1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



257 



suppression of the subject by the apia- 

 rian press. 



We shall observe the progress aiul 

 traits of our new stock with no small 

 desree of interest. 



DEVELOPING THE HONEY MAR- 

 KET. 



When the National Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation undertakes the handling of 

 America's honey product — packing, un- 

 der its official trade mark and guaran- 

 tee in suitable packages for the retail 

 and manufacturing ti'ade each year 

 lione.v to the value of ten, to fifteen 

 million dollars, and makes an appropri- 

 ation for pnblir-ity of, say. $100,000.00. 

 per anniim. then honey producers will 

 iiegin to reap a fair reward for labor 

 and investment involved. 



To expect the National Association 

 to undertake such a gigantic pro.iect 

 with but one or two thousand dollars 

 in the treasury, is inconsistent. The 

 initial step in such an enterprise must 

 be the provision of capital with which 

 to conduct the business; and it does 

 seem that all should be willing to con- 

 tribute one dollar a year towards lu- 

 bricating the wheels of its almost sta- 

 tionary mechanism. Complaints of un- 

 propitious conditions in the apiarian 

 realm come with poor grace from those 

 who decline to administer a single drop 

 of oil. 



avoirdupois of the bulk to the extent 

 of about thirty pounds. They simply 

 "went crazy" over the unexpected 

 feast, tumbling over each other in a 

 general fight for the spoils. 



This we deem a most noteworthy in- 

 cident, the importance of which will 

 be more apparent when it is stated 

 that Mr. Parks' bees were thus stimu- 

 lated very perceptibly, and brood-rear- 

 ing was pursued with marked vigor, 

 as a result of the flour stored and 

 used. 



The fact that bees in South Florida 

 usually gather pollen to some extent 

 continuously throughout the year, may 

 possibly have caused us to neglect a 

 most important item in assisting their 

 efforts to become strong in numbers. 

 Others than those of "the land of flow- 

 ers" may also profit by the sugges- 

 tion. 



"The bees were the first canners, 

 and their goods will keep for all time 

 if stored in the right kind of an apai't- 

 meut free from frost and dampness." 



ARTIFICIAL POLLEN. 



A short conversation which we had 

 with Mr. Ben.iamin Parks, of Stuart, 

 Fla.. who. by the way, is one of Flor- 

 ida's very successful and most intelli- 

 gent apiarists, leads to the thought 

 that the occasional suspensions of 

 brood-rearing, not otherwise accounted 

 foi', may find a solution in the absence 

 of pollen in the field, so essential to the 

 rearing of brood. 



B.v some means a barrel of whole- 

 wheat fiour became exposed on the 

 back porch of 'Sir. Parks' residence, 

 which is accessible to his bees; and 

 the restilt was that they were attract- 

 ed thereto as if it were an open barrel 

 of hone.v. Mr. Parks advises us that 

 when the bees were discovered at work 

 on the flour, they had exhausted the 

 surface supply to such an extent that 

 nothing but the bran was to be seen, 

 whereiipon he spread out a quantity 

 for the bees' convenience, and they 

 were but a short time in reducing the 



A more ideal combination has never 

 been arranged than that of Mrs. Edith 

 Wharton to write a series of articles on 

 Italian Gardens with Maxfield Parrish 

 as the illustrator. This is one of the 

 features of The Century Magazine for 

 the coming year. The first article in 

 the series will appear in the November 

 number, and will contain four of Mr. 

 Parrish's pictures printed in color. Mrs. 

 Wharton, who wrote "The Valley of 

 Decision," has long been sympatheti- 

 cally familiar with Indian outdoor life, 

 as has Mr. Parrish. who was sent over 

 to Italy by The Century especially to 

 illustrate the series. It is said that wri- 

 ter and artist have made a study not 

 only of the well-known gardens, but 

 of many from which the public is ex- 

 cluded. 



The late B. L. Farjeon left the man- 

 uscript of a story for girls and boys 

 which is to appear serially in St. Nich- 

 olas Magazine dui'ing the coming year. 

 It deals with London's Madame Tus- 

 saud and her celebrated wax works; 

 the marvelous doings of the principal 

 characters in that exhibition — Queen 

 Elizabeth, Henry VIII, Tom Thumb, 

 Guy Fawkes, and others, all of whom 

 are brought to life and made to live in 

 the London of today. 



