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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Apr. 18, 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BV 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 56 Fifth A.\-eniie. - CHICAGO, II^K. 



$1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

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EDITOR. 



Assisted by the following Department Editors : 

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

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

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



"Bee-Master" "Canadian Beedom." 



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



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



YoLinV. CHIC AGO, ILL, APR. 18, 1895. No, 16, 



Editorial Budget* 



Mr- Jo.sepli Ross Is wanted. Any one knowing where he 

 is, or if this meets his eye, please notify his mother, Mrs. M. Ross. 

 Decatur, Wise Co., Tex. Mrs. Ross requests this notice given, and 

 wrote that her son, who is a bee-keeper, left Decatur in 1891. She 

 heard he was in Louisiana. 



XI»e •' (lioldeu "' Feeaer, illustrated and described on 

 page 313, seems to merit considerable favor, so much so that 

 many are writing Mr. Golden for one as a sample. He does not 

 wish to make them for sale, and writes me that if any one will 

 send him 2.5 cents he will mail in return a good, clear photograph 

 of the feeder, from which any boy 10 years of age can make it. 

 Address as foUows: J. A. Golden, Reinersville, Ohio. 



Moo-Paralysi*.— On page 114 it was requested that the 

 American Bee Journal co-operate with Gleanings in offei-ing to 

 publish the names of those dealing in bees or queens, who would 

 consent to at once destroy all colonies when found to be so affected. 

 In response to that request and agreement, only one dealer has 

 been heard from— Mr. W. H. Pridgen, of North Carolina. He says : 



" I have never had a colony of bees affected with any disease, 

 and if I ever do have such, I shall not sell bees or queens until it is 

 cured. W. H. Pridgen." 



Bee-l'iilliiro in C'oIora«lo.— Judging from the follow- 

 ing, written by Mr. Wm. M. Barnum, of Denver, Colo,, the bee- 

 keeping industry in that State is greatly on the increase: 



The statistics of our great State for the year 189i, place the 

 number of pounds of honey produced for that fiscal year at 2,iO.OUU, 

 valued at ?;25,000— which is a low estimate. The State was amply 

 able to supply itself, and a number of thousands of pounds were 

 sent out. The business is growing with remarkable rapidity ; and 

 the State is surely destined in a short time to become one of the 

 leading honey States of the Union. Wm. M. Baknum. 



Good for Colorado ! But when honey is used regularly, as it 

 will be some day — in every family everywhere— then there will be 

 a demand that will tax the honey resources of each State to their 

 limit. Better get ready for the " good time a-coming." 



When it is known that one honey-seller disposed of about 

 50,000 pounds here in Chicago, the past winter ; and that another 

 has been supplying 200 grocery stores, often duplicating the orders, 

 some idea of the possibilities of honey consumption may be re- 

 alized. Why, Chicago alone could use every drop of pure honey 



produced in the great State of DUnois every year, if it were prop- 

 erly and generally distributed to the people '. And the city people 

 wguld be the better for it, too. 



For a few years it might be a good thing to spend more time 

 in learning to sell honey rightly, and less time in trying to produce 

 an enormous amount and then ;ji>'e it away. And yet, just now, as 

 always in the past, it is underconsumption and not ovorproducuon 

 of honey. 



Pure honey, properly put up and presented to the consumers, 

 will •• go." But there must be an assurance of its purity, else any 

 sales will not easily be made. 



Ilwiiej- as Foot! au<l ^ledicine. — A new and revised 

 edition of this 32-page pamphlet is now issued. It has 5 blank 

 pages on which to write or paste recipes taken from other sources. 

 It is just what its name indicates, and should be liberally dis- 

 tributed among the people everywhere to create a demand for 

 honey. It contains a number of recipes on the use of honey as 

 food and as medicine, besides much other interesting and valuable 

 information. Prices, postpaid, are; Single copy, 5 cts, ; 10 copies 

 35 cts. ; 50 for $1.50 ; 100 for S2.50. Better give them a trial. Send 

 all orders to the Bee Journal office. 



