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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



May 11, 1899. 



PVBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



George W. York & Company, 



118 Michigan 8t., Ciiicago, III. 



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



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



United States Bee- Keepers' Association. 



OrganiEed to advance the pursuit of .\piculture ; to promote the interests 

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

 honey ; and to prosecute the dishonest hone\*-commission men. 



AXembersIiip Pee — ^l.OO per Annxrm, 



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. 



Dadaut; \V. Z. Hutchinson; Dr. C. C. Miller. 

 Gen'l Manager a.nd Treasurer— Eujjene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



Place and Date of Xext Aleeting ! 



In Franklin Institute, 

 IS South 7th Street, between Market and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphi.-i, Pa- 

 September S, and 7, 1S99. Every bee-keeper is invited. 



VOL. 39. 



MAY 11, 1899. 



NO. 19. 



Note— The American Bee J.mnuil adept, the Orthoijraphy 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 "t" when so pronounced, except when the *'e*' af- 

 fects a preceding sound. 



Booming and Fighting New Things.— Editor Hutchin- 

 son speaks of the tendency of editors of bee-papers to favor 

 unreasonably and also to oppose unreasonabh' the adoption 

 of new things. He says : 



"The beginner in bee-keeping who reads Gleanings 

 alone would be almost certain to send his order for plain 

 sections and separators. If he read only the Progressive or 

 the Canadian Bee Journal there would be little danger of 

 his experimenting with them." 



Mr. Hutchinson thinks fences and plain sections lead to 

 a more perfect filling, but thinks it possible some better 

 way may be discovered than to use fences. And yet, if the 

 fences and plain sections do accomplish something not here- 

 tofore or otherwise attained, why not favor them until that 

 " some better wav " is ■' discovered ?" 



Railroad Rates to Philadelphia.— Secretary Mason, of 

 the United States Bee-Keepers' Association, sent us the fol- 

 lowing for publication, bearing on the railroad rates to 

 Philadelphia, in September : 



Sta. B, Toledo, Ohio, April 29, 1899. 



Editor American Bee Journal :— I see on page 264 

 you quote from the Chicago Record of April 14. that rail- 

 road rates have been fixt for the Grand Armj- Encampment 

 at Philadelphia, in September, and that the " rate of one 

 fare for the round trip from Chicago and all points in the 

 Central Passenger Association territory " has been fixt. 



Just let me tell you and your readers what the "Com- 



missioner of the Central Passenger Association " wrote me 

 April 25—11 days later than the date of the Record. The 

 Commissioner gives me the name and address of the com- 

 missioners of the diif erent passenger associations, and adds : 



"I am unable to advise you as to what reduced rates, if auy, have 

 been establisht by the associations named, on account of the Grand 

 Army Encampment. The details respecting rates from this territory 

 'Central Passenger Association have not yet been definitely determined 

 on. but it has been settled that a rate of one cent per mile short-line dis- 

 tance with a minimum of 511 will be charged for round-trip tickets sold 

 from this territory, going and returning by the same route. Tickets will 

 also be sold at slightly higher rates which will carry stopover privileges 

 and an opportunity to vary the routes on going and returning journeys ; 

 and if you will write ns again in about a month we will probably be able 

 to give you definite and complete information."' 



Now that is better authority than the Record, and I as- 

 sure you I shall let the readers of the different bee-papers 

 know what the rates are just as soon as I can find out my- 

 self, but any one can learn what the rate will be from their 

 starting railroad point by asking their station agent, but it 

 may be three months yet before the agents will get their 

 instructions. I expect to know officially about it before 

 they do. 



If the other bee-papers will copy the above, or so much 

 of it as they think best, it may help some to an idea of the 

 probable cost. 



Philadelphia is about 600 miles from Toledo, and one of 

 our leading ticket agents told me this week, that a round- 

 trip ticket from here will cost $11.95. A. B. Mason. 



Secretary United States Bee-Keepers' Association. 



We supposed the Chicago Record had reliable authority 

 upon which to base their statements, audit may be they are 

 not so far wrong as they might be. At any rate, there is 

 plenty of time yet to announce the rates, and all who will 

 want to go will be able to find out definitely some time be- 

 fore the day they start. The important thing for bee-keep- 

 ers to do is to begin now to arrange to be in Philadelphia 

 Sept. 5, 6 and 7, when the annual convention of the United 

 States Bee-Keepers' Association is held. 



Thickness of No=Drip Cleats for Shipping.Cases. — 



Editor Root is in trouble to know how thick to make them. 

 First they were made % inch thick. Then there was a 

 clamor to have them thinner, and they were made J's thick. 

 Now comes Byron Walker, a man who handles a great deal 

 of honey produced by others, and says that the cleats should 

 not be less than y^ thick. If thinner than that, there will 

 always be some cases with so much leaking that the leak- 

 age will fill up to the bottoms of the sections. Mr. Root 

 rightly says that the thin cleat is all right if the comb is 

 fastened in the section as it should be, but when partly 

 filled and poorly attacht it needs a thicker cleat to take care 

 of the drip. Mr. Root, perhaps you'll have to go to the ex- 

 tra trouble of making Js cleats for the careful ones, and Yi 

 for the others. And yet there isn't much use in having two 

 thicknesses. 



A Foul Brood Law for flichigan is strongly urged by 

 the Bee-Keepers' Review. Editor Hutchinson mentions 

 what has been said about it in this journal, and urges every 

 bee-keeper of the State to do all he can to urge the passage 

 of the Bill. Altho bee-keepers of other States can do noth- 

 ing to advance the passage of the Michigan Bill, they are 

 personally interested in its passage, at least in every State 

 that as j-et has no foul brood law ; for every State added to 

 the list of those that have foul brood laws makes it easier to 

 secure such laws in States not vet to the front. 



" Selling Honey by the Section instead of by weight 

 has been my usual method for several years. Most of the 

 grocers accept this method very cheerfully, and, after ex- 

 perience with the plan, prefer it. Those who do not, gen- 

 erally like to buy by weight and sell by piece, because they 

 are thereby enabled to squeeze out an extra profit. I use 

 sections seven to the foot, with separators, of course, and 

 they run very uniform in weight." So says J. A. Green, in 

 Gleanings. 



