January, 1910. 



American Hee Journal 



day and traveling expenses for actual time 

 served, which sum shall not exceed the moneys 

 hereby appropriated to be paid by the State 

 Treasurer and said Inspector shall be author- 

 ized to deputize a known competent apiarist 

 to act in his stead or to assist him as he may 

 need at a salary of $3.50 per day and travel- 

 ing expenses. 



Sec. 10. — .-Xn emergency exists, and this 

 act shall take effect immediately after its 

 passage. 



Approved by the Executive Committee of 

 tile New Jersey Bee-Keepers' Association. 



J. H. M. Cook, Prcs. 

 Albert G. Hann. Sec'y. 

 E. G. Carr. 1st Vicc-Pres. 

 Wm. E. Housel, 2d VicePres. 

 W. W. Case. 3d Vicc-Pres. 



The National Assofiatiou 



Through a letter received Dec. 27, 

 1909. from General Manager N. E. 

 France, Platteville, Wis., we learned 

 that the membership of the National 

 Bee-Keepers' .Association was 3-520 at 

 that time. Also that 1280 of them were 

 in arrears on their annual dues. We 

 hope that all who are owing will pay 

 tip at once. .And then, it is the new 

 president's ambition to have a member- 

 ship of at least a round 5000 by the 

 next annual meeting. If the 1280 pay 

 up, and all the balance of 22-tO renew 

 as their dues expire, then there would 

 be needed just 1480 more new members 

 to make the desired 5000. That is not 

 such a large number to secure in 8 9r 

 months, is it? 



We hope that every local bee-keep- 

 ers' organization on the continent will 

 join the National in a body, which can 

 be done at a rate of -50 cents per mem- 

 ber. The officers of such local associa- 

 tions should try to have this done. 

 Both the Illinois Stateand the Chicago- 

 Northwestern did this recently. As the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 has the largest membership of any 

 State organization of bee-keepers, it 

 naturally has the largest membership 

 of any State in the National. As there 

 are many conventions of bee-keepers 

 to be held soon — such as the Wiscon- 

 sin, Michigan (and Minnesota has just 

 met) — there should be a large addition 

 to the National's membership from 

 these sources. And then, if each affil- 

 iated local organization would make 

 an effort to increase its membership, 

 that would also help the National. 



It requires both money and members 

 for organizations to do anything worth 

 while these days. The National has 

 done a great work during its 40 years' 

 existence, and ought to be able to go 

 on now and do even greater things for 

 its members in the future. But let us 

 first secure the membership and a full 

 treasury, then its officiary can plan to 

 do some of the needful things for bee- 

 dom that only a large and influential 

 organization can do. We are sure that, 

 in the meantime, any of its officers will 

 be glad to receive any suggestions that 

 may be thought to be helpful in any 

 wav. 



The oOth or Jubilee Year 



The .American Bee Journal w-as 

 started in January, 1861, so 1910 is its 

 50th or Golden jubilee Year. Samuel 

 Wagner was its founder and first editor. 

 The year 1873, Rev. W. F. Clarke was 

 editor, and beginning with January, 

 1874, Thomas G. Newman became its 



owner and pulili^lier. He cnutinued 

 until June 1, 1892, when the present edi- 

 tor and publisher purchased it, and has 

 ever since continued. We really be- 

 gan work in the .American Bee Journal 

 office April 1, 1884, so that we have 

 been connected with it for over 25 

 years. 



And this is its 50th or Golden anni- 

 versary year! It should be a great 

 year in many ways for the " Old Re- 

 liable," as many of its friends have 

 come to call the American Bee Journal. 



First, we desire very much to in- 

 crease its circulation. It seems to us 

 that it should have the largest circula- 

 tion of any bee-paper in all the world. 

 It is entirely independent of any bee- 

 supply business, and in every other 

 way. It believes fully in the " square 

 deal " principle, and means to give such 

 to every person with whom it has to 

 do. We believe those who know us 

 best, know that is true. We want only 

 what is right. 



