1907. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



83 



I think you will all agree with me 

 when it comes to passing laws for 

 the bee-keepers, the influence our so- 

 cieties have. How much influence 

 would you or I have to write to a 

 senator or congressman on some bill 

 that should be passed. Now, note the 

 difference when we write that the St. 

 Lawrence and Jefferson Counties 



PLANNING A CAMPAIGN FOR 

 THE COMING SUMMER 



ALLAN LATHAM. 



1 



N CERTAIN parts of Connecti- 

 cut, northern New London coun- 

 ty for one, the story of the honey- 

 flows is as follows: Large maple 



Bee-Keepers' Societies wish this bill bloom in April upon which the bees 



passed. Do you not see the real ne- make big strides in brood-rearing; 



cessity of our societies for the pro- scanty fruit bloom in May which 



tection of our pursuit? keeps bees busy, sometimes leading 



What would have been the price of ^° swarming but rarely furnishing any 

 supplies today if it had not been for 



our societies? No one can say they 

 would not have been from five to 

 twenty-five per cent higher than they 

 originally were. Now, can any one 

 say they do not see a real benefit 

 right here? This is one thing that 

 has made our societies so popular 

 during the past year. 



In conclusion I will say that we, 

 as a body, bid defiance to what, as 

 an individual, would be unsurmounta- 

 ble. Let us hold fast to each other 

 and be reasonable and fair in all our 

 dealings, and we will some day be 

 one of the grandest societies in the 

 world. Let us not forget that our 



surplus; a moderate to heavy flow 

 through June of a variety of honey 

 scarcely edible; scattering flow first, 

 part of July from clover and milk- 

 weed up till the loth when sumac 

 starts in, then three weeks of sumac 

 one week being heavy; no honey at 

 all throughout August; a light to 

 good flow in September from golden- 

 rod and asters. 



If one follows the usual procedure 

 of working from the early season 

 through for comb-honey he is sure to 

 come out at the end with a crop va- 

 rying from (reckoning 100 to the col- 

 ony), sixty boxes of black honey 

 (stuff), 30 of edible mixed goods and 

 20 of good white sumac to 20 of the 



success is largelv due the W. T. Fal- u 1 1 r ^u • 1 j r ^i. 



^ -^ _ black, 40 of the mixed and 40 of the 



coner Mfg. Co., who in our hour of 

 need gave us the very lowest prices 

 possible to the welfare of a reliable 



white. Thus he uses up many boxes, 

 much foundation and time procuring 

 a great deal of unsalable honey. To 



firm. Now let us not consider for ^^ ^^^^^^ j ^^^^^ .^^^^ ^^1^ ^^ 1^^^ ^^^p 



a moment the lowering of prices by 

 any other firm, for it means that we 

 would get such prices only for a time, 



of last season getting, after cutting 

 from the sections and melting down 

 and straining, six cents per pound. 



then, (after our friends had been com- xhe 16 pound cake of excellent bees- 



pelled to withdraw these prices for ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ atonement for the 



the lack of our support), they would 1jj|-,qj. 

 have us at their mercy and then 



could dictate prices to us once more. 

 Black River, N. Y. 



Having tired of the results as out- 

 lined above I have determined upon a 

 mode of procedure which I will now 

 describe. I have considered carefully 

 The American Bee-Keeper Three the Doolittle method as described in 

 Full Years $1.00. To New Subscrib- Gleanings but doubt its working here 

 ers, Three Full Years for Niriety because of the likelihood of getting 

 Cents. Is that Cheap Enough? a lot of the black stuff into the sec- 



