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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



March 29, 1906 



the New York Sun published as a news item that President 

 Roosevelt was dead (when he wasn't), and the Chicago 

 Record-Herald then copied the statement, it would not cor- 

 rect it just because it was an error of the New York Sun ! 

 And that is modern newspaper procedure. 



Well, we are glad we don't have to run the American 

 Bee Journal in that way. 



miscellaneous 

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Editor Ernest R. Root, of Gleanings in Bee Culture, 

 made us a brief office-call when in Chicago last week. 



The 1906 Convention of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will be held in Texas, Nov. 8, 9 and 10. The 

 exact place will be announced later. We hope that nothing 

 will arise to change it again, as was the case last year. 



the small 



Apiary Of 0. K. Rice.— When forwarding 

 photograph, Mr. Rice wrote as follows : 



I am sending you a picture of myself and wife, taken 

 by my oldest daughter last summer, just as I was working 

 with the bees. It shows only a few of the 30 hives in the 

 orchard, with the winter-cases still on, but the roof does not 

 go down to them, as they are 2 stories high. 



O. K. Rich. 



Apiary of W. L. Smith.— On the first page appears a 

 picture of Mr. Smith, and below is one of his apiary. He 

 wrote us as follows when sending the photographs : 



The picture herewith is of my " Virginia Apiary," 

 which is on a porch about 9 feet from the ground. I am 

 standing about the middle. To my right is Arthur Smith, 

 and at the left is Purcie Smith, my nephews. You see I am 

 an old bachelor, and have to borrow my brother's boys to 

 help ffle ou t. At the rear is my residence. There is a 



bridge extending across to a workshop, which has a porch 

 along the back, with bees on that also. There is also a 

 platform extending around the house with 7 hives. 



I have been handling bees in modern hives about 11 

 years. Before that time I made cabinet hives with glass to 

 look through, and glass-top drawers above. I have 22 colo- 

 nies of bees, mostly Italians. I have 1 Carniolan, 1 Albino, 

 1 Holy Ivand, and 2 Cyprian colonies, but I do not find much 

 difference in their tempers. I can handle one kind as well 

 as the other. We sleep on the platform with the bees any 

 night in summer. My honey crop varies. Some years I 

 get 60 pounds per colony. Last year the frost killed the 

 early blooms, and I did not get more than about 25 pounds 

 to the colony. 



I have been making my own hives the Eangstroth pat- 

 tern excepting that mine are 16 '4x16 % inches, and 10 inches 

 deep outside. I use sections 3;sx5xl' + . But lumber has 

 gone up so high here that I have bought hives in the flat 

 for less than the lumber would cost me. W. L. Smith. 



Mr. Frank Benton, Apicultaral Investigator of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, as most of our 

 readers know, is on a journey to Europe and Asia for the 

 purpose of looking up new races of bees, and also honey- 



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plants. The reproduction herewith is from a souvenir pos- 

 tal card sent to Mr. C. P. Dadant, President of the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. The scene shown is nearly 1000 

 miles east of the Caspian Sea. No doubt Mr. Benton 

 finds his journey quite frequently perilous. He will have an 

 interesting story to tell when he returns to this country. 



Illinois Bee-Keeping.— Secretary Stone, of the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, sends us the following: 



I sent out 360 letters to as many of the Crop Reporters 

 of the State, and through their kindness received back from 

 about 200 of them the names of 1131 bee-keepers. 



The number of colonies of bees reported with 873 

 names was 20,361, or an average of 23' 3 colonies per name. 

 With the same average for all the names received through 

 the Reporters, and by the kindness of the Editor of the 

 American Bee Journal — viz., 2222, after deducting 9+ names 

 duplicated — we would have a total of 51,106 colonies ; and 

 if these should produce a common average of 40 pounds per 

 colony, we would have a total of 2,055,520 pounds of honey 

 annually. 



The remarkable fact that in getting together all these 

 names from about 200 different persons, and only 94 dupli- 

 cated names, goes to prove that we have only a small pro- 

 portion of them ; and, further, we were told at our last con- 

 vention by a member, that he had counted 100 bee-keepers 

 in his county, and he was sure he could count that many 

 more ; and yet we have only 5 or 6 given by the Reporter 

 from that county. So we must conclude that we are not 

 able even to guess at the number of colonies or bee-keepers 

 in our State. Jas. A. Stone, Sec. 



The March Number of Irrigation— the official organ 

 of the Colorado Bee-Keepers' Association — contains no bee- 

 matter except a short note of greeting from the new Secre- 

 tary, G. J. Tomlin. If he is as good a man as the old Sec- 

 retary, the Association is to be congratulated. 



See Langstroth Book Offer on another page of this 

 copy of the American Bee Journal. 



