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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 27. 



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Vol. inVI, CHICAGO, ILL,, FEB, 21, 1896, No, 9. 



Xlie California Bce-Kecpcrs' Eiccliaiig;e is now 



started. Mr. Martin tells about it in his interesting article on 

 page 129. Those plucky Californians will be eagerly watched from 

 now on, for if their new venture proves successful we do not see 

 what is to hinder its imitation In nearly every part of the country. 



We believe the leading bee-keepers of the Golden State are on 

 the right track. We hope so, for we would like to see the new 

 Bee-Keepers' Exchange develop into a grand institution for the 

 advancement of the financial interests of all its members, by way 

 of disposing of their crops of honey more satisfactorily, and also 

 in the purchase of the necessary apiarian supplies. If bee-culture 

 is to be successfully prosecuted as an industry, the cost of produc- 

 tion must be lessened, and then at least a fair price be secured for 

 honey. 



We believe the Bee-Keepers' Exchange is a move in the right 

 direction, and we are anxious to see it succeed. The Bee Journal 

 is ready to do whatever it can to aid California bee-keepers, and 

 no doubt it will have the privilege of keeping the members of the 

 Exchange informed regarding the movements of their new organi- 

 zation from time to time. 



This will be a good time for every California bee-keeper to 

 subscribe for the American Bee Journal, if not now receiving it 

 regularly. We don't know where they will find more genuine bee- 

 information for the money — 53 weekly numbers for only -Jl.OO. 

 'Tis so ridiculously cheap that no real beekeeper can afford to be 

 without it, no matter where he lives. 



For a short time we will be able to furnish all the back num- 

 bers from Jan. 1, 1S96, to new subscribers. 



SelUnjs: Aiiotlier's Iloiiey as Your 0«-n.— After 

 reading our several editorials on selling another's honey, one of 

 the Bee Journal's many friends writes us as follows: 



Mr. Editor:— Will you pardon me. if I ask you to turn back 

 once more and carefully examine the question asked by " Mis- 

 souri," about " one bee-keeper selling another bee-keepers' honey," 

 page 675 ? The question is so involved that a careless reading 

 might give one the wrong impression, and a first impression is 

 sometimes hard to correct when it is wrong. And just that sort of 

 thing has happened, I think, with you, Mr. Editor, and also with 

 some of those who replied. The question is, " Would it be right ?" 

 and the majority of those who reply answer more or less directly, 

 "No." You say, "Yes." I do not believe you have a different 

 standard of right from that majority, and I feel sure that you will 

 answer with thera when you answer the question that is asked, 

 and not the one that you mistakenly supposed to be asked. 



Just look and see what is asked. " Would it be right ?" Would 

 what be right ? From what you repeatedly say you take it to 



mean buying from another to sell again. No one questions that — 

 not one of those who replied. That isn't the question at all. The 

 question is " Would it be right to sell honey under sucli circum- 

 stances ?" Getting the twists out of the question, it is, " Would it 

 be right to sell honey " bought from another " provided I should 

 put my name on it and make my customers believe it is from my 

 apiary ?" Instead of answering that question you go to talking 

 about the simple matter of buying to sell again, which has nearly 

 as much to do with the question as if you should argue that I 

 should sell my crop of honey instead of having it all used up on 

 my own table. If you had looked at the real question, I don't be- 

 lieve you would have been so "Hasty" in your remarks on page 24. 



HONET-PRODnCER. 



Well, Mr. Honey -Producer, we have taken your advice "to 

 turn back once more and carefully examine the question " asked 

 and answered on page 675 of the Bee Journal for 1S95, and we must 

 candidly admit that we did not consider seriously enough the part 

 of the question which reads, " and make my customers believe it is 

 from my own apiary" — really meaning that it vi as produced by the 

 seller. Why, of course. t!uit would be wrung. And we don't be- 

 lieve those of the repliers who even intimated that it would be 

 right, were any more careful than we were in reading the ques- 

 tion. But we are just as certain they are as much opposed to any 

 and every wrongful act as are we. 



