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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Jan. 19, 1899. 



GEORGE W. YORK, Editor. 



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United States Bee- Keepers' Union. 



Orgranized 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. 



Memlyership JFee — Sl.OO per Axinjim, 



Executive Committee— Pres.. E. Whitcomb: Vice-Pres., C. A. Hatch: 

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



Board of Directors— E. R. Root; E. Whitcomb; E. T. Abbott; C. P. 

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



Gen'l M.4NAGER AND TRE.-iSURER— Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



VOL. 39. JANa^ARY 19. 1899. 



NO. 3. 



Note— The -Americin i;,r Juuriial adopts the Orthoj.'raphy of the follow- 

 ing- Rule, recommended by the joint action of the American Philolofjf- 

 ical Association and the Philological Society of Ensrland: — Chanjre 

 "d" or "ed"' final to "t" when so pronounced, except when the "e" af- 

 fects a preceding sound. 



A Big Cuban Honey=Crop is that of Dr. Vieta, as re- 

 ported in Gleanings by W. W. Somerford. It was 360.000 

 pounds from two apiaries. That's all 1 



Apis Dorsata is strong-ly championed by the American 

 Bee-Keeper. Since those who oppose it say that it cannot 

 prosper in this land, why need there be any feeling- about 

 its introduction ? 



The Omaha Convention Report ran throug-h 14 mnn- 

 bers of the Bee Journal, beg-inning- with the first number in 

 October, 1898. Now we have on hand quite a number of 

 complete sets of that report, which we will mail for just 10 

 cents each. That is, 14 copies of the American Bee Journal 

 for only a dime. There are doubtless a good many of our 

 new readers who will be glad to get that fine report. 



Kind of Bee=Keepers Who Succeed Mr. L. B. Smith. 



in the Southland Oueen, tells in one paragraph how to suc- 

 ceed in bee-keeping. Here is the method : 



" You must read, study, and even dream about bees if 

 you expect to make a good bee-keeper. You might succeed 

 after a fashion without the bee papers and books, but fail- 

 ure is sure to come sooner or later. I cannot call to mind 

 one man or woman that was in the bee-business 10 years 

 ago that did not take and read the bee papers and books 

 that to-day has any bees, let alone make any money out of 

 it ; while tho.se that have taken and read books and journals 

 have almost all had fair success, and some making good 

 money at it." 



Condition of Bee=Keeping in Cuba. — Mr. W. W. Som- 

 erford, has just returned from Cuba, where he took " a 

 sort of inventorj- trip, to ascertain what was left, after the 

 war, of .some of the finest apiaries in the world, and also to 

 embark in the bee-business again in Cuba after an absence 

 of four years from that island." Here is what he reported 

 in Gleanings : 



" I visited many apiaries that were in a run-down con- 

 dition. By way of caution I will suggest to those in a hurrj- 

 to embark in the honey-business in Cuba, that there's plenty 

 of time ; the island is not such a paradise just now — not 

 even for the modern honey-producer. 



" And to those bee-keepers in the United States who 

 fear that the American market is going to be ruined by 

 cheap, dark grades of honey from Cuba, I will say that 

 Amsterdam. Holland, and foreign cities in general, get the 

 honey that's produced in Cuba — not the American markets. 

 The American honey-producers in Cuba, who have tried the 

 United States markets, have paid for their experience in 

 shipping, commission. lighterage, freight, cooperage, dra^'- 

 age (import duty 10 cents per gallon), and commission, "to 

 say nothing of leakage ; and by the time these charges are 

 figured up, and the cost of package added, at the Cuban 

 cost, 5 cents per gallon, the shipper wonders why he didn't 

 sell in Havana at 40 or SO cents per gallon net (packages 

 paid for by the honey-buyer). 



" After traveling hundreds of miles over the country I 

 came to the conclusion that next October or November will 

 be soon enough for the would-be Cuban bee-keepers to em- 

 bark for Cuba." 



The Dot Diagram Contest.— Last week we announced 

 that this week we would give the result of the dot contest 

 which ended Jan. 1. It will be remembered that we made 

 four cash offers, and 60 Globe bee-veils, which retail at $1.00 

 each. The cash offers were, 1st, $50 ; 2nd, $25 ; 3rd, $10 ; 

 and 4th, $5. This makes a total of $150. 



There were 2083 dots in the diagram, and 84 persons 

 who found that number are as follows : 



Xliose tVinning' tlie $50 Oli'ei-. 



