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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL, 



Nov. 14, 1901. 



i Weekly Budget. I 



EEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Post-Offlce at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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



Dr. C. C. Miller, ) T)p„„rtmpnt 

 E. E. Hasty, (department 



Prof. A. J. Cook, ) Editors. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price ot this Journal 

 is 11.00 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 ot 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 aud 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. K. Root, 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Ernest R. Root, President. 

 R. C. AiKiN, Vice-President. 

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



Thos. G. Newman, 

 G. M. Doolittle, 

 W. F. Marks, 

 J. M. Hambaugh, 

 C. P. Dadant, 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. 



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



Jt^" 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 houey-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 buttonsj 

 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 

 jive the bee-keeper a superior opportunity to 

 enlighten many a person in regard to honey 

 aud 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 Uie offlca 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



Mb. a. N. Draper, of Madison Co., 111., 

 called on us recently when in Chicago on 

 business. He reported a very poor honey 

 crop from his 250 colonies of bees. 



Mr. E. B. Gladish, secretary of the Leahy 

 Mfg. Co., gave us a short call last week, 

 when on a trip among the bee-supply manu- 

 facturers ot Wisconsin. He reports doing the 

 largest volume of business the past season in 

 the history of their firm, even exporting a 

 carload or so of supplies to Cuba. 



The Chicago Convention, Dec. 5, gives 

 good promise of being a genuine " hummer." 

 Already we have had notice from several bee- 

 keepers from Iowa who are planning to be 

 present. Of course, Wisconsin and Indiana 

 will be well represented. We wouldn't be 

 surprised if Ohio would be on hand, too. 



Editor Hutchinson, over in Michigan, wrote 

 us as follows, Oct. 31 : 



Friend York : — I am pleased to see the 

 indications that your Chicago convention 

 promises to develop into something like the 

 old Northwestern meetings I am going to 

 give a good send-off in the next Review, and 

 then take a run over myself and attend the 

 meeting. W. Z. Hutchinson. 



There's nothing the matter with that. As 

 Dr. C. C. Miller and C. P. Dadant have also 

 promised to come, a splendid meeting is 

 already assured. 



But there must be a big turn-out of bee- 

 keepers living near Chicago. The coming 

 convention can easily be made to equal the 

 Buffalo convention, both in attendance and 

 profitable discussion. All in the Northwest 

 can not attend the annual meeting of the 

 National Bee-Keepers" Association, but every- 

 body wants to come to Chicago, and can gen- 

 erally do so if a real desire to come exists. 



The Revere House, southeast corner of 

 Clark and Michigan streets, will rent rooms 

 at "5 cents or SI. 00 per night, depending upon 

 the kind of room taken. This is the hotel 

 where many bee-keepers stopped when attend- 

 ing the Chicago meeting of the National 

 Association in ISIOO. Of course, there are 

 many other places besides the Revere House. 



The Bridal Party, shown on our first 

 page this week, will be a complete surprise to 

 the quartette represented, for their consent to 

 it was not secured, but we think they will not 

 protest very seriously, as such a fine wedding 

 group is not seen every day. 



We need hardly remind many of our readers 

 that the girls are the twin daughters of our 

 brother editor. W. Z. Hutchinson, of Genesee 

 Co., Mich. They had a double wedding, Oct. 

 It), so Mr. H. that day added "twin boys" to 

 his family, which was quite in keeping with 

 the coming ot the twin girls 23 years ago. 



The couple on the right in the picture is 

 Mr. and Mrs. (Nora) A. (;. Hartshorn; the 

 one on the left Mr. and Mrs. (Cora) E. F. 

 Hannenian. Quite a wedding was made for 

 them, but instead of paying a florist a high 

 price to decorate the house, most of it was 

 done by the Hutchinson family, including 

 "the l»ys." The parlor was trimmed with 

 asparagus and palms. Then there was a 

 double arch ot srailax, with a floral bell of 

 white carnations suspended from the top of 

 each arch. The sitting-room was trimmed 

 with pine Ijoughs. Mr. Hutchinson himself 

 went up the river two or three miles into 

 the woods and gathered the branches of pine. 

