1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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fair on earth," and will put forth every effort to make the 

 coining fair greater than any of its 42 predecessors. ■ 



For a copy of the Premium List, or any further informa- 

 tion, address the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 Mr. W. C. Garrard, Springfield, 111. 



Busy Supply Dealers. — At least some of the bee- 

 supply manufacturers and dealers have been busy this season, 

 as will be noted by the following : 



The Leahy Mfg. Co., of Missouri, have this editorial note 

 in the Progressive Bee-Keeper for July: "The supply busi- 

 ness to date has been exceedingly good. We have sold more 

 goods this season than any other one year heretofore." 



The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co., of New York State, say this 

 of their business, in the July American Bee-Keeper : "June 

 was a very busy month for us. Our customers did not seem to 

 ' wake up ' much until then, but they made up for lost time, 

 and the month ended with a record of many more orders than 

 June of last year." 



The A. I. Root Co., in Gleanings for July 1, say : " We 

 did not run on nine hours a day more than about a week be- 

 fore we had to increase to several hours over time in the sec- 

 tion-box department in order to keep pace with orders. The 

 prospect of a bountiful honey crop in very many localities re- 

 porting is very flattering where there were bees in condition 

 to gather it. Unfortunately the repeated poor seasons for 

 three or four consecutive years have discouraged many so 

 that their bees have either all died off or are in such poor con- 

 dition as to be unprepared for the bountiful honey harvest 

 they might have secured this year had they been ready for it. 

 The call for section-boxes has been almost unprecedented. 

 During the nine months since Oct. 1, 1S95, we have made 

 8,000,000 sections, which is equal to the total output for the 

 whole year previous. We have made about one and a quarter 

 millions so far during June, up to to-day, the 26th." 



If any others of our advertisers would like to report as to 

 their " busy-ness " this season, we will be glad to publish it. 

 How has the queen-trade been ? 



Eucalyptus and Honey.— Mr. W. A. Pryal, of 

 North Temescal, Calif., sends us the following account of a 

 quack healer, taken from the San Francisco Examiner: 



Mrs. Susan E. Currie sued " Dr." James McLean in the 

 Justices' Court on a note for .SiOO and an agreement to pay 

 S5100 in cash and $5 a week for eight weeks. The case came 

 to an end yesterday when Justice of the Peace Barry, after 

 hearing 'the evidence, gave judgment in favor of Mrs. Currie 

 for $35, saying that the only reason he did not award her the 

 remainder was that according to the terms of the agreement 

 into which she had entered it was not yet due. 



Mrs. Currie testified that she had been a sufferer from 

 what seemed to be nervous prostration when she heard of 

 " Dr." McLean. She called upon him, and he told her that 

 his powers were divine, and that he cured all diseases by 

 means of a secret discovery. She believed him. Indeed, she 

 admitted that she was very much impressed, and she took the 

 treatment. Whether it, was the divine power or hypnotic in- 

 fluence she couldn't say, but she admitted that she had given 

 McLean a letter saying his Ireatmeiit had benefited her. 

 Later he had called on her and borrowed .SI, 000 to build a 

 hospital. As the hospital did not materialize, she had caused 

 McLean to be indicted, but on his signing the agreement and 

 note she had withdrawn her charges. 



McLean insisted that the note had been given to stifle 

 the charge against him, and was void. He tried to avoid tell- 

 ing what his treatment was, but on being pressed he said : 



"Well, I gave her eucalyptus and honey." 



" Where did you get your diploma ?" was asked. 



" I never had a license to practice medicine," he said, re- 

 luctantly; and then, brightening up, he added: "But I 

 studied botany in Australia." 



The case will not be appealed. 



Now is the Xime to work for new subscribers. 

 Why not take advantage of the offers made on page 479 ? 



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Secketary Jas. a. Stone, of the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association has collected the first reports for 1896 

 from its members, which will be found on page 475 of this 

 number of the Bee Journal. Most of them are not very flat- 

 tering, to say the least. 



Mrs. a. L. Hallbnbeck, of Nebraska, has the following 

 paragraph in the July Progressive Bee-Keeper : 



"The North American is to meet at Lincoln, Nebraska, 

 this year. Well, we are not ashamed of our State, and I 

 think the bee-keeping friends will find we are partially civil- 

 ized, at least. I hope the many friends with whom I feel al- 

 most acquainted from reading our journals, will all attend, 

 for with the blessing of Providence, I intend to be in some 

 unobserved corner where 1 can get a look at least at those 

 who are there." 



We shall (if permitted to be present) look very carefully 

 in all the " unobserved corners," for we want to be sure to see 

 Mrs. Hallenbeck. 



Mk. G. M. Doohttle, of Borodino, N. Y., in a letter 

 dated July 5, wrote us as follows: 



The American Bee Journal for June 25 did not put in 

 an appearance, and I wish you would send that number to 

 me. This is the flrst number that has failed to come on the 

 Friday noon mail, in five years. It has been something worth 

 noting, the regularity in the appearance of the American Bee 

 Journal, at just such an hour on just such a day of the week 

 for five years, while all of the other bee-papers seem to fee 

 that they have no certain obligation to meet, but come strag- 

 gling along just when it happens, or seemeth them good. 



G. M. Doolittle. 



It is now a trifle over 12 years since we first became con- 

 nected with the American Bee Journal, and in all that time 

 we do not remember that it has ever once failed to leave the 

 Chicago office exactly on the day it should go. It has some- 

 times been ahead of time, but not behind time. If ever in all 

 those past years a. subscriber failed to receive his copy of the 

 Bee Journal on time, it was not our fault. 



We still try to do our part faithfully, and if every sub- 

 scriber would only pay his subscription as promptly as we 

 issue the Bee Journal, all would be lovely. But we are look- 

 ing for an improvement on the part of the subscribers in the 

 future, as they will surely realize that it takes money to run a 

 weekly paper like the American Bee Journal. And also, that 

 it is too cheap at the price asked for it. But that is entirely 

 to their interest. 



Somnambulist (oh, to really know who that delightful, 

 honey-toned writer is!), in referring to the Lincoln meeting of 

 the North American, wrote thus in the last Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper : 



" If Bro. York has understood aright — that they propose 

 to feed the crowd — wouldn't it be fun to overwhelm them with 

 surprise as to the dimensions of that crowd? Really, truly, 

 and sincerely, I feel just wicked enough to hope they may find 

 their larders leaner at the close of the convention than at its 

 beginning." 



We are not going to worry a bit about those " larders," 

 for we just fc)ioi« that " Uncle Whitcomb " and his good deal 

 " better half," with other splendid Nebraska providers, will 

 simply prepare for a big, hungry crowd, then they (both 

 larders and crowd) will be well matched. We never expect to 

 catch our good Nebraska friends " short on rations." They 

 are not built that way — neither are their capacious larders. 

 Hurrah for Lincoln, and the Whitcombs, the Stilsons, the 

 Heaters, the — the — well, a whole lot more of those generous 

 Nebraska people 1 



Mr. N. W. Shultz, of Shreve, Ohio, when sending his 

 renewal, wrote : " I do not want to keep bees without the 

 Bee Journal." 



