1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



489 



14 and 15 as the time for holding the convention, commenc- 

 ing on the 13th at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and closing the 

 evening of the 15th. 



The program for the convention is not yet quite com- 

 pleted, and will not be in time to be put In the monthly bee- 

 papers before September, but will be In the American Bee 

 Journal and Gleanings by Aug. 15. The program will be 

 similar to the one prepared for the Buffalo convention last 

 year, containing bee-keepers' music, and the first page of the 

 cover will be occupied by an illustration containing the photo- 

 graphs of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, 

 with an appropriate background. Any one desiring one or 

 more copies of the program can obtain the same by sending 

 five cents In stamps to the Secretary, for each copy wanted. 



If the place of meeting, hotel rates, etc., are not given in 

 the bee-papers in time, those attending the convention will 

 find a printed notice posted in each railroad depot in Omaha, 

 on the days of the meeting. 



Any one not a member of the United States Bee-Keepers' 

 Union may become such by sending a dollar to the Secretary, 

 or General Manager Secor, or the editor of any of the bee- 

 papers. Don't send a dollar bill unless in a registered letter ; 

 and if you remit to me by post-office money order, have it 

 drawn on Sta. B, Toledo, Ohio. 



A. B. Mason, Secretary. 



Now that the date of the convention is settled, everybody 

 can begin to make plans for being present. 



Remember the date — Sept. 13 to 15. And the place — 

 Omaha, Nebr. 



Later. — Since the foregoing was put in type we have re- 

 ceived the following letter that Mr. Whitcomb sent to Dr. 

 Mason : 



Omaha, Nkbr., July 22, 1898. 



Friend Mason: — The Delone Hotel, corner of 14th street 

 and Capitol avenue, is where the convention will be held, and 

 which will also be the headquarters of the Union. Rates for 

 rooms, on the European plan, .SL.OO a day ; board §1.00 a 

 day. No one will be askt to double up, but each person will 

 be given a bed, and be taken care of at this rate as long as 

 there is a room in the bouse, even if it takes rooms that cost 

 §■±.00 a day. 



In order to reach the hotel from the Union Depot, take 

 the Dodge street car and transfer at l-4th street for the Sher- 

 man avenue line ; 5 cents pays the entire bill for carfare. 



Those who desire to take rooms and secure meals outside 

 will be at liberty to do so. Rates for meals at restaurants 

 and chop-houses from 10 to 50 cents. 



The limit of tickets will give 10 days in which to see the 

 Exposition and attend the meeting. E. Whitcomb. 



Getting Ne-w Subscribers.— Many of our regu- 

 lar subscribers have done good work lu getting new sub- 

 scribers for the American Bee Journal. We appreciate their 

 efforts, and thank them besides sending them the premiums 

 we have offered and they have earned. 



But we want 1,000 more new subscribers by October 1 — 

 during August and September. That ought not to be a hard 

 job when you consider the premiums we offer regular sub- 

 scribers, on page 490, for the work of getting the new ones. 



We are beginning all new subscriptions with July 1, as 

 we have plenty of back numbers since that date, and as we 

 want all the new readers to have a complete set of Mr. 

 White's nine articles on "Profitable Bee-Keeping." 



Perhaps some of our present subscribers would prefer to 

 pay their own subscriptions instead of taking premiums for 

 sending new subscribers. Well, we can accommodate them 

 all right. Send us three new subscribers for a year, at $1.00 

 each, or seven new subscribers for the last six months of 

 1898, at 40 cents each, and we will credit your subscription 

 for one year ; or send as four new six-months' subscriptions at 

 40 cents each, and we will credit your own subscription for 

 six months. 



Now it seems that with all the offers we are making in 

 various places in thjs number of the Bee Journal, the 1,000 

 new subscribers ought to come very easily in the next two 

 months. 



See " Bee-Keeper's Guide" offer on page 477. 



Editor Hutchinson, of the Bee-Keepers' Review, in Gen- 

 esee Co., Mich., reports the best honey-flow in years in his 

 locality. 



Mr. J. W. KuHN, of Republic Co., Kan., has sent us a copy 

 of his very neat catalog for 1S9S, offering improved golden 

 Italian queens and bees for sale. 



This Interesting (?) Editorial paragraph we find in one 

 of our apiarian exchanges : 



" We are now out of Mason's fruit-jars, and as the price 

 is nearly double what it was formerly, we will not purchase 

 any more until they are lower." 



Mr. S. a. Niver, of Tompkins Co., N. Y., writing us July 

 2, said : 



"Clover was fine in looks, but yielded no honey. Bass- 

 wood bloomed in great shape, but gives up but little surplus. 

 Five pounds surplus per colony would be about my estimate. 

 Buckwheat is our old stand-by." 



Mr. a. I. Root, of Gleanings in Bee-Culture, called on us 

 last Friday, when on his way to Yellowstone Park, and other 

 places in the great Northwest. Mr. Root seemed well and 

 cheerful, and spent the day riding all over Chicago on our 

 bicycle. We were glad we could furnish the "horse" for him 

 to ride and put in a pleasant day. He rides like a boy and ap- 

 pears to enjoy life hugely. 



Mr. J. T. Calvert, of the A. I. Root Co., spent about a 

 half day with us July 22. He had been maklnga several-days' 

 tour among some of the supply dealers in Michigan and Wis- 

 consin, and found that they, like his own firm, had past 

 through a very busy season. Mr. Calvert was looking well, 

 and seemed to be ready for another grand rush in the bee- 

 supply business. They are contemplating the making of ex- 

 tensive improvements and additions to their present capacity 

 for turning out implements for bee-keepers. 



Mr. E. M. Storer, who has 200 colonies in the vicinity 

 of the great Okefinokee swamp of Southern Georgia, writes 

 that while he has considerable stock of extracted honey of 

 this year's crop on hand in 60-pound cans and 500-pound 

 barrels, destructive forest fires are responsible for a much 

 shorter crop than would otherwise have been obtained. Our 

 Southern friends seem to be " catching it " all around from 

 fires this year. Our own apiary in South Florida has been no 

 exception.— Editorial in American Bee-Keeper. 



Ye Editor spent two most enjoyable days at the home of 

 Dr. C. C. Miller last week— Wednesday and Thursday. It 

 was 90- above zero while there, but pleasant nevertheless, 

 for that home is in a cool place— " set on a hill, and can't be 

 hid"— and is very restful and refreshing. At least we found 

 it so. Next week we hope to tell more about our visit to the 

 "Medicine Man of the Marengoes." We returned just about 

 an hour ago (Thursday evening, July 28), and will not have 

 room in this week's number of the American Bee Journal to 

 speak further of our trip. 



The a. I. Root Co. give a few statistics in Gleanings for 

 July 15, as follows : 



"In the year beginning July 1, 1897, and ending June 

 30, 1898, we have made about 1(3 nilllion sections of all kinds 

 and sizes, besides buying about four million from other manu- 

 facturers, and turning away orders for many more. Our out- 

 put of Weed process foundation In the same time was 55 tons, 

 while Chas. Dadant & Son made o:> tons, or 88 tons in all, or 

 176,000 pounds of Weed process foundation sold in the 

 United States within the 12 months. Several tons of what we 

 made was exported. Since we have been making fences we 

 have turned out half a million of the various styles." 



We will be glad to give statistics from our other adver- 

 tisers if they will forward them to us for publication. 



