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AMERICAN BEE ;OUKNAL, 



Aug. 1, 1901. 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Po6t-( illici- al Chicago as Secood- 

 Class Muil-Mtttter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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

 Dr. C. C. Miller, ) t\ 

 E.E. Hasty, '[Department 

 Prof. A. J. Cook, ) 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 AV rapper-Label Date of this paper 

 Indicates the end of the month to which 

 your subscription is paid. For instance, 

 "deed" 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, 

 , I. Root, 



E. T. Abbott, 

 P. H. Elwood, 

 E. R. Root, 



Thos. G. Newman, 

 G. M. Doolittle, 

 W. F. Marks, 

 J. M. Hameaugh, 

 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 Managrer and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



U^" 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 forevery bee-keeper 

 to wear one [of the buttoasj 

 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. 



I Weelily Budget. | 



The Thousand Members for the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Association are coming. 

 Since our last report we have received the 

 membership dues from the following: 



B. H. Tripp. H. A. Dott. 



Rev. M. Mahin, of Henry Co., Ind., wrote 

 us July 23, as follows: 



" My bees have boomed this summer. When 

 I get time I will tell you more about it. In a 

 month I will complete the 60th year of my 

 ministry, and I can easily preach four or five 

 times a week." 



Mr. Mahin deserves to be congratulated on 

 his good health and ability to continue in his 

 work. May richest blessings be his. 



The Official Emblem of the Pan-Ameri- 

 can Exposition was designed by Raphael Beck, 

 of Buffalo. It was accepted as the most 

 artistic and suitable from several hundred 

 designs submitted, and has the special merit 

 of effectively symbolizing one of the chief 



Offlchil Einhleia—run-Amerkau Expusih 



purposes of the Exposition, which is to bring 

 in closer social and trade relationship the 

 Republics, States and Territories of North 

 and South America. The emblem shows a 

 fair maiden typifying the North, extending a 

 kindly hand to clasp that of her brunette sis- 

 ter of the South, thus forming a bond of con- 

 tinental sisterhood, and establishing a unity 

 of sentiment and interest among the countries 

 of the Western Hemisphere. 



Mr. E. M. Hates, of Sauk Co., Wis., be- 

 gan to keep bees ten years ago, with one col- 

 ony in a dry-goods box, somewhat larger 

 than the hive he is now using, and the bees 

 wintered well in it without protection. He 

 now uses the 13-frame Langstroth hive, prin- 

 cipally, and has adopted the tiering-up plan. 



While he does not consider his an ideal 

 location for bee-keeping, he never gets less 

 than 60 pounds of honey per colony, and he 

 has secured as high as 160 pounds per colony, 

 and some increase. lie sometimes gets light 

 lioney from clover and bergamot; there is no 

 basswood in reach. 



Mr. Hayes says that buckwheat is a much 

 more valuable honey-plant than many give it 

 credit for being. It comes late in the season, 

 thus giving all colonies that were weak In 

 the spring a chance to build up strong. 

 While some think it fit only for manufactur- 



ing purposes, he has a good many customers 

 who buy it year after year for table use. 

 Some tjuy it because they prefer ' it to white 

 honey, and some because they can get it a 

 little cheaper. 



The greater part of his dark honey he sells 

 in barrels at 6 cents per pound, f. o. b. there. 

 The last two years he has sold Eome of it at 

 7y^ cents per pound. 



The illustration on the first page shows a 

 part of his apiary, the single-walled hives 

 being in the cellar at the time the photograph 

 was taken. 



The Buffalo Convention, as has been 

 announced several times, is to be held Tues- 

 day, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 10, 11 

 and 13. in the Lecture Room of the Buffalo 

 Society of Natural Sciences, in the Buffalo 

 Library Building, located at the corner of 

 Washington and Clinton Streets, near the 

 city business center. 



Secretary Mason has sent us the following 

 additional "good thing" on the program: 



Editor York : — Since sending you the last 

 notice of the Buffalo Convention, which ap- 

 peared on page 435, I have invited Mr. H. W. 

 Collingwood, editor of the Rural New Yorker 

 (who is a staunch friend of bee-keepers and 

 of our Association, as well as a pleasing 

 speaker), to give an address at the joint ses- 

 sion, on "The Pomologist and the Bee- 

 Keeper." Of course, he'll be at the Pomo- 

 logical meeting, and I doubt not will be glad 

 to talk for us. 



Every indication is that we are to have a 

 good meeting at Buffalo. A. B. Mason. 



We are glad to see that the Buffalonian peo- 

 ple can count on a good-sized crowd of bee- 

 keepers. Of course, Supt. Hershiser will have 

 good arrangements made to care for all, and 

 at reasonable rates. If he doesn't he'd better 

 get ready to go over the Falls of Niagara. 



Mr. John M. Rankin, of Lansing, the 

 State inspector of apiaries for Michigan, writ- 

 ing us July 20, said : 



" I am finding foul brood, good and plenty, 

 in every locality I have been in thus far. 

 Fully 75 percent of the apiaries I have visited 

 have been more or less diseased." 



Surely, Michigan needs a foul brood law 

 and an energetic inspector. Now that she has 

 both, her bee-keepers may expect to see the 

 bee-disease "move on" — perhaps over the 

 Canadian line, only to fall into the hands of 

 that veteran bee-disease killer — Wm. McEvoy. 



Prof. A. J. Cook and family have been 

 taking an outing in the mountains of San 

 Bernardino Co., Calif. In a letter dated July 

 19, he wrote : 



" We are having a lovely time here in the 

 mountains. I wish you and all .the American 

 Bee Journal friends were with us."' 



Oh, but wouldn't Prof. Cook have a crowd 

 around him if " all the American Bee Journal 

 friends" were to congregate there ! Well, 

 there would be several present — and it would 

 be mighty hard to find Prof. Cook in such a 

 crowd as Uiat would be. 



"The End op the Deal" is the title of 

 an unusually good liusiness serial story which 

 is to begin in an early number of the Saturday 

 Evening Post, of Philadelphia, Pa. A famous 

 transaction on the Chicago Board of Trade is 

 the basis upon which the author, Mr. Will 

 Payne, has founded this striking romance of 

 the wheat pit. A charming love story runs 

 through the stern and stirring plot. 



