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GEORGE W. YORK, Editor 



CHICAGO, ILL, OCTOBER, 1907 



VoL XLVII— No 30 



editorial ^otes 

 and Comments 



National Convention at Harrisburg 



The last two days of this month (Oc- 

 tober 30 and 31) will be held the annual 

 convention of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, at Harrisburg, Pa. It has 

 been many years since it met in Penn- 

 sylvania, where now there is a strong 

 State organization of bee-keepers. 



From Chicago there will be a 10-day 

 rate at that time of $17 for the round- 

 trip, or a iS-day rate of $22.25, to the 

 Jamestown Exposition (Norfolk, Va.), 

 with stop-over privilege at Harrisburg 

 to attend the convention. With such 

 low rates and generous privileges, it 

 seems there should be a large number 

 of bee-keepers who would avail them- 

 selves of the opportunity to attend the 

 National convention of bee-keepers this 

 year. Pennsylvania will make every ef- 

 fort to have a successful meeting. 



We hope that as many as possible 

 of the readers of the American Bee- 

 Journal will plan to go to Harrisburg. 

 It is a little less than a month now be- 

 fore the convention. We are hoping 

 to be present, but just now we can not 

 say definitely, as there are circumstances 

 over which we have no control that may 

 prevent our attendance this year. 



The Honey Market for 1907 



It is a mistake to hold on to honey 

 until too late, expecting an advance in 

 price that is never to come. On the 

 other hand it is a mistake to let it go 

 for any old price that may be offered, 

 said offering being based upon the fact 

 that the buyer who makes the offer has 

 already bought at a very low figure. 

 The amount bought at that low figure 

 may be merely a few pounds produced 

 by some ignorant bee-owner with few 



colonies and less experience, and it is 

 hardly the right thing that such a trans- 

 action should be considered as settling 

 the price. 



It is now very evident that the crop 

 is short, and there is no good reason 

 why the price should not be correspond- 

 ingly long. Even if the crop were of 

 the usual amount the upward tendency 

 of all prices in general demand that 

 honey should also advance. Taking both 

 condititfts together, scarcity of the arti- 

 cle and a general rise in prices, it cer- 

 tainly looks as if honey should be honey 

 this year. While there is a gratifying 

 advance in quotations in some cities, in 

 others there seems a tendency to keep 

 somewhat nearer old prices. The bee- 

 keeper will, of course, consider differ- 

 ence in prices, as also distance to differ- 

 ent markets, and be governed accord- 

 ingly. Above all, he should look out 

 for his home market, and not be in 

 haste to sacrifice the fruit of his sea- 

 son's labor. 



panic wasting precious days before find- 

 ing out what to do. 



Again, the insidious enemy may make 

 its appearance unsuspectedly, and be 

 spread throughout the whole apiary be- 

 fore he suspects it, whereas a little 

 reading would have enabled him to spot 

 it while it was still confined to a single 

 colony, allowing him to take precau- 

 tionary measures to prevent its further 

 spread. 



As a practical authority on the sub- 

 ject, no one stands higher than the Ca- 

 nadian expert, Wm. McEvoy. As his 

 latest deliverance upon the subject, after 

 his mqny years of rich experience in 

 dealing with the pest in many apiaries, 

 will be found an article on another page 

 of this number, the said article being 

 copied from the Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal. Its reading is heartily commended 

 to all who are as yet uninformed upon 

 the subject. Those who are informed 

 will probably read it anyhow. 



New Way of Introducing Queens 



The Alexander plan of introducing 

 2 or more queens into a colony may be 

 equally used for the ordinary introduc- 

 tion of a single strange queen. It has 

 the same advantage over the ordinary 

 candy plan that the Abbott plan has, in 

 that the colony is left queenless less 

 than 12 hours; and Mr. Alexander 

 claims in Gleanings that it is very much 

 easier than the usual candy plan. 



Beginners Should Study Foul Brood Dr. Miller's Double-Queen Plan 



The beginner who fails to read up on 

 the subject of foul brood, thinking that 

 it is time enough to do so when the 

 disease appears in his own apiary, is 

 making a serious mistake. After a time 

 he finds something unusual in one or 

 more of his colonies, and is frantic lest 

 it be foul brood, whereas if he had in- 

 formed himself he might have been 

 saved needless anxiety, since there may 

 be nothing in the case to excite need- 

 less alarm. Or, if the disease has really 

 appeared, it is of first importance that 

 he be informed in advance, ready intel- 

 ligently to identify it, and to know at 

 least something about what should be 

 done, instead of being thrown into a 



Dr. Miller writes that while waiting 

 for Mr. Alexander to make known his 

 plan of getting several queens into the 

 same colony, he has been doing some 

 experimenting on his own account, and 

 has met with. entire success in part of 

 his trials. His plan is exceedingly sim- 

 ple : 



Put into a provisioned cage 2 queens, 

 put the cage into a queenless colony, and 

 after 6 days' imprisonment let the queens 

 out upon the combs. That's all. This 

 takes considerably less of the bee-keep- 

 er's time than the Alexander plan, but 

 takes much more of the bees' time. 

 Moreover, it is doubtful if it is so safe. 

 The queens with which he succeeded 



