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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Oct. 



tiling- with it. But very little buckwheat was sown 

 in this locality, and, as a result, our fall crop will be 

 light. There is an abundance of goldenrod and as- 

 ters, but they do not as yet seem to entice the bees. 

 For the last two weeks there has been considerable 

 honey-dew on the oak and hickory; and I judge 

 from the dark color of the honey now being stored, 

 that it comes principally from that source. 



1 don't think that our crop of honey will exceed 

 halt' a ton, all dark, stored in one and two pound 

 sections; and if we had not done a fair business in 

 selling untested queens our books for the season 

 would balance the wrong way. S. W. Taylor. 



Harvey ville, Pa., Sept. 9, 1889. 



No doubt, friend T., you have never had 

 a failure by the above plan ; but it does 

 fail, however, now and then, like every oth- 

 er plan of introducing. Suppose, for in- 

 stance, you tried to introduce to a colony 

 with two queens in a hive. After taking 

 out one you supposed them to be queenless, 

 while the truth was they had a queen al- 

 ready. In such cases the new comer will be 

 destroyed, no matter how she is introduced; 

 and a great many troubles and disputes 

 have come about in just this way. It is not 

 at all uncommon to hnd two queens in a 

 hive, and it therefore follows that it is not 

 uncommon for a queen to be in the hive, 

 even after you are sure you have removed 

 one queen. 



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PERTAINING TO BEE CULTURE. 



THE GOLDEN BEE-HIVE, AGAIN. 



There is oneJ.B. Pickerel, purporting to be of 

 Nashville, Tenn., doing up the western portion of 

 this State with the oft-heard-of Golden bee-hive. I 

 was on a visit to friends last week, and I found that 

 he is simply coining the cash out of those poor ig- 

 norant mountain people. He sells a farm-right to 

 make and use his hive, for ten dollars. He also 

 gives a small book, which seems to be only ex- 

 tracts from some work on bees; yes, a circular too, 

 one of which I will inclose. This circular is what 

 sets them on Are; and I learn, and that, too, from 

 one of his victims, that there is no difficulty, once 

 the circulars are in the hands of any that are the 

 least inclined to bees. There are quite a number of 

 statements in this circular that will call forth criti- 

 cisms. A. L. Beach. 



Pineville, N. C, Aug. 1(5, 1889. 



Thank you, friend B.; and we shall be 

 very much obliged to any of the friends if 

 they will send us similar circulars, and re- 

 port to us any such doings. We have re- 

 ferred to this circular before, but it will not 

 do any harm to keep it before the people. 

 There are a number of testimonials from 

 those using the Golden bee-hive. We give 

 just one, as a sample: 



Prof. A. J. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege, at Lansing, reports over f so from each swarm 

 of bees kept in the Golden hive last year. 



The man who obtains money by exhibiting 

 such a circular, can certainly be arrested for 

 obtaining money under false pretenses. 

 Prof. Cook has never had any experience 

 with the Golden hive at all, and, of course, 

 never male auy such report. Will some of 



our legal friends tell us what can be done 

 with a man who sends out circulars contain- 

 ing statements like the above, which are but 

 little better than forgeries? 



FALSE STATEMENTS IN REGARD TO THE HON- 

 EY BUSINESS OF OUR COUNTRY. 



As a protection to our bee-keeping population, we propose in 

 this department to publish the names of newspapers that per- 

 sist in publishing false statements in regard to the purity of 

 honey which we as bee-keepers put on the market. 



They have a man in Pittsburgh who comes 

 out in print and declares that comb honey 

 is manufactured, and that he has samples 

 of it, and can prove it by the microscope. 

 Here is what he says in the Pittsburgh Dis- 

 patch of Sept. 23 ; but before reading it, we 

 would refer our readers to page 757 of our 

 previous issue. 



ANOTHER WORD ABOUT MANUFACTURED HONEY. 



A letter appeared in a recent issue of The Din- 

 patch in reference to some statements made in the 

 article by the writer, on the subject of sugar and 

 honey. It has been my intention not to answer 

 this letter, but at the request of many friends the 

 writer wishes to make the following affirmations: 



First, that he has found a comb honey (?) on the 

 market which contains no evidences of the pres- 

 ence of any bee product whatever. There is no 

 heresay evidence about it — the specimen was 

 handled and microscopically examined by the wri- 

 ter. Second, that each and every one of the adul- 

 teratious stated in these articles to have been 

 found, were detected by the writer himself in sam- 

 ples obtained as stated. In all cases where possi- 

 ble, samples of the adulterated foods have been re- 

 tained, with proof of the adulteration found. 



The one thing above all others that is claimed for 

 these articles is accuracy; and when any thing has 

 been asserted on hearsay evidence, it has been so 

 stated. The writer does not care what the supple- 

 ment of the encyclopedia mentioned said or did not 

 say. He knows what he has seen, and he can 

 prove it. But he declines to enter into a contro- 

 versy, as he does not wish to go into the detective 

 business or compete for prizes. However, if the 

 doctor who wrote the letter referred to, or the gen- 

 tleman who is offering prizes, or any one else will 

 come to the writer's office, he may see a sample of 

 adulterated comb honey with irresistible proof 

 that it is such. Chevalier Q. Jackson, M. D. 



Pittsburg, September, 31. 



Mr. Jackson, we beg to inform you that, 

 among the bee-keepers of our land, are some 

 of the most expert microscopists to be found 

 in the world. We are fortunate in having, 

 in the person of Mr. M. II. Tweed, of 154 

 Webster St., Allegheny City, a man who is 

 expert in every thing that pertains to bees, 

 honey, and the honey market. Will he 

 kindly visit friend Jackson, and carry the 

 thousand dollars to him, if he declines to 

 take the trouble to come after it? If, how- 

 ever, his specimen of honey proves to have 

 been made by the bees, we deputize friend 

 Tweed to present Dr. Jackson's apology to 

 the bee-keepers of our land. Our laws clear- 

 ly protect us from damage sustained, re- 

 sulting from false and slanderous state- 

 ments. Now, it is not an individual who 

 suffers in a case like the above, but it is a 

 nation of people. It is estimated there are 

 over o00,000 bee-keepers in this land of ours. 

 This doctor, who has a microscope, has 

 struck us all a blow ; and if, when the truth 

 is presented to him, he refuses to retract, 

 and he has ample proof of his blunder, we, 

 bee-keepers of the United States, propose to 

 see what we can do with him. 



