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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Mar. 30, 1899. 



PCBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



Qeorqe W. York & Company, 



118 Michigan St., Giiicago, ill. 



ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. *%S^ SAMPLE COPY FREE. 



[Entered at the Post-Office at Cliicajfo as Second-Class Mail Matter.] 



United States Bee- Keepers' Association. 



Orj^atiized to advance the ijursuil of Apiculture ; to promote the interests 

 of bee-keepers ; to protect its members ; to prevent the adulteratiou of 

 Uoney ; and to prosecute the dishonest hoaey-coniinission men. 



Afembersliip Fee—Sl-OO per .Annum. 



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



Secretarj-, 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. 

 Ge.n'l Manager and Treasurer— Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



jP/ace and Date of A'e-xt ^leetin^ : 



Philadelphia, Pa., September 5,6 and 7, 1H99. Every bee-keeper is invited. 



VOL. 39. 



MARCH 30, 1899. 



NO. 13, 



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BITORIALtCOnnENTS: 



Note— The Am.ericau Bee Juuru.il adopts the Ortho<rraphy of the follow- 

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

 ical Association and the Philological Society of Enprland: — Change 

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

 fects a preceding sound. 



The Illinois Foul Brood Bill, we learn from Secretary 

 Jas. A. Stone, of the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, was reported back to the Senate by the appropriations 

 committee, with the recommendation that it do pass. Mr. 

 Stone now wishes us to urg-e Illinois bee-keepers to talk or 

 write to their senators and representatives, and try to im- 

 press them with the importance of this law to give us the 

 protection that we have a rig-ht to. We hope that all will 

 act upon this suggestion at once. Just overwhelm all the 

 legislature at Springfield with letters, urging the passage 

 of the Foul Brood Bill. Do it iioiv, as an adjournment will 

 take place in about two weeks. 



Evident Signs of Growth in Bee-Keeping, Editor 

 Root considers the occasional large editions of bee-papers 

 and the increase of subscribers to some of the leading peri- 

 odicals. Then the dozen supply factories (against the three 

 or four three j-ear ago) are nearly all working on full time. 

 and several over-time. He thinks this tends to show that 

 honey is becoming more nearly a staple. 



The Intense Cold Spell the last end of January and first 

 half of February aroused general fears that there would be 

 a wholesale loss of bees all over the country. Fortunately 

 the cold spell was immediately followed in most places by a 

 warm spell that allowed a flight, thus saving the bees. 



The Langstroth Memorial. — We have received the fol- 

 lowing acknowledgement from Mr. Secor : 



Forest City, Iowa. March 21, 1899. 

 George W. York, Chicago, 111. — 



Dear Sir : — Your favor of the 18th. enclosing check for 

 $50, to cover the amounts kindlj' donated by Dot Contest 

 contributors to the Langstroth Fund, which amount was 

 generously augmented by your own contribution, has been 

 received. 



There is in sight about S2"S for the Langstroth memo- 

 rial, which amount ought to erect a verj' respectable shaft 

 with suitable inscription. I hereby thank every one who 

 has helpt to make the memorial possible. 



Allow me to invite suggestions for an inscription to be 

 engraved on the stone. 



The following' has been prepared by the committee, and 

 is herewith submitted for approval or criticism. 



Yours truly, Eugene Secor. 



The inscription referred to by Mr. Secor as having been 

 prepared by the committee, reads as follows : 



Inscribed to the Memory of the 



REV. LORENZO LORAIN LANGSTROTH, 



"Father of American Bke-Keeping." 



By his affectionate beneficiaries in the Art ; who, in remem- 

 brance of the services rendered bj' his persistent and 

 painstaking observation and experiments with the 

 Honey-Bee, his improvements in the Hive, and 

 the charming literarj- ability' shown in the 

 first scientific and popular book on the 

 subject of Bee-Keeping in the United 

 States, gratefully erect this 

 monument. 



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Rest thou in peace. Thy work is done. 



Thou hast wrought well. Thy fame is sure. 

 The crown of love which thou hast won 



For useful deeds shall long endure. 



" We Be Brethren." — The size of hives has been dis- 

 cust of late in the different bee-papers with much spirit. 

 Editor Hutchinson occupied several pages in copying from 

 Gleanings and the American Bee Journal some of the writ- 

 ings of the chief disputants — Messrs. Doolittle and Dadant 

 — and remarks : 



"There is one verj' pleasant thing about this discus- 

 sion, and that is that all who have taken part in it are gen- 

 tlemen. They are fair, honorable, and polite. To me it is 

 a great comfort to argue with such men, knowing that the 

 closing of the discussion will find us still warm friends."' 



The New British Bee=Papers. — Speaking of journalis- 

 tic courtesy among bee-papers, the Britishers are not a whit 

 behind their Yankee cousins, if indeed they do not lead. 

 The British Bee Journal, speaking of its new rivals, Bee- 

 Chat and the Scottish Bee-Keeper, says : 



"Courteous in tone, and beyond reproach in substance, 

 the respective editors are apparently quite conscious of the 

 fact that successful bee-journalism is only possible when 

 kept clear of personalities, and conducted — as between read- 

 ers atid themselves — in the spirit of gentlemen." 



" When Discussion Should be Cut Off," is the heading- 

 of an editorial in the Bee-Keepers' Review. Referring to 

 the American Bee Journal, he saj's that a discussion as to 

 improvement in bees " started a discussion regarding the 

 soundness of evolutionarj' doctrines. When it reacht this 

 stage, Bro. York thought it had past beyond the province 

 of a bee-journal, and he cut it off. I think he had a perfect 

 right to do this." He thinks evolution, trusts, and a thou- 

 sand other things that are proper subjects for discussion 

 should not find a place for discussion in bee-journals ; that 

 many subjects may be so related to bee-keeping as profit- 

 ably to be noticed up to a certain point in a bee-journal, 

 and it is the business of the editor to decide when the point 



