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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL. 



Jan. 9, 1902 



PrsLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPANY 



144 & 146 E rie St., Chicago, 111. 



Entered at the Post-Offioe at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Majl-Matter. 







EDITORIAL STAFF. 



George W. Yore, - - Editor-in-Chief. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, 1 T^ 



E.E. Hastt. 't Department 



Prof. A. J. Cook, ) E'^""''^- 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 

 The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is ?1. 00 a year, in the United States. Can- 

 ada, and Mexico; all other countries in the 

 Postal Union, 50 cents a year extra for post- 

 age. Sample copy free. 



The AVrapper-Label Date of this paper 

 indicates the end of the month to which 

 your subscription is paid. For instance. 

 " decOl " on your label shows that it is 

 paid to the end of December, 1901. 



Bubscription Receipts. — We do not send 

 a receipt for money sent us to pay subscrip- 

 tion, but change the date on your wrapper- 

 label, which shows you that the money has 

 been received and duly credited. 



Advertising Rates will be given upon ap- 

 plication. 



National Bee Keepers' Association 



OBJECTS: 

 To promote and protect the interests of its 

 members. 

 To prevent the adulteration of honey. 

 To prosecute dishonest honey-dealers. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 

 E. Whitcomb, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, 

 A. I. Root, 

 E. T. Abbott, 

 P. H. Elwood, 

 E. R. Root, 



Thos. G. Newman, 

 G. M. Doolittle, 

 W. F. Marks, 

 J. M. Hambaugh, 

 C. P. Dadant, 

 Dr. C. C. Miller, 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Ernest R. Root, President. 

 R. C. AiKiN, Vice-President. 

 Dr. a. B. Mason, Secretary, Toledo, Ohio. 



Eugene Secor, General Manag-er and Treas- 

 nrer. Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



2^** If more convenient, Dues may be sent 

 to the office of the American BeQ Journal, 

 when thej will be forwarded to Mr. Secor, 

 who will mail individual receipts. 



A Celluloid Queen-Button is a very 



prelt3' thing for a bee-keeper or honey-seller 

 to wear on his coat-lapel. It often serves to in- 

 troduce the subject of honey, 

 and frequently leads to a 

 sale. 



Note.— One reader writes: 

 " I have every reason to be- 

 lieve that it would be a very 

 g'ood idea for every bee-keeper 

 to wear one [of the buttons] 

 as it will cause people to ask 

 questions about the busy bee, and many a con- 

 versation thus started would wind up with the 

 sale of more or less honey; at any rate it would 

 (five the bee-keeper a superior opportunity to 

 enlighten many a person in regard to honey 

 and bees." 



The picture shown herewith is a reproduc- 

 tion of a motto queen-button that we are fur- 

 nishing" to bee-keepers. It has a pin on the 

 underside to fasten it. 



Price, by mail, 6 cents; two for 10 cents; 

 or 6 for 25 cents. Send all orders to the oflica 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



I Weekly Budget. I 



Mr. Wm. RrssELL, writing us Dec. 30, 

 said ; 



'■ Perhaps the most important event of the 

 late convention of the Minnesota. Bee-Keepers' 

 Association was the raising of the clues to one 

 dollar per year, an<l thus being able to join 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association in a 

 body. If a tew more of the States could see 

 their way to take the same step, the lOOU 

 membership mark would soon be passed." 



A RussjAN Apiabt will be found illus- 

 trated on 'page 26. When sending the photo- 

 graph, Mr. Alexander Fourier had this to say : 



" We have read the American Bee Journal 

 four years, and we are very glad to send you 

 the picture of one of our apiaries, which are 

 situated in the Vral Mountains, near the town 

 of Oufa. During the winter of ISJISMIO we lost 

 .nUO colonies on account of bad honey-dew. 

 In the spring of ISIOO we bought lliO colonies 

 of bees in Caucasus, in native basket hives, 

 and moved them aSOO miles. 



The photograph shows our home apiary, 

 taken after transferring the Caucasus bees 

 into movable-frame Dadant-Quinby hives. 



We have all the best Russian bee-books, 

 latest edition of " A B C of Bee-Culture:'' 

 "The Honey-Bee," by Benton; Dandant's 

 " Langstroth on the Honey-Bee;" Cook's 

 "Bee-Keepers' Guide;'' Doolittle's "Scien- 

 titic Queen-Rearing;" and, besides, all the 

 Russian bee-papers. We also have a comb 

 foundation mill, a 6-frame Cowan improved 

 honey-extractor, etc. 



Yours truly, 



Alexander Fourier.' 



