February, 1909. 



American ^ee Journal 



vehicles had not yet left the home 

 grounds. 



During his life he "saw the buffalo 

 disappear and the red man take his flight ; 

 he saw the herds go and the farmer take 

 his place; he saw the little settlement 

 known as Grand Island, grow to a city 

 of 10,000 inhabitants : he saw the desert 

 wastes made to bloom as the rose ; and 

 he saw the ignorant barbarians supplant- 

 ed by the scholar and the school. * * * 



"With a heart of love he lived for 

 others, and was unmindful of himself. 

 He has left the world better for hi^ 

 living, and has thus not journeyed here 

 in vain. He loved his father and mother, 

 and hoped to live that he might be as a 

 staff unto them in their declining years." 

 These are the words of one who spoke 

 concerning the life of Richard StoUey. 

 The earnest sympathy of a host of 

 friends will go out to the sorrowing 

 family in this their time of mourning. 



with the report of the Illinois State brook will have the sympathy of all in 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. Mrs. Hoi- her untimely .ind unexpected sorrow. 



Duncan Cameron McLeod. 



D. C. McLeod, of Pana, 111., died De- 

 cember 3, 1908, at the age of 8r years. 

 He and Mrs. McLeod celebrated their 

 50th wedding anniversary last July. He 

 had been a bee-keeper for many years, 

 and a reader of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal. 



R. B. Holbrook. 



R. B. Holbrook was a member of the 

 Chicago-Northwestern Association, and 

 attended its last meeting in December, 

 1908. On account of continued ill health 

 and despondency, he committed suicide 

 January 4, 1909, at South Elgin, 111., by 

 shooting through the head. Unlike most 

 suicides, Mr. Holbrook had made careful 

 preparation for the step, and his earthly 

 affairs were all well settled before lie 

 ended his life. 



Mr. Holbrook was 45 years of age, and 

 for several years was a prominent Dec- 

 keeper at May fair, 111., (a Chicago sub- 

 urb) from which place he moved to 

 South Elgin, with 100 colonies of bees, 

 several months ago. 



In a note to his wife he gave explicit 

 instructions as to the conduct of her 

 affairs, advising hef to continue to care 

 for the bees, but to dispose of their 

 poultry-business. ' 



Mr. Holbrook had been chief engineer 

 for several large firms in the East be- 

 fore coming to Chicago several years 

 ago. At 15 years of age, when most 

 boys are building up their bodies, he was 

 compelled by death of his father to go 

 to work to support the family, and under 

 the severe strain his health became im- 

 paired. When later in life he found his 

 health failing rapidly, he gave up his 

 engineering work and moved to May- 

 fair, where he took up bee-culture as a 

 business. When he and his wife decided 

 to add chicken-raising to their bee-keep- 

 ing they needed more room, and so pur- 

 chased a place at South Elgin last fall. 



Mr. Holbrook was a very pleasant 

 gentleman to meet, and took a deep in- 

 terest in the conventions of the Chicago- 

 Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Association. 

 His name will appear quite cfien in the 

 published report of the last meeting, 

 which will soon be issued in connection 



Conducted by EMMA M. WILSON, Marengo. Ill 



Putting Hives Together Almost Put- 

 ting Married Folks Apart. 



The nearest to a quarrel that "my John" 

 and I ever came, after 25 years of married 

 life, was when we came to put together the 

 bee-hives we purchased last spring. There 

 were at least 100 pieces for each hive, and the 

 hives were entirely different from those I had, 

 so it puzzled us considerably to fit the pieces 

 together to comprise a whole hive. Several 

 pieces I was sure went one' place, and he 

 thought another. We settled the matter of the 

 3-cornered blocks for contracting the bee-en- 

 trances, by writing to the manufacturer and 

 asking what they were for. 



.Vfter much wrangling we built our hives. 

 So take my advice, and buy them built and 

 save a divorce-suit. Ohio Bee-Woman. 



