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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 26, 



George W, Yorlc, - - Editor. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 56 Flftb Avenue, - C111CA.GO, ILL. 



$1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 [Bntered at the Pos^Offlce at ChicaKo as Second-Class Mail-Matter.] 



VoLinV. CEICA&O, ILL, DEC, 26, 1895. No, 52. 



Editorial Budgets 



A Merry Christinas to all the readers of the old 

 Americau Bee Journal is my siucerest wish at this moat joy- 

 ful season of the whole year. 



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Mr. Frank B. Pease is a rising attorney here in 



Chicago. At one time he was my room-mate, and so 1 feel 



that I know him quite well. His office is Room 1214 Tacoma 



Building, corner Madison and La Salle Streets. Now I think 



he would be a good man to whom to refer any complaint that 



a reader of the American Bee Journal may have against any 



one here in Chicago. I am sure Mr. Pease will treat you 



fairly, and will attend to any business placed in his hands with 



promptness and satisfaction. Often complaints are sent to 



me, and I am asked to look them up and report. I have not 



the time to do it, while Mr. Pease has. That is his business. 



When writing him, just say you saw this notice in the Bee 



Journal, and he will take special interest in you and your 



requests. 



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That " Observer " Man, in the December Pro- 

 gressive Bee-Keeper, referring to Editor Leahy's recent Chi- 

 cago and general-visiting-around trip, says: "Wish we all 

 could be editors for awhile, don't we?" That's not a good 

 observation, "Observer." Especially if you'd want to bean 

 editor just so you could have a chance to "go for" some 

 body, or simply to go and see some one. Lots of people im- 

 agine an editor has a very easy job. But such people know 

 more about bee-keeping in the moon than about editing and 

 publishing bee-papers. After nearly twelve years' experience 

 around a bee-paper office — such experience as I've had — those 

 would-be editors, I'm inclined to think, would sing a different 

 tune. " Observer," " things are not always what they seem." 

 Better be contented with your present way of living, rather 

 than to hanker after an editor's job — unless you want to work 



both day and night. 



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The End of 1895 has come, so far as Volume 

 XXXV of the American Bee Journal is concerned. This is 

 the last number for this year. The record is written— the 

 book is finished. I trust that all who have traveled along 

 with the Bee Journal the past year, will conclude to continue 

 through 1896. I am sure I don't wish to part company with 

 one of the readers, and 1 hope we shall all be permitted to 

 keep on the way together. 



I am deeply grateful for past favors, and confidently look 

 for increased support by wide-awake bee-keepers everywhere, 

 in order to enable the old American Bee Journal to retain its 



proud position of being the best as well as the oldest bee-paper 

 in America. The Bee Journal and its excellent and able 

 corps of contributors have done their full share toward all 

 the advance steps of modern and progressive bee-culture; and 

 it has endeavored to keep its readers fully informed concern- 

 ing all apiarian developments as far as they have arisen and 

 secured a foothold. 



The past long years of successful efforts of the American 

 Bee Journal can be but its guaranty for the future. What it 

 has been in all that is good and helpful it will try to improve 

 upon, until it shall shine forth to enlighten and guide every 

 true bee-keeper who will permit it to brighten his pathway. 



Bees in 'Winter is a small pamphlet we are entirely 

 out of, and we expect to have no more of them. It was a 

 chapter taken from the book " Bees and Honey." 



The American Bee-Keeper most cordially en- 

 dorses the Report of the Amalgamation Committee, in the 

 following paragraph : 



We think the report is acceptable in every way, and 

 should be adopted by the so-called North American Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association as soon as possible. The Union is an associa- 

 tion which has been and will be of great benefit to the bee- 

 keeping fraternity, while the North American is, and has 

 always been, of no benefit to any but a few who receive 

 various pecuniary benefits or the questionable honor of hold- 

 ing an office. Long live the Union. 



Just why the editor of the American Bee-Koeper should 

 think it necessary to speak so lightly of those who have for 

 many years stood by the North American, I cannot under- 

 stand. Surely, some of the very best men have been among 

 its office-holders, and labored hard to place bee-keeping upon 

 an enduring basis long before Editor Merrill or I were known 

 to the bee-keeping world. I don't believe the writer of that 

 paragraph wants all of it taken in earnest. 



The South-west Texas bee-keepers' convention at 



Wharton. Tex., Dec. 26 and 27, will be well taken care of. 



Mr. W. O. Victor, of that place, says in a private letter that 



he is making arrangements to entertain a large crowd, and 



will do all in his power to make it pleasant for all who attend. 



Better go, for those Texas folks know just how to have a 



good time at a bee-convention. I hope it will be a Victor-ious 



meeting ! 



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Ves, Vou Can AfTord to take the Bee Journal 



next year — in fact, you can't afford to be without it. My word 

 for it, the old American Bee Journal will be better than ever 

 in 1896. It will contain more good, practical matter on bees 

 than any preceding year's numbers. That's saying a good 

 deal, but you'll see it will prove true, if you continue on the 

 list of regular subscribers. 



This may be the last number of the Bee Journal you will 

 get. Just think over all the valuable things that have ap- 

 peared in its pages this year, and then say whether you can 

 afford to be without its weekly visits. I don't believe a single 

 subscriber will permit us to stop his or her subscription, if he 

 or she is at all interested in bee-keeping. Better drop off 

 something else, rather than let your "Old Reliable " friend 

 stop coming to see you. 



Hadn't you better say, " Come on. Old Bee Journal ; here's 

 my dollar for another year ?" 



Query Ko. 1000 is answered in this issue of the 

 Bee Journal. Think what that means 1 Consider the amount 

 of information the replies to the 1000 questions have con- 

 tained ! For just 11 years now the query department has 

 been continued in this journal — an average of a trifle over 90 



