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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAI^ 



Aug. 30. 1900. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. York & Co. 



116 Michigan St., Chicago, III. 



[Entered at the Post-Office at Chicag'o as Second- 

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Reformed Spelling. The American Bee Journal 

 adopts the Orthog-raphy ol the following Rule, 

 recommended by the joint action of the Amer- 

 ican Philolog cal Association and the Philo- 

 logical Society of England: — Change "'d" or 

 "ed" final to *'t" when so pronounced, except 

 when the "e" affects a preceding sound. Also 

 some other changes are used. 



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l&^Weekly Budget 



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Hon. EtTGENE Secor, whose portrait 

 graces our first pag^e this week, needs 

 no formal introduction to American 

 bee-keepers. We may say, however, 

 for the benefit of the newer readers, 

 that he was born in New York State, 

 May 13, 1841, beinfj one of 11 children 

 — a g-ood old-fashioned family. At the 

 age of 21 he went to Iowa, and in 1864 

 entered Cornell College. In 1866 he 

 married Millie M. Spencer — a native of 

 Ohio, of course I They have four chil- 

 dren living — six having " gone on be- 

 fore." 



Mr. Secor has held many prominent 

 and responsible positions, to enumer- 

 ate which would take too long and 

 occupy too much space, tho it may be 

 briefly noted that he is a Methodist, a 

 banker, farmer, horticulturist, apiarist, 

 stock-breeder, president and ex-presi- 

 dent of nearly everything, and the 

 " poet laureate " of apiculture — a sam- 

 ple of the latter being found on another 

 page of this issue. 



Mr. J. H. SiPLK, of Bolivar Co., 

 Miss., is spending a few weeks in Chi- 

 cago. He is attending the National 

 convention, after which he expects to 

 return to look after his over 250 colo- 

 nies of bees " way down in Miss- 

 issippi." 



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Mr. John R. Schmidt, of Hamilton 

 Co., Ohio, writing us Aug. 20th, said: 



"The season has been quite poor. 

 One apiary of 35 colonies yielded about 

 200 pounds of surplus honey. Others 



have done worse, and some a little bet- 

 ter. I have doubled my number of 

 colonies, and averaged 48 pounds of A 

 No. 1 comb honey per colony, which is 

 about half the amount I have been 

 working ior ever since last fall. Only 

 those who gave their bees the neces- 

 sary care can boast of a crop. The 

 others say there was no honey this 

 year. Certainly, not for them." 



Stenog gives this stanza as his first 

 "pickup," in last Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture : 



" From brazen skies the sun pours down 



A flood of torrid heat ; 

 All Nature pants beneath the scourgre. 



The bees ^et little sweet.*' 



A Dutchman friend thinks this ex- 

 presses it also : 



Dot sun bin awful warm, I dinks. 



He makes dot hot coom oud ; 

 Uud all dose flow'rs dry oop, py chinks — 



Pees not could vork deir moud. 



Mr. Frank B. White, of the agri- 

 cultural advertising firm of Frank B. 

 White Co., of Chicago, is one of the 

 whitest men we know. Tho not a bee- 

 keeper, he is greatly interested in the 

 success of bee-keepers, and, in fact, in 

 the success of all agricultural people. 



Without any invitation, or suggestion, 

 he volunteered financial assistance, 

 and was among the most generous con- 

 tributors to the expenses of the Na- 

 tional convention ot bee-keepers now 

 being held in Chicago. We believe his 

 tribe is increasing, as it very properly 

 deserves to do. 



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Bee-Keeping in Hungary. — The 

 British Bee Journal says that in 1897 

 there were 641,127 colonies of bees in 

 Hungary, of which 197,382 occupied 

 hives with movable frames, and 443,745 

 were in straw hives. The honey was 

 estimated at 6,800,000 pounds, and wax 

 3,000,000 pounds. 



Dr. E. Gallup, of Orange Co., Calif., 

 wrote us Aug. 6, as follows : 



" As I went up town last week I past 

 a century plant in full bloom, about 20 

 feet high, and literally alive with bees 

 and humming-birds. Why don't bee- 

 keepers advocate its planting for 

 honey, as it is sure to bloom once in a 

 hundred years ? (I) 



" This county has produced about 48 

 or 50 tons of honey this year, and San 

 Diego county 400 tons ; and it is about 

 all marketed at from 5 to 6% cents — 

 nearly all for the German market." 



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will be from his best stock. His best colony in 1899 had a queen ^' 



reared in 1898; May 5, 1899, it had brood in 4 frames, and he gave it S^ 



at that time a frame of brood without bees. It had no other help, ^ 



but May 25 a frame of brood with adhering bees was taken from it. ^; 



and the same thing was repeated June 3, leaving it at that time 5 ^: 



frames of brood. It stored 178 sections of honey, weighing 159 ^ 



pounds (and that after July 20, in a poor season), being 2^3 times the ^; 



average yield of all his colotiies. A point of importance is the fact S^ 



this colony did not swarm, and an inspection every week or 10 days ^. 



showed that at no time during the entire season was there even so ^• 



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