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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL 



March 20, 1902. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPANY 



144 & 146 Erie St., ChicaQO. lil. 



Entered at the Post^Offlce at Chicago as Jecond- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



Editor— Georgre W. York. 



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



Special Correspondents — G. M. Doolittle, 



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



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



A. Getaz, and others. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is Sl.W 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 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 adnlteration 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. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, President. 

 Orel h. Hershi&er, Vice-President. 

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



j£uGENE Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 nrer. Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year, 



J^" 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 [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 offica 

 of the American Bee Journal. 



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I Weelily Budget. 



Mr. a. I. Root is taking a ride — on a 

 hobby. This time it is starting plants from 

 cuttings in a greenhouse. 



TuE Two Roots and Dr. Miller have much 

 to say' in Gleanings in Bee-Culture alraut a 

 " personal devil." Do thej- speak from a 

 " personal " acquaintance J 



The Apiaet of H. W. Congdon. — Accom- 

 panying the picture shown on the flastpage 

 this week was the following: 



As I am always interested in reading the 

 rei>orls of other bSe-keepers, I have thought 

 perhaps a report from me would be of some 

 interest to others. 



I bought 2 colonies in the spring of IflOO. in 

 old-fashioned hives, increafed to 4 by natural 

 swarming, and 21 days after I drummed out 

 of the old into new hives. I took off about 

 120 pounds of honey in the fall, and bought 6 

 more colonies, Sin S-frame standard hives, one 

 in an old shoe-box, and came out last spring 

 with S colonies, having lost 2, and bought 33 

 more in April with 10 extra hives, 3 supers on 

 each hive, and a lot of supplies and old truck 

 for ?75. Six colonies were in box-hives. I 

 have sold about $70 worth of honey, and have 

 about 100 pounds on hand for our own use. 



All the time I can get to work with my bees 

 is in the morning and evening, and sometimes 

 a few minutes at noon. 



I clip my queens, and during swarming- 

 time I hired a small boy to stay in the yard 

 from 8:30 to 3:30, and paid him extra for 

 every queen he would catch, and he very soon 

 got to be an expert at it. 



Through the kindness of the owner, I keep 

 my bees in the private park of one of our 

 wealthiest citizens. I have a 4-foot poultry 

 fence around four or five rods, and keep the 

 gate locked, and the bees molest no one. I 

 keep them supplied with fresh and salt water 

 all the season. The yard is right across the 

 street from my house. My son and I have a 

 camera, and have taken up amateur photog- 

 raphy. I enclose a picture of the bee-yard. 

 I think I have a very cosy place for the bees, 

 and enjoy working with them. 



I get many good points and hints from the 

 "old reliable'' American Bee Journal; I 

 could hardly keep house (or bees) without it. 

 H. W. Congdon. 



The Ontario Association. — In the Cana- 

 dian Bee Journal we find this interesting his- 

 torical sketch of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, by Mr. R. McKnight, one of its 

 organizers and an apiarian writer of no mean 

 ability : lJ 



It was, I think, in 1879 the Association was 

 organized. The year previous, D. A. Jones 

 rolled ten tons of honey into the exhibition at 

 Toronto, for which he was awarded the gold 

 medal. This created a furore in the country. 

 The next year he called a bee-keepers' conven- 

 tion to meet in the City Hall, Toronto, while 

 the exhibition was being held. In response 

 to that call bee-keepers and prospective bee- 

 keepers gathered in, to sit at the feet of the 

 Gamaliel of apiculture and learn the mysteries 

 of bee-keeping. That was the most numer- 

 ously attended bee-keepers' meeting that ever 

 was held in the Province. The hall was 

 crowded with people during the three days of 

 its session. The writer had the honor of oc- 

 cupying the chair. That meeting resulted in 

 the formation of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. D. A. Jones became president: 

 1 was elected secretary and treasurer. The 

 president, secretary, and the Rev. W. F. 

 Clarke, were appointed to formulate a consti- 

 tution and by-laws for its government. (When 



the Association was incorporated and l)e- 

 came the recipient of an annual money grant, 

 it was my privilege to modify its' constitution 

 and by-laws to meet the new condition of 

 things. I am pleased to know that it has not 

 been found necessary materially to change 

 these since.) 



We had no organ at this time. One of our 

 members edited a weekly paper published in 

 the town of Welland ; with him we arranged 

 for the use of one of its pages to be devoted 

 to bee-literature. The conditions were — we- 

 were to supply the "copy " and I was assigned 

 the duty of editor of the bee-department of 

 the Canada Farmer (long defunct). By and 

 by, D. A. Jones st.irted the Beeton World, ti> 

 which we transferred our patronage. Shortly 

 after he started the Canadian Bee Journal — 

 then the only weekly Ijee-journal in America 

 — with the exception of the British Bee Jour- 

 nal the only one in the world. The Journal 

 once became, and still is, the organ of the 

 Association. 



I remained secretary-treasurer till I became 

 president, when I resigned the secretaryship, 

 but continued treasurer up till 18!t2. when, on 

 my resignation of that oflice, the Association 

 very generously presented me with a gold 

 watch. 



Mr. McKnight's memory hardly served him 

 well when referring to the starting of the 

 weekly Canadian Bee Journal. Vol. I, No. 1. 

 of that paper is dated April 1, 1885 — 1'4 years 

 after the American Bee Journal had begun to 

 be published weekly, and 9 months bff'ure the 

 British Bee Journal began to be a weekly. 

 Previous to January, 1881, the American Bee 

 Journal was a monthly, and up to January, 

 1S.86 (and we know not for how long before),, 

 the British Bee Journal was a " fortnightly." 

 The Canadian Bee Journal was published 

 weekly for about five years, then was issued 

 for a time as a semi-monthly, and finally as a 

 monthly, which it is now, and has been for 

 many years. 



Mr. W. a. Pryal, of Alameda Co., Calif., 

 writing us March 5, said : 



" We are having glorious rains here. The 

 year bids fair to be as prosperous for the 

 tiller of the soil and the delverfor gold as any 

 we have ever had. I am speaking for the 

 central and the northern portions of the State. 

 The south has had rain, I am pleased to say. 

 but not in as liberal (luantilies as the agricul- 

 turist, etc., could wish. Still, they may have 

 more in that portion of the State. Here all 

 vegetation is looking up grandly; some sorts 

 of fruit-trees are in bloom." 



Buckwheat Cakes seem to be in season 

 at Stenog's home. He says in Gleanings iu 

 Bee-Culture: 



That song for bee-keepers, music by George 

 W. York, words by Eugene Secor, " Buck- 

 wheat Cakes and Honey," was received just 

 as the familiar thump, thump, thump of the 

 family batter-paddle was doing its work in 

 making such cakes, rendering the song very 

 appropriate. It is good all through, and all 

 who have music in the house should have a. 

 copy. 



Went Like Hotcakes 



A Nebraska customer when ordering a new 

 supply of our flue Alfalfa honey in ijO-pound 

 cans, said: "The last I got went like hot- 

 cakes." So it does. 



More people might do well hey would 



order this honey, or hasswood, and sell it. It 

 not only goes off " like hotcakes," but it is- 

 mighty good on hot cakes. 



See honey-oflers on jiage ISC. 



GEORQE W. YORK & CO., 



144 & 146 Erie Street, - CHICAGO, ILI. 



