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AMERICAN BEE ;OURNAL 



July 11, 190.. 



PUBLISHED 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Post-Otflce at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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

 Dr. C. C. Miller, 1 r>„„„„f„, . t 

 E.E. Hastt, (Department 



Prof. A. J. Cook, f Editors. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Siibscriptioa Price of this Journal 

 is $1.(10 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. 



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 your subscription is paid. For instance, 

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 paid to the end of December, 1901. 



Subscription Receipts. — We do not send 

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 tion, but change the date on your wrapper- 

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Advertising Rates will be given upon ap- 

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National Bee Keepers' Association 



embers.- 



To prevent the adulteratioa of honey. 



To prosecute dishonest honey-dealers. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



Thos. G. Newman 

 g. m. doolittle, 

 W. F. Marks, 

 J. M. Hambaugh, 

 C. P. Dadant, 



E. Whitcomb, 



W. Z. HOTCHIN 



A. I. Root, 

 E. T. Abbott, 

 P. H. Elwood, 

 E. K. Root, 



Dr. C. C. Miller. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 VEST R. Root, President. 



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



^^^ If more convenient. Dues may be sent 

 to the office of the American Bee Journal, 

 when they will lie forwarded to Mr. Secor, 

 who will mail individual receipts. 



A Celluloid Queen-Button is a very 

 pretty thing for a bee-l<eei)er 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 

 fiTOod 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 office 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



Weekly Budget. I 



HOT "WEATHER HINT. 



' Hot weather ? yes; but really not 

 Compared with weather twice as hot. 

 Find comfort, then, in arguing thus. 

 And you'll pull through victorious: 

 For instance, while you gasp and pant 

 And try to cool yourself — and can't — 

 With soda, creatn, and lemonade. 

 The heat at ninety in the shade — 

 Just calmly sit and ponder o'er 

 These same degrees, with ninety more 

 On top of them, and so concede 

 The weather now is cool indeed 1" 



—J. Whitcomb Rilet. 



Mr. C. a. Hatch, writing us June 22, had 

 this to say; 



"We had poor luck in wintering bees the 

 past winter, so we have not an extra-large 

 force of honey -gatherers. I think fully .50 

 percent of the "bees in this part of Wisconsin 

 are dead. My own loss was about 30 percent 

 — the heaviest for many years. We hope for 

 better luck next time." 



Dr. a. B. Mason, secretary of the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association has been appointed 

 judge of the bee and honey department of 

 the Ohio Exposition, which will be held at 

 Columbus next month. A total of only S74 is 

 to be awarded in that department, so the Doc- 

 tor ought not to have a very long or hard job. 



The Doctor wrote us, July 1, as follows 

 about his bees : 



" No honey from the world of white clover 

 we have, but sweet clover is getting nicel.v in 

 bloom, ^nd the bees are busy on it. We have 

 colonies with two, three, and three and a half 

 stories, to give room to the bees, and running 

 over at that, and no disposition to swarm." 



Mr. W. W. Whipple and his apiary, of 

 Arapahoe Co., Colo., are shown on our tirst 

 page this week. Mr. W. is a native of Michi- 

 gan, and in his lioyhood days learned the 

 printing business. He drifted into western 

 Iowa in the early fifties, and went to Colorado 

 in 1S59, during the Pike's Peak gold excite- 

 ment. He has worked as printer, job printer, 

 miner, and lastly as a bee-keeper, and will 

 probaljly follow the latter occupation the 

 remainder of his days. 



Mr. Whipple has met with varied success 

 in liee-keeping, but is fairly well satisfied, 

 although he says the bee-keeper has no picnic 

 in Colorado. He must be constantly on his 

 guard to keep clear of that pest— foul brood. 

 When he first went to his present locality 

 there were many farmers who had a few colo- 

 nies of bees, and when a colony died they 

 would not know the cause, or even that it was 

 dead (and in most cases it was foul brood that 

 killed it), until the colony was robbed of its 

 stores, and they were spread far and near, 

 making trouble for the bee-keepers. Bee- 

 keeping there would be a pleasant and profit- 

 able business were it not for this, so Mr. 

 Wnipple says. 



They are expecting a good alfalfa honey 

 •season this year, as the crop of alfalfa is very 

 forward and seems likely to bloom abun- 

 dantly. He expected the flow to be on about 

 June 20. when there would be busy days, and 

 the "hum of the bees in the alfalfa bloom" 

 could be heard on all sides. 



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The Bee-Keeper's Guide; 



Or^ IVIamtal of tlie Apiary, 



BY 



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460 Pages-16th (1899) Edition— 18th Thou- 

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