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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 6, 



6BORGS ■W. YORK, - Editar. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 MS A£ic2iig-an Sf., - CHICAGO, ILL. 



$1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 [Entered at the PoBtrOfiBce at CtaicaRO as Second-Class Mail-Matter.] 



VoLXnVI, CHICAGO, ILL, AUS. 6, 1896. No. 32. 



Bee-Association Secretaries are invited to 

 send us notices for their meetings for announcement in these 

 columns. Also, immediately after the conventions are held, 

 forward condensed reports for publication. We shall be g;Iad 

 to co-operate in making your meetings successful. 



"Who'll Be At Lincoln Oct. 7 and 8 ? We would 

 like to publish the names of all who expect to go, aud the 

 States they hail from. We just wonder what State, outside of 

 Nebraska, will have the greatest number of representatives 

 there. Let us know whether you intend being present, if all 

 Is well, and we will begin to make up a list for publication. 



Bee-Keepings in Arizona.— ^The Bee-Keepers' 



Association of Maricopa county, says the Phcenix Republican, 

 has thus far shipped five carloads (24,000 pounds each) of 

 extracted honey eastward, while in the hands of the Associa- 

 tion members there is remaining fully as much more r^ady for 

 shipment. The price h»s been thus far but 3}4 cents per 

 pound — lower than ever before known, owing to the fact of a 

 fair crop in the East. The California crop, however, is light, 

 and prices for the next shipment are expected to show a ma- 

 terial advance. The quality is all that can be desired. 



The season has been a peculiar one in many respects. Up 

 to some two months ago the bees had stored scarcely a pound 

 of honey, and bee-men were anticipating a flat failure; but 

 much warmer weather came on, and the bees commenced to 

 work as they have never worked before, aud every bee-keeper 

 for the last six weeks has been kept busy. Not only have the 

 bees been filling the combs with honey from the second crop 

 of alfalfa bloom, but they have been swarming to an extent 

 that has almost baffled the attempts of the bee-men to provide 

 the new swarms with quarters. " Considering the number of 

 swarms in the valley," observed Mr. Broomell, of the Associa- 

 tion, " I believe a record of 10 carloads of honey in a month 

 is one that has never before been approached." 



Despite the extremely and abnormally warm weather 

 there has been no trouble from melting comb, and the bees 

 are free from disease. 



It is anticipated that by fall time, another 10 carloads 

 will have been produced, giving the valley its top record for 

 production. 



The Sale of Honey in Belgium.— The Farm- 

 ers' Advocate — a Canadian periodical — says that other coun- 

 tries besides Canada realize the need of a law similar to Can- 

 ada's " Pure Honey Bill," which was passed recently. A 

 Belgian decree, which was to take effect from July 1, 1896, 

 defines what is to be considered as honey, and regulates the 

 sale of this commodity in the following manner : 



" Under this law the name ' honey ' is to be applied solely 

 to the substance produced by bees from the nectar of flowers 

 or other juices gathered from plants. Honey produced by 

 bees fed with other substances (excepting such as are supplied 

 to them as provision for winter) must bear a name indicating 

 the material given to the bees, as, for instance, " honey from 

 sugar,' ' honey from glucose,' or ' mixed honey.' 



"Honey substitutes and mixtures of honey with such sub- 

 stitutes, or with other foreign substances, must be denoted 

 ' artificial honey,' or honey mixed with such and such sub- 

 stances, or some term not involving the word honey must be 

 used. 



"The sale of honey containing more than one per cent, of 

 pollen, wax or other substances insoluble in water, or more 

 than 0.5 per cent, of mineral matter, and all spoilt honey, is 

 prohibited. Vessels containing honey, or mixture of honey, 

 etc., must be labeled in such manner as to specify the exact 

 nature of the contents, as dafined by the decree." 



Good for old Belgium. After awhile may be the United 

 States will awake from her long sleep, and give her people an 

 anti-adulteration law that will protect not only the producers 

 of genuine bees' honey, but also the honest products of other 

 industries. We must keep up the agitation until we get all 

 needful and just laws. 



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Xorth American at Lincoln.— We have re- 

 ceived the following letter from Mr. L. D. Stilson, of York, 

 Nebr., referring to an editorial in a previous number : 



Friend York :— On page 473, I see you are not worrying 

 about the larders of the Nebraska people. That is right; we 

 have enough and to spare. We want to see you Eastern bee- 

 keepers come here and "get fltll" once, and so we propose 

 to " set up " free, something for the North American, or the 

 visiting members outside our State. But let me say to you, 

 right here, that before any can have a free lunch in Lincoln, 

 they roust settle their little yearly dues with the Secretary. 



You see, I am a little interested in getting membership 

 into the society, and a good deal interested in the protection 

 of the larders of Lincoln. Respectfully, 



L. D. Stilson. 



Yours is a good idea, Mr. Stilson, to allow only those who 

 pay their annual membership dues (.f!1.00), to participate in 

 the fun of emptying those famous " Lincoln larders." Our 

 dollar is ready, and, all being well, we'll try todo justice when 

 we come to the "larder act." 



But the idea of such a staid old temperance man as your- 

 self, wanting to see Eastern bee-keepers "get full" when 

 they come to Nebraska ! Of course, if those "larders "are 

 free from anything like " Whitcomb's celebrated metheglin " 

 — that we imagine is more productive of " tipsiness " than old 

 " forty-rod " is said to be — if you mean you want us to " get 

 full" of just good eatables, and not questionable drinkables, 

 why, it's all right. " Barkis is willin'." 



PJe'w Bee-Papers. — One of the most ridiculous ideas 

 recently published, is that put out by a fellow who accuses us 

 of a jealous feeling because the Southland Queen was started 

 about a year ago. Why, bless you, this is a free country, and 

 if people want to sink any money in publishing, or subscribing 

 for, new bee-papers, that's their business, not ours. But we 

 feel that it is our affair to protect our subscribers, and save 

 them from throwing away their money on something that is 

 issued principally to boom a private business, or to gratify a 

 desire to have a medium in which to show off the publishers' 

 egotism and desire for notoriety. 



Those who start new bee-papers seem not to know that 

 during the past 20 years there have been perhaps 50 new 



