June. Kill. 



American Hee Journal 



BEE-tftEPiNG ^ For Women 



Conducted bv Miss Emma M. Wilson. Marengo. 111. 



"Bachelor Girls" and Bee-Keeping 



Three of us bachelor girls— or old maids. 

 if you prefer that title— want to make a spe- 

 cialty of the bee-keeping business, and want 

 to go to Arkansas, somewhere in the Ozark 

 region, where we can combine the fruit- 

 business with bees. Now. if you don't mind 

 advising us as to the best locality for bees, 

 and any other pointers that people need 

 who have had no experience whatever, but 

 with love of outdoor life and work, we shall 

 esteem it a great favor that we may perhaps 

 some time return by passing it on to those 

 in like need. If you do not want to bother 

 with us. just toss this in the fire, but we very 

 much want to hear from you. 



Chicago. 111. (Miss Etta 1 hrapp. 



If, in asking as to the best localities 

 for bees, you mean that you want to 

 know in what county and near what 

 town to locate, you will be disappointed 

 as to getting any help, for this is a 

 pretty big country, and very little can 

 be known by one person about the best 

 spots to keep bees. It is certain, how- 

 ever, that in Arkansas there are those 

 who keep bees, and in a general way 

 something may be said as to what con- 

 stitutes a good location. 



The main thing to look out for is the 

 matter of pasturage. As you mean to 

 take up the fruit-business, you will 

 have one important item, for although 

 there is generally no surplus honey 

 gotten from fruit-bloom, it plays a very 

 important part in yielding honey to 

 feed a large amount of brood, and this 

 brood makes the bees that harvest the 

 surplus later on. Without knowing 

 anything about the resources of Arkan- 

 sas, it may be well to say that where 

 white clover is abundant, or basswood, 

 or buckwheat, in places farther north 

 and east, there may be good hope for 

 success, and it may be the same way in 

 Arkansas, although some other honey- 

 plant may be of still more importance 

 there, as cotton. Where two or more 

 principal honey - plants abound, of 

 course success will be better than with 

 only one. 



Now it will be a very ungracious 

 thing to throw even a few drops of 

 cold water upon your bright hopes, 

 but do you dear girls know what you 

 are about? If you know nothing about 

 fruit-growing (and confessedly you 

 have no practical knowledge of bee- 

 keeping), you may find the actual facts 

 very different from the things you read 

 about. Please don't for a minute think 

 of going into bee-keeping unless you 

 are prepared to go without any profit 

 from the business for at least 2 or 'i 

 years. If you could start in right 

 where you are with 2 or 3 colonies of 

 bees, and learn something about them, 

 after a year or two you would be able 

 to know whether it would be wise to 

 launch out on a larger scale. Dr. C. C. 

 Miller, who is considered a successful 

 bee-keeper, tells in his book, " Forty 

 Years Among the Bees," that after be- 

 ing a bee-keeper 11 years he had only 2 

 colonies! So please don't plunge. 



We will be glad to have you tell us 

 in this department what you are doing. 



Reciprocity and the Canadian Honey- 

 Trade 



Miss Ethel Robson, Conductor of the 

 " Woman's Department " in the Cana- 

 dian Bee Journal, is evidently allowed a 

 free hand in her domain. The editor 

 says so, and proof is not lacking in her 

 initial number that it is so. On the 

 much discussed subject of reciprocity 

 the editor says : 



"We have been taken somewhat severely 

 to task by several correspondents for our 

 attitude regarding the proposed removal of 

 the import duty on honey. We can merely 

 explain that we were taught many years ago 

 to regard every man as our brother, whether 

 he be white, black, red or yellow; and as a 

 natural consequence we have come to be- 

 lieve in free and unrestricted trade in all 

 articles and commodities that make for the 

 well-being of the human race. With us. it is 

 a question, not of expediency, but of faith. " 



On the other hand, Miss Robson 

 says : 



"The proposed reciprocity treaty is the 

 one question in Canadian politics which has 

 gotten beyond the range of mere party lines, 

 and Canadians are discussing it with more 

 national feeling than any other question 



within the memory of a good many of us 



The writer has taken the pains to find out 

 the opinion of many of our leading bee-keep- 

 ers—men who have the widest knowledge of 

 marketing conditions— and they are unani- 

 mous in the expression of the opinion that 

 the honey-trade in this country has received 

 a severe and unnecessary blow." 



