Dec. 7, 190S 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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The sons have grown up on the old homestead, one a school 

 teacher, one a member of the Board of Trade, and the third 

 the cashier for a large candy company and also a bee- 

 keeper known to many in Chicago. The parents have had 

 a wedded life of 53 years. Mr. Clarke, Sr., has been hon- 

 ored by reappointment as judge in Chicago four successive 

 terms of four years each, and never had a case reversed by 

 the higher courts. He was a professor of geology in the old 

 Chicago University, and an active member of various liter- 

 ary and scientific societies. 



Mr. Chas. Clarke has a great many visitors from the 

 kindergarten schools, and his bees have always been on 

 their good behavior when the children are around, and have 

 never stung any of them. 



Mr. Clarke is a firm believer in racking up honey in a 

 hot room, for 30 to 40 days, when having any sweet clover 

 in it, as his honey-room will show by the picture herewith. 

 He is a crank on foul brood, and willing to prove at any 

 time the responsibility of the queen for same. He com- 

 menced with 2 colonies in 1895, and his bees had the first 

 dose of foul brood that summer. The third year saw him 

 with 8 colonies, and 7 out of 8 took the disease, which taught 

 him a valuable lesson. 



Mr. Clarke generally doubles up his apiary to 50 or 60 

 colonies in fall. 



He is engaged all day at the office, but always finds time 

 to have a good flower-garden, and values highly the reputa- 

 tion of having well-behaved bees by neighbors 50 feet 

 away, never having had a complaint. 



Mr. C. imports his own breeding queens, and tries at 

 all times to have quiet stock and good honey-cappers, as he 

 runs for comb honey only, and always marks a hive where 

 the capping is poor, so that he can change the queen, as 

 poor capping for him makes 3 cents a pound difi^erence on 

 the honey. He has seen some poor crops, and has fed up 

 to July 1, and also has had good crops, averaging one year 

 182 pounds per colony, spring count, and allowed only a 

 very small increase. 



Mr. Clarke's family came from a long line of ancestry. 

 The loom for weaving silks is named from his mother's 

 family. It was invented by Sir John Loomes. Mrs. 

 Clarke has in her possession specimens of brocaded silk 

 200 years old, of great value. The first steam plow was in- 

 vented by his mother's brother. Mr. Clarke, Sr., came from 

 old intellectual stock, his uncle. Archdeacon Clarke being, 

 as a young man, tutor to the King of Hayti, and latterly 

 Archdeacon of Antiqua, of the West Indies. 



Mr. Chas. Clarke, the beekeeper, has never married, 

 but lives with his aged and honored parents at the lovely 

 old home shown in the first-page picture. 



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"EggStPa"-Good Eggs are what we received recently 

 — several dozen of them — from Mrs. Dr. C. C. Miller, of 

 Marengo, 111. When we arrived home one evening we found 

 that quite a large box had come to our house by express. 

 Mrs. York had taken it in, and insisted that we open it be- 

 fore supper, to see what it contained. (A woman's curiosity 

 is simply wonderful, isn't it ?) We did so, and there were 

 over 5 dozen of just the finest, largest, brownest hens'-eggs 

 you ever saw. It seemed like Easter-time when we lived on 

 the farm and used to hide eggs in the granary or barn, and 

 then bring them in on Easter morning. But those Marengo 

 eggs are fine, and greatly appreciated by " ye editor " and 

 his good "frau." Thank you, Mrs. Miller. 



Amerikanische Bienenzucht, by Hans Buschbauer, is 

 a bee-keeper's handbook of 138 pages, which is just what 

 our German friends will want. It is fully illustrated, and 

 neatly bound in cloth. Price, postpaid, $1.00 ; or with the 

 American Bee Journal one year — both for $1.75. Address 

 all orders to this office. 



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A Department for Canadians 



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It is with pleasure that I am undertaking, at the request 

 of " Ye Editor-in-Chief," to say something weekly to 

 Canadian bee-keepers about themselves, and to others about 

 Canadian bee-keeping. We have not the sunny climate of 

 the South in our beloved country — " Our Lady of the 

 Snows " — but we have the sunshine just the same, and we 

 have, what is more than that, the clear, bracing winter air 



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which clears the brain and sets the blood coursing through 

 the veins in a most exhilarating manner. Further than 

 that, it frees the land for a time of insect pests which thrive 

 in the South during 12 months in the year. 



Foul Brood Inspection 



Ontario bee-keepers are said to have the best foul brood 

 law in existence ; but we are not satisfied, as the Hon. Nel- 

 son Monteith, Minister of Agriculture, said in addressing 

 the convention, if we considered we had attained an ideal 

 we should make no further progress. To attain the highest 

 good one must not be satisfied, nor dissatisfied, but unsatis- 

 fied. Ontario beekeepers are thus with regard to the Foul 

 Brood Act. We feel fairly sure that we have the most skill- 

 ful inspector that can be found, but the work is too great 

 for him. Accordingly, a resolution was put through the 

 convention, asking the Minister of Agriculture to pass, at 

 the coming session of the Ontario Legislature, amendments 

 to the Foul Brood Act, whereby the Province shall be divided 

 into three districts, with three inspectors, one to reside in 

 each district. This is to come in force at the next annual 

 convention, and in the meantime the old inspector holds 

 office. 



Canadian Bee-Keepers in Jamaica 



Speaking of the South, suggests Jatnaica— that bee- 

 keepers' paradise " to which several of our prominent bee- 

 keepers were looking for an escape from the long peritjd in 

 which Canadians are deprived of the pleasure of seeing bees 

 fly and gather nectar. Great stories had become current of 



