November, 1907. 



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arc the rule at that time on all rail- 

 roads. Sec newspapers for details. 



Everylwdy come and bring "Mrs." 

 and "Miss" with you. 



Hekman F. Moore, Sec. 



Editor E. R. Root's Operation 



In the issue of Gleanings in Bee Cul- 

 ture for October 15th, appeared the fol- 

 lowing concerning the ill-health of Edi- 

 tor E. R. Root: 



"The editor has been temporarily 

 away from the scene of action. On re- 

 turning from a trip to the Jamestown 

 Exposition he was taken with a severe 

 attack of what proved to be appendici- 

 tis. Since he had suffered from many 

 lighter attacks hefore, an operation was 

 considered necessary. He is now al- 

 most w'ell again, however, and has re- 

 turned to his work with renewed vigor. 

 A part of the editorial work for this 

 issue was dictated from his bed in the 

 hospital." 



We are glad to know that Mr. Root 

 is getting along all right after his opera- 

 tion. We can fully sympathize with any 

 one who has to be detained from his 

 work through sickness. 



Rio Grande Bee-Keeping 



This office is in receipt of Bulletin No. 

 I, Riagrandenser Bienen^ucht — a pam- 

 phlet of 51 pages, written bvEmil Schenk, 

 and gratuitously published in the Ger- 

 man language by the government of Rio 

 do Sul, a State in southern Brazil. Mr. 

 Schenk has done much for bee-keeping 

 in Brazil, and on his return from a visit 

 to Germany last year took back to South 

 America some Italian bees to be culti- 

 vated there. The pamphlet gives up-to- 

 date bee-keeping as practised in Ger- 

 many, largely, modified to some extent 

 by Mr. Schenk's own practise. 



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Why Honey should be High in 

 Price 



Prof. \. J. Cook, of California, writ- 

 ing us, Oct. 12, 1907, had this to say 

 concerning the prospect for increased 

 prices for honey: 



Editor YorR : — There are two reasons 

 for expecting a high price for honey 

 this season : 



First, because of the cold, backward 

 season last summer, there was a small 

 product, and this was true so far as I 

 can learn the country over. 



For a like reason, there was a very 

 meager fruit crop. People will have 

 some sort of a relish and need it, as 

 food that is tasteless fails to do us the 

 good that we need. There will be so 

 little fruit, and that little will be held 

 at such a high price, that we may ex- 

 pect other relishes will be in great de- 

 mand. 



Thus we may expect a much greater 

 call for honey than is usual, and it is 

 not presuming to expect a very high 

 price for our product. .'\. J. Cook. 



Referring to the present season in 

 California, Prof. Cook wrote thus on 

 Sept. 28: 



Editor York : — We find that the pres- 

 ent season in California has been, on 

 the whole, a disappointment. Like the 

 preceding one, there was plenty of rain, 

 and the prospects for a great honey- 

 year were exceptionally good. Yet, like 

 the year before, the spring was very 

 cool and damp, which, though it gave 

 us a very comfortable season, yet the 

 plants failed to secrete nectar, and the 

 bees refused to fly forth to gather. Yet 

 in many localities a third or half a crop 

 was secured, and the honey is very fine 

 in quality. 



The requisites for a good honey-year 

 are abundant rains, much warmth and 

 sunshine, and a dearth of raw, chilling 

 winds during the season of honey-flow. 



.'\. J. Cook. 



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The Chicago-Northwestern Conven- 

 tion 



This is to be held in Chicago on Wed- 

 nesday and Thursday, Dec. 4 and 5, 

 1907. There are those who say they pre- 

 fer this meeting to the National. At any 

 rate the Chicago-Northwestern is well 

 worth attending, if we do say it "who 

 hadn't ought to," as Samantha Allen 

 often says in her books. 



We hope there may be a very large 

 gathering this year. It comes during 

 the annual Live Stock Exposition held 

 here in Chicago, which always insures 

 low railroad fares. It is expected that 

 a number of the leading bee-keepers of 

 .America will be present to help make 

 this meeting of the Chicago-Northwest- 

 ern "a hummer." Better come along, 

 and not only get something valuable, 

 but if possible contribute to the success 

 of the meeting. 



Secretary Moore sends us this notice 

 for publication: 



Park Ridge, III., Nov. i, 1907. 



The regular annual convention of the 

 Chicago-Northwestern Bee-keepers' As- 

 sociation will be held at the Briggs 

 House, corner of Randolph St. and Fifth 

 Ave., Chicago, 111., on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, Dec. 4 and 5, 1907. The first 

 session will be held at 10 a. m., on 

 Dec. 4. 



The Question-Box will occupy " the 

 center of the stage," as usual. 

 ^Dr. C. C. Miller, Dr. G. Bohrer, of 

 Kansas, N. E. France, R. L. Tavlor, 

 E. T. Abbott, W. M. Whitney, C. P. 

 Dadant, and W. Z. Hutchinson are ex- 

 pected to be present. 



There will no doubt be a good at- 

 tendance, as many come to Chicago to 

 attend the National Fat Stock Show, 

 held at the same time (Nov. 30 to Dec. 

 7). Ch»ap rates at the usual schedules 



Bees Increase Church Fund 



The Philadelphia Press contained the 

 following recently: 



Burlington, N. J., Oct. 5. — Not only 

 did bees, which have built an immense 

 hive in the steeple of the First Baptist 

 Church, set an example of thrift which 

 members will emulate in building a new 

 house of worship, but the busy little 

 workers have stored up a ton or more 

 of fiije honey, it is said, the sale of which 

 will contribute some toward the pro- 

 posed edifice. In fact, the trustees are 

 counting upon the "bee fund" in the 

 raising of $40,000 needed for the build- 

 ing of a new church, $15,000 of which 

 has alreadv been subscribed. 



Dr. Miller's Report for 1907 



The spring of 1907 opened up one of 

 the most discouraging I ever knew. Had 

 it not been for a good lot of extra 

 combs of sealed honey, my bees would 

 have been in very poor condition ; but 

 having abundance of stores, the colonies 

 built up and continued populous in spite 

 of adverse weather. When clover opened 

 in bloom I expected to see an agree- 

 able change, but although there was 

 plenty of bloom the bees did not tum- 

 ble over each other in bringing in their 

 loads of honey, and I can not say for 

 sure that they got to amount to any- 

 thing from clover throughout the en- 

 tire season. I should have said, how- 

 ever, that dandelions seem.ed to do their 

 full duty, which at least helped to get 

 the colonies in fine conditon. 



June 28 the bees began to get more 

 than enough for their daily needs, and 

 honey shook out of the brood-combs. 

 More or less surplus was stored up to 

 July 21, when the bees took a recess, 

 beginning again August 10, and contin- 

 uing until Sept. 20, some of the time 

 storing slowly, and at other times rap- 

 idly. I think the most of the surplus 

 was from heartsease, but I don't know. 

 One thing that makes me uncertain is 

 that I have always supposed that hearts- 

 ease honey was a pronounced amber, 

 but nearly all of mine was very light, 

 indeed whiter than white clover. The 

 flavor was good. 



The sum total for the season was 

 7920 sections from 120 colonies, or 66 

 sections per colony. That would make 

 something more than 60 pounds to the 

 colony. 



All things considered, I don't feel like 

 complaining. C. C. Miller. 



The Illinois State Convention 



Secretary Jas. A. Stone has sent in 

 the following notice of the next annual 

 meeting of the Illinois State Bee-Keep- 

 ers: 



Rt. 4, Springfield, III., Oct. 29, 1907. 



The seventeenth annual meeting of 

 the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will be held at the Sta*» Hotise, 



