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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL, 



March 6, 1902 



PUBLISHED ■WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Post-Offlee at Chicago as second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



Editor— George W. York. 



Dbpt. Editors — Dr. C. C. Miller, E. E. Hasty. 



Special Correspondents — G. M. Doolittle, 



Prof. A. J. Cook, C. P. Dadant, 



R.C. Aikio, F. Greiner, Emma M. Wilson, 



A. Getaz, and others. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is Sl.OO a year, in the United States, Can- 

 ada, and Mexico ; all other countries in the 

 Postal Union, 50 cents a j-ear extra tor post- 

 age. Sample copy free. 



The 'Wrapper-Liabel 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 honey-dealers. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



Thos. G. Newman, 

 G. M. Doolittle, 

 W. F. Marks, 



E. Whitcomb, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, 

 A. I. Root, 

 E. T. Abbott, 

 P. H. Elwood, 

 E. R. Root, 



J. M. Hambaugh, 

 C. p. Dadant, 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, President. 

 Orel L. Hershiser, Vice-President. 

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



\ Weelily Budget. I 



A Bee-Keepixg Hog is the title Editor 



Root gives the man who will locate himself 



upon territory already fully occupied by 

 others. Ugh ! Ugh ! 



lEuGENE Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



U^" 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 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 

 good idea forevery bee-keeper 

 to wear one Cof 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 oflSca 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



Editor E. R. Root does not compare with 

 his father as a hobby-rider. Still, he is 

 something of an equestrian in that line. Just 

 now the hobby he has mounted is that of pure 

 air and plenty of it for bees in winter. Not a 

 very unsafe hobby. 



C. P. Dadant has had put upon him the 

 honor of being made one of the regular col- 

 laborators of Revue Internationale. '■ Our 

 Camille'' knows a lot of things about bees, 

 and knows how to tell what he knows— prob- 

 ably better even in French than in English. 



" The Cow Pea " is the title of the latest 

 publication issued by the Experiment Farm 

 of North Carolina State Horticultural Society 

 at Southern Pines, N. C. This book, neatly 

 bound, and illustrated in plain and concise 

 manner, discusses the value and uses of this 

 important crop— the cow pea. Every reader 

 can get a copy free by writing to the Superin- 

 tendent of Experiment Farm, Southern Pines, 

 N. C. _ 



Frank Benton, formerly Assistant Ento- 

 mologist at Washington, has been advanced 

 to the post of Apicultural Investigator in the 

 Department of Agriculture. The creation of 

 this special commission is one of great inter- 

 est to bee-keepers, and it is a matter of no 

 little pleasure to know that they are thus 

 recognized by the United States Government. 

 And Mr. Benton is well qualified for the posi- 

 tion. 



A slOO Offer.— Judge E. Y. Terrall, in the 

 Lone Star Apiarist, made the following ofEer : 



After a research and study for a lifetime, I 

 have failed to master the little honey-bee. I 

 will give 12 months' time and SlOO to any one 

 who knows all about bees to answer two 

 questions that are of great importance to the 

 apiarist, viz : 



1. How " successfully" to fertilize queens 

 in confinement. 



2. How to distinguish laying workers from 

 other bees. 



Cunning Judge Terrall has a string to that 

 .$100. When the claimant comes with his 

 answer to his two questions, the judge will 

 s.iy to him : "Do you know all about bees? " 

 and the man who knows enough to answer 

 those two questions will know and confess 

 that he has some things to learn. Then the 

 judge will say, " My dear sir, do you not 

 notice that my offer is only ' to any one who 

 knows all about bees? ' " 



A Bee-House of F. R. Webster is pre- 

 sented on the first page. When sending the 

 picture he wrote as follows: 



I send a picture of one of my bee-houses, 

 which is 50 feet in length and " feet wide, 

 double deck, with a walk back of the hives 

 'i}i feet wide. It will be observed by looking 



closely that only half the hives show plainly, 

 as part are painted red and part of them white ; 

 the red ones show very dimly, however. 



The house contains 29 colonies, mostly in 

 hives of my own make, with half-lock corners, 

 glued and nailed both ways, and I have yet to 

 find one that has even started at the corners. 



I make these hives the same size as the dove- 

 tailed hive, and use the Hoffman frame, pre- 

 ferring it to any other, by experience. The 

 cover to the hives I made is smaller than the 

 cover of the Simplicity hive, only I rabbet the 

 bottom edges ;*j,x\ which fits over the body 

 of the hive, preventing the entrance of bees or 

 storm. I also use the super made after the 

 style of shipping-case with glass in the side. 

 The cover is easily raised at any time, allow- 

 ing one to see at a glance how nearly com- 

 pleted the sections are. After trying several 

 kinds I have concluded that my own make of 

 hive is superior to any other. 



F. R. Webster. 



Nominations for Directors. — Mr. P. H. 

 Elwood says in Gleanings in Bee-Culture: 



" In regard to making nominations for Direc- 

 tors before election, why not let well enough 

 alone? Our Association is doing well; but as 

 soon as nominations are made there will arise 

 the suspicion that some one or some clique is 

 trying to run it. Better put up with some 

 minor evils or inconveniences than to have the 

 camp divided." 



That's one way of looking at it. But may 

 not some one take the opposite view and say 

 that some clique is running the National Asso- 

 ciation just because no nominations are al- 

 lowed. No one being named beforehand, a 

 large number will not think of any new name, 

 but will always-vote for those already holding 

 the position, while the scattering votes are 

 so scattering that no one candidate among 

 them can ever expect election. At present 

 there is practically no chmur for &ny except the 

 old incumbents, except some one resigns, de- 

 clines a re-election, or leaves this world. But 

 we are not complaining. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Utah.— The Utah State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its annual convention in the City 

 and County Building, Salt Lake City, April 5, 

 1902, at 10 a.m. This promises to be an interest- 

 ing convention. All are invited. It is desired 

 to form an exchange for the protection and ben- 

 efit of our bee-keepers. Come and aid a good 

 cause. It is expected that everj- county will be 

 represented. J. B. Fagg, Sec. 



i^.S. Loves Y, Pres. 



Chicago. — Some amendments to the constitu- 

 tion of the Chicago Bae-Keepers' Association 

 have been proposed, and the Executive Com- 

 mittee has ordered them to be brought before 

 the ue.xt regular meeting for decision. It is pro- 

 posed to change the name to "Chicago-North- 

 western iiee-Keepers' Association;" and to 

 change the time of meeting to " the first Wed- 

 nesday and Thursday of December, or such 

 other days as may be selected by the Executive 

 Committee." The object of this is to make 

 Chicago the rallying point for the whole North- 

 west, or so much of it as is likely to run to Chi- 

 cago to trade or attend expositions. I believe 

 our association is now the largest local asso 

 ciation in America. We remitted to the 

 National Association for 62 members. Our mail- 

 ing list is about 300, or about '4 of those in our 

 territory. Herman F. Moore, Sec. 



The Emerson Binder. 



This Emerson stiff-board Binder with cloth 

 back for the American Bee Journal we mail for 

 but 60 cents; or we will send it with the Bee 

 Journal for one year— both for only $1.40. It is 

 a fine thing to preserve the copies of the Jour- 

 nal as fast as they are received. If you have 

 this ** Emerson " no further binding is neces- 



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