September, 1909. 



American Vae Journal 



Laug-sti-oth Book "Special" 



We have about 30 copies left of the 

 book. "Langstroth on the Honey- 

 Bee," of the edition just preceding the 

 last. It is practically equal to the 

 latest edition, and we will mail them so 

 long as thev last, for OM cents a copy. 

 (The regular price is $l.-5ii.) Or, we 

 will send one of the above 00-cent 

 copies with the American Bee Journal 

 one year— both for $1.30. Surely this 

 is a bargain. Remember, we have only 

 about 30 copies left, so if yon want one 

 of them you will need to get your or- 

 <ler in quickly. Send to the office of 

 the .American Bee Journal. ]4t) \V. 

 -Superior St., Chicago, 111. 



How About Yoiir Advertising? 



Have you anything to sell.' -Any bees, 

 honey, hives, or anything else that you 

 think the readers of the .American 

 Bee Journal might want to buy.' If so, 

 why not offer it through our advertis- 

 ing columns? See rates in the first 

 column of the second page of every 

 number of the Bee Journal. We try to 

 keep our columns clean and free from 

 any dishonest advertising. Such can- 

 not get in, if we know it. We want 

 the patronage of just as many clean, 

 straight, square-dealing advertisers as 

 we can secure. No others need apply 

 to us for space. 



Northeastern Wis. Contention 



The ■ Northeastern Wisconsin Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold its next 

 convention in Mishicott, Wis., Oct. 

 2!(!, 1909. A program will be prepared, 

 and all bee-keepers who can possibly 

 attend are cordially invited. 



Ch.\s. W. Voigt, Sec. 



Tisch Mills, Wis. 



Some Congratulations 



Hon. Eugene Secor, of Forest City, 

 Iowa (now postmaster there), wrote 

 us as follows Aug. 18, 1909 : 



Editor York;— I want tocontrratulate you 

 on the continued improvement in tlic* .\meri- 

 can Bee Journal. You are publisliinn a good 

 paper, and I don't see but that it fills the 

 bill just as well as a weekly, now that we've 

 gotten used to it. 



.\nd that grand young man you've called 

 in to lielp you— Dr. Miller— how we love 

 liim! May he live to be a hundred years, to 

 prove that bee-keeping combined with lov- 

 ableness are the guarantees of longevity. 

 Eugene Secok. 



Accompanying the foregoing much 

 appreciated words, was this beautiful, 

 as well as seasonable, poem : 



A Golden Anniversary Song. 



.\ rtame is on the goldenrod. 



It lights up every lane; 



.\ joy is in my heart again — 

 .\nd both are gifts of God. 



The goldenrod was bright that tlay 

 When we as lovers plighted— 

 When we as lovers were united 



Beneath its golden spray. 



Sunshine got tangled in the flower 



.\nd lingers with it fain, 



.\nd sunshine lights Love's golden chain 

 That binds us in our bower; 



.\nd sinishine glints along the rtiad 

 Of life, with lovu along. 

 And strains of golden-noted song 



Have blest our joint abode. 



The goldeii-helted honey-bee 



I-trings golden harvest liome. 



To store in golden honey-comb - 

 Her well-earned golden fee; 



So when the golden beauties nod. 

 .And love is sweet and true. 

 I hiess the Father for these two— 



l-'or ///(■(■ and goldenrod. ' 



El'OENE Skcok. 



A Humming Business 



" So you like the experience you have of 

 keeping bees?" 



"Yes: you sec no matter how the market 

 is depressed in other things, it is a business 

 which keeps on humming." 



anadiaii 

 ISeedom 



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Conducted bv J. L.-BYER, Mount Joy, wnt. 



The Buckwheat Prospects 



liuckwheat is late with us this sea- 

 son, and ordinarily we get our surplus 

 from this plant before Aug. 'Z-j, in our 

 locality. However, if we shotild get 2 

 weeks or 10 days of warm weather the 

 prospects are good for a crop of honey 

 from this source, as we have a large 

 acreage and the recent rains have put 

 it in great shape. 



