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Aug. 23, 1906 



American Itee Journal 



publish a lot of free advertising for interested 

 parties, and in the reading columns. Those 

 desiring to do any business with our readers 

 have the advertising columns open to them — 

 provided they are honest, and mean to do 

 business " on the square." Any other kind 

 can't get into our columns at any price — not 

 if we know it. 



Any statement, or even insinuation, that 

 the American Bee Journal has agreed with 

 any other bee-paper or bee-papers in any 

 course whatsoever against the interests of 

 honey-producers, is utterly false and libelous, 

 as any one who knows us and reads the 

 American Bee Journal carefully must also 

 know. 



Some of these days the selfishness and evi- 

 dent egotism back of the libelousinsinuations 

 and charges referred to will be apparent to all. 

 Time discloses a good many things, and some 

 of them mighty queer. But new beekeepers 

 can afford to wait and see which of the bee- 



papers are their real friends. The older bee- 

 keepers don't have to wait, for they know 

 already. The American Bee Journal doe6 not 

 claim to be " the whole thing " in bee-litera- 

 ture, but it does claim to be entirely inde- 

 pendent of any bee-supply business, is not 

 influenced by any other bee paper or bee- 

 papers, and works for the best interests of its 

 subscribers. The mere statement of these 

 facts will be sutlicient for all who have read 

 the American Bee Journal any reasonable 

 length of time, and who have not become 

 influenced by malicious insinuations or ut- 

 terances. 



How beautifully independent, and how un- 

 biased in its judgment, must a bee-paper be 

 that advocates co-operation because its bee- 

 supply manufacturing publishers are to get 

 most of the co-operative business! Oh, con- 

 sistency, thou art truly a jewel of the first- 

 water, while such an inconsistent bee-paper 

 is — well, our readers know what it is without 

 our naming it. 



(Miscellaneous 

 flews -Items 



An Interstate Pair is to be held at 

 Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. 10 to 15, 1906. Iowa, 

 Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska will 

 be represented. A bee and honey exhibit 

 will be a part of the Fair. On Thursday and 

 Friday, Sept. 13 and 14, will be held a bee- 

 keepers' convention in the afternoon and 

 evening of each day. R. A. Morgan, of Ver- 

 milion, S, Dak., has been appointed superin- 

 tendent of the apiarian department, and in- 

 vites all bee-keepers to be present with their 

 exhibits. Every bee-keeper contemplating a 

 display at this Fair will confer a favor upon 

 Mr. Morgan by writiDg him on or before Sept. 

 1, giving size of exhibit or amount of space 

 required. The 4 splendid -States to be repre- 

 sented ought to produce an apiarian display 

 second only to the one at the World's Fair in 

 Chicago, in 1893. 



Poisoned by a Pollen-Tipped Bee- 

 Sting !— With the remark, " How is this for 

 a California tale? Out here we know very 

 little about bees," G. F. Merriam sends the 

 following clipping': 



Long Beach, July 17.— Inoculated with the 

 poison of a flower by the sting of a bee, is the 

 unique experience of Miss Fremont, daughter 

 of the late Gen. Fremont, and she is recover- 

 ing after suffering intensely for some hours. 



Miss Fremont, who resides on Juniper 

 street, was gardening among her flowers 

 when the insect stung her hand, which sud- 

 denly swelled to extraordinary size. A sur- 

 geon extracted the tiny shaft and discovered 

 that its tip had been poisoned by the pollen 

 of a flower. 



A peculiar feature of the case is a distinct 

 black line running from the wound to the 

 chest over the heart. 



After reading the foregoing, one is left 

 gasping with desire for further information. 



So many questions arise that might easily be 

 solved by the man who had the ingenuity to 

 find out that a sting became venomous when 

 poisoned by pollen. Did the sting become 

 swollen when poisoned by the pollen? What 

 kind of flower was the pollen from? Did that 

 " distinct black line running from the wound 

 to the chest over the heart " stop " running " 

 when the " surgeou extracted the tiny shaft?" 

 Was the brain of the reporter affected by the 

 poison, or was it the poison from rye? Per- 

 haps that " surgeou " had " a leetle too 

 much " himself. 



