June 15, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



377 



The greatest business enterprises have been built up 

 ■on broadcast advertising', and this is necessary for every 

 business, both small and great. 



I take it that all the bee-papers vrould publish free any 

 remarks Mr. Secor and Dr. Mason chose to make on tlie 

 progress and aims of the Association. Articles could be 

 sent to one bee-periodical with the request that all the 

 ■others copy. 



If the officers of the Association did not wish to make 

 all the contributions themselves, they could request some 

 bee-keeper to write a paper for publication on some phase 

 ■of the Association's work. Suppose prominent apiarists look 

 up the number and form of mixtures and adulterations of 

 honey in Indianapolis, New Orleans. San Francisco, New 

 York, Cleveland, and other large cities, and report the same 

 thru the papers for our information and instruction. 



The first step toward curing any disorder is a perfect 

 knowledge of the symptoms. This matter of adulteratiim 

 and prevention of the same is being agitated b_v the people 

 more than ever before ; and we must dig up new ideas and 

 new methods of work, or have the procession pass us. 



Herman F. Moore. 



We hope that Messrs. Secor and Mason will consider 

 the foregoing suggestions in the same friendly spirit in 

 which we know they are given. People are not tumbling 

 •over each other these days to get into an organization that 

 they know but little about. Inform them, and they will be 

 ready to join, provided the information shows it to be 

 worthy of their support. Let us keep the excellent objects 

 ■and work of the United States Bee-Keepers' Association 

 •ever and always before the bee-keeping public. 



Apis Dorsata Caught at Last. — Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture for June 1 contains a letter from Rev. W. E. Rambo, a 

 missionary in India, who has found a colony of Apis dor- 

 sata. It was on a limb of a tree about 60 feet from the 

 ground, and very difficult of approach. Seen thru a field- 

 glass, Mr. Rarabo reports the bees as very beautiful. He 

 spent from 9:30 p.m. till 4:30 a.m. in the tree ; smoked the 

 bees, and secured half of them, but does not know whether 

 he got the queen or not. The single comb was 30 inches by 

 about IS deep. The greater part of the comb dropt to the 

 ground, and was made into jam, but enough was secured to 

 fill nearly three Langstroth frames. Those who are anx- 

 ious to secure Apis dorsata will watch with much interest 

 to see what success Mr. Rambo may have in taming the big 

 bee. 



'TT Mr. O. O. Poppi.eton, of Florida, we understand, ex- 

 pects to be at the Philadelphia convention. He's a man 

 worth seeing. There are many others like him in beedom. 

 And some of them also will be in Philadelphia when the 

 bee-keepers "swarm" there in September. Better get 

 readv to go. The convention begins Tuesday evening. 

 Sept" 5. 



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~~~Prof. E. a. Gastm.\n, of Decatur, 111., is, I think, the 

 nestor of superintendents of city schools in this countrv. 

 For 38 consecutive years he has been in the public schools 

 of that city, and its superintendent ever since it had a 

 superintendent. On a delightful visit at his home he told 

 me he had never made much money out of bee-keeping (I 

 think he never reacht 100 colonies, and his location is poor), 

 but the delightful out-door work had kept him in condition 

 for going on with his work when others were worn out. I 

 think he's about 65 years young. [The Doctor might have 

 said that, had it not been for the bees, /w probably would 

 not have been among us now. Years ago, if I make no 

 mistake, he gave up a lucrative position, having a fat salary 

 attacht to it, on account of his health. DHe preferred a 



smaller salary, God's pure air, and a longer lease of life. 

 And he got them. The bee-keeping fraternity can rejoice 

 that we have so mai'.y professional men in our ranks. We 

 have our lawyers, doctors, members of Congress, and our 

 senators, school-teachers, professors in colleges, many of 

 whom have been driven to bee-keeping as a pleasant and 

 profitable pastime. Such men in our ranks liave done much 

 to enrich our literature and exalt our calling. Is there any 

 other rural pursuit that can show such an array of talent ? 

 — Editor.]— From Dr. Miller's " Stray Straws " in Glean- 

 ing-s in Bee-Culture. 



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Hon. J. M. Hambaugh, the inspector of apiaries 

 for San Diego Co., Calif., writing us June 1, reported as 

 follows : 



" Friend York : — It has been so miserablj' cold and 

 disagreeable on the coast that I have not been able to get 

 out inspecting, but am awaiting suitable weather. This I 

 know sounds strange to come from this land of sunshine. 

 Yes, and to cap the climax, last night and to-day we have 

 had in the region of '. inch of rainfall, which, in considera- 

 tion of the hay and g-rain crop being nearly all cut and 

 lying loose upon the ground, is more of a calamity than a 

 benefit. Of course it will help out the bees, and the fruits 

 w,^ll be benefited, but it is one of California's 'little jokers.' " 



Dr. Miller has told on himself again (and this time 

 also gets somebody else's " fingers in the pi "). Here's one 

 of his " Stray Straws " in June 1st Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture : 



" On my return from Illinois Sunday-school convention 

 I sat with Editor York and his efficient helpers around his 

 festive board, or, rather at one side of the board, for the 

 board was up against the wall in the printing-offi.ce, and 

 the noon-day lunch tasted all the better because the fair 

 hands that prepared it had been setting type just before." 



It's a wonder the Doctor didn't tell what he had for 

 dinner that day. But it likely was so little that it failed 

 to fill up any, and thus was not noticeable. If those " fair 

 hands " ever get hold of the Doctor again, they'll make a 

 good case of printer's pi out of him. He won't be so " fes- 

 tive " after that. 



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Mr. Herm.\n F. Moore, secretary of the Chicago Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, is rapidly becoming one of the great- 

 est bee-cranks in this part of the country. He talks bees 

 most of the time when awake, and we doubt not his wife 

 could testify to his keeping up an almost constant buzz in 

 his sleep. Mr. Moore was invited to address the students 

 of the academy of Northwestern University, at Evanston, 

 111., on the subject of " Bees and Flowers," Friday, May 19. 

 Prof. H. F. Fisk. principal of the academy, in a letter sent 

 to Mr. Moore afterward, had this to say in reference to the 

 apiarian address : 



" My De.\R Mr. Moork : — I desire to express my hearty 

 appreciation of your interesting address to the school on 



last Friday I wish I could give you an honorarium 



that would suitably recognize the real value of the service 

 rendered to our young people. 



" Yours very truly, H. F. Fisk." 



Then the Evanston Index for May 20 contained the fol- 

 lowing notice of Mr. Moore's talk : 



"An address on 'Bees and Flowers' was given by 

 Herman F. Moore, secretarj- of the Chicago Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, at the academy chapel exercises yesterday 

 afternoon. 



" For an hour Mr. Moore kept the ' preps ' interested by 

 the number of unsu.spected phases of apiarian lore he pre- 

 sented. Oueeii-bees and their royal vagaries, the best 

 methods of hiving swarms, the races of bees, the hexagonal 

 forms of cells, the difi'erences in flavor produced in honey 

 from different flowers, poisonous hone5-. wild honey, were 

 all successfully treated. From these subjects the lecturer 

 past to the great establishments owned bv some American 

 bee-'Keepers, and phenomenal yields of honej-. 



"The address was ingenious, and showed special re- 

 search." 



Mr. Moore is an interesting speaker, and fully informed 

 on his subject. He |is a hard worker, and unless we miss 

 our guess he will be heard from in a very efl'ective manner 

 very soon. Keep your ear close to the ground for awhile. 



