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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 26, 



Cioornrf^ 1l\ Vor7c, - - Liditor. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 Se Fifth .\\enue, - CHICAGO. ILK. 



?1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 (Entered at the Poat-Office at Chicaco as Second-Class Mall-Matter.] 



yoLIin. CHICAGO, ILL, SEPT. 26, 1895. No, 39. 



Editorial Budget* 



Mr. A. W. Swan, of Centralia, Kaus., has sent me 

 a 6x8 inch photograph of his nice apiary of 42 colonies. Mr. 

 Swan himself, and daughter May, are also shown in the 

 picture. 



IHrs. A. A. Simpson, of Swarts, Pa., took 1st 

 premium on honey recently at their Fair. Many will remem- 

 ber having seen Mrs. Simpson at the World's Fair bee-conven- 

 tion. -She's one of Pannsylvania's prominent bee-women. 



Mr. J. TT. Calvert, business manager of Gleanings, 

 wrote a good share of the editorial matter in that paper for 

 Sept. 15. I don't think he need take a "back seat" for any 

 one when it conies to doing an editor's work. His paragraphic 

 comments on the Toronto convention are exceedingly well 

 done. But may be it takes a real Canadian to do Justice to a 

 Canadian gathering. 



Only One Cent Per Copy will take the numbers 

 of the Bee Journal that we have on hand dating before Jan. 

 1, 1895. We have quite a lot of them, and running back for 

 perhaps 10 years, and rather than make waste paper of them, 

 we offer them for only one cent each. Not less than 20 

 copies (all different dates) will be sent to one address. That 

 will be only 20 cents (stamps taken). They are odd numbers, 

 and the selecting must be left to us. All are just as good as 

 new. 



A Standard Bee-Book is to the bee-keeper (and 

 especially to the beginner) just what a good cyclopedia is to 

 the student at school or in business. Both should be used 

 as books of reference when the meaning of something seem- 

 ingly misunderstandable comes up. Of course the bee-book 

 should be thoroughly read, or studied, and used in connection 

 with actual practice in keeping or earing for bees. While 

 book knowledge is excellent, information gained by studying 

 the things themselves in nature is especially important. But 

 when you use experience in the apiary to corroborate what 

 the bee-book says, then greatest advancement toward success 

 is made. They should go hand in hand. 



A good bee-book is necessary, even if you are taking one 

 or more current bee-papers. There is much condensed in book 

 form that has been published over and over and again in 

 nearly all the bee-periodicals, and which can bo repeated less 

 and less frequently by reason of the new subjects constantly 

 arising, and which claim the larger share of space in live 



periodicals. So beginners, especially, should not expect to 

 find everything in any or all the bee-papers, but should pos- 

 sess one or more of the standard books on the subject of bees, 

 and read them in connection with the bee-papers. 



While there are many books that cover the ground of 

 scientific and practical apiculture, none do so quite so thor- 

 oughly and completely as Prof. Cook's "Bee-Keepers' Guide;" 

 " Langstroth on the Uoney-Bee ;" and Root's " A B C of Bee- 

 Culture." The price of the first and third are $1.25 each, 

 and the second $1.40. All or any of them can be had at the 

 Bee Journal office. (See page 627.) 



A Ne-w Chicago Brancll for the sale of bee- 

 keepers' supplies has just been opened by The A. I. Root Co. 

 They have purchased the good-will and stock of goods of 

 Thomas G. Newman, who has been dealing in bee-supplies in 

 Chicago for 20 years. Mr. Newman thus retires from the 

 field, and The A. I. Root Co. begin their new branch here, at 

 5(3 Fifth Ave. They have arranged with the editor of the 

 American Bee Journal to manage their business for them. He 

 will endeavor to see that orders are promptly filled, and that 

 all who prefer to have goods shipped from Chicago receive the 

 best treatment possible. 



The American Bee Journal is in no way connected with 

 the bee-supply business by this new arrangement — it will con- 

 tinue to be as at present, entirely independent, and aim to ad- 

 vance the best interests of bee-keepers everywhere. 



Convention Notes. 



There are several more matters connected with the To- 

 ronto convention of the North American of which I wish to 

 speak. 



First, I want to say that I was so delighted to meet the 

 Rev. L. L. Langstroth, the honored Father of American bee- 

 keeping. I had never met him. On Wednesday morning, 

 Bro. Hutchinson kindly introduced me to him. He simply 

 took my hand in both of his own, and said "God bless you, 

 Bro. York I" This was before he had his breakfast. About 

 an hour after, I saw him seated in the hotel parlor all alone. 

 X thought, " Now's my chance to have Father Langstroth all 

 to myself." I entered, and I just had a blessed time with 

 him for about two and a half hours. Oh, the sweetness of his 

 splendid voice ! Oh, the wonderful command of language he 

 has ! He never lacked for a word, but it was one continuous 

 stream of mellifluous eloquence. And all through his conver- 

 sation he threw in bits of such appropriate poetical quotations 

 that I was simply enraptured. 



I was surprised at Father L.'s clear memory, and he's 

 nearly 85 yearsold! Why, it seemed as if I was in the very pres- 

 ence of the first editor of the American Bee Journal, when he 

 described him to me — the lamented Samuel Wagner. I felt 

 that Father Langstroth was a sort of golden link that com- 

 pleted the chain connecting myself with my worthy predeces- 

 sor, the founder of this journal. How I wished I might more 

 nearly fill the editorial chair which he (Mr. Wagner) occupied 

 with such conspicuous grace and ability some 30 years ago. 

 But, alas, all men are not great. Still, we can all do our best, 

 which probably is all that the most noted of the past did. 



One instance of the grand character of Mr. Wagner, I will 

 take space to give here, as nearly as I can remember, though 

 of course not in Father Langstroth's inimitable style: Mr. 

 Wagner was a thorough German student, though American 

 born. Up to the age of 23 years he had not learned the 

 English language. He was wonderfully familiar with Ger- 

 man literature, and particularly with that relating to bee- 

 keeping. He knew all that was known on the subject of bees 

 in Germany, and when Father Langstroth met him he had 

 gone so far as to have made a fine translation of the foremost 



