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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



May 10, 1900. 



Hon. Eugene Secor, General Manager of the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, has been appointed a member of 

 the legislative committee of the National Pure Food and 

 Drug Congress, representing- the State of Iowa. No better 

 selection could have been made. 



"They Dest Make Honev."— Mr. E. S. Roe, of Todd 

 Co., Minn., sends us the following : 



" I am very fond of children, and last evening I was 

 delighted to make the acquaintance of a bright little girl 

 only three years old. Her manner of talk vras very bright 

 and attractive. We finally talkt about the bees, and when 

 she was askt what her papa's bees made, she said : ' Oh, 

 thev don't make anything. They dest make honey — that's 

 all !' " 



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Commission Swindlers Grovi'ing Less.— The National 

 Produce Review, of April 21, referring to South Water 

 Street, Chicago, gives this encouraging paragraph : 



"In speaking of the condition of the Chicago commis- 

 sion street, the manager of R. G. Dun Co. stated the other 

 day, that in all his 20 years' experience, he had never known 

 the street to be so free from swindlers as it is at present. 

 This paper believes it is entitled to some credit for this con- 

 dition of affairs." 



True, and the American Bee Journal had at least a lit- 

 tle to do with helping to clean out some of those who were 

 swinding the honey-producers. 



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Stenog, in his department " Pickings from Our Neigh- 

 bors' Fields," in Gleanings in Bee-Culture, usually begins 

 with an original stanza. The one appearing April IS is 

 this: 



The drizzling rain, the swellinfj buds. 



The soup of birds in trees. 

 All speak of springe's return at last, 



And end of winter's freeze. 



Speaking of poetry, reminds us of a little experience we 

 had a few years ago. Some chap who evidently was trying 

 to earn a living by writing alleged poetry, sent us a sample, 

 with the suggestion, " Pay expected." The particular sam- 

 ple referred to imagined a young lady smelling of a fra- 

 grant rose in which a bee had grown. We responded with 

 the return of the poem, saying that we did not use much 

 poetry in the American Bee Journal, and added, using about 

 the same meter and accent as he had written — 



But when we do. 

 It must be true. 

 A bee never grows 

 Inside a rose. 



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Mr. J. W. Winder, of Louisiana, was reported in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture for April IS, as having died April 

 8. Here is what Editor A. I. Root says of him : 



"The veteran readers will remember, without doubt, 

 Mr. Winder. About the time Father Langstroth got out 

 his first honey-extractor. Gray & Winder made a revolving- 

 frame extractor. Mr. Winder was originally a photogra- 

 pher. He soon became an enthusiastic bee-keeper, attended 

 all the conventions for years, was one of the first to rear 

 queens and advertise them ; and to the day of his death he 

 made bees and honey his principal occupation. He died 

 April 8, aged 71 years. I have mentioned Mr. Winder in 

 my visits to New Orleans, and the courteous way in which 

 he gave his entire time to piloting me around thru the dif- 

 ferent portions of the city. He held his health remarkably. 

 Even when nearly 70 j'ears old he would walk a dozen miles 

 a day, and almost without fatigue. We are informed by his 

 son, A. T. Winder, that bronchitis was the cause of his 

 death. One more of the old veterans has past away." 



We remember Mr. Winder as the Louisiana bee-keeper 

 who used to send our worthy predecessor, Thomas G. New- 

 man, a box of beautiful sweet-scented flowers early each 

 spring, long before outdoor flowers were growing naturally 



here in Chicago. Yes, the old leaders are being removed 

 from us. Ojie by one they drop out, and the younger hands 

 and hearts are left to carry on the work. How wise a pro- 

 vision it is, that while the workers fall the work itself 

 goes on. 



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Mr. W. a. Henderson, of Clarinda, Iowa, who has had 

 an advertisement in this journal the past few weeks, offer- 

 ing " ox-blood tablets," has removed to the Mai;onic Build- 

 ing, Des Moines, Iowa, owing to the increase in his busi- 

 ness, and for better facilities for reaching the trade. His 

 advertisement this week shows the change of address as 

 well as the new firm name. Both Mr. Henderson and his 

 remedy come to us very highlj' recommended, else we would 

 not think of allowing the advertisement to appear in these 

 columns. We are exceedingly careful as to the character of 

 our advertisers atid the goods they offer. We will not know- 

 ingly permit anj'thing or anybody' at all questionable to 

 appear. We want to protect our subscribers in every way 

 possible, and trust that they will report to us any who fail 

 to live up to the agreements they make in our advertising 

 columns. 



We have said the latter portion of the above paragraph 

 because there are some people who don't believe in adver- 

 tised remedies, or, for that matter, in medicines of any 

 kind. That class of course are not supposed to buy them. 

 We have no objection to offering or taking medicines that 

 are all right and that do good if taken. 



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Joining the National in a Body. — In the last issue 

 of Gleanings in Bee-Culture, Editor Root says this on local 

 bee-keepers' associations joining the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association in a body, at the half-rate, or SO cents each : 



" At the last meeting of the Philadelphia convention a 

 clause was inserted in the proposed constitution by which 

 any local society. State or county, might join the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, on payment into the National 

 treasury of 50 cents per member, providing that such mem- 

 bers went in a body. It was urged by Mr. York, who pro- 

 posed the insertion of this clause, that we could thereby 

 secure more funds and more members — members who would 

 not otherwise come itito the Association ; and so far the re- 

 sults in practice are as good as they were in theory. Ouite 

 a number of associations have already joined the National. 

 At a meeting of the Chicago convention this matter was' 

 discust quite thoroly. Finally it was voted to join the 

 National Association in a body. 



"This action on the part of the Chicago Association en- 

 titles all the members of that organization to all the privi- 

 leges atid benefits of the Natiotial, and at the same time 

 they do not lose any of the benefits accruing from member- 

 ship in the local organization. In the case of the Chicago 

 Association the membership fee is $1.00, and it would cost 

 $1.00 to join the National as an individual member ; but by 

 voting to join the National in a body, that same dollar ex- 

 tends their privileges to those of the National." 



We should think that every local bee-keepers' society in 

 the United States would jump at this chance to get into the 

 National. It will not only help in members, but in dollars 

 (or half dollars) as well. We can assure all who join the 

 National that every dollar put into its treasury will be well 

 spent in the interest of the pursuit of bee-keeping. Already 

 much good work has been done, and with the able men now 

 at the head, the National will undoubtedly acquit itself 

 nobly in the months and years to come. 



The American Fruit and Vegetable Journal is just 



what its name indicates. Tells all about growing fruits 



and vegetables. It is a fine monthlj', at SO cents a year. 



We can mail you a free sample copj' of it, if you ask for it. 



We club it with the American Bee Journal — both papers one 



year for $1.10. 



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" The Hum of the Bees in the Apple-Tree Bloom " is 

 the name of the new bee-keeper's song — words by Hon. 

 Eugene Secor and music by Dr. C. C. Miller. This is 

 thought by some to be the best bee-song yet written by Mr. 

 Secor and Dr. Miller. It is, indeed, a " hummer." We can 

 furnish a single copy of it postpaid, for 10 cents, or 3 copies 

 for 25 cents. Or, we will mail a half-dozen copies of it for 

 sending us one new yearly subscription to the American 

 Bee Journal at $1.00. 



