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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 27, 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BV 



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EDITOR. 



Assisted by the following Department Editors : 

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

 Mrs. Jennie Atchley - - - "The Scnnt Southland." 

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

 "Bee-Master" ..... "Canadian Beedom." 



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



Rev. Emerson T. Abbott • . "Notes and Comments." 



Vol. inV. CHICA&O, ILL, FEB. 28, 1895. No. 9. 



Editorial Budget* 



Xlie Annual Report of the Nebraska State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association for 1894, is on my desk. It was gotten up by Mr. L. D. 

 Stilson, editor of the Nebraska Bee-Keeper, and Secretary of the 

 Association, and is a credit to the bee-keepers of that State. When 

 you get ahead of those Nebraska bee-folks, you'll have to rise 

 pretty early. They are hustlers! I think they are getting ready 

 to "show off " in 1890, when the North American convention comes 

 to look in on them. They know how to do it, too. 



Mr. John II. Msirlln— the "Rambler" of Gleanings- 

 has sent us a condensed report of the recent meeting of the Cali- 

 fornia State Bee-Keepers' Association, of which he is the efficient 

 Secretary. The report will be published as soon as there is room 

 for it in these columns. 



Accompanying the report, was a letter dated Feb. 1, at Bloom- 

 ington, Calif., in which Mr. Martin says: "The gentle rain is 

 falling again, and the prospects are bright for a good honey sea- 

 son." I hope those "prospects" will be followed by the largest 

 and sweetest honey crop California has ever had. 



Xlie .National Itce-KeeperN' |:uion General Man- 

 ager Newman has sent out the following report, giving the result 

 of the recent election of officers for the ensuing year: 



OFFICAL CANVASS OP VOTES. 



To Members of the Xalional Bee Keepers' Uuion: — 



The canvass of all the votes received, up to the time of closing 

 the polls, on Feb. 1, 1895, shows that 151 ballots were recorded, as 

 follows: 



For President— Hon. R. L. Taylor, 126; Dr. C. C. Miller, 5- 

 G. M. Doolittle, 4; Hon. Eugene Secor, 3; A. I. Root, 3; Scatter- 

 ing and blanks, 11. Total, 151. 



For Vice-Presidents -Dr. C. C. Miller. 114; G. M. Doolittle 

 113; I'rof. A. J. Cook, 103; A. I. Root, 101 ; G. W. Demaree 77- 

 Hon. Eugene Secor, :iS; C. P. Dadant, 31; C. F. Muth, 33: P h' 

 Elwood. 10; G. W. Brodbeek, 14; G. W. York, 11; E. R. Root 7- 

 Hon. R. I,. Taylor, 7; Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 0; James Heddon 0- 

 W.Z.Hutchinson, 4; S. I. Freeborn, 3; R, F. Holtermann 3- 

 Frank Benton. 3; C. W. Dayton, 3; H. G. Acklin,2; Scattering, 17.' 



For General Manager, Secretary and Treasurer— Thomas 

 G. Newman, 14'J; Blank, 3. Total, 151. 



Although several have expressed their desire for a change in 

 the officers, the members have decided to keep the management in 

 the same hands for another year. 



Mr. G. W. Demaree, who has served as Vice-President for 10 

 years, now states both publicly and privately that he pusitivehj ile- 



c&i^s fo art on the " advisory board " for the coming year — as he 

 desires a change in the "official board.'' This will elect Hon. 

 Eugene Secor. who has received the next highest number of votes. 

 We welcome Friend Secor most heartily, because of his eminent 

 ability, influence and sound judgment. This is a place where the 

 latter is a very necessary qualification, and the sagacity of the 

 Board is sometimes quite severely tested. 



Several more decisions from Supreme Courts are needed as 

 precedents, for the guidance of judges in lower courts, and one of 

 these, I hope, is about to be obtained, covering a very important 

 point. 



The treasury being in a satisfactory condition, the Union is 

 fortunately in a position to di'mand justicf , and protect the rights of 

 its members in the courts of law. This is a place where "money 

 counts." If the Union was a bankrupt concern, quite powerless to 

 "help in time of need," its influence would be infinitesimal, and 

 itself a laughing-stock for all. The " sinews of war " makes all 

 the difference in the world. 



Thomas G. Newman, General Manager. 



Chicago, 111. Feb. 3, 1895. 



Iloney-t^alve, an exchange says, for boils and other dis- 

 eases of a similar character, is made by thoroughly incorporating 

 flour with honey until of a proper consistency to spread on cloth. 

 Applied over the boil it hastens suppuration, and the early term- 

 ination of the painful lesion. 



Xlie American Uee-Ke^per for February came out 

 with double the number of pages, having added what it calls a 

 "literary department." It admits that "in former issues" it 

 "found considerable fault" with other bee-papers that had taken 

 on side-issues in the way of " running in matter foreign " to bee- 

 keeping. Well, Bro. American, I don't believe you'll always 

 make up half of your paper of "stereotyped plate-matter." But 

 mind you, /don't object to it at all. 



Mr. A. I. Root is now in Florida with one of his daughters, 



and is writing up his trip for Gleanings. Mr. Selser's interesting 



article on Florida, on page 67 of the Bee Journal, will be followed 



by others just as soon as there is room for them in these columns. 



I have them in the office now, but some other contributions were 



In ahead of them. I may say here that I trust no one will worry, 



or become impatient, if his or her article or letter is not published 



in the Bee Journal the next week after I receive it. Such a thing 



is quite impossible usually, and particularly at this season of the 



year. 



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Mr. J. <'. n^allennieyer, of Evansville, Ind., the author 

 of the pretty song, " Queenie Jeanette," gave me a pleasant call 

 on Feb. 15, while in Chicago on business. Mr. W. is an energetic 

 and affable young bee-keeper, having done exceedingly well the 

 past year with his bees. His picture, as well as Queenie Jeanette's, 

 is on the engraved cover of his new song. Price of the song is 40 

 cents, postpaid ; or I can send it to you with the American Bee 

 Journal for one year— both for ?1.30. But you can get it free as a 

 premium for sending one new yearly subscriber to the Bee Jour- 

 nal, with $1.00. 



A rVe>v Iloney'PIant Mr. Adolf Theiss, of Darmstadt, 



Hessia, has introduced a new creeper bearing eatable fruit. The 

 plant is called AfliuhUn pu![/gtiina or argiita, originating in the Amur 

 District. This hardy plant will climb very high and wind sponta- 

 neously. Its leaves are about the size of those of elm-trees, only 

 longer; its blossoms are small and rich in honey; its fruits, grow- 

 ing in long bunches of a fine green color, and having the size of 

 gooseberries, taste sweet, and have the smell of pine-apples. The 

 plant requires a thick layer of vegetable soil, and has to be watered 

 in lasting drouth during summer, but, in all other respects, needs 

 no attendance whatever. 



I>r. K. (aallnp and lion. J. M. llanibaugii " sur- 

 prised " the California State bee-convention Feb. 5, by being in 

 attendance. Mr. Geo. W. Brodbeek, a vice-president of the asso- 

 ciation, wrote to me thus about it: 



Two genuine surprises came to us during the late session of 

 our State bee-association at Los Angeles. The first, in having 

 present that whole-souled Mr. Hambaugh, of Illinois — in whom 

 any section can take just pride; and the second, the presence of 

 that invincible California bee-expounder— Dr. E. Gallup. 



We are having another rain treat, and with some additional 



