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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 2i, 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BV 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 &G Flttlx Avenue, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



$1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 [Entered at the Post-OfBce at Chicago aa Second-Class Mall-Matter.] 



EDITOR. 



Assisted by the following Department Editors : 

 Dr. C. C. Millek - - - "Questions and Answers." 

 Mrs. Jennie Atchlet - - - '-The Sunny Southland." 

 "Gleaner" .... "Among the Bee-Papers." 



"Bee-Master" "Canadian Beedom." 



Dr. p. L. Peiro - . . . . ^^ Doctor's Hints." 



Yol. niV. CHICA&O, ILL,, JAN. 24, 1895. No. 4. 



Editorial Con)n)ct)i^^ 



A Beautiful Ka1>y Crirl came to the home of the editor 

 of the American Bee Journal last Friday evening— Jan. 18; but it 

 staid only a few hours. Of course there are sorrowing hearts, for 

 its mother and t had hoped so much that when the baby came it 

 might stay with us, and be a great joy and blessing to our home. 

 But, although 'twas hard to give up, we bow submissively to the 

 ■will of Him " who giveth, and who taketh away." 



Mrs. York is doing fully as well as could be expected under the 

 circumstances, I am thankful to be able to say. 



Fiillioi- ■.ang'!<trotIi, and anything concerning him and 

 his welfare, are ever of interest to bee-keepers. So I give to the 

 readers of the Bee Journal the latest news I have received. His 

 daughter, Mrs. Anna L. Cowan, writes me in a letter, as follows: 



„ ^, „ Dayton, O., Jan. 13, 1895. 



Mr. George W. York, Chicago, 111. 



Dear liir .—Your letter to my father enclosing the check for 

 $5.30 (from Mr. Cronkleton) was duly received. Many thanks to 

 you for your kindness in the matter. I write to Mr. Cronkleton 

 by this mail. 



This extreme cold weather affects my father very unpleasantly. 

 Although our rooms are warm, his blood is so thin that it is hard 

 for him to keep comfortable. 



I join him in wishing you a very happy New Year. 



Respectfully, Mrs. Anna L. Cowan. 



Making- a MA\c Bee-Paper.— Mr. N. Levering, in the 

 bee-department of the California Cultivator, gives some excellent 

 hints on "How to make a live bee-paper." Just read this— it's 

 Mr. L.'s prescription: 



First subscribe for it and have your neighbors subscribe, then 

 write for it; give your experience, and ask for information, and 

 thus call out others and get what they know, and put into circula- 

 tion useful facts that will not only benefit you, but benefit and 

 interest others. Remember that the press is the great medium 

 through which flows the progressive stream of knowledge that 

 wells up Its sparkling drops in all lands, from which all may drink 

 and be wise, prosperous and happy. We ask the bee-keeping fra- 

 ternity to open their pent-up thoughts and pour out a stream of 

 sweetness that will inundate error and make this journal a beacon 

 light to all who will travel the highway to prosperity. We are 

 glad to see our friends waking up to their interest in this matter. 



Mr. Levering has the correct idea in the above, particularly in 

 the first sentence. If all bee-keepers would take his advice, and 

 apply it to the American Bee Journal, they'd soon see the "livest " 

 bee-paper ever thought of. But according to some folks, the Bee 

 Journal is pretty much alive as it is. Yet it can be made much 

 better, by all working unitedly to that end. 



Convention Reports, as well as anything else of real 

 interest to bee-keepers, the American Bee Journal is always 

 pleased to publish. But, friends, please do eoiideuse what was said, 

 or what j'ou have to say. Actually, one convention secretary re- 

 cently sent in a report in which about half the pages contained 

 nothing but the rjiiestiunx discussed. Not a word of what was said 

 about them ! What possible good is it to publish a long list of 

 mere questions ? About what is wanted is something like Mr. 

 Kennedy has given on page 53 — simply the questions and the results 

 of the discussions, or the real information brought out. 



I wish that all who write for publication would try to crowd 

 as much as possible into as small a space as possible, for if they 

 don't do so I'll have to. as there is not room in the Bee Journal 

 these days for very much spread-eagle correspondence. I want to 

 give every one a chance to have his or her " say," provided you 

 have some real information to give. I ilu want every subscriber 

 to feel free to send in any helpful ideas or kinks that be or she 

 knows, for by the many contributing a little each, there is bound 

 to be a grand total of something good for all. 



Mrs. Harrison asked the Prairie Farmer, of Chicago, these 

 questions some time ago: 



Are bee-keepers retrograding ? Have they gone back a cen- 

 tury ? If not, why was it necessary for the Prairie Farmer to 

 print directions for " packing straw skeps for removal ?" If there 

 is a bee-keeper on this continent using straw skeps he must have 

 been like Rip Van Winkle — asleep for 20 years. 



I noticed the editor of the paper referred to didn't answer the 

 questions asked. I imagine he thought it better to say as little as 

 possible when Mrs. Harrison was "after him." The Prairie Farmer 

 is a grand good farm paper, and when Mr. Chas. Dadant or Mrs. 

 Harrison write anything for its columns on bees, it can be relied 

 upon as being first-clast information. But, generally speaking, 

 unless farm papers copy something direct from the best bee- 

 papers, their bee-columns are more than likely to contain matter 

 somewhat aged, and often totally misleading. 



Not in tlie Bee-Snpply Business. — The publishers of 



the American Bee Journal wish that its readers would remember 



that they are not in the bee-supply business. So duii't send to them 



for a catalogue, for they have none. Please do this : Order your 



bee-supplies from the dealers who advertise in the American Bee 



Journal. Send to them for catalogues, and then order what you 



want. Were it not for the advertising patronage which the Bee 



Journal enjoys, it could not possibly be published for the extremely 



low price of -SI. 00 a year. So you see it is also to yuiir advantage 



to encourage its advertisers, by buying your supplies of them, and 



kindly say you saw their advertisement in the American Bee 



Journal. 



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Indignant Emm l»eel— Just read the following, and see 



what one of Mrs. Atchley's indignant admirers has to say about 



her and Mr. A. : 



There, now ; I just think it a shame ! I supposed those South- 

 ern bee-keepers more chivalrous. I don't doubt but that Mr. Atch- 

 ley is a good, sensible man, as men go. but land sakes alive ! The 

 idea of leaving out that very enterprising, judicious little woman 

 —Mrs. Atchley— she whose valuable suggestions on bee-culture we 

 all admire and profit by so greatly— she, forsooth, is left clear out 

 of the official directory of the South Texas Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion—simply because she is a woman, I suppose. I'm just indignant, 

 that's what I am ! Emm Dee. 

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Study ITp about bee-keeping in the winter time, and thus 



get ready for another summer's campaign. Plan ahead, and thus 



use your head— your brains. It will take wise heads to get ahead 



of drouth or other obstacles that the bee-keeper often has to meet. 



But do your bent to win success, and then you'll not have anything to 



regret on that score. You can't change the seasons, but you may 



be able to plan and work so as to do better in the future than you 



have done in the past. 



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A Honey Kvcliangre was talked of being established— or 

 a propostion looking toward it, was to be presented — at the meet- 

 ing of the Los Angeles County, Calif., Bee-Keepers' Association 

 held in Los Angeles, Jan. 13. Bee-keepers outside of that " county 

 of the angels " will be interested to know the outcome of the pro- 

 posed scheme. Maybe Pres. Geo. W. Brodbeck will tell the read- 

 ers of the American Bee Journal all about it soon. 



