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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 30, 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY liV 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 56 Fittb Avenue. - CHICAGO, IKT.. 



?1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 [Entered at the Post-Offlce at ChicaBO as Second-Class Mail-Matter.J 



VoinXV. CHICAGO, ILL, MAT 30, 1895. No, 22. 



Editorial Budget. 



Meiuorial Day has come once more, and again with 

 beautiful flowers will be decorated the graves of our Nation's 

 heroic dead. In commemoration of the solemn event, a song 

 —"When Should the Nation Forget ?"— is published in the 

 Bee Journal this week, which doubtless will please many of 

 those who can sing. Have the whole family learn it, and 

 make the " chorus " ring. 



Rev. E. X. Abbott's Labors as lecturer on Prac- 

 tical Apiculture and the Poultry Yard, at Institutes under the 

 care of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture during the 

 the past year, have been highly appreciated by that body, and 

 he is again engaged in the same capacity for another series 

 of lectures. The appropriation for farmers' institute work, 

 made by the 38th General Assembly of Missouri, is $6,000, 

 which with about $2,000 still in the hands of the State 

 Board, will enable them to hold about 40 meetings during the 

 next biennial period. Missouri is moving on ! 



Please Mention the Bee Journal when writ- 

 ing to any of the advertisers in this paper. You may think 

 it unnecessary to do so, but to the advertiser and to the pub- 

 lishers of the American Bee Journal it is a very important 

 matter. By saying, " I saw your advertisement in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal," you will be showing the advertiser where it 

 pays him best to advertise, and also it will help the publishers 

 of the American Bee Journal to hold such advertisers regu- 

 larly, as they will patronize more liberally those papers that 

 bring the most returns. So please don't forget to always men- 

 tion the Bee Journal when writing to its adverti'sers. 



This :Nuniber Closes Three Years of the 



American Bee Journal under its present management. Having 

 scarcely any acquaintance with bee keepers three years ago, 

 it was indeed a risky thing to take the responsibility of con- 

 ducting this journal, especially as I was to follow one who had 

 successfully edited and published it for nearly a score of 

 years. But the years have come and gone, and still the old 

 American Bee Journal moves on, and now gives promise of 

 greater success in the future than it has ever enjoyed in the 

 past. 



I feel deeply grateful to all who have so kindly assisted 

 and encouraged me in ray arduous but pleasant labors, and 

 truly I have never had any cause for complaint of the lack of 

 the most cordial letters of appreciation of my efforts since 



assuming the editorship of the American Bee Journal. I was 

 reminded of this fact, upon receipt of the following letter, 

 dated April 26, 1895, writen by one of those who reply to 

 queries in the Question-Box department, and who lives east 

 of Chicago : 



Friend York : — I am pleased to see that there is no rctro- 

 (jratle in the American Bee Journal. " Excelsior " seems to 

 be your motto, and progression your rule. This is as it should 

 be, and is the only way by which you can expect the support 

 of the bee-keeping public. 



I have watched your course as a bee-editor closely, and 

 have found that you was constantly " keeping up to the 

 mark," and leading (as you should) rather than following. I 

 have admired your manly. Independent course, and have been 

 pleased to see that no favoritisms have crept in, and that you 

 have ever been fair and impartial. 



I trust that you will continue as you have begun, and will 

 not weary in well-doing. * » ■» 



Though I have never claimed to be super-human, and 

 have only endeavored to do my duty as I saw it, still there is 

 a satisfaction in feeling that my efforts have been, and are, 

 appreciated by those who take and read the American Bee 

 Journal for the apicultural information which it contains. 



Another of the "repllers" in the Question-Box (after 

 reading the exceedingly foolish, yet amusing, criticisms of the 

 American Bee Journal and its editor, made by some), sends 

 the following, which he thinks quite aptly illustrates the case 

 in question ; 



Friend York : — After having read certain senseless criti- 

 cisms of yourself and the American Bee Journal, I was re- 

 minded of this story : 



A man in a putjiic position was belabored by an envious 

 rival to whom he paid no attention. Some of his friends said : 

 " Why don't you silence the fellow?" 



He replied: " I once knew of a little dog that would go 

 out night after night and bark at the moon. Would bark at 

 it by the hour." 



His friends waited for him to finish the story, but he re- 

 mained silent, and they said : "Well, what of it?" 



" Oh, nothing ; the moon kept right on." 



Friend York, the American Bee Journal may as well take 

 the part of the moon. * * » 



The Toronto Convention. — Secretary Hutchin- 

 son desires this notice given in regard to the next meeting of 

 the North American Bee-Keepers' Association : 



The North American, as we all know, will hold its meet- 

 ing this year in Toronto, Canada, during the Industrial Fair 

 in September. Bro. Holtermann has already secured the 

 auditorium of the Norman School as a place for holding the 

 meeting. It is none too soon now to begin thinking about a 

 programme, and I would be thankful if bee-keepers would 

 write to me and suggest topics that they would like to have on 

 the programme. W. Z. Hutcuinson, Sec. 



Flint, Mich. 



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Hon. Geo. E. Hilton, who is a member of the 



Michigan legislature, is also a well-known bee-keeper and 

 supply-dealer. A correspondent at Lansing, in one of a series 

 of letters to Mr. Hilton's county newspaper, had this to say in 

 his letter published May 9 : 



Hon. Geo. E. Hilton returned from a week's stay at his 

 home yesterday. He is receiving many congratulations from 

 his colleagues upon the fact that he is the proud father of a 

 nice little girl. Time bears out the prediction made in the 

 first of this series of letters, that Mr. Hilton would prove to be 

 one of the most popular as well as active and useful members 

 of the House. No man is more highly respected than he, and 

 no man in either House has more friends. He has much in- 

 fluence, and it is needless to say to Newaygo county readers 

 that it is never exerted in a bad cause. 



It seems to be invariably the case that wherever a bee- 

 keeper is elected to some important public office, a good man 

 is found. The Bee Journal congratulates both Mr. Hilton and 

 his constituents. 



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