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AMERICAN BEE lOURNAL 



April 24, 1902. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK G COMPANY 



144 & 146 E rie St., Ghicago, lil. 



Entered at the Post^OfEce at Chicago as oecond- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



Editor— George W. York. 



Dkpt. Editors — 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. 



i^ IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is $l.CK_l 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. 



INational Bee Keepers' Association 



OBJECTS: 



To promote and protect the interests of its 

 members. 

 To prevent the adulteration of honev. 

 To prosecute dishonest honej-dealefs. 

 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



E. Whitco.mb. 



W. Z. Hutchi.n-son, 



A.I. Root, 



R. C. Aikin. 



P. H. Elwood, 



E. R. Root, 



Tho.mas G. Newman 

 R. M. Doolittle, 

 W. F. Marks. 

 J. M. Hambattgh, 

 C. P. Dadant, 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, President. 

 Orel L. Hershiber, Vice-President. 

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



Emerson T. Abbott, General Manaerer and 

 Treasurer, St. Joseph, Mo. 



Me.mbership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



*«" If more convenient. Dues mav be sent to 

 the office of the American Bee Journal, when 

 they will be forwarded lo Mr. Abbott, who will 

 mail individual receipts. 



A Celluloid Queen-Button is a verv 

 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 

 ^ood idea for every bee-keeper 

 to wear one [of the buttonsj 

 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- 

 ilon 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 



QUEENS ! 



Buy them of H. G. QUIRIN, the largest 

 Queen-Breeder in the North. 



The A. I. Root Company tell us our stock is 

 extra-fine; Editor York, of the American Bee 

 Journal, says he has good reports from our 

 stock from time to lime; while J. L. Gandy, of 

 Humboldt, Nebr., has secured over 40D pounds 

 of honey (mostly comb) from single colonies 

 containing our queens. 



We have files of testimonials similar to the 

 above. 



Our Breeders originated from the highest- 

 priced, Long-Tongued Red Clover Oueens in the 

 United States. 



Fine Queens, promptness, and square deal- 

 ing, have built up our present business, which 

 was established in Isnm. 



Prices of GOLDEN and LEflTtlER- 

 GOLORED QUEENS, before Jiilij 1st: 



1 6 12 



Selected, Warranted $1.00 $5.00 $9.50 



Tested 1.50 8.00 15.00 



Selected Tested 2.00 10 50 



Extra Selected Tested, the 



best that money can buy.. 4.00 



We i^uarantee safe arrival, to any State, con- 

 lineutal island, or any European country. Can 

 fill all orders promptly, as we e.'ipect lo keep 300 

 to 5(XI Queens on hand ahead of orders. Special 

 price on 50 or 100. Free Circular. Address all 

 orders to 



(juirin the (jiieen-Breeder, 



PARKERTOWN, OHIO. 



[Parkertowu i.-^ a P. O. Money Order office.] 

 15A26t Please mention the Bee Journal. 



GomD and Ex- 

 traded Honey! 



state price, kind and quantity. 



R. A. BURNETT & CO.. 199 S.Water St., Chicago 



33Atf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Herewe arenffain with a larjrer line of Incn- 

 bat..rsan.l i;n.n,kTs ilian ever. Tliev are the 

 11 AUf If PVF hrantlaiid the kind vou 

 ■■""■^i^i t tan depend upon. They 

 are iiiiiile three walls best grade poplar. ]-J nz. 

 eoM rolled copper water pipe heating »-j-sterii, 

 metal lined defleftur, our patent safety lamp, 

 patent regulator antl a thoroughly first clas'^ 

 machine. This is our large size eili.OO pion<..si- 

 tiiin, the best ItiiMihator ever offered for that 

 mi.ney. Wo sell all nm- Incubators on SO l>u.v-.' 

 t ree Trial, We do imt ti<k voii t'l hnva -I'lg 

 In B, poke." Do not huy the miu-l.ine until jou try It, "This Is our 

 Tiihular Lntnp llau'keiie Bf<i;.lcr: toomi and ao conBlrui'tml tliat 

 llitleclilekstannot tTuwii, sm.itt.u nor trample <-ach other. The 

 Inmpi9<riarantecdn..t tohluvr f„it In the hiirdcst wlnil Btortn. 

 fiurhan.lBomenew catalog |oU painting Cover).'-i'r'.>f,i/-fe /^,u(- 

 rr;i lanowrcttlTisent froe. Or send 10 cents In stamps for book 

 nnaay^ttTBSuhBcnptlonfor leading poultry paper. Write at once 

 \\\\\ KEYE l.\t:[;itATOIt rrt.. Box i7. NKUTON, lA. 



