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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL, 



May 30, 1900. 



EEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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



Prof. A. J. Cook, ( ^'^"°'^- 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is SI. 00 a year, in the United States, Can- 

 ada, and Mexico ; all other countries in the 

 Postal Union, 50 cents a j-ear extra tor post- 

 age. Sample copy free. 



The AV rapper-Label 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. "Whitcomb, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, 

 A. I. Root, 

 E. T. Abbott, 

 P. H. Elwood, 

 E. R. Root, 



Thos. G. Newmaj 

 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, Ohii 



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



tl^g" 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 bce-kec|ier 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 ideaforevery bee-keeper 

 to wear one [of the buttons! 

 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 

 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. 



i Weelily Budget. I 



PAx Ai'PROPKiATioN from the Ontario Gov- 

 ernment, of ?.T<XI is to be used in helping to 

 make an exhibit at the Pan-American Exposi- 

 tion. Up that way they know how to get up 

 a good show. 



'■ Diseases of Bees and Legislation '■ 

 is the title of a small pamphlet issued recently 

 by Mr. N. E. France. State inspector of api- 

 aries for Wisconsin. It treatsjof foul brood, 

 its cause and cure; pickled brood, black 

 brood, dysentery, etc. Under " Legislation '' 

 it gives the laws of Wisconsin relative to bees. 

 It can be had free by.^the bee-keepers of that 

 State. 'Zzzi 



■•The Home Circle" department is thus 

 very kindly referred to by •■ Stenog '' in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture: 



"Prof. Cook's talks for the home circle, now 

 running in the 'Old Reliable.' constitute a 

 most excellent feature of it. They bear 

 largely on the proper management of chil- 

 dren, and home conduct in general. All who 

 have Mr. York's paper will do well to read 

 these lines of Prof. Cook the first thing, as 

 they fit one for what follows. Best of all, we 

 know that the writer speaks from experience, 

 and in his daily life is an exponent of what he 

 enjoins." 



French Honet-Cakamels. — The Gazette 

 Apicole, a French exchange, gives the follow- 

 ing recipe for making caramels, which it pro- 

 nounces " incomparable." Rose water, 15 

 grams; powdered sugar, 100 grams; fine 

 honey, aOOi'grams. Mix and boil, stirring 

 constantly, [until a drop of the compound, 

 when cooled, is hard and fragile. Pour out 

 on a buttered or oUed marble slab, and shape 

 the mixture into suitable pieces by means of a 

 teaspoon. So reports Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture. 



Dr. C. C. Miller is nothing if not a crank 

 on the subject of roses. Of course, any one 

 who'is that kind of a crank is a delightful 

 crank. In Gleanings in Bee-Culture he wafts 

 this bit of rosy perfuraethrough a single Stray 

 Straw : 



••One rose in September is worth more to 

 me than ten in June ; so as soon as the hlos- 

 som-buds show on the hybrid perpetuals I 

 carefully pinch off every one except one or 

 two of the most advanced on each bush. 

 Then the bush is not exhausted with its June 

 crop, so as to give no roses later. Of course, 

 that will not do for June roses, but their 

 stalks are cut back severely in spring, which 

 makes the blossoms a little later, and perhaps 

 a little finer.'" 



Cuban Honet-Plant or Bellflower.— 

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

 us as follows May 1 : 



Fhieno York : — I send you to-day a photo- 

 graph of my Cuban bee-plant, taken last 

 December, while it was in full bloom. It 

 grows over the porch of my house. This 

 plant is the source of nearly all the vast 

 amount of honey obtained in Cuba, and 1 am 

 informed that it is also abundant in other 

 islands of the West Indies; aLso in .Mexico. 



Us scientific name is Ipomaa siilnjolin. com- 

 mon name, ■• Aguinaldo," while in English it 

 is usually known as "Bellflower."' This is 

 one of the Morning-glories, probably the 

 most abundant bloomer of the entire genus. 

 It is confined to the tropics, as frost kills it 

 to the ground. 



The flowers are shaped like a ehurch-belU' 

 are about II4 inches across and deep. It is 

 nearly all a pure white, shading into purple 

 and yellow in the bottom of the inside of the 

 flower. In Cuba it blooms from about Nov. 

 •ih to late in February. It is a very show.y 

 flower, and when in full bloom it looks, at a 

 little distance, almost like snowbanks, espe- 

 cially where it runs over hedges or fences. It 

 not only yields large quantities of honey, but 

 seems to yield it steadily under all conditions 

 of weather. Nothing seems to lessen the 

 yield from it. unless the weather is sueh as to 

 lu^event the bees from getting out and work- 

 ing. 



Honey from the flower is of about the same 

 color aiid body as that from white clover, 

 with a distinctive but rather mild flavor of 

 its own. I should judge that it will rank in 

 the general markets as between white clover 

 and basswood honeys, not equal to the first, 

 but better than the last. 



The principal interest this fiower has to- 

 American bee-keepers is the fact that it 

 furnishes nearly all the foreign honey that 

 competes with our product in our own mar- 

 kets. Those of us who have to dispose of 

 our crops in the Eastern seaboard markets, 

 are already feeling the result of its competi- 

 ticm. " O. O. POPl'LETON. 



Mrs. Geo. Jackson, of Grand Traverse Co., 

 Mich., is one of the growing number of very 

 successful women who keep bees. The fol- 

 lowing paragraph from Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture tells something of the results she 

 has obtained: 



••In the fall of 1897 1 had 18 very strong 

 colonies, and about 900 pounds of comb- 

 honey. The bees again wintered well, and in 

 the spring of 189S I had still 1^ strong colo- 

 nies. Well, I felt, aiul do still feel, proud of 

 those bees. They commenced work the first 

 day they were out of the cellar, and worked 

 every pleasant day during the summer, and 

 until heavy frost came in the fall. One col- 

 ony, the ■• Queen " of my apiary, did itself 

 •' proud." During the season we took from 

 it ten stqiera of well-filled and nicely capped 

 white honey, each super containing -24 pounds. 

 It did not swarm, and we had a heavy flow of 

 basswood honey. The other colonies swarmed 

 early, and June 10 I had 8? strong colonies. 

 I did not get less than two supers of honey 

 from any colony, and from many of them 

 four." 



Mrs. Jackson says that Mr. Jackson has 

 given up all claim to the bees, ■• reserving 

 only the privilege of eating the honey." He 

 is a wise man. Any man who has a wife that 

 can get such results from bees as Mrs. Jack- 

 son has done, can do no better than simply to- 

 lay claim to his wife only, and then let her 

 manage the rest. Her price is far above — 

 well, say "S200 red-clover queens!"" 



Maxfield Parrish's flne decorative design 

 on the cover of The Ladies' Home Journal for 

 June forms a fitting introduction to a remark- 

 ably attractive issue. Among the most inter- 

 esting features of this number are a double 

 page of pictures, entitled. "Where Golf is 

 Played," showing some of the handsomest 

 country club houses in America; a series of 

 curious " Love Stories of the Zoo.'" told by 

 Clifford Howard; the first installment of a 

 fascinating new serial, •' Aileen."' by Elizabeth 

 Knight Tompkins; a touching full-page pic- 

 ture of " The Passing of the Farm," by W. L. 

 Taylor; the queer experiences with " Some 

 People I Have Married," by the Rev. D. M. 

 Steele, and a vigorous article on " Women as 

 ' Poor Pay,' " by Edward Bok. Numerous 

 other articles of general and domestic interest 

 fill out the rest of the number. By The Curtis 

 Publishing Company, Philadelphia. Pa. One 

 dollar a year : ten cents a copy. 



