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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL, 



May 23, 1900. 



EEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Post-Oflioe at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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

 Dr. C. C. Miller, ) -r, 

 E. E. Hastt, (Department 



Prof. A. J. Cook, ) Editors. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is ?1.U0 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 Wrapper-Label Date of this paper 

 indicates the end of the month to which 

 your subscription is paid. For instance, 

 "deeOl" 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 



OIJJECTS: 

 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, 



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, Ohio. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



I^" 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-keeper 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 

 tiood ideaforevery bee-keeper 

 to wear one [of the buttonsj 

 as it will cause people to ask 

 questions about the busy bee, and many a con- 

 versation thus started would wind up with the 

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

 ^ive the bee-keeper a superior opportunity to 

 enlig-hten 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. 



I Weekly Budget, j 



Dr. Peiro has removed to 78 State Street, 

 Chicago, opposite Marshall Field's, where he 

 would be pleased to see friends of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal at any time when they are in 

 the city. 



(t. M. Doolittle "gets off" the following 

 in one of his editorials in the Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper for May : 



Packing Pollen. — An amateur bee-keeper 

 once told how this was done in these words : 

 '■ When a bee brings pollen into the hive, she 

 advances to the cell into which it is to be de- 

 posited, and kicks it oH; another bee. one of 

 the indoor hands, comes along and rams it 

 down with her head and packs it into the cell 

 as the dairymaid packs butter into a tirkin. 

 The paper publishing, said, "We prefer not to 

 have any dairymaid pack our butter that 

 way." Another paper seeing l»th of the 

 above, remarked, " If our butter must be 

 packed in that way, let it be done by a bald- 

 headed dairymaid." Still another paper, 

 after reading all the above, ventured, •• We 

 will add that in either case it would be • dand- 

 ruff ' on the butter." 



Daft City Fathers. — The Daily Camera, 

 of Boulder, Colo., for May 4th, contained this 

 paragraph which is of interest to bee-keepers : 



"Our neighbor, Longmont, is beginning to 

 feel <iuite metropolitan. She has passed an 

 ordinance to keep cows off the main street 

 and now tackles the bee-question. Hereafter 

 no person shall be allowed to keep more than 

 i colonies of bees in the corporate limits. 

 This ordinance has caused a humming and 

 Inizzing Ijeside which the noise of the bees 

 was as nothing. The matrons and farmers of 

 the town are up in arms, and reallj' it does 

 look as if the town council is putting on un- 

 wonted airs. Why banish the busy i^ee and 

 the luscious honey i" ^ ] [ . 



It must be that Longmont rulers think 

 their bee-keepers are enjoying a bonanza, 

 and that they must do what they can to keep 

 them down, or drive them out. Instead of 

 trying to encourage an honest and honorable 

 industry there seem to be people who would 

 lirefer to destroy it entirely. But we can 

 hardly believe that a majority of the residents 

 of Longmont will permit such an imposition 

 upon their bee-keepers as the one suggested 

 in the foregoing quotation. 



Mr. Mackenzie, the Propolis Man. — 

 Those who attended the National Convention 

 at Chicago last August will recall the dis- 

 cussion of the question as to the practical use 

 of propolis, or whether it has any commer- 

 cial value. A man by the name of John Mac- 

 Kenzie, of Troy. N. Y.,rwas present with sam- 

 ples of leather and furniture polish, in which 

 propolis was a prominent^ingredient. We be- 

 lieve he offered to pay 50 cents per pound for 

 propolis, saying that he expected to be able 

 to use it in large quantities. 



It seems that Mr. A. G. Wilson, of Vernon 

 Co., Wis., sold Mr. MacKenzie a quantity of 

 propolis, but has been unable to secure pay- 

 ment for same. He wrote us during the win- 

 ter about it, asking us to do what we could to 

 help him get what Mr. MacKenzie owed him 

 for the propolis. We wrote the Troy man, 

 but'received no reply. A few weeks ago Mr. 

 Wilson again wrote us, when we again wrote 



MacKenzie, saying that if we did not hear 

 from him within two weeks we would men- 

 tion the matter in the American Bee Journal. 

 We are now simply keeping our promise to 

 him. 



Mr. Wilson, vniting us May 8th, gives the 

 following facts : 



Friend York : — 



On or about Nov. 1, 1900. I sold and shipped 

 to John MacKenzie, of Troy, N.T., IJ5 pounds 

 of propolis at 25 cents per pound. After 

 waiting a reasonable time for settlement. I 

 wrote and reminded him of the shipment and 

 the amount due me, to which he made no re- 

 ply. I then drew on him through the bank, 

 and you will see the results (dishonored 

 drafts, etc., are enclosed). I have not heard 

 from him in anyway since I shipped the prop- 

 olis to him. The propolis was sold through a 

 sample sent to him, he agreeing to pay for it 

 as soon as it arrived in TYoy. These are the 

 facts in the case. Yours truly, 



A, G. Wilson. 



We do not know whether there are any 

 other bee-keepers who have been so unfortu- 

 nate as to have shipped any propolis to Mac- 

 Kenzie. We trust not. We were hoping that 

 Mr. MacKenzie was all right, and that he 

 really had found a good use for propolis, as 

 we were aware that certain bee-keepers would 

 be able to supply it in fair quantities. 



If our memory serves us rightly, Mr. Frank 

 Benton also met Mr. MacKenzie, and told him 

 he had about 40 pounds of propolis saved up, 

 which he would ship to him. We think Mr. 

 MacKenzie asked him to ship it C. O. D. We 

 have since wondered whether Mr. Benton sent 

 his stock of propolis to him ; and if so, 

 whether he received anything in return for it. 



Mr. J. C. Armstrong, of Marshall Co., 

 Iowa, when renewing his subscription re- 

 cently, had this to say aljout some so-called 

 bee-keepers : 



"I have delayed renewing sometime, think- 

 ing to get a coujjle of subscribers to whom I 

 sold bees, but they are not ready. They want 

 to wait until they get their money's worth 

 oiit of the bees. Last spring I sold a colony 

 to a man and asked him to take the American 

 Bee Journal and a book on bee-management, 

 but he said, ' No, I will wait till I see what 

 luck I have.' I told him if he had good luck 

 he didn't need a book, but the way to have 

 luck was to read up. I saw him occasionally 

 through the summer and he was having good 

 luck. He had gotten two swarms! I have 

 not heard from him this spring, but I suppose 

 he will sing a different song now — no luck. 

 That is the way with them. They will com- 

 mence at the wrong end of the business. If 

 a farmer were to go to work on his farm with 

 no more knowledge of the business than they 

 have of bee-management, and trust to luck, 

 we would think him foolish. Yet they are 

 wise !" 



A " Measlet " Editor is Mr. fl. E. Hill, of 

 the American Bee-Keeper, if we may take the 

 following paragraph in his May numlier to 

 refer to himself instead of to a youthful mem- 

 ber of his family : 



" It is our rarejprivilege this month to have 

 a case of measles against which to charge any 

 editorial short-comings." 



That reminds us of the exceedingly " meas- 

 ley" time we had when the measles struck 

 us. We were 21 years of age, and as is well 

 known when this disease takes hold of an 

 adult, he is liable to have a hard time of it. 

 We were attending college at the time, so 

 away from home and mother. We will never 

 forget those days, and how when mother ar- 

 rived the sick bo.v began to mend almost at 

 once. Ah. can any one ever forget a mother's 

 love and tender care i God bless all the dear, 

 self-sacrificing mothers — yes, and all the boys 

 who are away from home anci mother. 



