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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 28, 1903. 



P0BLISHBD TVEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Post-OfEce at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITOR, 

 C*EiOK.C3-E "W". "Sr OK/IS. 



DEPT. EDITORS, 



Dr.C.C. Miller, E.E.Hasty, Emma M.Wilson 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is SI. 00 a year, in the United States, Can- 

 ada, and Mexico; all other countries in the 

 Postal Union, 50 cents a y.ear 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, 

 "dec03" on your label shows that it is 

 paid to the end of December, 1903. 



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 credited. 



Advertising Rates will be given upon ap- 

 plication. 



National Bee Keepers' Association 



Objects of the Associatiou : 



1st.— To promote the interests of its members. 



3d.— To protect and defend its members in 

 their lawful rights. , j ,. .■ 



3d.— To entorci' laws against the adulteration 

 of honey. 



ANNUAL Membership, SI.OO. 



Send dues to Treasurer. 



Ilev. H. A. Winter at Home. 



Rev. H. A. Winter was ordained a minister 

 Sept. 13, 1852, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Last 

 September he celebrated his Golden Anniver- 

 sary. The picture on the preceding page 

 shows him as he appeared at the time of his 

 celeVwation. We have had the pleasure of 

 meeting Rev. Winter several times at the 

 annual conventions of the Wisconsin State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association held at Madison. 

 Mr. Winter is also an old bee-keeper, and 

 takes great interest not only in caring lor the 

 bees, but dn everything connected with the 

 business, especially the meeting of the bee- 

 keepers. As he site in his chair in front of 

 his beautiful home he seems to be the very 

 picture of contentment. He appears also to 

 be the center of attraction, if we may judge 

 from the pleasant faces which surround him. 

 It is a great pleasure to meet Mr. Winter, as 

 he is always jovial and entertaining. We wish 

 him yet many years of happy life, full of 

 opportunities to bless mankind. 



President-W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich. 

 Vice-President— J. U. Harris, 



Grand Junction. Colo. 

 Secretary— George W. York, 



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

 General Manager and Treasurer— 



N. E. France, PlatteviUe, Wis. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



E. Whitcomb, Friend, Neb. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich. 



Udo Toepperwei.n, San Antonio, Tex. 

 R. C. AlKiN, Loveland, Colo. 



P. H. Elwood, Starkville, N. 1. 

 E. R. Root, Medina, Ohio. 

 Wm. a. Selser, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 G. M. DoOLlTTLE, Borodino, N. Y. 

 W. F. Marks, Chapinville, N. Y. 



J. M. Hambaugh, Escondido, Calif. 



C. A. Hatch, Richland Ctr.. Wis. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 



I^" If more convenient. Dues may be sent 

 to the Secretary, at the office of the American 

 Bee Journal. 



A Celluloid Queen-Button is a very 

 orettv thing lor a bee-keeper or honey-seller to 

 preiiy b ^^^^ ^^ ^.^^ coat-lapel. It of- 



ten serves to introduce the 

 subject of honey, and fre- 

 quently leads to a sale. 



The picture shown herewith 

 is a reproduction 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 mall, b cents; two for Wc; 

 or 6 for 25 cents. ^Send all orders to the office 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



C. C. Chaniberlin's Apiary. 



In the spring of 1902 I sent a picture of my 

 apiary in winter, and I then said I would send 

 another picture when the outer cases were re- 

 moved. The picture has been taken for a 

 long time, but I have not been very prompt 

 in sending it. I keep as near 50 colonies as I 

 can l3y doubling up during swarming time 

 and in the fall. My entire crop of honey las' 

 yearwas .500 pounds, the smallest crop since I 

 have been in the bee-business, all from .53 col- 

 onies. The cause of such a poor crop was so 

 much wet weather which lasted all through 

 the season. C. C. Chamberlin. 



The Old Soldier's Apiary. 



I enclose a picture of our friend, Thomas 

 Carver, and a part of his apiary. "Tom,'" as 

 we all know him, is an old soldier of the Wis- 

 consin Volunteers, of Company B, 2Sth Regi- 

 ment. He enlisted at East Troy, Walworth 

 Co., Wis., and helped defend Old Glory for 

 three years. He is still in Uncle Sam's em- 

 ploy as mail-carrier. 



Tom contends that the black bees of Arkan- 

 sas were a "holy terror" during the early 

 BO'S, and continues by adding that if he had 

 known what he has since learned about bees 

 at " York's School," he could have evaded a 

 whole lot of swelled eyes after being on a 

 honey-foraging expedition. We find him an 

 apt student in apiculture. He laments that 

 he waited until the evening of life tjefore 

 courting acquaintance with the bees, and ac- 

 knowledges he must rush business in order to 

 get anywhere near his portion of the fun. 



