1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



809 



Mr. M. C. Bingham, of j^Coos Co., Oreg., wrote us Dec. 9 : 



" The American Bee Journal has been a great source of 

 information, and as long as I keep bees I hope to be able to 

 send in my dollar for it each year. The last season was not a 

 favorable one for bees here." 



Rev. E. T. Abbott, of Missouri, will again represent the 

 United States Bee-Keepers' Union at the second annual meet- 

 ing of the National Pure Pood Congress, to be held in Wash- 

 ington, D. C, in January, 1899. Bee-keepers may expect 

 good work done by Mr. Abbott, and an Interesting report at 

 the close of the convention. 



Hon. E.' Whitcomb. the new and popoular President of 

 the United States Bee-Keepers' Union, will deliver an address 

 before the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, at its meeting 

 the second Wednesday in January, in Topeka. His subject is 

 " Practical Lessons In Bee-Keeping." Bee-keepers near 

 enough to attend, as well as all others, should be present if pos- 

 sible. Mr. Whitcomb is an interesting talker on bees and — 

 we were going to say " Indians." Yes, he knows the red men 

 pretty well, too. At least you would have thought so could 

 you have seen him join in their war dances at the Omaha Ex- 

 position. 



Mr. H. E. McGregor, of Outagamie Co., Wis., wrote us 

 as follows, Dec. 13 : 



" In sending my subscription for 1899 I find that I have 

 taken the Bee Journal for 10 years. To say that it has been 

 first-class is not putting the matter too strong. I am sur- 

 prised that some of your readers can read the excellent articles 

 of Dr. Miller, Dadant, Doolittle, and others, and then neglect 

 to send in their dollar (in many cases overdue) to the editor to 

 keep the Bee Journal financially intact. Come, friends, shell 

 out that dollar, and make the editor happy ; and if you can 

 get an extra subscriber, why, that will make his wife happy, 

 also." 



Mr. E. B. Huffman, of Winona Co., Minn., writing Dec. 

 13, said: 



" The price of the American Bee Journal Is simply noth- 

 ing as compared with the information a person receives from 

 its pages. I could not entertain the idea of doing without it, 

 as I often get more than the value of my subscription in one 

 article; in fact, to a beginner it is very valuable. You may 

 take the country at large, and where you find a man that 

 makes a success of keeping bees you will find that generally 

 he is a reader of the Bee Journal. I could refer you to some 

 who will not take the Bee Journal, and their bee-business i» a 

 failure. But I want it as long as I keep bees. Our bees seem 

 in good condition so far ; they went into winter quarters all 

 right." 



Mr. a. W. Hart, of Stephenson Co., 111., sends the fol- 

 lowing as a final reply to the controversy between himself and 

 Mr. Kevins, whose last contribution appeared on page 710 : 



" Mr. Bevlns seems to think I have been giving him ' Hall 

 Columbia.' I have felt no bitterness, have not felt hurt, and 

 have nothing to pardon. He concedes now my question was 

 fair, that I was honest, etc., and would take all back. Does 

 not this admit he has been aggressive? How, then, is it fair 

 to say I am brimful of belligerency ? And that it is reasonable 

 to suppose I will continue the war, etc., when from first to last 

 I have been on the defensive ? 



" I am aware of the unprofitableness of such a contro- 

 versy, and that in our American Bee Journal it is out of place, 

 and only have replied to Mr. B. as he seemed to be pursuing 

 me. I have done, and will leave the matter on its merits, as 

 Mr. B. has gotten around on the original question, and would 

 like to know as I did — Why Italian bees store the best honey, 

 etc." 



As Mr. Bevlns, we believe, on two occasions wrote that he 

 meant no disrespect to Mr. Hart, we conclude that the fore- 

 going will be the end of the personal part of the discussion. 

 If there is anything more to be said, let it refer directly to the 

 original question. 



Adulteration in Germany. — In Centralblatt is reported 

 the case of two men who were fined $200 each for dealing in 

 adulterated honey. 



Apis Dorsata. — " May be I am wrong, but it seems to me 

 Apis dorsata should be tried in its own climate, and that 

 pretty thoroughly, before we can go to great expense in bring- 

 ing them to this country." — Editor E. R. Root, in Gleanings. 



Low Freights on Honey in England. — At a conversa- 

 zione of British bee-keepers. Miss Leigh said a spring crate 

 made to carry two dozen sections would travel 50 miles on 

 the Great Western Railway for 16 cents, and was returned 

 empty to her from her customers. — British Bee Journal. 



Consumption of Honey "When Breeding.— R. C. Aikin 

 thinks bees consume no more during the entire winter and 

 spring up to May than they do in a month while breeding 

 heavily in May and June, the consumption in Colorado being 

 abojit 15 pounds of .honey each month at that time. — Pro- 

 gressive Bee-Keeper. 



Foul Brood 100 Years Ago. — About 1T90, for the cure 

 of the pest or foul brood, it was advised to put the diseased 

 colony in the condition of a swarm, and this is the method 

 counseled in one of the late numbers of the American Bee 

 Journal, which method we will publish at an opportune 

 moment. — Le Rucher Beige. 



Extracting-Frames, C. P. Dadant thinks, should be of 

 medium depth. He objects to " little, shallow, 4 Ji-inch toy 

 extracting-frames," which make too much haudling for the 

 amount of honey harvested; but objects just as much to having 

 them the same depth as the brood-frames, believing six inches 

 about the right depth. — Gleanings. 



"Apartment" and "Department" are words that con- 

 tinue to get mixt up in the bee-journals. Doesn't "apart- 

 ment " refer to space and " department " to kind ? The linen 

 and the woolen departments of a store may be in the same 

 apartment, and one of these departments may occupy two 

 apartments. When a queen goes up into a super, she goes 

 into another apartment.— Stray Straw, in Gleanings. 



Santiago de Cuba as a Bee-Country.— L. P. Hiorns re- 

 ports in Gleanings that he saw no colonies in hives except four 

 at Siboney, 8 inches square inside, 2 feet long, open at each 

 end, with a piece of burlap, having an inch hole for an en- 

 trance, hanging over the ends. He advises against locating 

 apiaries there. W. W. Somerford is to make a trip through 

 Cuba with wheel and camera, and report as to bee-keeping in 

 Cuba, especially about Havana. 



Don't Overstock. — " All my personal experience points to 

 small apiaries for greatest profit," says that delightful 

 dreamer. Somnambulist, in Progressive Bee-Keeper; "hence, 

 the out-apiary question, with all appertaining thereto, is of 

 most vital importance to the would-be financially successful 

 bee-keeper. But a few territories will profitably employ large 

 apiaries. No mistaking the prominent middle finger pointing 

 to this fact." But have you lost the index finger, Sommy, that 

 you don't use that for a pointer? 



Large, Single-Story vs. Small Twro-Story Hives.— C. P. 

 Dadant cannot agree that it is as well to have the same 

 amount of room in two stories as to have it all in one story 

 with larger frames. He says In Gleanings that he thinks it 

 better when two stories are used, to give the additional story 

 below rather than above the one containing the early brood- 

 nest, but he thinks it still better to have only one story, with 

 frames 2',,' inches deeper than the Lingstroth. A single story 

 of eight Langstroth frames is too small, and two stories too 

 large. If comb honey is the object, the bees will put 20 or 

 more pounds of surplus below, that ought to go In sections, if 

 two stories are given. 



