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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL 



Nov. 7, 1901. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Post-Ofllce at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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

 Dr. C. C. Miller, ) t-i„„„..„.,^.,* 

 E.E. Hasty, ^^'J^jTtoT' 



Prof. A. J. Cook, j Editors. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscriptioa 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 Wrapper-Label Date of this paper 

 indicates the end of the month to which 

 your subscription is paid. For instance, 

 *' decOI " 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. HnTCHINSON, 



A. I. Root, 

 E. T. Abbott, 

 P. H. Elwood, 

 E. R. Root, 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Ernest R. Root, President. 

 ■ R. C. AiKiN, Vice-President. 

 Dr. a. B. Mason, Secretary, Toledo, Ohio. 



^ Weeliiy Budget. I 



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



I^' 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: 

 " X 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 

 five the bee-keeper a superior opportunity to 

 enlighten many a person in regard to hooey 

 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 oS&sa 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



We (this time the ''we", includes Mrs. 

 York) had a splendid visit last week, for a 

 day and two nights, at Dr. C. C. Miller's, in 

 McHenry Co., 111. We expect to have more 

 to say about it later. Dr. Miller is well, and 

 enjoying life better than most young men 

 who are on the other ?ide of 70. 



Mr. Geo. W. Riker, of Lucas Co., Iowa, 

 writes us that he expects to be. present at the 

 meeting of the Chicago Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, on Dec. 5. He will then be on his way 

 to New York — his old home — where he com- 

 menced bee-keeping in 1868, six miles north 

 of Auburn. Next spring he expects to go to 

 Colorado with his 200 colonies of bees. Rev. 

 Jasper — the colored preacher — said, "The 

 sun do move." Surely, bee-keepers "do 

 move," too. They are more and more going 

 to locations where they can " keep more 

 bees." Success to them all. 



Mr. J. W. Ferree is the foul-brood inspec- 

 tor for Los Angeles Co., Calif. " Rambler " 

 has this to say about him, in Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture : 



" Mr. Ferree is a genial bachelor, a member 

 of Dr. Bresee's church; will go a long way to 

 serve a friend; generous every day in the 

 week ; polite and condescending to the ladies ; 

 always shows an even temper; and the man- 

 tle of foul-brood inspector could not have 

 fallen upon more worthy shoulders.'' 



Mr. Ferree has inspected 148 apiaries, 8010 

 colonies; 284 foul-brood colonies. He esti- 

 mates that there are 300 bee-keepers and 20,000 

 colonies in Los Angeles county. Mr. Ferree 

 seems to Ije the right man in the right place. 



The Apiary of J. M. Paxtox, of Brooks 

 Co., Ga., is shown on page "11. He com- 

 menced l3ee-keeping in 1899, buying an apiary 

 of 29 colonies of Italian and black bees. In 

 May he bought the bees and honey crop of 

 about 1000 sections of comb honey. He had 

 but little or no experience in bee-keeping, 

 but sent for the book, "A B C of Bee-Cul- 

 ture," and did fairly well the first year. The 

 bees were kept about one-half mile from his 

 home. He paid ?l.iO cash for the bees and 

 outfit, and sold about $120 worth of honey 

 the first year. He moved the bees home the 

 following winter, and lost five colonies, hav- 

 ing 22, spring count. He increased them to 

 41, and sold S;113..=)0 worth of honey that year, 

 which was a very poor one for bees in that 

 part of the country. 



Horsemint— Monarda Punctata. — The 

 engraving of this honey-plant, shown on the 

 first page, is kindly loaned to us by Gleanings 

 in Bee-Culture, from which periodical we also 

 take the following paragraph : 



" Horsemint begins to bloom in May, some- 

 times a little later, June, depending on the 

 season, such as a very dry and a backward 

 spring The honey is compared with that of 

 the basswood of the North, on account of its 

 peculiar strong flavor which it resembles ; it is 

 of light color; one of the best honey-plants of 

 the South, and tremendous yields have been 

 obtained. I have just gone out to procure 



some of the flowerets, and send some to you 

 herewith. Perhaps you remember what you 

 said aiiout a chance for long tongues while 

 taking the shot at the horsemint on our 

 porch. I have been interested in this cjues- 

 tion, and can not see how short-tongued bees 

 could ever get everything that is nectar out 

 of those long tuljes. What do you think 

 about it ? Red clover not alone for long 

 tongues.'' 



Editor Root took the picture while in the 

 South, and also wrote the above paragraph 

 there. 



Pears in California. — Mr. B. S. Taylor, 

 of Riverside Co., Calif., writing us Sept. 16, 

 said : . 



"1 enclose a small picture that will give 

 some idea of how pears grow in California. 

 The branch was taken from a small tree 

 growing in my front yard. I think they are 

 the Bartlett, but I am not certain. It is one 

 limb, and there were 67 of them in the two 

 clusters at the time photographed, though 

 about 20 had previously fallen off." 



Surely, California is a wonderful fruit 

 countr.v. We think we never saw such clus- 

 ters of fruit growing anywhere as are shown 

 in the pictut'e. It wouldn't take long to pick 

 a few bushels of them when growing so 

 thick. (See page 714.) 



Mr. John H. Martin (Rambler), of Cali- 

 fornia, writing us Oct. 26, said: 



" I am packing up and going to move over 

 into Cuba to sojourn there through the win- 

 ter. By so doing I secure a continuous honey- 

 yield all the year round, thus: Field No. 1, 

 in southern California, from April until July; 

 Field No. 2, in central California, from July 

 until Octotier; Field No. 3, in Cuba, from 

 October until April." 



Rambler ought to be the sweetest rambling 

 man in all the world — continuously sweet. 



But isn't it rather risky for him to go over 

 into Cuba ? Some of those chocolate-colored 

 young ladies in that " Pearl of the Antilles " 

 will be making " goo-goo eyes " at him, and 

 then where will Rambler be 2 



And, just think, if a Cuban girl should be 

 able to accomplish what no Californian belle 

 has been able to do ! 



Rambler, you'd better come to Chicago. 



The Thanksgiving Number of the Ladies' 

 Home Journal is replete with good fiction and 

 interesting and novel features. It opens 

 appropriately with an article which tells 

 " Where the President'sTurkey Comes From.'" 

 Then there are delightful stories by Hezekiah 

 Butterworlh and Laura Spencer Porter, and a 

 new love story called " Christine," by Fred- 

 erick M. Smith. Cleveland Moffett has an 

 interesting story about Ira D. Sankey, the 

 great evangelist, and Edith King Swain re- 

 counts the famous ascents she has made in 

 various parts of the world'. Will Bradley's 

 original designs for a house begin with the 

 breakfast-room, and Wilson Eyre, Jr., pre- 

 sents plans for a country-house and a garden. 

 Mr. Bok gives much good advice to young 

 married couples in his editorial. Another 

 most timely feature is, "Why Should a Young 

 Man Support the Church T' by the Rev. 

 Francis E. Clark. Many home-made Christ- 

 mas gifts are shown, and the first of " The 

 Journal's Amusing Puzzles " appears. The 

 regular departments are exceptionally good, 

 and the illustrations superb. By The Curtis 

 Publishing Company, Philadelphia. One dol- 

 lar a year; ten cents a copy. 



