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AMERICAN BEE /OURNAL, 



June 27, 1901. 



EEKLV BY 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPANY 



144&l46ErieSt.,Ghicaoo, 111. 



Entered at the Post 

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( )lliic at Chicago as Second- 

 Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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



Dr. C. C. Miller, ) ,-,„ ,„,„„t 



E.E. Hasty, P^.Y. "l^''' 



Prof. A. J. Cook, ) ^'1"°'^^- 



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 



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, J. M. Ha 



P. H. Elwood, C. p. Da 



E. R. Root, Dr. C. C. Mi 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Ernest R. Root, President. 

 R. C. AiKlN, Vice-President. 

 Dr. a. B. Mason, Secretary, Toledo, Chi. 



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Tren- 

 ttrer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



1^" 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 

 good idea for every 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 offle* 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



Weeiily Budget. | 



Dr. C. C. Miller, of course, is different 

 from some ladles in the usual number of par- 

 ticulars, and also has another distinguishing 

 dissimilarity. 7K' still has birthdays. He had 

 one the 10th of this month. He is now 70 

 years old — or, we should say, "0 years young, 

 for he's on the sunny side of 70 now. At 

 least he would tell you that if you were to 

 ask him on which side he is. 

 OMr. W. P. Root, known as "Stenog'Mn 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture, has sent us the 

 poetic statement on the first page of this 

 number. He has expressed for Dr. Miller 

 quite clearly just what the Doctor could say, 

 though perhaps in a different manner. 



Dr. Miller is the most prolific writer on the 

 subject of bee-keeping to-day. He has been 

 in the bee-business over 40 years. And he 

 doesn't claim to know it all yet. To many a 

 question relating to Ijees and bee-keeping he 

 is compelled to [offer the laconic reply, '' I 

 don't know." And yet his fund of actual 

 information, gained from his years of practi- 

 cal experience in the apiary, is something 

 remarkable. 



Further, we were going to say that Dr. 

 Miller is the best loved bee-keeper in America, 

 but we won't say it, for the Doctor wouldn't 

 thank us for it. He is the quintessence of 

 modesty, and so we must not say too much 

 at this time. And yet to say the good and 

 well-deserved thing now is much better than 

 to wait and place them in bouquets upon the 

 casket that some day will contain all that is 

 mortal of him. 



We can truly speak not only from our own 

 heart, but for many others, who appreciate 

 Dr. Miller, his life and work, and pray that 

 he may be spared to'us all yet many years ere 

 he is called "up higher." 



Mr. R. Wilkin, one of the oldest and most 

 prominent bee-keepers of California, died at 

 Newhall, Calif., May 30, 1901. He was father- 

 in-law of J. F. Mclntyre, another leading bee- 

 keeper of the same State. We hope soon to 

 be able to present a more extended sketch of 

 Mr. Wilkin in these columns. 



Mr. John W. Bauckman's East Side api 

 ary is shown on page 410 this week. It is 

 located in Fairfax Co., Va., and all but two 

 of the hives used are the double-walled. The 

 apiary faces east, and is beautifully situated. 

 The little girl at the first hive is his youngest 

 daughter, and the lady to the left is Miss 

 Castell, his helper in the apiary. Mr. Bauek- 

 man says she can find a queen as quickly as 

 the most experienced apiarist, and ie a good 

 bee-keeper, besides being a fine seamstress. 

 The two lads in the background, carrying the 

 colony of bees, are his two sons who are run- 

 ning the; farm. The lady to the right is 

 another [daughter, and the man with the 

 smoker is Mr. B. himself. 



He; thinks his; hives are the finest in the 

 United States, as they are a perfect piece of 

 cabinet • workmanship, being thoroughly 

 made, then primed with white lead, the nails 

 being all sunk, then puttied, then sand- 



papered, and tlien painted with the white 

 lead. They are on stands H Inches from the 

 ground. He would not have his hives on the 

 ground, nor would he have them on tight 

 stands, but wants them so that the cats and 

 chickens can get under them, and so that 

 there will be free circulation underneath. In 

 this way the hives keep dry, the bees are 

 healthy, and there are no ants or mice to 

 bother. 



The day that the picture was taken there 

 was a fierce fire raging just at the left of his 

 place, and his wife and youngest son were 

 badly frightened, and were watching the fire, 

 BO that is the reason they do not appear in 

 the picture. Two of his houses were within 

 30 feet of the fire, but no damage was done to 

 his property. 



Mr. J. H. HoDGKiNS, of Winnebago Co., 

 111., writes us that he thinks he is about the 

 oldest subscriber to the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, as he has taken it continually ever sine* 

 its first editor, Samuel Wagner, began to pub- 

 lish it in 1861. He has never missed receiving 

 one number in all those years, and he has 

 preserved nearly every copy. 



We suppose there are not very many of our 

 subscribers who have such a record as Mr. 

 Hodgkins can show. 



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for one year, to the American Bee 

 Journal, with $1.00, we will send, by 

 return mail, a iine Untested Italian 

 Queen free as a pretnium. This offer 



is made only to our present regular 

 subscribers. 



We will mail one of the above queens 

 alone for 75 cents ; or 3 for $2.10. 



Please do not conflict the above offer 

 with the one on another page which 

 refers to Red Clover Queens. For send- 

 ing us two new subscribers, and $2.00, 

 we will mail free as a premium an Un- 

 tested Red Clover Italian Queen. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



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