Directions for Introducing Queens 



are always sent with each queen mailed. The 

 instructions are printed on the under side of 

 the address card tacked on the queen-cage. 

 The following we take from a card received 

 with a queen recently at this office: 



Directions for Introducing. 



Before giving this queen to the colony be 

 sure it is queenless. A colony that has been 

 without a queen from 12 to 16 days— long 

 enough 60 that there is possibly one or more 

 virgins in the hive — will not as a rule accept 

 an introduced queen. The colony should not 

 be queenless more than 5 days, and to secure 

 the best results 1 or 2 days are better. See 

 that all queen-cells that may have been started 

 are destroyed. To introduce with this cage, 

 pry off the cover, note the condition of the 

 queen; pull out the cork in the end, and 

 place the cage on top of or between two 

 frames. Through the holes in the end the 

 bees will eat out the candy left in the cage, 

 and release the queen in from 1 to 2 days. If 

 the bees release her quietly themselves it will 

 be better than if you try to help the matter 

 along. If the weather is cold set the cage 

 right over where the cluster of bees is. Should 

 the queeu and her attendants arrive feeble, or 

 daubed up. release her at once among the 



bees. If, after they clean her off they bill 

 her, return her to the cage and introduce as 

 explained. If she arrives dead, notify us and 

 we will replace. If your bees are or have 

 been robbing, you may not succeed in intro- 

 ducing. 



N.B. — Queens just from the mails usually 

 look small and dark. After laying a few days 

 they will improve. 



It is seldom safe to remove or destroy the 

 oli queen of a colony to be requeened, before 

 receiving the expected queen. The new 

 q jeen may not arrive as promptly as antici- 

 pated. 



It is hardly necessary that the colony 

 should he queenless any time at all before in- 

 troducing the new queen. Simply remove 

 the old queen when the new one has arrived, 

 and at onee betji?i to introduce her as per the 

 directions given. 



The question is often asked as to how long 

 the new queen can be kept with the bees in 

 the cage she arrives in before introducing 

 her. We have known instances where such 

 l-eeping of the queen for 2 weeks did not do 

 aiy barm. 



The Apiary of W. S. Williams ap- 

 pears in the front-page picture this week. He 

 wrote as follows on July 26: 



I am located in the Bald Eagle Valley, mid- 

 way from Tyrone to Bellefonte. I have kept 

 bees for 30 years, but never have had more 

 than a dozen colonies at one time, nor did 1 

 pay much attention to them until a year ago, 

 when I concluded to test what could be done 

 with them in honey-production, and I have 

 succeeded beyond my expectations. I now 

 have 50 colonies. I have introduced the Ital- 

 ians this season, and have now 11 queens on 

 the way. 



I am represented in the front of the picture, 

 and my baby boy past 3 years old stands by 

 my side holding a bee-smoker. He is around 

 the bees very much, and gets stung occa- 

 sionally, but doesn't make much fuss about 

 it. My wife and granddaughter are shown at 

 my left. 



I think the honey season this year is the 

 best I ever saw. This morning I took 3 

 supers from one black colony of bees that had 

 76 completed sections. Many of the other 

 colonies are doing equally well. I expect to 

 build up to at least 100 colonies by the com- 

 ing season, if spared to do so. 



W. S. Williams. 



THE EDITOR'S SONG 



H iw dear to our heart is the steady subscriber, 

 Who pays in advance, without skipping a 



year; 

 Who lays down his dollar, and offers it gladly, 

 And casts 'round the office a halo of cheer. 

 Who never says: "Stop it; lean not afford 



it!" 

 Or: "Getting more papers each day than I 



read;" 

 But always says: " Send it, the whole outfit 



likes it — 

 In fact, we regard it as a business need." 

 How welcome is he when he steps in our 



office, 

 How he makes "our heart" throb; how he 



makes " our eye " dance ! 

 We outwardly thank him — we inwardly bless 



him — 

 The steady subscriber who pays in advance! 

 — American Printer. 



There is always " room for more" of the 

 "steady subscriber " kind. But all kinds of 

 subscribers are appreciated at the office of 

 the American Bee Journal. And yet " the 

 steady subscriber who pays in advance with- 

 out skipping a year "—well, we'd like to have 

 a few thousands more of him — and her. 