Some of the Season's Experiences 



We were fortunate in lujlding our 

 bees well together during the very 

 short and rapid flow we had from 

 clover, and naturally when the clover 

 was passed no more trouble from 

 swarming was anticipated. However, 



this is a year (jf e.xtremes and contra- 

 dictions in the bee-keeper's line, and 

 the swarming feature is not an excep- 

 tion to the other problems cfinfronting 

 us in the business. Although little sur- 

 plus came in for two weeks or more 

 after clover, yet there was a "picking" 

 all the time, and then buckwheat came 

 into bloom. 



At the .Altona yard the buckwheat 

 bloomed earlier than at the other 

 places, and whether because of very 

 populous colonies or other reasons not 

 accounted for, anyway the bees started 

 to swarm. It may be supersedure, but 

 in the most cases last year's queens are 

 the ones that have been causing the 

 trouble, while there arc a lot of 2-year- 

 olds in the yard. 



On Aug. 13 I happened to be at the 



yard, and out came an enormous swarm 

 with an old, clipped queen. By the 

 number of dead bees around the en- 

 trance of the hive nearest the one 

 swarming. I could see that they had 

 been out once before, anyway, and 

 probably two or three times. Exami- 

 nation showed the young queens to be 

 emerging, so it is altogether likely they 

 had been coming out for 4 or ■"> days 

 hand-running. 



Today (Aug. 18) another big swarm 

 came out, and in this case the young 

 queen was with the swarm, and others 

 were emerging inside of the hive. 

 Clipped queens certainly saved both of 

 these swarms for me, and although of 

 not so much value as earlier in the sea- 

 son, yet the prospects are that they will 

 fill up in good shape for winter. 



Today 1 took an inventory of the 

 yard under discussion, and I find that 

 one swarm has absconded since the 

 clover flow, yet the value of that one 

 swarm would" not begin to pay for the 

 time that would have been necessary 

 for an occasional visit and examination 

 of colonies. 



Canadian Honey Crop Crisis 



The Canadian Bee Journal for July 

 was issued late, so as to include the 

 report of the Honey Crop Committee. 

 This says in part: 



It was somewhat of a surprise to us to find 

 the average yield per colony only about 5g 

 pounds— a trifle over that of last year, which 

 reported 55 pounds. In the face of this the 

 Committee concluded that honey should, 

 command almost as good a price, and sug- 

 gest No. I light extracted I'/i cents to lo'A 

 cents per pound, wholesale, and 12'A cents 

 per pound retail. For No. i white comb. 

 S1.80 to $2.25 per dozen, wholesale. No. 2 

 comb. $1.50 to Si.75 per dozen, wholesale. 



Ontario Apicultural Experiment Station 



Everybody has been so busy that 

 scarcely anything in the way of apicul- 

 tural news has been circulating. Per- 

 sonally, I have been wondering how 

 the new .Apicultural Station has been 

 progressing, but by reason of this busy 

 time, as mentioned, I have not written 

 Mr. Pettit. However, I had the pleas- 

 ure of meeting Secretary Hodgetts for 

 a few minutes just a day or so ago, and 

 from what he tells me I believe the 

 buildings, e<|uipment, etc., are going on 

 nicely, and in the near future we will 

 have a station for apicultural investi- 

 gations that will be a credit to the in- 

 dustrv. 



I have faith in .\lr. Pettit, and I be- 

 lieve he enjoys the confidence of the 

 bee-keepers as a body; this, with a 

 friendly Government, should surely 

 give us all we could reasonably ask for. 



Golden Italians and Black Brood 



When speaking about the black brood 

 outbreak, I forgot to mention that Mr. 

 Scott is very enthusiastic over the 

 Golden Italians, as they seem much 

 more immune to the disease than are 

 other races of bees, the leather-colored 

 Italians not excepted. 



I have been rather prejudiced against 

 these bees, on account of their poor 

 wintering outdoors in our latitude, but 

 in the section where the disease is rag- 

 ing, cellar-wintering is practiced almost 