Proceeding with a well-argued state- 

 ment of the case. Miss Robson says 

 among other things : 



" It may be argued that we have no right 

 to deny the poor man the privilege of buying 

 in a cheaper market; it is hardly to be sup- 

 posed that bee-keepers go into business 

 from more philanthropic motives than other 

 men. But granted so. the reduction in the 

 retail price by the removal of the duty will 

 hardly be sufficient to make a difference of 

 more than a dollar or two to even the largest 

 consumer, while the reduction of one or two 

 cents makes a big difference in a man's 

 whole crop. ' 



It may not be prudent to interfere in 

 an affair between a man and a woman, 

 as in this case, but one can not help 

 thinking that the little difference of a 

 cent a gallon on kerosene makes no 

 great burden on the poor man, while it 

 helps greatly to fill the purse of one 

 John D. Rockefeller, and yet there are 

 some who think it better that the thou- 

 sands should have the benefit of a few 

 cents each than that a larger benefit 

 should accrue to that same John D. So 

 it is just possible that it might be 

 thought better that the many should 

 have the benefit of a few cents each in 

 the matter of honey-supply than that the 

 few bee-keepers should each have a 

 larger benefit. 



" E-taly ") is an Italian name and the letter 

 "i ' is pronounced as we pronounce "e " • 

 just as in Spanish, and other languages, too. 



The Americans have nearly always taken 

 up some foreign name, word or saying and 

 spelled them with the same letters' but 

 given a pronunciation to suit themselves 

 as. for example. Flori-da for Flo-retha- Kai- 

 vote for Coy-ote; Lano for " Yano " when 

 trying to pronounce Llano; and a score or 

 more too numerous to mention 



Eola. Tex. (Mrs.) M. E. Pruitt. 



The matter of pronouncing correctly 

 words from other languages is not the 

 easiest thing in the world to handle It 

 would simplify it immensely if we could 

 have fonetic spelling. Sorne words are 

 imported from other languages, spell- 

 ing and pronunciation, without change 

 Others undergo more or less change 

 and we must refer to an English dic- 

 tionary to know what is right, rather 

 than to refer to a dictionary of the 

 foreign language. Whatever may be 

 the sound of the first letter in the word 

 "Italian "in any foreign language, if 

 our esteemed correspondent will par- 

 don the saying of it, in the English dic- 

 tionary it has the same sound as that of 

 the first letter in the word "it." After 

 all, the difference between long e and 

 short 1 IS one not so much of kind as 

 of length. Say "bit " very slowly, and 

 "beet" very rapidly, and see how much 

 difference there is between the two 

 words. 



Pronouncing Words from Foreign Lan- 

 guages. 



.lust a word or two to " New York " (page 

 S3J : In speaking of using proper and im- 

 proper terms, he or she) advises one to say. 

 'It-alians" instead of "Italians " One is 

 just as bad as as the other, so why make the 

 change that way ' Why not say. "E-talians." 

 and have it right '( Italy, pronounced 



Some Tested Honey-Recipes 



Deak Miss Wilson -1 come to bring you 

 some recipes which contain extracted honey 

 which I have not seen published in the 

 journals: 



.If'V^, ""^^ ^./'^VJ''"^ BiRDs.-Blanched 

 sweet almonds. H lb.; pea-meal. 3 lbs.; but- 

 ter, jii ounces; yolks of 2 eggs; 10 grs of 

 powdered saffron, and sufficient extracted 

 honey to make a paste. Mix all and force 

 through a sieve or fine colander. Make into 

 20-gr. lozenges, and give one once a week. 



I'oR Bronchial Cough (in animals such 

 as cows, horses. dogsl.-Powdered squills i 

 oz.; Covers powder. 4 drams; extract of 

 belladonna. 3 drams; sufficient extracted 

 honey to make a paste. Give night and 

 morning by smearing a piece ',i size of an 

 ordinary walnut on the tongue or molar 

 teeth. Use. in addition. 'A ounce of bicar- 

 bonate of potash in the drinking water. 



Tartared Teeth. — Mix thoroughly M 

 ounce of muriatic acid, i ounce of extracted 

 honey. 'A ounce of water. Wet a tooth-brush 

 well and brush the teeth briskly, and then 

 rinse the mouth and teeth thoroughly sev- 

 eral times so that the good teeth be not 

 affected with the acid, and use warm water. 



Honey Balsam. -Mix, by gentle heat. 4 

 ounces of extracted honey and i ounce of 

 glycerine. Then dissolve 3 drams of citric 

 acid in I ounce of alcohol, add 6 drops of the 

 essence of ambergris. Then add to the 

 honey and glycerine when cold; and stir 

 until well mixed. 



Flexihle GLUE.-Equal parts of glue and 

 extracted honey. Mix well and use hot. Of 

 course, the ylue must be soaked in water 24 

 hours; all the water poured off. and the glue 

 melted in a glue-pot. and then the honey 

 added. It dries very quickly, and when dry 

 IS elastic and valuable for many purposes 

 on this account. 



For Chapped or Rough Hands.— One 

 ounce honey, i ounce glycerince. 4 ounces of 

 ground barley; the white of an egg. Shake 

 well, and apply at night. 



Eola. Tex, (Mrs.) M. E. Pruitt. 



Pennsylvania State Meeting- The 



summer meeting of the Pennsylvania 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association will be 

 held at Reynoldsville, Pa., July 11 and 

 rZ, I'Jll. Tlie place is not far distant 

 from Pittsburg. All bee-keepers who 

 can attend are invited. 



