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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



September 8 



GEORGE W. YORK. EDITOR. 



PUBI.ISHT WEEKLY BY 



118 Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



[Entered at the Post-Offlce 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. 



Membership Fee—91-OO per Anatim, 



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

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



^"^H."^ DIRKCTOBS-E. R. Root; E. Whitcomb; B. T. Abbott; C. P. Dadant; 

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



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



Place and Date of JVejvf Aleeting t 



Omaha, Nebr., Sept. 13, 14 and 15. at the Delone Hotel, Cor. 14th Street and 

 Capitol Avenue. 



VOL. 38. SEPTEMBER 8, 1898. NO. 36. 



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

 Rule, recommended bv the joint action of the American Philological Asoo- 

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

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



Omalia — the place. The time — next Tuesday, VVedues- 

 day and Thursday. The occasion— the 29th annual conven- 

 tion of the United States Bee-Keepers' Union. 

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From Ctaicago to Oiuaba we expect to have a 

 very pleasant time. IVIr. A. I. Root wrote us Aug. SO that he 

 and Ernest R. Root expect to be with us next Monday evening 

 to start over the C. B. & Q. road at 5:.50 o'clock. Mr. Root 

 said he would make the announcement in Gleanings for Sept. 

 . 1, and that they wanted " Dr. Millerto be in thecrowd, sure." 

 Of course the Doctor will be along, and we hope that many 

 more will join us. 



Remember that we will reserve sleeping car accommoda- 

 tions in the same car with us if we receive instructions in 

 time. We ought to know by Saturday of this week, if any 

 more wish us to reserve berths for them. 



IIoney-I>e\%' for "Winter Stores.— The Bee- 

 Keepers' Review gives the following as its opinion on the use 

 of honey-dew for winter stores for bees: 



"Quite a number have. written me that their bees have 

 gathered honey-dew this year. .In some localities the bees 



have filled their hives with it there is a difference in 



honey dew ; some is almost black, and sickening in flavor, 

 while some is light in color and rather pleasant in taste. I 

 remember that Prof. Cook used to tell us of these two kinds of 

 honey-dew, and explain that one came from one source and 

 the other frojn some other source, but I have forgotten now 



what was the exact difiference in the sources. He used also to 

 tell us that he considered the light-colored wholesome, and 

 that with the right conditions it might be safe for winter-food 

 for the bees ; but he most emphatically condemned the dark, 

 ill-flavored variety. It is quite likely that in Southern locali- 

 ties, where it Is not so cold, and where bees may enjoy an oc- 

 casional flight during the winter, honey-dew maybe all right 

 for winter-stores, but there have been too many heavy losses 

 from this source, where the winter is long and cold, to trust it 

 for winter-stores." 



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Xbe Omalia ConTention will be held next week 

 — Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 13, 14 and 15, 

 at the Delone Hotel, Cor. 14th St. and Capitol Ave. 



Are you going to be there "? Better go If you can. It 

 should be the best and largest convention of bee-keepers ever 

 held in this country. It can be, if every bee-keeper will make 

 a big effort to attend. 



Some may say it costs too much to go. lu one hundred 

 years from now you won't miss the amount you spent in at- 

 tending conventions. And you will never realize how much 

 you miss if you stay away. 



Of course you will be at Omaha next week, i/ot oJtpos- 

 sible. 



Tlie Cbicagfo Bee Keepers' Association is 



the newest organization among bee-keepers. It was started 

 here Sept. 1, at the Briggs House. The intention is to build 

 up a strong society among the bee-keepers residing in Cook 

 county, which practically is Chicago. There are over 100 of 

 them in this county. A constitution was adopted, fixing the 

 annual dues at 50 cents, the meetings to be held quarterly, 

 the first Thursday of December, March, June and September. 

 The officers elected are — President, C. Beers; Vice-President, 

 Mrs. Fannie Horstmann ; and Secretary and Treasurer, H. F. 

 Moore. 



Of course, all bee-keepers In Chicago and Cook county 

 will wish to become members of this association. If it Is more 

 convenient to send your dues to the Bee Journal office, do so, 

 and we will hand it to Mr. Moore, who will mail you a receipt. 



Using PJarro'w-'Widtli Sections.— In a recent 

 issue of the Bee-Keepers' Review, Editor Hutchinson gave this 

 paragraph on the width of sections : 



" The width of sections that I used this year is only 13>^ 

 inches. Several years ago, when I lived at Rogersville, I used 

 several thousands of sections of this width. This is the width 

 that bees naturally build thelrcomb, and they build this width 

 of combs more even and straight without separators than 

 they do the thicker combs. They complete and cap the combs 

 quicker. Fourteen sections weigh about 12 pounds. I like 

 sections of this width." 



Editor Root, after copying the foregoing, has this to say 

 on the subject : 



" If I can read the signs of the times the trade will grad- 

 ually work toward lighter-weight section honey-boxes — not 

 for the purpose of deception, but because the wholesale price 

 of honey has got down so low that one or two things must 

 happen : The price must go up or quantity decrease. In 

 good years the former is out of the question." 



While no doubt many grocers who retail comb honey by 

 the section, and not by weigh;, would prefer the lighter- 

 weight sections, still the consumers, we think, would prefer 

 to have the heavier section, and pay a little more for it. It 

 will be a hard matter to get the bees to put 14 ounces of 

 honey in the I'.jinch sections oftener than — well, it will not 

 be their rule, we think. 



Honey" Cherry-Pliospliate.— A "straw" in 

 Gleanings says that a Mrs. Collins recommends, for a hot 

 weather drink, cherry phosphate sweetened with honey. It 

 can always be on hand, even when lemons cannot, and a set 

 of threshers gave coffee the go-by for this drink. 



