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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL, 



March 13, 1902. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPAISY 



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



Entered at the Post-Offlce at Chicago as oecond- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



Editor— Georg-e W. York. 

 Dept. Editors — Dr. C. C. Miller. E. E. Hasty. 



SPECI.iL CORRESPONDEN-TS — G. M. Doolittle, 



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



R. C. Aikin, F. Greioer, Emma M. Wilson, 



A. Getaz, and others. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is SIXK) a year, in the United States, Can- 

 ada, and Mexico ; all other countries in the 

 Postal Union, 50cents a j'ear 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 

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 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. HCTCHINSON, 



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. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, President. 

 Orel L. Hershiser, Vice-President. 

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



£uGHNE Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 nrer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



p^ If more conveniept, 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 Cellnloid Queen-Button is a very 

 pretty thing for a bee-)<eeper 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 

 ^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 

 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 offlM 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



i Weekly Budget. I 



Mr. Jas. a. Green of LaSalle Co., 111., is 

 moving to Mesa Co., Colo, mainly on account 

 of his wife's health. He will keep bees there. 

 Illinois can't afford to loss many such bee- 

 keepers as Mr. Green. But our loss will be 

 Colorado's gain. Mr. Green has an excel- 

 lent article on page 166. 



ABrNPANT Rains are being reported from 

 Southern California. These will help to insure 

 a honey crop. Some day all of California's 

 best crops of honey, and all the honey pro- 

 duced elsewhere in this country, will not be 

 enough to supply the demand. You see, we 

 have faith in the future honey -business of our 

 country. But be sure to produce only the 

 best honey possible, both in quality and flavor. 



Mr. Thomas G. Newman, for many years 

 editor of the American Bee Journal previous 

 to about ten years ago, and now living in San 

 Francisco, writing us Feb. 2" had this to say 

 concerning the condition of his eye-sight: 



" I am glad to say that after having suffered 

 terrible inconveniences during the past three 

 years by paralyzed optic nerves, I am l»gin- 

 ning to see some little improvement, and have 

 much confidence that my vision will .soon re- 

 turn. For you know how much it is needed 

 in such work as I have to do. To depend 

 upon the eyes of others for all that I can 

 learn about the outside world has lieen a great 

 affliction on account of its long continuation." 



Mr. Newman's hosts of friends will be re- 

 joiced to learn of the improved condition of 

 his sight, and hope for speedy as well as entire 

 recovery. 



Mr. Newman is still [connected with the 

 Ijee-fraternity through Ijeing a member of the 

 Board of Directors of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association. 



The Apiary of Mr. F. W. Hall we present 

 on the first page of this number. Here is 

 what he has to say about it. 



As promised some time ago, I send you a 

 picture of my home and bee-yard. The gen- 

 eral appearance of the latter gives one the im- 

 pression of a veritable weed-patch, or African 

 jungle, which former will not be much amiss. 

 '•' Too many irons in the fire " made it impos- 

 sible to keep some from burning, so I let that 

 burn which did the least harm. Thus the 

 blue-grass, timothy, clover and several kinds 

 of weeds, had their own way save what I 

 tramped down passing two and fro in the 

 various manipulations of the Ijce-hives and 

 fixtures, which, up to the time of photograph- 

 ing (July 4th), and some time afterward, was 

 a good deal. 



As you look at the picture you are looking 

 toward the east, the sun at the 4 :30 o'clock 

 mark, and the mercury registering 100 degrees 

 in the shade. The large-leaved plant in the 

 foreground is rhubarb, the trees on the right 

 are apple, cherry and three peach trees, south 

 of which row is sweet corn (some S or 10 

 rows) and south of which is the garden; then 

 the house and lawn (not in sight). The north 

 row are apples, north of which are six other 

 rows and all heavily loaded with apples, but 

 not discernible. At the further end is a plum 

 thicket, which extends clear across the east 

 end of the orchard. A heavy row of willows 

 some 2.T feet in hight Ijorder the north side of 

 the orchard, and extend clear across the north 



ide and east end of the seven-acre lot, which 

 give affective wind-break. 



The old building in the background is a 

 hen-house, which I expect to move to another 

 location and build a bee-house with wintering 

 cellar underneath. You will notice two (one 

 on either side) milk-stool looking arrange- 

 ments hanging in the trees; these are simply 

 sticks of stoVewood with a board nailed on 

 one and a long wire hook to hang and handle 

 it with. I smear them occasionally with the 

 slum-gum from the wax-extractor. To use 

 them, if they (the bees) do not voluntarily 

 alight on them, (when I see they have begun 

 to cluster), I hang the swarming-block a.^; 

 near as possible in the midst of them, and 

 four out of five swarms in 18S9 and 1000, used 

 the blocks, but this year (1901) only four or 

 five out of 25 used them ; but I took no pains' 

 to induce them, as I found they were inclined 

 to go to the evergreens and a small cherry- 

 tree in the garden, and it was easy to hive 

 them from the trees. 



The bees are not all in sight, some of them 

 being back out of range of the camera. 



1 have the 8, 9 and 10 frame Langstroth 

 hives, and three or four box-hives, which I 

 have neglected to transfer. I like the 10- 

 frame best for my locality, but may change 

 ray mind in time. 



That pile of honey. 60 sections, (not all in 

 sight but equally well filled), was just taken 

 from one colony, there being thirty-two 4x5 

 no-bee-way Danz. sections, and twenty-eight 

 414x414 bee-way sections. The bee- way sec- 

 tions had separators between, except one 

 separator which is left out, and two of the 

 sections on the left show the result. The 

 colony which produced the above, produced 

 250 such, and a super of extracting frames of 

 honey and went into winter quarters in a 

 10-frame hive, bees and honey weighing 69 

 pounds. A daily record of the loss and gain 

 was kept of this colony from spring until fall, 

 but I cannot give the record, as a part of it 

 was kept on the hive-cover and was packed 

 away on a hive in the cellar before taking a 

 copy. I do not know anything about the 

 length of tongue of the bees of this colony, 

 only that they worked red clover; but so did 

 all the bS colonies, so far as I could tell. 



Aside from the above gains this colony cast 

 a swarm June 5, which united with another 

 swarm from another colony. The old queen 

 being clipped did not go with the swarm, but 

 went back in the old home and tore down the 

 queen-cells and did not swarm any more. 

 They were making a gain of five to seven 

 pounds per day, but on this day they were i}4 

 pounds lighter. 



My bees fairly tumble over each other work- 

 ing on sweet-corn Ijlossoms (tassels), and I 

 am satisfied they were after 'Something else 

 than pollen. " F. W. Hall. 



Sioux Co., Iowa. 



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, 

 1002, 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 every county will be 

 represented. J.'B. Fagg, Sec. 



E. S. LovESY, Pres. 



Chicago. — Some amendments to the constitu- 

 tion of the Chicago Hae-Keepers' Association 

 have been proposed, and the E.vecutive Com- 

 mittee has ordered them to be brought before 

 the next regular meeting for decision. It is pro- 

 posed to change the name to " Chicago-North- 

 western Bee-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 }i ot those in our 

 territory. Herman F. Moore, Sec. 



