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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Jan. 18, 19C6 



order to win success. It may be possible that he could very 

 easily cut off a dollar's worth of bee-supplies annually, or 

 something else, and thus not deny himself the pleasure and 

 profit of reading- the American Bee Journal each week dur- 

 ing the year. 



Within the past year there have been a number of con- 

 tributions in our columns telling how to manage to realize 

 more for the crop of honey; also, there have been special 

 offers of bee-supplies in its advertising columns which, if 

 patronized, would have saved many times the price of a 

 year's subscription. So if a bee-keeper discontinued read- 

 ing the American Bee Journal a year ago, he would have 

 failed to have seen the contributions and advertisements re- 

 ferred to, and thus would have lost the opportunity to learn 

 how to get more for his honey and also where to get certain 

 bee-supplies at a special rate. By taking advantage of both 

 lines— getting a higher price for honey, and buying bee- 

 supplies for a lower price — he would douubtless have been 

 quite a good deal further ahead at this time than he was a 

 year ago. 



However, as mentioned before, it is quite natural for us 

 to think that every honey-producer should read the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal regularly. The fact is, anyone who is at 

 all interested in bee-keeping, and desires to make the most 

 out of it, must see that there are many times two cents' 

 worth of information in every number of the American Bee 

 Journal. We are satisfied that we are giving good value 

 and full measure for every cent that is paid us on subscrip- 

 tion for the American Bee Journal. By readers and pub- 

 lishers working together, we will not only be mutually ben. 

 efited, but will help to extend and uplift the cause of bee- 

 keeping as the years come and go. 



The Shawler Apiaries.— On the first page are shown 

 almost in miniature the apiaries of Mr. and Mrs. Shawler, 

 of Mills Co., Iowa. Mr. S. wrote us as follows, Dec. 3, 1905 : 



I send two pictures, one of my apiary, and one of my 

 wife and her queen-rearing apiary. This picture was taken 

 in the height of the honey season, and it can be seen that 

 the hives are 4 stories high, and sometimes I have some of 

 them 5 stories high. 



I began in the spring with 43 colonies, and took off 

 6S00 pounds of extracted honey, besides increasing to 80 

 colonies. I had no natural swarms. I sold all of my honey 

 for 7 and 8 cents a pound. 



I will give an account of what I did with bees the pre- 

 ceding 2 years : In 1903 I had IS colonies, and took over 

 ■6000 pounds of honey ; and in 1904 I had 31 colonies, and 

 took 4600 pounds. In the last 3 years I did not have a nat- 

 ural swarm, and an important thing in my success in get- 

 ting large crops of honey, was in having good queens. I 

 have never lost a colony of bees in winter. 



I take three bee-papers, and could not do without any of 

 them. They all fill their places. T. L,. Shawler. 



As to Improved Spelling.— Referring to the attempt 

 for a time on the part of the American Bee Journal to make 

 some changes in the evil spelling of our language, changes 

 advocated by many of the best authorities in England and 

 America, the American Bee-Keeper offers its congratula- 

 tions on the return to the old method of spelling as a 

 " happy awakening." Truth obliges the confession that it 

 was hardly "an awakening," but rather a going to sleep 

 again, the weight of the American Bee-Keeper and so many 

 others being so strong against even a little improvement in 

 our abominable spelling that it seemed useless for the few 

 who had waked up to resist, and so they again fell asleep, 

 awaiting the " happy awakening " sure to come in the 

 future when a crusade for improvement will be started by 

 a larger number. 



The American Bee-Keeper is to be congratulated that 

 there are not lacking signs that it is ready to start a crusade 

 on its own account, as witness the following changes i n 



spelling in its last number : Alright, Norweigan, ex- 

 traced, emergeance, cradel, nonpariel, privelege, destina- 

 tion, irridium, judgement, livlihood. 



Success to you, good contemporary, in every effort at 

 real improvement. 



A Stem-Winder Convention. — The American Bee- 

 Keeper says : "The Chicago convention is said by those 

 in attendance to have been a ' stem- winder. ' " 



Yes, it was a stem-winder, full-jeweled, up-to-date in 

 general. 



Corn Products Refining Company.— An advertise- 

 ment announces that the Corn Products Refining Company 

 will be organized under the laws of New Jersey with a capi- 

 tal stock of $80,000,000. It will own the New York Glucose 

 Company and several other companies. There must be 

 considerable doing in glucose to need a capital of eighty 

 millions. 



The Apiary of Eugene U. Porter appears on the 

 first page. When sending us the photograph, Dec. 11, 

 190S, he wrote : 



I obtained about 200 pounds of comb honey from 7 colo- 

 nies, spring count. I now have IS colonies, and have fed 

 50 pounds of sugar. I have just put them into the cellar for 

 the winter. We had a very poor honey crop here this year, 

 as it was too cold and wet all summer. 



I send a picture of myself and my little boy, and bees. 

 I am holding a frame of a second swarm 10 days after hiv- 

 ing. EUGBNE U. PORTBR. 



Mr. C. M. Scott, of Indianapolis, Ind., on special re- 

 quest, talked before the convention of the Indiana Horticul- 

 tural Association recently, on " The Advantages and Care 

 of Bees." We learn that Mr. Scott stirred up considerable 

 enthusiasm among both the fruit-growers and those who 

 keep bees that were present. He didn't fail, either, to get in 

 a "good lick " against the prevalent misbelief that there is 

 such a thing as manufactured comb honey in existence. It 

 certainly is good practice for all bee-keepers to do that 

 whenever opportunity offers, for if enough of them do it, 

 and do it often enough, it is bound to help the sale of 

 honey. 



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 Special (trttcles 



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"Warning Beforehand"— Valuable Comment 



BY G. M. DOOUTTXE 



ON page 840 (1905) is a very interesting article from C. W. 

 Dayton. In this article Mr. Dayton tells us how he lost 

 about SO colonies of bees through "lack of attention," 

 thinking that he could not spare the time even to "raise the 

 covers" to these hives in looking after their welfare. And 

 the strange part of the whole thing is, that he seems almost 

 to blame Hasty, Doolittle and Miller for this loss. Listen 

 to what he says : 



"Now, attention is usually the cheapest article in the 

 whole apiary management. I have a very large stock of at- 

 tention, but there was not enough of it where it ought to 

 have been. I think Hasty, Doolittle or Miller ought to have 

 warned me beforehand. As it is, I cannot use their advise 

 until it happens again." 



But did they not warn him beforehand? Doolittle cer" 

 tainly did, and I am almost sure that Dr. Miller did. As to 

 the Hasty part, I am not so sure, but I have a faint recollec- 

 tion that he did something on the "warning" plan long 

 ago. Mr. Dayton, is it not possible that you paid so little 

 "attention" (because that "is usually the cheapest article in 

 i the whole apiary management") to the warning when it 



