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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 18. 1900. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. York & Co. 



118 Michigan St., ChiGdoo, III. 



[Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter.J 



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 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 given 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 Philolog cal Association and the Philo- 

 logical Society of England: —Change "d" or 

 "ed" final to "t" when so pronounced, except 

 when the "e" aff-^cts a preceding sound. Also 

 some other changes are used. 



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& Weekly Budget I 



Mr. H. M. Carr, of Thomas Co., 

 Ga., writes us Oct. 8th, as follows : 



" This is my first year with the ex- 

 cellent American Bee Journal, and I 

 am well pleased with it. As one of 

 the common readers I wish to say I like 

 your short spelling-. The ' new dress ' 

 pleases me, too." 



Mr. W. p. Root, otherwise" Stenog," 

 to whom we referred on page 628, of- 

 fers the following- defense : 



Mr. York : — In j-our issue for this 

 week is a criticism on me which I feel 

 ought to be answered in your columns. 

 You refer to theexpression " red clover 

 queen " as being inconsistent with my 

 claim that it should be "red-clover 

 queen." The fact is, the hyphen was 

 there in the first place, but, like Zac- 

 cheus of old, it was short of stature, 

 and hence made no impression. When 

 an adjective stands before a noun, and 

 the two words become an adjective in 

 turn, they should be united; as left- 

 hand figure, long-eared rabbit. This 

 rule is never questioned, and is uni- 

 versally observed by proof-readers. 

 Any system of punctuation that makes 

 no distinction between twenty-eight 

 frame hives and twenty eight-frame 

 hives is not worthy of the name. I 

 call for a criticism of rules, and not a 

 mere oversight on mj' part in their 

 proper application. Sweet clover stems 

 means that the stems are sweet, and 

 nothing else. Of course, the intelli- 



gent reader may not be misled ; but 

 suppose you really mean to speak of 

 clover stems that are sweet ; then that 

 reader would be misled, supposing you 

 meant sweet-clover stems. Disregard 

 of this principle is indefensible in toto. 

 I leave it to Mr. Hasty. W. P. Root. 

 Medina Co., Ohio, Oct. 6. 



If Mr. Roo\ hadn't left it to Mr. 

 Hasty, we would say that not a single 

 one of our readers would be misled by 

 the omission of a hyphen between the 

 two words " sweet clover," no matter 

 how or when they are used. No one 

 would ever think of the stems being 

 red, when he reads about " red clover 

 stems ;" nor would any one be misled 

 about thinking of an "eared rabbit', 

 being "long " in body when he reads 

 of a " long eared rabbit." If any one 

 desired to say that the stems of a cer- 

 tain kind of red clover are red he would 

 likely say it in that way. 



Of course, we are willing to admit 

 that the hyphen may properly be used 

 in the illustrations mentioned ; but we 

 are equally free to admit that the edi- 

 tors and proof-readers are the ones 

 who should see to it that all contribu- 

 tions appear in print in correct En- 

 glish — as to words and punctuation — 

 and that such matters ought not to be 

 referred to in public print except in 



general newspapers, or in school jour- 

 nals or books on the subiect. We be- 

 lieve much harm has been done already 

 from what has been said in bee-papers 

 on this subject. We only hope that 

 none of our readers or contributors 

 will ever feel that they can't write the 

 English language correctly enough t& 

 suit us. We are willing to be respon- 

 sible for the correct appearance in 

 print of anything sent to us for the 

 American Bee Journal, so no one need 

 fear writing to us in the best manner he 

 knows, and let it go at that. 



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Address, 

 QEORQE W.YORK & CO., ii8 Michigan 5t., Chicago, III. 









