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AMERICAN BEE jOUENAL, 



May 16, 1900. 



GEORGE K. YORK S CONPAINY 



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



Entered at the Post-Ollice at Chieag-o as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



George W. Tore, - - Editor-in-Chief. 

 Dr. C. C. Miller, ) T^ 

 E.E. Hastt, n Department 

 Prof. A. .J. Cook, ) Editors. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Siib.scription Price of this Journal 

 is fl.uu a year, in the United States, Can- 

 ada, and .Mexico; all other countries in the 

 Postal Union. 50 cents a year extra for post- 

 age. Sample copy free. 



The AA'rapper-Ijabel Date of this paper 

 indicates the end of the month to which 

 your subscription 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 shows you that the money has 

 been received and duly credited. 



Advertising Rates will be given upon ap- 

 plication. 



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. Whitcome 



W. Z. Hl-tchinson, 



__. I. Re 

 E. T. Ai 

 P. H. El 

 E. R. Re 



VOOD, 



Thos. G. Newman, 

 g. m. doolittle, 

 W. F. Marks, 

 J. M. Hambaugh, 

 C. P. Dadant, 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Ernest R. Root, President. 

 R. C. AiKiN, Vice-President. 

 Dr. a. B. Mason, Secretary, Toledo, Ohi( 



EnGENE Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



irW It 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-lceeper or honey-seller 

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

 troduce the subject of honey, 

 and frequently leads to a 

 sale. 



Note.— One reader writes: 

 " I have every reason to be- 

 lieve that it would be a very 

 good idea for every bee-keeper 

 to wear one [of the buttons! 

 as it will cause people to ask 

 questions about the busv bee, and manv a con- 

 versation thus started would wind up with the 

 sale of more or less honey; at any rate it would 

 give the bee-keeper a superior opportunity to 

 enlighten many a person in regard to honey 

 and bees." 



The picture shown herewith is a reproduc- 

 tion of a motto queen-button that we are fur- 

 nishing 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. \ 



Rev. E. T. Abbott will soon lecture at the 

 high school in St. Joseph, Mo., on bees and 

 liee-keeping. He knows how to do it in an 

 interesting and profitable manner. 



Mr. O. O. Poppleton, of Dade Co., Fla., 

 writing us May 1st, said: 



" This season in this locality the honey-flow 

 will be an almost absolute failure, because of 

 lack of saw-palmetto bloom. I hear there is 

 plenty of bloom farther up the coast." 



Mr. Daniel Danielson, one of the promi- 

 nent bee-keepers of Turner Co., South Dakota, 

 gave us a call recently. He had Ijeen in a 

 Chicago hospital for awhile, and was al)Out to 

 return to his home and farm, where he looks 

 after the bees, not being able to do heavy 

 farm work any more. 



Mr. M. L. Trester, of Nebraska, called on 

 us May 3d. He is not now engaged in bee- 

 keeping, and has not been lor years. At one 

 time he was secretary of the Nebraska State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. Nearly 20 years 

 ago ho had a very expensive experience with 

 foul brood. It is an interesting story, as he 

 tells it, though one that he would not like to 

 experience again. 



Messrs. Bartlett Bros, it Merely, last 

 year, in one apiary in Utah, from 160 colonies 

 and their increase, took 55,000 pounds of A 

 No. 1 white extracted honey — 27\a tons, or a 

 shade more than 343 pounds per colony, 

 spring count. — tileanings in Bee-Culture. 



It is no great thing to get 343 pounds of 

 extracted honey from one colony — that has 

 often been beaten. To get that amount from 

 each of 25 or .50 colonies would be remark- 

 able ; from 160, spring count, in one apiary — 

 it is stupendous I 



Mr. Wji. M. AVhitnet. of Kankakee Co., 

 Ill , wrote us April 24th as follows: 



Friesk York : — I am trying to get caught 

 up on my reading matter, which accumulated 

 during niy long absence, and I spend much of 

 my leisure time with the ''Old Reliable.'' 

 While I expected to attend all the sessions of 

 the National Association in Chicago, on 

 account of ill health I was there at the open- 

 ing .session only. I have been very mucli in- 

 terested in the report of the proceedings. 



