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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 21, 1902. 



PUBLISHED "tt'EFKLY ET 



GEORGE W. YORK S COMPANY 



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



Entered at the Post-Offlce at Chicago as iSecond- 

 Class Mall-Matter. 



Editor— George W. York. 



Dkpt. Editobs — Dr. C. C. Miller, E. E. Hasty. 



Special Correspondexts — G. M. Doolittle, 



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



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



A. Getaz, and others. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 is SI. 00 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. 



■rhe Wrapper-L/abel 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- 

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 been received and duly credited. 



Advertising Rates will be given upon ap- 

 plication. 



Tlie National Bee-Keeners' Association, 



OBJECTS: 



To promote aud protect the interests of its 

 members. 



To prevent the adulteration of honey. 



To prosecute dishonest honey-dealerg. 

 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 

 E. Whitcomb, I Thomas G. Newman, 



W. Z. HuTCHixsox, I G. M. Doolittle, 

 A. I. Root, I W. F. Marks. 



R. C. AlKIN, I J. M. Hambaugh, 



p. H. Elwood. 

 E.R. Root, 



C. p. Dadan-t, 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. 



EXECUTIVE CO.MMITTEE. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson. President. 

 Orel L. Hershiser, Vice-President. 

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



ErGENE Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest Cily, Iowa. 



Memeehship Dues, $1.00 a year. 



*5~If more convenient, Dues may be sent to 

 the office of the .\raerican Bee Journal, when 

 they will be forwarded to Mr. Secor, who will 

 mall 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 for every bee-keeper 

 to wear one [of the buttonsj 

 as it will cause people to ask 

 questions abouc 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 reprouac- 

 flon of a motto queen-button that we are fur- 

 Dishing to bee-keepers. It has a pin on the 

 underside to fasten it. 



Price, by mall, 6 cents; two for 10 cents; 

 or 6 for 25 cen ts. Send all orders to the office 

 ot the American Bee JournaL 



put the bees in one hive on new foun- 

 dation, and the brood and comb in the 

 other. This arrangement succeeded 

 and all are doing well now. 



We are feeding all these young col- 

 cnies in order that they may fill the 

 brood-combs and be ready to fill the 

 supers when the fall honey-flow comes 

 on. Is not this a good arrangement? 



We have two colonies that are nearly 

 all Italians, and can discover more dil- 

 igence in them than among the blacks. 

 F. S. DUNKLKE- 



Haralson Co., Ga.. Aug. S. 



Coolest Season on Record. 



The season here was a great disap- 

 pointment to most of the honey-pro- 

 ducers. The most of those who were 

 extracting got a short crop, while the 

 comb-honey man got little or no honey. 



With the exception of a few warm 

 days this has been the coolest season 

 and summer on record. 



L. L. Andrews. 



Riverside Co., Calif., Aug. 4. 



Did Well on Clover, 



Bees are busy working on basswood ; 

 they did well on clover and raspberry. 

 We' have a little over 100 pounds per 

 colony now, and basswood is not over 

 yet. E. E CovEvou. 



Emmet Co., Mich., July 29. 



Reading the Bee Journal Pays. 



1 am satisfied the American Bee 

 Journal has paid me many dollars in 

 the production of honey this year. I 

 have IS colonies of bees and the most 

 of them have produced 100 pounds of 

 comb honej' to the colony, this season, 

 while my neighbors' bees have made a 

 bare living. I attribute this wholly to 

 the management, as I have learned 

 many valuable lessons from the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal that would have taken 

 years of experiment. 



W. P. Browning. 



Barry Co., Mo., Aug. 5. 



Worker Foundation in Sections. 



I notice on page 491 something on 

 comb honey and excluders. I have 

 never been troubled much with the 

 queen going up in supers. I use no 

 honey-board of any kind. Although 

 I have a lot of zinc ones I cannot call 

 to mind that I ever had any drone-cells 

 in sections filled with brood. In taking 

 honey a short time ago I noticed one 

 super that the bees had not gone out of, 

 (I use escape-boards); it was full of 

 bees, and they were cross. I smoked 

 them and opened the super, and as I 

 took out section by section I found 

 drone-comb, and instead of capped 

 honey a drone in every cell, just ready 

 to come out. Dr. Miller, in replying to 

 above, says, " I use top and bottom 

 starters of worker foundation, filling 

 the section entirely full." He says 

 " worker foundation." Is this not the 

 same that all bee-keepers use for their 

 sections ? 



Now suppose the Doctor does fill his 

 sections full of worker foundation, 

 would that prevent drone-comb? I 

 seem to get that idea from the last 

 lines of his remarks. He says, 'Or 

 unless the sections were so filled with 

 worker-foundation that there was no 

 chance for drone-comb above the su- 



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26Alf HENRY ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. 



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