Mr. K. C. Aikin seems to have furnished 

 an interesting acrobatic feat (or two feet) for 

 the enjoyment of the late convention of bee- 

 keepers at Denver. The Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 view describes it as follows : 



"The president was tilting backward and 

 forward in his tilting arm-chair, when he put 

 a little too much enthusiasm into his back- 

 ward tilt. A horrified look on his face, and 

 frantic efforts to recover his equilibrium were 

 of no avail — over he went, with arms and legs 

 sticking in the air. He rose to his feet laugh- 

 ing, and the audience laughed with him, and 

 all passed off as smoothly as though arranged 

 according to program." 



Mr. a. E. Ritscher, of Morgan Co., 111., 

 whose roof-apiary is represented in the pict- 

 ure on the first page, wrote us as follows 

 when sending the photograph : 



In March, ISSIS, I purchased two colonies of 

 bees at fhXW per colony. I thought the price 

 high, but I received such strong colonies that 

 they gave two swarms and over 100 pounds of 

 surplus honey the first year, proving much 

 cheaper than common bees at §;1.00 per 

 colony. 



I placed the bees on the roof of my store- 

 building, on the cornerof Main street and the 

 Public Square, causing some comment, but 

 my bees attend strictly to business, flying out 

 over the tree-tops, and are seldom seen on 

 the street. 



The first swarm caused much merriment. 

 When the alarm was given, business was 

 suspended for a time, the street filled up with 

 jjeople, the barber shop brought out their 

 mirrors, and bells, pans, water and sand were 

 used, until the poor bees, nearly scared to 

 death, settled on a low branch of a large tree, 

 right in front of one of our leading dry goods 

 stores. Advice and suggestions were now 

 freely given, fun and jokes were the order, 

 and laughter ruled the street. 



A hive; was soon brought and put on a 



sheet near the tree, and the twig cut off and 

 placed in front of the hive. The crowd — 

 which now was as large as at a village fire — 

 formed a circle, and watched the bees crawl 

 into the hive. When I returned to town (be- 

 ing absent at the time) the swarm was put on 

 the roof by " the boys." 



I use the 10-frame hives, with Danzenbaker 

 supers for comb honey, ventilated covers or 

 hoods covered with grey Niagara water-proof 

 paper, painted with Alden Spear's Asbestine 

 Cold-Water Paint. 



I winter the bees on the summer stands, 

 and they have done well at 2t degrees below 

 zero (Feb. 9, 1S99), and 112 degrees in the 

 shade last summer. 



I have bee-books, and get much informa- 

 tion from the American Bee Journal, but I 

 still have much to learn. 



A. E. Ritscher. 



Mr. Ritscher also wrote that the picture was 

 taken by " the devil '' in a printing-office 

 which is located on the floor just below the 

 bees. So there is one "devil " that can find 

 "a hot place" any time he wants tc get up 

 on the roof above him, and " stir up the 

 bees." 



W. L. Chambers, of Arizona, is called the 

 youngest big bee-keeper in the world, by 

 Editor Root. Frail of physique, and poor in 

 health, he had to be taken out of school earlj', 

 and not being able to do the ordinary hard 

 work on his father's fruit-ranch, he took to 

 bees. At the age of 15 he started with 7 

 colonies, which he bought and paid for out of 

 his own savings in chicken monej'. Foul 

 brood came nearly cleaning out his apiary the 

 first season, but he weathered it through, in- 

 creased only so fast as the profits from the 

 bees would provide the means for further 

 enlargement, and now, at the age of 20, he is 

 the possessor of 500 colonies. 



The Bee-Keeper's Guide; 



Or, Iflaniial i>t tlie Apiary, 



BY 



PROE A. J- COOK- 



460 Fag6B-16th (1899) Edition— ISth Thou- 

 sand— $1. 25 postpaid. 



A description of the book here is quite unnec- 

 essary — it is simply the most complete scientific 

 and practical bee-book published to-day. Fully 

 Illustrated, and all written in the most fascinat- 

 ng style. The author is also too well-known to 

 the whole bee-world to require any introduction* 

 No bee-keeper is fully equipped, or his library 

 complete, without The Bke-Keepers' Guide. 



This 16th and latest edition of Prof. Cook's 

 magnificent book of 460 pages, in neat and sub- 

 stantial cloth binding, we propose to give away 

 to our present subscribers, for the work of get- 

 ting NEW subscribers for the American Bee 

 Journal. 



Given tor TWO New Subscribers. 



The following offer is made to present sub- 

 scribers only, and no premium is also given to 

 the two NEW subscribers— simply the Bee Jour- 

 nal for one year: 



Send us two new subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal (with $2.00), and we will mail you a copy 

 of Prof. Cook's book FREE as a premium. 

 Prof. Cook's book alone sent for $1.25, or we club 

 it with the Bee Journal for a year— both for only 

 $1.75. But surely anybody can get only TWO 

 NEW SUBSCRIBERS to the Bee Journal for a year, 

 and thus get the book as a premium. Let every 

 body try for it. Will YOU have one ? 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO.. 



144 & 146 Erie Street CHICAGO, ILL. 



