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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 14- 



GEORGE W. YORK, Editor. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



118 Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



[Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second-ClaBs Mail Matter.] 



UNITED STATES BEE-KEEPERS' UNION 



Organized to advance tiie 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-commisBion men. 



AlembeTslilp Fee—Sl.OO per Annum. 



BXECUTITE COMMITTEE-Pres., George W. York; Vice-Pres., W. Z. Hutchinson ; 



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

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



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



General manager and Treastirer— Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



VOL. 38. 



JULY 14, 1898. 



NO. 28. 



NOTE.-Ihe American Bee Journal adopts the Orthography of the following 

 Rule, recommended by the Joint action ot the American Philological As'jo- 

 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. 



The Bee-Supply Trade.— According to all re- 

 ports the year 1898 has exceeded all others In the large de- 

 mand for bee-keepers' supplies. All the factories seem to 

 have been crowded to the utmost, and even then to have been 

 away behind orders. But It is Just possible that the honey 

 season is not going to be as good as some anticipated, or as 

 prospects indicated a mon»h or two ago. 



Xlie Omataa Convention will be a large affair 

 if E. Whitcomb can have his way about It. And he usually 

 " has his way." In a letter written to us July 2, he said : 



" We rather hope to turn out 1,000 Nebraska bee-keepers 

 at the meeting." 



Why, Uncle Whitcomb! Think of it— 1,000 Nebraskan 

 bee-keepers at the next meetiug of the Union! Why, we'll 

 have to engage the whole Exposition grounds, and then have 

 a regular bee-keepers' camp-meeting. All right. We'll get 

 Presbyterian Dr. Miller to open with a song. Baptist Dr. 

 Mason to follow with a prayer, Congregatlonalist A. I. Root 

 to preach a sermonette, and Methodist Eugene Secor to follow 

 with an exhortation, or give his 'sperience ! 



Talk about camp-meetings ! Well, we should say so. But 

 why not all the States go to work and try to see how many of 

 their bee-keepers each can have in attendance? Illinois 

 ought to have — well, we won't say just how many, but if 

 Nebraska gets one-fifth of her proposed 1,000, Illinois 

 can more than double it. And Iowa — how many, "Gen." 

 Secor '? 



Let all begin to talk up the coming convention. Plan now 

 to be there. Help to make it the crowning apiarian event of 



this closing wonderful nineteenth century. We will try to do 

 our part, and we know Mr. Whitcomb and many others will do 

 theirs. 



It's now " O. O." — " On to Omaha I" 

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The Illinois State Fair has greatly reduced the 

 list of cash premiums offered in the department of Bees and 

 Honey for the 45th annual Fair of 1898, to be held Sept. 26 

 to Oct. 1. The total amount offered for the whole Pair is 

 $45,000, and of this amount only about $275 goes to api- 

 arian exhibitors. 



We take the following from the Premium List recently 

 received : 



LOT 193-BEES AND HONEY — OPEN TO THE WORLD. 



The judges in this lot will be governed by the code of rules 

 adopted lay the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association. 



Five hundred pounds will receive full score for quantity 

 In displays of comb and extracted honey. Fifty pounds will 

 receive full score for quantity in display of beeswax. 



Display of comb honey $25 $15 $5 



Collection of labeled cases containing 12 or more 



pounds of white honey from different flowers 10 5 

 Collection of labeled cases containing 12 or more 

 pounds of amber or dark honey from differ- 

 ent liowers 10 5 



Case white clover comb honey, 12 to 24 pounds. 5 3 



Case basswood comb honey, 12 to 24 pounds. ... 5 3 



Display of extracted honey 25 15 5 



Display of samples of extracted honey, named . . 5 3 



Display of candied honey 15 10 



Display of beeswax 15 10 



One-frame observatory hive of dark Italian bees 5 3 



One-frame observatory hive of golden Italian bees 5 3 



One-frame observatory hive of Carniolan bees. . . 5 3- 



One-frame observatory hive of Albino bees 5 3 



One-frame observatory hive of Cyprian bees 5 3 



One-frame observatory hive of Holy Land bees. . 5 3 



One-frame observatory hive of black bees 5 3. 



Group of queen-bees, comprising 2 dark Italians, 

 2 goldeu Italians, 1 Carniolan, 1 Albino, 1 



Cyprian, 1 Holy Land, 1 black 10 5 



Display of honey-plants, prest, mounted and 



labeled 5 3 



The only reason we can imagine for dropping the special 

 list of awards to the bee-keepers of this State is because of the 

 few local bee-keepers who took enough interest in the Fair 

 last year to make an exhibit. This was a mistake. The Fair 

 officials were very generous toward bee-keeping last year, but 

 of course when they found that their generosity was unappre- 

 ciated, they decided to use the premium money in other de- 

 partments. Perhaps by putting up a good show this year, 

 another year bee-keepers may be able to recover what they 

 have lost. We were hoping that the Illinois State Fair might 

 continue at the head of all Fairs in its amount of cash pre- 

 miums offered for apiarian exhibits. 



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Tlie Honey Season and Prices.— Editor £. 

 E. Root in Gleauings for July 1 has this to say concerning the 

 present season and the price of honey : 



Up to within a few days, at least, the honey season as re- 

 ported over the country has been very indifferent, not to say 

 poor. We have, up to within a day or two, received only a 

 very few reports where honey was coming in to any extent; 

 but these few report an extra honey-flow ; but the localities 

 are so scattered that, if no honey should come from now on, 

 there will be a great scarcity of both comb and extracted 

 honey ; for in California the season has been almost a com- 

 plete failure. I think I have never seen such immense areas 

 of clover as I have this year ; but for some reason or other It 

 does not seem to "give down." Occasionally, here and there, 

 there will be a few bees, but nothing like what we might ex- 

 pect if nectar were being secreted in the usual wfl,y. Our col- 

 onies at the home yard and at the basswood yard have been 

 on the verge of starvation, and have had to be fed in order to 

 keep brood-rearing going. Our neighbors report a similar 

 condition with one exception, and to this exception I shall re- 

 fer later on. 



But since June 26 I can report for this locality, at least. 



