AMERICAN BEE ;OURNAL 



July 4, 1901. 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Post-Oflice at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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

 Dr. C. C. Miller, ) nenartment 

 E.E. Hasty. h Frm" 



Prof. A. J. Cook, ) Editois. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price o( this Journal 

 is S^l.UO a year, iu the United States. Can- 

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 Postal Union, 5(1 cents a year extra for post- 

 age. Sample copy free. 



The ■Wrapper-Label Date of this paper 

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Subscription Receipts. — We do not send 

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Advertising Rates will be given upon ap- 

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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. Newman, 

 g. m. doolittle, 

 W. r. 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. 



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 irer. Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



5t^" 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 fretiuently 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 [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 

 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 Ijee-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 >Veelily Budget. | 



r. Mehring, of Germany, the inventor of 

 comb foundation, is also the first one who 

 ever transferred larv.-e. He described the 

 method and his experience minutely in the 

 Dorf-Zeitung for ISBC. — Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, of McHenry Co., 111., 

 wrote us as follows, June 35: 



Yesterday the 100 degree mark was reached, 

 which is just the thing for bee-weather, only 

 we need rain. We started in the season witli 

 a shortage, and have never caught up. Red 

 clover leaves curl up with the drouth. 



Mr. R. V. Goss, of Jasper Co., Ala., has 

 sent us a picture of his home bee-yard, called 

 ■• Wildwood Apiary," which will be found on 

 page 426 of this number. Mr. Goss keeps 

 bees for pleasure, preferring them to horses, 

 dogs, etc. The people seen in the engraving 

 are Mr. Goss and his two little " queens" — 

 Mabel and Lois. 



W. Wankler, of Germany, makes the 

 claim in L. Bienenzeitung, 1893, page 112, to 

 have invented and used an implement of his 

 own for measuring bees' tongues, in 1882. He 

 says he exhibited the same at a bee-keepers' 

 meeting and exhibition in Frankfort, in 1883. 

 where he sold the instrument to Frank Ben- 

 ton. — Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



Editor E. R. Root is at present doing his 

 work on the fly, and at long range. He is a 

 progressive editor, making a progress of a 

 good many miles some days through the 

 ■'South countree." He complains that a 40- 

 mile rate of speed on a railroad with its 

 accompanying lurches is not conducive to 

 straight writing, but the lines in Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture appear straight enough. 



Mr. Tofield Lehman, of Fayette Co., 

 Iowa, besides being a bee-keeper, is also an 

 amateur photographer. On the first page of 

 this issue, as well as on page 421, will be 

 found samples of his own work. 



He began to keep bees in 1892, and has 

 been quite successful during all that time. 

 His bees have been working wonderfully well 

 lately, white clover being plentiful. He looks 

 for a good crop of honey this season. 



Mr. 1 J. M. Rankin, the new foul-brood in- 

 spector of Michigan, is an energetic sort of 

 chap — one^who is bound to succeed in his 

 work. The Bee-Keepers' Review has this to 

 say con cerning him : C^ C3JII73_[__ -l_l^ ^ 

 oHe has nearly completed a course at the 

 Michigan Agricultural College, working his 

 way through, turning a penny in any way 

 that was honorable, even it not always so 



uHe was one of the first, if not the first, to 

 call attention to the difference in length of 

 the tongues of different strains of bees, and 

 to urge the breeding of bees with this end in 

 view. 



He is very enthusiastic in his work of fight- 

 ing foul brood ; so enthusiastic that, when 

 called away last year to help in its extermina- 

 tion in distant apiaries, he would go out 

 moonlight nights and shake off the bees, so 

 as to avoid trouljle from robbers. A man that 

 will do that is going to " get there." It is in 

 this enthusiasm that I build my hopes. 



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