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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct 



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T^c Weekly Budget. 



Dr. Cieselski — a Europeau experimenter and investiga- 

 tor — places the temperature of a bee's body at 95 Pahr. 



Mr. a. L. Boyden— one of The A. I. Root Co.'s most 

 trusted and reliable office employees — recently made a trip 

 through a portion of Michigan, and has described it in Glean- 

 ings in a very interesting manner. 



Mr. B. S. Taylor, of California, started this year with 

 l.j-i colonies, and increast to 200 colonies, besides taking 10 

 tons of tine e.xtracted honey, and 6,000 se::tions of comb 

 honey. Prof. Cook reports this in (ileanings. and says, "This 

 has been a fine season in Southern California." 



Mr. J. K. Elliott, of Allegheny Co., Pa., who kindly sent 

 us the clipping about the cow and the bees, from the Pitts- 

 burg Chronicle-Telegraph (found in another column) wrote 

 Sept. 6 : " I take very much interest in reading the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal every week, and have never failed to receive 

 it on Friday morning." 



Mb. F. Danzenbaker — of Danzenbaker hive fame — is 

 pictured in Gleanings for Sept. 15. He is over 60 years of 

 age, yet one would scarcely think it, to see how young he 

 looks and acts. " Having never used tobacco in any form, 

 nor suffered a day's illness since his eighth year," helps to 

 account for a good deal of his present youthfulness, no doubt. 



Dr. Danger, of Prague, in his investigations, as reported 

 by the Rheinische Bieneuzeitung, "shows that bee-poison is 

 not an acid, but an alkaloid. Inflauiation is not caused 

 directly by the sting, but by impurities brought to the spot by 

 scratching, or by infectious germs. The sting is never the 

 cause of a septic blood-poisoning, and is not in itself sufficient 

 to produce sudden death." 



Alfred Austin, England's poet laureate, is a member of 

 the Kent Bee-Keepers' Association — not an honorary member, 

 but pays his membership fee like any other bee-keeper. If, 

 as has been so poetically exprest, " Bee-keeping is the poetry 

 of agriculture," it is just the proper caper for a poet laureate 

 to be a member of a bee-keepers' society. Wonder why the 

 United States has no poet laureate. Bee-keepers could furnish 

 a good one from among their number. Eugene Secor is his 

 everyday name. 



Mr. Wm. Craig, of Michigan, reports in the August Re- 

 view some quick work done by his bees the past season. He 

 says : 



" I used starters of foundation 43*' inches long by 13-2 

 Inches wide. I use the Heddon old-style supers, and they hold 



'28 sections. I put this super of sections on the hive July 3, 

 and took it off on the 0th, with the sections all completed ex- 



. cept the front row of seven sections, which was iilmosl ready 

 to seal over. The hive that I put this super on had already 

 two supers on it ; one was about % full and the other about 

 half full. Instead of raising both supers as I usually do, I 

 only raised the top one and put the empty one in between the 

 upper and lower supers." 



The a. I. Root Co.'s Picnic, at Euclid Beach Park, on 

 the shore of Dake Erie, near Cleveland, Aug. 13, seems to 

 have been a very enjoyable affair. During their heaviest 

 business this year they employed about 180 people. The 

 picnic was given in the interest of the busy workers who were 

 kept going on holidays and nights. Gleanings gives the fol- 

 lowing account of the big affair : 



" We made up a tralnof seven coaches and a baggage-car. 

 On either side of the train was a mammoth sign, painted on 

 canvas, with the wording, "The A. I. Root Co. Employees;" 

 and on the pilot of the locomotive was a beautiful yellow 

 queen-bee carved out of wood, about a yard long, with wings 

 spread, ready to lead our big ' swarm ' in its flight to pastures 

 now. The carving was done by Mr. Karl R. Mathey, who Is 

 still in our employ. The queen was richly painted, and decor- 

 ated in gold. 



"Well, the picnic was a grand success In every way. 

 Nearly every seat In the train was filled with people, the great 



majority of whom were those who receive their bread and but- 

 ter from the A. I. Root Co.'s pay-roll. Just before the train 

 started I had the ever-ready Kodak ; and after I had taken 

 several shots the conductor called out, ' All aboard !' and the 

 train soon steamed into Cleveland. Arriving there we all piled 

 into a lake steamer, and after an hour's ride we found our- 

 selves at Euclid Beach Park. We expect to make this shop 

 picnic an annual affair." 



We perhaps ought to say that we received an urgent invi- 

 tation to picnic with them, but to travel nearly 400 miles to 

 have one day's fun was a little too much for an editor's busy 

 life and slender pocket book. 



Editor E. R. Root, after the Buffalo convention, visited 

 among New York and Rhode Island bee-keepers for about two 

 weeks. He had a delightful time, which he tells about in 

 Gleanings. He saw in New York State, from a single hilltop, 

 5,000 acres of buckweat fields, and was in some counties 

 where there were between 2,000 and "i.OOO colonies of bees. 

 Think of the slathers of delicious buckwheat cakes, drowned 

 in buckwheat houey, that they must have in that region ! He 

 visited bee-keepers with their 900 and 1,000 colonies each, 

 producing 25 and 30 tons of honey in a season, thus almost 

 rivalling the best honey-yielding portions of California. But 

 he hints quite plainly that New York State is pretty much 

 overstockt with bees and bee-keepers. So don't all pick up 

 and go there at once. 



Now New Subscribers 



4 September— Oct.— Nov.— December 4 

 4 MONTHS rOR 25 CTS. 



Get Your Bee-Keepiug Friends and Neighbors 

 to Take the Old American Bee Journal. 



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

 two 1ICW subscribers for the Bee Journal before November 1, 

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

 need to pay only 25 cents for the last 4 months of this 

 year, or only about 6 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 t'WO new 25c. subscribers you send us, 

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



Wood Binder fortUe Bee Journal 20c. 



50 copies of leiflet on " Why Eal Honey V" '^Oc. 



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



50 " •' on •• Alelke Clover" 20c. 



I copy each "PreparHtlon of Honey for tbeMaiket"(10o.) 



and Doolltllo'a " Hive I Urb " (oc i 15o. 



1 copy ouch Dadants' "Handling Bees" (Sc.jand " Bee- 



Vasluraife a Nece.'slty " (lOc) 18c. 



Dr. Howard's bonk on " F)ul Brood." 25o. 



Kohiike'8 " Koul liro' d" book 25c. 



Cheshire's " Koul Brood " book (lOo.) and Dadants' " Hand- 



liriK Bees" [Sc] 18c. 



Dr. KoDte's Hand-Bookof Health 25o. 



Kural Life Book 2oo. 



Our Poultry Doctor, by Fanny Felld 25o. 



Poultry lor Market and Profit, by Fanny Field 25o. 



Capons and (Japoui/.lnfr 25c. 



Turkeys lor Market and Proflt 25c. 



Green 8 Four Books on FrultG rowing 25o. 



Kopp Comiuerclal Calculator No. 1 25o. 



Silo and Sllape. by Prof. Cook ; 25c. 



Bienen-Kullur IGerman] 40c. 



Kendall's Horse Book [Enirlleh or German] S5c. 



1 Pound White Clover Seed 25c. 



1 " Sweet ■• •• 25c. 



lit " Alslke " " 250. 



1V4 '• Alfalfa " " 25c. 



1!4 " Crimson " " 25c. 



The Horse— How to Break and Handle 20c. 



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

 scribers ; In other words, no one sending in his own 25 cents 

 as a new subscriber can also claim a choice of the above list. 



GEORGE W. YORK «fe CO. 

 118 Michigan St., - CHICAGO, ILL. 



