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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 5, 



Oeorfi:o W, Voriv, - - liUitttr. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 se Fifth Aienue. - CHICAGO, ILI^. 



$1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 (Entered at the PostrOffice at Chicaeo as Second-Class Mail-Matter.] 



Vol. niV. CEICA&O, ILL., SEPT. 5, 1895. No. 36, 



Editorial Budget. 



Dr. miller will be missed at the convention this week. 

 His health and apiarian journalistic work wouldn't permit his 

 leaving home. Too bad. 



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Xlie Constitution of the North American Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, as revised and adopted at the St. Joseph 

 convention last year, will be found on page 578 of this num- 

 ber of the Bee Journal. It is very short and simple. Will it 

 be revised again at Toronto ? Wait and see. 



Mr. Chas. Dadant is spending a few weeks at Stur- 

 geon Bay, Wis., where, fortunately, he finds an annual escape 

 from hay-fever, which so annoys him at his home in Hamilton, 

 111. His series of profitable articles on " E.vtracted Honey " 

 will be completed in these columns next week. Don't miss it. 



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A Olorious Rain blessed this part of the country 

 Friday, Aug. 23. It was a regular soaker, and must have 

 been of untold value to fall pastures and Uowers. The pros- 

 pects for fall honey are fine in many localities, so reports say. 

 That will insure plenty of winter stores for the bees in such 

 places. 



The Kive Bee-Keeping: "Women shown on 

 the first page this week make a choice group. They are 

 among the most prominent bee-sisters of to-day. I wish they 

 all might be present at the Toronto convention this week, but 

 probably none of them will be there. All excepting Mrs. Ax- 

 tell were at the World's Fair bee-convention in 1893. I, for 

 one, am proud of our representative bee-women — they are all 

 exceptionally nice. I hope to show more of their number 

 later on. 



Crimson Clover, when in bloom, is pretty enough 

 to afford a bed of It room in a flower-garden. So says Dr. 

 Miller in a "straw" in Gleanings. The August 15th number 

 of that paper had quite an interesting symposium on crimson 

 clover. It seems to promise much as forage, for hay, plowing 

 under, and last, but not least, as a honey-yielder. Reports 

 from any who have had experience with it as a honey-plant, 

 will be gladly received and published in the Bee Journal. The 

 future prosperity of bee-keeping as a business may depend 

 much upon the success bee-keepers have in influencing farmers 

 everywhere to grow the various clovers— sweet, Alsike, alfalfa 

 and the crimson. Let us find out all we can about these fine 

 honey-yielders, and then endeavor to have them sown and 

 grown Si widely as possible. 



iNebraska and Capt. G. "W. Carnes.— I learn 

 that Capt. G. W. Carnes, who is very familiar with his sub- 

 ject, is giving, in various places, a free lecture on "Nebraska 

 and the Newer Northwest." He places his hearers in posses- 

 sion of an immense amount of interesting information. Go 

 and hear him if he should lecture near you. In face of the 

 present unusual prosperity of Nebraska, and the high price at 

 which farm lands in Illinois and other eastern States are held, 

 Capt. Carnes will confine himself to an interesting description 

 of the great opportunities in Nebraska for the farmer of mod- 

 erate means. In the past, Nebraska has been looked upon as 

 solely a "corn " State, but the last few years have proved 

 conclusively that it is one of the best States in the Union for 

 varied crops ; wheat, oats and other cereals, all descriptions 

 of tame grasses, and in particular alfalfa — the great honey- 

 yielder — have all been raised with the greatest success. 

 Another industry, the production of sugar-beets, is increasing 

 each year, and to-day Nebraska produces more sugar-beets to 

 the acre than any other country in the world. 

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I Am Indebted to Editor Root for a very nice re- 

 port, in Gleanings, of my recent one-day's visit to the "Home 

 of the Honey-Bees." I can truly say that I have never looked 

 upon Gleanings, or Bro. Root, as business rivals, but as friends 

 who would rather help me and the American Bee Journal on 

 to success than otherwise. Such friends are appreciated. 

 There are but few matters upon which Bro. Root and I do not 

 agree. In fact, they are so few as not to be worth noticing. 

 We are both striving to publish good, clean bee-papers, and to 

 do the right as nearly as we can see it. But neither of us 

 claims to be perfect. 



The Toronto Convention of the North Ameri- 

 can Bee-Keepers' Association will be in session when this 

 number of the American Bee Journal reaches the majority o{ 

 its readers. A full report of the proceedings will be published 

 in these columns. I have engaged Bro. Hutchinson to furnish 

 it, so there will not be the delay and finally no completed re- 

 port as was the case last year. When Mr. Hutchinson agrees 

 to do a thing, he does it. It is a real satisfaction to do busi- 

 ness with a man that can be relied upon to do as he agrees. 



mark Tovell, an extensive and respected bee-keeper 

 living at Guelph, Ont., died Sunday, Aug. IS. He was 75 

 years old. He was born in England, and came to Guelph in 

 1832, settling there with a large party from his native land. 

 The sea voyage required- eight weeks and three days. He 

 took a great interest in bee-keeping the last few years of his 

 life. The local newspaper, in chronicling his death, said : 

 "In the death of Mr. Tovell, Guelph loses one of its early 

 settlers, and his geuial face, out-spoken sentiments, and kindly 

 greetings will long be missed." 



Tlie First Comb Honey Shipment received 

 by one of the largest dealers in Chicago, for this year, reached 

 them on Aug. 23. They at once wrote me as_foIlows : 



We received to-day our first shipment of comb honey from 

 Geo. G. Scott, Wadena, Iowa. The shipment consisted of 791 

 pounds, and we sold it on arrival at 16 cents per pound. The 

 honey was put up in 12-section cases, 3 sections being shown 

 through the glass. We like this package very much. 



"Wanted. — As the edition of the Bee Journal for Aug. 

 S, 1895, No. 32, is exhausted, I'd like to ask those who feel 

 like sparing that number, to mail it to this office. If, when 

 mailing it, you will write a postal card, so that I can know 

 whom it is from, I will send you a copy of " Honey as Food and 

 Medicine" in exchange for it. 



