AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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CONDUCTED BY 



MRS. JENNIE ATCHLEY. 



Beeville, Texas. 



Moths Destroying Comb Honey. 



Mrs. Atchley : — I have been bothered 

 lately with moth-worms eating my comb 

 honey. They eat the caps off, and the 

 honey runs out. What can I do to pre- 

 vent it? Also, how shall I get those 

 destroyed that are on my honey ? 



Walter R. Wood. 



Bellevue, Del., Sept. 11. 



Friend Wood, I would put the honey 

 in a tight, small room, and fumigate it 

 with sulphur sufficient to kill the moth, 

 then air the honey well, and crate it and 

 send to market. Or, if the honey is not 

 too badly injured, you can just soak the 

 sections in clear water long enough to 

 drown all the moth, and destroy all the 

 eggs. Dry them off, and they will be 

 sweet and clean. But some times the 

 wood of the sections gets a little blue, 

 and does not look so white, but I like it 

 better than the sulphur plan, as I have 

 an idea that I can taste sulphur on 

 fumigated honey. 



If the unsealed honey in the sections 

 is dissolved in the water, it will be bet- 

 ter, as then they will not leak when 

 crated again. Jennie Atchley. 



Broom-Weed as a Honey-Plant. 



Mrs. Atchley: — Yours of Sept. 11th, 

 as well as specimens of the honey-pro- 

 ducing plant, duly received. Accept my 

 thanks for your trouble in sending them. 



The plant is Outierrezia Texana, of the 

 order compositse, named from Gutierrez, 

 a noble Spanish family. Botanical lists 

 do not give any common name for this 

 plant, but the one in use in your locality 

 — " broom-weed " — seems a good one. It 

 Is near to the golden asters (Chrysopis) 

 and golden-rods (SoUdago), and the but- 

 ton snake-roots or blazing stars (Liatris). 

 I should think on account of its slender 

 branches it would be difficult for the 



bees to find a lodgment, the blossoms 

 being also small, and hence not easy for 

 them to forage on. When fresh, how- 

 ever, I presume the stems are stiffer. 

 No doubt it stands drouth better than 

 many other honey-plants. 



Yours truly, Frank Benton, 



Assistant Entomologist. 

 Washington, D. C. 



I am pleased to have the name of our 

 common broom-weed known. The stems 

 of this plant are quite stiff, and it is 

 easy for the bees to gather the honey 

 from the flowers. It is just now (Sept. 

 22nd) getting well into bloom, and will 

 furnish food for the bees until frost. 

 Jennie Atchley. 



The Death of Miss Mattie Edwards. 



The late terrible catastrophe that 

 swept away both life and property in 

 Uvalde county, Texas, and opened wide 

 the flood-gates of sympathy among a 

 generous and sympathetic people, re- 

 moved forever from human help and 

 view many who, from various estimable 

 reasons, had endeared themselves to a 

 community that however heretofore ob- 

 scure, has within the last few days ac- 

 quired a world-wide prominence. Nota- 

 ble among the victims of so appalling 

 and lamentable an event, was one young 

 in years, who had reached that period 

 in life as regards her sex denominated 

 all the wide world over as "sweet" — a 

 blessing and a delight not only to her 

 grief-stricken family, but also to the 

 town of which she was a resident. In 

 the death of Miss Mattie Edwards, a 

 bright and shining light has been ex- 

 tinguished, an ornament to her native 

 State and country is missing, and a 

 promising member of the rising genera- 

 tion has been cut down just as the ten- 

 der bud of young womanhood was be- 

 ginning to expand into a realization of 

 all that is innocently pleasurable in life. 

 But this sweet, and pure, and noble girl 

 is to be named with those of whom it is 

 written, "An unspotted life is old age." 



The father of the subject of this 

 obituary — a prominent and extensive 

 apiarist in Texas — has in this doubtless 

 saddest experience in his life, the heart- 

 felt and tenderest sympathies of the 

 entire apicultural world. 



Beeville, Tex. R. S. Foster. 



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