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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 28. 



GEORGE W. YORK. EDITOR. 



PUBI.ISHT WEEKLY BY 



118 Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



[Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second-Class Mall 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 prevent the adulteration of honey; and 

 to prosecute the dishonest honey-commiBelon men. 



Alembership F&e—^l.OO per Annum, 



EXECUTIVE COMMiTTEE-Pres.. George W. York ; Vice-Pres., W. Z. Hutchinson ; 



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

 BOARD OF DiRECTORS-K. R. Root; E. Whitcomb; E. T. Abbott; C. P. Dadant; 



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



GENERAL MANAGER AND Trkasdrer— Eugene Secor, Forest City, lowa. 



VOL. 38. 



APRIL 28, 1898. 



NO. i; 



Note.— The American Bee Journai adopts the Orthography of the following 

 Kule, recommended by the Joint action of the American Philological Asso- 

 ciation and the Philological Society of England:— Change "d" or "ed" final 

 to "f when so pronounced, except when the •"e"' affects a preceding sound. 



Better Cleaning: of Section-Honey.— Slov- 

 enly aud careless bee-l^eepers will soon be at a great disadvan- 

 tage. Section-honey will soon be freer from propolis and 

 other stains— when the new section-cleaners get to work. 

 What sense Is there in shipping off to market a lot of " dirt " 

 on sections of nice honey ? The past winter we bought a most 

 beautiful lot of clover hooey, one 24:-pound case of which we 

 were to get 25 cents a pound for from a Chicago millionaire. 

 What did we do ? Why, we simply took out every section, 

 scraped all clean, and then put it into a new case, as the case 

 in which it had been shipt was a coarse, rough, home-made 

 affair. That honey had a 50 per cent, better appearance 

 after we put it into respectable shape. 



Some bee-keepers are losing money every year on account 

 of their shiftless, careless methods. And there can be no ex- 

 cuse for it at all. If a bee-keeper (man) is color-blind, or 

 blind to uncleanness, then for pity's sake let the women of the 

 household prepare the honey for market. Let them clean 

 the sections of honey, grade them, and put them into shipping- 

 cases. We venture in most instances the honey would bring a 

 cent more a pound. We have great faith In the work done by 

 woxnen. They are close friends to neatness and fine appear- 

 ance — having practiced so much on themselves ! 



Best work everywhere always finds least competition. 

 Try it. 



Langfstrotli lUonumeut Fund Again.— On 



page 201 we had this to say in reference to the proposed 

 Langstroth Monument Fund : 



"We are inclined to think that before bee-keepers will be 

 satisfied to let this matter rest, they will want to see at 

 least $1,000 put into a monument to mark the resting-place 



of their beloved Langstroth. Why wouldn't it be a good plan 

 for the large manufacturers of hives to contribute — oh, say 

 about a couple hundred dollars each? Their prosperous busi- 

 ness is practically the result of Langstroth's invention. And 

 as bee-keepers are helping to support the manufacturers, in- 

 directly it would be the bee-keepers' tribute to the memory of 

 Langstroth." 



Editor A. I. Root, in Gleanings for April 15, after quoting 

 the foregoing paragraph, followed it with this : 



" Personally it seems as thoour good friend York had got 

 the figures a little high ; but, never mind ; if the bee-keepers 

 of the world think we should invest $1,000 in this direction. 

 The A. I. Boot Co. will try to do its part. We therefore raise 

 our contributions from §10 up to S25. If the other supply- 

 dealers feel like contributing liberally also, we will increase 

 our subscriptions to §50." 



Now Mr. Root is getting down to business. We thought 

 all he needed was just a little stirring up on this question. 

 People who are nble to do great things ought to do them. We 

 should like very much to match the figures mentioned by Mr. 

 Root, but we are not doing the amount of business, and have 

 not the capital, to justify us in doing likewise. Our own sub- 

 scription of tS5, proposed in last week's Bee Journal, we feel 

 is equal to about a §200 subscription by the Root Company, 

 when you come down to a comparison. But it Isn't necessary 

 to make comparisons, and we have made it only to show that 

 it is right to expect great things from those who possess 

 greatness. 



But the right way is for each one to do what he or she 

 knows he can justly and honestly do regardless of what any 

 one else does. We cannot all know each other's circumstances, 

 and so we are liable to misjudge in things of this kind. 



We trust that this matter may soon take definite shape, 

 and be carried through to a speedy, successful and satisfactory 

 end. 



Oetting: Ne'w Subscritoers. — This is a good time 

 of the year for many of our readers to get new subscribers for 

 the Bee Journal. There are just thousands of bee-keepers 

 all over this great country of ours that ought to be reading 

 it every week, and thus learn how to make their bees more 

 profitable. They would also learn the folly of ruining the 

 honey market both for themselves and for their neighbor bee- 

 keepers who are already reading the Bee Journal. 



A good many of our readers have done nobly already in 

 securing new subscribers, but there are more who have not 

 made any attempt along that line. From time to time we 

 offer some generous premiums to our present readers for the 

 work of getting new subscribers. We often wish we could 

 make them more generous, but the subscription price of the 

 Bee Journal will not admit it. 



Why not within the next month or two add several thou- 

 sand new readers to our list ? Will you help ? If so, we will 

 make our present readers this special offer on new subscrip- 

 tions for the balance of 1898 — about eight months : 



Send us tjiO cents, and we will mail the Bee Journal the 

 rest of 1898 to any new name and address, and also allow, as 

 your premium, 20 cents of the amount to apply on any of 

 the books found in our book-list, on page 267 of this number, 

 that you may select. The new readers would get about 35 

 copies of the Bee Journal for only 60 cents ; and you would 

 get a third of that amount in books. But remember there is 

 no additional premium for the new subscriber on this offer. 



Now, why not every reader, so far as possible, try to send 

 in a few new subscribers on the above offer ? 



flaking: a Fortune -with Bees.— Of course we 

 mean in the production of honey? Editor Hutchinson gives 

 this answer to that question, in the April Review : 



"The man who makes his fortune in the keeping of bees 

 must now keep a lot of them ; scatter them around in out- 

 apiaries, and then adopt such implements and methods as wil 