Again, we wish to increase the adver- 

 tising patronage of the American Bee 

 Journal. We want only clean, honest 

 advertisers represented in its columns. 

 We will not knowingly have any others. 



Now, we are going to ask those who 

 are reading the American Bee Journal. 



to help. We would like to have each 

 present subscriber, as far as possible, 

 send us one or more «ctt' subscribers 

 between now and April 1, 1910. Surely, 

 that can be done in 3 months. And we 

 don't ask you to work for us for noth- 

 ing. We offer many good premiums 

 for doing such work, as will be seen 

 from time to time in these columns. 



We have not said very much as to 

 the contents of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal for 1910. That is hardly necessary 

 for those who have read it regularly; 

 they kiiniv that what it /las contained 

 right along is a good indication of 

 what is to follow. The full year's in- 

 dex in the December number shows 

 what appeared during the past 12 

 months. 



Let us send you some sample copies 

 with which to solicit subscriptions, and 

 see if you cannot easily get one, if not 

 two, new readers for the American 

 Bee Journal for 1910, even before April 

 1st. We believe most of you can do it 

 with little effort. 



Shall we not all, both publisher and 

 subscribers, co-operate during this 

 year in a way that shall make the 

 American Bee Journal's Golden Jubilee 

 Year the best in all its long and inter- 

 esting history? 



Conducted by EMMA M. WILSON, Marengo. Ill, 



The Chicago-Northwestern Convention 



Well, the Chicago-Northwestern con- 

 vention is past and gone — only a pleas- 

 ant memory. A good convention it 

 was, too. The only sad thing about it 

 was the absence of so many familiar 

 faces. Mr. Dadant, the Root's, Hutch- 

 inson, Mr. France, the Dittmers, Mrs. 

 Stow, and a number of others. We 

 surely missed them, one and all. We 

 had the pleasure, however, of seeing a 

 number of new faces, among them two 

 of Mr. Dadant's sons (Louis and Mau- 

 rice), one of whom, Mr. Louis C. Da- 

 dant, was elected secretary and treas- 

 urer of the Association. 



There were 17 ladies present. Not 

 so bad a proportion of the fair sex, 

 was it? And they showed quite as 

 much interest in the convention as 

 their brothers, although the brethren 

 did most of the talking. Sometimes 

 the president had his hands full to keep 

 two or three of them from talking at a 

 time. And yet they talk about women 

 always doing all the talking ! 



Miss Stewart, the lady who reported 

 for the convention, must surely have 

 found it hard work — part of the time, 

 at least — to keep things straight. I 

 wonder which she thinks it easier to 

 report for, men or women. I really do 

 not remember seeing, at any time, two 



of the women struggling to speak at 

 once. Just score one for the women, 

 please. 



One of the interesting features of the 

 convention was Mr. Ferguson's dem- 

 onstration with his uncapping machine. 

 It surely did the work in a twinkling. 

 It was a pleasure just to see those 

 frames slip through the machine and 

 come out perfectly uncapped on both 

 sides of the comb. If we worked for 

 extracted honey, I would want a Fer- 

 guson machine. 



A topic discussed, which seemed to 

 be of vital interest to the entire con- 

 vention, was European foul brood. It 

 is gaining such headway that unless 

 something is done to check it very 

 soon, it threatens to wipe out the en- 

 tire bee-industry in Illinois. Oh, for a 

 foul-brood law ! 



I was very much interested in a con- 

 versation I had with Miss Mathilda 

 Candler, a Wisconsin bee-keeper of no 

 small experience. She said, " I dis- 

 covered diseased brood in quite a num- 

 ber of my colonies, and was convinced 

 they had foul brood." Then she told 

 how she concluded that she must bury 

 all affected colonies. How she went to 

 work and dug many weary hours until 

 she had a large hole ready for them. 

 -After sleeping on the proposition, 

 things did not look quite so discourag- 



