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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 16, 



GEORGE W, YORK. - Editor. 



PDBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 118 JUlcblgaii St., - CHICAGO, ILL. 



REBULAR CONTRIBUTORS : 

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



Dr. C. C. Miller, of Illinois. Rev. E. T. Abbott, of Missouri. 



Barnett Taylor, of Minnesota. Mrs. L. C. Axtell, of Illinois. 



Chas. Dadant & Son, of Illinois. 



$1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 (Entered at tbe Posl-Offlce at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter.] 



VoLinVL CHICAGO, ILL JULY 16,1896. No. 29. 



Xlie Honey Crop for 1896.— We called ou 

 Messrs. R. A. Burnett & Co., of this city, on July 7, and id 

 conversatiou with Mr. Burnett, he had this to say about the 

 present honey crop : 



" The prospects are that the largest flow of honey ever 

 secured east of the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast will 

 be obtained this season. Some of the harvest is now on the 

 market, selling in a small way at the prices given in our mar- 

 ket quotations." 



This is the judgment of the oldest and most extensive 

 honey-dealer in Chicago— a man who, though very quiet, keeps 

 in touch with the honey-producers all over the country. He 

 makes no great boasts as do some, but " gets there just the 

 same," when it comes to handling honey, hence his estimate 

 of the amount of honey in the country this year ought to be 

 somewhat reliable. 



In view of the above, producers 'should exercise great care 

 not to flood any one market with honey, and thus break down 

 prices. Neither should they neglect near-by markets and ship 

 to a distance. This year, as in every year, the home demand 

 should be carefully met first, and then if there still be a sur- 

 plus, ship it to the nearest reliable dealer to sell, unless you 

 are very certain a far distant dealer will net you better 

 returns. 



The ?(orth American Program.- The follow- 

 ing has come to hand from the Secretary of the North Ameri- 

 can Bee-Keepers' Association : 



Station B, Toledo, Ohio, July 10, 1896. 



Mr. Editor :— The fixing of the time for the meeting of 

 the North American Bee-Keepers' Association at Lincoln, 

 Nebr., has been left, by the Executive Committee, with the 

 Nebraska bee-keepers, so that they may be able to arrange 

 for reduced railroad rates, and in a letter just received from 

 Mr. L. D. S^tilson, of York, Nebr. (Secretary of the Nebraska 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, who has the matter in charge), 

 he says ; 



" I have been to Omaha to see the railroad people who 

 promised to let me know July 1, but no satisfaction yet as to 



rates or dates I will write you at the earliest moment, 



when I know the dates. They gave me dates for our Horticul- 

 tural meeting more than 90 days before the meeting." 



I was hoping to get the program for the meeting in all the 



July bee-journals, but have waited so as to get the time set. 

 So far as arranged for, the following can be announced : 



The Past and Future of Bee-Keeping — Mrs. J. N. Heater, 

 of Columbus, Nebr. 



Bee-Keepers' Exchange — Prof. A. J. Cook, of Claremont, 

 Calif. 



The Wild Bees of Nebraska — Prof. Lawrence Bruner, of 

 Lincoln, Nebr. 



Improvements in Bee-Culture — Ernest R. Root, of Medina, 

 Ohio. 



Some of the Conditions ot Nebraska — L. D. Stilson, of 

 York, Nebr. 



The Union and Amalgamation — Thomas G. Newman, of 

 San Diego, Calif. 



Economic Value of Bees and their Products — C. P. Dadant, 

 of Hamilton, 111. 



Artificial Heat and Pure Air, Properly Applied in Winter- 

 ing — R. F. Holtermann, of Brantford, Ont. 



The Honey-Producer and Supply-Dealer — Rev. Emerson 

 T. Abbott, of St. Joseph, Mo. 



An original poem by Hon. Eugene Secor, of Forest City, 

 Iowa. 



Importance of Watering in the Apiary — Hon. E. Whit- 

 comb, of Friend, Nebr. 



Honey Adulteration and Commission-Men — George W. 

 York, of Chicago, III. 



Sweet Clover as a Honey-Producing Plant — Wm. Stolley, 

 of Grand Island, Nebr. 



The President, Mr. A. I. Root, will give an address, and 

 it is expected that "Somnambulist" will be present with one 

 of her inimitable papers, but as she must now be asleep, I 

 have not been able to learn the subject of it. 



It is the present intention to devote most of the second 

 evening session to an address of welcome by the Hon. Geo. E. 

 McLean, Chancellor of the Nebraska State University, with a 

 response by Hon. Eugene Secor, of Iowa. The Hon. Alvin 

 Saunders, an old-time bee-keeper and a War Governor of 

 Nebraska, will also address the convention, and if time will 

 allow, other addresses will be made or papers read. 



A. B. Mason, Sec. 



Vou 'Will Make a Mistake if you do not read 



all of page -±63, and take a part in extending the circulation 

 of the American Bee Journal ; and also earn some of the pre- 

 miums offered for getting six-months' subscribers. Then, too, 

 you might easily get a share of the .$25 in cash that we offer. 

 Remember, the contest ends Sept. 1, only 6 weeks yet. Many 

 are at work, and you have an equal chance to be the lucky 

 one. You will find that a ten-dollar bill, or a five, would come 

 in handy. Better try for it. 



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Your Experience in bee-keeping is always in order 

 in these columns. We trust none of our subscribers will wait 

 for a personal invitation to write out and send us what they 

 have learned in practical work with the bees. Remember 

 that the American Bee Journal is yours for the interchange 

 of apiarian ideas and results of actual experience. We try to 

 give everybody a fair chance to " have their say " when it 

 has direct application to bee-keeping.. While we never lack 

 for material for our columns, there is always room for more 

 contributions that tend to the assistance and real advance- 

 ment of practical apiculture. 



Bees and Agriculture.— In The Spectator — a Cali- 

 fornia periodical — was published a short time ago a story of 

 an old man and his faithful companion who lived high up on 

 the mountain side. Their only occupation was that of keep- 

 ing btes, from the products of which they were enabled to live 

 comfortably. 



In the valley below were a number of farms and orchards. 

 In the summer-time the bees from the mountains visited the 

 valley and gathered large quantities of honey from the blos- 

 soms of the apple, the clover, and the corn, in turn scattering 

 the pollen and more effectually fertilizing the flowers, enab- 

 ling the farmers to gather abundant harvests. In the fall, 

 when the bees could no longer gather nectar from the flowers, 



