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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Aug. 3, 189V. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



George W. York & Company, 



118 Michigan St., Gliicaflo, III. 



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United States Bee- Keepers' Association. 



Organized to advance the pursuit of .-Vpiculture ; to promote the interests 

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

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



Arembersiip FeeSl.OO per Annum, 



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 N^e2ct Aleetlog: 



In Franklin Institute, 



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



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



VOL. 39. AUGUST 3, 1899. 



NO. 



Note— The American Bee Journal adopts the Orthofrraphv 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. 



Marketing the Honey Crop will soon be a subject in 

 which at least some bee-keepers will be interested. We 

 would be g-lad to publish the experience of those who have 

 really been successful in the line indicated in the home 

 market. While everybody cannot be expert salesmen, still 

 there are many good plans that no doubt could be used by 

 almost anybody. The question is : How to sell the honey 

 crop to the best advantag-e in the home market ? 



Removing Qranulated Honey from Combs. — Mr. John 

 Kedrick g-ives the following- method in the Canadian Bee 

 Journal : 



First take the capping-s, after the honey has been 

 drained out, and put them into a tub of lukewan'n water and 

 allow them to remain there for 24 hours or longer, then 

 squeeze the cappings from the liquid. This liquid will be 

 ready for use in the course of six months. 



Then uncap the comb and place it in the liquid. Allow 

 it to remain there for 12 or 24 hours, according to the 

 strength of the liquid. Your comb will come out perfectly 

 clean, without being injured. Old comb may be cleaned in 

 the same veay. 



This liquid for cleaning the comb may be formed in 

 another way, /. c, in a gallon of water put about a pound 

 of honey, and let it stand for some time. The length of 

 time would var}- according- to the temperature of the place. 

 If kept in a warm place it would be ready for use sooner 

 than if left in a cool place. 



After trying about every method, I have proved the 

 above to be a great success. 



The Honey Prospects in this (Cook) county have been 

 good for the present season. Last Saturday (July 22) we 

 took a bicycle ride among several of the bee-keepers within 

 a few miles of our home, and found the bees were just roll- 

 ing in the honey from sweet clover. And there are miles 

 and miles of this wonderful honey-yielder in this county — 

 seas and seas of the fragrant white bloom. 



Among the apiaries visited were two of those owned 

 by Mr. L,. Kreutzinger, and that of Mr. H. S. Jones. Mr. 

 K. has three bee-yards this season, in which are a total of 

 200 colonies. Some of the hives had four and five supers 

 on them, many of the supers being read)' to empty. He 

 runs his apiaries entirely for comb honej', as does Mr. Jones 

 also. 



The four apiaries referred to are all surrounded with a 

 great expanse of sweet clover, and should yield a bountiful 

 harvest. 



We believe Mr. Kreutzinger is the largest bee-keeper in 

 this county. We presume he aspires to equal Dr. Miller, 

 both in number of colonies and amount of comb honey pro- 

 duced (when the Doctor has a good crop). But we are in- 

 clined to think that Mr. K. did not make expenses during 

 the past two j'ears. But this j'ear may help him out. 



An Apiarian Picture Wanted. — The editor of Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culture offers SIO for a satisfactory picture of 

 "a young lady of prepossessing appearance, becomingly 

 drest, holding a swarm of bees on a limb she has just cut 

 from a tree," and stipulates that she must be an uncon- 

 scious beauty. Rather hard requirements I If she is ap- 

 propriately drest for bee-work, she will hardly be drest in a 

 very becoming manner, and if she can " have about her an 

 unconscious air of ease and grace " when posing for a $10 

 picture to be admired by all the readers of " A B C of Bee- 

 Culture" — well, perhaps there are some angels keeping 

 bees. 



We notice further that Editor Root says all that will be 

 put below the picture will be, " A Good Catch "—not even 

 the name of the charming young lady. Now, that's real 

 mean ! Many a young fellow will wonder why her full 

 name and address is omitted if she is " A Good Catch " — 

 presuming that the *' Good Catch " may refer both to the 

 winsome young lady and to the swarm of bees she is 

 holding. 



Get and Keep Llp=to.Date. On page 468 of last 

 week's number. Rev. L. J. Templin gave quite a sermon 

 along the line of keeping up with the present progressive 

 times. It will repay a careful reading even if you don't 

 agree with all he savs. We need occasionally to have re- 

 counted the many onward steps in our advancing civiliza- 

 tion, lest we fail to note the rate of speed at which the world 

 about us is moving, and we be left far in the rear. 



Right in line with Mr. Tempi in 's suggestions are the 

 following, written by Editor Hutchinson in the July Bee- 

 Keepers" Review, to which we invite attention : 



C.\TCH THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. 



Perhaps I am a little peculiar. I am quite given to fol- 

 lowing observation with speculation, theorizing and moral- 

 izing — to the drawing of lessons from very small circum- 

 stances. If a man comes into this town and starts in some 

 business that is really overdone, and actually proceeds to 

 take business right away from men who have been here for 

 years, I am interested in knowing exactly /loiv he did it. I 

 want to get right down to the root and foundation, to dis- 

 cover the priyiiiplc upon which he succeeded. If a man 

 fails in business, especially one who has been apparently 

 successful for many years, I am interested in knowing 7vhy 

 he failed. In such cases there is almost always something 

 wrong. I do not mean wicked, but not managed as it ought 

 to have been. The causes of failures are numerous, and 

 the one that leads to a particular failure is .sometimes the 