After saying the above, it looks very clear to us that we owe, 

 and hereby tender, Mr. Hasty an apology for writing as we did 

 concerning him on page 24. While doing this, we would say, how- 

 ever, that we think Mr. H. went a little too far when intimating 

 that certain good people were " rascals." 



Although it ought to be unnecessary to say it, we will repeat 

 our statement on page 57, viz. : /( is not right to deceive under any cir- 

 cumstances! 



1'hc Kee-Siipply Manufaetiircrs— the largest — were 

 shown in last Gleanings, by way of portraits of all the principal 

 members of the several firms. Mr. G. B. Lewis and Mr. C. E. 

 Parks (now deceased) represent The G. B. Lewis Co. ; Mr. W. T. 

 Falconer and Mr. D. E. Merrill, of The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. ; 

 and Mr. R. B. Leahy and Mr. J. E. Gladish, of the Leahy Mfg. Co. 

 The six pictures make an excellent showing of the manufacturers 

 of supplies used by bee-keepers. If to the foregoing are added The 

 A. I. Root Co., then the list would be complete. Of course there 

 are many who manufacture on a small scale, and are excellent 

 firms, but we presume Gleanings aimed to "show off " the "big 

 guns "in the supply manufacturing line. It was a decided suc- 

 cess, and we congratulate our esteemed contemporary upon its 

 enterprise and general "git-up-and-gituess." 



>»Xlie Hoiiey-IIee : A Manual of Instruction in Apicul- 

 ture." By Frank Benton, M. S. — This book, already mentioned, is 

 issued as Bulletin No. 1, New Series, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Division ot Entomology. It is 6x9 inches, paper cover, 118 

 pages, 11 of them being blank, the obverse of the beautiful full- 

 page engravings. As already mentioned, the many illustrations 

 are exeedingly flue, there being 88 in all, including the 13 full-page 

 plates. Of course, some of the engravings are the old ones, with 

 which all readers of bee-books are familiar, but most of them are 

 new, more than 30 being original. On page 33 are three cuts that 

 seem to be put in to fill up. no reference being made to them in the 

 reading matter. They represent the manner of handling a frame 

 so as not to have the comb break out — a manner of manipulation 

 that it is hardly worth while to give in these days of wired frames. 



The book is divided into 13 chapters, treating of Classification, 

 Kinds of Bees, Manipulation, Establishing an Apiary, Hives and 

 Implements, Pasturage, Spring Manipulation, Securing Surplus, 

 Queen-Rearing. Increase, Wintering, Diseases and Enemies. 



The author sets the amount of honey necessary to produce a 

 pound of wax at a higher figure than many do in these latter days, 

 saying that IS to 20 pounds are necessary to produce a pound of 

 white comb. 



The use of the quilt is taught as one of the regular things, al- 

 though in the most jJopular hives of the present day no quilts are 

 used. Possibly the extra warmth obtained through quilts would 

 more than repay their extra trouble. 



Here is an extract with regard to the use of the veil that some 

 would do well to consider: "To dispense entirely with the bee- 

 veil is a more important consideration, especially to the profes- 

 sional bee-master, than is at first apparent to the inexperienced. 

 Its use injures the eyesight seriously, especially where one is 

 obliged to strain his eyes for hours to see eggs, larviB, etc., in the 

 cells; to hunt out queens and queen-cells, and adjust frames. Be- 

 sides this, the hindrance to rapid work which the veil causes, as 

 well as the great discomfort ot wearing it for hours during hot 

 weather, are considerations worth weighing." 



The statement, " If the combs are so old as to be nearly black 

 and to show cell-walls much thickened, they are very objection- 

 able," would be more readily endorsed in England than in this 

 country. 



The author has evidently given much attention to the matter 



