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QBORQB W. YORK, Editor 



CHICAGO, ILL,, MAY 11, 1905 



VoL XLV— No. 19 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W.YORK & COMPANY 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago, III, 



IMPORTANT NOTICES 



THE STTBSCRIPTION PRICE of this Journal Ifl 

 Sl.fHj a year. In the United States, Canada, and 

 Mexico; all other countries tn the Postal Union, 50 

 cents a year extra for postage. Sample copy free. 



THE WRAPPER-LABEL DATE indicates the 

 end of the month to which your subscription is paid. 

 For instance, *' dec<t5" on your label shows thai it is 

 paid to the end of Dtcember, 1904. 



SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS.-We do not send a 

 receipt for money sent us to pay subscription, but 

 change the date on your wrapper-label, which shows 

 that the money has been received and credited. 



ADVERTISING RATES will be given upon appli- 

 cation. 



National Bee Keepers' Association 



Objects of the Association 



Ist.— To promote the interests of Its members. 

 2d.— To protect and defend its members in their 

 lawful rlsfhtB. 



3d.— To enforce laws against the adulteration ol 

 honey. 



Annual Membership Dues, $1.00 

 General Manager and Treasurer — 



N, K. Kkance, Platteville, Wis. 



i^ If more convenient. Dues may be sent to the 

 publishers of the American Bee Journal. 



The Honey-Producers' League 



<lNCORPOKATEDJ 



OBJECTS: 



1. To create a larger demand for honey through 

 advertising. 



'2. To publish facts about honey, and counteract 

 misrepresentations of the same. 



MEMBERSHIP DUES 



1 . Any bee-keeper may become a member by pay- 

 ing to the Manager an annual fee of $l.on for each 

 20 (or fraction of 2o» colonies of bees (spring count) 

 he owns or operates. 



'2. Any honey-dealer, bee-supply dealer, bee-supply 

 manufacturer, bee-paper publisher, or any other 

 drm or individual, may become a member on the 

 annual payment of a fee of f 10. increased by one- 

 nfth of one (1 ) percent of his or its capital used in 

 the allied interests of bee-keeping. 



George W. York. Manager. 



3a4 Dearborn St., Chicago, ill. 



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To a subscriber whose own subscription to the 

 American Bee Journal is paid at least to the end of 

 ltfo.%. we will give an untested Ithlian queen for 

 sending usONE NEW subscription wlth$l.ooforthe 

 Bee J(jurnal a year. Now Is 11 good time to get new 

 subscrilters. It you wish extra copies of the Bee 

 Journal for use as samples, let us know how many 

 you want and we will mail them to you. Address 

 all orders to the office of the American Bee Journal. 



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The Money-Producers' League 



Since the last report the Manager has re- 

 ceived the following memberships with annual 

 dues as indicated : 



In the first column on this page the reader 

 will find something about the League, its 

 objects and dues. We trust more of our sub- 

 scribers will become members at once. Active 

 work will be commenced just as soon as there 

 is a sufficient fund in the treasurer's hands. 



Some Newspaper Qlucose Yarns 



Thanks are due -los. M. Hynek for translat- 

 ing into English some of the things said about 

 bees in a periodical published in a foreign 

 tongue, in the following letter; 



Editor York: — I read an article a few 

 days ago in Iluspodar, of Omaha, Nebr., 

 stating this: 



" People in liirre cities think, when they 

 buy sealed comb lioney, that it is pure honey, 

 but it is not always so. There are many pro- 

 fessional bee-kei-|>ers that have their bees 

 work all summer tu store glucose honey. The 

 glucose is placed elose by the bees in open 

 barrels purposely prepared for the bees to 

 store it and seal ii. The bees will not go a 

 longdistance to I jk for nectar when they 

 can get the gluo. ■: • near by. There are cases 

 of merchants in l;ir,'e cities who keep a few 

 hives of bees on their roofs, and have glucose 



near by to make it into honey. These bees in 

 largecities never see a blossom of any kind, 

 and if they were transferred to the country 

 they would get scared over different kinds of 

 blossoms and flowers all full of nectar." 



Now, Editor York, is it possible to keep 

 bees on glucose all the year around? I am a 

 beginner with bees, and know but very little 

 about how to manage them, but I don't want 

 any one to run down comb honey, or to run 

 down professional bee-keepers. I could not 

 call them professional bee-keepers who sell 

 glucose for honey. 



Please give us some information on this 

 subject in the American Bee Journal. I am 

 well pleased with the American Bee Journal. 



Sauk Co., Wis. Jos. M. Htnre. 



The Hospodar ig no doubt innocent of 

 originating the statements made,' having 

 probably copied them from some paper pos- 

 sessed of a reporter with an imagination in 

 lively working order. It may be that it will 

 be glad to malie a few statements possibly not 

 quite so sensational, but at least having the 

 virtue of being entirely truthful. The fol- 

 lowing statements it may safely make without 

 fear of contradiction : 



There are not many — there is not one pro- 

 fessional bee-keeper — in the land who has his 

 bees working all summer storing glucose, for 

 the simple reason that bees could not be in- 

 duced to do so. Only under stress could 

 they be induced to take glucose in limited 

 quantity for a short time. 



It glucose, honey, or any liquid sweet were 

 placed near the bees in an " open barrel," 

 and if the bees should attempt to take it, the 

 barrel would simply be filled with drowned 

 bees. 



If a thousand barrels of glucose were placed 

 close by a colony of bees, and the nectar of 

 flowers were to be reached by going 2 miles, 

 the 3 miles would be cheerfully traversed, and 

 not a bee would touch the glucose. Their 

 natural instinct makes them prefer nectar, or 

 its product — hoaey — to any other food that 

 could possibly be offered them. 



(Juite a number of bee-keepers in the large 

 cities keep bees on roofs or elsewhere, and 

 these city bees produce tons of honey just as 

 sweet and pure as that gathered by their 

 country cousins, and they make it from pre- 

 cisely the same material — the nectar of 

 flowers. Some of them may have to go quite 

 a distance to reach the flowers, but they are 



