American bee journal. 



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Keeper, etc. But we notice that when the 

 name of any bee-paper is to be abbreviated 

 in Oleaviufja, it is nearly always the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal ! 



And to agree with the editor of Oleardngs 

 in Bee-Cidtiire, whenever we refer to Ms 

 paper we should use the letters " G. I. B.- 

 C." And wouldn't that be / nonsensic al 

 enough ! 



To state a fact, we are heartily tired of 

 having the American Bee Journal re- 

 ferred to as " A. B. J." in public print; but 

 if our brother editors really can't afford to 

 spare the space to give full and intelligible 

 credit when copying anything from our 

 paper, why, we'll try to endure it. At the 

 same time, we will endeavor to " return 

 good for evil" by crediting other bee- 

 papers in a sensible and rational way for 

 whatever we copy from them. 



P. S. — We would not object to '■ Am. Bee 

 Jrnl." as a contracted form of " Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal," if a contraction must 

 ever be used, which is very seldom. 



Cj(Ol<leu-ISo(l. — Miss Helen Johnson, 

 of Connecticut, at the State bee-meeting 

 last May, gave some interesting facts re- 

 garding the golden-rod as a honey-plant, 

 the result of her researches on the subject. 

 She said: "There are 94 varieties of 

 golden-rod in this country, 92 of which are 

 natives, and all afford nectar. The color is 

 white and straw — never amber, as is some- 

 times stated — but always food for bees. 

 The white variety blooms first, and is 

 aisually found in the woods." So says an 

 exchange. 



Australia AIiea<l on Honey.— In 



the following clipping from the Western, 

 Post, an Australian paper published in 

 Mudgee, near Sydney, is shown the most 

 wonderful yield of honey from one colony 

 of bees yet heard of, viz: 1,250 pounds in a 

 single season. Here is the item which was 

 written on April 2, 1S94 : 



1 had five or six colonies that produced 

 over 1,000 pounds each of honey one season, 

 but I have only two down in my memoran- 

 dum book, whose extracting I put down 

 every week after they had collected about 

 400 pounds each. Since then I extracted 

 some weeks as high as 80 and 90 pounds 

 from them during a very long and good 

 season (nearly six months), and the result 

 at the end of the season was 1,250 pounds 

 and 1,120 pounds, and I am sure two or 

 three other colonies went very close to it. 



I put down in my yard-book how many 

 tins I extract every day, and I always take 

 a low estimate of the weight. The top- 

 weight hive was a light hybrid, and 

 swarmed once. The second was a pure lot, 

 an October swarm, and I deprived them bf 

 a good many combs for queen-rearing. The 

 honey came in so fast that I had to ex- 

 tract nearly all the frames in 20-frame 

 hives to give the queens room to lay. 



The last season has been very indifferent, 

 and I got an average of only 85 pounds per 

 colony (spring count), the lo\Vest for the 

 last eight years. Since Christmas there 

 has been very little chance of collecting 

 honey on account of the windy, rainy; 

 wintry weather. 



On page 18 of the Bee Journal for July 

 5, 1894, Mr. Doolittle records a yield of 566 

 pounds from one colony, and on page 50 of 

 the Bee Journal for Jan. 11, 1894, Dr. 

 Gallup tells of a yield of 750 pounds. These 

 probably are the largest yields reported in 

 this country, as having been taken from 

 single colonies in one season. So we'll 

 have to award the prize to our Australian 

 brethren, though it should be remembered 

 that they have a continuous honey-flow for 

 nearly a year, making a much longer sea- 

 son than we have in this country. 



1^" The greatest enemy to the pursuit 

 of bee-keeping is the one who extracts un- 

 ripe honey. Often it ferments, and ruins ^ 

 good market. — Newman. 



Xlie I\ortli AiJiei-icaii.— We have 

 received the following from President Ab- 

 bott, which we commend to the careful, as 

 well as prayerful, consideration of all wide- 

 awake readers : 



The articles of incorporation of the North 

 American Bee-Keepers' Association (which 

 it would not be a bad idea for all the bee- 

 )apers to publish in full) adopted at Keo- 



K! 



"This Association shall consist of its 

 officers, life members, delegates from aflBl- 

 iated local associations, and ex-Presidents." 



They then set forth the conditions on 

 which bee-keepers may become life and 

 annual members, and say that "delegates 

 from affiliated local associations shall be 

 admitted free." It is further stated that 

 any " State, District, Territory, or Province 

 in North America may become affiliated 

 upon the annual payment of $5.00, which 

 shall be due on the first day of January in 

 each year, in advance." 



I would like to learn now how many there 

 are of these "affiliated" associations at 

 the present time. I see a list of eight is 

 given in the Report of the meeting at Keor 

 kuk, but I find nothing in the last Annual 



