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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL, 



June 20, 1901. 



GEORGE fi. YORK 8 COMPANY 



144 & 146 E rie St., Chicago, 111. 



Entered at the Post-Oflice at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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

 DK..C. C. Miller, ) -r, 

 E.E. Hasty. I Department 



Prof. A. J. Cook, f Editors. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is $1.00 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, 

 "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 



OHJECTS: 

 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. Newmai 

 G. M. Doolittle, 

 W. F. Marks, 

 J. M. Ha.mbaugh, 

 C. P. Dadant, 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Ernest R. Root, President. 

 R. C. AlKiN, Vice-President. 

 Dh. a. B. Mason, Secretary, Toledo, Ohii 



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



E^*" If more convenient. Dues may te 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 Ijee-keeper or honey-seller 

 to wear on his coat-la]iel. 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 everv bee-keeper 

 to wear one [of the buttons] 

 as it will cause people to ask 

 questions about the bus.v 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 2.5 cents. Send all orders to the ofSce 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



I Weekly Budget. I 



Mr. F. Greiner, of Ontario. Co., N. Y., 

 writing us June 9, had this to say ; 



"The season so far has been exceptionally 

 unfavorable. However, we take it stoically, 

 as we look for a yield only from buckwheat 



later." 



Dr. Jas. McLean, whose interesting article 

 on " Medicinal and Xourishing Properties of 

 Honey " appeared on page 324, writes us that 

 a slight error occurred therein, referring to 

 the indigestion formulae regarding the quan- 

 tity of honey, which should be one teaspoon- 

 ful instead of one tablespoonful. He thinks 

 it might be well to rearrange the whole sen- 

 tence as follows : 



''One teaspoonful of pure honey dissolved 

 in a glass of cold or tepid water, into which 

 mix one teaspoonful of tincture of myrrh, to 

 drink shortly after eating." 



Mr. Thaddeus Smith, whose picture is 

 shown on page 389 this week, is a retired bee- 

 keeper, though he has from 10 to a dozen col- 

 onies. He begins, in this week's number, a 

 series of reminiscent articles which we have 

 no doubt will be read with much interest by 

 all. He is between 70 and SO years old, 

 though no one would believe it if compelled 

 to judge from the picture alone. It must be 

 that the Pelee Island climate, in connection 

 with a luscious fruit diet, contributes to 

 longevity ; and very likfily honey also plays 

 an important part in helping to keep him so 

 young in appearance. 



Mr. J. M. Kankix, as previously announced, 

 is the recently appointed inspector of api- 

 aries for the State of Michigan. We are 

 pleased to present so good a likeness of him as 

 on our first page this week. He is 26 years of 

 age. He began bee-keeping at the age of 12, 

 with two colonies, one in a Simplicity hive 

 and one in a box-hive. During his first ex- 

 perience he made the acquaintance of a Ger- 

 man bee-keeper by the name of Andrew 

 Hunt, to whom he is indebted for careful and 

 interesting teaching, and for a great deal of 

 his early training in bee-culture. 



When IS years of age Mr. Rankin met foul 

 brood for the first time, and it resulted in the 

 loss of half of his 40 colonies, but the disease 

 was finally stamped out. 



lie took charge of the experiment station 

 apiary at the Agricultural College of Michi- 

 gan in April, 1S{*7. and during the past four 

 years has been a student there. He has done 

 some good work with foul brood, and has 

 gone several times to dijierent parts of the 

 State to assist bee-keepers in treating their 

 apiaries to rid them of foul brood, so the 

 work is not entirely new to him. 



We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Rankin 

 at the Chicago convention of the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association last August. We 

 feci that Michigan has made no mistake in 

 ai)pointing him to so important a position in 

 the interest of bee-keeping. He will not dis- 

 appoint those who labored so hard to secure 

 the foul brood law, and who also recom- 

 mended his appointment. On account of his 

 investigating turn of mind, and decided in- 

 terest in the subject, we bespeak for Mr. 

 Rankin an honorable career in the l)ee-keep- 

 ing line, r r^ — ■ ;^ 



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