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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July S 



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CBORCB Wr. YORK, . Bdltop. 



PDBLI8BT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 IIS ailcltigan St., - CHICAGO, ILI^. 



tl.OO a Year — Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 (Bntered at the Poat-Offlce at Ctaicaeo as Second-Class Mall-Matter. 



United States Bee-Keepers^ Uliioji. 



Organized to advance the pursuit of Apiculture: to promote the interests 



of bee-keepers ; lt> protect its members ; to prevent the adulteration 



of honey; and to prosecute the dishonest honey-cominisaion men. 



Membership Fee-$1.00 Per Annum. 



Exeouttve Coznmiffeo, 



President— George W. York. Vice-Pres.— E. Wditcome. 



Secretary— Dr. A. B. Mason, Station B, Toledo, Ohio. 



Iloarcl of Directors, 



E. R. Root. E. Whitcome. E. T. Abbott. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. Dr. C. C. Miller. C. P. Dadant. 



Gcjieral JlXanag-er and Treasurer, ' 



Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



Next Annual meeting at Buffalo, N. ¥., Aug. 34-26, 1897. 



yoLinVII. CHICAGO, ILL, JULY 8, 1891. No. 27, 



Editorial Con)n)cr)i^^ 



Xlie Micbi^an Experiment Apiary, which 

 has been so successfully conducted at Lapeer, by the Hon. R. 

 L. Taylor, for several years, has recently been removed to the 

 State Agricultural College grounds, near Lansing, the capital. 

 The June Review had this notice concerning it : 



The bees belonging to the State have been moved back to 

 the College, and put in charge of a young man by the name of 

 Jno. M. Rankin, from St. Clare county. The idna is to cen- 

 tralize, to have all of the branches possible at the College. 

 The Director of the Station is an.\ious to build up an apiary 

 of which they can be proud, as they are of their stock in 

 other lines. Mr. Rankin is well-informed, and a practical 

 man, and I think that he will eventually build up an apiary 

 that will bean honor to the State. Steps are being tak<;n to 

 Investigate bee-paralysis, and as there is a most competent 

 bacteriologist at the College, it is to be hoped that something 

 reliable and practical may be done. 



The Buffalo Convention Progfrani is now 



issued, and will be mailed free to all the present members of 

 the United States Bee-Keepers' Union. Those who are 

 not members can get a copy of II by sending 5 cents to the 

 Secretary— Dr. A. B. Mason, Sta. B, Toledo, Ohio. 



We believe this Is the first program of a bee-convention 

 that has been sold— ^heretofore they have always been dis- 

 tributed free, but only during the sessions of the convention. 



But when it Is known that the Buffalo program Is a l<i- 

 page pamphlet, about fiJj'xlO Inches In size, it will be readily 

 seen that the Union could not afford to distribute it free 

 outside of Its paid membership. 



Besides the names of the essayists and their subjects. 



there are six bee-songs — words and music — which ought to be 

 learned and sung in every bee-keeper's home. Why, the first 

 five songs (written by Dr. Miller and Mr. Secor) alone are 

 well worth SI. 00 — and you can get the whole thing for only 

 5 cents. 



But, really, the best way is to get it free — by sending your 

 §1.00 membership fee to Secretary Mason, who will mail you 

 both a receipt and a copy of the Buffalo program. Or, send 

 your dollar to the Bee Journal office, and we will see that Dr. 

 Mason sends the receipt and the program. 



Come on with your membership fees. 



Tliat Home market for honey ought to be revived 

 now. Better a thousand times sell your honey to your neigh- 

 bors and friends, who you know will pay for it, rather than 

 ship It off to strangers who may swindle you out of a good 

 share of it. Better take less money for your honey, and get 

 It, rather than attempt to get a high price — and then be dis- 

 appointed. 



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Xlie Central Xexas Convention will be held 

 at Cameron, July 16 and 17, 1897. Excursion tickets will 

 be sold on the railroads on the certificate plan. When pur- 

 chasing your ticket to Cameron, you pay the full fare and 

 take a receipt therefor ; then when signed by the Secretary 

 at Cameron, the return fare will be but one-third, provided 50 

 are present with certificates. 



On the program are the following : 



Welcome Address, by Judge J. M. McGregor. 

 Response, by Judge E. Y. Terral. 

 "Honey-Dew," by C. B. Bankston. 

 "Contradictory," by S. D. Hanna. 

 Essay, by Mrs. Mary Gordon. 



" Ancient and Modern Bee-Keeping," by Judge E. Y. 

 Terral. 



"Extracted Hooey," by A. C. Aten. 



" How Bees Deposit Pollen in Cells," by E. R. Jones. 



The following subjects will also bediscust: " Best Race 

 of Bees for Texas ; " Comb Foundation ;" " Losses of Bees," 

 and " What Hybrid Bees are Best for Comb or Extracted 

 Honey ?" 



Each paper will be criticised by S. D. Hanna. No hotel 

 bills. Everybody is invited. 



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Keep Grass and "Weeds Down.— Mr. Doolittle 

 gives this excellent advice in the June Progressive Bee-Keeper, 

 about keeping grass and weeds down in the apiary : 



"One of the most common things to be seen in many api- 

 aries at this time of the year, where the hives set within a few 

 inches of the ground, as all hives should, is grass and weeds 

 growing up in front of the entrance, with the bees heavily 

 loaded with honey or pollen struggling to reach the hive, first 

 with the wings, then on foot, then taking wing again, or 

 crowding through a tangled mass of stuff that they may reach 

 home with their precious loads, the result often being many 

 loads of pollen left behind when at their very door. This not 

 only causes them much extra work, wearing their precious 

 lives out much sooner, but it is a waste of time to them, often 

 amounting to nearly a pound of honey each day, as I have 

 proven to my satisfaction with hives on scales, putting an 

 obstruction before the hive one day, and taking It away the 

 next. To be modest, call the average loss only one-half 

 pound, and we have 50 pounds as the loss in an apiary of 100 

 colonies. This, at 10 cenis, equals a loss of §15 a day for 

 every day that grass and weeds remain during the honey-How, 

 to say nothing about the shortening of the lives of the bees, 

 their Inconvenience, etc. Reader, thipk it over, and ask 

 yourself If you can afford It. If not, go right out at once and 

 remedy this matter. 



" Many ways have been given In the past for keeping 



