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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 26, 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ! 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 MS Aficliig-an St., - CUICAGO, ILL. 



REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS : 



G. M. Doolittle, of New York. Prof. A. J. Cook, of California. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, of Illinois. Dr. J. P. H. Brown, of Georgia. 



J. H. Martin, of California. Rev. E. T. Abbott, of Missouri. 



Chas. Dadant & Son, of Illinois. 

 B. Taylor, of Minnesota. 



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Vol. niVI. CHICAGO, ILL, MAE. 26, 1896. No. 13. 



A National Bee-Keepers' Association is 



proposed by Mr. Brodbeck, on page 195. If such is ever 

 organized we would suggest that it be called "The United 

 States Bee-Keepers' Association " instead of " National." We 

 have a National Bee-Keepers' Union, and to use the same 

 descriptive word for another society, perhaps composed of the 

 same members, might lead to confusion and possible annoy- 

 ance. 



Mr. Brodbeck is quite right, we think, when he intimates 

 that our country ought to be able to have a grand bee-keepers' 

 association all its own. Other countries have such, and why 

 not we ? 



Home marketing; of Honey is now receiving 

 a good deal of attention in some of our contemporaries. Good 

 thing. It's high time bee-keepers are learning to work the 

 "gold-mines" near their homes instead of rushing their honey 

 off to city markets, and often into the hands of untrustworthy 

 commission-dealers. As " charity begins at home," so should 

 honey-selliug. If you love your neighbors as you should, 

 you'll see to it that they all are well supplied with honey be- 

 fore sending a pound to city markets. The home demand must 

 first be worked up, and then supplied with a good article. No 

 trouble to hold it then. Think well along this line before you 

 have another crop of honey to dispose of. It will pay. 



Tbe Benton Bee-Book Ag-ain.— Last week we 

 received the following just a little too late to appear in the 

 previous number of the Bee Journal : 



Friend York : — Senator Burrows' Concurrent Resolution 

 as amended, providing for the reprint of 20,000 copies of 

 Bulletin No. 1, on "The Houey-Bee," has passed both 

 branches of Congress, and is now in the hands of the printer. 

 Of this edition, 15,000 copies will be distributed by Members 

 of Congress, and 5,000 by the Department of Agriculture. 

 The Department informs me they now have over 2,000 appli- 

 cations on file, and as soon as it is known that anew edition is 

 to be published, they will be swamped. Will you kindly ask 

 your readers to apply to their Senators or Representatives for 

 copies. Should their allotment be exhausted, the requests 

 will then go to the Department of Agriculture. This will 

 serve two purposes, viz.: Relieve the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and impress upon Congress the extent of our industry. 



and the appreciation by the bee-keepers of the work and their 

 efforts in the interest of their constituency. 



Very truly yours, Geo. E. Hilton. 



Now we hope that all who wish to have a copy of Mr. 

 Benton's book will follow Mr. Hilton's directions, as given 

 above. Be sure to apply through your Congressmen instead 

 of the Department of Agriculture, and see to it that the 

 names of all the bee-keepers you know are sent in for the 

 book. It is not always that every bee-keeper has a chance to 

 get something for nothing, or merely for the asking. But 

 here is a case where it seems to be the fact. Send in your re- 

 quest at once — to one of your Congressmen — Senator or Rep- 

 resentative. 



Comb-Honey Production.— In this number of 

 the Bee Journal, Mr. Doolittle tells how to begin the season, 

 and that article will be followed by others from his practical 

 pen along the line of comb-honey production. Then, next 

 week, Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson will commence a series of four 

 articles on "Producing Comb Honey in Michigan." Those 

 who wish to produce comb honey will find in the articles of 

 Mr. Doolittle and Mr. Hutchinson ^ lot of valuable instruc- 

 tion, which will well repay careful reading and heeding. 



We believe that this year we have secured many of the 

 very best writers on the subject of bees in this country — in 

 fact, we have not spared expense in getting reading-matter 

 for the Bee Journal, and we believe that our readers are ap- 

 preciating it, and will do all they can to show their apprecia- 

 tion, not only by way of promptly paying their own subscrip- 

 tions, but will get as many of their neighbor bee-keepers as 

 possible to take the Bee Journal regularly. It will pay to 

 help educate all your surrounding bee-keepers, so that they 

 will be likely to produce a better article of honey, and then 

 not spoil a good home market afterward. 



Tlie Langstrotb monument Fund.— As our 



experience tallies exactly with that of Gleanings in regard to 

 this fund, we give here an editorial from that paper for March 

 15: 



It will be remembered that, a few issues ago, a movement 

 was started to build a suitable monument over the grave of 

 Father Langstroth, said monument to be purchased with sub- 

 scriptions received from bee-keepers. I regret to say that so 

 far only a few subscriptions have been received. I cannot be- 

 lieve it is because of a lack of appreciation, nor because times 

 are so ver^ hard, but because it has been put off. I wish to 

 say that even small subscriptions are very acceptable — 

 amounts of 50 cents and $1.00. These, as fast as received, 

 will be credited and acknowledged ; but if sent with other re- 

 mittances, be sure to designate which is for the Langstroth 

 monument fund. I believe that all the supply manufacturers, 

 if not a good many of the dealers, should be willing to give 

 more largely than bee-keepers who buy of them ; but, in the 

 meantime, let the small subscriptions come in. It would in- 

 deed be a reproach upon us, if, having attempted to raise 

 funds for a suitable monument, we should fail. 



Miss Matliilda Candler, whose portrait is shown 

 on the first page this week, is one of Wisconsin's fair lady 

 bee-keepers, living at Cassville. She began bee-keeping about 

 seven years ago, by buying two colonies of bees in box-hives, 

 which increased to four, and the next spring were transferred 

 to Langstroth hives. 



Miss Candler uses the 10-frame Langstroth, and thinks 

 that is none too large, for the queen keeps them pretty well 

 filled ; also, the bees are apt to be better prepared for winter. 

 The outside frames are nearly always solid full of honey. 



She works mostly for comb honey, running only a few 

 colonies for extracted, and extracting such unfinished sections 

 as are not readily sold. She cuts out and sells as broken comb 

 all not heavy enough to sell in the sections. The extracted 

 sections, after being cleaned by the bees, are melted into 



