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 PubUshed Ifeekly at 91>00 a ¥ear by Oeorge MV. York A Co., 



334 Mearbom St. 



QBORQE W. YORK, Editor 



CHICAGO, ILL, JULY 6,1905 



VoL XLV— No. 27 



PCBLISilKD WEEKLY BY 



6E0RGE W. YORK H COMPANY 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago, HI. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES 



THE SUBSCRIPTION PRICE of this Journal Is 

 *l.tK> a year, in the United States, Canada, and 

 Mexico; all other countries in the Postal Union. 5U 

 cents a year extra for postage. Sample copy free. 



THE WRAPPBR-LABBL DATE indicates the 

 end of the month to which your subscription is paid. 

 For instance, " decoo" on your label shows that it is 

 paid to the end of Dtcember, 19<j4. 



SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS.— We do not send a 

 receipt for money sent us to pay subscription, but 

 cbanne 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 Associatioo 



let —To promote the interests of its members. 



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

 lawful riahts. , . . .w ^ ,. . * 



3(j._To enforce laws against the adulteration oi 

 honey^. _ 



Annual Membership Dues, $1.00 



General Manager and Treasurer- 



N. K. FKANCE, Platteville, Wifc 



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

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The Honey-Producers' League 



I Incorporated I 



OBJECTS: 



1. To create a larger demand for honey through 

 advertisinfi. 



'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 I'f ?i.0(> for each 

 'JAi (or fraction ol jni colonies of bees (spring count ■ 

 he owns or operates. 



•J. Any honey-dealer, bee-supply dealer, bee-supply 

 manufacturer, bee-paper publisher, or any other 

 Arm or individual, may become a member on the 

 annual payment of a lee of $10, increased by one- 

 flflh of one (I ) percent of his or its capital used in 

 the allied interests of bee-keeping. 



George w. York, Manager. 



334 Dearborn St., CuiCAGO, ill. 



Queen-Bee Free as a Premium 



To a subscriber whose own subscription to the 

 American Bee Journal is paid at least to the end of 

 I90fi. we will give an untested Italian queen for 

 sending uaONE NEW subscription with $1.00forthe 

 Bee Journal a year. 



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Prof. Beaton Off for the Far East 



Twenty-five years ago, in company with D. 

 A. Jones, of Canada, Prof. Frank Benton 

 started to the Far East in search of new races 

 of bees, not returning to his native land until 

 11 years later. The introduction into this 

 country of the Cyprian, Syrian, Palestine, and 

 Carniolan bees followed. Now with Uncle 

 Sam at his bacis, and as the accredited head of 

 the Apicultural Branch of the Department of 

 Agriculture, he starts in the same direction 

 for a two-year trip, seeking more worlds to 

 conquer. Besides obtaining queens from the 

 Caucasus, he has his eye on the big bee of 

 India, Apia dorsuta, and any other new bee 

 that may fall in his way. Neither will he 

 slight any chance for something new Id the 

 way of honey-plants. Bee-keepers will hope 

 for substantial gains from his efforts. 



Don't Save the Uncapping-Knife 



If you extract before the bees have sealed 

 the combs, you can save the time and labor of 

 uncapping. But you will lose money by it. 

 The honey will be of such quality that your 

 customers will conclude they do not like 

 honey, whereas if you leave it in care of the 

 bees till all is sealed your customers will want 

 more, and " children will cry for it." It is 

 not, however, for the sake of avoiding the use 

 of the uncapping-knife that most of the ex- 

 tracting of unsealed honey takes place, but 

 for the supposed greater quantity of honey to 

 be thus secured. To a large extent this is a 

 delusion. If every bee-keeper should realize 

 how little in weight he gains by extracting 

 unripe honey, and bow much more in propor- 

 tion he loses in quality, he would hesitate 

 thus to spoil the market not only for himself 



but for others. 



♦ 



What is Good Honey Weather? 



Quinby said that the honey-flow was at its 

 best when farmers were just beginning to 

 complain of drouth. Admitting this to be 

 true, it is just a bit doubtful whether in the 

 long run there if- a. gain in having such 

 weather. When laimers begin to complain 



of drouth the drouth has already begun its 

 injurious effect on the growth of honey- 

 plants, and although the immediate eSect 

 may be an increased storing of nectar con- 

 densed to a greater extent than usual, the 

 after effects in the way of checking plant- 

 growth may more than counterbalance all the 

 gain. 



Speaking of white clover alone, the desid- 

 eratum seems to be weather so hot that one 

 can not find any spot cool enough to sleep at 

 night, with plenty of moisture in the ground 

 from previous rains. Does the man who 

 grumbles at the interruption of the gathering 

 by timely rains, really know what is for his 



own good? 



-♦ 



Townsend's Mixed-Super Plan 



Editor Root is quite enthusiastic over O. H. 

 Townsend's plan of having sections and ex- 

 tracting-combs in the same super. Dr. Miller, 

 while not denying advantages in the plan, 

 thinks it can be used successfully only when 

 extracting-combs are new and white, because 

 of the habit bees have of carrying bits of wax 

 from the extracting-oombs to finish sealing 



the sections. 



■♦ 



Studying the Wants of Beginners 



The province of a bee-paper is to supple- 

 ment the information gained from books of 

 instruction on bee-keeping, not to take the 

 place of such books. Lack of understanding 

 this sometimes causes disappointment, and 

 occasionally a subscriber writes after the 

 manner of one who lately wrote : 



" I think a paper printed for beginners 

 should state what should be done every month 

 or less, and should not fill up its pages at this 

 time of year telling how to winter bees. I 

 don't receive much advice through the col- 

 umns of the .\inerican Bee Journal in regard 

 to each day's work, or each month's work." 



It would eertiiinly be a very desirable thing 

 for a beginner to have explicit instruction 

 given as to the work of each day in the sea- 

 son. It would, however, be a difficult thing 

 to give such instruction. What would fit one 

 locality would not fit another locality. What 



