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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 22 1903. 



have insisted on having a copy of them to 

 mail with the ballot to the members, as pro- 

 vided by the constitution. 



We may say further, that we think it will 

 hardly pay any officer to be so red-tapy as 

 Mr. Secor's letter indicates he was; surely, 

 it will not tend to inspire confidence in the 

 Association to follow such a precedent. 

 Also, we think it shows poor taste for Mr. 

 Secor to intimate that the " love of office " 

 is inspiring the opposers to unfair methods, 

 who insist that common-sense and ordinary 

 business practice shall be used in the man- 

 agement of the National Association, when 

 Mr. Secor himself has been in the office of 

 General Manager as many years as he has. 



No-Drip Cases Without Paper.— Dr. 



W. O. Eastwood, finding it troublesome to use 

 paper in shipping-cases, poured in melted 

 paraffine, running it clear around the bottom 

 and then pouring it out. That required only 

 a small quantity, and left the shipping-case 

 with no more chance for leaking than if it 

 contained the paper. 



Although this plan must have its limitations 

 (for it can hardly be used with 24-section 

 eases having the bottoms in two parts), it is 

 well worth trying by those who are not ex- 

 pert at using the paper in 13-section cases. It 

 will probably be necessary to nail the bottom 

 at the middle to the back and to the front 

 strip, otherwise the weight of the sections 

 might spring down the bottom and break 

 apart the paraffined joint. If the plan is a 

 success, it will no doubt be found easier for 

 the inexperienced than to use the paper. 



Of course, the no-drip strips must not lie 

 omitted. 



I Weekly Budget. I 



Mr. C. H. Piekce, of Columbia Co., Wis., 

 called on us last week. He expects a good 

 season with the bees this year. His are win- 

 tering well. 



Mb. N. E. France has been talking on 

 fruit and bees at the farmers' institutes in 

 Wisconsin this winter. He knows how on 

 both subjects. 



Calipornia Bee-Keepebs to Organize. 

 —We have received the following which will 

 be of interest to California bee-keepers par- 

 ticularly : 

 To THE Bee-Keepers of California: — 



At the recent session of the State Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, held in this city, the subject 

 of co-operation for the disposal of our prod- 

 uct was again presented, and forcibly empha- 

 sized by F. E. Brown, the successful manager 

 of the Central California Association. 



The necessity of such a luovement seems 

 evident to all, but the question of method 

 has been the one great difficulty to overcome. 

 George L. Emerson, the enterprising Orange 

 County producer, presented a plan that met 

 the hearty approval of those present, result- 

 ing in the appointment of the following com- 

 mittee to consider and devise a plan of organi- 

 zation ; F. E. Brown, George W. Brodbeck, 

 L. S. Emerson, M. 11. Mendleson, L. E. 

 Mercer, and J. F. Mclntyre. The committee, 

 not being able to complete its task before the 

 adjournment of the State Association, take 



this method of presenting it to the bee-keep- 

 ers at large. 



The approaching season, the necessity of 

 prompt and decisive action, have resulted 

 in the committee taking steps to incorporate 

 the California National Honey-Producers' 

 Association. The principal place of business 

 will be Los Angeles; capital stock .?2.5,000, 

 divided into 500, UOO shares, value 5 cents — 

 each share to represent one colony of bees, 

 thus confining this organization entirely to 

 bee-keepers. SiitHcient stock has been sub- 

 scribed to inaugurate this movement, and in- 

 sure its undoubted success. With the object 

 of enlisting the interest of all bee-keepers, 

 and for them to learn the details of this pro- 

 ject, a meeting has been called to be held at 

 the Chamber of Commerce, in Los Angeles, 

 Jan. 20, at 9:30 a.m. 



We further desire to call attention to a few 

 reasons why bee-keepers should combine : 



First of all, " In union there is strength." 



By joining together, freight-rates, supplies, 

 and other expenses, are reduced to a mini- 

 mum. 



By marking aud sealing our honey we 

 guarantee its purity, thus preventing the pos- 

 sibility of adulteration. The guarantee of 

 purity will increase the demand. 



The establishment of uniform prices and 

 grades will prevent individual competition 

 and the consequent depression in prices. 



The combination of the small producer with 

 the large one gives strength to the former and 

 removes him from the clutches of the specu- 

 lator. 



The entire management will be in the 

 hands of bee-keepers, with no other interests 

 involved, assuring equal benefits to all. 

 Facilities for storage will be provided. All 

 honey will be graded and sealed by an official 

 grader. 



Members will be permitted to retail in less 

 than car-load lots. Advances will also be 

 made on consignments, if desired. 



The above are a few of the details which we 

 present for your consideration, and urge your 

 attendance at the meeting called. 



Geo. W. Brodbeck, Cor. .S'tr. 



We hope this new organization will prove 

 to be what California honey-producers need 

 in order to control the marketing of their 

 product, so that it may be disposed of in a 

 way that will bring good returns to its mem- 

 bers. They have a large contract on their 

 hands, but it is well worth pushing to com- 

 pletion, as we believe it will prove a success 

 when once gotten in working order. 



