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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 26. 



GEORGE W. YORK. EDITOR 



PCBI.ISHT WEEKLY BY 



118 Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



[Entered at the Post-Office 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 prevent the adulteration of honey; and 

 to prosecute the dishonest honey-commission men. 



A/eznbers/iip /*'ee— 3i.OO jyer Annum* 



EXECUTiVECoMMiTTEE—Pres., George W. York; Vice-Pres., TV. Z. Hutchinson: 



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

 Board of Directors— E. R. Root: E. ^Vhitcomb; B.T. Abbott; C. P. Dadant; 



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

 General Manager and Treascrer— Eugene Secor, Forest City. Iowa. 



VOL. 38. 



MAY 26, 1898. 



NO. 21. 



Note.— The American Bee Journal adopts the OrthoKraphy of the following 

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

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

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



Bees by Freight— Important.— Last week we 



mentioned the subject of shipping bees by freight in less than 

 carload lots. The petition has gone in to the Western Classi- 

 fication Committee, J. T. Ripley, Chairman, Room 60-4, Great 

 Northern Hotel, Chicago, 111. Now what bee-keepers are to 

 do is this: Write the Committee at once, urging the granting 

 of the petition at their next meeting, to be held at Colorado 

 Springs, Colo., June 14. We trust that several thousand bee- 

 keepers will write immediately, addressing as above. There 

 seems good prospects of the petition being granted, if bee- 

 keepers will but show their interest in the matter. Espe- 

 cially the prominent bee-keepers should write, but no matter 

 how few bees you have, your letter will have weight. All 

 letters should reach the Committee by June 5 — ?iot later. Bet- 

 ter write now. 



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Bee-Keepingf Not a Nuisance.— We have re- 

 ceived the following, dated May 16, from General Manager 

 Newman, referring to a case mentioned in his Report, on page 

 324 of this number : 



Friend York : — lam glad to inform you that Mr. Buch- 

 heim, referred to in my Annual Report as having been put in 

 jail on the ground that bee-keeping was a nuisance, has, 

 through the efforts of the National Bee-Keepers' Union, been 

 fully exonerated, and his bail discharged. This was a case 

 where the Union appealed from the Justice Court, which found 

 him guilty of maintaining a nuisance and sent him to jail. I 

 am just informed this morning of the success of our lawyer in 

 the case. 



This is another victory for the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union, which Is fully in keeping with its victorious record in 

 maintaining the rights of bee-keepers. 



Thomas G. Newman, 



General Manager. 



Facing Cases ot Comb Honey has considerable 

 attention in the Review. Dr. Miller has a tilt with the editor, 

 the latter claiming the battle because the former allows it to 

 be the correct thing to put the best side of a section out, altho 

 vigorously objecting to the practice of putting the best sec- 

 tions in sight. Mr. Doolittle stands firm on his former ground, 

 giving the testimony of a commission man, who says it is his 

 business to know what is in the middle of the case. Editor 

 Hutchinson feels sure Mr. Hasty did not understand Mr. Doo- 

 little, and thinks it well that Mr. Doolittle "has explained 

 more fully." Whether Mr. Hasty or any one else besides 

 Editor Hutchinson can see anything different from the explan- 

 ation, remains to be seen. We stand right where we did on 

 page 2^7. Wrong is wrong, and no amount of explanation 

 will make wrong right. 



Deatb of Cbas. F. Muth.— The following item 

 was sent to us by Dr. A. B. Mason, being taken from the 

 Toledo Blade : 



" Cincinnati, Ohio, May 16. — Chas. F. Muth, a prominent 

 and wealthy merchant of this city, and recently elected mem- 

 ber of the Board of Control, committed suicide on his farm 

 near Morristown, Ind. He was found dead with a rifle-ball 

 through his head. It is supposed to be a case of sudden in- 

 sanity, as he was heard to complain of his head." 



This is very sad. Indeed. We have received no further 

 particulars at this writing, but hope to have more next week. 



"Bienenzucbt und Honiggevrinnungnach 



der neuesten Methode. Kurz und klar dargestellt von J. F. 

 Eggers, praktischer Imker bei Grand Island, Nebr. J. F. 

 Eggers, Herausgober und Verleger, Grand Island, Nebr." So 

 reads the title page of a new book of 50 pages In which bee- 

 keepers from Germany will find in their own loved mother- 

 tongue in condenst form the principles of bee-keeping as prac- 

 ticed in this country. It is well up-to-date, and so simply 

 and plainly written that it may well be recommended as a 

 text-book to bee-keepers who are striving to master the in- 

 tricacies of the German language. 



The price of the book is 50 cents postpaid. It is bound 

 in stiff board covers. Orders may be sent to the Bee Journal 

 office. 



Don't Sbip Comb Honey by Express.— 



While It may be somewhat early to say anything about ship- 

 ping honey, we feel that we ought to refer to a case that came 

 under our observation about two weeks ago. 



A prominent Chicago honey-dealer sent for us to come 

 and see a lot of comb honey that he had just received — from a 

 bee-keeper about 50 miles from Chicago. The honey was put 

 up in double-tier out-of-date 24:-pound shipping-cases, and 

 two of them had been fastened together by nailing pieces of 

 lath across their ends. There was perhaps 500 pounds of 

 beautiful honey in the shipment. But it wasn't so beautiful 

 when the commission man received It. It was the worst 

 broken up — and broken down — leaky lot of honey we ever saw. 

 It wa^ shipt by express. That, of course, explained it. We 

 could scarcely believe it, when we were shown the shipper's 

 letter, to find that he was an old, experienced bee-keeper, and 

 yet knew no better than to ship such a lot of honey by ex- 

 press ! Of course he doesn't read the American Bee Journal. 



The producer, in his letter of instructions to the dealer, 

 was very careful to tell how carefully the honey was graded, 

 and how well it was put up ; and that he expected a good 

 price for it, of course. But we wouldn't have given 5 cents 

 per pound for it. Why, we wouldn't have wanted such a mess 

 at any price. 



It seems strange that after the bee-papers have been so 

 careful to tell honey-producers just how to prepare and ship 

 comb honey, those that should know better will simply go on 



