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AMERICAN BEE ;OURNAL, 



July 25, 1901. 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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



Dr. C. C. Miller, ) „„„.„, „» 

 E.E. Hasty. '(Department 

 Prof. A. J. Cook, f ^'^'^"'•^• 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is $1,110 a jear, in the United States, Can- 

 ada, and Mexico; all other countries in the 

 Postal Union, 50 cents a ye&v 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, 

 P. H. Elwood, 

 E. R. Root, 



ThoS. G. NEW.M.iN- 



G. M. Doolittle, 

 W. F. Marks, 

 J. M. Hambaugh, 

 C. P. Dadant, 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Ernest R. Root, President, 

 R. C. AlKlN, 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. 



It^" 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 for everv 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, l>y mail, 6 cents; two for 10 cents; 

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

 of the American Bee Journal. 



I Weeiily Budget. I 



Mr. F. B. Simpson, whose article on in- 

 ijreeding appeared in last week's number of 

 this journal, desires to make the following 

 correction : 



1 wish here to correct the error 1 made in 

 my article on in-breeding, on page 452. When 

 1 wrote, " My idea that the best bee is the 

 best regardless of locality," I had in mind all 

 the limitations mentioned in the 4th full 

 paragraph in the 2d column on page 454. but 

 failed to put them on paper, as they should 

 have been if again mentioned, for 1 am a long 

 way from believing the way the last sentence 

 was printed. F. B. Simpsox. 



Editor E. R. Root passed through Chi- 

 cago on his homeward journey Monday even- 

 ing, July 15, stopping in the city only be- 

 tween trains. He had covered about 6000 

 miles, making some 45 stops, and was feeling 

 well, having gained several pounds in avoir- 

 dupois. The Texas " bee-keepers' paradise." 

 mentioned by him in a recent editorial item 

 in his paper, is already greatly overstocked 

 with bees and bee-keepers, so no one need get 

 ready to move there right away. In Colorado 

 and Utah, however, there are unoccupied 

 locations that are excellent for bee-keeping. 



LosG-ToxgtED Hoxet-Bees. — I am mak- 

 ing a study of the length of tongue in the 

 honey-bee, and its relation to honey-produc- 

 tion. I shall be glad to have all readers of 

 the American Bee Journal, who are interested 

 in the subject, send me bees from their best 

 and their poorest colonies for honey-produc- 

 tion. Send not less than 10 or 15 alive in a 

 queen-cage. Do not put bees from different 

 colonies in the same cage, and do not send 

 bees from colonies where a new queen ha? 

 been introduced this season, unless within 

 two weeks, as it will be best to have all the 

 bees in a cage from the same queen. If any 

 have bees from queens that have been reconi- 

 mended to produce specially long-tongued 

 stock. I shall be glad to receive some of the 

 bees and measure their tongues. Send full 

 information with each lot of bees. 1 shall be 

 glad if some can send specimens of the Ger- 

 man or black bee, also Carniolans, Cyprians, 

 and Syrians, Address, C, P. Gillette, 

 Experiment Station, Ft. Collins, Colo. 



Mr. S. W. Hall, of Wyoming, has been 

 offering Editor Hutchinson, of the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Review, some suggestions. One of them 

 is referred to in the following paragraph : 



■• Boil it Down," is what Mr. S. W. Hall, of 

 Wyoming, would be pleased to havens editors 

 and correspondents do. He says that he takes 

 the bee-journals to get new ideas, but he is 

 obliged to scratch over so much chaff for a 

 few grains of common-sense that he is some- 

 times tempted to forego the reading of all of 

 the journals until they learn to boil it down. 

 Long articles are sometimes necessary and 

 valuable; but, if I understand the spirit of 

 Mr. Hall's criticism, it is not to these that he 

 objects so much as to giving space to articles 

 that are of little or no help to real, practical 

 honey-producers. 



Mr. Hall should read the American Bee 

 Journal. If too busy to do that he is likely 

 too busy to waste his time keeping bees. He 

 reminds us of many a beginner in bee-keeping 

 who thinks he can't afford to spend one dol- 

 lar for a good bee-book and another dollar for 

 a good bee-paper. A man who can't afford 

 to start right in any business (especially when 



it costs so little) can't afford to start in it at 

 all. And yet, such a man usually thinks he 

 can afford to waste his neighbor bee-keeper's 

 time by asking a hundred questions that are 

 answered by the book and paper. 



Of course, in a measure, Mr. Hall is correct, 

 and for that reason we have our department 

 of •■ Beedom Boiled Down,'' so that bee-keep- 

 ers really need read only the American Bee 

 Journal, and thus save time and money, and 

 also get practically all the latest and best 

 ideas on the subject of bee-keeping. 



Lanoswiion... 



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Revised by Dadant — 1900 Edition. 



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 to be wonderfully helpt on the way to 

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