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AMERICAN BEE JOUBNAL, 



Mar. 16, 1899. 



GEORGE W. YORK, Editor. 



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United States Bee-Keepers' Association. 



Organized to advance the pursuit of Apiculture ; to promote the interests 

 of bee-keepers ; to protect its members : to prevent the adulteration of 

 liouej' ; and to prosecute the dishonest honey-commission men. 



Alembership JPceSl.OO per Annixm. 



ExECDTlVE CoMJiiTTEE— Pres., E. Whitcomb; Vice-Pres., C. A. Hatch; 



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

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



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

 Gen'l Manager and Treascrer— Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



VOL. 39. 



MARCH 16, 1899. 



NO. 11. 



Note— The American Bee Journal adopts the Orthoi^'raphv of the follow- 

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

 ical Association and the Philological Society of England: —Change 

 "d" or "ed'' final to "I" when so pronounced, except when the "e" af- 

 fects a preceding sound. 



The Dot Contest Prizes will have to wait another 

 week, we regret to sa.v, before we can close them up. We 

 beg-an to sort out those g-iven to the Langstroth Fund from 

 the others, and found it such a large job that we couldn't 

 possibly get it done in time for this issue. But nest week, 

 even if we have to work all the nights between now and 

 then, we will be ready to make a final report on them. The 

 prize money has long been ready for the successful contest- 

 ants, but the clerical work necessary to arrange the matter 

 properly is more than we anticipated. 



Apis Dorsata and the Qovernment. Bion Walbridge 

 applied to the Government to obtain some of the big bees 

 that newspaper reports said would soon be introduced from 

 the Philippines. The reply from Washington is publisht 

 in Gleanings, and its main part is as follows : 



The newspaper report which you mention was unau- 

 thorized. The Department has not. as yet, undertaken the 

 importation of bees from the Philippines. Should they be 

 obtained, however, they would first be carefully tested' be- 

 fore any general distribution- would be decided upon. If 

 then the latter course should be deemed advisable due notice 

 would be given to those interested, and j'our application 

 would be favorably considered by the Department. 



L. O. Howard, Entomologist. 



When Apis dorsata arrives in this country it will verv 

 likely be promptly announced in the bee-papers. But it is 

 very doubtful that they will be ready for general distribu- 

 tion among bee-keepers in this country before the Twen- 

 tieth Centurv. 



Publishing Post=Office Addresses of contributors to 

 the columns of the Bee Journal is a practice we discontinued 

 about two years ago. And we did it for verj' good reasons, 

 too. 



First, we decided that it was unfair to cliarge certain 

 good people for putting their names and addresses in the 

 advertising columns, and then in pure reading-matter put- 

 ting the names and addresses of other people yb/- notliitig. 



Second, we knew that many of our correspondents did 

 not want to be pestered with a lot of letters from people 

 they didn't care anything about hearing from. For in- 

 stance, Mr. Stollej', who wrote on sweet clover recently, 

 askt us to announce that he had no sweet clover seed for 

 sale. But by omitting- his full address, of course no one 

 could well bother him. Once before, when he wrote on 

 sweet clover, and his full address was given, he received 

 many letters, and most of them from people who were 

 unbusinesslike enough not to put in a stamp for reply, 

 .so Mr. Stolley was out his stationery, his time, and his 

 stamps. 



Third, if any one wants to do business through the 

 Bee Journal he must pay for it. It costs monej', and lots of 

 it, to publish a paper like the Bee Journal every week, and 

 it is only right that advertising should be paid for. The 

 subscription price alone doesn't nearly cover the cost of get- 

 ting out the Bee Journal. 



Now, we trust that our readers will understand our 

 position on this subject, and not keep on asking us why we 

 don't publish the full addresses of our correspondents. 

 Other papers can do as they like about this, but we propose 

 to do the fair thing by those who pay us cash for putting 

 their advertisements in the Bee Journal. We know that we 

 have taken the right stand in this. 



A Few Pointers on Foul Brood. — Mr. N. E. France, 

 foul brood inspector for Wisconsin, sends us the following- 

 on the subject of foul brood : 



" On page 90 is given G. Sawyer's method of curing foul 

 brood, which is all right except that I object to burning 

 anything containing foul brood upon the ground, but 

 always in a pit ott level gyouitd, and tlie clean soil returned 

 over tlie asties. Foul-broody combs can be melted in boiling 

 water and the wax safely used as comb foundation. If dis- 

 eased honey is boiled in good earnest for 15 minutes, and 

 stirred with a stick all the time (the stick then burned), the 

 honev is safe to feed bees." 



The Simplified Spelling of the English language is 

 slowly gaining ground. For over two years we have been 

 working on some words — using " t " for " ed " when the 

 sound is " t," with a few exceptions ; also tlio for though, 

 and altho for although. We think our readers are becoming 

 familiar with this beginning, and will agree with us that it 

 is time for us to make another advance in simplified spelling. 



Mr. Irwin Shepard, secretary of the National Educa- 

 tional Association, sent out this notice last August : 



ANNOUNCEMENT — AMENDED SPELLING. 



The department of superintendence of the National 

 Educational Association, at its meeting in Indianapolis, 

 Ind., Feb. 17, 1898, appointed a committee consisting of Dr. 

 William T. Harris, United States commissioner of educa- 

 tion, Washington, D. C; Dr. F. Louis Soldan, superintend- 

 ent of schools, St. Louis, Mo., and T. M. Balliet, superin- 

 tendent of schools, Springfield, Mass., to recommend a list 

 of words with simplified spelling for use in the publisht 

 proceedings of the department. 



The report of the committee was duly made, and the 

 spelling so authorized was used in the publisht proceedings 

 of the meeting of the department held in Chattanoog-a, 

 Tenn., Feb. 22-24, 1898. 



At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the National 

 Educational Association, held in Washington, D. C re- 

 cently, the action of the department of superintendence 



