1920 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL] 



11 



D. Barone, New York City 3.00 



M. D. Johnson, Webster, la.— 5.00 

 J. W. Stine, Burlington, R. F. D., 



Iowa. 2.00 



E. J. Baxter, Nauvoo, 111. 5.00 



H. M. Elder, Hamilton, 111. 5.00 



W. P. Southworth, Sioux City 



la; 10.00 



T. G. Lytle, Baltimore, Md. 2.00 



Howard G. Pfaltzgraff, Dumont, 



la. S.OO 



W. C. Kelsey, Orland, 111. 2.00 



Edw. M. Cooke, St., Terryville, 



Conn. 1.00 



Total $408.85 



Additions to subscriptions in sup- 

 plies : 



A. E. Crandall, Berlin, Conn., 12 

 Queens; Texas HoneyProducers' As- 

 sociation, San Antonia, 200 pounds 

 foundation; Noah Bordner, Holgate, 

 Ohio, 1 year A. B. J. and 5 pounds 

 foundation; Chas. Boone Saunders, 

 Meron, Ind., 10 queens; J. W. Stine, 

 Burlington, la., 6 queens. 



Total approximate subscribed, $1,000. 



Here is a man who is "all wool and 

 a yard wide," or, as a Frenchman 

 would say, "bon teint.": 



"Enclosed find $1.25, for which 

 please send American Bee Journal 

 for one year to some beekeeper in 

 France or Belgium, with instructions 

 to pass it on from one beekeeper to 

 another, as I think they need good 

 bee literature as much as supplies. I 

 am also sending you 5 pounds of 

 foundation, which please forward to 

 the needy beekeepers of Europe. 



"NOAH. BORDNER, Holgate, O." 



Indeed we will do as requested, and 

 if we should be unable to find Bel- 

 gian or French beekeepers who can 

 read English, we will send the French 

 edition of Langstroth in place of the 

 Journal. 



Perhaps we can give a good idea 

 of present conditions over there by 

 quoting a letter received from the 

 village of Grandpre, already men- 

 tioned by us, which we visited in 

 1913, as described in American Bee 

 Journal of September, 1913, and Janu- 

 ary, 1914. This village, in the Ar- 

 gonne, was often mentioned during 

 the war, and was re-conquered by 

 the Americans: 



''At this time, November 8, there are 

 workmen of many nationalities, in 

 Grandpre, for they are building tem- 

 porary shelters for the inhabitants. 

 The work of rebuilding homes cannot 

 be begun till spring. 



"Our sons are still in the army. My 

 sister lives in the Cote D'Or with her 

 husband. As to our old cousin, he 

 died right here under Prussian rule. 



"I send you pictures of our old vil- 

 lage. At the end of Montfiie street, 

 on the right, the American Society of 

 Friends have fi.xed up a big house 

 where they give work to the young 

 girls. That is where our little Geor- 

 gette goes to work every day. It 

 helps a great deal, for winter is at 

 hand. It has been snowing, and there 

 is no other work yet. The winter 

 bids fair to be hard; but if we keep 

 our health, we will get along. 



"MRS. CHORIN." 



Come on, Boys ! Let us have more. 



Doctor Miller Improved 



I am in receipt of a letter from 

 Doctor Miller, as follows: 



"I am happy to report that "Rich- 

 ard is himself again" — or at least in 

 that neighborhood. I now sit up a 

 third of the day, and yesterday went 

 outdoors as far as the big basswood 

 in front of the house. I am told that, 

 with care, several years are before 

 me, but over-exertion at any time 

 might be fatal. I'll try to keep shy of 

 over-e.xertion. But I have no feeling 





that anything is wrong with me ex- 

 cept the feeling of weakness. 



"So send on your questions and I'll 

 scratch around to find the answers. 

 "C. C. MILLER." 



No, Doctor, we are not going to 

 send you any Questions to answer 

 for a while yet. We ask the readers 

 who have questions to ask, to con- 

 tinue sending them to the American 

 Bee Journal office. We are going to 

 do our share to keep you from over- 

 exertion. 



L'Apicoltore Changes 

 Its Home 



Count Visconti Di Saliceto and Dr. 

 Emilio Triaca, President and Vice 

 President of the Italian Society or 

 B'eekeepers, make announcement, in 

 the October number of L'Apicoltore, 

 that after January 1, this periodical, 

 which will enter its 53rd year of life, 

 will be published at Reggio, Calabria, 

 by its present editor, Dr. Vincenzo 

 Asprea. Dr. Asprea is an experi- 

 enced and a capable linguist. He is 

 therefore amply fitted to continue 

 the progressive course of this pro- 

 gressive periodical. We wish him and 

 the old reliable magazine great suc- 

 cess. L'Apicoltore has been pub- 

 lished in Milan since its establish- 

 ment in 1868. It gives more quota- 

 tions from American bee magazines 

 than any other publication in the 

 world. 



Montfiie Street, in Grandpre, in the Argonne. The building on the right, with a roof on, was 

 restored by the Americans and is now used as a work room for girls. The fourth or filth 

 house on the left, was the home of a beekeeper, Mr. Urique, in 1913, when we visited there. 

 Mention was made of him in A. B. J. for September, 1913. He was also a candle-maker. 



Tariff 



"The writer firmly believes that 

 this country should have a tariff ot 

 from 3 to 5 cents a pound on honey. 

 American honey is at present con- 

 fronted with foreign competition and 

 in most cases this competing honey 

 is of an inferior grade, produced in 

 foreign countries where labor is 

 cheap, and such competition is quite 

 unfair to the beekeeping interests 

 of America, where the best honey of 

 the world is produced. ..." 

 — The California Honey Bowl. 



Almost exactly the same argu- 

 ments may be read in foreign bee 

 magazines against American honey, 

 which they also say is of low grade 

 and cannot be compared with their 

 own product. Tariff is a two-edged 

 sword. You may become convinced 

 of the necessity of a tariff when you 

 take only the selfish view. But when 

 you read it in the other country's 

 magazine, you realize how unfair 

 such arguments are. 