Please mention Bee journal when "WTitin^ 



ITALIAN QUEENS and the 

 WARFIELD STRAWBERRY... 



D. J. BLOCHER, Pearl City. III. 



Ask for our price-list and testimonials. 



As we are spending" the w^inter in North Da- 

 kota, all our correspondence, whether social or 

 business (until further notice) should be ad- 

 dressed, 



D. J. BLOCKER, Denbeigh, N. Dak. 



4Alf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Please mention Bee Journal "when -writing. 



DAIRYMEN ARE DELIGHTED 



Urt:^ pri.liUH. F:a.>.y w.-rk. We furnish caj-ilal. S*Dd 

 in c.TilH for full l;rie of samjilfHanil rmlliularf;. 



DRAPER PUBLISHING CO., Cblcago. Ills. 

 Please mention Bee Journal -when writing 



\ Weekly Budget. 



TuE Apiart of Albert Rozell, of Los 

 Angeles Co., Calif., is shown in the picture- 

 on the first page. In it are over 150 colonies. 

 Last year a car-load of honey was extracted 

 in this apiary, and several hundred-weight of 

 beeswax was obtained besides. The location 

 of this apiary is a beautiful one, with th& 

 grand old mountains in the distance. 



All FoREicfjj Subscribers will please re- 

 member that our queen or other special otters, 

 whether in this journal or in others, do not 

 apply to them. It really ought not to be 

 necessary to say this, but occasionally some 

 thoughtless foreigner desires to take advan- 

 tage of our offers, and almost invariably for- 

 gets that there is extra postage for mailing 

 from here to his home. 



Please remember that we do not send queens 

 to foreign countries — only the American Bee 

 Journal, and that with the extra postage 

 added to the yearly subscription price of .¥1.00. 



A CiTT Girl's Bee-Stort. — Miss Jean 

 Stirling is a little Chicago girl, 11 years of 

 age. Mrs. J. J. Glessner, a prominent society 

 lady, who is also greatly interested in the sub- 

 ject, gave a lecture on bees, and afterward 

 "Jean,'' who was one of the select audience, 

 wrote out the following from memory, and 

 also copied the bees and cells as shown in the 

 illustration accompanying: 



The bee, or, as the Indian calls it, the white 

 man's tly, is a very interesting insect to study. 

 There are three kinds of bees — the drones, the 

 queens, and the workers. Each hive has only 

 one queen, which governs the others, and also 

 lays the eggs. The drones do no work, so. in 

 the swarming season, the workers, which do 

 all the work, kill them. 



A bee can see a long distance. After gath- 

 ering as much honey as she can carry, she 

 rises in the air till she sees the hive, and tlies 

 the shortest way toward it. The word " bee- 

 line '" is derived from this fact. 



A bee will not sting unless bothered. 

 Drones have no sting, but queens and workers 

 both have. 



The poison of bees is so deadly that if they 

 sting an insect it will die very soon. Some- 

 times animals and men also have beeninown 

 to die when a swarm of bees have attacked 

 them. 



The queen-bee, after pairing with one of 

 the males or drones, begins to lay eggs. Some- 

 times in one day she lays two or three thou- 

 sand. The (|ueen lays worker-eggs in one set 

 of cells, the drone-eggs in another, and the 

 queen-eggs in a third. After three days small 



CtLLS 



worms, called larv:i'. come out of the eggs. In 

 about tlve or six days — tluring which time the 

 workers feed and care for them — they spin a 

 cocoon. In ".il days the workers come out of 



