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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 30, 



GBORGB 'W. YORK, • Editor. 



POBLI8BT WEEKLY BY 



CEORCE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 MS Aficbig-an St., - CHICAGO, ll^l.. 



$1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 (Kntered at the Post-Offlce at CtatcaKO ag Second-Class Mail-Matter ] 



United States Bee-Keepers^ Ujiioii. 



Organized to advance tiie pursuit of Apiculture; to promote tlie interests 



of bee-keepers : to protect its members ; to prevent the aduiteration 



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



Membership Fee— Si. 00 Per Annum. 



Executive Committee, 



■Prbsident— George W. York. Vice-Pbes.— W. Z. Hutchinson. 

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



HoarO of Directors, 



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



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



General Manager and Treasurer, 



Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



Vol. niVII. CHICAGO, ILL, DEC, 30, 1897. No. 52, 



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Editorial Oon)n)cr)i^^ 



The Happiest New Year of your life, to each 

 and every one of our readers, is our sincere wish. Aud may 

 you have many of them. 



The Xortbw^estern ConTention Report 



will be commenced next week, and continued weekly there- 

 after. until completed. We think it Is going to be very inter- 

 esting. 



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Xlie Annual Index appears in this number of the 

 Bee Journal. That accounts for this and several other depart- 

 ments being shortened this week. But next week we hope to 

 have them all In, and of respectable length. 



Volutne XXXVII of the American Bee Journal 

 closes with this number. Getting old. Isn't it ? Well, so long 

 as it does what a good many of its best friends say of it — 

 " Improves with age " — perhaps no one will object to its ad- 

 vanced years. 



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A. Number of Good Contributions are await- 

 ing their turn, or a place in these columns. We had to use so 

 much space in the past few numbers for the Buffalo conven- 

 tion report, that it was quite impossible to k^ep the depart- 

 ment of " Contributed Articles " up to its usual space. 



Savin{( Bee-Papers.— G. M. Doollttle seems to 

 place a high value on hHe-papers. R. C. Aikin says that In 

 his early years of bee-keeping he subscribed for the American 

 Bee Journal, forgetting the exact date us his journals are all 

 packt away, but It was about iiO years ago, and the volumes 



since are all bound and preserved. Referring to this, Mr. 

 Doolittle says in the Progressive Bee-Keeper: 



"Reader, just turn to Friend Aikin, and see what he did 

 with the American Bee Journal. Then go and do likewise ; 

 only I want you not to allow your back volumes to " lie packt 

 away " till you don't know the year dated on the first volume 

 you have. I have nearly every Issue of every bee-paper pub- 

 lisht in the I'nlted States, bound, and at " my fingers' end," 

 and unless I was going out of the bee-business §500 would 

 not buy them, so highly do I prize them, for they have been 

 very largely the means of making me what I am as a bee- 

 keeper. Not only that, but I am continually getting new 

 thoughts out of them, as 1 handle them over from time to time 

 in search of something which happened in the pastthat I wish 

 to know about." 



Co-operation Among: Bee-Keepers.— The 



Australian Bee-Bulietin strongly urges co-operation among 

 bee-keepers, citing the success of the butter-men, whereby 

 the price of butter was permanently raised. Some action has 

 beeiTtaken by Australian bee-keepers toward combining with 

 the wool-men, but the tendency now is toward co-operation 

 with the butter-men. Butter and honey, one would think, 

 would go together better than butter and wool. 



The New Union's Report, as given on page 

 817, will be found very interesting reading. It is short and 

 right to the point. Mr. Seoor's suggestions are most excel- 

 lent. Why not have the 1,000 membership this winter, so 

 that the Union can take up the work in good earnest which it 

 has planned to do '? We are receiving the fees of new mem- 

 bnrs almost daily, but they ought to come in much faster. It 

 would be better, perhaps, to mail your membership dues direct 

 to General Manager Secor, but we will be glad to continue 

 to receive and forward as heietofore if it is more convenient 



to send to us. 



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Bees and Honey in the Bible.— Mr. H. 



Dupret, of Montreal College, Canada, sent the following from 

 an old Greek version of the Bible : 



Having sent " the idle fellow" to the teachings of the 

 "ant" (Prov. vi. 6), Solomon, according to an old Greek ver- 

 sion (Septuagint), quoted also by ancient writers, sends him 

 also the Bee. The passage may be rendered thus : 



1. Go also to the Bee, and learn how industrious she is, 

 and how honorable she deems labor ; 



2. The fruit of her labors Kings as well as peiisants use 

 for health pwrpose : 



3. For a lovely and illustrious being she is ; altho feeble 

 in bodily strength, because she has practiced wisdom she has 

 been crowned with honor. 



Trans-Mississippi Exposition Bee-Notes. 



— The architect for the Exposition is now busy at work on the 

 plans for the apiary building to be used by the Bureau of 

 Bee-Industries. Bee men and women who visit the Exposi- 

 tion next summer may look for about the finest-arranged 

 building ever opened to the exhibition of their products. 



Rev. Emerson T. Abbott, of Missouri, has been appointed 

 a member of the Missouri commission. We may reasonably 

 look for a very fine honey exhibit from his State. 



Mr. Edward Kretchmer is spoken of as the proper person 

 to place In charge of the Iowa honey exhibit. Mr. Kretchmer 

 stands in the front rank among bee-men of that State, and his 

 wide experience among the fairs and exhibits make him a 

 valuable man for that position. 



The Central California Bee-Keepers' Association has ap- 

 pointed Messrs. O. W. Sterms, F. E. Brown, and W. A. H. 

 (Jilstrap, a committee to investigate the advantages, cost, 

 plans, etc., of making an apiarian exhibit. 



