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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL- 



Jan. 2, 19C2 



ITBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 

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



Dr. C. C. Miller, It, 



E.E. Hastt. •(Department 



Prof. A. J. Cook, i Editors. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is 81.110 a year, in the United States, Can- 

 ada, and Mexico ; all other countries in the 

 Postal Union, 50 c8nts a year extra for post- 

 age. Sample copy free. 



The "Wrapper-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. 



Subscription 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 honev-dealers. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



E. Whitcomb, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, 

 A. I. Root, 

 E. T. Abbott, 

 P. H. Elwood, 

 E. K. 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. 



EnGENE Secos, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



H^" If more convenient, Dues may be sent 

 to the office of the American Bee Journal, 

 when they will be forwarded to Mr. Secor, 

 who will mail individual receipts. 



A Celluloid Queen-Button is a very 

 pretty thing for a bee-keeper or honey-seller 

 to wear on liis 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 

 good ideaforevery 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 

 give 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 office 

 o{ the American Bee Journal. 



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Weekly Budget. 



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Mr. Friedemann Greixer, of Ontario 

 Co., N. Y.. writing us Dec. 2, 1901, said: 



'■We are having a hard winter-time. Our 

 bees went into the cellar just in time. Our 

 ounloor-wintered colonies are seen to — so we 

 feel easy."' 



The Apiaky of Mr. W. P. Turner is 

 shown on the first page this week. When 

 sending the photograph, Mr. Turner wrote as 

 follows : 



I send a picture of my apiary located live 

 miles northeast from the heart of a city, con- 

 nected by electric street-car lines. The view 

 is taken from the car-line looking northwest. 

 The hives are fronting south, and are all pat- 

 terns, but the frames are of the Langstroth 

 type, and will fit in any of the hives. 



Your humble servant stands in the fore- 

 ground, is 57 years old, and has kept bees 

 more or less the past 2S years in connection 

 with farming. But in March, 1900, he aban- 

 doned the farm and came to this resort, and 

 built the house on the extreme left, as partly 

 shown in the picture. The good wife and 

 oldest daughter are seen standing in front of 

 the same. (Our other daughter happened to 

 be away when the artist called to take the 

 picture.) Our only son, Chas. L., and his 

 family, are seen in the automobile coming 

 down tlie street from the west. He and his 

 cousin, F. I. Ellis, are the inventors and 

 builders of said wagon. One or the other, or 

 both of them, use it every day. They prom- 

 ised me an auto-delivery wagon at a future 

 date. Their residences are shown at the ex- 

 treme right — first is Charles' and next is 

 Ellis'. 



The carpenter shop and honey-house are 

 south — just outside of the picture, by, or 

 near, the solar wax-extractor shown ; also 

 about 15 more colonies of bees are located 

 between my shop and the barn. The hives, 

 55 in all, stand 12 feet apart each way. I 

 hope to have, by the end of another year, the 

 little lot filled up, two in a place. 



The past has not been a very good year for 

 honey, although I am well pleased with the 

 results. I can wholesale honey here at 15 

 cents for comb, in 24-pound cases, and ex- 

 tracted at 10 cents, a pound, put up in I'.j- 

 pound Mason jars. 



I used gloves the past season for the first 

 time, and liked them well, as they keep the 

 propolis off my hands, and save my awkward 

 fingers a few stings. 



I turned the nozzle of my Cornell smoker 

 around, and think it perfect, as I can shoot 

 the smoke right down on the frames, or in at 

 the entrance, without any trouble. I have 

 made, with a Barnes' combined machine. SO 

 hives and supers complete, except sections 

 and pattern-slats; also .iO winter-eases that 

 viU insure bees against winter loss, since 

 Jan. 1. inoi. I have used all the leading 

 supers with varied succc'^s, and find I have to 

 use separators on both sides of the sections, 

 to insure nice, straight sections. My supers 

 are made with followers and wedges at one 

 end and side; when the wedges are removed 

 the sections are easily taken out. 



I am sorry I did not think to show my 

 "hive-jack'' and " uncapping-box " in the 

 picture. The former is fine for holding hives, 

 supers, and covers, for painting, and costs 

 about "5 cents to make it. The latter is the 

 best thing for uncapping I have seen, and 

 costs about .*3.00. 



The more I read the "old reliable " Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal the better I like it. 



W. P. Turner. 



Y'ou might describe your hive-jack and un- 

 capping-box for the benefit of the readers of 

 the American Bee Journal. 



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