I'lie Slantlard IMftiomary.— Whoever has had occa- 

 sion to look at a dictionary for some word connected with the pur- 

 suit of bee-keeping, has in the majority of cases been doomed to 

 disappointment. If he found the word he was not certain of find- 

 ing a correct definition, but in too many cases the word was not to 

 be found at all. Now, however, in the Standard Dictionary, whose 

 second and last volume has lately appeared, the student of apicul- 

 ture may look with some hope of success, for its publishers have 

 had the good sense to consider apiculture of sufficient importance 

 to include in its corps of editors a practical bee-keeper — one who 

 has for many years been familiar with the literature of bee-keep- 

 ing — Dr. C. C. Miller, of Marengo, 111. 



Not only are the old, familiar terms of bee-keeping to be found, 

 but the Standard is an up-to-date dictionary. Look under the let- 

 ter S, and you find " slumgum. The residue of propolis, cocoons, 

 etc., after "beeswax is extracted from honey-combs." In their 

 proper places you will also find comb-foundation, field-bee, hiver. 

 Italianize, pipe. Good candy, Scholz candy, etc. It is pre-eminently 

 a bee-keeper's dictionary. Of course, it would be nothing strange 

 to find errors or omissions, for in the matter of the nomenclature 

 of bee-Keeping the editor was working mainly on virgin soil, and 

 dictionaries are not made in a day. But an immense advance has 

 been made. 



The question may be asked, how does it come that bee-keeping 

 has such prominence in this dictionary — a prominence justly de- 

 served, but never previously given in any other work of the kind ? 

 The answer is, that no more prominence has been given to it than 

 to the many other special departments. In each department some 

 one was chosen as editor who was entirely at home in that depart- 

 ment, not trusting to a lawyer to give definitions of terms in 

 botany, nor choosing a botanist to give the language of chess- 

 players. Think of 275 editors and specialists ! 



Of course no pocket edition can be here under discussion. The 

 Standard is an immense work. It is published either in one or two 

 volumes, with a total of 2,338 pages, with 5,000 illustrations, and in 

 the fulness of its vocabulary it is far in advance of all others. 

 Webster (International) has 1 '2.5, 000 vocabulary terms; the costly 

 Century, in six volumes, has 250.000; while the Standard has by 

 actual count ;^01,Sfl5, besides the Appendix with 47,408 entries. 



Want of space forbids describing fully any of the many excel- 

 lences of this magnificent work, such as finding the usual meaning 

 of a word immediately after its pronunciation, the exact pronun- 

 ciation of each word being given by means of what is called the 

 scientific alphabet adopted by the American Spelling Reform Asso- 

 ciation ; the many quotations given for the better understanding 

 of the meanings ; the use of capitals for the initial letter of only 

 such words as are to be always spelled with capitals; the very full 

 treatment of synonyms and antonyms; the use of the German 

 double hyphen to distinguish compound words from those merely 

 divided into syllables ; the valuable tables given of coins, fruits, 

 flowers, measures and weights ; the Appendix of proper names all 

 in one table, so that you don't need to look through several tables 

 to see whether a word belongs to biography, history, geography or 

 fiction ; not to mention others. Among the innovations is that of 

 having lists of the technical words used in particular trades. 

 Under '' blacksmith " come some 70 words pertaining thereto : un- 

 der " carpentry " 275, and so under foundry, plumbing, printing, 

 etc. The dictionary cost nearly $1,000,000, and five years of labor. 



Scholars in this country, and England as well, hail the work 

 as a monument well fitted to the close of the 19th century. It is 

 emphatically the people's dictionary, and undoubtedly for long 

 years to come the Standard will be the standard. 



The publishers of this stupendous work are Messrs. Punk & 

 Wagnalls, 30 Lafayette Place, New York, N. Y. : and the General 

 Western Agents are The Fuller Book Co. . 79 Dearborn St. , Chicago, 

 111. For any further information desired, address either the pub- 

 lishers or the general agents. 



