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AMERICAN BEE jOUPNAL, 



Aug. 15, 1901. 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPANY 



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



Enteredatthe Post-( illimit Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matler. 



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 Subscriptiou 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 nost- 

 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 lor 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. Newman 

 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, Ohii 



EoGENE Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



11^" If more convenient. Dues may be sent 

 to the otiice of the American Bee Journal, 

 when they will be forwarded to Mr. Secor, 

 who will mail individual receipts. 



A Celluloitl Queeii-Button is a very 

 pretty thing for a Ijee-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 buttonsl 

 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 

 pive 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 ciueen-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. I 



Hon. Eugene Secor, of Winnebago Co., 

 Iowa, writing us July 25. said : 



Friend York : — The past month has been 

 unprecedentedly hot and dry. Bees loafing 

 outside the hive to prevent combs melting. 



The following lines express part of what we 

 have endured in the last two weeks: 



some JULY DATS. 



From out the burning east 

 Comes firy Sol ; 

 At God's first call 

 He climbs the heavens to feast 

 On wilting corn and ripened grain. 

 Turned yellow ere its time for lack of rain. 



The lolling cattle seek 

 The airy steep. 

 Or wade knee-deep 

 In nearest friendly creek ; 

 The pastures, shorn and parched to brown, 

 In vain appeal for the rain to come down. 



The hot earth shrinks and cracks 

 Beneath the glare. 

 And men shun care 

 .\s deer shun hunters' tracks. 

 And every beast on hill or plain 

 Is praying in animal language for rain. 



Outside the hive the bees 

 Are forced to rest 

 To cool the nest. 

 And wait for nect'rous trees 

 And llowers to yield the dainty drop 

 Which heat and drouth have caused to dry up. 



No woodland song is heard 



From feathered throat — 

 His wonted note 

 Is dead within the bird ; 

 He pants and seeks the spring in vain — 

 The fountain itself is thirsting for rain. 



Thus wears the torrid day, 

 The round, red sun 

 His course has run. 

 And no man Ijids him stay. 

 For night is welcome since 'tis plain 

 Such days will never bring the longed-for rain. 

 Eugene Secor. 



Mr. Ellis E. Mason and Miss Anna E. 

 Hirth. both of Toledo, Ohio, were married 

 July 24, 1901. Mr. Mason is a son of Dr. A. 

 B. Mason, secretary of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association. 



May long life and much happiness be 

 theii'S. 



Mil. Harry S. Howe, who has been known 

 as Coggshall's lightning operator, has been 

 sick in Cuba, able to do almost nothing for 

 two months, and the doctor says he will 

 never be able to do any more hard work. 

 The; moral of which, says Editor Root, seems 

 to be that it doesn't pay to work so hard. Let 

 us earnestly hope that this time the doctor 

 may be wrong in his prognosis. 



Mr. H. W. Cornelison, of Washburn Co., 

 Wis., has a very nice apiary, as is shown on 

 the first page of this issue. The picture was 

 taken from the northeast corner of the apiary 

 looking to the southwest. The bees are 

 located against the hillside, and the ground 

 being rough Mr. C.-has elevated some of the 

 hives in order to level up and avoid washing 

 Ijy heavy rains. The row of posts in the raid- 

 die row of hives were used to support poultry- 

 netting. The trees in sight are Initternuts, 



and his bee-supply house is at the right, 

 obscured by the trees. The hill sloping to 

 the north affords protection from strong south 

 and southwest winds, and a tight board-fence 

 extends along the north side of the apiary. 



Mr. Cornelison calls it "Summit Apiary," 

 as the town is situated on one of the highest 

 points in the State. The lake on the shore of 

 which the village is located was formerly 

 called "Summit Lake." It is al»ut 3 by 4 

 miles in size. 



"The Home Circle." — A. I. Root quotes 

 approvingly a passage written for "The 

 Home Circle " of this journal, and says : 



"There is one special point in the abov 

 that is worth noting. In any contest requir- 

 ing the fullest development, both of nerves 

 and muscles, and especially alertness as well 

 as strength, the young man who does not use 

 foljaceo will, as a rule, come out ahead; ex- 

 pert cyclists learned this a long time ago; 

 and in every department of business where a 

 clear head and a cool, ripe judgment are re- 

 quired, the boy or man who lets stimulants 

 alone has the advantage. Long live ' The 

 Home Circle ' in the American Bee Journal; 

 and may Prof. Cook be spared for many 

 years to conduct it." 



Mrs. Judge E. G. Bradford, of New- 

 castle Co., Del., is making quite a success of 

 bee-keeping. A local newspaper, dated Aug. 

 2. says she has an apiary of 20 colonies, and 

 that from one colony she took 140 pounds of 

 honey recently. The other colonies were 

 also in good condition, and promised an 

 equally fine yield. Continued success to the 

 " Mrs. Judge." 



Mr. a. I. Root, no doubt to the delight of 

 his old friends, perhaps forced into it by the 

 absence of his son Ernest, has been giving 

 considerable attention to the columns of 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture of late, and hence 

 to the subject of bee-keeping. He seems to 

 be skeptical as to the great difference in bees, 

 and wants the experiment stations to tell us 

 whether 40,000 bees in one hive gather more 

 honey than 40,000 bees in another hive. If he 

 will let cabbages and posies alone long 

 enough to give continued attention to bees, 

 he will probably find that there is as much 

 difference in them as in folks. 



The National Association of bee-keepers 

 is still growing in membership. Since our 

 last report we have received the following 

 names, and one dollar each : 



John Schueman, Jas. Poindexter, 

 H. H. MoE, F. M. Brandenburg, . 



W. W. Westcott. 



General Manager Secor, in a letter dated 

 Aug. 6, says that the Association membership 

 list "will crowd 1000 Ijefore September.'" 

 That's good. Now, if only a lot more bee- 

 keepers would feel sufficient interest to send 

 in their dollars for dues, we would be glad to 

 announce their names in this column. 



We started out to get 200 members before 

 the Buffalo meeting, which convenes Sept. 10 

 — less than a month left yet in which to send 

 in names and dollars. Why can't we receive 

 an average of five or six per day from now on. 

 and thus insure having an even 1000 mem- 

 bers of the National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion * It ought to be the largest and best 

 organization of bee-keepers in the world. It 

 will be if all who ought to be interested will 

 step up and enroll their names on its honor- 

 able list. 



