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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



October 13. 



GEORGE W. YORK. EDITOR. 



PUBUSHT 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. 



Alembersbip Fee—Sl'OO per Ajojauxn, 



BXECUTIVE COMMlTTEE-Pres.. George W. York; Vice-Pres., W. Z. Hutchinson; 



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

 BOARD OP DiRKCTOBS— E. R. Root; E. Whitcomb; E. T. Abbott; C. P. Dadant: 



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



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



VOL. 38. OCTOBER 13, 1898. NO. 41. 



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

 Rule, recomn]enrtetl 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. 



Ten "Weeks for Ten Cents.— On page 651 we 

 renew our offer made to new subscribers in the last number of 

 the Bee Journal for September. Now it seems to us that 

 nearly all of our regular readers have neighbor bee-keepers 

 whom they could secure on that liberal offer. With last week's 

 issue we began printing an extra-large edition weekly so that 

 we might be able to accommodate all the new ten-weeks-for- 

 ten-cents subscriptions that might be sent In. We hope all who 

 can do so will help In this fall campaign for new subscribers. 

 The Bee Journal should have at least double its present list of 

 regular subscribers. 



Honey at the Paris Exposition.— A local 

 California newspaper reports that recently the Secretary of 

 the Chamber of Commerce at Los Angeles, wrote to the Cali- 

 fornia Bee-Keepers' Exchange in regard to an exhibit of honey 

 at the Paris Exposition, in 1900. In reply to this, C. H. 

 Clayton, secretary and manager of the Exchange, wrote as 

 follows : 



"Your favor of Sept. 19, relative to a prospective exhibit 

 at the Paris Exposition is at hand. There can be no question 

 but that it would be to our advantage to have an exhibit 

 there, and the matter has already been discust in an informal 

 way among our members. The whole subject will come up 

 for final action at our annual meeting, which occurs early In 

 January, 1899. One great disadvantage under which we 

 labor is the apparently growing uncertainty of crops, this year 

 being a complete failure, and about every other year for the 

 last ten years being a partial failure, making it diificult, if 

 not Impossible, to hold trade secured. During 1897 we secured 

 quite a foreign trade, sending honey to all the principal Euro- 

 pean points, including South Africa ; but this year we have 



absolutely no honey to fill orders from there, and we have now 

 on file orders in our office for more than 600 tons for export, 

 with not a ton in sight to fill them. 



"Central California will produce a little honey, but as a 

 rule It is not acceptable to any of the foreign markets except 

 Germany, almost all the markets demanding Southern Cali- 

 fornia honey. Even central and northern California will not 

 produce much more than 120 tons — one-fifth of the amount 

 for which we already have orders — and the local demand will 

 take most of that. So you see the question with us Is whether 

 we should he exhibiting, or hold out inducements to trade 

 which we may not be able to fill. 



" Whatever action is taken In the matter we will promptly 

 notify you." 



From the foregoing It appears that the California Bee- 

 Keepers' Exchange has been doing some great work. Having 

 on hand orders to the amount of 600 tons of honey is no small 

 thing. We trust that the Exchange may soon be able to fill 

 all its present orders, and many more yet to come. 

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The Price of Honey has an upward tendency, so 

 those who are favored with a crop will at least have some 

 benefit from the scarcity. The advice to hold for a fair price 

 was never more seasonable. Gleanings reports that it Is not 

 an easy thing to find sufficient choice honey to supply the 

 demand they have for It. 



The Season in California.— W. A. Pryal says 

 in Gleanings that the season was in general so bad throughout 

 California that it was a question with some whether it was 

 better to feed the bees or let them starve. The northern coast 

 and mountain counties gave a medium crop. But there has 

 been no rise in price to correspond with the scarcity of the 

 crop. Honey is granulating earlier than usual, owing perhaps 

 to the large amount of altilaree nectar gathered in that region. 



The "Bare" and The Bees.— The New York 

 Sun received a number of original compositions on animals, 

 from a Boston school-teacher, which show several different 

 characteristics from what we have been led to suppose be- 

 longed to the literary productions of even the childish Bos- 

 tonese. Here are two samples : 



The Bare. — Bares are of many sighes and all big. The 

 chief kinds are the grizzly bare which Is black ; the sinner- 

 mon bare which is good and gentle ; the white bare which 

 bleaches its skin to hide In the snow and make a rug, and the 

 black bare which is common and is careful of its cubs. Bares 

 fight bees for honey, which is mean because the bees are lit- 

 tle. Once a bare found some currant-Jelly sitting on a gar- 

 den-bench to dry, and he ate it, and the lady hadn't any more, 

 which was greedy. Bares are pigs. J. C. C. 



Bees. — Bees are always busy because the Idle ones are 

 killed. They make honey and wax, but parafeen candles are 

 cheaper or else candles made out of whales. The bees build 

 cells and combs and some times fill trees and bears smell the 

 honey and eat it. They suck the juice out of flowers and the 

 flower dies. Bees are meaner than mosquitoes, and you can 

 tell them by the yellow bands on their abdomen. A. C. 

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The Old Union Victorious Again.— General 

 Manager Thomas G. Newman, of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union, has sent us the following concerning a case at law in 

 which all bee-keepers will be Interested : 



The enemies of the pursuit of bee-keeping have again 

 been defeated. It will be remembered that about one year 

 ago Mr. Prank S. Buchhelm, of Santa Ana, Calif., was ar- 

 rested under Sec. 370 of the Penal Code of California, for 

 keeping 100 colonies of bees on his premises, charging him 

 with maintaining a nuisance in the neighborhood, averring 

 that the bees ate and destroyed the fruit belonging to the 

 neighbors, and interfered with laborers who were engaged In 

 caring for the fruit, etc. His apiary and premises cover 1)4 

 acres. He built a fence 6 feet high to enclose 24x32 feet. In 

 which he kept the hives of bees during the fruit-drying sea- 

 son, thus controlling the bees and preventing annoyance to 

 the neighbors. But they were not satisfied with these pre- 



