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AMERICAN BEE ;OUPNAL. 



May 9, 1900. 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 COMPANY 



144 & 146 E rie St., Chicago, III. 



Entered at the Post-Oftice at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



Geokge W. York, - - Editor-in-Chief. 



?%.^k?;.^'"^'=^' iDepartment 



E. E. Hastt, 

 Prof. A.' J. Cook 



J 



Editors. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price ut tlii.s .Journal 

 is .*1.1KI a year, in the United States, Can- 

 ada, and Mexico ; all other countries in the 

 Postal Union, .tO cents a year extra for post^ 

 age. Sample copy free. 



The Wrapper-Label Date of this paper 

 indicates the end of the montli to which 

 your subscri])tion is paid. For instance, 

 "decOl" on your label shows that it is 

 paid to the end of December, 1901. 



Subscription Receipts. — We do not send 

 a receipt for money sent us to pay subscrip- 

 tion, but change the date on your wrapper- 

 label, which sliows you that the money has 

 been received and duly credited. 



Advertising Rates will be given upon ap- 

 plication. 



Reformed Spelling. — The American Bee 

 Journal adotits f he ( )rtli<iLTapliy of the fol- 

 lowing Rule, m ii'iided liy the joint 



action of the Ainerk-aji Fhilulogical Asso- 

 ciation and the Philological Society of Eng- 

 land: — Change "d" or "ed" final to "t" 

 when so pronounced, except when the •• e " 

 affects a preceding sound. Also some other 

 changes are used. 



National Bee Keepers' Association 



OBJECTS: 

 To promote and protect the interests of its 

 members. 

 To prevent the adulteration of honey. 

 To prosecute dishonest honey-dealers. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 

 E. Whitcomb, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, 

 A. I. Root, 

 E. T. Abbott, 

 P. H. Elwood, 

 E. K. Root, 



W. p. Marks, 



Dr. C. C. Mi 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Ernest R. Root, President. 

 R. C. AiKiN, Vice-President. 

 Dr. a. B. Mason, Secretary, Toledo, Ohio. 



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest Cit^ , Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



It^" If more convenient. Dues may be sent 

 to the office of the American Bee Journal, 

 when they will be forwarded to Mr, Secor. 

 who will mail individual receipts. 



A Celluloid Queen-Button is a very 

 pretty thing for a bee-keeper or honey-seller 

 to wear on his coat-lapel. It often serves to in- 

 troduce the sniijiTt r.f honey. 

 and frequeni !.\ Ii-:hN Iu a 

 sale. The tiii-iui'r v]i,,\vn 

 herewith is :i rcpiccluction 

 of a motto tiueeu-button that 

 we are furnishing to bee- 

 keepers. It has a pin on the 

 underside to fasten it. 

 Price, by mail, 6 cents; two for 10 cents; 

 or 6 for 25 cents. Send all orders to the office 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



Weekly Budget. I 



Feminine Pluck is exhibited by Miss Rose 

 Kennieott, who, in the good State of Colo- 

 rado, has workt uij in 12 years from .5 colo- 

 nies to nearly 300 colonies, with only the text- 

 Ijooks, bee-papers, and her own experience to 

 guide her. May her success continue. 



Mr. F. Gent, of Wright Co., Minn., who 

 has been offering bees for sale in our adver- 

 tising columns, wrote us April 30th, when 

 re-ordering his advertisement: " The Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal is a good puller." Of course 

 it is. If you have any good thing to sell that 

 bee-keepers want or need, offer it thru our 

 advertising columns. « 



Mr. N. E. France, of Grant Co., Wis., 

 writing us April 2"th, says : 



" Prospects are for a good honey crop in 

 Wisconsin this season. But some lost many 

 colonies of bees during the winter. 



" I am pleased to know that Michigan now 

 has a law to suppress foul brood. I have 

 wisht many times that every State had the 

 same, then the disease could be eradicated 

 with no importing or sending of diseased bees 

 from one State to another." 



Three Friendly Editors are shown on 

 the first page this week. The engraving 

 appeared first in the Bee-Keepers' Review for 

 March. Mr. Hutchinson had the following 

 to say, in part, concerning those represented 

 in the picture : 



It is a fortunate fact for the readers of 

 three of the leading bee-journals, that the 

 editors are really and truly friends. Instead 

 of wasting their time and energies, and using 

 up space in their journals, in " spats," they 

 all pull together for the good of the pursuit 

 to which their journals are devoted. 



When the Wisconsin bee-keepers last met 

 at Madison, these three editors met by ap- 

 IKiintment at the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 

 Paul station in Chicago, went together to 

 Madison, and whiled away the time on the 

 way by discussing liee-journalism — each try- 

 ing to learn from the experience of the others 

 how he might improve his own journal. 