The carriage on such bulky articles as 

 hives made up is so heavy that it ijiight 

 be as expensive as a divorce-suit. Pos- 

 sibly the expense is not the only item, 

 and if you set so much store by your 

 John that you don't want to lose him, 

 get hives without so many pieces. 



The 8 or 10 frame dovetailed hives 

 would fill the bill. They are so simple 

 in construction that no divorce-suit could 

 possibly grow out of their building. If, 

 however, you must have a loo-piece hive, 

 get a single one ready made as a pattern, 

 and the rest "knock-down." 



The MUler T-Super. 



"A Reader" (page 24) seems not en- 

 tirely suited with the T-super. As it 

 was one of the first he tried, it is quite 

 possible that his inexperience had some- 

 thing to do in the case, and that if he 

 were to give it a trial now it might 

 please him better. In this "locality" we 

 have found nothing better, and we have 

 tried perhaps a larger number than has 

 "A Reader." 



His chief objection is that the exposed 

 surfaces of the sections are "bee- 

 stained." It is true that bees have the 

 chance, if they will, to cover the entire 

 top and bottom with bee-glue. But bees 

 do not care much to plaster bee-glue 

 over a plain surface. Their greatest de- 

 light is to plug it into all cracks and 

 crevices. So it happens that the first 

 supers taken off may be about as clean 

 as when put on, whereas when tops and 

 bottoms are protected they inanage to 

 crowd into the cracks some bee-glue in 

 spite of the coverings. Even if, later 

 on, the bees should glue the plain sur- 

 face, it is easily cleaned. 



"A Reader" speaks of "sandpaper 

 dust, which is not wholesome, all over 

 the comb honey." He must have made 

 very awkward work to accomplish that. 

 We do things better here, as he would 



easily believe if he were to see the beau- 

 tifully clean sections that always com- 

 mand the highest price for fancy. 



He thinks the T-super not up-to-date, 

 -and a time-killer. Well, we make some 

 effort to be up-to-date in this locality, 

 have given trial to a number of supers, 

 and an experience of a number of years 

 with 1000 T-supers ought to count for 

 something against his exoerieixes when 

 a beginner with a single super, or at 

 least not a large number. 



As to its being a time-killer, some- 

 thing may be judged from our last sea- 

 son's work. Two of us — neither very 

 strong — with very little outside help, 

 harvested nearly 20,000 sections of honey 

 and that with the T-super. But we are 

 not interested in that, or any other super, 

 only so we get the best results, and if 

 "A Reader" will mention just a few of 

 the many supers that he says are far 

 superior, and if among the many we can 

 find just one that is even a little better 

 in getting good results and in saving 

 time, there is nothing to hinder our mak- 

 ing a change. E. M. W. 



Tincture of Myrrh for Bee-Stings. 



After trying solutions of soda, salt, 

 and carbolic acid, all in turn, for poison 

 from bee-stings, and receiving no bene- 

 fit whatever, after going 3 days with one 

 eye swollen shut and the other nearly 

 so; after the children cried for their 

 mother, failing to recognize me, I read 

 this cure for bee-stings: 



Apply tincture of myrrh as soon as 

 you are stung, and all pain and swelling 

 will cease instantly. 



And what made me provoked was that 

 on my pantry shelf stands a large bottle 

 of tincture of myrrh, which has been 

 there all summer. It is not likely that I 

 will be stung again this year, for I have 

 "put my bees to bed" for the winter, but 

 will send this in for some one else to try. 

 Ohio Bee-Woman. 



Pays to Read a Bee-Paper. 



One time I went to the phone and 

 said, "Hello, hello, is this 24 K? 



"Yes." 



"This is Mrs. Brown, and I am getting 

 subscribers for the American Bee Jour- 

 nal." 



"How much a year?" 



"Seventy-five cents." 



"Well, guess I can't afford to pay that 

 much. I know enough about bees now." 



"But the Journal will teach you more ; 

 how to get more honey, to rear new 



