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QBOROB W. YORK, Editor 



CHICAGO, ILL, JUNE 8, 1905 



VoL XLV— No. 23 



PCBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



eEORGE W.YORK S COMPANY 



3d4 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES 



THE SUBSCRIPTION PRICE of this Journal Is 

 8l.tii» a year, in tbe Unitert States, Canada, and 

 Mexico; all other countries in the Postal Union, 50 

 centa a year extra for postage. Sample copy free. 



THE WRAPPER-LABEIi DATE indicates the 

 end of the month to which your subscription is paid. 

 For instance, *" decio" on your label shows thai it ia 

 paid to tbe end of December, 19u4. 



SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS.— We do not send a 

 receipt for money sent ua to pay Bubscriptlon. 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 BeeKeepers'Association 



Objects of the Association 



l9t.— To promote the interests of its members. 



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

 lawful riahtB. 



3d.— To enforce laws against the adulteration of 

 honey. 



Annual Membership Dues, $i.oo 



General Manager and Treasurer- 



N. E. Fmance, PlatteviUe, Wia. 



fW If more convenient. Dues may be sent to the 

 pabUshers of the American Bee Journal. 



The Honey-Producers' League 



( Incorporated i 



OBJECTS: 



1. To create a larger demand for honey throUKb 

 advertlsini;. 



2. 'i"o publish facta about hone7,aQd counteract 

 misrepresentations of the same. 



MEVIBERSHIP DUES 



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

 inp to the Manawer an annual fee of #l.(i(» for each 

 2o ior Iraetirtn of 2*>) colonies of bees (spring count I 

 he owns or operates. 



'J. Any honey-dealer, bee-supplydealer, boe-supply 

 manufacturer, bee-paper publisher, ur any other 

 Arm or individual, may become a member on the 

 annual payment of a tee of $10. increased by one- 

 fltth of one ( 1 » percent of his or its capital used in 

 the allied interests of bee-keepinK. 



GEORGE W. VORK. Manacer, 



:ij4 Dearborn St.. Chicago, ill. 



Queen-Bee Free as a Premlu;n 



To a subscriber whose own subscription to the 

 American Bee Journal is paid at Ica^t to the end of 

 19o.=i, we will five an untested Italian queen for 

 sendini: usi >NK NEW subscription with ^l.oo for the 

 Bee Journal a year. Now is a Bood time to Ket new 

 subscribers. If you wish extra copies of the Bee 

 Journal for use as samples, let us Itnow how many 

 you want and we will mail them to y(ui. Address 

 all orders to the office of the .\merican Bee Journal. 



Short Stores — Warning to Beginners 



As a matter of fact the warning is needed 

 by many who are not beginners. A good 

 many colonies will be lost after this paragraph 

 appears in print, and by those who have not 

 dreamed of danger. It seems to take a good 

 many years of experience to gain an adequate 

 idea of the amount of honey used up in rear- 

 ing brood in the spring. A colony has a good 

 supply of honey when overhauled in April or 

 the first part of May, and the owner thinks it 

 entirely unnecessary to give any further at- 

 tention to the matter of stores. If he would 

 look into the hives just before the harvest 

 begins, he would be surprised at the bareness 

 of the larders. 



A critical time often comes just before time 

 to put on supers, when the immense amount 

 of brood makes heavy demands oq the stores, 

 and little or nothing is coming in from the 

 fields. If stores give out entirely, it means 

 not only the cessation of all egg-laying, but 

 as well the destruction of all unsealed brood. 

 In other words, it means the loss of eight or 

 more days of the queen's work, and that at a 

 time when si^pn work counts at its highest 

 value. Especially remember that starvation 

 may come nftii- the fields are white with 

 clover, for there may be no nectar in the 



blossoms. 



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The Qlucose-Honey Story Again 



Rene Bache, in the Saturday Evening Post 

 for May 20, contributes an article on " The 

 Whimsical Consumer: Color, Not Quality, is 

 What He Seeks in Food." After saying, 

 " Appearance counts for vastly more than 

 taste in rendering any food product market- 

 able," reference is made to bright red apples, 

 large strawberries, brown-colored eggs, yel- 

 low-skinned chickens, etc., all of which, it is 

 alleged, are preferred regardless of taste or 

 quality by the consumer. 



"As far as practicable, things should be 

 big, uniform in size, shapely, and done up in 

 convenient and showy packages," it is said. 

 This may be the case in exceptional instances, 

 but we can not believe that the housekeepers, 

 purveyors, etc., of this country — those who 

 perhaps buy nine tenths of all the eatables 

 used — ptrter appearance to quality and taste. 



But the paragraph in Rene Bache's article 

 that is of greatest interest to bee-keepers is 

 the following : 



" Glucose, made of appropriate consistency, 

 suitably colored, and containing pieces of 

 genuine honey-comb, is bought by many peo- 

 ple in preference to real comb honey. Honey 

 is supposed to be light yellow, and, if darker, 

 it finds a less ready sale. On the other hand, 

 California comb honey is looked upon with 

 suspicion in the East on account of its almost 

 colorless appearance, the whiteness of the 

 wax, and the perfect filling of all the cells. 

 Purchasers frequently reject it on the suppo- 

 sition that it is machine-made, comb and all — 

 the idea that comb honey is ingeniously 

 counterfeited, and to some extent manufac- 

 tured being, notwithstanding its absurdity, 

 one of the most widespread of popular delu- 

 sions." 



We do not think that many people prefer a 

 mixture of cheap glucose and pieces of honey- 

 comb to "real comb honey." They may be 

 inveigled into buying it through its sale being 

 pushed by extensive advertising and other- 

 wise, but never from a real preference if they 

 can get first-class comb honey— the product 

 of the bees. Talk about a combination of 

 glucose and wax outranking the thick, deli- 

 cious, well-ripened honey ! It is ignorance of 

 the genuine bee-product that prefers the glu- 

 cose compound. Certainly no one who is 

 familiar with real or best-quality honey- 

 either in the comb or out of it — would prefer 

 glucose, if in his right mind, or unless he has 

 an unnatural, vitiated taste. 



So " the idea that comb honey is ingeniously 

 counterfeited," ■" machine-made," is still a 

 ■' popular delusion." And the more beautiful 

 the genuine article is in appearance, the more 

 it is thought a counterfeit. Well, that's 

 pretty rough on apicultural progress from bee- 

 tree honey to that of tempting sections of 

 virgin whiteness. 



The next thing for bee-keepers to do is to 

 displace the wrong idea that the public has 

 of honey with the correct and true idea. Until 

 that is done the finest product of the hive 

 will be in disrepute among a large portion 

 of our population. What a shame! 



The Honey-Producers' League was organ- 

 ized to undertake the education of the public 

 concerning honey. It's a big ' job, we know 

 and will need the earnest co-operation of all 



