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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 10 



GEORGE W. YORK. Editor. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



118 Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



[Entered at the PoBt-Offioe at Chicago as Second-Class Mail Matter.] 



UNITED STATES BEE-KEEPERS' UNION 



Organized to advance the pursuit of Apiculture: to promote the interests of bee- 

 keepers: to protect its members ; to prerent the adulteration of honey: and 

 to prosecute the dishonest honey-commiaaion men. 



Alembership Pee— SI OO per Annum. 



EXECrTlVK COMMITTEE-Pres.. George W. York; Vice-Pres., V,'. Z. Hutchinson; 



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

 BOARD OF DiRKCTOBS-B. R. Root: K. Whitcomb; E. T. Abbott; C. P. Dadant; 



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



General Manager and THEASCBER—EuKene Secor, Forest Cliy, Iowa. 



VOL. 38. 



MARCH 10, 1898. 



NO. 10. 



^OTE.— The Americ;in Bol' Juuruul ;ul.ipt,s the (irthojiraphy of the following 

 Rule, recommended by the joint action of the American Philological Asso- 

 ciation and the Philological Society of England:-Cbange "d" or "ed" hnul 

 to 't when so pronounced, except when the "e" attects a preceding sound. 



Pure Pood Congress Deleg^ates, Hon. Eugene 

 Secor and Rev. E. T. Abbott, past through Chicago Monday, 

 Feb. 28, on their vay to Washington, D. C. We were abie to 

 spend a few hours with them before they took the 3:30 p.m. 

 train leaving for the East. We shall look for some interest- 

 ing reports from the New Union's delegates, upon the comple- 

 tion of the work of the Pure Food and Drug Congress. With 

 the enactment of a strong national anti-adulteration law, the 

 New Union can begin to make it uncomfortably warm for 

 honey-mixers. In the meantime bee-keepers should continue 

 to become members, so that a well-backt organization will be 

 ready to push the battle to the gates. 



Bee-Keeping: for Begfinners is the title of a 

 110-page book just out, from the pen of that expert bee- 

 keeper of the South, Dr. J. P. H. Brown, of Georgia, It 

 claims to be " a practical and condenst treatise on the honey- 

 bee, giving the best modes of management in order to secure 

 the most profit." Price of the book, postpaid, 50 cents. Or, 

 we will club it with the Bee Journal for one year — both to- 

 gether for .Sl.-iO; or, we will mail it as a premium to any of 

 our present subscribers for sending us one new subscriber to 

 the Bee Journal for a yuar (at $1.00), and 10 cents extra. 

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Bees and Peacli-Xrees.— The Florida experiment 

 station isolated two peach-trees, exposing one to a colony of 

 bees during flowering-time, and preventing all access by bees 

 to the other. Both trees set their fruit properly, but the one 

 to which bees had no access dropt its fruit when the stone was 

 forming, while the other retained and matured it. Score 

 another one for the bees. 



Color and Taste of Some Sorts of Honey. 



— Tony Keller, in Luxembourg Bztg., gives description of a 

 number of sorts of honey. Linden varies greatly in color — 

 water-clear, clear yellow, quite green, even dark green, green, 

 ish gray, or greenish yellow; very solid when granulated, 

 sometimes almost snow-white. Locust varies from water- 

 clear to deep green, of delightful flavor and odor, thick, and 

 granulating very solid. Apple blossom, clear yellow, pleas- 

 antly aromatic. Cherry, clear golden yellow, pleasant odor. 

 Horse-chestnut, thin, transparent, generally colorlesss, some- 

 times yellowish. Sweet chestnut, dark, and almost offensive 

 in taste. Asparagus, greenish and unpleasant. Rape, mostly 

 a strong aroma, reminding of the blossoms ; varies In color, 

 mostly intense yellow; very sweet, many times without odor 

 or flavor, but commonly aromatic, and tasting of the combs, 

 thick, granulating rapidly in cold or light, when it is solid and 

 yellowish white. Mustard, many times completely resembles 

 rape, and is easily recognized by the sharp taste and aroma of 

 this flower. Onion and fennel honey easily remind one of 

 their origin. Heather is reddish, of powerful flavor, with the 

 strongest aroma of all honeys, very thick, granulates slowly, 

 distinguishing itself from all other honeys by its jelly-like 

 character. 



Section-Honey Cleaners are attracting much 

 attention now. Several have already been illustrated and 

 described in the bee-papers. And this week we show another 

 — the second one gotten up by Mr. J. A. Golden. Doubtless 

 by the time they will be needed for use this year, several more 

 designs will be evolved by various inventive geniuses. 



Miss "Flora" has done well in her description on another 

 page. What a mercy it is to her that we don't publish post- 

 office addresses in full In the Bee Journal. Why, if we did, 

 after giving her latest photograph, as we have on page 145, 

 she would have to sit up nights to read all the letters that 

 young bee-keepers would be writing her I But she has told 

 in a very nice way who she is, and how she and her Golden 

 friend work together. 



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Referring to Amalgamation of the two Unions, 

 Editor Hutchinson, of the Review, said In his February issue : 



"I feel sure that if the matter could now be put to vote, 

 that amalgamation would be carried unanimously. What is 

 there to htnder such a vote being taken ?" 



We presume a vote could ba taken at any time that five 

 or more members of the Old Union requested it, and provided 

 the request met with the approval of the Advisory Board. We 

 doubt not it would carry all right were nothing further said 

 to prejudice or unduly influence the membership against con- 

 solidating the two organizations. 



Tbe California Bee-Keepers' Exchange 



includes 200 honey-producers as members, and handles about 

 one-fourth of the honey-product of the State. So we learn by 

 a report. We should say that is a fine showing for Its age. 

 Doubtless in a very few years the Exchange will easily con- 

 trol the annual total output of California honey. Bee-keepers 

 should co-operate with it in every possible way, for its success 

 means greater success for all its membership. 



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For Sore Eyes. — Thoroughly dissolve in a teaspoon- 

 ful of warm water a few drops of extracted honey. Four or 

 five times a day drop three or four drops of this in the eye. If 

 some remains on the eye-lid, remove it after a tew minutes, 

 without rubbing or wiping hard. A few days will cure. 



Exports of BeeS'wax.— During the year 1897 it Is 

 reported that the exports of beeswax from New York 

 amounted to §30,262, or about 120,000 pounds, at 25 cents 

 per pound. 



