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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Marcli 2i- 



GEORGE W. YORK, EDITOR. 



PUBI.ISHT WEEKLY BY 



IIS Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



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



UNITED STATES BEE-KEEPERS' UNION 



OrKanized to advance the pnrsuit of Apiculture: to promote the interests of bee- 

 Iteepers; to protect its luerubers ; to prevent the adulteration of honey: and 

 to prosecute the dishooest honey-commisaion men. 



ATe/iibers/iip _Fe©— Sl-OO -p^^t^ Annum, 



EXFICUTIVE COM.MiTTEE-Pres., George W. York; Vice-Pres., tV. Z. Hutchinson: 



becretary. Dr. A. B. .Ma.son, Station B. Toledo, Ohio. 

 Board of directoks-E. K. Root; E. Whltcomb; B. T. Abbott, C. P. Dadant: 



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



General Manager and Treascrek— Eusene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



VOL. 38. 



MARCH 24. 1898. 



NO. 12. 



^OTE.— Ihe American Bee .Journal adopts the Orthography of the followlnu 

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

 ciation and the Philological Society of Eneland:— Change "d" or "ed" Hnal 

 to "t" when so pronounced, except when the "e" affects a preceding sound. 



Impatient Sutoscribers.— Several evidently nerv- 

 ous readers who have a:^kt questions to be answered by Dr. 

 Miller, in the "Question and Answer" department, threat- 

 ened to stop their subscriptions b^ause we didn't get in their 

 questions with the answers as soon as they thought we ought. 

 Now, any one who writes to us that way is very thoughtless. 

 Here we have been giving two full pages of that department 

 every week for several weeks, and even set it in a smaller size 

 type so as to get more in, and still we have on hand a stack 

 of questions with Dr. Miller's answers. It seems impossible 

 to get caught up, but we are doing all we possibly can to do 

 full justice to all. 



Here is one way that many can help out themselves and 

 us : Get a good bee-book, read it carefully, and thus find the 

 answers to a thousand and one questions without asking us to 

 print over and over again replies to the same simple questions 

 every week or so. Of course, there will be left plenty of ques- 

 tions to ask after reading the best book. Prof. Cook's "Bee- 

 Kteper's Guide" is a good book ; has 460 pages, and we mail 

 it for $1.^5 ; or club it with the Bee Journal one year— both 

 together for SI. 75. Get a copy of it and read it. 



Honey and Bees-wax of Kansas.— Secretary 

 Coburn, of the State Board of Agriculture estimates the 1897 

 product of honey and beeswax in Kansas at 540,000 pounds, 

 valued at 381,000. We believe that is a low estimate. As 

 Kansas knows better than to waste any of her hard-earned 

 money in saloons, she has more tj spend for honey and other 

 good things. Her inhabitants ought to be a clean, sweet peo- 

 ple. Those that we have seen from there speak well for 

 Kansas. 



Pie-w Subscribers— Room for More.— Yes, 

 we have room for quite a good many more new subscribers, 

 and this is a good time of the year to invite them to begin to 

 read the American Bee Journal. It is not that we are anxious 

 to increase the number of honey-producers, but we do feel 

 that every one, even if he has only one colony, ought to 

 take and read the Bee Journal. We trust our present sub- 

 scribers will aid in placing it in every bee-keeper's home. 

 Many have already done splendid work in the line of securing 

 new subscribers, and we appreciate it greatly. 



We are constantly offering desirable premiums for the 

 work of getting new subscribers, but as there may be some 

 who prefer to have a cash commission, we will say that any 

 present reader who sends a new subscriber for the balance 

 of this year (worth 75 cents), may forward to us 50 cents 

 with the new name and address, and keep the other 25 cents 

 as pay for their effort. There is many a boy or girl that can 

 easily earn some spending money In this way. Let there be 

 some good work put in on this during the next month. You ' 

 will thereby be helping yourself, the new subscriber, and us. 



Xalkiug- in His Sleep.— Somnambulist, of the 

 Progressive Bee-Keeper, altho he may be a sleep-walker, has 

 always talkt as if wide awake. This time he has surely been 

 tilking in his sleep, and when he wakes up he'll take it all 

 back. 



The American Bee-Keeper complains because in the Ladies' 

 World Lena Thatcher had given an excellent article on 

 " Honey as an Article of Food," said article having been taken 

 almost verbatim from the writings of Thomas 6. Newman, 

 bit without any credit therefor. Sommy asks who of the 

 400,000 readers of the World would ever have seen Mr. 

 Newman's writings, and thinks it a case where " the end justi- 

 fies the means." Oh, Sommy ! your conscience hasn't gone lo 

 sleep, has it ? Y'on would hardly be justified in stealing a 

 few millions from Rockefeller just because you made a good 

 use of it by distributing it among the poor ! Besides, just as 

 many would have read it if Lena had had the common hon- 

 esty to say she had taken it from Thomas G. 



Bee-Keepers in tbe United States.— The 

 Progressive Bee-Keeper estimates that there are 12,000 peo- 

 ple who keep bees In the State of Missouri alone ; and that if 

 40 other States have as many, there would be about 500,000 

 in this country. That may, and may not, be a high estimate. 

 But if it is even nearly correct, It seems strange that it is 

 almost impossible to get only some 20,000 — about 1 in 25 — 

 to subscribe for a bee-paper. It must be that the great ma- 

 jority do not realize the value and help a good bee-paper 

 would be to them. With possibly one or two exceptions, 

 there isn't a bee-paper publisht to-day but what deserves at 

 least five times the circulation it now has. Here is a big field 

 to cultivate — a field filled with hundreds of thousands, and yet 

 only a few thousands who as yet comprehend the real value of 

 a bee-paper to them in their work with bees. 



Honey for a Cougftt and for Erysipelas. — 



Nrs. Julia D. Chandler, of Chicago, hands us the following 

 recipes, which no doubt will be found useful : 



Honey Cough Syrup.— The druggist cut spruce-gum 

 with alcohol, stirring after — it is not very easy; and then 

 added extracted honey. I do not know the proportions, how- 

 ever, as the bottle was sent to me as a simple remedy, to use 

 for a child with a delicate throat. 



Honey for Erysipelas. — Dr. Hayward (in the Medical 

 Record) calls attention to honey as a remedy for erysipelas. 

 It is ustd locally by spreading on a suitable cloth, and apply- 

 ing to the parts. The application is renewed every three or 

 four hours. In all cases in which the remedy has been em- 

 ployed entire relief from the pain followed immediately, and 

 convalescence was brought about in three or four days. 