E. R. Root was called home from Oberlin 

 College, some 1.5 or 20 years ago, to help his 

 overburdened father; and, gradually, he 

 workt into the editorial harness, until, at 

 last, he was " uivcii head," not only in Glean- 

 ings, but ill 111.' ivvisions of the "ABC" 

 hook. Mr. Kiiiii lia^ had exceptionally good 

 advantagi--- l<n- luniming a first-class bee- 

 keeping editor, lie was brought up with the 

 bees, and in connection with the largest fac- 

 ti.iry there is devoted to the manufacture of 

 bee-supplies. If I were to point out his lead- 

 ing characteristic, or, at least, the one that 

 has had a great deal to do with the building 

 up of Gleanings, I should say that it was his 

 affability — the faculty of making and keep- 

 ing friends. An editor has many times to 

 disagree with his correspondents, but Mr. 

 Root seems to be alile to do this without giv- 

 ing offense. There is a great difference be- 

 tween telling a man that he is a liar, and 

 explaining to him where he has made a mis- 

 take. Mr. Root takes the latter course. 



About the time that Bro. Root began work- 

 ing on Gleanings, I found George W. York 

 at work for Mr. Thomas G. Newman on 

 the American Bee Journal. After work- 

 ing several years for Mr. Newman, Mr. 

 York had the" ■' nerve " to buy the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. Only a pulilisher knows 

 what excellent business manageiiicMt there 

 must be to furnish such a papei- as the Ameri- 



can Bee Journal at .SI. 00 a year, but Bro. 

 York has shown himself equal to the emer- 

 gency. He has imbibed that Chicago spirit 

 of push and enterprise that succeeds where 

 common mortals fail. If I were to point out 

 Bro. Y'ork's leading characteristic, I should 

 say it was exactness, or correctness. That 

 disposition that leads one to say, " first be 

 sure you are right." And. haying decided 

 that he is right, Bro. York sticks to it. 



Working so long on a bee-journal, attend- 

 ing so many conventions, reading so much 

 bee-literature, etc., have enabled Bro. York 

 to become pretty well posted upon things 

 apiarian; and he succeeds in making a most 

 valuable journal — one that would be mist, 

 and sadly mist, were it to drop out of the 

 ranks. 



When it comes to writing of myself the 

 pencil halts. I have written in the Review 

 so much about myself that I Ijegin to fear 

 that it may be proving tiresome ; but I would 

 like to say this, that of late I am becoming 

 more imbued with the spirit of trying to help 

 bee-keepers, to be of some real and lasting 

 benefit to them; to arouse, encourage and 

 inspire them; to set them to thinking; to lift 

 them out of ruts ; and to lead them to look 

 upon their lousiness as a bushuKK. It is all 

 right to tell a man exactly how to perform a 

 certain piece of work, but sometimes it is of 

 more benefit to rouse him. and set him to- 

 thinking out problems for himself. 



We have no comment to add to the fore- 

 going, except to say that we are pleased to 

 present to our readers the portraits of our two 



" fellow-sufferers." 



The Mat Ladies' Home Journal, — Some 

 of the many excellent features of the May 

 Ladies' Home Journal are; "The Brilliant 

 Social Reign of Harriet Lane," " When John 

 C. Calhoun Went a-Wooing," " When the 

 Animals Escape from the Zoo," " Some 

 Remarkable Cases of Double Personality,'* 

 •'My First Colony of Bees," and Clara Mor- 

 ris' ■■ Frank Sen," the romance of a little 

 Japanese girl acrobat. To thosp arranging 

 for a summer holiday Edward Bok offers some 

 pertinent suggestions, and the methods of 

 " Preserving a Husband in Summer," and 

 "Keeping Summer Boarders with Success,'* 

 are dogmatically detailed. The admirable 

 pictorial features include a page drawing, 

 " President Lincoln's Call for Volunteers," 

 by W. L. Taylor ; "In the Fold," the first 

 prize picture of the 2<',000 photographs sub- 

 mitted in the Journal's recent contest; a page 

 of Miss Gertrude Kasebier's photographs — 

 the first of " The Foremost Women Photog- 

 rajihers of America " series — and two pages 

 giving " A Glimpse of Pictures(|ue Canada." 

 There are three architectural articles, and 

 seasonable contributions on gardens, flowers, 

 lawns, cooking, and needle-work. There are 

 also four pages from the Journal's fashion 

 writers and artists. By The Curtis Publish- 

 ing Company. Philadelphia, Pa. One dollar 

 a year; ten cents a copy. 



Somnambulist for several years has been 

 one of the most interesting and helpful con- 

 tributors to the Progressive Bee-Keeper — 

 often being referred to as a " dreamer." 

 " Wandering sleepy-head " would hardly be 

 appropriate. A Stray Straw in Gleanings 

 in Bee-Culture reads thus : ■ 



Somnambulist thinks that bee-keepers too 

 often say " I " when they should say " we," 

 thus giving due credit for the help of faith- 

 ful wives. Amen, say I. Also that wives, 

 like queens, sht)uld be chosen, not for beauty, 

 but for real worth. Now, here's what puz- 

 zles me: One who places such high estimate 

 upon the value of wives, and shows such dis- 

 criminating judgment regarding them, would 

 surely be expected to have a wife of the best 

 type; and yet, if I am rightly informed. Som- 

 nambulist, who is no longer a spring chicken, 

 has never had a wife. 



If we are " rightly informed," we can't 

 imagine what " Sommy " would do with a, 

 wife. 



