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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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United States bee-keepers at the convention, and if there are, 

 we may vote it a Canadian instead of a United Slates organi- 

 zation. Ua ! Ha !" 



I sent the above to such bee-journals as I thought I could 

 reach in time for this month's issue, and asltt them to sound 

 the note of warning to the Yankees. We've whipt .lohnny 

 Bull twice, and it would be a shame to let some of his oftspriiiK 

 come and whip us on our own soil. 



Perhaps I'm a little more sensitive about this than any 

 other of your readers, for at the battle of Buffalo, in the war 

 of 181:^-13, one of my grandfathers was killed (tomahawkt 

 by an Indian ally of the British). So please get all the Yan- 

 kees to be at the convention that you can, and help me to be 

 avenged on our foes (?). Don't let any one show the " white 

 feather," for I believe we can rout the whole " caboodle " of 

 them without shedding a drop of blood ! At any rate, I'm 

 ready for the " fray," and am going to take Mrs. M. along to 

 help, and you know what the result always is when the ladies 

 have a hand In matters. A. B. Mason. 



Whoop-ee ! Think of it — "as many Canadians as United 

 States bee-keepers" at Buffalo! (Jood. Come on, you 

 Canucks. You'll have to get there lively to equal the New 

 Union Yankee boys. And every one of you paying his mem- 

 bership dues and wearing a " U. S." badge, can vote and 

 shoot — off your mouth — in convention. So far as we are con- 

 cerned, if in the " battle of the ballots " you win, you can call 

 it a " Canadian organization," or anything you please. It will 

 be good enough for the stay-at-home Yankees. But you 

 hadn't better " count your chickens before they're hatcht." 

 Your Yankee Brother Jonathan has a way of " getting there " 

 that is quite surprising, as your ancestors learned to their 

 sorrow on at least two occasions, one of which Dr. Mason 

 seems to have occasion to remember. 



Arouse, ye U. S. bee-keepers! and "on to Buffalo!" 



Your fair honey-land may be in danger of being over-run with 



the festive Canucks across the border-line. Arouse ! Get 



there!! Buffalo!!! 



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Good Advice on Marketing.— Mr. J. W. Rouse 

 — one of Missouri's best bee-keepers — gives this paragraph in 

 the Progressive BeeKeeper for August : 



While there will be a good honey crop this season, I would 

 advise honey-producers not to demoralize the market by rush- 

 ing their honey to market too early ; and also be careful 

 about shipping honey to parties not known. In fact, I have 

 always managed to find sale for my crop of honey around 

 home. I would rather give my neighbors the benefit of low 

 prices than to ship my honey, and be compelled then to take a 

 low price. Of course, more honey may be secured in some 

 localities than one can find a demand for, but there are very 

 many people who seldom, if ever, get any honey to eat. So 

 with push, one may dispose of a good crop. A good article is 

 very likely to find customers, for it is delicious, and people 



want it. 



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"Much Ado About NotJ-ing."— We were re- 

 minded of this quotation, upon receiving the following from 



Secretary Mason : 



Sta. B, Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 13, 1897. 

 Mk. Editor: — I have just received a letter from a friend 

 (I say friend because he tries to have me do rhjhl) in New 

 York or New Jersey — can't tell which — saying : 



" You tell every bee-keeper who expects to attend the 

 Buffalo convention, to He right out and out to the ticket agent 

 in order to save a few dollars. You ask him to use deception, 

 fraud, hypocrisy. Y'ou tell them in plain words that they 

 should buy round-trip tickets to the G. A. R. Encampment, 

 not to the bee-keepers' convention ; shame on you. When, oh 

 when, will men cease to advocate fraud ? You know full well 

 that the bee-keepers are not going to Buffalo to attend the G. 



A. R. Encampment Yet you ask them to throw away 



their manhood just for a trifle ; it sounds bad, Dr No 



doubt you are fighting the adulteration of honey, and want 

 honey put up honest, and sold for just what it is, and yet you 

 ask the very men who produce this honey to defraud the rail- 

 road company by telling a falsehood. Suppose the agent at 

 your station asks you if you are not going to the bee-conven- 

 tion instead of the G. A. E. Encampment, what are you going 



to tell him ? Let me tell you what to tell him— tell him the 

 truth." Snydk.r. 



