. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. GEORGE W. YORK. Editor. WEEKLY BY IIS Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. [Entered at the PostOffloe at Chicago as Second-Class Mail Mattel] UNITED STATES BEE-KEEPERS' UNION Organized to advance the pursuit of Apiculture; to promote the interests of bee- keepers ; to protect its meiubers ; to prevent the iidulteration of honey; and to prosecute the dishonest honey-commission men. Afembersiiip foe—^ xter- Annum, Executive CoMMiTTEE-Pres., Georce w. York; Vice-Pres., W. ; Secretary, Dr. A. B. Mason. Station B. Toledo, Ohio. Board op


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. GEORGE W. YORK. Editor. WEEKLY BY IIS Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. [Entered at the PostOffloe at Chicago as Second-Class Mail Mattel] UNITED STATES BEE-KEEPERS' UNION Organized to advance the pursuit of Apiculture; to promote the interests of bee- keepers ; to protect its meiubers ; to prevent the iidulteration of honey; and to prosecute the dishonest honey-commission men. Afembersiiip foe—^ xter- Annum, Executive CoMMiTTEE-Pres., Georce w. York; Vice-Pres., W. ; Secretary, Dr. A. B. Mason. Station B. Toledo, Ohio. Board op Directous-E. It. Root; E. Wbitcomb; E. T. Abbott. C. P. Dadant; W. Z. Hutchinson; Dr. C. C. Miller. General Manager and Treascrer—Busene Secor. Forest City, Iowa. VOL. 38. MARCH 17, 1898. NO. ^'llO American Bee .lournal adopts the Orthography of the followin' Rule, rccommenilcd by the Joint action of the American Philological Assci- ciation and the Philological Society of England:—Change "d" or "ed" tlnal to "t when so pronounced, except when the "e" affects a preceding sound. The Next Xational Convention of bee-keep- ers ought to be even larger and better than that of 1897, if that be possible. But whether or not that will be attained depends much upon where it will be held. Editor E. R. Root and Rev. E. T. Abbott are whooping it up for Omaha, some time during the great Trans-Mississippi Exposition to be held there from June 1 to Nov. 1, 1898. The Executive Committee, who have to decide as to where the convention is held, want to be assured of as low railroad rates to Omaha as will obtain to Cincinnati where the Grand Army meets early next September. This assurance the Omaha Exposition people so far seem to be unable to make. So there we are. In all probability the rate to Cincinnati will be one cent a mile each way, as it was to Buffalo. Personally, we should like very much to go to Omaha, and it seems to us that all the ra


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