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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 7, 



PUBr.ISHED WEEKLY UV 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 56 Fifth Ai'enue, - CHICAGO, IKI,. 



?1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 [Entered at the Post-Offlce at Chicago as Second-Class Mall-Matter.] 



EDITOR. 



Assisted by the following Department Editors : 

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

 Mrs. Jennie Atohlet - - - -TnE Sunnt Sodthland.' 

 Uleaner " - . . . "Among the Bee-Papers.' 



"Bee-Master" " Canadian Beedom.' 



Dr. F L. Peiro " Doctor's Hints.' 



Kev. Emerson T. Abbott - - "Notes and Comments ' 



Vol. niV. CHICAGO, ILL,, FEB. ], 1895. No, 6. 



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Editorial Budget. 



Xlie Ontario Convention must have been a good one, 

 if Bee-Master's report on page 89 is any indicator. Canadian 

 readers, as well as all others, will be interested in reading it. 



Xlie Sunny Sonllilsmd department is omitted this week, 

 as Mrs. Atchley failed to send copy in time. She has been so very 

 busy the past month that it is a wonder she keeps up at all. Next 

 week, without doubt, the report of that big Te.Tas bee-meeting will 

 be continued in her department, and then be published without 

 further break. 



Sir. F. A. Oeniniill. of Stratford, Ont., has kindly sent 

 me two of the circulars they used at the Ontario convention in 

 advertising the "Honey-Bee Concert." The 4-page one is indeed 

 a novelty. Besides the programme for the evening, it contains in- 

 formation about honey, and several comic apiarian pictures. It is 

 very "taking." The people who failed to "get there " (and I was 

 one of them), missed a treat. Well, there's nothing selfish about 

 me, so I'll say I'm rjlad some of my good friends could enjoy it, if I 

 couldn't. 



.^'otes and Coninientsii is another new department begun 

 in this number (page 90) of the American Bee Journal. Mr. Ab- 

 bott, who is the " Noter " and "Commenter," needs no introduc- 

 tion to our readers. He will likely touch on a good many things 

 in bee-literature and bee-keeping mainly outside of any of the 

 other departments found in the Bee Journal. Judging from bis 

 first installment, and what is to follow (copy now in my hands), 

 he will keep up a lively department. As a preacher, we can im- 

 agine no one going to sleep in Mr. Abbott's audience. Surely, no 

 one will be apt to nod when reading "Notes and Comments. " 



Xi«e ^CM Fornt of the American Bee Journal pleases, and 

 alsooccasionally does njt find favor. Franklin Wilcox, of Wis- 

 consin, wrote thus, after saying he didn't ,iust fancy it: " But you 

 can't suit everybody. Don't try. Some write to flatter— but not 

 I." I think that nearly everybody will like this new form all 

 right after getting accustomed to it. I hope so, for to me it f eems 

 " .iust the thing," Better get a binder for this year's numbers, 

 and see what a fine volume (book) you will have at the end of the 

 year. Price of binder. To cents, postpaid; or .«1.00forthe binder 

 and the American Bee Journal for one year. The binder is a good, 

 strong one. 



Attending^ lteo-4'onvention»>.— I have received a num- 

 ber of very cordial invitations to attend certain conventions of 

 bee-keepers, held in various parts of the country, and truly I 

 should indeed be glad if I could accept them, and be present at the 

 meetings. Not that my presence would add to the interest or 

 profit of the meetings, but I would personally enjoy so much get- 

 ting acquainted with the bee-keeping friends, and I would also 

 gain bee-information that would be of much advantage to me. 



But at present I will have to forego the great pleasure I would 

 have in gratifying the wishes of my friends and my own enjoy- 

 ment, for no one outside of those acquainted with publishing a 

 weekly paper, can have an idea of the constant "grind " necessary 

 to get the American Bee Journal out, and " on time," each week. 

 It requires my closest attention, both day and night, and has been 

 so ever since I first became its editor and publisher — June 1, 1892. 



Some day, when I get the old American Bee Journal just 

 where I want it (in its contents and office management), I expect 

 to be able to devote some time to attending bee-convention, and in 

 forming an acquaintance with the bee-friends and their various 

 localities. Until that time, I must content myself with constant 

 toil, hoping that that "good time," so long looked forward to, 

 will come not many years hence. 



i^ynipatiietic and Consoling %Vords have come from 

 many sources to Mrs. York and myself in our recent bereavement, 

 and we want to assure all of our friends that their kindly interest 

 and expressions have been greatly appreciated. I am so glad to 

 know that bee-keepers are not so selfishly racing after the dollars 

 and cents that they have no time to stop to speak a word of com- 

 fort or do a kindly deed. Among the numerous " treasured mem- 

 ories" received, there is room here for but one, which reads thus: 



Dear Friends: — I know how impossible it is to silence your 

 grief with words. I am also made sad to learn of the death of 

 your sweet little baby girl. Your hearts plead for utterance in 

 tears, and let them speak thus. I bow in sorrow at the taking of 

 your little one, feeling that while the ripened fruit may be gath- 

 ered, it seems cruel that the bud should be taken before it has even 

 opportunity to unfold its blossom. But in Nature fruits fall, and 

 so do blossoms and buds. In the ways of kind Nature this is per- 

 haps best, and in the taking from your arms of this little one, you 

 should try to accept the cross and bear it, believing that the bud 

 will yet blossom and bear fruit in the Angel Land, whither the 

 spirit of your pure child has so early flown. 



Your friend, Jennie Atchley. 



Flying- Colors.— Editor Hutchinson, of the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review, had this as the first editorial item in his January number: 



The American Bee Journal has changed its form, reduced the 

 number of its pages, but made them correspondingly larger, is 

 using a better grade of paper, has secured some excellent con- 

 tributors, and two more sub-editors, and, all in all, starts the new 

 year with flying colors. 



Thanks, Bro. H. Those " flying colore," though not seen dis- 

 tinctly, are represented by the United States flag, found on the 

 first page of each number of the American Bee Journal. 



It waves "Success" on every breeze, 

 To all our friends who now keep bees. 



Tito ^Visconsin Convention, at Madison, on Feb. 6 

 and 7, promised to be a very interesting one. I noticed, by the 

 printed program sent me by Pres. Franklin Wilcox, that not a 

 single essay is to be read- simply one big question-box, in which 

 all can " take a hand." My, what a fine opportunity for Dr. 

 Miller to enjoy himself. I hope he has been invited to be there, 

 for a convention with no essays at all would simply "make his 

 mouth water" for a whole week before and after. I shall be glad 

 to see the report of that Wisconsin convention. They have some 

 good bee-keepers in that region. 



Mr. .lolin llitilord, of Perrysburg, Ohio, has recently 

 suffered great affliction in the loss, by death, of his son " Frank," 

 19 years old, and the main help in the bee-yard. Mr. H., having 

 only one arm, he will miss his helpful boy very much, besides en- 

 during all the sorrow. 



A Correction. — Between the 3rd and 4th lines below the 

 first illustration on page .51, put in these words, and it will be as 

 it was intended : hiuUIh iriie dovetailed juiut. In the 7th line below 

 the same picture, read make for " made," and it will be as Mr. 

 Abbott bad it in his "copy." 



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