1918 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



381 



keeper, on the other i>and, would not 

 be subjected to profiteering on the 

 sale of his honey to a jobber. Since 

 the wholesaler must sell at a certain 

 price, it would be easy for the pro- 

 ducer to figure but a fair profit for 

 the middle man if he cared to mar- 

 ket his honey this way. The bee- 

 keeper would receive his share of 

 the pie, whereas at present, in many 

 cases, the middle man gets the big- 

 gest share. Even with many kinds 

 of honey to consider, a scale of 

 maximum prices for the various 

 honeys would be a possibility. In 

 the long run the producer would be 

 benefited by a more uniform price 

 over a series of years, and the 

 sharks of the honey market elim- 

 inated. Those who are satisfied with 

 a just profit would remain and the 

 friction between the producer and 

 the middleman would be lessened. 

 The plan is at least worthy of con- 

 sideration. 



The Swiss Bee Journal for June 

 says: "Beekeepers, feel concerned 

 about your wax. The time is near at 

 hand when foundation can only be 

 secured by the direct exchange for 

 an equal amount of wax." During 

 the month of May the price of wax 

 increased from 6.50 Fr. to 7.50 Fr. 

 per kilogram; and the price of foun- 

 dation increased during the same 

 period from 8.50 Fr. to 9.50 Fr. per 

 kilogram. Converted to terms of 

 pounds and our money, the price of 

 wax in May was increased from 64 

 to 73 cents per pound; and the price 

 of foundation from 83 to 92 cents 

 per pound. 



In an article in the July issue of 

 the Swiss Bee Journal, dealing with 

 the chemical analysis of honey, 

 Prof. Dr. H. Kreis states as follows : 

 "If honey is reduced to dryness so 

 that only a residue remains, and this 

 residue is burned, only ash will re- 

 main, i. e., a substance, not capable 

 of being burned further, consisting 

 of various bases, such as sodium, 

 potassium, and calcium carbonates, 

 magnesium and iron, which when 

 treated with phosphoric, hydro- 

 chloric, nitric or sulphuric acids can 

 be reduced to their respective salts. 

 Honey, therefore, contains the so- 

 called salts of nutrition. However, 

 their quantity content is extraordi- 

 narily small ; in most cases the ash 

 contains from .1 to 1%. There are 

 also honeys that contain less than 

 their ash, and the rule can be 

 laid down that the light honeys con- 

 tain less ash than the dark honeys." 



Oconomowoc, Wis. 



The Illinois Meeting 



The Illinois convention is post- 

 poned, owing to the influenza pre- 

 vailing at the time this was written. 



Mrs. Jas. A. Stone, wife of the 

 worthy secretary, died October 17, of 

 pneumonia, following the attack of 

 this trouble. Mr. Stone has the sym- 

 pathy of the fraternity in his sorrow. 



BEE MEN WORTH 

 KNOWING ABOUT 



beekeeper in spite 

 andicap 



A Texas Veteran 



John Donnegan, of Seguin, Texas, 

 is one of those delightful southern 

 gentlemen who make you feel that it 

 would be a joy to know more inti- 

 mately. In spite of a handicap which 

 would discourage the ordinary man, 

 he has been a successful beekeeper 

 for these many years. The photo- 

 graph shows the ingenious manner in 

 which he is able to handle hives and 

 supers with one hand. At the corner 

 of each one he has placed a screw- 

 eye in which he can fasten the snap 

 at the end of the strap hanging 

 across his shoulder. The strap thus 

 takes the place of one hand very 

 nicely. 



Mr. Donnegan is a well-known fig- 

 ure at Seguin, having held public of- 

 fice for a long time. 



New York State Association 



The New York State Association of 

 Beekeepers' Societies will be held in 

 Buffalo, X. Y., on December 3 and 4. 

 All beekeepers are invited to attend. 



Annual Picnic 



The annual picnic of the South 

 Minnesota and Western Wisconsin 

 Beekeepers' Association was held 

 this year on August 21, at the home 

 of one of the members, Mr. E. N. 

 Cady, Lewiston, Winona County, 

 Minn. The social side of these meet- 

 ings, we think, is of as much value as 

 the benefit derived from the bee 

 talks and demonstrations. 



The first item of each of these pic- 

 nic-- for the past three seasons has 

 been that the "host" member explains 

 his methods of handling his bees for 

 a complete year. Discussion follows 

 that with a carefully prepared pro- 

 gram. L. V. FRANCE. 



A Gentleman From Kansas 



No, we have not been hearing much 

 about Kansas beekeeping until re- 

 cently, but just the same Kansas bee- 

 keepers have been busy bringing 

 home the honey. The time was 

 when Kansas was chiefly famous for 

 dry weather and grasshoppers, but of 

 late they are producing as much al- 

 falfa, wheat, and as many apples as 

 the next one. Now Kansas is coming 

 into the limelight as a honey-produc- 

 ing State. 



Charles D. Mize is the President of 

 the Kansas Beekeepers' Association. 

 He has a very fine apiary down at 

 Mt. Hope, in the Arkansas Valley, 

 wlure he gets about 100 pounds per 

 colony of surplus, one year with 

 another. He became interested in 

 bees in his boyhood back in old Ken- 

 tucky and his interest has grown 

 with the years. It is safe to say that 

 Mr. Mize would miss his dinner to 

 meet a red-blooded beekeeper who 

 could tell him something new about 

 bees. 



Professionally he is engaged as a 

 field agent for a financial concern 

 with headquarters in Topeka, but 

 there is no more practical honey pro- 

 ducer in the State of Kansas. He 

 gives without stint of his time for 

 the success of the Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation and is enthusiastic in support 

 of every movement aimed at the ad- 

 vancement of beekeeping. 