Ye fishermen, you should see the old soldier 

 fool the finny tribe. He thinks the " Ladies' 

 Relief Corps " in the Bee Journal is about 

 right. He boasts that he can handle Yon 

 Yonson's remarks to a finish. 



By the way, the old soldier got a good crop 

 of honey in W02, and contends it's easy it one 

 will but pay attention to what the Bee Jour- 

 nal says. 



There is another good old student farther 

 up the river, one W. Irvin. I will "show 

 him up " later on. He, too, is an expert with 

 the rod. So, when the three fishermen go 

 after the finny tribe, there is usually room 

 made for fish-stories. 

 I J, P. Blunk (the other fisherman). 



Webster Co., Iowa. 



Frank AV. Atkins and Hat-Swarni. 



It is with much interest I read the different 

 methods of bee-keeping in the Bee Journal. 



My father always kept bees in box-hives, 

 and I helped him care for them. When he 

 died, three years ago, and left me the bees to 

 care for alone, I decided to transfer some of 



them to frame hives ; and now my apiary con- 

 tains 25 colonies, all I find time to manage 

 successfully. 



Last August I subscribed for the American 

 Bee Journal and also got an Italian queen. 1 

 introduced her according to the directions on 

 the mailing-cage, and now I have a fine colony 

 of Italians. 



I send a photograph. Mother took it with 

 my kodak. This, however, does not show the 

 apiary, but you will notice in the picture my 

 hat hanging on a crow-bar with a swarm of 

 bees on it. This swarm came out the last of 

 July and went out over the meadow. As 

 there was nothing there for them to alight on 

 I took the bar out, intending to make a hole 

 to set a bush in, but as soon as I got in under 

 them they began alighting on my hat, so 1 

 took it off and hung it there for them. I 

 hived them in a log-hive, intending to " take 

 them up" last fall, but they did so well I put 

 them into the cellar with the others. They 

 nearly filled the old log-hive. Besides, they 

 have changed from blacks to hybrids, and are 

 nearly as golden as Italians. The nearest 

 Italian bees kept here at that time were two 

 miles away. 



I take great pleasure in the bees, and re- 

 ceive some profit from them; also lots of good 

 information from the American Bee Journal. 

 Clinton Co., N. Y. Frank W. Atkins. 



Dr. Miller's New Book is thus re- 

 viewed by Editor Emerson T. Abtjott, of the 

 Modern Farmer and Busy Bee : 



" Forty Years Among the Bees " is the title 

 of a new book which we have received from 

 the author. Dr. C. C. Miller, of Marengo, 111., 

 with his compliments. One hardly knows 

 where to begin to read such a book, much 

 le-is to write about it. Ii is not arranged like 

 other books, and is not like any other book 

 any more than its author is like other men. 

 Dr Miller has a distinct and unique person- 

 ality which is all his own, and his liook is 

 eminently like him. We find Dr. Miller on 

 every page of the book, and we may say that 

 it is none the worse for that. In fact, while 

 the book is primarily about bees, and not 

 about Dr. Miller, to take him out of it would 

 be to destroy its value, largely. We not only 

 find Dr. Miller in the book, but we hnd his 

 entire family, which is also perfectly natural, 

 for Dr. Miller is his family, and his family is 

 Dr Miller, for they probably come as near 

 beim' a unit in their home and in its work as 

 any "family on earth. The Doctor and his 

 familv follow bee-keeping for a living, but 

 not for the money there is in it, for they 

 could make more money at other things. 

 They follow bee-keeping lor the joy they find 

 in living that kind of a lite, as is clearly 

 brought out by the biography which the Doc- 

 tor has woven in his bee-story. 



We do not know as the book can rightly be 

 called a text-book on the industry, yet there 

 is very little of what is known as modern 

 bee-keeping which is not found in its pages 

 and stated in a way which any one, he he ever 

 so ignorant of the industry, can understand, 

 and vet in so interesting a way that the reader 

 is not likely to lay the book down after he 

 has begun to read it, if he has the time, until 

 he has read it through. It is just such a 

 book as one who knows Dr. Miller would ex- 

 pect him to write, and is a fit heritage to leave 

 behind one to mark the metes and bounds of 

 a useful, helpful, and well-spent life. 



Every bee-keeper should own and read a 

 copy of '■ Forty Years Among the Bees," and 

 every one who is anxious to learn of the ups 

 and downs, as well as the intense fascination 

 of this world-wide industry, should also read 



'We said above that Dr. Miller is on every 

 pao-e of the book, but we wish he was more in 

 evrdence on one of its pages, at least. The 

 one thing lacking to complete and round out 

 the book as it should he, is a first-class half- 

 tone of the genial Doctor, just as he looks at 

 the end of 40 years of bee-keeping experience. 

 ^Ve think no better recommendation of the 

 value and helpfulness of the industry could 

 be produced. The Ijook, however, has a 

 wealth of illustrations, which are both inter- 

 esting and practical. 