Your Name aku Address. — We take the 

 following from Gleanings in Bee-Culture, and 

 only wish that it might be read by every per- 

 son in the world, or at least by all who ex- 

 pect to do any business with others. The 

 experience of The A. I. Root Co., as described 

 in these paragraphs, does not differ from the 

 experience of every other firm : 



Every man and woman, and, (or that mat- 

 ter, every child, should be urged very early to 

 adopt some particular way of signing his 

 name and address. Yes, as soon as a child 

 can write his name he should be urged to 

 adopt some particular form. If he decides to 

 use only initials, let him always do it the 

 same way. If his name is Smith, in view of 

 the great number of Smiths, he would better 

 spell out in full his first or second name; but, 

 having once decided ^perhaps by the aid of 

 his friends) just how he is going to make his 

 signature, let him stick to it. And he should 

 also be encouraged to have a rubber stamp to 

 put on his stationery, so that all can know in 

 plain and unmistakable letters just wfutt he is 

 called, and huw he is addressed. JIarried 

 women especially should heed the above. It 

 is a woman's privilege to write her name Mrs. 

 •John Smith or Mrs. Susan Smith; hut she 

 should be urged to do always one or the 

 other. A few days ago " Mrs. .lohn Smith " 

 complained that she sent us some money, and 

 we did not give her credit. After much fuss 

 and bother our book-keeper found she signed 

 her name Mi's. Unsan Smith, aud wrote from 



a different postofflce from what she had ever 

 written before, and, therefore, the book- 

 keepers were obliged to open an account with 

 Mrs. Susan Smith at some other postoffiee; 

 and hadn't one of the employees happened to 

 remember some honey being placed on the 

 book where no account could be found, I do 

 not know what would have been done. 



The better way. by all means, is to have 

 your correct name and address printed on en- 

 velopes or writing-paper, one or the other, or 

 both. It can be done for a few cents. But if 

 this is too much trouble, then get a rubber 

 stamp, and stamp everything you send out, 

 not only to save this great, busy world time 

 and money, but to save yuurnelf annoyance 

 and disappointment. Lots of people make 

 haste to call great business firms dishonest, 

 just because these people themselves have not 

 got enough life and push to avoid the trouble 

 of blundering addresses, as I have indicated 

 in the above. If you can not scrape up 

 enough energy to let folks know who you are, 

 and where you live, in black and white, you 

 ought to have l>een born a century or two 

 ago, when it did not matter so very much 

 whether the outside world knew whether you 

 were alive and kicking or not. 



Rev. L. L. Langstroth a Presbtterian. 

 — It seems from the following that through 

 an oversight, or lapse in memory, we made 

 an error in reference to Father Langstroth : 



Mr. Editor:— In that delightfully gotten- 

 up periodical. Class Advertising, an article 

 appears which was written by the Editor of 

 the American Bee .Journal, all of which I can 

 indorse except the statement that the movable- 

 frame hive was invented by Rev. L. L. Lang- 

 stroth, " a Congregational clergyman." 

 Father Langstroth would be neither a better 

 nor a worse man for being a Presbyterian 

 rather than a Congregationalist, but it is just 

 as well to be accurate in regard to everytliing 

 pertaining to one who played so prominent a 

 part. 



When 26 years old Father Langstroth was, 

 for two years, pastor of the Second Congre- 

 gational Church in Andover, Mass., but many 

 years ago he became a Presbyterian. When 

 jDreparing for Root's "ABC of Bee-Culture " 

 a biographical sketch of Father Langstroth, 

 desiring to be entirely correct, I wrote to him, 

 and in reply he said, under date of March 26, 

 188S: 



" I am now a minister in the Presbyterian 

 church. Although not a settled pastor, I 

 preach occasionally, and deiight in nothing 

 so much as the Christian work. My parents 

 were members of Mr. Barnes' church, the 

 mother Presbyterian church in the United 

 States." 



I have good reason to believe that he con- 

 tinued in the same connection during the re- 

 mainder of his lite. Last summer, when 

 giving a talk before the Winona Assembly, I 

 spoke of Father Langstroth as a Presbyterian 

 clergyman. Afterward, one of my auditors 

 made the correction that Mr. Langstroth was 

 a Congregationalist. The pastor of the Pres- 

 Ijyterian church at Dayton, Ohio, who hap- 

 pended to be present, replied, "Mr. Lang- 

 stroth was a member of our presbytery, and 

 it was while preaching in my pulpit that he 

 fell dead." C. C. Miller. 



Of course, it is always best to be exactly 

 correct in all statements, but, really, isn't 

 there just about as much difference be- 

 tween a good Congregationalist and a good 

 Presbyterian as there is between tweedledum 

 and tweedledee i We would think just as 

 much of Dr. Miller if he were a Methodist in- 

 stead of being a Presbyterian I But, after all, 

 it is not the particular denomination that a 

 man belongs to, but his Christian living that 

 counts, not only in the preseut time, but in 

 the Eternity beyond, if the Good Book be true. 



However, we want to thank Dr. Miller for 

 calling our attention to Father Langstroth's 

 Presbyterianism. We will try to be more 

 careful the next time we have occasion to 

 refer to it. 



