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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 19. 



Ideal Location for Bees.— So many young bee- 

 keepers ask as to the best location for an apiary, and this 

 advice from the Editor of Gleanings, who has tried about 

 every kind of a place for bees, will help the beginner, and 

 perhaps the more experienced, in selecting the best or ideal 

 place for putting the apiary: 



For myself, at least, I have decided that the ideal place 

 for an apiary Is in an orchard, where there are low-spreading 

 trees. If the queens' wings are dipt, there will be compara- 

 tively little climbing after swarms. Some prefer shade-boards ; 

 but after having tried both, for the comfort of the. apiarist 

 and that of the bees, I decidedly prefer the shade of low- 

 spreading trees. Grape-vines do tolerably well, but they do 

 not protect the apiarist ; and at this time of the year, when 

 the shade is most needed, they are sending out shoots and 

 branches that Interfere with the handling of the hive ; and 

 grape-vines do require an excessive amount of trimming just 

 at the time bees need the most attention. The colonies at our 

 out-yard are placed In groups of three on the north side of the 

 low-spreading basswoods. It is a great comfort as well as a 

 pleasure to work among the bees compared to what It is In the 

 home yard with the grape-vines. Vernon Burt has his apiary 

 in an apple-orchard, and the grass Is neatly kept down by 

 sheep that are allowed to run among the hives at will. The 

 lawn-mower does not compare with them. 



TJ?e Weekly Budget. 



Mr. E. R. Lee, of Crawford Ark., writing Aug. 1, said: 

 " Bees are doing well in this ' neck of the woods.' " 



Dr. E. Gallup, of Orange Co., Calif., reported Aug. 3 : 

 "This has been a phenomenally good honey season with me." 



Dr. Miller, of M^'Henry Co., 111., writing us Aug. 7, 

 said: " Buckwheat is just coming into bloom, and clover Is 

 hardly done." 



Dr. H. Besse, of Delaware Co., Ohio, expects to be at the 

 Buffalo convention, we note by a letter just received. His 

 sweet clover lawsuit is expected to come off' about the middle 

 of September. 



Miss Mathilda Candler, of Grant Co., Wis., writing 

 Aug. 4, said : 



"The bees have done pretty well so far. I have taken 

 off some very nice honey." 



Mr. Jas. a. Stone, of Sangamon Co., 111., Secretary of 

 the Illinois association, wrote us Aug. 6 : 



" Bees are not storlng'any honey now, but I believe we 

 will have a good flow this fall." 



Dr. a. B. Mason's youngest son, we learn, was married 

 recently. Shows how a father's example will be followed, 

 sometimes. But we congratulate the young couple, and wish 

 them long life and much happiness in their new "Masan-lc" 

 home. 



Mr. R. 0. CoNDR, of Saratoga Co., N. Y., had this to say 

 recently when sending three new subscriptions for the^ Bee 

 Journal : 



" I could not get along very well without the American 

 Bee Journal. There Is ,<omething in everv number that Is 

 worth what It costs for a year." 



Mr. Walter S. Pouder, one of our Indiana advertisers, 

 U thus referred to by Mr. J. T. Calvert in his "Notes by the 

 Way," In a recent Issue of Gleanings : 



"Walters. Ponder, of Indianapolis, has been developing 

 the trade in honey and beeswax till he has built up a very 

 nice trade. He, sells all the beeswax he receives, right at 

 home. Quito a little fur the drug trade Is put up In one-ounce 

 cakes, 4(3 cakes to the box, and sold at $1.00 a box. Honey 



is sold largely in square jars ; and If it becomes candied be- 

 fore the retailer sells it, it is exchanged for that which Is 

 liquid." 



Mr. L. E.\8twood, of Lucas Co., Ohio, one of the modern 

 "old-timers" in bee-keeping, writing Aug. 9, said : 



" Last year my bees did nothing, but they are now mak- 

 ing up for lost time. I am nearly blind, and can't read any 

 more, and hearing gone. I still claim to be the oldest prac- 

 tical bee-keeper." 



Mks. Marv E. Willis, wife of Mr. L. M. Willis, a promi- 

 nent bee-keeper of Clark Co., Wis., was buried Tuesday, Aug. 

 3, 1897. The local newspaper speaks very highly of the life 

 of Mrs. Willis, who had hosts of faithful friends, because she 

 herself was a friend faithful and true. The sincere sympa- 

 thies of the Bee Journal readers will go out with ours to Mr. 

 Willis in his severe alllictlon. 



I3err p. W. Vogel, editor of the Bienen-Zeltung, died 

 April 12, 1897. He was a man of excellent talents, and 

 much revered by German bee-keepers. Mr. F. Grelner speaks 

 of him thus in a recent number of Gleanings : 



In Vogel the German bee-keepers (and for that matter the 

 bee-keepers of the world) have lost out of their ranks a man 

 of rare ability. He has been trying with untiring zeal to dis- 

 close the mysteries hidden In the bee-hive. It seems that, 

 where many others could see nothing, he saw clearly. With 

 the* microscope he was simply a genius. In dissecting the 

 most minute Insects and their organs he was a master with 

 perhaps few equals. How often have I been astonisht and 

 surprised at his accomplishments along this line ! During his 

 life's career honors have been bestowed upon him by crowned 

 heads of Europe, they having repeatedly taken notice of him, 

 decorated him, etc. He was honorary member of quite a 

 number of bee-keepers' associations and other societies for 

 the promotion of science of his own and foreign countries. 



For years he has been the leading spirit In the annual 

 Wanderversaminlung of Germany's and Austria's bee-keepers. 

 The success of these meetings must be largely attributed to 

 him, to his qualifications as a manager, his fitness In general. 

 No discord ever entered into these meetings. In the May 

 issue of the Bienen Zeitung Dr. Dzierzon and Bergfeld sing 

 the praises of Vogel, give expression to their sorrow, and with 

 that they express what all the beekeepers of Germany feel. 



It seems as tho I had lost a long-loved friend. Vogel will 

 always be remembered. 



Somnambulist — he or she who gathers up the "Wayside 

 Fragments" for the Progressive Bee-Keeper — refers thus to 

 the Buffalo convention, to be held next week, beginning Tues- 

 day forenoon : 



"Ho, for lUiffalo ! Is tho cry now. The G. A. R. people 

 are advertising our convention for us. Scarcely can we pick 

 up a paper but that we find some reference to Buffalo. May 

 the meeting be the grandest one up to date, is the sincere 

 wish of Souiniy." 



That is just what we have claimed all along, that when it 

 once becomes known that the national bee-keepers' conven- 

 tion Is held at the same time and place as the G. A. R. meet- 

 ing each year, they will help to advertise our " show" as well 

 as their own. But it can better be told after this month 

 whether or not it is a success for bee-keepers to thus meet. 

 We hope it will be Just the thing. 



By the way, the above paragraph by Somnambulist Is, we 

 believe, the only reference to the Buffalo convention in the 

 whole August number of the "Progressive" — not a single 

 notice giving the date of the meeting, or at what particular 

 place In Buffalo It Is to be held. Surely, that doesn't look 

 very " progressive." No bee-paper can afford thus to slight 

 tho only national organization of bee-keepers In this country 

 that holds annual meetings. One would naturally think that 

 as one of the I'rogressive Bee-Keepers' own editors is on the 

 Buffalo program, it at least would have shown him the 

 deserved courtesy to have announced that fact. 



See " Bee-Keeper's Guide " offer on page 528. 



