Oct. 2, 1902 



AMERICAN BEE JOUPNAL 



635 



"rt hi K T Y BV 



GEORGE W. YORK & COWPAINY 



144 & 146 Erie St.. Chlcapo, 111. 



Entered at the Post-Offiou at Chtcajo as .fecond- 

 Class Mail-M'-tlur. 



EniTOR— Oeortre W. York. 



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



oPECiAL Correspondents — O. M, Doolittle, 



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



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



A. Getaz, and others. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



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Tie National Bee-Keeners' 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, I Thomas G. Newman 



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



A. I. Root, 

 R. C. AiKiN, 

 P. H. Elwood. 

 E. R. Root, 



I W. F. Makks, 

 I J. M. Hambaugh, 

 C. P. Dadant, 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, President. 

 TOrel L. Hershiser, Vice-President. 

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



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest Cily, Iowa. 



Memhership Dues, $1.(I0 a vear. 



flCS*If more convenient. Dues may be sent to 

 the oEBce of the American Bee Journal, when 

 they win be forwarded to Mr. Secor, who will 

 mail individual receipts. 



A Celluloid Queen-Button is a ve?v 

 pretty thing for a bee-keeper or honey-seller 

 to wear on his coat^lapel. It often iseryes to in- 

 troduce the suoiect oi honey, 

 and frequentij isads to a 

 sale. 



Note.— One (eader writes: 

 " I have every reason to be- 

 lieve that it would be a very 

 good idea for ev i/y bee-keeper 

 to wear one fof >. le buttons! 

 as it will cause pecpie to ask 

 questions aboui the busy bee, and tnany a con- 

 versation thus started would w-nd ■.'p with the 

 Bate of more or less honey: at an> t^te it would 

 give the bee-keeper a superior opporxanity to 

 enlighten many a person in regard to honey 

 and bees.*^ -jk 



The picture shown herewith Is a reprouuo- 

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

 nishing to bee-keepers. It has & pin on the 

 underside to fasten It. 



Price, by mail, 6 cents; two for 10 cents j 

 or 6 for 25 cents. Send all orders tp the office 

 c* the American Bee Journal 



Getting Fall Honey. 



1 cannot keep bees without the American 

 lice .lournal. I have Si colonies, some work- 

 ing in the third super. The bees here workeil 

 well on red clover. We are getting lots of 

 fall honey. I did not get much white honey 

 as the bees needed it to start hou.'iekecping 

 after starj^'ation during the month of .June. 



A. .1. tilFKIIItl). 



Cass Co., Mich., Aug. 29. 



Phacelia Tanacetifolia. 



MedlolT writes alxiul, phacelia as follows: 

 ■'All bee-i)aiier6 lU'e full of prais^e al)Oul 

 l*haeelia tanHcetif<jlia. It is not only a good 

 honey-plant for the bees, but it furnishes with 

 its .iuicy green stems and leaves also a very 

 excellent green fodder, which horses, cattle, 

 goats and hogs eat with the greatest relish. 

 Cows and goals give, when fed with phacelia, 

 great ([uantities of milk. The crops of setnl 

 are also rich, one acre (American measure) 

 producing in Prussia 401) to .iO(( pounds of 

 seed. It takes about ."> pounds of seed to sow 

 one American acre. \Ve recommend to all 

 bee-keepers and farmers to try this plant yet 

 this year. The plant does well in almost any 

 kind of soil. The seed can be sown similar 

 to grain after the grain-fields have been 

 plowed. After six to eightweeks the plant is 

 in full bloom." Otto Li^hdorff. 



Tulare Co.. Calif. 



A Visit to Dp. Gandy, in Nebraska. 



Frienii Yokic : — The extraordinary yield of 

 honey in Richardson Co., Nebr., as reported 

 by Dr. G. L. (iandy through the columns of 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture recently, has created 

 no little interest in the matter of artificial 

 pasturage, and more especially that of catnip 

 as a honey-producer. To determine more 

 clearly these matters of interest, E. R. Root, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson and myself visited the 

 locality and spent several days viewing the 

 different apiaries and the home of the catnip 

 in Nebraska, during which time both Mr. Root 

 and Mr. Hutchinson took many photographic 

 views, and will doubtless be able to iUustrate 

 to their readers what they saw while on the 

 ground. 



During our stay we were royally enter- 

 tained by Dr. Gandy and his excellent wife, 

 and no pains were spared to show us the sur- 

 rounding country. The Gandys own some 

 20,000 acres of the fertile soil of Richardson 

 and surrounding counties, and the Doctor is, 

 without question, the owner of the greatest 

 number of bees within the great State of 

 Nebraska. While there are some differences 

 of opinion as to the yield of honey during 

 mOl, as reported by the Doctor, and the state- 

 ments made by residents in and around the 

 locality, and as none of the honey reported is 

 now in sight, of course we had no means of 

 determining which side of the question was 

 the correct one. We are of the opinion that 

 some misconstructions have been placed upon 

 the Doctor's statements, that he was the 

 owner of some S.OOO colonies of bees, and that 

 this whole number had produced the wonder- 

 ful yield of honey reported by him. While 

 the Doctor has in his home apiary at this time 

 about 137 colonies, he meant, as he stated to 

 us, only to infer th:it the yield reported came 

 from this apiary alone, and that from many 

 of the out-apiaries he received less surplus, 

 and from some of them none at all. From 

 present appearances there will be a very light 

 yield from this home apiary for this year, and 

 those located in the surrounding eounliy 

 show but little evidences of a copious honey- 

 flow. 



At one of the Doctor's farms, occupied by 

 Mr. Bryant, some six miles south, we found 

 the l^est conditions where there are about .50 



To malie cows nay, use Sharpies Cream Separators. 

 Book Business Dairy infj&Cat.212 free. W.Chester.Pa 



Prize = Winning 



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Dau(fliters »»( Moorc'H famous lontf-tontfued 

 red clover Italian Oueen, wliicfa won ihe $25.00 

 prize ofTcred by The A. I. Root Co. for the lon|f> 

 est-lonifued bees; and also dauu-hterH of other 

 choice loiiff-ton^'ucd red-clover breeders whose 

 bees '* iuht roll ia the honejr," aK Mr. Henry 

 Schmidt, of Uutto, Tex.^ uut8 it. L'ntertted 

 Queens, 7Sc each; six, $4.00; dozen, $7.50. Select 

 untested, $1.00 each; six, %S.()»>; dozen, $9.00. 

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 This winter we have double 

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