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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 9, 1904. 



"Honey Drip '' or " Honey Drops" if, of course, not lioney, but all 

 liquid honey labeled " Pure Honey " is reasonably sure to be pure 

 honey. J. E. Johnson. 



It is always well to present the newspaper editor and publisher 

 with a sample of the kind of honey you are writing about. It will 

 help him to understand your enthusiasm over so good a food article as 

 honey— just m/iy you are anxious that all the people shall know what 

 they arc really missing when they substitute cheap corn-syrup concoc- 

 tions for genuine bees' honey. 



It may be that after the favored editor has indulged his own 

 taster in the real thing, he will add a word of personal endorsement to 

 what has been written by his bee-keeping friend and subscriber. 



No doubt there are some of our readers who will say, " O, I can't 

 write well enough to do that." Well, then take to your ocal editor 

 an article written by some one else — say Mr. Johnson's — and kindly 

 request him to publish it in his paper. He^ will doubtless be glad to 

 do so, when he knows that it has your approval. You will then be 

 his authority back of it, and it will go far in enlisting his aid and in- 

 terest. And all this is not entirely a selfish matter on your part, as it 

 will be a benefit to all his readers. 



It may be you have some honey to sell to the readers of the news- 

 paper in which you request the publication of the article referred to. 

 Then it is your opportunity to place your order for a nice paid adver- 

 tisement in that same newspaper. This will please the editor very 

 much. And, no doubt, he will be glad to take his pay for it in honey. 

 Why not begin to think about the plan suggested, and put it into 

 operation as soon as this season's honey crop is harvested? Go to the 

 editor of your local newspaper with the contribution on the use of 

 honey as a daily food, and request him to publish it. Also, present to 

 him at the same time a nice sample of your honey. Perhaps it would 

 be well then and there to leave with him your order for an advertise- 

 ment of honey. If you are a loyal financial supporter of his paper, he 

 is not likely to decline to publish the contribution. It is not easy to 

 " turn down" a good friend and neighbor when so reasonable a request 

 is made. And the information thus given will not only benefit you as 

 a honej -producer, but will be a blessing to those who read it, and who 

 doubtless will follow the suggestions given on the use of honey. 

 Try it, and then let us hear the results. 



Discouraging for Southern California Bee-Keepers. 



We have received the following from an extensive Ijee-keeper in 

 San Diego Co., Calif., dated May 15: 



Editor York: — The enclosed "clipping only partially tells the 

 story, as seven car-loads of bees were shipped to Nevada from this 

 station — 10 in all. The shippers had all sorts of bad luck. The first 

 two were thrown off the track the second day, and 30 or 40 colonies 

 ruined. 



Owners of one car-load, after arriving at the end of the journey, 

 put 310 colonies in a trail wagon, with a lot of junk on top of all. The 

 team of eight or ten horses was driven with a jerk-line (one-line only, 

 and that on a leader), ran the wagon oil the bridge and dumped .50 

 hives off into the water; the team ran away, and played smash with 

 the remainder. One man lost 40 colonies hauling them to our station. 



One car, when up near Stockton (opposite San Francisco), ran 

 into a heavy rain-storm, and going over the Sierras it snowed, and 

 icicles formed on the sides of the hives, a good deal of brood being 

 chilled, and a large percent of the old bees died on the way. All went 

 in open cattle-cars. Some shippers got out of their cars, at the end of 

 their journey, into a snow-storm— most of the men contracted bad 

 colds, and altogether had a miserable trip. In this vicinity all the 

 bees will starve if not fed, many havingalready " gone up the spout," 

 as there is not a drop of nectar in the fiowers. Those near orange or 

 lemon groves may possibly pull through. Mr. Hambaugh took one 

 car. We sent one, too. The trip is over 1000 miles long — over past 

 Sacramento and in toward Salt Lake. 



The clipping referred to in the foregoing, reads thus : 



Car-load shipments of bees are to be shipped from this county to 

 Nevada, where the feed is more plentiful. The district where the 

 feed is scarce, and where it is necessary to ship the bees away in order 

 to save them, is near the coast. In the mountain sections there is 

 feed sufficient to sustain life, although not enough for honey-produc- 

 ing. A car-load of bees was shipped from the Linda Vista station 

 yesterday. One or two have been shipped from Escondido. 