All right, Mr. Snyder; I'll take your advice and "tell 

 him the truth," and I wish I could take back what wrong 

 advice I gave (if I gave any), and will, as far as it Is possible 

 to do so ; and say to all the beekeepers, and others who might 

 be influenced by my (wicked'') suggestion: Don't tell your 

 station agent where you want to go, unless you want to, nor 

 what you are going for. Just ask him for a ticket to BulTalo 

 at the reduced rate, good for 30 days. Will that suit you any 

 better. Mr. S.? 



I hadn't the slightest idea of defrauding any railroad. It 

 is the custom, and they expect it. It didn't occur to me that 

 there would be anything wrong in it. 



Since receiving the above-mentioned letter, I've been to 

 our railroad station and askt the agent if he would sell me a 

 ticket to Buffalo at the G. A. R. rates to attend the conven- 

 tion of the United States Bee-Keepers' Union, and explained 

 to him why I askt. His reply was : 



"Certainly. We don't care where you are going, nor 

 what you are going for. All we want to know is that you 

 waut a ticket for Buffalo at the reduced, or G. A. R., rate." 



Is that satisfactory ? If not, any one who desires is at 

 perfect liberty to pay full fare for a round-trip ticket, or do 

 any other way his conscience may suggest, and I'll find no 

 fault with him, for I want to see as many bee-keepers at the 

 convention as can possibly be there. 



Sadly, but hopefully, yours for the right, 



A. B. Mason. 



Right you are, Dr. Mason. The railroad ticket agents 

 care nothing about what any one is going to Buffalo for. 

 Each fellow just pays his fare on certain days at the reduced 

 G. A. R. rate, and no questions askt. Of course, after the 

 ticket is bought on account of the G. A. R. Encampment, the 

 purchaser can throw it away and buy another at the full reg- 

 ular rate, if he " has money to burn ;" or if he chooses he can 

 put both tickets in his pocket and stay at home, if he is afraid 

 he might in some way defraud the poor railroad company, if 

 he should use either ticket ! 



A Special Car of Bee-Keepers.— Lately sev- 

 eral of our friends have askt us when and by what route we 

 expect to go to Buffalo, to attend the bee-keepers' convention. 

 We had intended going a few days before the meeting, and 

 stopping off to see our near and dear relatives in northeastern 

 Ohio, but we have been compelled to change that intention, 

 and now expect to leave Chicago on the Nickel Plate railroad 

 at 3:05 p.m., Monday, Aug. 23, arriving at Buffalo at 8 

 o'clock the next morning, in time for the opening of the con- 

 vention at 10 a.m., as per the printed program. 



Since deciding as above, we have wondered if it were not 

 possible for the bee-keepers around Chicago, and those from 

 the West who will pass through here on their way to Buffalo, 

 to make up a special car on the Nickel Plate, and go on to- 

 gether from here. We find that we can have a sleeping car 

 for such purpose at S10.50 for the round trip per passenger, 

 and the berth ^1.30 extra, tickets with special return privi- 

 lege of extension to Sept. 20. But there need to be at least 

 25 persons to go thus together in order to have the special 

 car ; however, 30 or 35 can comfortably get into the car. Of 

 course, ladies will be welcome to go thus as well as the gen- 

 tlemen. Bring your wives and daughters. It will be a grand 



trip. 



But shall we all go in that special car ? What do those 



bee-keepers who expect to go, say about it ? We'd all have a 

 fine trip together— from 3:05 p.m. Monday till 8 o'clock the 

 next day. 



Now, let all who will join in this, write us at least by Fri- 

 day, Aug. 20, so that we can fully complete the arrange- 

 ments. We will attend to getting your tickets and sleeping- 

 car berths, if you will send us the necessary S12 to do it with, 

 and have everything ready when you get here Monday. Come 

 on, friends. 



