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AMERICAN BEE ;OURNAL, 



Aug. 29, 1901. 



GEORGE YV. YORK 8 COMPANY 



144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, III. 



Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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

 Dr. C. C. Miller, ) n„„„„,„„„f 

 E.E. Hasty, [^P^s 



Prof. A. J. Cook, i Editois. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is 81.00 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, 

 *' 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 

 met^bers. 

 Xo prevent the adulteration of honey. 

 To prosecute dishonest honey-dealers. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



E. Whitcomb, Thos. G. Newman, 



W. Z. Hutchinson, G. M. Doolittle, 



A. I. Root, W. F. Makkb, 



E. T. ABBOTT, J. M. Hambaugh, 



P. H. Elwood, C. p. Dadant, 



E. K. Root, 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- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



ip^° If more convenjeut. 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 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. 



I Weekly Budget. 



Another Five Names have been received 

 the past week at this office to be counted 

 toward the 1,000 that we are working for as 

 the membership in the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. The second thousand will come 

 more easily than the first thousand, we be- 

 lieve. But let's get the first 1,000 before start- 

 ing on the second. Here are the honorable 

 five: 



Samuel Switzer, John M. Seiler, 



John C. Stewart, P. Munko, 



Geo. W. Hauber. 



Mr. C. p. Dadant and Wife made' this 

 office a pleasant call on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 

 when on their way from a visit to Sturgeon 

 Bay, Wis., where they had gone with Mr. 

 Chas. Dadant (C. P.'s father), where he 

 makes an annual stay to avoid the hay-fever 

 which " gets " him every .fall when he re- 

 mains at his home in southern Illinois. The 

 senior Dadant is now 84 years of age, and 

 holds his health and strength exceedingly 

 well. Mr. Dadant reports a fairly good comb- 

 foundation trade the past season, though 

 their honey crop was next thing to a failure. 



Hon. Eugene Secob, of Winnebago Co., 

 Iowa, general manager of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, was recently nominated 

 as representative to the next State Legislature 

 from his district. He expects to be elected. 

 But it he doesn't, he can still have his office 

 of general manager for the bee-keepers, to 

 fall back upon. This latter is a higher posi- 

 tion, too, than the other one for which he is 

 " trotting " — in our humble opinion. 



Mr. Rupus Porter, of Schuyler Co., 111., 

 although the inventor of the Porter bee- 

 escape, has never used one about a hive in 

 any manner whatever. 



A Variety of Minds make up the readers 

 of any periodical. The American Bee Jour- 

 nal is no exception. And the editor is likely 

 to learn — sometimes in a very emphatic man- 

 ner—just what some people think of him 

 and the paper which he tries to edit. 



But these things have never disturbed this 

 particular editor, even so much as a slight 

 bee-sting. He is trying to do what he con- 

 siders his duty in furnishing a helpful, read- 

 able bee-paper every week, and so far as he 

 has ability — both financial and intellectual — 

 he will continue to do his best. 



We are led to say that much on account of 

 having received several letters recently which 

 indicated great dissatisfaction with certain 

 departments found in this journal. Now we, 

 personally (and we think that ninety-nine 

 one-hundredths of our subscribers would 

 agree) , believe that there is not a department 

 in this paper but what is helpful. Of course, 

 with some of the opinions expressed all may 

 not agree. But that is all right. Few people 

 agree in every particular. We read several 

 different papers not devoted to bee-keeping, 

 and they have many departments that we 



don't read at all. We don't feel compelled to 

 read them, neither do we consider It our 

 duty to write to the editor a complaining let- 

 ter about them. It is our privilege to read 

 whatever we like, and let the rest go. 



Isn't it a little strange that certain so-called 

 bee-keepers aren't real happy unless they can 

 fling at somebody or something i Our ex- 

 perience has been that among the most un- 

 reasonaljle and cantankerous of them are 

 found the little 2x-t fellows who think they 

 are wonderfully wise. 



Please do not misunderstand us — we wel- 

 come suggestions and criticisms that are 

 sensible, and honestly intended to be helpful ; 

 but the kind that are sent in just to exhibit a 

 mean spirit, or to show off some personal 

 conceit or egotism, better be left unwritten, 

 for they simply go into the waste-basket at 

 once. 



Honet-Bees are winged merchants: they 

 keep stores and cell their honey. 



Mr. Joceltn S. Morales, of Jamaica, has 

 been asking for information concerning the 

 Buffalo convention of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, Sept. 10, 11 and 12. He 

 wants to attend. Good for Mr. Morales. We 

 hope he will be present. 



Mr. W. E. Baker's residence and. apiary 

 are shown on the first page of this issue. He 

 has been keeping bees for about five years, 

 and has been very successful with them. For 

 the past three years or more his daughter 

 " AUie " has had entire charge of the apiary, 

 Mr. Baker being a carpenter and devoting 

 only a portion of his time to the bees. How- 

 ever, his number of colonies has so increased 

 that he Has decided to devote his entire time, 

 hereafter, to bee-keeping and market garden- 

 ing. 



There are 50 colonies of bees now at work 

 in Mr. Baker's ajiiary, and 17 swarms have 

 been hived since spring, and these are also 

 doing good work. He is making a specialty 

 of section honey, which sells readily in the 

 homematketat 1" cents per pouni White 

 and sweet clover are grown Abundantly in 

 his locality, insuring a good crop of honey 

 almost every year. By July 10 he had already 

 taken 56 pounds of new honey from one 

 colony. His average net profit per colony 

 last year was $10.50. He says in writing to us: 



" I keep the American Bee Journal on my 

 table, and find it of great benefit to me in 

 my work. I also have all the latest standard 

 works on bee-culture in my library, and I 

 read and study them, too. 1 use the Lang- 

 stroth hive principally." 



New Kinks in the Apiary are con- 

 stantly being reported. J'ust think how 

 many have been furnished by others who 

 have reported them in your favorite bee- 

 paper. 



But perhaps you are using some apiarian 

 kinks — best ways of 'doing things with 

 bees^that have never been reported, so 

 far as you know. Why not describe them for 

 the benefit of others who have helped you by 

 their hints and suggestions ? 



The American Bee Journal is here to help 

 all by recording the best things from all. 

 What can you offer that has been helpful in 

 your own experience ; 



