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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Profitable Bee-Keeping-, as now 



contributed in lessons by Mrs. Atchley 

 in the Bee Journal, has been noticed in 

 both Oleanings and the Eeview. The former 

 paper says : 



A series of lessons in practical apiculture 

 for beginners, prepared by Mrs. Jennie 

 Atchley, is now running in the American 

 Bee Journal. So far as we have glanced 

 over them, they are interesting and prac- 

 tical. 



The Bevieio for June contained this para- 

 graph: 



Mrs. Atchley, under the heading of 

 " Profitable Bee-Keeping," is writing a 

 series of interesting articles for the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. 



If I'o. Hasty, in a very brotherly way 

 in the Hevievj, hints to the editor of the 

 American Bee-Keeper that the " brothering " 

 business in the bee-papers in this country is 

 all right. It was said in the May number 

 of the American liec-Keeper that the reason 

 the editor objected to calling everybody 

 " Brother," was that " the word often does 

 not agree very well with the spirit mani- 

 fested;" and that the foreign bee-papers 

 were not given to the ''brothering " mania. 

 To which the " inimitable " Bro. Hasty re- 

 plies: " To the (John Bull) dogs with those 

 foreign papers in which they never say 

 'Brother.' " 



Xlie Ai>iciiltiii-i!!»t has a new printer, 

 and the change, Bro. Alley says, caused 

 the long delay of the May number of his 

 paper. The Apicnllnrist is in its twelfth 

 year, and seems to be holding its own as 

 well as ever. 



A IIoney-SectioM Cover. — We 



have received a sample of manilla covers 

 for sections. It is a sort of carton, but 

 open on two edges. It was sent us by Mr. 

 H. R. Wright, of Albany, N. Y., and is in- 

 tended for use when marketing comb honey 

 in the sections. It is fastened around the 

 section with a single small tack. 



Accompanying the sample carton, were 

 these suggestions on preparing comb and 

 extracted honoy for shipment to the Al- 

 bany, N. Y., market: 



The best style of shipping-case holds five 

 combs long and five combs wide, with 

 honey exposed on only one side of the case. 

 Glass one .side of one comb, and put in the 

 centre on the outside, showing the grade of 



honey in the case. Weight, gross and tare, 

 should be marked with pencil or small 

 figures, keeping the case as free from marks 

 as possible, for it never helps the sale of 

 honey to have the bee-keeper's name on, 

 and sometimes hinders the sale, especially 

 on anything not perfect. 



Extracted honey should be put in H and 

 }.< barrels, and light color sold early in the 

 season for best prices. 



Mr. S. H. Clarlc, of Elwood, Iowa, 

 was visited by the editor of the Maquoketa 

 (Iowa) liecord. Mr. Clark is the popular 

 postmaster at Elwood, as well as a bee- 

 keeping enthusiast. The editor of the 

 Record said that Mr. Clark "could deliver a 

 lecture on the subject, ' How to Make Bees 

 Pay on the Farm.'" No doubt he could, 

 and it would be a good one, too. 



Houey-Ue-w aii<l \ts Ctiiise. — A 



correspondent of the Country Godlcman, 

 published in Albany, N. Y., recently asked 

 about a "sticky, sweetish substance" 

 found on the leaves of oak trees, to which 

 the editor of that popular farm weekly re- 

 plied as follows : 



The sticky, sweetish substance on the 

 leaves is commonly known as honey-dew. 

 It is a secretion of various kinds of insects 

 which suck the juices of plants. It is char- 

 acteristic of various species of aphides or 

 plant-lice, and this secretion appears, in 

 some instances at least, to be especially 

 abundant during dry, hot weather. A few 

 years ago the elm trees along the streets of 

 Albany were badly infested by plant-lice, 

 and during a dry, hot time the secretions 

 of honey-dew from thtese insects were so 

 abundant that the sidewalks under the trees 

 were defiled and blackened by it. The 

 minute drops of the honey-dew, in a favor- 

 able light, could be seen apparently drop- 

 ping from the trees above, but really com- 

 ing from the insects. 



In a recent visit to Lake Mohonk, the 

 foliage of small trees and shrubs in many 

 places there was seen to be wet and sticky 

 with honey-dew. A little investigation re- 

 vealed the fact that the branches of the 

 trees above were infested by a species of 

 scale insect. Though it was seen on several 

 species of trees, it was especially abundant 

 on oak and chestnut. In some instances 

 the smaller branches were literally covered 

 with the insects, whose broadly oval, con- 

 vex bodies were in actual contact with 

 each other. In every instance where the 

 honey-dew was noticed ou the herbage and 

 shrubs, the insect, if sought, was seen on 

 the branches of the trees above them. 

 Where there were no scale insects, there 

 was no honey-dew. 



We do not put much faith in the state- 

 ments sometimes made that honey-dew is a 



