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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Sept. 



1899. 



PUBLISIIT WKEKLY BY 



George W. York & Company, 



118 Michigan St., CliicaQO, III. 



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



United States Bee- Keepers' ftssociation. 



Organized to advance the pursuit of Apiculture ; 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. 



Xleaibersblp P'ee— J?7.00 per Aanuzn, 



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. 



VOL 39. SEPTEMBER 7, 1899. 



NO. 30. 



leDITORIAMnnENT^ 



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 Philadelphia Convention will have about closed 

 when the majority of our readers receive this number of the 

 American Bee Journal. This week we give the pictures of 

 the officiary of the United States Bee-Keepers' Association. 

 On the first page are the Executive Committee— the three 

 officers that have in charge the management of the annual 

 conventions. Then follow the Board of Directors and the 

 General Manager. Mr. Whitcomb is the only one who is 

 doubly honored, being the president as well as director. We 

 think the whole nine make a fine looking group — a bodv of 

 men of whom American bee-keepers may well be proud. 



Bee-Keeping at Experiment Stations is a subject 

 that Mr. Abbott touches on in another column. And he is 

 right in saying that this intensely interesting line of work 

 is practically ignored by the majority of experiment sta- 

 tions and agricultural colleges in this country. You will 

 find that dairying, sheep-raising, fruit-growing — in fact, 

 nearly every other industry under the sun receives more 

 or less attention, but bee-keeping — well, it doesn't seem to 

 be " in it " at all. 



In view of the close relation and great benefit of bees to 

 horticulture, and their importance in the production of so 

 many things grown on the farm, one would think that the 

 care of bees would receive attention at every experiment 

 station and agricultural college now in operation. Perhaps 

 if bee-keepers would appeal to those in charge of these in- 

 stitutions, the subject of bee-keeping might be taken up, 

 as it very properly deserves. 



Thick Sections.— Mr. Hutchinson, in his Bee-Keepers" 

 Review, has this paragraph on thick sections : 



" Page & Lyon made .some thick sections to order for 

 two bee-keepers of Wisconsin. The sections were one-sixth 

 of an inch in thickness. This extra thickness so increast 

 the weight of the sections that when they were filled with 

 honey and sold the extra weight would pay for the sections. 

 They also made some nailed sections for a York State bee- 

 keeper, in which two of the sides of the section were of hard 

 maple, five-sixteenths of an inch in thickness. In talking 

 this matter over with a lady bee-keeper, she exprest the 

 opinion that such practices were dishonest, if done for the 

 sake of cheating the ones who bought the honey stored in 

 such sections. 



We quite agree with the lady who prefers to get as lit- 

 tle wood as possible when buying honey in sections. A 

 certain good mother-in-law that we once knew, used to tell 

 her butcher that she preferred to have no bones in the meat 

 she bought, as she " nuihiti't I'al boms." Neither can most 

 people eat wood. 



We see no excuse for using thick sections ; unless the 

 honey is to be sold by the section instead of by the pound, 

 then it would be all right to use them. 



honey in Uintah Co., Utah.— In a newspaper sent to 

 us by Mr. G. W. Vangundy, we find the following referring 

 to the apiarian possibilties in that region : 



" If there was ever a land that literally flowed with 

 milk and honey Uintah County is certainly entitled to that 

 cognomen. Think of a comparatively small settlement 

 shipping out of its borders ten carloads of extracted honey I 

 Startling as the statement may seem at first, it is none the 

 less true that such is the expectation this summer atid fall. 

 The place is simply a paradise for the bees. Last year Jos. 

 Hacking alone produced and shipt 36,000 pounds of honey, 

 while the Burkett Bros, and Mr. Merley each shipt almost 

 as much. There is great money to be made there in the 

 honey-business." 



"Know Your Honey= Resources " is a text upon 

 which G. M. Doolittle frequently preaches. S. P. CuUej-, 

 of Lafayette Co., Mo., in the Progressive Bee-Keeper, em- 

 phasizes the importance of knowing what flowers yield in 

 one's locality, and when they yield. Twenty years ago his 

 locality furnisht little or no white clover. The best flow 

 was to be expected from the latest sumac. He says further : 



"But white clover is now abundant, and furnishes a 

 flow in May and June to take the place of the flow sumac 

 formerly gave July 15 to Aug. 1.^ ; and just here who will 

 contend that this change from sumac to white clover, from 

 harvest in mid-July to May atid June, does not niake neces- 

 sary very important changes in management ? Then early 

 brood-rearing was not important ; now it is all-important. 

 Then the bee-keeper needed to see to it that his colonies 

 had bushels of bees by July — an easy task ; now he wants 

 them strong by May 25 — a thing far more difficult." 



Honey Exhibits at Fairs is a subject upon which Mr. 

 D. W. Heise, of Canada, wrote a paper for the last meeting 

 of the York County Bee-Keepers' Association. Mr. H. calls 

 attention to some valuable advantages to be gained by such 

 exhibits, among which we wish to call attention to the fol- 

 lowing : 



A pleasing feature is noticeable in selling honey at 

 fairs, inasmuch as a very large percentage of it is sold to 

 parties who rarely come in contact with honey at any other 

 time. Thus an increast demand is created without in any 

 way affecting the producers" establisht trade ; and it also 

 diverts a considerable amount from the large city markets, 

 the flooding of which alwa3's has a demoralizing eff'ect on 

 the price of honey generally. 



In no other way can honey be brought so prominently 

 before the public attention as by a large and creditable dis- 

 play at fairs. Especially will this apply to the larger ex- 

 hibitions in the provinces, such as Ottawa and Kingston in 

 the east. Toronto more central, and London in the west, 

 where hundreds and thousands of consumers come face to 



