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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct.l, 





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G^org-e VI'. VorJf, . . Editor. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BV 



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 Se Pirtb Avenue, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



$1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

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Vol. fflV. CEICAGO, ILL, OCT. II, 1895, No, 42, 



Editorial Budget* 



Insuring: Bees.— A subscriber in California wants to 

 know if there are any fire insurance companies that insure 

 apiaries. Wholtnows? And what are tlie names of ttie com- 

 panies ? Some one who knows, please drop a card to this 

 office giving the desired information. 



Mr. S. J. Bald-win, of England, expected to leave 

 for a visit to America, Sept. 26. His address will be 554 

 Madison Ave., Elizabeth, N. J. Mr. Baldwin is a bee-supply 

 manufacturer, and dealer in honey and beeswax in England. 

 He was over here in 1893, and reported the trip very enjoy- 

 able and also greatly beneficial to his health. I trust he may 

 again be much profited by his present stay on this side the 



" briny deep." 



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Tliat Essay on Comb Honey, written for the 

 Toronto convention by Mr. U. Taylor, and published on page 

 614, seems to be appreciated very much, as it justly deserves. 

 Mr. William McEvoy, Ontario's foul-brood inspector, and the 

 new Vice-President of the North American, wrote me thus 

 about it, on Sept. 30: 



That essay of B. Taylor's in last week's American Bee 

 Journal, is one of tbe best ever published, and is the work of 

 a ripe scholar or great expert in bee-keeping. 



Wm. McEvoy. 



Earn Your Own Subscription.— Any present 

 subscriber can earn his or her own subscription to the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal for one year by sending three, new subscribers, 

 with $3.00. A copy of " Bees and Honey " will also be mailed 

 to each new subscriber, and the Bee Journal will be sent to 

 the new readers from the time the order is received up to the 

 end of 1896. This is an easy way to earn your own subscrip- 

 tion and at the same time help to circulate the Bee Journal. 

 Remember, getting 3 new subscribers pays for your own sub- 

 scription for 1 year ! Of course, no other premium will bo 

 sent in addition. This is a straight offer by itself. 



Selling: Otiier Bee-Keepers' Honey. — On 



page 675 is a query whether it would be right for a bee-keeper 

 to buy honey and retail it as his own production among his 

 customers after his own crop is disposed of. 



Of course, any one knows it would be very wrong to say 

 that certain honey is from your own apiary, produced by your 

 own bees, when you know there isn't a word of truth in it. I 

 am sure no sane bee-keeper wants to do that. But surely 



there can be nothing wrong in any bee-keeper selling the 

 honey produced by another, when he knows such honey is 

 good and absolutely pure. 



For instance : Suppose I had sold all my crop of extracted 

 honey to my local customers and did not have enough to go 

 half way around. I label it all, " Put up by Geo. W. York." 

 Then I send for a ton of extracted honey to Dr. Miller (of 

 course he hasn't any, but to change the monotony we'll sup- 

 pose he has some); he ships it to me, and I put it up and label 

 it the same as I did my own crop and sell it. Would there be 

 anything wrong in that? Most assuredly not. 



Of course, if I were asked whether I produced the latter 

 honey, I should say: "No; but / guarantee its purity." 

 That should satisfy any sensible customer, and I believe no 

 further questions would be asked. 



My advice would be, to retail all your own crop of honey 

 yourself, if possible, and just as much more as you can, being 

 sure that what you buy elsewhere is pure and good. Never 

 be guilty of offering any honey that is not " straight goods," 

 whether it be your own production or not. 



Again, I say, sell all your honey. Then sell some more. 



" Poor Seasons for honey are school seasons for 

 bee-keepers. He is the best scholar who soonest learns to profit 

 most by his losses." — American Bee Journal for May, 1867. 



A Fine Pliotog:rapIl of the nice apiary and home 

 of Mr. Henry Sutherland, of Bainbridge, Mich., has been sent 

 me by the owner. I can see therein about 20 hives. Mr. S. 

 and family are also shown. It has every appearance of being 

 a pleasant home and neatly-arranged apiary. 



Xbe Xanies and Addresses of all your bee- 

 friends, who are not now taking the Bee Journal, are wanted 

 at this oflice. Send them in, please, when sample copies will 

 be mailed to them. Then you can secure their subscriptions, 

 and earn some of the premiums offered on page 658. The 

 next few months will be just the time to easily get new sub- 

 scribers. Try it earnestly, at least. 



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Diphtheria — that heartless destroyer— has recently 

 claimed three of the dear children of Mr. Wm. Russell, of 

 Minnehaha Falls, Minn., and a fourth was almost despaired 

 of on Oct. 5. This is very sad, and all will sympathize with 

 our brother and family in their affliction. 



Mr. Russell writes that by reason of the diphtheria being 

 at his home, he understands the city authorities will condemn 

 his entire honey crop. As honey-production is the only means 

 Mr. R. and family have of making a living, it is sincerely to 

 be hoptd that they will be treated justly as to compensation. 

 Surely the one affliction is enough, without being compelled to , 

 lose the honey besides. 



Apicultural Experiment Stations.— On page 



662 of this number is published the excellent essay written byj 

 Hon. R. L. Taylor, of the Michigan apiarian experiment sta- 

 tion, for the Toronto convention. He certainly offers some-l 

 very good suggestions, most of which, no doubt, will be taken) 

 advantage of sooner or later. The one which interests mej 

 most is his reference to the bee-papers not co-operating in the 

 work as they should. I don't know what more the Bee Jour- 

 nal can do than it has done. I dou't think he should blame it 

 for publishing his (Mr. Taylor's) reports second-handed, when 

 he saw fit to furnish them to one bee-paper only. As I said at 

 the convention, if Mr. Taylor would send letter-press copies of 

 his monthly reports to all the bee-papers, I am sure all would 

 be glad to publish them. This would be but little extra work 



