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AMERICAN BEE jOUPNAL. 



March 27, 1902. 



PTJBLISHED ■WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPANY 



144 & 146 Erie St., GhicaQO, III. 



Entered at the Post-Offlce at Chicago as oecond- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



Editor— Georgre W. York. 



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



Special Correspondents — G. M. Doolittle, 



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



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



A. Getaz, and others. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



Tbe Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is Sl.CK) 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 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. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, President. 

 Orel L. Hershiser, Vice-President. 

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



iCuGENE Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 nrer. Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year, 



E^" 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 coatrlapel. 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- 

 /lon 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 2.5 cents. Send all orders to the offics 

 of the American Bee JournaL 



"Anneeti— The Gtpst Aktist'' is the 

 title of a delightful book written by Rev. W. 

 S. Sly, of Lansing, Mich. We have read it, 

 and know that it is exceedingly interesting. 

 Briefly, the story may be outlined thus: 



A little orphan girl was kidnapped by a 

 band of gypsies from an asylum near Cincin- 

 nati, reared as a gypsy, and some years later 

 was rescued near Chicago by a friend of the 

 author. Through her talent and love for art 

 she was trained into a splendid womanhood 

 and an artist of ability. 



Around these /'irts a web of fiction and 

 other facts has been woven to illustrate the 

 sadness of orphanhood and separation from 

 loved ones. 



Price, ?1.00, postpaid. It may be ordered 

 from the author, as above. 



A Clean and Sweet Crowd. — Mr. G. A. 

 Deadman — one of Canada's good bee-keepers 

 — wrote as follows to the Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal concerning the last convention of the 

 Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association : 



"I regret very much not being present at 

 the Woodstock convention, (ilad to hear that 

 it was such a success, and that • one of the 

 boys who was there ' reports that there was a 

 notable absence of tobacco-spitting, etc., 

 so common at large gatherings. I have had 

 the impression for some time that bee-keepers, 

 as a rule, are not tobacco-users nor good cus- 

 tomers at ' the bar,' and am pleased to have 

 this belief confirmed. " 



Recently there was held in Chicago a con 

 vention of the school superintendents' depart- 

 ment of the National Educational Associa- 

 tion, and we verily believe that there were 

 more smokers present among the superin- 

 tendents than there would be among an equal 

 number of bee-keepers at a National conven- 

 tion. And to think that those superintend- 

 ents stand before the rising generation five 

 days in a week as models ! But there is cause 

 for thanksgiving that the tobacco-using school 

 superintendent is the exception rather than 

 the rule. 



But one would be justified in thinking that 

 a teacher or professor, who, in these days of 

 required instruction on the injurious effects 

 of nicotine on man's delicate physical organ- 

 ism, would know better than willingly to in- 

 flict injviry on himself, to say nothing of im- 

 posing an offensive odor upon those around 

 him who detest tobacco, whether smoked or 

 " chawed.'' 



Think of being a slave to such a habit ! But 

 when the tobacco-heart comes — well, the 

 toljacco or the man has to go. 



Brinistoning Bees seems to be still con- 

 siderably in vogue in Ireland, according to 

 Dr. Smith, in the Irish Bee Journal, lie says: 



As to the brimstone robber, he should be 

 induced, in some way. to stop his cruel work, 

 but I fear it is not likely to take place very 

 soon. An old veteran near me declares that 

 there was far more honey in the country tje- 

 fore the new honey-roblMng hives were in- 

 vented, and he, for one, is ready to join in a 

 crusade to burn them all up, as he had to do 

 with his own. For, unless it is done, he says 

 there will soon not be enough honey in the 

 country to cure a sick man's sore throat. He 

 is in earnest, and Irelieves every word of it. 



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Went Like Hotcakes 



A Nebraska customer when ordering a new 

 supply of our fine Alfalfa honey in 60-pound 

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More people might do well hey would 



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

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See honey-offers on page 186. 



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