Surely, this is very discouraging to bee-keepers located in the 

 Southern coast counties of California, where the bulk of the honey of 

 California is usually produced. 



Cleansing Beeswax. 



Put the vessel containing the melted wax in a box whose bottom 

 is covered 5 inches deep with sawdust; surround the vessel on all 

 sides with sawdust and cover over. The wax will stay hot a long 

 time, and the slow cooling will allow all impurities to settle to the 

 bottom. So says an item in Praktischer Wegweiser. 





Miscellaneous Items 





Notice. — The Deputy Inspector of Apiaries can call upon any 

 bee-keeper within 35 miles of Chicago, to give assistance about treat- 

 ing diseases of bees. Mail your requests to Herman F. Moore, Deputy 

 Inspector of Apiaries, Park Ridge, Ills. 



General Manager France is having plenty to do in the 

 work of the National Bee-Keepers' Association. He wrote us May 38: 



Friend York:— Because one of our memliers did not buy goods 

 of a newly-elected city mayor of Kirkwood, 111., an ordinance is just 

 passed forbidding any person to keep in the village over 5 colonies of 

 bees. Penalty, $1.00 to -*3 00 per colony each month. How is that 

 for an ordinance? Case No. 3 so far this season. 



Sixty-five percent of Wisconsin bees, last fall count, are now dead. 

 Clover and basswood promise good. N. E. France. 



Geo. W. Brodbeck, of Los Angeles Co., Calif., Secretary of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association, writing us May 24, had this to 

 say: 



" There will be no honey to speak of produced this season in 

 Southern California, and, furthermore, it now looks as if it will prove 

 the most disastrous year we have ever had, for the bees in the honey 

 localities are not securing enough nectar to live on." 



We regret to learn that Mr. Brodbeck has not yet fully recovered 

 from his long siege of sickness, which we referred to in these columns 

 some time ago. We trust he may soon be all right again, for it falls 

 upon him, as secretary of the National, to prepare the program for the 

 St. Louis convention, and that is no small duty. 



The York Honey Company is the latest thing in the field of 

 handling and bottling honey, located at 101 E. Kinzie St., here in 

 Chicago. Mr. Henry M. Arnd is the manager of the Company, and 

 the writer is its president. It is unincorporated. The new Company 

 will use on its output of honey the registered label bearing the well- 

 known name, " York's Honey," which, through our efforts for many 

 years, has become a popular brand in Chicago, and even far beyond 

 the borders of this great city. 



The office of the American Bee Journal will still be here at 334 

 Dearborn St., where we have a lease for three years. It is not now 

 our intention to devote any time to the new company which bears our 

 name, further than to assist Mr. Arnd in the buying of stock neces- 

 sary to run the business, which consists exclusively of honey and 



Mrs. L. Harrison, so well known to our readers, passed away 

 at St. Andrew, Fla., May 26, 1904. Mrs. Harrison was one of the old- 

 time correspondents of the American Bee Journal, and lately has 

 appeared among those who furnish expert opinions on questions re- 

 ferred to a list of about 35 prominent bee-keepers. For some years 

 she has been spending the winters in Florida, her home being in 

 Peoria, 111. When sending us a notice of her departure, Mr, Harrison 

 said that she died after a severe illness of six weeks duration. She 

 had been nearly blind all winter from cataract, and had been a great 

 sufferer, so that death came as a sweet release. 



We are sure our readers will join with us in extending to Mr. 

 Harrison sincerest sympathy in his bereavement. 



We will publish a portrait and biographical sketch of Mrs. Harri- 

 son a little later. 



C. W. Virgin and Mrs. Berthe.— We have heard from 

 another of Mrs. Berthe's many admirers, who evidently is jealous of 

 her reputation. On page 372 we had a few very proper things to say 

 regarding her appointment as superintendent of the apiarian depart- 

 ment of the St. Louis Exposition. After reading these remarks, her 

 " Virgin " friend sent us a postal card with the following, which we 

 reproduce as nearly as possible in type, as it was written : 



G. W. York :— I suppose if you had been consulted it would have 

 been all right— but now Mrs. Berthe has been appointed and you new 

 nothing about it are sore. Oh yes, we understand there is no personal 

 feeling in the matter, ha-ha. To bad. I feel sorry for you. 



C. W. Virgin. 



Lest there may be a very few others who are as far from the truth 

 as is Mr. Virgin, and who harbor in their hearts wrong thoughts of 