 Then he went to his old home, where there 

 was a large mountain ash, climljed the tree 



and brought home a basket of the bright red 

 berries; these the girls mingled among the 

 dark green of the pine twigs. They covered 

 the walls of the dining-room with sheets ot 

 thick, heavy paper, tacking them on. Paste 

 was then applied to the paper, and bright 

 autumn leaves stuck on, overlapping them 

 like the shingles on a roof. Pains were taken 

 to get bright colors — yellow, red, brown, green, 

 etc., mingling them together. It took the 

 boys and girls, with Mr, H. himself, one en- 

 tire day to decorate this room, but it was 

 novel and beautiful, and "brought down the 

 house." 



We learn that a large number ot beautiful 

 and useful presents were received; and the 

 girls and their husbands have gone to house- 

 keeping in homes of their own, in a style 

 quite a little beyond the humble beginning of 

 Mr. Hutchinson and his wife. We under- 

 stand that the young men are good, honest 

 and upright, and tree from any bad habits. 

 Of course, such girls wouldn't choose any 

 other kind. Mr. Hartshorn has always lived 

 in Genesee county, and is a clerk in a leading 

 dry goods house. Mr. Hanneman was born 

 in Germany, came to this country when eight 

 years old, served Uncle Sam two years in the 

 Philippines, coming home last April, and is 

 now a trimmer in a carriage factory. 



One very pleasant feature is that "Nora" 

 is to live right next door to her father, while 

 " Cora" is to be only one block away. 



We wish to extend our heartiest congratu- 

 lations to all concerned, and hope that any 

 troubles that may come to the quartette may 

 be " only little ones." 



Mr. a. E. Willcutt, of Hampshire Co., 

 Mass., has his neat little apiary shown on page 

 72?. When sending the photograph, Mr. Will- 

 cutt wrote as follows : 



1 very much enjoy looking at the pictures 

 of our bee-friends and their apiaries, which 

 appear in the " Old Reliable " from time lo 

 time. Let us thank the several editors of the 

 existing bee-papers for the many beautiful 

 illustrations which appear in their publica- 

 tions. 



Not wishing to appear selfish along this 

 line, I send a photograph ot my apiary, 

 which will also give at least a "squint" at 

 " Yours Truly " among the " little pets. '' The 

 lady in the picture is my " favorite queen;" 

 the boy is her brother, and is taking a lesson 

 in handling a frame ot bees. The hive we 

 have open is not shown in the picture, I 

 make all my hives, supers, and most of the 

 brood-frames. I use the Langstroth hive, 10- 

 trame size, and work for both comb and ex- 

 tracted honey. 



It has been a poor honey season in this 

 " locality," bee-keepers on all sides reporting 

 little or no surplus. I have one colony of 

 black bees which gave me 06 one-pound sec- 

 tions of honey and 10 pounds of extracted, 

 also one large swarm. I have three and five 

 banded Italians in my yard, but the blacks 

 took the lead this year as honey-gatherers. 



I have only one thing new to offer, and that 

 is the shade-board which I use, one ot which 

 can be seen leaning against a hive, and shows 

 it to be No. 14. They are made ot material 

 that will not shrink, crack or decay in any 

 climate, not excepting Colorado. They are 

 made of half-inch material, 24x30 inches. If 

 painted white they are very prettj', and keep 

 the hives cool in hot weather. I use a ^.j-inch 

 plain cover under them. It is easy to form 

 an air-space by laying a strip under one or 

 both ends of the shade-boards the desired 

 thickness. We have had some very hot 

 weather the past sunmier, but I have had no 

 trouble from combs melting down, and but 

 very few bees clustered outside the hives. 

 These shade-covers need no bricks, rocks, or 

 any other unsightly thing to keep them from 

 blowing off, for they are made of stone. We 

 have a stone-quarry where I get them out, 

 and the cost is but a few cents each. 



A. E. Willcutt. 



P. S. — I forgot to say that I took first 

 money (or prize) on honey at our annual fair 

 this year. I also had on exhibition an observ- 

 atory hive of Golden Italian bees, the only 

 exhibit of bees at the fair. — A. E. W. 



