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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



September 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



=S Ettabllshed by Simud Wigntrin 18S) C= 



The oldest Bee Journal in the English language. 

 Published Monthly at Hamilton, Illinois. 



Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Hamilton, Illinois. 



Subscription Rates — In the United States and THE STAFF 



Mexico, $1.60 per year; five years, IfO. c. P. Dadant Editor 



Canadian postage 15 cents, and other foreign i7„..,„ r^ t> . . t- 



, ' . . ^ Frank C. Fellett Associate Ed tor 



countries 2;> cents extra, per year. r r iv 



All subscriptions are stopped at expiration. Date Miller Questions Department 



of expiration is printed on wrapper label. Maurice G. Dadant Business Manager 



(Copyright 1920 by C. P. Dadant.) 



THE EDITOR'S VIEWPOINT 



Good Samaritan Fund paper, may regard the grocer who 



The fund for the Franco-Belgian must add a reasonable profit for han- 



beekeepers has been somewhat nag- dling, and who, in many cases, buys 



lected during the busy season. But at a higher price from the whole- 



as the crop is being harvested, many saler, as a profiteer. The newspapers 



of our beekeepers remember that l)uy direct from producers, in large 



there is still a great deal of suffering quantities, and give their readers the 



across the ocean. So we are begin- full benefit of the saving. Many new 



ning again to receive help. The fol- customers are made for the beekeep- 



lowing has been received: ers' product by such campaigns 



Third list, begun in May $46.50 



L. W. Derrin, Cushman, Ore. 2.S0 Bees in a Shoe Box 



Montgomery Co., Pa. beekeep- In an old copy of "Progressive Bee- 



ers 5.00 keeper" is an account of a queen with 



Orange Co., Calif., beekeepers.. 25.00 attendants shipped by mail in a defec- 



Chas. A. Brown, Piru, Calif 50.00 tive cage. Two of the worker bees 



Geo. S. Demuth, Washington, escaped while on the journey, but 



D. C. 10.00 were caught by a mail clerk and 



placed in a shoe bo.x in which some 



To date $139.00 holes were punched to give them air. 



Only a few of the queens subscribed The queen, with the remaining work- 

 were sent over, owing to the irregu- ers, went through safely in the cage 

 larity of transportation and dangers a"d the workers which escaped, in 

 of loss. So the queens sul)scribed are the shoe box. 



being sold and in some future num- If present-day express messengers 



ber we will give a list of the amounts. and mail clerks would display similar 



Meanwhile, we hope County and interest in getting package bees and 



State Associations will follow the ex- queens safely to their destination 



ample of the Orange County, Calif., there would be far less complaint 



and Montgomery County, Pa., bee- against the shippers. 



keepers. Each $100 is worth 1,300 



francs in French values and a trifle Demonstration Meeting 

 less in Belgian values, and our A. L, Kildow, State Inspector, an- 



friends over there are putting the nounces a demonstration meeting for 



funds to good use. Statements will beekeepers at his home at Putnam, 



be made when the work is done, to 111., on September 10. Dr. Baxter, 



show where the help went. Professor Flint, H. H. Park, .-\ssist- 



ant Secretary of Agriculture, and the 



How Many Visits to the Pound editor of this Journal are announced 



We read tha. a beekeeper has fig- to appear on the program. 



ured out that the bee must insert its 



proboscis into 2,500,000 tubes of clover New Law for Georgia 

 blossoms in order to secure a pound The apiary inspection bill drafted 

 of honey. It would be interesting to by the members of the Georgia Bee- 

 know just how he arrived a t the keepers' Association and presented by 

 number. It would be rather laborious J. E. Bowden, of Waycross, has been 

 to count them. Anyway, it is quite passed by both the Senate and House 

 probable that the number would vary of the Georgia Legislature and has 

 somewhat under different conditions. gone to the Governor for hir, signa- 



ture, required to make the measure a 



Another Newspaper Selling Honey law. The association is to be con- 

 After the big sale of honey by a gratulated on its success, since the or- 



New York newspaper last winter, we ganization was perfected, the opinion 



are not surprised to learn that the crystallized, the law drafted and 



Kansas City Post has shipped a t|uan- passed all within one month. This 



tity of comb honey in from the west young and lusty organization, which 



and has been selling it direct to its has made its voice heard imperatively 



readers. The only danger of such in Georgia legislative halls is headed 



campaigns lies in the fact that those by J. J. Wilder, who was chosen to be 



who buy the honey shipped in large its first President, at the annual 



amounts and sold at cost by the news- meeting. Commissioner J. J. Brown, 



of the Departmefit of Agriculture, At- 

 lanta, whose office will have charge 

 of apiary inspection enforcement, is 

 actively behind the bill, and no doubt 

 has been expressed that the Gover- 

 nor will sign the bill. 



Paper Still Going Up 



At a time when we had hoped for 

 falling prices, the tendency of paper 

 is in the other direction. For months 

 past we have met with one raise af- 

 ter another, each time fondly hoping 

 that it would be the last and that 

 prices would soon begin going down. 

 In a recent issue we mentioned our 

 problem under the title "Troubles of 

 a Publisher." Since that time new 

 rises in the paper market have taken 

 place and a trade journal announces 

 still another 4 cents per pound in the 

 kind of paper we use. If this latest 

 rise goes into effect it will add 12 

 cents per year to the cost of paper for 

 the Journal for every subscriber. A 

 greatly increased freight rate will be 

 in effect by the time this number 

 reaches our readers and the in- 

 creased rate will make every item en-- 

 t ring into the Journal cost us more. 

 Higher wages for printers and bind- 

 ers, increased cost of paper, ink and 

 engravings have increased the cost of 

 getting out the Journal to such a 

 point that we can see no other way to 

 continue getting out the same quality 

 of Journal except to increase the sub- 

 scription price. We have tried every 

 means at our command to avoid such 

 a raise, in the hope that the high 

 prices would come down. We are in- 

 formed by those familiar with the pa- 

 per trade that cheap paper cannot 

 be expected again, because the for- 

 ests that supply the wood pulp are 

 constantly getting smaller and that 

 things made from wood must continue 

 high in price. 



We do not wish to reduce the size 

 of the Journal nor the quality of our 

 reading matter. In order to give all 

 our present subscribers due notice of 

 the advance, it will not go into effect 

 until October IS. Until that date sub- 

 scriptions will be accepted at $1 per 

 year, .^fter October 15 the price will 

 be $1.50 per year. > 



In Michigan 



As promised, on page 228 of the 

 July number, I managed to go to the 

 two Michigan meetings of July last. 

 It was delightful, Michigan has many 

 fine roads, on the north end of the 

 southern peninsula. The weather is 

 much more pleasant than summer 

 weather in the Mississippi Valley, and 

 beekeepers are numerous. The milk- 

 weed is a splendid honey plant, and 

 although its "milk" is rather an ob- 

 jection, its honey is fine. Wife and I 

 spent four weeks at Bay View and 

 vicinity, on Little Travers Bay, 

 where a "Summer Assembly' carries 

 on a continuous summer course and 

 C'hautauqua. I don't know of a more 

 enjoyable spot for elderly people and 

 even for young people who can be 

 satisfied with base ball, basket liall, 

 tennis, croquet, golf, a little fishing, 

 and going back and forth among sum- 

 mer resorts where there are no 

 mountains to climb and no exertions. 



