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GLKAMNG8 IN BEE CULTURE 



Apr. 



Gleanikcs in Bee Culture, 



Published Senii-JU^onthlif. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 

 lERMS: SI.OO PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For ClnVolns Sates, See First Fage of Beading Matter. 



Take heed therefore how ye hear; for whosoever hatli, to 

 him shall be given; and whosoever hath not. from liim shall 

 be taken even tliat which he seenieth to have.— Luke 8:18. 



The new and again enlarged edition, the 42d 

 thousand, of the A B C of Bee Culture, will be out in 

 a couple of weeks. 



BUSINESS IN THE OFFICE. 



We have not thought to mention it, but there are 

 now five standard Remington type-writers that 

 work constantly in our office, and other things to 

 match. Two of them are in charge of men, and 

 three in the charge of ladies; and I tell you, they 

 make quite a clatter. May be the rest of you don't 

 think of it, but I do; and as I read the mail that 

 come into our ofBce, and that which goes out, I 

 often thank God for our modern improvements. 



SELLING GLUCOSE FOR HONEY. 



Our enterprising friend T. H. Kloer, of Terre 

 Haute, Ind., in ooQcert with the editor of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, have hunted up and thoroughly 

 exposed "Albert Botsford Co.," in their work of 

 putting a chunk of broken comb honey in a jar and 

 filling it with glucose, labeling It " pure clover honeu-" 

 We recommend that the whole matter be placed 

 in the hands of the food commissioners of the State 

 of Illinois, and let them deal with the culprits. 

 When friend Newman called on them they only 

 claimed it was "two-thirds honey," notwithstanding 

 the label. They even had the audacity to try to 

 sell some of it to the editor of the American Bee 

 Journal. 



BRONZE MEDALS AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. 



In the Agricultural Department of the Paris Ex- 

 position we note that the following were awarded 

 bronze medals for various exhibitions made. We 

 do not dii«eover that any one in said department 

 was awarded a gold medal, although there were 

 several silver and gold medals awarded in other de- 

 partments of agriculture. 



A. J Cnok, Lansine-, Michigan. 



G. W. Demaree, Christiansburg. Ky. 



W. T. Falconer, Jamestown, N. Y. 



G. L. Tinker, New Philadelphia, Ohio. 



A. C. Tyrrel, Madison, Neb 



James Heddon, Dowagiac, Mich. 



C. F. Muth & Son. Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Newman & Son, Chicago, 111. 



A. I. Root. Medina, Ohio. 



Jas. H. Van Deusen & Sons, Sprout Brook, N. Y. 



BROKEN-DOWN COMB HONEY; ^WHO WAS TO 

 BLAME? THE REMEDY. 



We have just received a consignment of comb 

 boney, consisting of ninety-four 34-lb. cases, only 

 8ix of which arrived in good condition. The rest 

 were broken down. The honey was transferred 

 once, and this transfer meant hauling by a dray- 

 man. The shipper failed to put on caution labels, 



giving directions in regard to the handling of 

 honey, both in a dray and in a car. The honey 

 mi'(7/!< have been broken down just the same with 

 the labels, but the probabilities are that it would 

 have come through safer. We had to unpack all 

 the case.s, pick out the pieces of comb, wipe off the 

 drip, get them in wooden butter-dishes, and now 

 they will have to be sold at a sacrifice. The cases 

 had to be washed, and the now empty sections are 

 piled up in front of the boiler arch. Railroad men 

 are careless, but we must not blame them too se- 

 verely when beekeepers themselves are largely re- 

 sponsible for broken comb honey. At our State 

 Convention at Cleveland, Dr Miller, in giving direc- 

 tions for shipping, emphasized the importance of 

 having a starter fastened to the top and bottom of 

 the section before putting it in the hive. This in- 

 sures the attachment of the comb, not only to the 

 top but to the bottom. In putting in your founda- 

 tion this spring, please bear this in mind, and save 

 yourselves and consignee trouble and expense. Dr. 

 Miller shipped 13,000 pounds of such honey last fall, 

 and not a section was reported broken. The lead- 

 ing article, by Chas. F. Muth, contains some valua- 

 ble suggestion on shipping. 



THE GRINNELL AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS. 



The above apparatus for protection from fire is 

 now put up through all of our various buildings. 

 Pipes run along the ceiling overhead inosuch a way 

 as to communicate with the sprinklers, so they are 

 not more than 10 feet apart all through the premises 

 from attic to cellar. As I write, the windmill up 

 on the hill is very busily at work keeping the 

 great tank replenished with water. Suitable 

 pipes connect this tank with the sprinklers before 

 mentioned. To-day our noon service was short- 

 ened five minutes that we might witness the opera- 

 tion of testing the sprinkler system. Mr. Blake, 

 the foreman of the men who put the apparatus up, 

 informed me that five minutes would be ample 

 time to build the fire and let the apparatus extin- 

 guish it. In one of our lower rooms which is paved 

 with brick, a fire of shavings was started. When 

 the flames began to roll up against the ceiling to 

 such an extent as to make it begin to look danger- 

 ous, a little explosion announced that the sprinkler 

 had opened up. Then came a rush of air for about 

 a minute, when the water promptly followed. The 

 fire was very soon wetted down and extinguished; 

 but the machine kept on throwing water until the 

 spectators scattered in dismay, clambering up on 

 boxes and back into corners. Not only was every 

 portion of the floor wetted, but even the ceiling 

 overhead. As soon as the electric alarms sounded 

 the signal, the water was promptly turned off; but 

 before it wound up, the floor was covered with wa- 

 ter, and every thing within a circle of 35 or 30 feet 

 was dripping and soaking wet. As these sprinklers 

 are only ten feet apart, the effect of opening a 

 great number of them would be to literally drench 

 not only the floor and contents, but the ceiling as 

 well. When the matter was first talked of, I gave, 

 as an objection, that the machinery would become 

 in time old and rusty, so it would not work. But, 

 please bear in mind that the whole apparatus is 

 bright, dry. clean, and new, and it remains so in- 

 definitely until a fire or something else warms the 

 sprinklers up to a lemperature of 160 degrees. The 

 electrical alarms that give notice of the fire are 

 three in number. One is in the engineer's room, 



