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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



August 4, 



GEORGE W. YORK. EDITOR. 



PHBUSHT WEEKLT BY 



lis Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



[Entered at the Post-Offlce at Chicago aa 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. 



Alembersliip J^ee— ^l.OO per ^imuin. 



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

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



Board or Dibectobs-E. R. Root; B. Whitcomb; E.T.Abbott; C. P. Dadant; 

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



General manager and TREASDRER-EuBene Secor. Forest City, Iowa. 



VOL. 38. 



AUGUST 4, 1898. 



NO. 31. 



Note.— The American Bee Journal adopts tne Orthography of the following 

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

 ciation and the Philological Society of England :-ChanBe "d" or "ed" final 

 to 't when so pronounced, except when the "e" affects a preceding sound. 



The Langfstroth Monument Fund is again 

 brought up In Gleanings for July 15. It seems very strange 

 that all the bee-keepers in America are unable to get together 

 even $200 for the purchase of a monument for Father Lang- 

 stroth. Only about $100 is now in sight for the purpose. We 

 were hoping that by next fall the monument might be bought 

 and erected. 



Mr. P. H. Elwood, one of New York's greatest bee-keep- 

 ers, says that he has just been buying a family monument for 

 $100, and thinks it good enough. Editor E. R. Root says 

 that his Idea is about a $200 one for Langstroth. Well, sup- 

 pose we all call it $200, then, and go to work now in good 

 earnest and raise the balance of about $100 during the 

 month of August. It can be done In one month just as well 

 as in two years if bee-keepers will only think so. 



Why not have four or five hundred 25 or 50 cent sub- 

 scriptions right away? Send them in to us, if you prefer, 

 and we will publish the list of names of contributors, and for- 

 ward the money to the proper place. 



Roug:h on Chicag:o Honey.— Mr. Stephen J. 

 Harmeling, of South Dakota, recently had an article in the 

 Northwestern Agriculturist, on "South Dakota as a Bee- 

 Country," in which we fiud this paragraph : 



"The home market for honey is good. There Is no trouble 

 in getting 12 to 15 cents for extracted. The flavor of Dakota 

 honey is superior. That of wild mustard is delicious. Chicago 

 has sent too much 'Rose Honey' and ' Bumble-Bee Honey ' 

 Into these markets. Chicago is really the meanest hole of a 

 city on the face of the earth. We expect all that comes from 

 Chicago to be adulterated. It Is so notorious here that people 

 who have ever tasted real honey can notice something wrong, 



and now they suspect everything that comes from the East, 

 and will pay a good price for the home product, which they 

 know to be pure." 



We have shipt honey into South Dakota, and never sent 

 any that was impure. There is plenty of pure honey in Chi- 

 cago, or else the bee-keepers themselves are rank adulterators. 

 And that we don't believe. The idea of any one saying that 

 South Dakota people " expect all that comes from Chicago to 

 be adulterated !" We don't swallow that at all. Any one 

 with just ordinary sense ought to know that there Is plenty of 

 pure honey sent to Chicago — both comb and extracted — and 

 that that same honey Is often reshlpt to purchasers in other 

 parts of the country. 



Goodness knows Chicago is not very Heavenly in many 

 things, but we know there are lots of good people here, and 

 pure honey, too. Mr. Harmeling will only harm himself by 

 writing in the style Indicated by the above quoted paragraph. 



Orgfanization for properly conducted self-defense 

 seems to be necessary everywhere. The latest thing ot the 

 kind occurred among the dally papers of Chicago. At a time 

 when every one was eager for war news, and immense num- 

 bers of papers were sold, the Stereotypers' Union made a per- 

 emptory demand for a very material increase of pay under 

 threat that no papers could be issued unless their demands 

 were granted. The dailies saw they were in a tight place, 

 but concluded to meet organization with organization, deem- 

 ing the demands entirely unwarranted, and entered into an 

 organization agreeing to stand by each other. The great 

 reading public were greatly surprised to receive no papers for 

 a few days, then a small-sized paper rapidly Increasing to its 

 normal size, and the supposition is that the Stereotypers* 

 Union has been left out in the cold. 



If bee-keepers would have their rights defended, they, 



too, must organize. 



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Con-vention at Otnaba, Sept. 13-15.— Finally 

 the date of holding the next annual meeting of the United 

 States Bee-Keepers' Union has been fixt for Sept. 13, 14 and 

 15. The place — Omaha— was decided upon several weeks 

 ago. Here Is a notice from Secretary Mason : 



Sta. B, Toledo, Ohio, July 23, 1898. 



Editor American Bee Journal : — I have just received 

 from Mr. Whitcomb the following letter in regard to rates, 

 etc., for the convention of the United States Bee-Keepers' 

 Union, which will explain Itself: 



Omaha, Nebr., July 18, 1898. 



Mr. E. Whitco.mb — Dear Sir : Confirming our talk this 

 afternoon, I wish to advise that the Western Passenger Asso- 

 ciation has put in a rate for the Annual National Encampment 

 Sons of Veterans United States of America, Sept. 12 to 16, 

 as follows : 



One lowest first-class normal tariff fare for the round-trip, 

 "plus .$2. (.10, from Western Passenger Association territory, 

 east of and Including Utah, except that from points within a 

 radius of 15() miles of Omaha rate of one fare for the round- 

 trip will apply. 



The following rates apply from the extreme terminals on 

 the east : Chicago, .$14.75, Peoria, $13.25, and St. Louis, 

 $13.50. Tickets on sale Sept. 10 and 11, and from points 

 west of Colorado and Wyoming State lines, Sept. 9. From 

 points withiu a radius of 150 miles of Omaha, Sept. 12. 

 Tickets good to return Sept. 21. 



We will endeavor to have these rates extended to cover all 

 the United States, and would suggest that it would be a very 

 good rate for the bee-keepers' meeting. 



Yours truly, W. N. Babcock, 



Mttnager Deparliiwnt of TraiisportatioH. 



It will be .seen that the above rates are lower than those 

 given in my previous notice of rates. Mr. Whitcomb writes : 



" The above rate is the best in sight Hotel rates and 



place of meeting will be arranged a little later on, but it is 

 thought that the members can be quartered in private families 

 at $1.00 per day, and that hotel rates can be secured at 

 about .$2.00 per day." 



This allows the Executive Committee to fix on Sept. 13, 



