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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Aug. 21, 1902. 



keep my own bees in any kind of a hive I please ?" On the 

 same principle one might say, "Haven't I a right to carry 

 a pistol in my pocket if it's my own pistol and my own 

 pocket ? Haven't I a right to sell poison or whiskey to any 

 one I please ?" No, you haven't the right to do these and 

 many other things that would be a menace to the public 

 safety or a detriment to the public good. If you have a 

 colony in a box-hive, and the disease starts in it, you can 

 not determine whether there is any disease until the 

 scourge has advanced to a severe stage. In other words, 

 the inspector can not tell whether there is any disease pres- 

 ent or not. You have no right so to jeopardize others. 



There should be earnest action everywhere ; organiza- 

 tion and combined effort everywhere. It ought to be made 

 a difficult thing for an ignorant, careless, or pig-headed 

 bee-keeper to harbor the disease ; and it ought to be made 

 an easy thing for others to rid him of the disease, will he 

 nill he. Shall there be such combined action everywhere, 

 or shall it be confined to a few States ? 



I * The Weekly Budget. * I 



Mr. Thaddeus Smith, of Pelee Island, Out., Canada, 

 died on June 11, 1902. He wrote several articles for the 

 American Bee Journal the past year. 



Dk. C. C. Mii.lek stopped oflf in Chicago over night on 

 his way home from 'Winona Lake Assembly, in Indiana, 

 where he gave a talk on " The Story of the Bees, or Secrets 

 of the Hive." His own bees (some 200 colonies) are not tell- 

 ing a very good story this year, on account of the unfavor- 

 able season. He fears having to feed them for winter 

 stores. 



Speci.^lR.^tes TO Denver. —Pres. Hutchinson sends us 



the following for publication: 



Special rates on the railroads were expected all over the 

 United States when the National Letter Carriers" Associa- 

 tion held their annual convention in Denver, but I can not 

 learn, by the most persistent correspondence, that any rate 

 has been made for the far West. If there is any one going 

 from any part of the country, and there are no reduced 

 rates given from his part of the country, let him write to 

 me, and if any rates are eventually secured, I will at once 

 write to him. W. Z. Hutchinson. 



Later.- I have just received notice from the Santa Fe 

 Railroad that they will sell tickets from California to Den- 

 ver and return at the rate of $55.00, for accredited delegates 

 of the National convention of bee-keepers. Date of sale is 

 Aug. 28, and final limit 60 days. W. Z. H. 



Flint, Mich. 



Mh. D. W. Working, whose phiz decorates the front 

 page of this issue of the American Bee Journal, sent the 

 following sketch with the photograph, written " By Him- 

 self :" 



I was born in Belle Plaine Township, Scott Co., Minn., 

 if I may trust the records. In my short career, I have lived 

 in three Minnesota counties, one county in Missouri, five in 

 Kansas, one in Nebraska, and three in Colorado. My first 

 experience with honey-bees was in Minnesota, where my 

 grandfather kept a few colonies that knew how to sting as 

 well as to make honey. I was stung. My latest experience 

 with the little honey-makers has been in Colorado. My own 

 bees sting and make honey, too. They have done neither 

 this year ; but it isn't my fault. 



I have written this sketch at the earnest and frequently 

 repeated request of Editor York, who has also asked me for 

 a photograph of myself. I have had the picture made es- 



pecially for use in connection with the coming convention 

 of the National Bee-Keepers' Association ; it flatters me, 

 though Brother York's engraving may not. I confess that 

 I don't like to write this stuff. It is all true enough, no 

 doubt : but somehow my modesty and my vanity both pro- 

 test that some one else ought to have written me up. Prob- 

 ably no honest man could be persuaded to do it. 

 * * # » 

 P. S. — If you are coming to the big Denver convention, 

 I wish you would let me know at once. I want to tell our 

 daily papers about the crowds of bee-keepers who are going 

 to be with us on that occasion. We are to have a real poet 

 at our banquet. I don't mean York, or Secor, or Myself. 

 Box 432, Denver, Colo. D. W. Working. 



A Bee-KekpSRS' Picnic— Mr. F. Greiner, of Ontario 

 Co., N. Y., wrote us Aug. 7 : 



" We had a bee-keepers' picnic Aug. 1, along the shores 

 of Canandaigua Lake. We had a good time. The most of 

 our bee-keepers have harvested a fair honey crop." 



So far as we know, this is the only bee-keepers' picnic 

 in the United States. It's a good idea. The only trouble 

 is, that many who would like to join in an affair of that 

 kind live too far away. 



A Deluge oi-- Orders.— It seems the American Bee 

 Journal is a pretty good advertising medium, if we may 

 judge by the following : 



Dear Bro. York : — Please take my advertisement out 

 of the American Bee Journal. It has caused such a 

 "deluge " of orders that I am now three weeks behind or- 

 ders, instead of being able to send by " return mail," as 

 that " little, lying old man " is telling your readers. 



If this is any criterion to go by, the American Bee 

 Journal is the best advertising medium out. 



Hastily, G. M. DooliTTLE. 



And yet there are a lot of breeders of good queens who 

 do not have their advertisements in the American Bee 

 Journal. Some seem to think that our advertising rates are 

 too high. But when returns are compared with the amount 

 invested, we think there will be no cause to complain, that 

 is, provided the prices of queens or goods offered are rea- 

 sonable, and that all comes up to the claims made by the 

 advertiser. 



" Imported " a " Superior Queen." — A Wisconsin ex- 

 bachelor, who, of course, is no longer " queenless," sends 

 us the following : 



I would say to "Iowa," who asks, "Why are there so 

 many bachelor bee-keepers ?" that I was one for a good 

 many years, and in the summer season was too busy with 

 bees and bee-queens to think of much else, but finally 

 devoted one winter (while ray bees were in the cellar) to a 

 more worthy enterprise, and the next spring I was no longer 

 a bachelor, for I had found and imported a " queen " of 

 " superior stock." B. T. D. 



[Now, that's good. Only don't let any lonesome bache- 

 lor get discouraged if he should not be able to import his 

 "queen." The home-bred ones are just as likely to be of 

 the " superior stock " as the best imported. We have been 

 rather observing " along this line," and have also found, 

 from personal experience as well, that, should the prospec- 

 tive home queen not be of such tender years, it is no per- 

 ceptible detriment, so far as we have been able to deter- 

 mine. (Of course, it wouldn't do for a certain "queen " to 

 see this copy of the American Bee Journal, or a certain 

 " old drone " might wifeh he hadn't buzzed so loud.)— Ed ] 



Dr. Angei.o Dubini, one of the most prominent bee- 

 keepers of all Europe, who lived in Italy, passed away re- 

 cently, at the age of 89, the result of a fall in his house. 

 Editor Bertraud says of him : 



He had been for about 38 years attached to the Grand 

 Hospital of Milan ; and after a brilliant and useful medical 

 career, in the course of which he published several impor- 



