1920 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



385 



High Grade Manufacturing Co., of 

 Cleveland, Ohio, namely, Gilso Roof 

 Paint. As it is very slow drying and 

 has a strong odor, it not only re- 

 moved the ants from the hives, but 

 also from the rocks. 



A. F. REXFORTH, 

 Harisburg, Pa. 



Note From England 



J. J. Kettle, in the British Bee Jour- 

 nal of September 9, spoke of a farmer 

 selling honey in sections "under the 

 hammer" at 2s 4d each. In normal 

 times this would mean 58 cents in 

 U. S. money. Under present exchange 

 conditions it means only about 42 

 cents per section. Mr. Kettle, who 

 writes a very interesting department 

 in the British Bee Journal under the 

 heading of "A Dorset Yarn," speaks 

 of tilling 50 acres of land and em- 

 ploying ten hands. Evidently they 

 till the land more thoroughly there 

 than we do here, for a farmer of Illi- 

 nois with 50 acres would rarely have 

 any help at all, but his horses and 

 machinery. 



The Indiana State Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation claims the gain of 40 new 

 members during the month of August. 

 Marion County heads their list of 

 members with 40 beekeepers. This is 

 taken from the Monthly Letter. Those 

 interested should write to C. O. Yosf, 

 Secretary, State House, Indianapolis. 



Remedies of Olden Days. 



For dysentery and other diseases of 

 the adult bee, Columella (De Re 

 Rustica; A. D. 45) r<;commended 

 feeding them good honey mixed with 

 pomegranate seeds or bark boiled 

 with wine. This made a tonic and 

 the wine evidently lost its alcohol lu 

 boiling. 



Merriam in Central America 



H. S. Merriam, formerly of San 

 Marcos, Calif., and son of Col. G. F. 

 Merriam, well-known to American 

 beekeepers, is now in Central Amer- 

 ica, handling several large apiaries. 

 Those countries, with such warm cli- 

 mate, have an almost continuous 

 honey flow. 



The Tin and Glass Market 



Friction-top cans and glass jars 

 are becoming easier to get, although 

 there is no reduction in price. Five- 

 gallon cans are still very scarce and 

 high in price. In June one glass com- 

 pany reported orders for a thousand 

 carloads which they were unable to 

 move. 



Iowa Men in Louisiana 



A. G. Kuersten and W. F. Reppert, 

 formerly of Burlington, Iowa, are 

 now rearing bees on shares for G. 

 Frank Pease, at Shreveport, La. They 

 report a crop of two or more car- 

 loads. Their honey at Burlington is 

 yet to be extracted, but the crop will 

 iie small. 



Longevity in the Use of Honey 



Ur. Miller, who lived to 89, used 

 honey for sweetening, and ate honey 

 every day. But he was not the fir.~t 

 man to consider honej' as a help to 



the lengthening of life. Diophane.;, 

 a Greek writer of heroic days, wrote : 

 "Eating only bread and honey gives 

 long life." Hippocrates, the "Father 

 of Medicine," 400 years B. C, wrote 

 that honey is nourishing and gives a 

 clear complexion, and a healthy ap- 

 pearance to aged people. 



Mexico 



Mexico is rapidly developing in bee- 

 keeping. The Dadant-Blatt hive, of 

 European countries, is generally used 

 there. This hive is practically the 

 same as the modified Dadant liive. 



New Bee Escape 



A four-waj- bee-escape has been de- 

 vised and is soon to be put on the 

 market by the G. B. Lewis Company. 



Better Freight Service 



Freight sliipments are now moving 

 more freely. Shipments taking two 

 weeks for delivery in the spring, are 

 now going through in four or five 

 days. 



Railroads of the United States have 

 recently placed orders for more than 

 a million steel cars for delivery as 

 soon as possible. Parties acquainted 

 with the steel markets insist that there 

 will be no reduction in steel prices 

 for eighteen months or more, owing 

 to the enormous demand for all sorts 

 of material by the railroads. 



Leaking Barrels 



The writer recently examined a 

 shipment of six barrels of honey 

 which had been shipped contrary to 

 railroad regulations; six-hoop barrels 

 of white pine. All were leaking badly 

 and robber bees were busy. Only 

 hardwood barrels should be used for 

 shipping honey, and these should 

 have at least eight hoops. 



A Good Crop 



L. L. Andrews, of California, re- 

 ports a crop of sixty tons of honey 

 for 1920. 



Second-hand Cans 



Many of the larger bottlers of 

 honey dispose of second-hand five- 

 gallon cans to oil and paint coinpa- 

 nies. They bring relatively a low 

 price, but this is far better than 

 trying to use them again for honey. 



A New Beeman in Texas 



W. C. Collier, of Goliad, Texa.s 

 writes announcing the arrival of a son 

 during early September. Mr Collier 

 will be remembered as one of Texas' 



largest beekeepers. He was a repre- 

 sentative at the Honey Producers' 

 League in Kansas City last winter 

 and while north visited Hamilton. 



A Live Texan 



E. G. LeStourgeon, of Texas, visited 

 Hamilton on his way back from 

 the Watertown meeting. A more dy- 

 namic man than LeStourgeon is hard 

 to find. With the aid of his Texas 

 associates he has made a great suc- 

 cess of the Texas Honey Producers' 

 Association, and if given proper sup- 

 liort, should make something of the 

 Honey Producers' League. 



The Fall Crop 



The honey crop in the fall regions 

 has been short, about half of last 

 year. Heartsease and aster yielded 

 little and the fall honey, therefore, 

 was practically all from Spanish nee- 

 dle and of a rich goldenrod color. 



A Tight Truck Body 



The Sunny South Apiaries of Texas 

 have a truck sufficiently tight that 

 Mr. LeStourgeon, the manager, was 

 able to restock his private pond 

 with fish hauled from a distance, us- 

 ing the truck as a tank. 



A Vacation Trip 



A fall trip in a houseboat has its 

 attractions. Such a trip is being 

 made from Meredosia, on the Illinois 

 River, to the Gulf, by a beekeeper, 

 Mr. Jas. Grover, of Hersman, 111. 



Scott County Beekeepers Meet 



The Iowa Beekeepers' Association 

 has organized a number of county 

 branches. One of these is the Scott 

 County Beekeepers' Association, 

 which held an outdoor meeting at the 

 farm of Chas. W. Lau, on Septem- 

 ber 21. More than 50 persons were 

 in attendance. Mr. J. H. Paarmann, 

 curater of the Davenport Academy 

 of Sciences, is the Secretary, and the 

 members credit much of the success 

 of the organization to him. 



The Lau farm is a place of unusual 

 interest to the beekeepSr, for in addi- 

 tion to a well-kept apiary, there is a 

 large collection of trees which are 

 seldom seen in Iowa. There were a 

 number present who had never seen 

 the yellow-wood, tulip tree or tulip 

 poplar, tupelo gum and others which 

 are far-famed sources of fine honey. 

 Mr. Lau has spent a life-time in 

 gathering a magnificent collection of 

 forest trees, some of which have been 

 growing for many years. In addition 



Scott County. Iowa, beekeepers taking it easy while they listened to E. M. Atkins 



