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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



October 6 



GEORGE W. YORK. EOITOH. 



PCBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



118 Michigan 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 

 keepers; to protect its members ; to prevent the adulteration of honey: and 

 to prosecute the dishonest honey-commission men. 



Afembersiiip J^ee— $1.00 per AnntLin, 



BXECUTIVE 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; E.T.Abbott; C. P. Dadant: 



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

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



VOL. 38. 



OCTOBER 6, 1898. 



NO. 40. 



EDITOR I ALtCOnnENTS' 



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:- Change "d" or "ed" final 

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



The Report of the Omaha ConTention is 



begun this week. Every member of the United States Bee- 

 Keepers' Union will receive a copy of this journal containing 

 the full report. It promises to be very interesting, and no 

 doubt will be read with great profit. 



Question for Queen-Breeders.— A subscriber 

 in Jamaica sends us the following question which he desires 

 to have queen-breeders answer in the Bee Journal : 



"With what method of introducing virgin qneens to nuclei are 

 you the most successful ? Also give the age of the queens." 



Now If the professional queen-breeders who read this 

 journal will kindly forward their replies promptly we will 

 publish them all in the same issue soon. 



misleading: Description of Foul Brood.— 



Under this heading appears the following paragraph by Critic 

 Taylor in the Bee-Keepers' Review for September : 



"In the American Bee Journal, page 502, is a descrip- 

 tion of foul brood In which I find the statement that It ' is a 

 disease that kills the young bee in the larva [larvall state after 

 it has beai capt over.' Italics mine. This is a mistake that 

 may lead some astray. To be sure, much of the brood lives 

 till it Is capt, but sometimes a large proportion dies before It 

 is ready for that operation, and never is capt." 



A glaring error, and one that never should have been 

 allowed In the columns of this journal. Mr. McEvoy says 

 that " in all and every case where once fairly started more 

 brood dies of foul brood at the ages of 6, 7, 8, and 9 days 

 than at any other age." This Is in answer to the question 



whether he has ever known unsealed brood to die of foul 

 brood. 



The item in the Review is misleading in another sense. It 

 makes no mention of the fact that instead of being original 

 matter, the article containing the error was a clipping from 

 the Pacific Rural Press. 



The word "larval" In brackets shows that Mr. Taylor 

 would use it instead of "larva." "Larval" Is the better 

 word. But there is a bare possibility that some might raise 

 the question whether it is really an error to use the word 

 "larva "in the place referred to. It is a noun used as an 

 adjective. The noun " egg " is used in the same way when 

 speaking of the egg state. Would it not be as well to say 

 "larva or egg state " as to say "larval or egg state?" Or 

 should one say " larval or eggal state ?" 



Self-Selling of Honey. — Editor Hutchinson, In 

 the Bee-Keepers' Review, when speaking of marketing honey, 

 had this to say : 



"The most of my honey has been sold by commission- 

 men ; for the reason that sold in this manner it would net me 

 more than sold direct to grocers near home. Of late the price 

 of honey in the large cities has fallen, while in our local mar- 

 kets it has remained about the same, hence I now find it prof- 

 itable to be my own salesman ; and I really enjoy it, so much 

 so in fact that I often feel as tho I would like the business of 

 being a ' drummer.' " 



We have never had much time to spend in an attempt to 



sell honey, but we think we would like it very much ; and 



were we to be suddenly " out of a job," we believe we could 



do well at selling honey — make a good, honest living, anyway. 



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An TTncappins: Apparatus Is described and 

 illustrated in Praktischer Wegweiser by A. Janello. A strong 

 tin dish 20 Inches long, 12 inches wide, and 6 inches high has 

 resting In it, supported at proper distance from bottom a piece 

 of wire-cloth with meshes 5 to the Inch. On this rests a sort 

 of roof of the same wire-cloth, the two sides of the roof allow- 



ing two operators to uncap at the same time. The slanting 

 surface of the roof allows the combs to rest with little or no 

 holding, and all the honey that drips is caught in the pan be- 

 low. Of course the size could be varied according to the size 

 of combs used. A larger size would do better for frames in 



general use in this country. 



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Xhe Xrans-mississippi Exposition is another 

 World's Fair, but on a smaller scale. All industries are well 

 represented in the exhibits. Including bee-keeping, and in this 

 latter the Exposition authorities have succeeded admirably in 

 placing before the world a vast object lesson. 



The Exposition managers acceded to the request of the 

 bee-keepers, and erected a fine building to be devoted entirely 

 to this work. The building is a substantial frame structure, 

 shingle roof, with sky-lights, plastered inside and staff- 

 coated outside ; is 75x140 feet, and 16 feet high at the eaves ; 

 whitewasht ceiling, and woodwork painted white. It is nicely 



