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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



April 19, 1900. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE w. York & Company, 



116 Michigan 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, Pkof. a. J. Cook, 



F. A. Snell, R. c. Aikin, "Old Grimes." 



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VOL 



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

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

 IJ?,' w'"^',''"°° ^""^ ""^ Philological Society of England: — Change 

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

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



The Langstroth Monument, referred to recently in 

 these columns, will likely be erected before June 1. We 

 have just learned from General Manag-er Secor that a total 

 of $300 has been raised for the purpose. The one selected 

 is Vermont g-ranite, of very nice proportions, and he feels 

 sure will please the bee-keepers who contributed to it. 



We expect to show our readers a picture of the monu- 

 ment after it is in place. 



The Chicago Bee. Keepers' Association met Friday 

 afternoon and evening-, April 6, as announced. The most 

 prominent bee-keepers present were Dr. C. C. Miller, Ernest 

 R. Root (the president of the National Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation), and M. M. Baldridge. There was a fair attendance 

 at the afternoon session, and a goodly number in the even- 

 ing. 



One very enjoyable feature was the supper, which all 

 partook of together around one long table in a near-by 

 restaurant. It seemed merer like one large family gathered 

 about the home festal board, and all appeared to approve 

 most heartily of the event, as well as the viands that were 

 so well served, and which disappeared so promptly. 



Perhaps the most important action taken at this meet- 

 ing was the unanimous adoption of a motion that the mem- 

 bers of the Chicago Bee-Keepers' Association join the Na- 



tional in a body. This added at once the dues of nearly 40 

 members to the National, and doubtless at least three- 

 fourths of them are new members, so that the National will 

 not only gain in dollars, but will also have its nujnbers 

 swelled somewhat. 



It is the hope of the Chicago Association that every 

 bee-keeper who resides within its territory (say Cook and 

 adjoining counties) will at once send his dollar to Secretary 

 H. F. Moore, Park Ridge, 111., and request that he be made 

 a member of both organizations. If it is more convenient, 

 the dollar may be sent to the editor of this journal, who will 

 see that Mr. Moore gets it with proper instructions. A re- 

 ceipt will then be mailed by each association. 



The arrangement whereby the members of a local asso- 

 ciation can become members of the National for SO cents 

 each, when joining in a body (provided the annual dues of 

 the local society are $1.00), should be the means of increas- 

 ing the membership in both organizations ; and especially 

 should it contribute to an increast interest in the local 

 association. As the writer is mainly responsible for this 

 provision in the new constitution of the National, he nat- 

 urally desires that it shall prove of much advantage to all 

 concerned, and be used by every local association in the 

 United States. If not mistaken, there are now three local 

 associations that have availed themselves of this new privi- 

 lege to join the National in a body at half price, viz.: The 

 Wisconsin, the South Dakota, and lastly the Chicago Asso- 

 ciation. 



Co=operation Among Bee=Keepers. — F. E. Brown tells, 

 in Gleanings in Bee-Culture how the California bee-keepers 

 are combining to stiffen prices, much in the same way as. 

 has already been told of the Colorado association. W. L,. 

 Coggshall also urges in the same journal that bee-keepers 

 should combine and fight fire with fire, and shows how com- 

 bination on the part of purchasers of honey keeps prices, 

 down, as follows : 



"I knew from the bee-journals I read that the honey- 

 crop was light all over the countr3'. Therefore, early in 

 the season I wrote several letters to the leading bakeries, 

 offering my honey, buckwheat extracted, at 6 cents f. o. b. 

 What was the result ? They all wrote me back, offering 

 me 4*4 delivered, saying they were restricted to pay only so 

 much (baker's combination or trust, if you please). I tried 

 the same scheme six weeks later. Well, the bakers had 

 found out that the honey market was higher, and they were 

 willing to pay 5 cents a pound. Mind you, the prices were 

 exactly the same at each bakery, atici they were instructed 

 to pay that and no more. Combination again." 



Ten Percent Honey ; 90 Percent Fraud. — The follow- 

 ing, referring to New York city, appears in Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture : 



" There is a new enterprise started on the East Side in 

 which they are adulterating by the carload honey which 

 will granulate in three days. It has the appearance of and 

 tastes very much like honey ; has about 10 percent of the 

 pure article in it. Twelve carloads has been turned out in 

 the last 60 days. It sells for Sj; cents per pound." 



Editor Root thinks bee-keepers in the East will do well 

 to turn their attention to comb honey rather than to try to 

 compete with this S'2-cent fraud. He thinks the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association may do something to stop this 

 villainous work, and considers it a matter of economy for 

 every bee-keeper to become a member. In this last opinion 

 he is undoubtedly correct, whatever may be the kind of honey 

 one produces. A drop in the price of extracted honey can 

 not fail to have some influence on the price of comb honey. 

 It is not difficult to believe that a sufficient amount of adul- 

 teration like that outlined in the foregoing might reduce 

 the price of comb honey a cent on the pound. Suppose it 

 make a difference of only yi. cent a pound. That makes a 



