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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 21, 



GEORGE W. YORK. EDITOR. 



PnBr-ISHT WEEKLY BY 



us Micbigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



[Entered at the PostOffloe 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 

 feeeperB; to protect its members ; to prevent the adulteration of honey; and 

 to prosecute the dishonest honey-commission men. 



M.emt>erstklp F&e—Sl-OO per Anaum. 



BXECDTIVE COMMITTEE-Pres.. George W. York; Vice-Pres., "W. Z. Hutchinson: 



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

 Board op Dirkctors-B. R. Root; B. Whitcomb; B.T.Abbott; C. P. Dadant: 



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



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



VOL. 38. 



JULY 21, 1898. 



NO. 29. 



NOTE.-The A[ueric!in Bcp .I.mrnal adopts the Orthoeraphy 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 



Still There's Room.— General-Manager Secor, of 

 the United States Bee-Keepers' Union, writing us July 9, said : 



"Say, those Arizona bee-keepers are hustlers. They sent 

 in IS names and dollars in one batch recently. We are ' get- 

 ting there' slowly. Still there's room in the largest organiza- 

 tion ever known in America for beekeepers." 



Yes, of course there's room for more, and we hope that a 

 great many others will join the Union at once. It should be 

 1,000 members strong now, then when the Union started out 

 after anything it would be more likely to get it. We would 

 like to know that every reader of the American Bee Journal 

 is a member of the United States Bee-Keepers' Union. Why 

 jiot ? 



Plaiu Sections a Success.— Hon. Geo. E. Hil- 

 ton — one of Michigan's largest bee-keepers — wrote Gleanings 

 recently: "My men report the plain sections a success." 

 Another correspondent reported: "I have just taken off 

 some of the new plain sections, and they are a success, sure — 

 well tilled — not too full." 



All will be interested to know the final verdict on the 

 plain sections and fences after general and thorough trial 

 this year. 



* • *• 



Important to Minnesota Bee-Keepers. 



We received the following letter just a little too late to appear 

 last week : 



Editor York :— Will you please ask the bee-keepers of 

 Minnesota, through the columns of your paper, to correspond 

 with E. L. Dmforth, Secretary of the State Commission of 

 the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition, 221 Kasota 



Building, Minneapolis, Minn., with the view of furnishing 

 honey for exhibition at Omaha? Bee-keepers will be paid for 

 their product as soon as it can be sold after the Exposition. 

 Any damage or breakage will be made good by the Commis- 

 sion, and the highest market price will be obtained. It is 

 very important that the Commission have honey right away, 

 both comb and extracted, iu order to make a creditable dis- 

 play for our State. Yours truly, 



Mrs. H. G. Acklin, 

 Chairman Coinynitfee Jfhiitesnta ^^tatf' Bee- Keepers'' Axsociation. 



In a note following the above Mrs. Acklin suggested that 

 we add "something which will arouse the interes' of Minnesota 

 bee-keepers, as they are responding very slowly to the call for 

 honey." We cannot see how anything that we might say 

 would emphasize the foregoing appetl for houey. State pride 

 alone should cause the bee-keepers of Minnesota to write at 

 once to Mr. Danforth, and offer him all the honey he can use 

 — that is, if the bee-keepers have any honey that they can 

 furnish. 



Treating- and Curing Foul Brood.— Mr. N. 



E. France, Wisconsin's foul brood inspector, in the Review re- 

 ports on his work. He says, among other things : 



" In general, I follow Mr. McEvoy's treatment, and, so 

 far, have cured every case I have handled — burning only two 

 hives. Such property as can be saved I never destroy. The 

 old, diseased combs and frames contain the danger, and in 

 most cases are burned." 



We are glad to note that Mr. France is having such uni- 

 form success In his efforts. He has a large field to cover, and 

 evidently is doing a good work. He seems to be the right 

 man in the right place. 



Great Bass-wood Bloom.— Early Tuesday even- 

 ing, July 12, we mounted our bicycle and rode some 8 miles 

 from Chicago to see Mr. H. S.Jones — a bee-keeper who has 30 

 colonies — and also to view the wonderful basswood bloom near 

 him. We could inhale the delightful perfume of the blossoms 

 some rods before arriving at the trees. The tops of some of 

 the stately basswoods presented the appearance of fruit trees 

 laden with their abundance of luscious fruit at harvest time. 

 One tree was measured, and it had a diameter of full 30 

 inches, being perhaps 75 to 100 feet tall. 



We understand there are several hundred acres along the 

 river in one strip, and the bees fly like bullets to and from the 

 basswood bloom. Of course there will be a large yield from 

 that source. 



The country surrounding this forest with its numberless 

 basswood trees is well stockt with bees, and their owners will 

 doubtless secure a good crop. There is also much sweet clover 

 all along the roads, so that from both the basswood and clover 

 the bees should render a good account of themselves by fall. 



Freight Rate on Bees.— Some time ago there 

 was a petition sent to the Western Classification Committee, 

 requesting that bees in hives be given a less than carload ra- 

 ting. That petition came before the Committee at its late 

 meeting at Manltou Springs, Colo. We wrote the chairman 

 of the Committee, Mr. J. T. Ripley, to learn as to the fate of 

 the petition, and the following is his reply : 



George W. York, Esq., Editor American Bee Journal. — 

 Dear Sir : — Answering your favor of the 7th inst. 

 At the late meeting of this Committee, the petition to pro- 

 vide for shipments of bees in hives in less than carloads was 

 considered, but no change in the classification was made. 



The members of the Committee seemed to feel that it is 

 not safe to carry the goods by freight trains, and that it is 

 fairly express traffic. No other objections were urged, as I 

 recall it. Y'ours truly, J. T. Ripley, 



Chairmim Committee. 



Indirectly we understand that the petition came very nearly 

 being granted ; and that if bee-keepers had shown the slight- 

 est interest in the matter it would almost certainly have been 



