Nov. 16, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



729 



with honey made at least one meal each day, other food 

 being- eaten with the bread and honey at the other meal or 

 two, in order to make the proper variety. Some days he 

 ate a pound of honey a day, averaging-, week in and week 

 out, a third of a pound a day. 



Progressive Bee=Keeping — Root's " A B C of Bee-Cul- 

 ture " is a standing monument to the progressiveness of 

 bee-keeping. It is literally a s/a?iding monument, for it is 

 kept standing in type, each edition being brought up to 

 date. Think of 67,000 volumes of this book being printed I 

 That is something of a monument to the intelligence and 

 progressiveness of bee-keepers. It is estimated that there 

 are about 300,000 bee-keepers in the country. According to 

 that, about one in four has a copy of the " A B C." Does 

 one farmer in four own a SI. 20 book devoted entirely to 

 farming? Docs one in ten ? 



Reformed Spelling seems likely to get a foot-hold in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture. It called for a postal-card ballot 

 of its readers as to whether it should adopt certain reforms 

 in spelling, and has received quite a number of responses 

 favoring the reform, with only one dissenting vote. M. 

 D. Andes wrote : " At first I was opposed to the changes, 

 but after reading the American Bee Journal for a time I 

 rather like it. " Gleanings will be welcomed as a compan- 

 ion to help make people like what is good for them. 



" The Hum of the Bees in the Apple-Tree Bloom " is 

 the name of the new bee-keeper's song — words by Hon. 

 Eugene Secor and music by Dr. C. C. Miller. This is 

 thoug-ht by some to be the best bee-song yet written by Mr. 

 Secor and Dr. Miller. It is, indeed, a " hummer." We can 

 furnish a single copy of it postpaid, for 10 cents, or 3 copies 

 for 25 cents. Or, we will mail a half-dozen copies of it for 

 sending us orn- NCw yearly subscription to the American 

 Bee Journal. 



The Largest Linden in the World, as Editor Root 

 thinks, is pictured in Gleanings in Bee-Culture. It is in 

 Linwood Park, 30 miles west of Cleveland. Ohio, and is 

 truly a monster. It is eight feet in diameter, and inside 

 there is a hollow in which there is room for six or eight 

 people. 



Bee.lnspection in Tulare Co., Calif.— Josiah Gregg, 

 bee-inspector for Tulare Co., Calif., in his last report to the 

 supervisors, gave information of wide interest. He was 

 appointed for 25 days, and this is his summary of work for 

 IS days in March and 10 days in September, as reported in 

 the Pacific Rural Press : In March he found and destroyed 

 according to law, three cases of foul brood. In September 

 he reports as follows : 



" I have inspected all the apiaries that were known to 

 have foul brood at any time, and all bees within a radius of 

 two miles of all infected apiaries, and have failed to find a 

 single case of foul brood ; and I have reason to believe that 

 the disease of foul brood has been entirely eliminated from 

 the count}- of Tulare. During my last term of 10 days I 

 have inspected 1,182 colonies, an average of about 118'per 

 day. 



'■ I find by a review of all my reports for three years, 

 that in the year 1897 I caused to be destroyed 28 cases of 

 foul brood ; in the year 1898. 16 cases, and in the j'ear 1899 

 three cases, a total for my administration of three years of 

 47 cases of foul brood. 



"Apiculture is fast assuming an enviable position 

 among the most prominent industries of the county of 

 Tulare. In the year 1898 five carloads were shipt from the 

 county, and during 1899 10 carloads will be shipt, being 

 about 130 tons, all extracted honey. There has been but 

 little comb honey produced, probably enough to supply the 

 local markets." 1 



Mr. O. C. Fitts, a bee-keeper of Kane Co., 111., called 

 on us Nov. 4, when in Chicago. 



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Mr. F. a. Gkmmii,!,, of Ontario, Canada, writing us 

 Nov. 1, said : 



"We had a fair season in our locality, but a poor season 

 generally in Canada." 



Mr. Gemmill is the assistant official inspector of api- 

 aries in the Province of Ontario, so he has exceptional op- 

 portunity to learn of the general honey crop. 



Mr. Geo. W. Collins, of Larimer Co., Colo., called on 

 us last week. He reports a good crop of honey in his 

 locality the past season. He expects now to locate in 

 Sonoma Co., Calif. Mr. C. said one bee-keeper in a town 

 of about 2,000 population in Larimer Co., Colo., has a local 

 trade that requires 40.000 pounds of extracted honey an- 

 nually to supply it. The bee-keeper referred to has five 

 apiaries, and sells his hone.v at 6 cents a pound at his home, 

 the customers bringing their pails or other vessels to get 

 the honey in. But 6 cents a pound is " away down " thia 

 year. 



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The Republic of Chile is fast coming to the front as 

 a honey-producing State. A German paper speaks of it as 

 the California or Eldorado of bees. It enjoys a favored 

 climate, greatly simplifying wintering. Bee-keepers in 

 that country are ably represented by El Apicultor Chilena 

 (The Chilean Bee-Keeperl, edited by Juan Dupont-Lafitte, a 

 man who is fully abreast with all that is going on in bee- 

 dom. Chile might be represented by a green ribbon an 

 inch wide and a yard long, its real length being about 

 2,600 miles. With the Andes Mountains on the east and 

 ocean on the west it enjoys a fine climate for bees. Their 

 summer is, of course, our winter. — Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



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Hon. Eugene Secor, General Manager of the United- 

 States Bee-Keepers' Association, will attend the next meet- 

 ing of the Minnesota Bee-Keepers' Association, to be held 

 in the court house at Minneapolis, Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day, Dec. 6 and 7, 1899. He will speak on "The Adultera- 

 tion of Extracted Honey, and Ho%v to Prevent It." The 

 latter part of this subject is just what bee-keepers in many 

 places have long been wanting"- to know. We hope Mr. 

 Secor has a successful method, for 'tis said, "An ounce of 

 prcveniioyi is worth a pound of cure." Then there's no. 

 place on earth, we believe, where there is such large oppor- 

 tunity for applying a method for the prevention of the 

 adulteration of honey as right here in Chicag-o. We would 

 welcome with open arms both Mr. Secor and his prevention 

 scheme — if the latter isn't patented ! 

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Mr. W. a. Pryal, of San Francisco Co., Calif., writ^ 

 ing us Nov. 4, said : 



"I presume you have already been informed of the 

 glorious fall rains we have had : the grass is now g'-reen 

 everywhere, and the air is balmy and delicious. The Octo- 

 ber rainfall was the greatest ever recorded for that month 

 in California. 



"Recently I embraced the opportunity to make a 

 friendly call upon Mr. Thomas G. Newman, and I was sur- 

 prised to find that he can see with difficulty. He volun- 

 teered the statement that his eyesight is getting so bad 

 that he is almost blind. He attributes it to nervousness — ■ 

 he having head-troubles very much. I should say that in 

 this latter affliction he is not altogether unlike the late 

 Father Langstroth. I am very sorry for Mr. Newman's 

 misfortune, and I trust he will soon recover his sight. He 

 states that he hopes to take a vacation soon and spend some 

 time in the mountains recuperating." 



We had received a letter from Mr. Newman a few days, 

 before hearing"- from Mr. Pryal, in which was mentioned the 

 affected eyesight. Surely, all will regret to learn of Mr. 

 Newman's affliction, and hope for speedy and full recovery. 