F. McBride 

 ,Inhn Peters 



G. A. McDonald 

 S. S. Sampson 



F Mitternieyer 

 P. D. Wine 

 Creo. W. Gross 

 R. +•. Sweet 

 P. F. Schrauff 

 M. Walrath 

 D. J. Troyer 

 R. Hurlburt 

 N. S. ('ushing. Jr 

 Arnoltl s. Reeves 

 D. A. Holemiin 

 John 1>. Gray 

 Geo. Crowflen 

 Lufee Nor.1holf 

 J. W. Shirley 

 Mrs. L. Maclc 

 R. B. Wheeler 



B. W. Peek 

 .lobn K. Kimble 

 John tjcherer 

 A. E. Coonrod 

 John Stroebel, Jr 

 S. G. Jackson 

 Ij. M. Adams 

 John Michaels 

 W. H. Pridtien 

 L. L. dkaKKs 

 Joe Amman 

 W. T-. Hunker 

 VV. H.Wetherbee 

 R. H. Abbott 

 F. Greiner 

 U. F. Schultz 

 VI. D. Andes 

 N. Richardson 



E. D. Lerch 

 Jam'^s W. Brown 



F. W. Brown 



L. A. Syverud 

 Frank J. Clark 



A. H. Dean 

 Kelsey Hart 

 Wm. h*. Ware 

 G. C. Britton 

 K. Henrint: 

 Milo B. Brand 

 Oliver Adcoi'k 

 Chas. Putman 

 John K Beattv 

 G. W. Powell 



R. A. .vlcPlieron 

 H. K. McGresor 

 V.N.Allen 

 R. Kodenbercer 

 RoderickCameron 

 C. A. Haines 

 M. B. Cooper 

 Geo. A. Cobb 



B. C. Biselow 



o. Taylor 

 Rev. W. Knuf 

 JohnF. Logsdon 

 B. E. Allen 

 VVra. Irwin 

 A. P. Bender 



A. M. Fisk 

 Lewis Sampson 

 Omer M. Smith 

 T. (*ierrepont, Jr 

 L. L. Moore 



W. H. Price 

 Gen. J. Ward 

 E. V. Truesdell 

 R. liOwey 

 Otto A. Miller 

 G. S.Crego 

 Wm. Schopke 



B. K. I.awlln 

 A, F. Fluckiger 

 L.J. Whitney 



The next nearest counts were 2082 and 2084, and there 

 were 125 who came under those numbers : 



'I'hose IVinning: tlie $SS5 Oll'er 



E. W. Lanier 

 Paul F. Bratz 

 Fred G. Berner 

 Alonzo Knights 

 G. L.Gund 

 E. August Weiss 

 S. M. Co.x 

 N. H. Vogt 

 John Morton 

 Fred Reitman 

 Mrs. M. -V. Golden 

 John P. Anderson 

 A. J. Fisher 

 W. B. Virgin 

 J. W. Lane 

 .lohn b. Walther 

 W. Bishop 

 H. L. Meyer 

 John K. Frisbee 

 D. A. Goodman 

 C. E. Snyder 

 Frank Fishell 

 S H. Hurat 

 J. M. Urban 

 W. T. Sherman 

 G. J. Doane 

 L. Hansen & Sons 

 J. D. Motrett 

 A. Pontious 

 Jos. J. (jiger 

 Wm. Wilson 

 Wm.Daubenspeck 



Edmund Worthen 

 H. M. Hood 

 G. A. C. Clarke 

 H.J. Uavhoir 

 G. W. Lawson 

 B. VoUering 

 John G. Krasser 

 Stephen Lawson 

 D . Cooley 

 H.L. Gloege 

 F. M. Peterson 

 Geo Hill I man 

 Orville Jones 

 Tlios. S. Wallace 

 Philip Roth 

 A. C. Abbott 

 A. L Cook 

 II. Sonnedecker 

 S. Burton 

 Jesse Willis 

 John J. Yonke 

 Allen Lewlon 

 D. L. Carlton 

 E.G. Money 

 J. E. Henry 

 Carlos Wheeler 

 Wesley Kencig 



A. H. Kanagy 



B. Hummert 

 L. K. Smith 

 Chas. B. Alden 

 J. Cornelins 



D. F. Berry 



John Motl 

 M. S. Snow 

 Neil Galbraith 

 F. W. llaynes 

 W. K.Ileintzelman 



E. Manicke 

 H. S. Norcross 



F. C. Wiggins 

 Wm. Witkaisky 

 O. M. Pierson 

 Edw. Scoggin 

 H. 1). Hill 

 Ijouis Thill 

 Thos. C. Stewart 

 T. W. McGinley 

 John T. Young 

 Chris Hedler 



T. J. Green 

 Frank Snvder 

 L. P. Billings 

 B.M.Snyder 

 E. A. Lindquist 

 Stoughton Cooley 

 S. Rudesill 



G. F. Hadder 

 L. P. Spring 

 B. Davison 

 J. J. Burke 

 Chas. W. Ingalls 

 John Kramer 



J. B. Pyle 



H. H. Lam pert 

 J. P. Blunk 

 Geo. W. RIker 

 Julius Herman 

 Geo. E. Nichols 

 .'. .1. Frantz 

 W. S. Benton 

 F. Sauter 

 Miletus Sims 

 Chas. Paul 

 A. T. Smith 

 Frank E. Rverse 

 S. S. Butts 

 Percivul Golden 

 Wm. Stewart 

 H. S. Jones 

 J. C. Hendricks 

 Ge". F. Fall 

 o. D. French 

 C. H. Eastman 

 <\ C. Parsons 

 H. Nootnagle 

 John V, Emmert 

 M. S. I'atterson 

 Geo. H. Weaver 

 Will Prindle 



F. II. Krauss 

 George Weis 



G. H. Quimby 



