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CHICAGO, ILL, AUGUST. 1909 



Vol. XLIX-- No. 8 



Removal Notice 



Tlie .Xiiicrican Bee Journ.il oHice has 

 been moveil once more. .Ami now we 

 hope it will be many years before it 

 will be necessary to change again. We 

 are located at l!i:! K. Superior St.. Chi- 

 cago, but after Sept. 1st it will be /Vfi 

 //'. Sti/'ii/oi- .SV., owing to renumbering 

 certain Chicago streets at that time. 

 So we have uscil this latter new street 

 number throughout this copy of the 

 American Bee Journal rather than to 

 make another change within about two 

 weeks. 



So kindly remember that the .Xmeri- 

 can Bee Journal will be located at 14() 

 W. Superior St.. Chicago, 111., here- 

 after. 



This Onk Thing We Do. 



By the way, we have severed our 

 connection with all other kinds of 

 business, and from now on e.xpect to 

 devote our time wholly to the old 

 American Bee Journal. We again in- 

 vite the hearty co-operation of all its 

 readers in our endeavor to make it the 

 best bee-paper possible. We wish to 

 thank all who have so kindly helped in 

 the past, and we trust that we shall 

 merit the continued patronage of all 

 bee-keepers. 



.\ Look Ahe.\d. 



What is needed first, last, and all the 

 time, is more subscribers. For some 

 time we have been issuing a little over 

 9000 copies each month. We would like 

 to make it 10,000 copies by Oct. 1st, 

 and 12,000 by Jan. 1st. It can be done 

 if only about one in each in subscrib- 

 ers will send in one new subscription 

 before Oct. 1, and then 2 new ones be- 

 tween Oct. 1 and Jan. 1. Why not? It 

 works this way : 



The larger the subscription list we 

 have the more advertising jiatronage 

 we can secure. And then the more of 

 both subscriptions and advertising 

 money we can have the better bee- 

 paper .we can publish each month. So 

 in the end it all tends to the benefit of 

 all concerned. 



If just half of our present number of 

 readers would each send in one new 

 subscription besides his own renewal 



between now 

 the list woubl 

 secure more t 

 On several 

 offer liberal p 

 subscriptions, 

 to work for u 

 afford to di 

 well for the w 

 scriptions. 



.ind Jan. 1st. just see how 

 increase! But many can 

 ban one new reader, 

 pages of this issue we 

 remiums for getting new 

 We don't want any one 

 s for nothing. You can't 

 so, and we want to pay 

 ork of securing new sub- 



Now, please see what you can do 

 about getting your neighbor bee-keep- 

 ers to subscribe. It is not our aim to 

 make more bee-keepers, but to make 

 more intelligent those who already 

 have bees. The .American Bee Journal 

 will always do this if given a fair 

 chance. But it must be taken and rea<I 

 carefully, and then its teachings put 

 into actual practise in the apiary. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, Associate Editor 



Saturday. Ju)y .'ilst. we hail the very 

 great pleasure of being with Dr. C. C. 

 Miller, of Marengo, 111., who is so well 

 known to the whole world of beedom. 

 .Although in liis seventy-ninth year, the 

 Doctor was feeling very well, and en- 

 joying life about as much as he ever 

 did. He has only the home apiary to 

 look after this year, which contains 

 about 12.') colonies. There was no 

 white clover in bis locality this season, 

 and not very nnich of anything else, so 

 that his honey crop will be a very 

 small one. His bees seem to be gath- 

 ering some honey-dew also, which, of 

 course, spoils the white honey. 



While Dr. Miller has been assisting 

 us in various ways in connection with 

 the .American Bee Journal for years, 

 we have now arranged with him to 

 take the position of .Associate Editor, 

 thus putting him in a little closer touch, 

 if possible, with its contents. Some 3i> 

 years ago he tilled a similar position, 

 we believe, on the .American Bee Jour- 

 nal, and during all the intervening 

 years be has written more or less for 

 its columns, besides conducting the 

 "Question-Box" regularly the past I'l 

 years. 



Perhaps no other bee-keeper in the 

 • hole world is so widelv and so favor- 



ably knowu as is Dr. Miller. He has 

 been a close student of bees and bee- 

 keeping for almost half a century. His 

 book on " Forty Years .Among the 

 Bees" stands alone as to its character 

 and practical value to the honey-pro- 

 ducer. He possesses not only a rich 

 bee-keeping experience, but also excep- 

 tional literary ability to express in 

 plain and concise terms anything he 

 wishes to relate touching the subject 

 of bee-culture. 



Not only are we fortunate in having 

 Dr. Miller associated with us in the 

 conduct of the .American Bee Journal, 

 but all its readers will profit by the 

 new arrangement. 



The Doctor will continue to reside 

 in Marengo with his bees, and will also 

 answer questions for the .American Bee 

 Journal as heretofore. 



Old vs. Young Queens 



<_Hii proconceivfd iioiioiis and ideas 

 often Kot rudely jolted when we are the least 

 expecting it." 



Thus says J. L. Byer, in the Canadian 

 Bee Journal, and he then goes on to 

 tell what good work he got from a lot 

 of queens that had by a sort of acci- 

 dent been left without renewing, 

 although he does not approve of hav- 

 ing queens generallv more than 2 years 



