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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 22. 1900 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY EV 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 



118 Michioan Street, Ghicago, III. 



[Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter.) 

 EDITOR: 



DEPARTMENT EDITORS: 



Dr. C. C. MILLER, E. E. HASTY, 



" Questions aod Answers." ** " The Afterthoug-ht." 



LEADINQ CONTRIBUTORS: 



G. M. DooLiTTLE, C. P. Dadant, Prof. a. J. Cook, 



F. A. Sneli., R. C. AiKiN, "Old Grimes." 



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VOL. 40. FEBRUARY 22. 1900. NO. 8 



Note— The American Bee Journal adopts the Orthography of the follow- 

 ing Rule, recommended by the joint action of the American Philolog- 

 If/,, ^^.""^'^''°° ^""^ ^^^ Philological Society of England: — Change 

 d or ed" final to "t" when so pronounced, except when the "e" af- 

 fects a preceding sound. Also some other changes are used. 



"Are We Brethren?" is the inquiry of the American 

 Bee-Keeper in reply to the request to name an American 

 bee-keeper who does not with the Australian say: "I'd 

 like to have my crop of honey increast as much as possible, 

 but I don't care to have the entire output increast in pro- 

 portion." Editor Hill hopes the younger generation now 

 living may see the present annual production of honey in 

 the United States increast five fold. No pessimist, he. 

 He thinks such an increase is necessary to awaken an ap- 

 preciation of the great possibilities of our industry, and 

 says : 



" America's most crying need is, more honey and 

 united action in extending home consumption ; and this 

 united action can be secured only thru individual effort 

 prompted by a fraternal, unselfish interest in the general 

 welfare of our pursuit." 



We Be Brethren — in not many callings is there found 

 a more brotherly spirit than among bee-keepers. It is 

 pleasant to find that a wide expanse of ocean does not make 

 any less this kindly feeling, and one warms toward 

 British bee-keepers when reading the following apprecia- 

 tive words regarding one of our number, from W. Loveday, 

 in the British Bee Journal : 



" One whom we mu.st place in the front rank of never- 

 tiring helpers in our cause must be thaiikt now if we would 



ask him also to accept the compliments of the season with 

 the next issue of the British Bee Journal when it reaches 

 him. I refer to Mr. G. M. Doolittle, from whom we have 

 learned so much thru his regular contributions to the bee- 

 literature of his country, and which is handed on to us in 

 the pages of the British Bee Journal. I am afraid that our 

 American friend must burn not only a good deal of mid- 

 night oil, but exhaust a good deal of the sap of life, too, in 

 his endeavors to assist others." 



National Bee. Keepers' Union's Final Report We 



have received the final statement sent out by General Man- 

 ager Newman, in which he gives the result of the vote by 

 the Union on the question of amalgamation. It shows that 

 98 ballots were cast, of which 91 were in favor of the new 

 Constitution recently adopted also by the United States 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, which voted 143 to 4 in favor of 

 it. Both societies having thus almost unanimously adopted 

 the same Constitution, they are now one. If " in union 

 there is strength," the amalgamated society ought to be 

 very strong, and should do even better work than both 

 could do singly. 



The cash balance forwarded by Mr. Newman to Gen- 

 eral Manager Secor was $173.95 — a handsome addition to 

 the fund already in the amalgamated society's treasury. 

 There will now be a united membership of about SCO. Why 

 not double it this year ? 



As a result of the recent voting by both organizations, 

 the officiary of the resulting association is as follows : 



President — Ernest R. Root. 



Vice-President — G. M. Doolittle. 



Secretary — Dr. A. B. Mason. 



General Manager and Treasurer. — Eugene Secor. 



Board of Directors— E. Whitcomb, W. Z. Hutchin- 

 son and A. I. Root, until 1901 ; J. M. Hambaugh, Dr. C. C. 

 Miller and C. P. Dadant, until 1902; Thomas G. Newman, 

 G. M. Doolittle and W. F. Marks, until 1903 ; and Ernest R. 

 Root, P. H. Elwood and Rev. E. T. Abbott, until 1904. 



Mr. Newman closed his final statement with these 

 paragraphs, which show what a well-earned and glorious 

 record the National Bee-Keepers' Union made for itself 

 during its IS years' existence : 



I desire to thank my friends for their condolence in my 

 affliction and present loss of eyesight, and, upon retiring 

 from the management of the Union, would offer congratu- 

 lations to all the members upon the efficient work done by 

 the Union during its existence, and submit the following 

 statistics for future reference : 



Over 200 appeals have been made to the Union for pro- 

 tection from annoyance by envious and quarrelsome neigh- 

 bors. About one-half of these cases have been settled or 

 dropt as soon as it was known that the apiarists were mem- 

 bers of the National Bee-Keepers' Union. Many of the re- 

 maining cases were settled as soon as the opposing attor- 

 neys had read the points of law furnisht by the Union. 

 Others were cases growing out of attempting to enfore 

 ordinances past by cities to declare bee-keeping a nuisance, 

 some of which were carried up to the Supreme Court ; but 

 invariably the result was a victory for the Union when 

 cases were tried upon their merits. In some few cases bee- 

 keepers have been put into prison on technicalities, only to 

 be releast when defended by the attorneys for the Union, 

 who demanded their rights guaranteed by the Constitution 

 of the United States of America. 



The Union has a proud record, and gives to the new 

 amalgamated association a banner unsullied, with victory 

 inscribed upon it, and I hope that it may wave in triutnph 

 over the new association for many generations to come. 



Thomas G. Newman. 



Wisconsin Convention Notes.— As intimated in our 

 last ntimber, we will endeavor this week to give a few com- 

 ments on the convention of bee-keepers held in Madison, 

 Feb. 7 and 8. 



We arrived the evening of the 6th, and were met at the 

 station by Secretary France, whom we had not seen for four 

 years. It is woiiderful what a preserving climate they have 



