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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 20, 1902. 



year becomes gradually less until the beginning- of the har- 

 vest, when it becomes very low. Is it not barely possible 

 that if the stock of pollen had been greater it would have 

 allowed the gathering of just so much more honey ? That 

 is, if enough pollen were already in the hive, for use during 

 harvest, the energies of the pollen-gatherers might be used 

 entirely in gathering honey. 



So if, in your preparations for winter, you have thrown 

 out some frames well filled with pollen, see that they are 

 carefully saved for the needs of the following spring. It 

 is barely possible that in some places pollen is so very 

 abundant that it is not worth saving. Testimony is needed 

 as to this. 



History of Shaken Swarms. — L,. Stachelhausen, who 

 is regarded as the pioneer in this country in shaking or 

 brushing swarms, does not consider them as anything new. 

 He says in Gleanings in Bee-Culture : 



That we can take from a strong colony all the frames 

 of brood except probably one or two, and give empty combs 

 or starters in their place, was known long ago, and this is 

 the same thing as a brushed swarm set on the old stand, 

 and the same thing as the driven swarm forced from a 

 straw-skep and known more than 100 years ago. Graven- 

 horst made a step in advance, advising a way by which the 

 bees brushed or shaken from the combs could be set on a 

 new place and would stay there, at least the greater part of 

 them. This, too, is ?,0 or more years old. I. myself, de- 

 scribed this method in The Apiculturist in 1884, page 97. 



I » The Weekly Budget. * I 



Pay Up or You Can't Vote. — Any one knowing him- 

 self to be in arrears as a member of the National Bee Keep- 

 ers' Association, and who desires to vote at the coming 

 election (in December), should at once send his dues ($1.00| 

 to the General Manager, Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 

 Voting blanks will be mailed early in December to every 

 member whose dues have not lapsed. 



Also,'any bee-keepers who are not yet members, and 

 would like to become such, will need to mail their dues to 

 Mr. Secor right away, if they would like to vote at the 

 election. 



A General Manager for 1903, and three Directors to 

 serve for four years, are to be elected. 



The membership of the Association is now about 900. 

 It should be at least 9000. 



We understand that the General Manager's annual re- 

 port is now ready for the printer, so it will likely be mailed 

 promptly to the membership after Dec. 1. If not already 

 paid, you would better send your dues ($1.00) to Mr. Secor 

 immediately— do it now, before you forget it. 



The chemist was able to supply successfully everything to 

 make an egg that hatched out a perfect chicken, only the 

 chicken had no feathers, and efforts were being continued 

 to find the proper chemicals to produce the feathers. It was 

 a fine bit of work, and was written at the time when the 

 canard about the manufacture of artificial comb honey was 

 in its most flourishing condition, so as to help, by its ab- 

 surdity, to show the absurdity of the artificial comb-honey 

 lie. But the story was so well told, that, in spite of its 

 absurdity, it had many believers. 



Mr. J. G. Corky, of Ventura Co., Calif., called on us 

 last week. He had been on a trip to the Atlantic Coast. He 

 reports scarcely any honey in his locality this year. There 

 seemed to be abundance of bloom, but, practically, no nec- 

 tar in it. In his early days in California he bought a small 

 colony of bees for $100. That" season he increased it to six 

 colonies, and then sold the six for $600. Now fair colonies 

 of bees can be had there for $3.00 a colony, and with a 

 pretty good hive, too. Quite a change in less than half a 

 century. 



Thb Apiary of G. G. Fall, of Strafford Co., N. H., 

 appears on the first page. When sending the photograph he 

 wrote thus : 



1 send a picture of my home apiary. I have another 

 one situated in the White Mountains, about 60 miles away. 

 I am a railroad man, and have kept bees for 20 years, more 

 for pleasure than for profit. 



I think the season of 1902 was the worst we have had 

 during my experience with bees. Mt. Washington, which 

 is IS miles from my out-apiary, is now (July S) quite white 

 with snow, but I never saw more white clover, and the bees 

 are doing nothing with it, as one day it rains and the next 

 day the wind blows, and it is so cold they are unable to 

 work. So the outlook for a honey crop is very poor. 



Mr. J. E. Crane and Henry Robbins, of Addison Co., 

 Vt., called on us on Nov. 7, when on their way home from a 

 western trip, through Idaho, Colorado, and other States. 

 Mr. Crane's honey crop, the past season, was upwards of 

 30,000 pounds of comb honey. He usually ships his honey 

 to Chicago. Mr. Crane is one of the foremost bee-keepers 

 of the whole East. Mr. Robbins is more of a farmer than 

 bee-keeper. 



S. F. Newman, of Huron Co., Ohio, was killed on a 

 railroad crossing by a passing train. Although not exten- 

 sively known of late years, he was an intelligent and suc- 

 cessful bee-keeper, and was noted as the man who wrote for 

 the secular press the story of the making of artificial eggs. 



A Magazine 30 Years Old. — The Christmas (Decem- 

 ber) number of the Delineator is also the 30th anniversary 

 number. To do justice to this number, which, for beauty 

 and utility, touches the highest mark, it would be necessary 

 to print the entire list of contents. It is sufficient to state 

 that in it the best modern writers and artists are generously 

 represented. The book contains over 230 pages, with 34 

 full-page illustrations, of which 20 are in two or more col- 

 ors. The magnitude of this December number, for which 

 728 tons of paper and six tons of ink have been used, may be 

 understood from the fact that 92 presses, running 14 hours a 

 day, have been required to print it ; the binding alone of 

 the edition of 915,000 copies, representing over 20,000,000 

 sections, which had to be gathered individually by human 

 hands. 



An Explanation on the Denver Report. — We have 

 received the following from Dr. Miller in reference to the 

 report of the National convention which we are now pub- 

 lishing : 



Mr. Editor : — I desire a word of explanation with re- 

 gard to the report of the Denver convention, as some who 

 were not on the ground might not fully understand it. I 

 refer to that part in the second column on page 694, where 

 Dr. Mason, without addressing the President, turned to me 

 and said, " That is pretty small, but you are a small man." 



Mr. Harris, as appears on page 693, made a motion. 

 After a little discussion Mr. Harris said, " We are all out of 

 order at the present time, as the motion has not been 

 stated." Still the discusion went on, and Mr. Booth rose 

 to a point of order, and said, " I have not heard any ques- 

 tion stated by the chair." Still the discussion went on, 

 and Mr. Harris, again rising, said, " There is nothing for 

 discussion, and I would like to talk on the motion when 

 properly put by the chair." Seeing that the President 

 evidently did not get Mr. Harris' point, I thought I could 

 help straighten matters out, and arose and tried to make it 

 clear to the President what it was that Mr. Harris wanted, 

 using, I think, some words that do not appear in the report, 

 and explaining further that the stenographer could 

 read the motion, and then the President could state it. It 

 was then that Dr. Mason said, " That is pretty small, but 



