1900 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



53 



"When anything about the apiary needs 

 •doing it is an excellent plan to get the 

 necessary tools and do it. To know that a 

 thing needs doing doesn't help matters. 



For the engraving of Mr. Beckwith's 

 wax squeezer shown in this issue, as also 

 for the cut of Mr. W. H. Pridgen which 

 appeared last month, we are indebted to 

 The Bee-Keepers' Review. 



The most recent acquisition to our ex- 

 •change list is the American Farmer Mag- 

 .azine, of Chicago, which is certainly a di- 

 rect advance in agricultural publications. 

 It is gotten up in the style of our high- 

 class magazines, is profusely illustrated^ 

 and the gtneral character of its contents 

 such as to commend it to the cultured 

 rural home 



Mr. W. Drake, of Cambridge, England, 

 is said to have in his possession a specimen 

 of honey comb that is hundreds of years 

 old. It was taken from the heart of a 

 giant bog oak which had lain for an in- 

 definite period buried six feet below the 

 surface of a marsh. Bees, it is said, were 

 also found about the base of the aperture 

 from which the perfect specimen of comb 

 was taken. 



The United States Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation and the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union have been united and the amalga- 

 mated society will be known in the future 

 as the ' ' National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion." Bee-Keepers of the United States 

 cannot better serve the interests of our 

 industry than by supporting the new- 

 organization. 



A commission man who contributed an 

 article to the Bee-Keepers Review com- 

 plained thai he had found some bee-keep- 

 ers who were very tricky. Somnambulist, 

 in Progres.sive Bee-Keeping, conmients 

 thus in part upon the woes of the commis- 

 sion-man : • ' It has been a sort of a 'tit for 

 tat ' business, the only diflference being, I 

 suspect, that the bee-keeper has had nmch 

 the largest dose 



The United States Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion has 400 members and a balance of 

 I131.00 in its treasury One thing is 

 clearly evident in regard to this same 

 association : We are greatly over-estimat- 

 ing the value and importance of it, or else 

 the bee-keepers of the country are very 

 slow to recognize a " good thing. " It is 

 hard to be compelled to believe that either 

 is a fact, but such must be the case. 



Mr. Benj. Parks, of Stuart, Fla., a few 

 days since had occasion to visit Fort 

 Pierce, and honored us with a brief call. 

 Mr. P. is one of Florida's progressive and 

 prosperous apiarists and has one of the 

 finest locations on the coast. When Mr. 

 Parks fails to harvest a good crop of honey 

 it is indeed a poor season for Florida bee- 

 keepers. Having said that he "is progres- 

 sive," it is needless to add that Mr. Parks 

 is a regular reader of the American Bee- 

 Keeper. 



A writer in the Bee-Keepers' Review, 

 who is a buyer of honey, having said that 

 moths were found in some of the goods 

 purchased in Colorado, it is now being 

 stronglv asserted that the wax moth is un- 

 known in that state. Mr. Aikin, in the 

 same journal, says that combs can stand 

 anywhere in that country and never a 

 moth to bother them . By way of contrast 

 we might say in this connection that in 

 South Florida combs that are left in the 

 extracting room over night are very apt to 

 show webs in the morning, and if left 

 would be completely ruined within a 

 week. 



Mr. O. O. Poppleton, the veteran bee- 

 keeper of Iowa, Cuba, Florida, etc., is now 

 quite extensively engaged in migratory 

 bee keeping along the east coast of the 

 latter state, and the conduct of his busi- 

 ness is facilitated by the newest in modern 

 appliances. About a year ago Mr. P. had 

 built a commodious transport, which is 

 propelled by a naphtha engine, for u.se in 

 moving his apiaries from place to place ; 

 and now he •'steams" quietly up and 



