American ^ee Journal 



November, 1907. 



on Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 19 

 and 20, 1907. 



We expect to have one of our best 

 meetings, as we have the assurance of 

 the presence of Dr. C. C. Miller, of Ma- 

 rengo; C. P. Dadant, of Hamilton; Geo. 

 W. York, Editor of the American Bee 

 Journal ; and N. A. Kluck, of the North- 

 ern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. If no oth- 

 ers than those named were present there 

 surely would be a good meeting. But 

 with the largest association (aside from 

 the National) that there is in the United 

 States, we expect a good meeting, which 

 everyone will enjoy in a measure equal 

 to the efforts each puts forth. Rail- 

 road fare now being 2 cents per 

 mile, is equivalent to one and one-third 

 fare last j'ear. So that railroad rates 

 are settled. 



As to entertainment, good beds in 

 private families can be had at 50 cents, 

 and meals can be gotten at restaurants 

 from 15 cents up. No one can have a 

 cheaper or better outing than this, and 

 also have the opportunity of shaking the 

 hands of brother and sister bee-keep- 

 ers. If you refuse to have a good time, 

 don't come ! Jas. A. Stone, Sec. 



Prof. H. A. Surface for Director 



At the recent meeting of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State Bee -Keepers' Association, 

 Prof. H. A. Surface, ex-president of 

 that excellent organization, was unani- 

 mously endorsed as a candidate for di- 

 rector of the National Association. The 

 election will be held this month. Penn- 

 sylvania is one of the States having a 

 very large membership, so they feel 

 that they are entitled to one of the 

 twelve directors, at least. 



Prof. Surface is an exceedingly val- 

 uable man to bee-keeping, and is doing 

 all he can to develop it in his own State. 

 He is a born investigator in the realm 

 of Nature, and is bound to make him- 

 self felt more and more along the line 

 of the honey-bee. 



More Bee-and-Honey Nonsense 



Mr. C. G. Chevalier, of Maryland, fre- 

 quently sends us items of interest, and 

 among several sent the past month is 

 the following which is about as wild as 

 anything we ever read on bees and 

 honey: 



Bee-Hash Honey. 



"What is heralded as the greatest dis- 

 covery of modern times lias just been 

 made here by Prof. Granville Hitchings 

 Smith, of the Lausanne Polytechnic In- 

 stitute, viz., the manufacture of pure 

 honey on a large scale by improving 

 on nature's methods, says the Lausanne 

 correspondent of the Chicago Inter 

 Ocean. 



"It is well known that Swiss honey 

 is the most delicious in the world for 

 the reason that the 'flora' of its moun- 

 tains is the most varied and extensive 

 of any on earth. The reader will please 

 remember that the 'little honey bee' 

 never gathers honey from flowers or 

 an>thing else, but simply a sweet sub- 

 stance which it takes into its stomach, 

 and which by the time it reaches its 

 hive becomes bv some unknown chem- 



ical process what is called honej', and 

 is there ejected by the bee from its 

 stomach into the comb. 



"The great discovery made by the 

 Professor is in producing it in immense 

 quantities by mechanical means and at 

 a low price, probably not more than two 

 cents a pound. Factories will be es- 

 tablished at once on the same plan as 

 butter and cheese plants, as the process 

 is being patented in all countries and is 

 simplicity itself. 



"Clover, wild flowers, cornstalks, 

 beets, watermelons, dates, etc. — ^in fact, 

 any substance containing saccharine 

 matter — can be brought to the factories 

 and crushed between porcelain-covered 

 rollers, the juice running into tanks, 

 where it is mixed with a small propor- 

 tion of the bee ferment, or 'sachrogen,' 

 as the discoverer calls it. 



"This queer substance is not only in 

 the bee's stomach, but permeates its en- 

 tire internal economy; therefore it has 

 been found best in practice to cut up 

 the bees in a kind of sausage chopper 

 (they first having been chloroformed to 

 prevent useless pain) and then the hash- 

 like material is pressed through a colan- 

 der and a tablespoonful of the liquid 

 is mixed with five gallons of the sac- 

 charine juice, which after a few min- 

 utes is transformed into the purest and 

 most delicious honey imaginable." 



