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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 23 





GBORCB 'W. '¥ORK, 



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GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 IIH Aflelilgan St., 



CHICAGO. II-I.. 



$1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

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United States Bee-Keepers' Union. 



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



of bee-beepers ; to protect its members ; to prevent the adulteration 



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



Membership Fee— S1.00 Per Annum. 



President— Georoe W. York. Vice-Pres.— W. Z. Hutchinson. 

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



Hoard of Direotors, 



E. R. Root. E. Whitcomb. E. T. Abbott. 



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



GejiGral Alanag^r an<7 Treasurer. 



Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



Vol. inVII, CHICAGO, ILL, DEC, 23, 1891, No, 51, 



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Editorial Con)n)cr)t^^ 



A. Very Merry Christmas we wish to every one 

 of our readers and their families. 



A Splendid Ctiristmas Present would be a 

 year's subscription to the American Bee Journal, given to 

 a bee-lceeping friend or relative. Yes, and a good bee-book is 

 another. Either would doubtless be very acceptable to the 

 recipient. Try it and see. See page 811 for book-list. 



" Plan Your "Work 'Well, then work your plan 

 well," Is the text Somnambulist of Progressive gives in the 

 middle of a little sermon urging that bee-keepers must not go 

 Into winter quarters like their bees, but must be wide-awake 

 all the winter through, studying, learning, planning, getting 

 ready for the future. Sommy chuckles quietly because he 

 wasn't caught napping, as so many were last season, with not 

 enough supplies on hand when the honey harvest came. 



A Honey-Circular, similar to our " Honey as 

 Food," The A. I. Root Co. have been enclosing with each let- 

 ter they send out from their office. One of these circulars fell 

 Into the hands of 11. W. Richardson, Section Director of the 

 Government Weather Bureau at Columbus, who was so inter- 

 ested In it that he handed It to a reporter who gave it a hand- 

 some write-up, making liberal extracts therefrom. Gleanings 

 thinks bee-keepers would do well to hand a honey-circular to 

 local editors, and ask them to give it a write-up and make ex- 

 tracts. Also to put a copy of the circular In every letter sent 

 out. Sound advice. If you are not already stockt up with 

 such circulars, better get some right away. Postpaid, prices 



of our "Honey as Food," 24 pages, are as follows : 25 copies 

 for 30 cents ; 50 for 50 cents; or 100 for 85 cents. Send 

 us a trial order. They will help greatly to get people inter- 

 ested in the use of honey. 



Several Convention Invitations have been 

 sent to us lately, and we would have been delighted to have 

 accepted them, but with a weekly bee-paper to get out, of 

 course it is quite impossible for us to get away very often. We 

 enjoy a bee-convention, we believe, fully as much as any one 

 can, and really would like to attend every fine held in this 

 country, were it so we coujd do so. 



We wish that convention secretaries would remember that 

 we would like very much to have them always send us a con- 

 denst report of the proceedings, and especially copies of the 

 papers read, for publishing in the Bee Journal. While we 

 might not be able to publish all as soon as we should like, still 

 we would do our best to get them in before the necessary de- 

 lay would lessen their value or interest. 



The OhiO'Ne-w Yorli-Pennsylvania Conven- 

 tion meets Jan. 12 and 13, 1898, at Corry, Pa. Its full 

 name is "Northeastern OLio, Western New York and North- 

 western Pennsylvania." That's all. Why not call it the 

 "Tri-State," and be done with it? But we ought to be able 

 to stand it If its members can. Among the list of subjects and 

 persons to handle them, we find these on the printed program: 



Spring Management of Bees— Geo. Spltler. 



Prevention of Swarming — D. W. Nichols. 



Management of Swarms. — L. K. Edget. 



House-Apiarles — D. A. Dewey. 



Artificial Increase— C. H. Coon. 



Preparing Bees for Winter— T. W. Waterhouse. 



Profitable Use of Comb Foundation— L. F. Freeman. 



Value of the Bees to the Blossoms — W. C. Inman. 



Best Method of Working Bees for Profit— R. D. Reynolds. 



The Progress of Bee-Keeping— N. T. Phelps. 



Pretty good list of topics. For any further particulars 

 desired, address the jolliest bee-convention secretary in the 

 world— Mr. Ed Jolley, Franklin, Pa. 



" Burning: Over an Apiary to get rid of the 



grass is something that is practiced by ' Skylark,' a bee-keeper 

 of California. He accidently set fire to the tall grass In an 

 apiary, and was astonisht to see that bees would not leave 

 their homes even tho the sides or ends were burned out of 

 some of the hives. He took a hint from this and burned over 

 his apiary at night when there was no wind, and before the 

 grass became too dry, taking care not to allow the fire to come 

 too near the hives. All this he tells in the American Bee- 

 Keeper. This plan may answer for California, but in Michi- 

 gan the honey harvest is over by the time that the grass is 

 dry enough to burn, and, besides, we don't wish the grass to 

 grow uncut all the forepart of tho season when we are busy In 

 the yard. The lawn-mower Is the thing for us. I knew that 

 bees would not leave their hives when the atmosphere is filled 

 with smoke. I remember, years ago, when the forest fires 

 raged so terribly in the northern part of the State, and the 

 wind, for a day or two, swept the smoke down here in such 

 quantities that we could scarcely see or breathe, not a bee left 

 the hives until the smoke cleared away."— Review. 



Honey as a Food— Not as a Relish.— Mr. E- 



E. Hasty admits In tho Review that ho has not the same keen 

 relish for honey that he had even 20 years ago, but, on the 

 other hand, he says : 



" I find my inclination to oat a largo quantity at a time 

 i,?iCTcasl?i(/— often eat a half section at once, not as a relish 

 for anything, but Just as one would oat a plate of doughnuts 

 he might come upon In thi> pantry. The idea prevails that it 



