Aug. 15, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



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For grinding Koniid - Edi:e 

 TooIh, the holt s In the stand- 

 ard are used Instead of the 

 ootches- 



grow so Liig. but large enough to produce 

 abundant shade and bear quantities of luscious 

 fruit. 



The berries begin to ripen about the first to 

 the sct-ond week in June, and continue to 

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 to the season. If cool and wet. the berries do 

 not Tiiature .so quickly. But the greatest 

 advantage is that the fruit ripens gradually, 

 affording extended feeding-time — so unlike 

 other nectar-producing fruits, of few days' 

 duration. The simplicity with which the 

 berries can lie utilized — easily gathered and 

 crushed— that a small child can readily be 

 taught to feed it to the bees. 



The fact that the bees take kindly to this 

 new product is beyond question — they simply 

 devour every ristige that can be made avail- 

 able, leaving only the seeds. 



Now as to the kind of honey produced. I 

 opened up a hive the other day and found 

 both comb and honey which I have good rea- 

 son to believe was the result of the mulberry 

 harvest. The comb was new. beautifully 

 white, and especially translucent: the honey 

 was as pure and white as any sweet clover 

 honey, and the flavor much like that of 

 alfalfa, but innocent of the slightest •■ foxy " 

 taste of the basswood and pungent blossoms, 

 not to mention buckwheat. I can imagine 

 no more delicate flavor, and in appearance it 

 is ideal. 



( )t course, the natural argument will arise : 

 ■'How do you know it wasn't white clover 

 honey ?'' WeW. I'll have to resort to woman's 

 final reason — -''Cause." I may as well at- 

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You can. by no possibility, miss doing a 

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 every available place around your home. 

 Stick cuttings in the ground and let Ihem 

 grow. 



To the good wife let me say. that white 

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St Cliicagro, III. 



As to Editors of Bee-Journals. 



It seems to some a matter of reproach that 

 editors of bee-journals are not completely in- 

 formed on all topics nearly or remotely con- 

 nected with the subject of bee-keeping. 

 Arthur C. Miller complains of the silence of 

 the text-books and the ignorance of editors 

 as to the laws of heredity and the principles 

 of breeding! and now F. L. Thompson, in the 

 Progressive Bee-Keeper. takes up the refrain 

 at still greater length. This reproach against 

 the ignorance of bee-editors does not seem to 

 be bitterly resented by at least one editor, for 

 the editor of the Progressive makes no word 

 of reply, and it is not likely that any other 

 will attempt to deny the charge. No one is 

 more likely than the editor of a bee-journal 

 himself to be conscious of his need of infor- 

 mation ; and the reproach that he has not yet 

 learned all that is to be known about bee- 

 keeping is likely to strike him much as would 

 the reproach that he has not strength to live 

 on without eating. 



The mistake that Mr. Thompson seems to 

 make is in supposing that editors of bee- jour- 

 nals pose as the repositories of all knowledge 

 on the subject of bee-keeping. If bee-keepers 

 had any such view, then their journals would 

 be made up entirely of editorials. But at the 

 present day no bee-journal is conducted on 

 any such line. Instead of being filled up en- 

 tirely w-ilh what the editor has to say, the 

 bee-journal of the present day seeks contribu- 

 tions from all quarters. If any bee-keeper 

 has had special opportunity for becoming 

 particularly well informed on some one sub- 

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