by the roadside, and he might also think 

 some other honey plants strangely abundant. 



Extracting honey from the comb com- 

 menced this year June 15th, and is expected 

 to end about August 15th. At Mr. Jones' 4 

 yards there has been more than 3.000 lbs. ex- 

 tracted on several days of this year. At 

 these 4 yards there will be gathered this 

 year 70,000 or 75,000 lbs. of honey. 



There might be gained to Canada, Mr. 

 Jones asserts, a profit of 310,000 a year in 

 every township from the keeping of bees. 

 He would undertake to make more money 

 than any farmer in the world out of the 

 same capita], and it would appear that this 

 is no unwarrantable statement. Of course, 

 it will not do for everybody to rush into bee- 

 keeping with the idea that he can make a 

 fortune every year by it. Mr. Jones' suc- 

 cess is the result of a lifetime of close and 

 laborious investigation, of the most patient 

 studying of the ways of the insects, and a 

 readiness to adopt and utilize the experience 

 of others, which very few men possess. An 

 essential quality for a large apiarist is that 

 he be an excellent judge of men. Without 

 first-class assistants, he is simply nowhere. 

 Mr. Jones' assistants are young Canadians 

 who intend making bee-keeping their busi- 

 ness, and whose thorough acquaintance 

 with their duties is a credit to them and 

 their chief, too. While it would be the most 

 hopeless thing in the world for anybody 

 without experience to go into bee-keeping 

 on a large scale, there is every inducement 

 for embarking in the business in a smaller 

 way. Fifty colonies of bees could be made 

 to yield 150 to 300 lbs. of honey each, value 

 $1,125 to $2,250. Colonies to the value of 

 $50 a year could be sold, and still the num- 

 ber on hand would be nearly doubled. All 

 can be done at a very small expenditure. 



In 2 or 3 years of patient study, aided by 

 the personal superintendence of I or 2 colo- 

 nies, the operator will be able to go into 

 bee-keeping as a business, and he or she, for 

 there is no business so especially adapted 

 for women as bee-keeping, will possess a 

 certain means of livelibood of which noth- 

 ing can dispossess him. His income will 

 fluctuate with the seasons, but no more so 

 than the income of every farmer. If he is 

 not above peddling round his honey, he can 

 get a much higher price for it than if he 

 sends it to a commission merchant, and 

 moreover his customers will then be sure of 

 getting it unadulterated, and will become 

 regular customers of stated quantities. 



If a man conducts his business so badly 

 as to lose all his bees by dysentery in the 

 winter, it is of no use his continuing a 

 bee-keeper. One of Mr. Jones' winter 

 houses is a model. It is equipped with the 

 underground pipe for ventilating and carry- 

 ing off carbonic acid gas which is now being 

 applied to dairy ventilation. By means of 

 this pipe, which opens out aboutSOO ft. away 

 from the house, tbe air is delivered pure 

 and at a uniform temperature of about 50° 

 winter and summer. The hives are stored 

 in this house, care having been first taken 

 to see that the colonies are strong, and that 

 they have enough of honey to last them till 

 spring. The moisture generated by the 

 bees passes off readily, and the consequence 

 is the colonies come out strong in the spring. 



Sanilac County, Michigan. 



Sanilac County Bee-Keepers' Convention 

 was held atCarsonville, June 20, 1879; quite 

 a number of the must prominent bee-keep- 

 ers of Sanilac put in an appearance. Presi- 

 dent George Smith, of Am adore, opened 

 the convention with an able address on 

 " The Honey Bee and Its Habits." 



The question of wintering was d'scussed 

 without arriving at any definite conclusion. 

 James Mattison and others advocating more 

 upward ventilation, while Mr. Wm. Sweet 

 wintered best in double-walled hives, with 

 upward ventilation entirely cut off by leav- 

 ing honey board on and covering with six 

 thicknesses of paper, then eight inches of 

 sawdust on top of the paper. 



How to build up our depleted apiaries was 

 then discussed. Comb foundation and ju- 

 dicious feeding, during a scarcity of nectar, 

 was the conclusion. 



A report was given of the apiaries of the 

 eastern part of Sanilac ; 1,400 colonies were 

 put up tor winter in various ways, 150 re- 

 sponded to the roll-call in the spring, and 

 the western part of the county suffered even 

 more severely. James Anderson, Sec. 



Farmers, July 9, 1879. 



Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa. 



Proceedings of the 5th semi-annual meet- 

 ing of the Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa 

 Bee-Keepers' Society, held at Hamilton, 111., 

 May 6th and 7th, 1879 : 



Called to order at 10 a. m., May 6th, Pres- 

 ident Scudder in the chair. The attendance 

 was large and composed of some of the 

 most enthusiastic practical bee-keepers of 

 the West. A committee was appointed to 

 arrange subjects for discussion in proper 

 form. The minutes of last meeting were 

 approved as published in the American 

 Bee Journal. Thirty new members were 

 added to the roll as follows, 11 ladies and 19 

 gentlemen, making our present member- 

 ship 125 : 



James Sangier, Hamilton, 111.; 



Mrs. C. M. Kingsly, Elvaston, 111.; 



Thi) mas Ruggles, Hamilton. 111.; 



J. Remind, Keokuk, Iowa; 



J. W. Barlow, Keokuk, Iowa; 



W. J. Ash, Elderville, III.; 



Wm. S. iiailev, Blandinsville, 111.; 



D. W. McDaniel, Hamilton, 111.; 



Dr. T.J. Docile, Hamilton, 111.; 



Mrs. E. C. Hammond, Warsaw, 111.; 



S. N. Black, Clayton. 111.: 



Mrs. Z. HollinKsworth, Mount Rose , Iowa; 



Mrs. A. B. Rubles, Hamilton, 111.; 



C. N. Dennis, Hamilton, 111.; 

 Miss Kate Ruggles, Hamilton, 111.; 

 Mrs. C. P. Dadant, Hamilton, 111.; 

 W. H. Githens, Hamilton, 111.; 

 E.J. Baxter, Nauvoo, III.: 



Mrs. E. J. Baxter, Nauvoo, 111.; 

 Mrs. C. N. Dennis, Hamilton, 111.; 

 Mrs. Dr. Githens, Hamilton, 111. ; 



D. C. Milliken, Elvaston, 111.; 

 Mrs. D. C. Milliken, Elvaston. 111.; 

 Mrs. Mary M. Clute, Iowa City, Iowa; 

 M. T. Chenowitli, Warsaw, 111.; 



J. II . Boyse, Hamilton, 111.; 

 C. R. McClauKliry, Hamilton, 111.; 

 J. S. Johnson, Elderville, 111.; 

 Thomas B. Wallace, Clayton, 111.: 

 Dr. A. X. Illinski, East St. Louis. HI. 



