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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Nov. 2, 1899. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



Qeorqe W. York & Company, 



118 Michigan St., Chicago, III. 



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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 

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



Jlfeziibers2iip Fee—^LOO per Annvuii. 



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



VOL. 39. XOVEMBER 2, 1899. NO. 44. 



Note— The American Bee Journal adopts the Orlhoffraphv of the follow- 

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

 ical Association and the Philologicar Society of England: — Change 

 'd" or "ed" final to "t" when so pronounced, "e.\cept when the "e" af- 

 fects a preceding sound. 



Keeping Honey=Customers Supplied While it is true 



that honey is now much hig-her in price than for several 

 years, there are plenty of people who are willing to pay the 

 advanced price for the genuine article. 



Where the crop has been short, or no crop at all, it cer- 

 tainly will pay the honey-producer to supply his local trade, 

 even if he must send away for the honey, and then handle 

 it on a very small margin of profit. In the future it will be 

 found to have paid well to take care of customers just the 

 same in a year of short honey crop as in a year of plenty. 



While there is not very much honey offered, still there 

 is some, and there will likely be enough so that all who 

 want it can have at least a little. Better see to it that vour 

 own trade has a chance to have some if they want it. 



Necessity of Pure=Food Legislation.— Mr. H. D. Murry, 

 of Mississippi, sends us the following in reference to the 

 address of Rev. E. T. Abbott, which we publisht on page 

 660 : 



Mk. Editor :— Enclosed find 10 cents for which please 

 send me an extra copy of the American Bee Journal of Oct. 

 19, 1899. I want to send it to our congressman and call his 

 attention to Rev. E. T. Abbott's paper on the "Need of 

 Pure-Food Legislation." Our congressman is a personal 

 friend of mine, and I hope to secure his support of the 

 Brosius Bill. 



I would like to ask every bee-keeper in the United States 

 to make a similar effort. The trouble is, we are too prone 

 to wait for some one else to act. We are too modest. We 

 can rest assured the adulterators are not going to be over- 

 modest in their efforts to defeat the Bill. 



If every bee-keeper who is acquainted with his con- 



gressman will make an effort, our influence will be felt. It 

 is a righteous cause, and they will not dare oppose it if they 

 are given to understand the eyes of the people are upon 

 them. 



Please stir them up in the American Bee Journal along 

 this line, and let us have "a long pull, a strong pull, and a 

 pull all together," and we will land that Bill, dead sure. 

 Let us know no such word as "fail." 



Yours truly, H. D. MuRRV. 



Mr. Murry is on the right track. Others will do well to 

 follow his good example. We have perhaps 200 extra copies 

 of the number of the American Bee Journal with Mr. Ab- 

 bott's excellent address, and will furnish them free as long 

 as they last, if those vrho can use them to good advantage 

 will drop us a postal card asking for them for this purpose. 

 We think a good way to do would be to cut it out and en- 

 close it with a personal letter to your congressman. He 

 would be more certain of getting it in that way, and more 

 likely to read it. Perhaps some, however, can hand it to 

 their congressman and put in a strong word with it. 



There is no doubt that bee-keepers can help much in 

 securing the passage of the Brosius Bill. Let all do all they 

 can. Perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea if the officers and 

 board of directors of the United States Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation would get up a short address on the subject, and 

 mail it. with their signatures, to every senator and repre- 

 sentative in Washington, as soon as congress assembles, or 

 just before the Bill comes up for debate and passage. 



Honey for Breakfast is becoming the stj-le down at 

 the nation's capital — Washington. So said Mr. Danzen- 

 baker at the Philadelphia convention. He was urged to 

 encourage the spread of that " style " as much as possible. 



Honej- is on our table at every meal, but this particular 

 boarder does justice to it only at the noon and evening 

 meals, unless there are pancakes on hand for breakfast, 

 when it " goes " all right then, too : and we don't seem to 

 tire of it. But who could tire of fine alfalfa honey ? One 

 might as well think of tiring of bread, butter, and potatoes, 

 as to tire of alfalfa extracted honey. 



We think bee-keepers' families ought to eat inore honey 

 and buy less sugar. The family of Hon. Eugene Secor, we 

 understand, believes thoroly in home consumption of honey, 

 for it takes something like 800 pounds a year to supply 

 them, we believe. There are eight in his family, thus 

 making about 100 pounds for each annually, or a little over 

 a quarter of a pound a day. We presume they have adopted 

 the Washington style, and perhaps have added thereto the 

 other two meals. 



The Buckwheat States, in their order of acreage de- 

 voted to its growing are. New York, Pennsylvania, Maine,. 

 Michigan and Wisconsin. Of course, naturalh', the bulk 

 of the honey-yield therefrom would be in the East. Very 

 little buckwheat honey comes to this market. Chicago is 

 probably the largest consumer of alfalfa and sage honey, 

 the latter being preferred by the manufacturers, especially 

 bakers, who want a strong-flavored honey. 



Passing of the Commission Han. — We were recently 

 talking with a representative of a commission firm dealing 

 in butter and eggs on South Water street, and he assured 

 us that the commission man had had his daj'. " Why," he 

 said, " there is very little produce consigned these days — 

 nearly everything is sold for cash before it leaves the pro- 

 ducer's hands. And this change has all come about by 

 reason of the swindlers in the commission business. Farm- 

 ers are getting so they just won't trust any one with their 

 products without knowing in advance what they are going 

 to realize for them." 



He referred also to the stealing of C. R. Horrie & Co. 



