Jan. 17, 1907 



American ^^e Journal 



Clum, one of New York State's physicians, 

 ■writes as follows in the Hudson, N. Y., Ga- 

 zette: Then let his article follow. 



All bee-keepers need to " get busy " in this 

 way, and help not only themselves, but those 

 who would be benefited in their health by 

 eating honey as a daily food. 



Starting New Bee=Papers 



Occasionally we have remarked in these 

 columns that we thought it was very unwise 

 to start any more new bee-papers. At the 

 same time we could easily see that some peo- 

 ple imagined we spoke because of a jealous 

 feeling on our part— as if the American Bee 

 Journal feared any more competition. The 

 fact was, wr knew exactly what we were talk- 

 ing about, having had a good many years' ex- 

 perience in the bee-paper publishing line, and 

 the " other fellows " were talking or thinking 

 "through their hats." 



To show that we are not alone in our views 



concerning this matter, we quote from an 

 editorial in the December Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 view, written by W. Z. Hutchinson, who also 

 knows what be is sayinj^ when he puts him- 

 self on record in the following: 



The plain fact is that the field of apicul- 

 tural journalism is now pretty well covered, 

 and a new journal, to succeed, should need to 

 be diffd-ent from the others, have an editor of 

 most decided ability, and "barrels" of 

 money. It is true 1 started the Review 30 

 years ago, with neither the money nor the 

 experience, and made a success of it; but 

 there were a number of peculiar factors in 

 the case that I won't take space to discuss. 

 I'll say this, however, it I should sell the Re- 

 view now for S5000, 1 would not, with that 

 amount of capital, and my 20 years of expe- 

 rience, think of such a thing as starting an- 

 other journal . . . .The same amount of money, 

 time and energy, put into straight honey-pro- 

 duction, would bring a much larger profit. 



The occasion of the above utterance by Mr. 

 Hutchinson, was the announcement that the 

 Rural Bee-Keeper (published forabout 2 years 

 by W. H. Putnam, of Wisconsin) had recently 

 been transferred to the American Bee-Keeper. 



(Miscellaneous 

 flews -Items 



Bee-Keeping in Germany and Spain. 



— C. B. Chevalier, of Maryland, sends the 

 following clipping taken from the Philadel- 

 phia Press for Nov. ", 1906 : 



Germany has 1,910,000 colonies of bees, 

 which furnish 20,000 tons of honey in a 

 year ; while Spain comes second as a producer 

 of honey among European countries, with 

 1,690,000 colonies and 19,000 tons of honey. 



A Misapprehension. — We find the fol- 

 lowing in a recent issue of the American Bee- 

 Keeper : 



" The editor of the American Bee .Journal 

 refers to the American Bee-Keeper as ' a some- 

 what obscure publication I' " 



No such reference was made in these col- 

 umns, Mr. Hill. The reference was to a 

 document of the United States House of Rep- 

 resentatives, which is so obscure that very 

 few probably know of its existence. It is to 

 be hoped that the American Bee-Keeper has a 

 much larger circulation, and that it is more 

 carefully read than will be the document re- 

 ferred to. 



The Minnesota Bee»Keeper8, it 



seems, divided into two organizations at their 

 meeting early in December, 1906. We have 

 received the following concerning the matter: 



The inevitable has happened, and the Min- 

 nesota Bee-Keepers' Association, which has 

 had an existence for 18 years, has been 

 divided, and the old members have formed a 

 new society, which will be called "The Min- 

 nesota State Bee-Keepers' Society." 

 ."The old constitution, under which we have 

 been working for years, did not take into ac- 



count the ambitions of individuals, and 

 therefore, did not guard against any such 

 who wished to dominate the Association. 



At the opening of our meeting, Dec. 5, an 

 element which for .3 years has been trying to 

 turn the Association into commercial chan- 

 nels, got control of the meeting, and a reso- 

 lution was then passed to admit pro.xy voting, 

 and the deed was done. The old offlcers and 

 members withdrew in a body, and formed a 

 new society ; and while we do not have the 

 old Dame, we do have most of the old mem- 

 bers, and we will have peace in the future. 



The Minnesota State Bee-Keepers' Society 

 was organized Dec. 6, 1906. It is affiliated 

 with the Minnesota State Horticultural Asso- 

 ciation, and voted to join the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association in a body. Its objects 

 are the promotion of scientific bee-keeping 

 and such legislation as may be of benefit to 

 the bee-keepers of Minnesota. It has 30 

 charter members, and every prospect of build- 

 ing up into a strong and useful society. 