Child and "Seated" Swarm 



Mrs. A. L. Amos, of Comstock, Nebr., 

 sent us the picture shown herewith, rep- 

 resenting one of her children with a 

 swarm of bees. The child is eating 



bread, but seems not to be at all un- 

 easy although there are so many bees 

 so near her. The swarm is on the seat 

 of a riding plow. It was fortunate that 

 Mrs. Amos had her camera in work- 

 ing order so that she could get such an 

 interesting picture. 



World's Pure Food Show 



Owing to the great success met by 

 the management of the World's Pure 

 Food show to be held in Chicago at the 

 Coliseum this month, the time for the 

 exposition has been extended. It will 

 run from Nov. 16 to 23, instead of Nov. 

 19 to 25, as originally announced. 



Managing director Thos. T. Hoyne 

 announces that the contracts for build- 

 ing the booths and scenic work alone 

 will involve an outlay of over $20,000. 



The Exposition is the most elaborate 

 that has ever been planned for the 

 Coliseum, and the prominade of all 

 nations in itself will eclipse the Streets 

 of Paris Show held in the Coliseum last 

 winter. Over 3,000 incandescent lights 

 will be used in the decoration scheme. 

 This number does not include nearly a 

 thousand which will stud a miniature 

 Eiffel tower which will rise from four 

 booths in the center of the building to 

 the roof. 



The color scheme for the booths will 

 be uniform and worked out in gold and 

 white. At each end of the building 

 there will be an enormous sunburst and 

 a huge wind-mill in action. 



The management of the Exposition 

 expects to handle from 150,000 to 200,- 

 000 spectators during the 8 days of the 

 Exposition, and has provided sufficient 

 aisle-space for this purpose. 



During the Exposition lectures on 

 cooking and other matters of utmost 

 importance to the household, including 

 demonstrations of simple tests of the 

 purity of foods, will be given in the 

 Coliseum Annex. 



The National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will have an exhibit of honey that 

 should help to increase the demand 

 for this best-of-all sweets. Mr. France 

 will be in charge, which fact will insure 

 an attractive and satisfactory exhibit. 



Bees Race Pigeons 



It is not generally known that bees 

 are swifter in flight than pigeons — that 

 is, for short distances. Some years ago 

 a pigeon fancier of Hamme, Westpha- 

 lia, laid a wager that a dozen bees lib- 

 erated three miles from their hives 

 would reach home in less time than a 

 dozen pigeons. The competitors were 

 given wing at Rybern, a village nearly 

 a league from Hamme, and the first 

 bee reached the hive a quarter of a 

 minute in advance of the first pigeon. 

 The bees were also sliglitly handicapped, 

 having been rolled in flour before start- 

 ing for the purpose of identification. — 

 Reader Magazine. 



Worcester County Fair 



The second annual Fair of the Wor- 

 cester County Bee-Keepers' Association 

 was held in Horticultural Hall, Wor- 

 cester, Mass., on Sept. 13 and 14, 1907. 

 The displays of honey-bees and bee- 

 implements was well worth seeing. The 

 purpose of the exhibition was three- 

 fold : To bring together for display 

 and competition the products of bee- 

 keepers ; to bring together for display 

 and competition the products of manu- 

 facturers and tradesmen ; and to edu- 

 cate the public. 



The judges were J. E. Crane, of Mid- 

 dlebury, Vt; H. S. Ferry, of Mt. Ver- 

 non, N. Y. . These are the awards: Best 

 5 pounds comb honey, first prize, F. H. 

 Drake; second. Miss Edith M. Rolston, 

 a Worcester schoolteacher; third, C. S. 

 Graham. Best crate comb honey, packed 

 for market, T. J. Lobdell ; best 2 frames 

 comb honey for extracting, F.H. Drake; 

 best display comb honey in general, first, 

 T. J. Lobdell; second, F. H. Drake; 

 third, J. S. Whitteniore. 



B-iSt 5 pounds extracted honey in 



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