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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL, 



June 6, 1900. 



WEKKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 COMPANY 



144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, III. 



Entered at the Post^Office at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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

 Dr. C. C. Miller, It, 

 E.E. Hasty, U Department 

 Prof. A. J. Cook, f Editors. 



IIWPORTANT NOTICES. 



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National Bee Keepers' Association 



OnJECTS: 

 To promote and protect the interests of its 

 members. 

 To prevent the adulteration of honey. 

 To prosecute dishonest honey-dealers. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



Thos. G. Newman, 

 g. m. doolittle, 

 W. F. Marks, 

 J. M. Hambaugh, 



E. Whitcomb, 



W. Z. HUTCHIN 



A. I. Root, 

 E. T. Abbott, 

 P. H. Elwood, 

 E. K. Root, 



C. P. Da 



\NT, 



Dr. C. C. Miller. 



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 City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



||f^° 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 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 forevery bee-keeper 

 to wear one [ot the buttonsl 

 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-ijutton that we are fur- 

 nishing to bee-keepers. It has a pin on the 

 underside to fasten it. 



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

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

 of the American Bee Journal. 



Weekly Budget. I 



When Lilacs Bloom. 



When lilacs bloom, the winds grow still ; 



The velvet deepens on the hill ; 

 The bee turns giddy as she greets 

 With long-drawn, [happy liiss, the sweets 



The lavish, love-flushed blossoms spilL 



The daisy dons her whitest frill ; 

 The oriole his gladsome trill 



Sings loud, and oft his joy repeats. 

 When lilacs bloom. 



Then lives with careless rapture till : 

 Then hearts with joy of living thrill; 

 And Fancy weaves her golden cheats — 

 Ah ! who would doubt the fair deceits ? 

 No room for reason, thought, or will, 

 When lilacs bloom. 



— Jesse F. O'Donnell, 



In The Chautauquan. 



Mr. G. Spearman, says the British Bee 

 Journal, probably has the largest apiary in 

 Great Britain, containing more than 300 colo- 



Mr. a. p. Raymond, writing from Clark 

 Co., Wis., had these kind words to say : 



Friend York : — I am still reading the 

 American Bee Jourtfal, and am much pleased 

 with the improvements you are making from 

 time to time in its bright pages, and which 

 make it more enjoyable, if such a thing be 

 possible. 



I sincerely appreciate the successful efforts 

 you are making to keep it " up to date " and 

 abreast of the times. A. P. Raymond. 



Prof. A. J. Cook, the editor of the depart- 

 ment of " The Home Circle " in this journal, 

 is a man who has long been before the bee- 

 keeping public. We think we can hardly do 

 better than to copy what the " A B U of Bee- 

 Culture " has to say concerning Prof. Cook 

 and his work : 



Albert J. Cook was born Aug. 30, 1842. at 

 Owosso, Mich. Those who are intimately 

 acquainted with the man will not be surprised 

 to learn that his parents were thoroughly up- 

 right Christians. The daily reading of the 

 Bible, with comments by the father, rein- 

 forced by the constant example of a chaste, 

 honest, and industrious daily life, left its im- 

 press for life on the character of the son. 



At the age of 15 he entered Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College, where he graduated at 20, 

 having been oljliged during his course to 

 suffer the sharp disappointment of suspend- 

 ing study a whole year on account of sick- 

 ness, his health having been rather delicate 

 during his earlier years. Upon his gradua- 

 tion he went, on account of poor health, to 

 California, where for three years he labored 

 very successfully as a teacher. He then 

 studied a portion of two years at Harvard 

 University and Harvard Medical College with 

 Agassiz, Hazen, and Dr. O. W. Holmes as 

 teachers. In 1866 he was appointed instruc- 

 tor at Michigan Agricultural College, and in 

 IsiiS Professor of Entomology and Zoology in 

 the same college. 



