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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feh. 17. 





GBOROB "W. YORK, - Editor. 



PHBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 118 AricIiijg-aQ St., - OUICAGO. ILL. 



$1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 [Bntered at the Post-OfBce at Cbicaeo as Second-ClasB Mail-Matter.] 



United States Bee-Keepers' Union. 



Organized to advance tlie pursuit of Apiculture: to promote ttie interests 



of bee-beepers : to protect its members ; to prerent the aduiteratinn 



of honey ; and to prosecute the dishonest honey-commission men. 



Membership Fee-$1.00 Per Annuv. 



Executive Committee, 



Prbsident— George W. York. Vice-Pres.— W. Z. Hutchinson. 

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



Board of L>Ireetors, 



E. WniTCOMB. E. T. Abbott. 



C. P. Dadant. 



E. R. Root. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. Dr. C. C. Miller. 



General Manager anri Treasurer. 



EuoENE Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



Vol. niVIII, CBICAGO, ILL,, FEB, 17, 1898. No, 7, 



A Sad Year for bee-keepers seems to be the general 

 report from all over Europe with regard to the year 1897, 

 some saying it will be long remembered as the worst year of 

 the century. 



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Cbeap Hives.— "Hives that may be bought for 825 



a hundred In the flat, are good enoughfor any bees wheu 



painted two coats of good paint," says George Appleton in the 

 Wisconsin Agriculturist. Yes, and kegs costing less than 5 

 cents may be good enough for bees, but the question Is 

 whether It Is good enough for an Intelligent bee-keeper. Will 

 Mr. Appleton tell us where he can get hives at anything like 

 .^25 a hundred with which he would be satisfied ? 



Tlie Lansfstrotli monuiuent Fund.— Mr. N. 



Cameron, of Douglas Co., Kans., sends us the following on 

 this important subject : 



Editor Bee Jouunal :— I see there has been an effort 

 made to raise a monument fund for the late Rev. L. L. Lang- 

 stroth. I do not know just what has been done, as I have not 

 been taking the bee-papers for some time, but it Is my opin- 

 ion. If a proper effort was made, we could raise a respectable 

 fund. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves if we do not 

 make that fund at least .S500 or $1,000. I was always an 

 admirer of Langstroth, so much that I named one of my boys 

 Huber Langstroth. 



Now, I have this suggestion to make: I will be one of 

 500 that will give one "dollar each, or I will be one of 100 

 that will give live dollars each. I believe that every bee- 



keeper who uses the movable frame is indebted to Langstroth 

 more than one dollar, and many of us more than a hundred 

 times that. 



I was going to suggest that subscription blanks be sent to 

 every bee-keeper In the United States that can be reacht — 

 several to each one — with a request to get as many subscrip- 

 tions as possible, no money to be called for till at least SoOO 

 Is subscribed. I would be sorry to believe that the bee-keepers 

 of America are so poor, or so penurious, that they will not do 

 something respectable, to the memory of one who did so much 

 for them. Yours truly, N. Cameron. 



Well, what do you think of Mr. Cameron's suggestions, 

 reader? It Is for you to say. If you have not already con- 

 tributed to the fund. 



Since our last report we have received $1.00 from Wm. 

 Stolley, of Nebraska ; 50 cents from A. Snideman, of Col- 

 orado; and 25 cents from A. L. Earner, of Washington. We 

 are ready to receive more, and then to turn it over to the 

 proper authorities. 



A Xroublesome Conundrum is propounded in 



the Pacific Bee Journal by W. A. H. Gllstrap, who inquires : 



" If the production of honey Is as profitable as some claim It 



to be, why do nearly all who own bees remain In moderate 



circumstances?" But there's the fun, Mr. Gilstrap. Besides, 



can you name a business in which fewer men have gone into 



bankruptcy ? 



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Bean-Honey. — One accustomed to seeing only a few 

 beans raised In a garden Is hardly Inclined to think that bean 

 honey can amount to such a great deal. But C. A. Hatch, in 

 Gleanings, explains that in California whole farms, and large 

 farms at that, are devoted to raising Lima beans. He says : 



"One ranch near Ventura has 1,900 acres, mostly in 

 beans. The crop of this ranch was 19 carloads one year. I 

 saw 10 two-horse teams cutting, and 25 men shocking beans 

 on their ranch this year, at one time." 



No wonder bean-honey amounts to something ! It is white 



and of fine quality, but not positive In flavor, like clover or 



linden. It never gets as thick as sage honey, and is prone to 



candy quickly. 



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'Wisconsin Pavors Amalg'aniation. — We have 

 received the following from Pres. N. E. France, of the Wis- 

 consin bee-association, which shows the trend of opinions in 

 that State on the amalgamation of the two Unions : 



These resoluions were adopted at the meeting held in 

 Madison, B^eb. 3 : 



Resolved, That the Wisconsin State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion do hereby endorse the United States Bee-Keepers' Union, 

 and recommend Wisconsin bne-keepers to send §1.00 each to 

 Its General Manager, Hon. Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa, 

 for membership. Also, 



Resolved, That we will rejoice over the amalgamation of 

 the two Unions under one management. 



Mr. France, with the foregoing, sent the membership fee 

 of $1.00 for the firm of E. France & Son, and added : 



"We have been members of the old Union ever since its 

 birth, but believe the time has come for the two Unions to 

 unite." 



TSo Klondike in Bee-Papers.— A goodly num- 

 ber of bee-papers have been started at one time and another 

 which proclaimed that they were getting on swimmingly — 

 "had come to stay" — subscriptions were coming In rapidly, 

 etc.; but in a little while they were gone where the woodbine 

 twineth, leaving some chance for doubts as to their proclaimed 

 prosperity. After so many of that sort it is somewhat re- 

 freshing to find one which frankly comes out and says It isn't 

 a howling success. " The Bee-Master, " of ShelHeld, England, 

 has reacht Its 5th number, and says: " At present we are 

 losing §50 per month, without charging anything for our 

 own work of booking, addressing wrappers, etc.;" that there 



