

T'uhllfsht Weekly at IIH XlU-htiiaii Street. 



SI.OO a Yeai — Sample Copy I'ree. 



37th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., JULY 22, 1897. 



No. 29. 



Six Months forOiily 40 Cents ! 



NOW FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS. 



Get Your Bee-Keeplng Friends and Neighbors 

 to Take the Old American Bee Journal. 



We would like to have each of our present readers send at 

 least one neic subscriber for the Bee Journal before Aug. 1, 

 1897. That surely will not be hard to do, when they will 

 need to pay only iO cents for the last 6 months of this 

 year, or only about 7 cents a month for the weekly 

 American Bee Journal. Any one with only a colony or two 

 of bees should jump at such an offer as that. 



Now, we don't ask you to work for us for nothing, but 

 will say that for each new 40-cent subscriber you send us, we 

 will mail you your choice of one of the following list : 



Wood Binder for the Bee Journal 20c. 



50 copies ofleaflet on "Why Eat Honey?" 20c. 



50 ■■ " on •' How to Keep Honey " 20c. 



50 " " on •• Alsike Clover" 20c. 



1 copy each " Preparation of Honey for the Market "(10c.) 



and boollttle'a " Hive T Use " (5c.) 15o. 



1 copy each Dadante' "Handling Bees" (8c.) and " Bee- 

 Pasturage a Necessity " (lOc.) 18c. 



Dr. Howard's book on "Foul Brood " 2oc. 



Kohnke'e " Foul Brood" book 25c. 



Cheshire's " Foul Brood " book dOo.) and Dadants' " Hand- 

 ling Bees" [8o ] 18c. 



Dr. Foote'8 Hand-Bookof Health 25o. 



Rural Life Book 25c. 



Our Poultry Doctor, by Fanny Felld 25c. 



Poultry for Market and Profit, by Fanny Field 25c. 



Capons and Caponizlng 25c. 



Turkeys for Market and Profit 25c. 



Green's Four Books on Frult-Growlng 25c. 



Kopp Commercial Calculator No. 1 25c. 



Silo and Silage, by Prof. Cook 25c. 



Blenen-Kultur [German] . ; 40c. 



Kendall's Horse-Book [English or German] 25c. 



1 Pound White Clover Seed 25c. 



1 '• Sweet " " 25c. 



IH " AlBlke •• " 25c. 



1V4 '• Alfalfa " " 2oc. 



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The Horse— How to Break and Handle 20c. 



We make the above offers only to those who are now sub- 

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GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 

 118 Michigan St., - CHICAGO, ILL. 



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Adulteration — Enforcement of Present Laws. 



BY C. P. DADANT. 



A few weeks ago I wrote my views about getting more 

 laws on the subject of adulteration. I held that, In my judg- 

 ment, we have laws enough in existence to give us the power 

 of crushing adulteration, like all other swindles that can be 

 proven. I hope some of our law friends will not arise and 

 prove to me that I am wrong, and that liiw and common-sense 

 do not agree. I wish, just now, to bring to the attenion of 

 the readers of the American Bee Journal some facts that 

 strengthen my views very materially. 



A firm in Keokuk, Iowa — one of the oldest, most extensive 

 and most reliable dealers in chickens and eggs in the West — 

 also occasionally handles beeswax. Some four or five weeks 

 ago they sent us word that they had a lot of beeswax — about 

 400 pounds — which they desired us to see at once, as the 

 party who had sold it to them had a lot more of the same 

 grade that he wisht to dispose of, and they feared that it 

 might not be pure. As they had occasionally been cheated 

 by hucksters selling them beeswax adulterated with tallovr, 

 we supposed they were afraid of this lot containing tallow, 

 and we askt them to send us the " wax " the next trip of our 

 team to Keokuk, and we promist to report at once if the lot 

 was not right. 



The " wax " came in due time, and a beautiful lot it was — 

 but not a bit of it beeswax — it was all paraffine, or mineral 

 wax. The usual test that we applied left us no room for 

 doubt. It was a $50 swindle, as the firm had paid 22 cents 

 for an article that was hardly worth 10 cents per pound. 



Two of the firm came over to see us the same evening, 

 and told us that they had been unable to tell by the looks of 

 the goods that the lot was not right, but that they mistrusted 

 It, because the man was evidently a city agent, and he was so 

 very anxious to sell them more beeswax at a price lower than 

 the market rate then. Upon being assured by me that the 

 lot was not at all beeswax, they returned to the city and had 

 the fellow arrested for obtaining money under false pretense. 

 This young man, who gave his residence as Chicago, was very 

 much crestfallen after a night spent In the Keokuk jail. He 

 telegrapht at once to his folks in Chicago for a cash bond, 

 which was fixt by the Judge of the Criminal Court at 13500, 

 by which he was bound to appear In 10 days and establish 