He has done and is doing a work unique in 

 character, for he instructs the students, not 

 only about insects in general, but about bees 

 in particular. Every student that graduates 

 goes all over the theory of bees, studies the 

 bee structurally from tip of tongue to tip of 

 sting, and goes through with all the manipu- 

 laticms of the apiary — that is, if tliere is any 

 honey to manipulate ; handles the bees, clips 



queens, prepares and puts on sections, ex- 

 tracts, etc. Probably in no other institution 

 in the country, if in the world, is this done. 



Prof. Cook was an active and influential 

 member of the North American Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, of which he has been president; 

 was one of the originators of the Michigan 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, of which he 

 was president for a number of years, and 

 helped to start the State Horticultural Society, 

 i:)eing a member of its board for some years. 

 He is widely known as a writer. His "Manual 

 of the Apiary " has reached a sale of 18,000 

 copies, and "Injurious Insects of Michigan," 

 3000 copies. He is also the author of " Maple 

 Sugar and the Sugar-Bush," of which 5000 

 copies have been published. He has written 

 much for bee-journals, as also for the general 

 press. He is a clear, practical writer, with a 

 happy style. 



In the battle waged against insect-foes, he 

 has rendered valuable service. Remedies 

 which he flrst advised are now common, and 

 he was probably the first to demonstrate the 

 eflioacy and safety of Paris-green for codling- 

 moth. 



Prof. C'ook is of average height and weight, 

 a charming conversationalist, and an intensely 

 interesting lecturer. His very pleasant man- 

 ner is only a fair index of a genial and loving 

 spirit that, in an unusual degree, strives to 

 put the best construction on the conduct and 

 motives of every one, and throws a mantle of 

 charity over their faults. His spirit of kind- 

 ness extends to the brute creation ; and on 

 his farm, in which he is much interested, he 

 has some tine-blooded stock ; and in attempt- 

 ing to engage a hand to work upon the farm, 

 the writer once heard him stipulate as essential 

 that the employee must be kind to animals, 

 and free from the use of liquor, tobacco, and 

 profane language. 



In December, 1S93, Prof. Cook removed 

 from Michigan and went to Claremont, Calif., 

 where he now fills the chair of Entomology in 

 Pomona College. 



We can add hardly anything to the fore- 

 going, except to say that we heartily endorse 

 its every commendation of Prof. Cook. We 

 are glad to count him among our friends. We 

 believe that he is doing some of his very best 

 work for Ijee-keepers in his department in 

 this journal. His careful early training, and 

 long years of experience with young people, 

 both in and out of college, eminently fit him 

 to advise wisely in everything that pertains 

 to the home and its members. If what has 

 already appeared from his pen in the new 

 department is a prophecy of things to come, 

 we may all expect many a rich feast during 

 the future weeks and months. Our hope is 

 that all who read his sage teachings may 

 profit by them, and thus cause many a home 

 and home life to be better and sweeter because 

 of his efforts. 



Worse Than Wasted. — The drink bill of 

 this nation is, for the year, $1,0.59,565,787, or 

 .$13.9'! for every man, woman, and child. — [I 

 believe the drink evil is the worst problem 

 that civilized countries have to contend with, 

 and sooner or later all right-thinking men 

 must line up, either for or against the saloon. 

 So far as I am individually concerned, I pro- 

 pose to fight the saloon through any organized 

 effort that will mitigate this terrible evil. — 

 Editor.1 — Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



No one ever need apologize tor being 

 against the saloon. It's the other fellow 

 that ought to be ashamed of himself. Chi- . 

 cago is one of the hotbeds of the saloon curse, 

 and such havoc as it produces! The only 

 reason it is here is because the good people 

 don't stand together and cast it out. Some 

 day they will unite, and then — good-by to 

 the greatest vice, crime, and Ipoverty breeder 

 in the world. We believe every reader of the 

 American Bee Journal is ready to join in the 

 final overthrow. 



