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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL. 



Nov. 28, 1901. 



GEORGE YV. YORK & CONPAINY 



144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, 111. 



Entered at the PostOfflce at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



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

 Dr. C. C. Miller, ) t. 

 E. E. Hastt, '(Department 

 Prof. A. J. Cook, f 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 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. 



Subscriptiou 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 yon 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 adulteratioa of hooey. 

 To prosecute dishonest honey-dealers. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



E. Whitcomb, I Thos. G. Newman, 



W. Z. Hutchinson, I G. M. Doohttle, 

 A. I. Root, W. F. Marks, 



E. T. ABUOTT, J. M. Hambaugh, 



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



E. R. Root, | Dr. C. C. Miller. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Ernest R. Root, President. 

 R. C. AlKiN, Vice-President. 

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



EnGENE Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



B^" If more convenient. Dues may be sent 

 to the olBco 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 

 ijood idea forevery bee-keeper 

 to wear one fof 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 ia regard to honey 

 and bees." 



The picture shown herewitli is a reproduc- 

 tion of a motto quoen-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 



Editor W. Z. Hutcihnson gave us a short 

 call on Saturday ,JNov. 16, when on his way 

 to attend the meeting of the Colorado Bee- 

 Keepers' Association at Denver, held last 

 weeli. 



Eugene Secor, the general manager of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association, was re- 

 cently elected to the Iowa Legislature by a 

 handsome majority. He expects to spend the 

 winter in Des Moines, the State capital. 



Mu. C. M. Scott, for some years the mana- 

 ger of the G. jB. Lewis Co.'s bee-supply 

 branch at Indianapolis, Ind., has bought the 

 business at that place, and will continue it 

 under the name of C. M. Scott & Co. Mr. 

 Scott is very highly commended by the Lewis 

 Company, and we trust he may continue to 

 do a successful business. 



Mii. W. L. CoGGSHALL. One of New York 

 State's most extensive bee-keepers, has been 

 in very poor health for some time. Lately he 

 went to a sanitarium about 40 miles west of 

 Chicago,';where he is receiving treatment. t)n 

 Nov. 15 he wrote us that in two or three 

 weeks his physician expected to send him 

 home well. Mr. Coggshall's many friends 

 will be delighted to hear this. If well enough 

 he may attend the Chicago convention at the 

 Brigg's House, Dec. 5. 



MiiS. N. Neilson, of Sac Co., Iowa, died of 

 cancer Nov. 11, after months of suffering. In 

 1882 she married Mr. N. Neilson, who, with 

 five children, are left to mourn her departure. 

 She was a member of the Congregational 

 church from her young girlhood. A local 

 newspaper says Mrs. Neilson was an amiable, 

 thoughtful, patient, loving wife and mother, 

 showing in her life the noble qualities of a 

 high Christian character, aud winning unto 

 herself a host of warm friends who deeply feel 

 their loss. Our sincerest sympathy goes out to 

 the stricken husband and children, who, it is 

 a satisfaction to note, " mourn not as those 

 who have no hope." 



Dr. C. C. Miller has this to say regarding 

 the meetings of the Board of Directors of the 

 National Association at Buffalo, and also 

 something about certain discussions in open 

 convention : 



Mr. Editor : — Those unfortunate Directors' 

 meetings held while the convention was in 

 session at Buffalo, deprived me of the privi- 

 lege of hearing a considerable part of the dis- 

 cussions, which probably makes me appre- 

 ciate all the more the excellent aud full re- 

 port yon are now giving in the columns of 

 your iournal. 



Kefcrriug to a discussion on page 726, 1 may 

 say that I have many a time set a hive con- 

 taining a nucleus in place of a swarming col- 

 ony, so as to allow the returning swarm to 

 enter the uncleus, and in no case have I ever 

 known the i|uccn of the nucleus to be mo- 

 lested. Of course the old colony was re- 

 moved, and the ciueen that issued with the 

 Bwarm was also disposed of. 



It is not often that as much real informa- 

 tion is given in as short a space as in the dis- 

 cussion of the succeeding topic. .Ml of the 



items mentioned are useful in trying to deter- 

 mine the presence of a virgin queen when she 

 can not he found. Perhaps none of them 

 may be relied upon implicitly. But they will 

 help. The one that I have depended upon as 

 much as any other for years, is the one men- 

 tioned by W. L. Coggshall— cells polished out 

 in the central part of the brood-nest ready for 

 the queen to lay in ; and this may be several 

 days before the c|ueen is ready to lay. some- 

 times when she is hardly a day old. Some- 

 what strangely. I do not remember to have 

 seen this mentioned in print, and this shows 

 one good thing in conventions, bringing out 

 from such men as W. L. Coggshall things 

 that they would never take the trouble to 

 write. C. C. Miller. 



Mr. J. M. Hooker, as may be seen in a 

 late number of the British Bee Journal, has 

 sailed from England for his new home in 

 America. His loss will be keenly felt by the 

 British Bee-Keepers' Association, Mr. Hooker 

 having been one of the seven who originally 

 met to organize the Association, and one who 

 was always foremost in the movement to 

 establish modern bee-keeping. Mr. Garratt 

 probably spoke the general feeling when he 

 said that to hold a conversazione without 

 the presence of Mr. Hooker was alone a 

 marked event, and he was sure that everybody 

 who had been accustomed to see that gentle- 

 man there would feel that the cause had suf- 

 fered a severe loss by his absence. Mr. Hooker 

 is cordially welcomed to these shores. 



Mr. J. T. Elliott ajjd Apiart are shown 



on the first page this week. When sending 

 the photograph, Mr. Elliott wrote as follows : 



Editor York : — I send you a picture of 

 my apiary, but it does not show up very well, 

 as it was impossible to get a good view, show- 

 ing all the hives, etc.. on account of the trees 

 and shrubbery. I keep my bees on a city lot. 

 so I have not much extra room for them. I 

 have them under young apple and peach 

 trees, just over the bank at the edge of the 

 garden. The hives being down just over the 

 edge of the bank is whj' they do not show up 

 better. 



I have 24 colonies, all in one row, and work 

 them for both comb aud extracted honey. -•Vs 

 I am employed as clerk in a railroad ofHee, I 

 do not get much time to work with the bees, 

 only a very few minutes at the noon hour, 

 and a little while mornings and evenings, 

 when the weather is favorable. I find great 

 pleasure in working with the bees, and find 

 them very profitablj, also in supplying my 

 table three tiraeseverj' day with honey, which 

 is more healthful than jellies, jams, etc. 

 Then I can dispose of all my surplus honey to 

 my neighbors at a fair profit. .My bees diil 

 fairly well the past season, the surplus all 

 being from basswood and sweet clover. 



J. T. Elliott. 



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