1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



347 



explain that the Senate bill just passed is 

 supplemental to the State pure- food laws. 

 It forbids the importation from one State to 

 another, or delivery, of any article of food, 

 drugs, or liquor which has been adulterated 

 or misbranded. In short, one writer char- 

 acterizes it as " an act to compel manufac- 

 turers to tell the truth about their products. " 

 Prof. H. W. Wiley, Chief Chemist of the 

 Department of Agriculture, has for years 

 advocated a national pure food law; and it 

 must be no little satisfaction to that official 

 to see the national Senate get into the band- 

 wagon, and well they may; for unless these 

 dignified Senators stop their tactics of ob- 

 struction of measures demanded by the peo- 

 ple and by our good President, those same 

 dear people will see to it that new Senators 

 are elected by popular vote, as they should 

 be and will be. 



THE RAPID INCREASE IN THE SUBSCRIPTION 



LIST TO GLEANINGS, AND THE DON'T- 



TAKE-A-BEE PAPER BEE-KEEPER. 



It may be interesting to know that we are 

 taking in new names at the rate of 800 per 

 month on the average, in excess of those 

 who drop out. We never made such a gain 

 as this before. We attribute this result to 

 the improvements we have been making in 

 the journal, to the increase in the amount of 

 reading matter as well as to the more vigor- 

 ous policy of advertising. There have been 

 thousands and thousands of bee-keepers who 

 took no bee- paper, who are not in touch with 

 the great outside bee-keeping world, who 

 knew nothing of the price current on honey, 

 and would sell their goods ' ' at any old price. ' ' 

 Our increased subscription- list is going to be 

 the means of educating a large percentage 

 of these people into an inteUigent co-opera- 

 tion that will result in the betterment of the 

 product as it goes to the market and to the 

 betterment in price. The large non- reading 

 public has been a powerful factor in making 

 prices on honey unstable. It is the "don't- 

 need-a-bee-paper " bee-keeper who has done 

 a good deal of harm to the industry because 

 he does not know and can not know what is 

 going on, and therefore pursues a policy in- 

 imical to himself as well as to the better 

 posted of the same cru,ft. 



A NEW PRINTING AND PUBLISHING HOUSE FOR 

 GLEANINGS. 



Owing to the rapid increase in our circu- 

 lation, and to the further fact that our print- 

 ing department has been strained to its ut- 

 most capacity, presses running night and 

 day, and still behind, we are now making 

 our plans for putting up a large building, 

 somewhere about 60X100, two- story, to take 

 in the office and publishing department. 

 This will seggregate this feature of our busi- 

 ness away from the tire hazard of the wood- 

 working, machine-shop, and packing depart- 

 ments. 



We shall probably put in one of the most 

 improved type-setting machines at an aggre- 

 gate cost of over $3000, and another fast 

 printing-press, in addition to those we already 



hdve, at an aggregate cost of $3000 or $4000. 

 The new press will nearly double the capa- 

 city of our present Gleanings press, and, 

 what is more, it will do nicer work. 



The new building will probably be made of 

 concrete, and be practically fire-proof. The 

 lower floor will be made up entirely of the 

 printing and binding departments, and the 

 upper floor will be devoted to the office and 

 composing- room s. 



THE TWO cities THAT ARE PULLING FOR THE; 

 next MEETING OF THE NATIONA L g 

 BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION, f. 



Two cities are making a strong pull for 

 the next meeting of the National Association 

 — St. Paul, Minn., and San Antonio, Texas. 

 Both are centers of a fine bee country. St. 

 Paul urges the extremely low railroad rates 

 of a cent a mile because of the G. A. R. 

 meet in that city. It is convenienvly situ- 

 ated to take in all the great Northwest, in- 

 cluding the territory adjacent to Chicago. 

 But whenever the convention follows the G. 

 A. R. there is almost sure to be a conges- 

 tion at the hotels, and poor accommodations. 

 San Antonio was to have had the convention 

 a year ago, but feels it was cheated out of 

 it by the yellow-fever scare, and has been 

 making most strenuous efforts to meet the 

 railroad rates promised by St. Paul. Some 

 of the leading bee-keepers, inc uding Direct- 

 or Toepperwein, have finally secured a 

 home-seekers' rate, which is three-fourths 

 of the cost of the fare one way. This will 

 make the extremely low rate of $20 for the 

 round trip from Chicago to San Antonio, 

 with corresponding rates from other points. 



San Antonio is in the center of one of the 

 bee paradises of the United States, and I 

 presume it would make an aggregate show- 

 ing of bee-keepers at the convention, if the 

 season happens to be favorable, that would 

 surpass that of any previous meeting any- 

 where. 



I understand the Executive Committee of 

 the National are taking the two points into 

 careful consideration, and no doubt will soon 

 be able to announce the time and place of 

 the next convention. 



AN EFFECTIVE OHIO FOUL- BROOD LAW AT 

 LAST. 



It will be remembered that, two years 

 ago, the bee-keepers of this State succeeded 

 in getting a county foul- brood law; but it 

 lacked one important word to make it effec- 

 tive. It appears that the original draft of 

 the bill stated that, on petition properly- 

 signed, "the county commissioners shall, 

 within five days, ' ' appoint a person as bee- 

 inspector. The expense of such inspector 

 was to be paid out of the county funds. It 

 appears that the bill would have failed of 

 passage because of its mandatory clause; 

 and the friends of the measure finally con- 

 sented to have the word may substituted in 

 place of shall, in order to get something 

 rather than nothing at all. 



When it came to putting the law into ac- 



