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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



March IS, 19f 6 



thrice a day for bronchitis, asthma, and diseases of the 

 lungs and respiratory disorders generally. 



Mead is, or rather was, an English beverage made from 

 fermented honey. 



Surely, here is at least one " be-Knight-ed " Englishman, 

 when it comes to considering American honey. He prob- 

 ably read somewhere the misrepresentation that honey- 

 comb here is made of paraffin, etc., and forthwith he copies 

 it, parrot-like, in a text-book for public school children ! 

 And so the very youngsters learn the old lie about comb 

 honey being manufactured. Is it any wonder that it is so 

 hard to kill ? Even authors, who above all people should 

 be correct and truthful in their statements, occasionally 

 show a lamentable carelessness, and in matters the facts of 

 which could very easily be learned if really desired. 



We trust that our English brethren will see to it that 

 future editions of the book referred to are corrected. Here 

 is a job for the British Bee Journal. 



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The Coppispondenza Apistiea, of Italy, reports that 

 it is estimated that 85,000 colonies of bees have starved to 

 death in Spain, on account of a much-protracted drouth. It 

 will be a good thing for the bee-keepers in this country to 

 see to it that their bees have sufficient supply to carry them 

 through the spring, on account of the warm winter which 

 doubtless has caused a greater use of the stores in the hive. 



The Apiapy of W. H. Dickinson, shown on the first 

 page, is referred to thus in a letter : 



I send a picture of my apiary, with my helper with me. 

 This small apiary, which numbers 10 colonies, gave me 

 1000 pounds of honey last season — one-half comb and the 

 balance extracted ; which is not bad for a side-issue. 



The little girl is not afraid of bees, and likes honey. 



W. H. Dickinson. 



The 36th Annual Report of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association for 1905 is on our desk. It gives the proceed- 

 ings of the convention held in Chicago last December ; also 

 a list of the cases that have come before the Association for 

 settlement during that year, besides other items of interest. 

 It makes a volume of about 200 pages, which includes the 

 advertising pages. This Annual Report is mailed only to 

 members of the Association. If you are not a member, and 

 desire a copy, you should send $1.00 at once for a year's 

 dues, to the General Manager, N. E. France, Platteville, 

 Wis. The Treasurer's report showed a balance on hand 

 Nov. 1, 1905, of $1252. 



Mf. Jas. A. Stone, of Illinois, has just been selected to 

 fill out the unexpired term of Wm. A. Selser, a bee-supply 

 dealer and bee-keeper, whose resignation was reluctantly 

 accepted by the Executive Committee as a Director of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association. 



Mr. Stone was born in Sangamon Co., 111., May 6, 1842, 

 on the farm which his father " entered " near Springfield, 

 where he lives with his good wife and only son and his 

 wife. They do business under the firm name of Jas. A. 

 Stone & Son. They are extensive farmers, stock-growers, 

 orchardists and bee-keepers. Their apiary numbers be- 

 tween 100 and 200 colonies annually. They always make 

 excellent exhibits in the apiary department of the Illinois 

 State Fair, and win many of the cash premiums offered. 



Mr. Stone's selection as a Director of the National 



should give general satisfaction, as he is an up-to-date 

 honey-producer and general business man of large affairs. 

 He will give additional strength to the Board, as he is a 

 man of fine character and high aspirations in life. We con- 

 gratulate both Mr. Stone and the members of the National 

 Association. 



A New Edition of "Forty Yeaps."— The last edition 

 of Dr. C. C. Miller's book, "Forty Years Among the Bees," 

 is exhausted. We expect to issue a new edition about April 

 1, so any orders now in hand, and that may be received 

 from this time on, will be filled from the new edi- 

 tion. It will contain an appendix, continuing Dr. Miller's 

 experience during the past three years, or since the last 

 edition was published. The price of the new book will be 

 $1.00, as before, or with the American Bee Journal one 

 year — both for $1.75, postpaid. Better order now, and have 

 a copy of the new edition. Address all orders to the office 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



"Got the Best" of Europe!— The Italian bee-paper, 

 E'Apicoltore, for February, 1906, cites this from Prof. 

 Cook's remarks made in the American Bee Journal of Dec. 

 21, 1905 : 



"In getting from Europe such masters as the Dadants 

 and Grimms, I believe we have secured the very best that 

 Europe has to give." 



The editor then follows with these questions : 



" Dear Professor, and where did Wagner come from ? 

 and Francois Huber, the blind seer? and Dzierzon, the dis- 

 coverer of parthenogenesis ? and Hruschka, the inventor of 

 the honey-extractor ? and Mehring, the inventor of comb 

 foundation ? and Leandri, the inventor of the sun wax-ex- 

 tractor ? to name only a few. Were they Americans ?" 



Brother Editor, you are right. We need Europe as 

 much as Europe needs us, and we can all learn from each 

 other. But we take it that in saying in the Grimms and the 

 Dadants America " secured the very best that Europe has to 

 give," Prof. Cook meant that they were among the best — 

 not that there never had been, nor exist now, others equal to 

 them across the water. We know Prof. Cook well enough to 

 assure our good European friends that he intended not the 

 slightest discourtesy. So let us shake hands across the 

 broad expanse of the Atlantic, for " we be brethren " all. 



Mp. M. H. Mendleson, who has been selected to fill the 

 vacancy on the Board of Directors of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, caused by the declination of Ernest R. 

 Root, is one of the most extensive bee-keepers in the world. 

 He was born Feb. 22, 1853, and has worked hard a great 

 part of his life with perseverance and determination to suc- 

 ceed, regardless of difficulties, in whatever he undertook to 

 do. For the past 10 or 12 years the seasons in California 

 have been unusually poor, and so a check to the best suc- 

 cess. Last season, had it not been for a big loss by the 

 flood, causing the loss of one of his best apiaries, he would 

 now have had about 2500 colonies of bees ; and had he had 

 sufficient good, skilled help, his honey crop would have run 

 up to the 200-ton mark. He would certainly have succeeded 

 had all worked as he had planned. 



Mr. Mendleson has not had good health of late, caused 

 partially by overwork and exposure, and still he does as 

 much work as any man can do. He takes pride in his api- 

 aries, on the best of locations, and admires order and neat- 

 ness, for without these the best results can not be accom- 

 plished, or the results would be failure. 



In 1903 Mr. Mendleson's crop was 22,000 pounds of comb 

 honey and 90,000 pounds of extracted. He probably is the 

 biggest bee-keeper on the Board of Directors. He also 

 comes from one of the largest honey-producing States. 



Perhaps after a few more of the officiary of the National 



