on the walk, too. 



Honey-Prelerences — A " Stray Straw " 

 in Gleanings reads thus : 



"Prof. Cook, after testing pretty much all 

 the honeys, pronounces sage ' preeminently 

 superior.' The editor of the Modern Farmer 

 puts Missouri honey at the top, and the edi- 

 tor of the Rural Bee- Keeper calls Wisconsin 

 honey the best, which is only another way of 

 saying that these three men live respectively 

 in the three regions mentioned." 



