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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 1, 1899. 



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United States Bee-Keepers' Association. 



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

 of bee-keepers ; to i»rotect its members ; to prevent the adulteration of 

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



AXembership f ^e — 9l»00 per -Aimumt 



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

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



Place and Date of Next Meeting: 



In Franklin Institute, 



IS South 7th Street, between Market and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., 



September 5, 6 and 7, 1899. Every bee-keeper is invited. 



VOL. 39. 



JUNE 1, 1899. 



NO. 22. 



Note— The American Bee Journal adopts the Orthography 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. 



The Spraying Law of New York came near being re- 

 pealed, according to report.s in Gleanings. W. F. Marks 

 says : 



" The opposition stole a march on us. and got practi- 

 , cally thru the Assembly before we knew it ; but when their 

 bill reacht the Senate, thanks to Senator Raines, who was 

 watching for it, it vfa.s pro»ipt/y killed.'" 



Intelligent horticulturists know that there is no need to 

 spray when trees are in bloom, and that harm may come of 

 it, but so long as .some of them are not intelligent the law- 

 makers need watching. 



Spelling Reform in Chicago Schools.— It seems that 

 the effort to simplify English spelling is making some 

 headway these days. We find the following in the Chicago 

 Daily News for May 24, which shows pretty conclusively 

 that the Chicago board of education means to be progres- 

 sive : 



The business office of the board of education has 

 adopted the reforms in spelling suggested bj' the National 

 Educational Association, and approved of by Dr. Andrews. 

 In recent notices to persons having business with the board. 

 Clerk Sam Frankland and his assistants in the office of 

 Business Manager Guilford have used the new system. 



The contractors are now notified in abbreviated words 

 that they must get "thru " with their work on specified 

 time, while business firms from which the board expects to 

 make purchases are requested to send " catalogs " to the 



board. All of the words included in the list are spelt ac- 

 cording to the new method. The same system has been 

 adopted by the other departments of the board. 



The words in the list are : Altho, catalog, decalog, 

 pedagog, demagog, program, prolog, tho, thoro, thorofare, 

 thru, thruout. 



Dr. E. B. Andrews, ex-president of Brown University, 

 is the superintendent of the Chicago public schools. We 

 are glad to welcome him and his board of education to the 

 ranks of " spelling reformists." For several years past the 

 American Bee Journal has been aiding in this needed re- 

 form, and grows stronger in its conviction that it is pur- 

 suing the right course. Others are invited to join in the 

 good work. 



Honey and Beeswax.— We find in the 1898 Yearbook of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, that there 

 was reported last year honey to the value of $98,504, and 

 151,094 pounds of beeswax.valued at $41,827. During the 

 same time there was imported 96,604 pounds of honey 

 valued at $38,158, and 272,097 pounds of beeswax valued at 

 $72,473. 



The Big-Little-Hive Fight has been in progress for 

 some time, and among the chief disputants have been 

 Messrs. Dadant and Doolittle. A somewhat diplomatic dis- 

 tance has been kept up, however, between these two, until 

 the last number of Gleanings, in which Doolittle clinches 

 close with Dadant, and a somewhat lively tussle may be ex- 

 pected. Both men are able, both men are honest, and pos- 

 sibly both aie correct from their own stand-points, and it is 

 probable that a good bit of light may be brought out by 

 them. 



How Does the Queen See in the Dark, so as to lay eggs 



on the opposite side of the comb ? is a question that has 

 been somewhat considered. Some have thought there 

 might be something like X-rays which allowed the queen to 

 see thru the comb so as to lay opposite the brood on the 

 other side. A. J. Wright says in Gleanings that the queen 

 needs no light on the subject, that it's the " rays of dark " 

 that the queen works by ! The accompanying foot-note 

 gives no sign that the editor has any doubt as to the cor- 

 rectness of this theory, but some of his readers who are not 

 'waj' up in the science of optics may desire to inquire what 

 " rays of dark " are. Please turn the light on this dark 

 subject. Editor Root ; or would •'turning on the light '" de- 

 stroy the " rays of dark "? 



New York's Foul Brood Law. — The law relating to 

 foul brood in the State of New York has recently been sat- 

 isfactorily amended, thanks to the hard work of Mr. W. F. 

 Marks, one of the widest awake bee-keepers, and to Hon. 

 Jean L. Burnett, a hustling member of the State legisla- 

 ture. The amended law reads as follows : 



(Chapter 223, Laws of 1899.) 



AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and thirty-eight 

 of tlie laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, en- 

 titled, " An act in relation to agriculture, constituting 

 articles one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight 

 of the general laws," relative to prevention of disease 

 among bees. 



T/u- people of the Slate of New York, represented in Sen- 

 ate and .Issembly, do enaet as/olloivs : 



Section 1. Section eighty of chapter three hundred and 

 thirty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 three, is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 



j; 80. The prevention of diseases among bees. — No per- 

 son shall keep in his apiary any colony of bees affected 

 with a contagious malad}- known as foul brood ; and every 

 bee-keeper, when he becomes aware of the existence of such 

 disease among his bees, shall immediately notify the com- 

 missioner of agriculture of the existence of such disease. 



