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AMERICAN BEE [OURNAL 



Sept. 



1900. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. York & Co. 



116 Michigan St., GhicdQO, III. 



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

 Class Mail-Matiey.J 



IMPORTANT NOTICES: 



The Subscription Price of this journal is $1.00 a 

 year, in the United Slates, Canada, and Mex- 

 ico; all other countries in the Postal Union, 

 50c a year extra for postag-e. Sample copy free. 



The Wrapper-Label Date of this paper indicates 

 the end of the month to which your subscrip- 

 tion is paid. For instance, '* DecOO" on your 

 label shows that it is paid to the end of De- 

 cember, 1900. 



Subscription Receipts — We do not send a receipt 

 for money sent us to pay subscription, but 

 chang-e the date on your wrapper-label, which 

 shows you that the money has been received 

 and duly credited. 



Advertising Rates will be g"iven' upon applica- 

 tion. 



Reformed Spelling.— The American Bee Journal 

 adopts the Orthography of the following Rule, 

 recommended by the joint action of the Amer- 

 ican Philological 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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|^;»^YVeekly Budget I 



Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Aikin, with 

 their little daughter Eva, called at our 

 office Sept. 18, when on their way back 

 to Colorado. They had a pleasant 

 stay among' relatives in Kentucky and 

 southern Indiana after the Chicago 

 convention. The Aikin family are 

 some of the real salt of the earth. 



Among the Callers at our office 

 last week were, John Wagner, of 

 Stephenson Co., 111., having 80 colo- 

 nies of bees ; L. J. Bergh, of Dane Co.. 

 Wis., with 20 colonies ; Robt. Halley 

 and Chas. Clarke, of Cook Co., III., 

 with 19 and 35 colonies, respectively. 

 We are always glad to see our readers, 

 and shake their honest and loyal 

 hands, even if we do sometimes fail to 

 mention their calling thus publicly. 



Mr. L. Kreutzixger's Honey Har- 

 vest, for 1900, mentioned last week, 

 was held Saturday, Sept. IS, and was 

 quite a success. Some 200 people from 

 all parts of the city came to look into 

 the inner life of the hone3'-bee, and 

 their desire for a glance into its mys- 

 teries was manifested in every way. 



Among the visitors present were Mr. 

 Toshiro Fujita, consul of the Japanese 

 Empire, with his chancellor, Mr. T. 

 Funatsu ; Mr. Baron A. A. von Schlip- 

 peiibach. Imperial Russian consul ; 

 Dr. Walther Weber, consul of the Im- 

 perial German Government ; and about 

 12 teachers from the public schools. 



Mr. Herman F. Moore, secretary of 



the Chicago Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 rendered valuable assistance in ex- 

 plaining the wonders of apiculture to 

 the interested onlookers. About 100 

 cases of honey were carried home by 

 the visitors. Mr. Reinhold Jahn is 

 Mr. Kreutzinger's managing apiarist, 

 and has been a very busy man the past 

 season with four apiaries to look after. 



Bees at the Pan-American. — The 

 Pan-American will open at Buffalo, N. 

 Y., May 1, 1901, and continue until 

 Nov. 1. The following has been sent 

 us by the superintendent of the press 

 department of the bureau of publicity, 

 Mr. Mark Bennitt : 



"The important industry of bee- 

 keeping will have adequate representa- 

 tion. Very useful knowledge has been 

 developt in recent years in regard to 

 this branch of farm work, and by 

 reason of this better knowledge larger 

 profits are being realized by those who 

 make use of it. The exhibits in this 

 class will show the localities and con- 

 ditions in which and under which 

 honey-bees thrive best. The uses of 

 bees for other purposes than honey — 

 such as the fertilization of flowers by 

 reason of carrying the pollen from one 

 flower to another — will be shown. 



There will be displays of a variety of 

 hives, the commercial forms of honey, 

 the different varieties of bees, and the 

 methods of management in apiaries." 



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A Swbet-Tootht Policeman was 

 thus mentioned lately in the Chicago 

 Times-Herald : 



"Officer Smith, of Rogers Park, was 

 sent out yesterday morning to investi- 

 gate the damage done by Tuesday's 

 storm. The police officials waited a 

 long time for his report, and they 

 bookt him as a mysterious disappear- 

 ance, and two other officers were de- 

 tailed to find him. They wandered thru 

 the streets and across the farms for 

 hours and finally came across the miss- 

 ing man behind a clump of bushes. He 

 was seated near a fallen tree ladling 

 something from the stump and putting 

 it into his mouth. 



" Smith had found a honey-bee's 

 store-house in the middle of an old tree 

 that had been blown down by the wind. 

 The charms of the honey proved so 

 great that he forgot all about his re- 

 port." 



Please meutlou Bee Journal 

 when writing advertisers. 



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ALL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. 



ALFALFA 

 HONEY....... 



This is the famous White 

 Extracted Honey gathered in 

 the great Alfalfa regions of 

 the Central West. It is a 

 splendid honey, and nearly 

 everybody who cares to eat 

 honey at all can't get enough 

 of the Alfalfa extracted. 



BASSWOOD 

 HONEY....... 



This is the well - known 

 light-colored honey gathered 

 from the rich, nectar-laden 

 bass wood blossoms in Wis- 

 consin. It has a stronger 

 flavor than Alfalfa, and is 

 preferred by those who like a 

 distinct flavor in their honey. 





Prices of Either Alfalfa or Basswood Honey : 



A sample of either, by mail, 8 cents ; samples of both, IS cents — 

 to pay for package and postage. By freight — one 60-pound can, 9J4 

 cents per pound ; two cans, 9 cents per pound ; four or more cans, 

 8 '2 cents per pound. Cash must accompany each order. If ordering 

 two or more cans you can have half of each kind of honey, if you so 

 desire. This is all '"ITD Clll 



EBSOMTELI PURE BEES' EOMEZ ' 



The finest of their kinds produced in this counlry. 



Read Dr. Miller's Testimony on Alfalfa Honey : 



I've just sampled the honey you sent, and it's prime. Thank you. I feel that 

 I'm somethintir of a heretic, to sell several thousand pounds of honey of my own pro- 

 duction and then buy honey of you for my own use. But however loyal one oufirht to 

 be to the honey of his own ret.'ion, there's no denying the fact that for use in any 

 kind of hot drink, where one prefers the more wholesome honey to su^ar, the verv 

 excellent quality of alfalfa honey I have received from you is better suited than the 

 honeys of more markt flavor, according to my taste. C. C. Miller. 



McHenry Co., 111. 



Order the Above Honey and then Sell It. 



We would suggest that those bee-keepers who did not produce 

 enough honey for their home demand this year, just order some of 

 the above, and sell it. And others, who want to earn some money, 

 can get this honey and work up a demand for it almost anywhere. 



Address, 

 QEORQE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan St., Chicago, III. 



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