The offlcers elected for the coming year are : 

 L D. Leonard, President; Scott LaMont, 1st 

 Vice-President; J. M. Doudna, 2d Vice- 

 President; Rev. Chas D. Blaker, Minneapolis, 

 Sta. F, Secretary ; Mrs. Helen G. Acklin, Rev. 

 .1. Kimball, and .J. E. Stryker, Executive 

 Committee; and Mrs. W. 8. Wingate, Treas- 

 urer. L. D. Leonakd. 



The Apiary ot John Stevens, of Eng- 

 land, is shown on the first page this week. It 

 was taken from a souvenir postal card. When 

 sending it, Dec. 3, 1906, Mr, Stevens wrote as 

 follows: 



I am sending a photograph of my home api- 

 ary, for many recent improvements in which 

 I have to thank the American Bee Journal. 



The past season was very fair in this 

 locality, my own "take" being the best I 

 have had in the last or 7 years. 



John Stbvens. 



Von Hruschka and the Honey-Ex» 

 tractor are thus mentioned in a " Stray 

 Straw " in Gleanings in Bee Culture: 



Major von Hruschka, the inventor of the 

 honey-extractor, born in Moravia, was an 

 officer of the Austrian army at Legnano, Italy. 

 His leisure was occupied with bee-keeping, 

 and one day he sent his little boy to the house 

 with a comb of honey on a plate in a hand- 

 basket. The boy whirled it about to get rid 

 of robber-bees. The lower side of the comb 

 was emptied, and the honey-extractor was 

 born. After the peace of 1866, von Hruschka 

 left the army, lived a while at Dolo, and then 

 at Venice, where he ran a big hotel. This 

 swamped him financially, and in May, 1888, 

 he died a poor man, forgotten by most bee- 

 keepers. 



This little tribute is to awaken in the minds 

 of the younger members of the fraternity a 

 feeling of warm regard for one to whom we 

 owe so much. 



Mr. J. Li. Patterson, one of the " Bee 



Journal Family," had one of the most inter- 

 esting exhibits at the Fair, held in Augusta, 

 Ga., the past fall. He is one of the most en- 

 thusiastic and up.to-date apiarists of the 

 Savannah valley, and had in his exhibits some 

 very fine honey in the comb, as well as ex- 

 tracted honey and beeswax. He was awarded 

 two first prizes for these exhibits, which car- 

 ried with them a purse of S20. The honey 

 was of the best and finest ever seen in that 

 locality, and was the occasion for much 

 favorable comment during the week. So a 

 local newspaper reported. 



Mr. J. T. Hillery, of Columbus, Ohio, 

 when renewing his subscription to the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal for 1907, enclosed these two 

 stanzas: 



Enclosed you will find a dollar — 



My renewal for " A. B. J. ;" 

 " I can not bear to lose " it. 



For it cheers the lonely way. 



And when we have a poor season 

 Like Nineteen-Hundred-and-Six, 



The "A. B. J." encourages us 

 To press on and put in " best licks." 



J. T. HiLLEBT. 



The Apiary of Fred Hoffman. — 



When sending the photograph of his apiary, 

 which is shown on the first page, Mr. Hoff- 

 man wrote thus : 



I enclose a snapshot of a corner of my " bee- 

 orchard." This is my third year, and I have 

 20 colonies. We have a good country for 

 bees, as there is a great deal of white clover. 

 The hardest part is to winter bees here. I 

 had them up-stairsone winter, and also have a 

 small bee-house outside. I could not see any 

 diflerence in their wintering. 



I have had many useful hints from the 

 American Bee Journal. Fred Hoffman. 



Anierilcanisclie Uienenzucht, 



by Hans Buschbauer, is a bee-keeper's hand- 

 book of 138 pages, which is just what our 

 German friends will want. It is fully illus- 

 trated, and neatly bound in cloth. Price, 

 postpaid, $1.00; or with the American Bee 

 Journal one year— both for $1.75. Address 

 all orders to this office. 



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San Antonio Photograph. — We have 

 some of the San Antonio convention photo- 

 graphs, showing over 100 of those present at 

 the National convention. We are sending 

 them out in mailing-tubes at 60 cents each, 

 postpaid. Send orders to the ofHoe of the 

 American Bee Journal. 