On many questions discussed, it is plain, I 

 think, that difference in locality, with differ- 

 ent climatic conditions, difference in trade 

 conditions, etc.. make all the difference in the 

 world in conclusions — change places and cir- 

 cumstances, and opinions reverse as quickly. 



I think you are entirely right in the matter 

 of labeling your honey. If any producer 

 desires to do a retail business, why, it would 

 be all right to label his packages: but it 

 would be presumptuous in me, to wholesale 

 to you. and expect my labels to reach the 

 retail trade or consumer. 



I am with the majority respecting the sec- 

 ond-hand tin cans. Of the few I purchased 

 two years ago, three were used— two spoiled 

 my honey, and the other was used for refuse 

 drippings. The balance have never been 

 taken from the cases. They were so rusty, 

 and smelt so badly, I dared not use them for 

 any purjiose for which I want cans. So I am 

 out the price paid, and §10 for wasted honey. 



I had heard nothing of your removal till 

 the day I called on you at your present loca- 



tion: nor did I realize the extent of your mis- 

 fortune till I read the account in the Bee 

 Journal. You certainly have the sympathy 

 of all your patrons, and it is hoped that what 

 seemK a misfortune may jjrove a blessing in 

 disguise. Your present quarters are certainly 

 much more convenient than the other. I am 

 just lazy enough at my age (73) to prefer 

 riding four or five blocks on street-cars, to 

 climbing two or three flights of stairs, when 

 I wish to find you. 



I hope you have not sustained a serious 

 loss. Truly yours. 



Wm. M. Whitnet. 



The loss on the stock of bee-keepers' sup- 

 plies was much larger than we anticipated at 

 the time we settled w'ith the insurance com- 

 pany. We should have had at least twice the 

 amount we received to cover the loss. But, 

 as you say, we believe our patrons will help 

 us out by giving us all the trade they can, 

 and especially try to help us extend the circu- 

 lation of the old American Bee Journal. For 

 all of which we will be truly grateful, and do 

 our best to give them good value in return. 



" Bee-Keeping bt an Amateur " is the 

 heading of an article in the Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 view, accompanied by a fine picture of the api- 

 ary of the •' amateur,"' Peter N. Duff, of Cook 

 Co., 111. Beginning less than two years ago, 

 he now has 52 colonies — a pretty good outfit 

 for one who calls himself an amateur. He 

 wintered his bees in a repository above ground 

 — a place generally condemned, but as he 

 succeeded in keeping the temperature between 

 40 and 4S degrees, he must be excused for 

 successfully wintering. A small oil-heater, 

 with chimney to carry off gases, raised the 

 temperature when too low. Success to the 

 genial Mr. Ditff. 



Mr. Geo. Thompson, of Geneva, 111., we 

 regret very much to learn, died April 14th. 

 He was one of the oldest bee-keepers in north- 

 ern Illinois, and a very stanch friend of the 

 American Bee Journal and its editor. We 

 feel that his departure is indeed a personal 

 loss, and our sympathy is extended to Mrs. 

 Thompson in her sad bereavement. We un- 

 derstand she has a number of complete vol- 

 umes of the American Bee Journal, which 

 she, of course, has no use for. and would like 

 to sell. Any of our readers desiring such 

 volumes would do well to write Mrs. Thomp- 



That Stort Abovt Bee-Trackers in 

 Texas who make a living by marking a single 

 bee as it leaves its hive, then following it 

 mounted on a bronco without ever losing 

 sight of it till it alights on a particular flower, 

 and thus the kind of honey is tracked for 

 each hive — the story is copied in the South- 

 land Queen with the remark that in that part 

 of Texas it isn't the men that track the bees, 

 but the bees that track the men ! No doubt 

 the men often "'make tracks," and that in 

 rapid succession, too. 



Mr. Chas. Koeppex reports in the Bee- 

 Keepers' Review that last year, without any 

 help, he took 14,000 pounds of comb honey 

 from six apiaries. Unfortunately the size of 

 the apiaries is not given, nor the yield per 

 colony. If he had 120 colonies averaging 117 

 pounds each, he must have had little time to 

 waste. If he had 2>i0 colonies averaging 50 

 pounds each, he must have done some remark- 

 ably lively stepping around. 



