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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



July 27, 1899. 



PUELISHT WEEKLY BY 



George W. York & Company, 



118 Michigan St., Chicago, III. 



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



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



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 

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



Aletnberslilp Poe—91.00 -per Anntrm, 



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 Manager and Treasurer— Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



-P/ace and Date of Hext Aleetlng: 



In Franklin Institute, 



liSouth Tlh Street, between Market and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., 



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



VOL. 39. 



JULY 27, 1899. 



NO. 30 



Note— The American Bee Journal adopts the Ortho(,'raphv of the follow- 

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

 ;cal 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. 



Cuba as a HoneyCountry has been much discust of 

 late. Aaron Snyder has his say in the Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 view. It is the best honej'-country in the world, but after 

 an actual trial he finds so many drawbacks that he does not 

 care for any more of it. Any one thinking- of taking his 

 family there should first go himself for six months or a 

 year, and Mr. Snyder says : "It is my opinion that there 

 will not be one man in ten who will not wish, at the end of 

 six months, that he had left himself at home." 



Shipping Beeswax — Early this year we had something 

 to say about shipping beeswax in sacks instead of boxes, in 

 order to save freight. It seems that it may not have been 

 good advice, if Mr. G. K. Hubbard is correct in the follow- 

 ing, which we received last week : 



Editor York : — I have for some time been wanting- to 

 call your attention to an error j'ou made in your paper of 

 Jan. 7, in advising how to ship beeswax ; biit as the Da- 

 dants have given the same advice privately, when to follow 

 it would have certainly resulted in a loss to the shipper, you 

 will see you have good company. 



You think it wise to ship from distant points in sacks 

 to save weight. Being saving in the weight of the tare is 

 always advisable, when that is the only point to consider, 

 but in the case of beeswax and man3- other articles, where 

 the classification list provides for a certain rate if shipt in 

 boxes or barrels, there is also a provision that such articles, 

 if shipt in sacks shall take a Ta.te ^o percent /lig/ier. To il- 



lustrate : 176 pounds of beeswax shipt to you from River- 

 side, Calif., in a 24-pound box or barrel, making 200 pounds 

 gross, would cost, at the present rate of 52.25 per 100 pounds, 

 54.50. But if the wax was shipt in sacks weighing four 

 pounds, making the shipment ISO pounds gross, the freight 

 charges would amount to $6.07, because when so packt it 

 requires a rate of S3.37>^ per 100 pounds. 



G. K. Hubbard. 



We must confess that we were not aware that there was 

 any such difference in classification as Mr. Hubbard men- 

 tions, and see no good excuse for it. Certainlj', beeswax 

 ships just as safely in sacks as in anything else, and just 

 wh)- the railroad companies should make a higher rate when 

 thus shipt, than when in boxes, we cannot understand. 

 Evidentlv that classification needs revising. 



The Philadelphia Convention Program. — Dr. A. B. 



Mason, Sta. B, Toledo, Ohio, the secretary of the United 

 States Bee-Keepers" Association, has sent us the completed 

 program for the national convention to be held in Philadel- 

 phia Sept. 5, 6 and 7, next. A copy of the same follows : 



Necessity of Pure Food Legislation from a Bee-Keepers' 



Point of View— Rev. E. T. Abbott. 

 Out-Apiaries and their Management for Comb Honey — W. 



L. Coggshall. 

 Possibilities and Difficulties of Bee-Keeping in Cuba and 



Porto Rico, and the Effect of Our New Relations With 



those Islands on Our Honey Market — Fred L. Craycraft 



and W. W. Somerford. 

 Best Method of Comb-Honey Production, with Latest Hive 



Improvements — F. Danzenbaker. 

 Possibilities of Bee-Keeping — Address by G. M. Doolittle. 

 Marketing Honev — Can and Ought We to Control Prices ? — 



P. H. Elwood. 

 Bee-Keeping and the Source of the Honey Supply in and 



Around Philadelphia — W. E. Flower. 

 Foul Brood : Its Detection and Eradication — N. E. France. 

 (Jur Pursuit as Viewed by an Amateur — F. Hahman. 

 Why Bee-Keepers' Exchanges Fail — C. A. Hatch. 

 Bees or Honey — Which in Spring Management ? — R. F. 



Holtermanii. 

 Bee-Keeping as a Profession — W. Z. Hutchinson. 

 How to Successfully Conduct a Bee-Keepers' Exchange — J. 



Webster Johnson, 

 The Fall Honey Crop of Philadelphia — John L. Kugler. 

 Organization Among Bee-Keepers : If Desirable, Why, and 



How Best Accomplisht ? — Thomas G. Newman. 

 Best Method of Extracted Honey Production — Frank 



Rauchfuss. 

 Address by A. I. Root. 

 Fads, Fancies and Follies in the Apicultural World — Hon. 



Eugene Secor. 

 The Products of the Bee— Pollen, Propolis and Honey — W. 



A. Selser. 

 Food Value of Honev — Its Adulteration and Analysis — Prof. 



H. W. Wiley. 

 President's Address — E. Whitcomb. 



Secretary Mason announces that since his last notice 

 was publisht about rates, the Western Passenger Associa- 

 tion has written that the rates in their association will be 

 one fare for the round trip plus $2.00, added to the rates 

 charg-ed by the other association thru whose territory the 

 person maj' travel. By enquiring of the local station agent, 

 any one may learn the rate. 



For any further information, address Secretary Mason. 



Selling Honey in the Home nar1<et. — A verj- inter- 

 esting article is one by C. Davenport in the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review. He thinks by once finding customers for 10,000 

 pounds of honey he could hold the trade right along, but 

 then comes a failure of the crop, and he has not found it to 

 pay to buy from other bee-keepers, and so the trade is lost. 

 He is strong on advertising in the local papers. One j-ear, 

 ■tfter the white honey harvest was over, he had 4,000 pounds 

 of mixt amber and dark extracted honey bej-ond what he 

 needed for his regular customers. Sending- the honey to 

 Chicago would net him only 3 cents a pound at wholesale, 



