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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. 27, 





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EDITOR. 



Assisted by the following Department Editors : 

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

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

 "Gleaner" - , - . "Among the Bee-Papeks." 

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



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



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



VoLinV. CHICAGO, ILL, MAR. 28, 1895. No. 13. 



Editorial Budgets 



Don't Be Caug^llt without all the necessary hives, 

 sections, comb foundation, etc., when the time comes to use 

 them. It doesn't pay to wait till the last minute and then be 

 compelled to telegraph for goods. Better get all you need 

 long before the busy season begins, for if delayed too long 

 supply dealers may be too much rushed to fill your orders 

 promptly, and thus cause much loss and annoyance to you. 

 Again I say, don't be caught ! 



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AdTCrtising: Pays.— One of the largest Western bee- 

 supply advertisers in the American Bee Journal wrote to me 

 in this wise, March 18 : 



We now have more business than we can handle. We 

 don't know what is the matter this year. We never had such 

 a trade. I have about 40 letters before me now unanswered, 

 and they're gaining on me every day. If this thing keeps up, 

 I will be a dead man before the summer is over. I have been 

 thinking of taking out all of our advertisements of supplies, 

 and pay for them the same as if they were run to the end of 

 the contracts. 



I hope others may be able to write as encouragingly be- 

 fore the season of 1895 is over. It's another illustration of 

 the fact that judicious advertising pays. And the next few 

 months is the time to do it in the bee-business. 



A Good Editorial by Mr. Hutchinson in the March 

 Review, on " Journals of a Miscellaneous Character," was 

 called out by the American Bee-Keeper having recently begun 

 the " miscellaneous " business. After saying that class jour- 

 nals should stick to their text, and yet assuring his readers 

 that " there is no occasion for any quarrel over the matter " 

 if they don't, Bro. H. closes with this fair and generous para- 

 graph, which I most cordially endorse : 



Let no one think that I wish all journals to be like mine ; 

 nothing of the kind. I am making a journal according to my 

 ideas, and It attracts readers of similar tastes. Other men are 

 making journals according to their standard, and I am not 

 surprised that they find readers. The world is wide, and 

 there is room for us all. Let each spend his energies in doing 

 his very best as he understands it, instead of finding fault 

 with those holding views that differ from his own. 



Another Kortti'westem. — Last week I said that 

 there had been a little talk in some quarters about forming 

 another Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Society to meet every fall 

 in Chicago. Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, the Secretary of the old 

 Northwestern, has this to say in regard to it : 



Friend Yobk : — I was not present when the Northwestern 

 merged its existence into the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation. I was late in getting to the meeting that session. 

 If I had been present I should have opposed it. There is no 

 city on this continent where so many practical honey-producers 

 can be gathered together as in Chicago. Most people within 

 200 or 300 miles of Chicago like to visit that city as often as 

 once a year. Almost every fall there are reduced rates for 

 some reason or another, and this is the time of the year when 

 bee-keepers can most easily leave home. There ought to be 

 a convention of bee-keepers in Chicago every fall. Not simply 

 a State convention, but a district convention — one in which 

 bee-keepers in Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, 

 Iowa and Minnesota will all feel that it is their convention 

 just as much as it is that of Illinois. 



Some said, " What's in a name ?" There is a good deal in 

 it. I would go to a Northwestern convention when I would 

 not go to an Illinois State. If Illinois wants a State conven- 

 tion, and I think she does, and ought to have, she could hold 

 her State convention in the spring, or several months from 

 the time that the Northwestern met. A State convention is 

 always largely a local affair, and I don't think that the hold- 

 ing of a Northwestern convention in Chicago, away to the 

 north end of the State, would seriously affect the holding of a 

 meeting at Springfield, unless the meetings were held at 

 nearly the same time. 



For one, t am in favor of organizing another Northwest- 

 ern association to meet each autumn in Chicago. I would not 

 do this in any antagonistic mood towards the Illinois State, 

 for I have no such feeling towards them, and should most 

 sincerely desire their co-operation. Let the matter be dis- 

 cussed — I am willing to abide by the majority. 



Flint, Mich. W. Z. Hutchinson. 



Truly, Mr. Hutchinson offers some pretty good reasons 



why there should be another Northwestern bee-keepers' 



society organized. What say others who are interested in 



this matter ? 



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Sulphur Acorns.— A sample of sulphur acorns is 

 received from a Connecticut firm, intended for use wherever 

 it is desirable to fumigate with sulphur. Balls of sulphur, 

 perhaps combined with some other ingredient, are made in the 

 shape of an acorn, these acorns being made of any size de- 

 sired. They light readily, simply by touching a lighted match 

 to them. For the use of bee-keepers whenever it is desirable 

 to fumigate with sulphur, they would certainly be a great 

 convenience, the only question being as to expense. 



Iflr. S. J. Baldwin, who made a pleasant call at the 

 Bee Journal office during the World's Fair in 1893, and who 

 is one of the very prominent bee-men of England, wrote me 

 in a letter dated March 4, that his three months' trip to and 

 in our country " wrought a most wonderful change and im- 

 provement" in his health. He is seriously thinking of re- 

 peating the trip this year, in the autumn, which I trust he 



will do. 



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The S-weets that "Waste (see pages 173 and 174) 

 would have been " sweeter " if no error had occurred in put- 

 ting it in type. Read it again, and then when you come to 

 the 18th line from the top of page 174, read thus : " will seek 

 the right for the joy it finds in it, and they will love the farm 

 and all that pertains to it," etc. That whole "comment" is 

 worth reading over about four times. It's a gem. 



Sweet Clover or Melilot has been referred to 

 very frequently in the American Bee Journal as an excellent 

 honey-plant. Mr. M. M. Baldridge, of St. Charles, 111., re- 

 cently sent me what he calls "Special Bulletin No. 2" on 

 " White Melilot or Melilotus Alba," and from that 4-page 



