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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



March 1, 1900. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY 



GEORGE w. York & Company, 



118 Micliigan Street, Chicago, III. 



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

 EDITOR: 



DEPARTMENT EDITORS: 



Dr. C. C. miller, E. E. HASTY, 



" Questions and Answers." ** " The Afterthought.' 



LEADING CONTRIBUTORS: 



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



" ' '" R. C. AlKlN, 



F. A. Snell, 



* Old Grimes.' 



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VOL. 40. 



MARCH 1, 1900. 



NO. 9. 



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

 ing R(ile, recommended by the joint action of the American Philolog- 

 ical Association and the 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 (tsed. 



A World's Congress of bee-keepers -will be held in 

 Paris, France, Sept. 10, 11 atid 12, 1900, during the Exposi- 

 tion. Our National Bee-Keepers' Association should be 

 represented. The delegate mig-ht be selected at the Chicago 

 convention, next August. We nominate Mr. C. P. Dadant. 

 He, no doubt, would be willing to bear a good deal of the 

 necessary expense in order to have the privilege of visiting 

 his native land. And he would be an excellent representa- 

 tive of the bee-keepers of the United States. 



The Bee=Column in an Agricultural Paper is some- 

 times a good thing, and sometimes it works mischief. De- 

 pends upon who takes care of it. An agricultural paper of 

 good standing to hand has for spring the unqualified ad- 

 vice, " The hives should be looktover and the weak colonies 

 fed." Saying nothing about looking over " hives " — colo- 

 nies no doubt being met — suppose the owner of bees tries 

 to follow the advice, and finds a colony that plainly has 

 hardly half as many bees as the other colonies. He says to 

 himself, "That's a weak colony, and it must be fed." So 

 he feeds it, regardless of the fact that it already has more 

 food than it can possibly use, doing more harm than good 

 by its disturbance. 



" A well arranged apiary that is simple and convenient 

 is thus describe^ by au Illinois subscriber ;" and then fol- 



lows a description so complicated that this deponent can 

 not make it out. 



Five reasons are given for keeping bees, the first being 

 that bees " work for nothing and board themselves, only 

 requiring a house to live in," with no hint that they require 

 any care or labor on the part of the bee-keeper. The third 

 reason for keeping bees, " Because honey is the only pro- 

 duct on the farm which will not onlj- spoil if not hurried to 

 market." Must be that writer thinks grain is raised only 

 in elevators I 



Horseradish for Bee=Stings is spoken of in high terms 

 in several of the foreign bee-journals. Bruise the leaves 

 and apply the juice to the wound. It is even said that if 

 the hands be well rubbed with horseradish juice it will pre- 

 vent their being stung. 



The National Bee= Keepers' Association is the organ- 

 ized body of bee-keepers that now stands to defend bee- 

 keepers and bee-keeping against adulteration and wrongs of 

 other kinds ; the amalgamation of the two old societies be- 

 ing now an accomplisht fact. The present Association is 

 stronger by 63 names than either of the old ones was, and 

 its future is bright with promise ; there being now no 

 divided interest, it becomes every bee-keeper to throw in his 

 influence and his dollar. Whether you are a member or 

 not you will undoubtedly be benefited by the work of the 

 Association, but the benefit will be vastly greater if each 

 bee-keeper joins. Send your annual membership fee (11.00) 

 to the Bee Journal office, if more convenient, or to General 

 Manager Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



Early Orders for Bee<Supplies usually receive the 

 most prompt attention by the dealer. Many bee-keepers 

 wait until the last minute, then order by return freight, 

 and if they don't get the goods at once, feel greatly disap- 

 pointed. Now, one who stops a minute to think, would see 

 that no dealer can fill every order the same day it is received. 



The best way is to order early, so as to avoid any pos- 

 sible rush later on that might cause vexation and loss to 

 the bee-keeper. 



In many instances, of course, one cannot know exactly 

 what will be needed very far in advance of the season ; in 

 such case we would suggest that at least some of the goods 

 be ordered early, and, if it is found that more are needed, 

 then order again. 



Many bee-keepers will also find that if they have their 

 supplies on hand early, they can put in some time at odd 

 hours in getting them all ready for use, so that when the 

 time comes to use them they won't have to stop other impor- 

 tant work to get things in shape. 



Suppressing Hives. — In one of the bee-papers a query 

 appears about a certain hive which has not been pusht to 

 the front as have some others. It is insinuated that certain 

 other hives were prest upon the bee-keeping public to the 

 exclusion of the one in question. Now, that was really too 

 bad, wasn't it 7 Just to think that any one would try to get 

 every bee-keeper to use a certain kind of hive in preference 

 to a certain other kind ! 



One might as well ask why any one of the numberless 

 dead bee-papers weren't pusht on to success by those already 

 establisht. We are not of the kind that expect that our 

 bee-paper competitors are going to work very hard to make 

 the Atnerican Bee Journal a success. That is what zve are 

 here for. Neither shottld any one expect that every manu- 

 facturer is going to turn in and push some other hive than 

 his own. The manufacturers are not in business simply 

 for their health, any more than bee-keepers produce honey 

 just for fun, 



