1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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new Bee Journal subscribers-, send them to us with the S3. 00, 

 and we will order the " Voice " and the book mailed to you. 

 This is the biggest and best offer we ever were able to make. 

 We do hope you will take hold of it, and thus help increase 

 the circulation ot the Bee Journal, and also get for yourselves 

 some excellent reading-matter besides. Who will be the first to 

 to send us the required three new subscribers ? 



Exporting' Honey. — Under " Subsidiary Farm 

 Products," in a recent Report of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, we find the following: 



Honey. — The English honey market is supplied by the 

 home product, from the United States, and from Chile. There 

 is a large and steady demand, and, though sometimes ex- 

 ceeded by the supply, this is an unusual occurrence. The 

 English honey harvest has been very good this year, and it is 

 selling upon the retailer's counter at from 20 cents to 25 

 cents per pound. Wholesale prices at the latest date obtain- 

 able are as follows : 



English — Earthenware pots, finest, per doz -SI 4.5 



Earthenware pots, finest, }o-poiind, per doz flO 



Flint glass jars, 17-ounee. per doz 1 70 



Transparent honey, in glass jars, nickel-plated, 



screw top, per doz 1 57 



United States — Thurber-Whyland's white sage, extracted, 



1-pound jars. 2 dozen in a case, per doz. . 3 .3U 

 Californian.in original cans, about 5C pounds per cwt.of 112 



pounds f) 00 



Chilean, in original cwt. kegs, per cwt S 7.5 



The American white sage commands the top price. It is 

 a delicious honey, and most attractively put up. All honeys 

 sent to England are extracted except a nominal quantity that 

 reaches there in the comb from California. California ship- 

 ments of extracted honey are made in 56-pound tins, two tins 

 in a case. Chilean usually comes in 60-pound kegs, but some- 

 times in 112-pound barrels. It is not a matter of great im- 

 portance as to size of packages, etc., though it would be well 

 to conform to the California practice. It would be ruinous 

 to send adulterated honey to England. 



Our agent in England has had several inquiries as to 

 honey market this year, especially from Texas, and he has 

 supplied inquirers with names of importers in England, and 

 with information as to how to approach them, and this he will 

 be pleased to do for all inquirers. 



The Department has knowledge that some years ago a 

 large honey-producer in California found in China a profitable 

 market for some 20 tons of honey annually. 



In this, as in every other branch of industry, only the 

 best, most genuine products can secure a permanent, profit- 

 able trade, creditable alike to tnemselves and their country, 

 and they alone deserve to. 



Beginners and Bee-Literature.— Every bee- 

 keeper — and especially every beginner — ought to have one or 

 more of the standard works on bee-culture. If thoroughly 

 read and studied, it would avoid the asking of many a simple 

 question ; particularly if read in connection with a colony of 

 bees. For instance, some one asked to have answered in a 

 bee-paper, whether a queen lays eggs in empty cells, or in 

 those full of honey 1 Think of taking up space in a paper to 

 reply to such a question, when the querist could easily have 

 found the answer to this question by reading even the small- 

 est book devoted to bee-keeping. 



Now, the very best book on the sub.iect costs only SI. 25, 

 and the best bee-paper published costs only SI. 00 a year. 

 Both the book and the paper are necessary in order to get 

 started rightly, and then to keep going straight. And both 

 can be had together for only .S2.00. We believe that the be- 

 ginner who can't afford to invest S2.00 in bee-literature when 

 he starts, can't afford to fool with bees, any way, and would 

 better let them alone altogether. 



Perhaps we ought to say that we are glad to have our 

 question departments in the Bee Journal freely patronized, but 

 they are not intended for primary questions that are fully an- 

 swered in the bee-books. The fact is, the simple, primary 

 questions have been answered so many, many times during 

 the past 10 or 15 years, that the older readers of the bee- 



papers are heartily tired of them. And it is not fair to any 

 subscriber to repeat over and over again what has been pub- 

 lished, or what can so easily be found in the books. 



Let every one who aspires to being a bee-keeper, have at 

 least one complete book on bees in his library. And then 

 study it ! 



PEKSONAL MENTION. 



Mk. H. p. Joslin, of Ben Avon, Pa. — a suburb of Pittsburg— 

 made us a very pleasant call May 6. Mr. J. is somewhat of a be- 

 ginner in the bee-business, and is very enthusiastic about it. He 

 will make a success of it. Such men do. 



Mr. C. B. Biglow, of Springfield. Mass.. besides having been a 

 subscriber to the American Bee Journal in 18(31, when first started, 

 also claims to have "introduced the first Italian queen-bee into 

 southern Vermont, in the fall of IS'JU. from the Parson stock, of 

 Flushing, L, 1." He still takes an interest in the honey-bees, and 

 says he has not forgotten what he learned about them years ago. 



Mr. J. L. Terrell, of Macon Co., Mo., called at the Bee Jour- 

 nal office last week. Mr. T. can report that with the exception of 

 one year since keeping bees, he has made them pay an average 

 profit of .S5.00 per colony. He has 4.'> colonies this spring, and says 

 the prospects were never so encouraging in his locality as they are 

 now. Mr. Terrell is an extensive young farmer, and also handles 

 bee-supplies. He sold as high as 27 nailed hives in one day, by 

 taking a samp[e and driving around to see the bee-keepers, and ex- 

 plaining the workings of the hive. There is nothing like personal 

 work, no matter what the business. 



Mr. W. K. Morrison, in Gleanings, proposes that a national 

 bee and honey show be held in Washington, D. C, next September. 

 That's altogether too far east. A North American convention was 

 held there some years ago, and only about twenty-five bee-keep- 

 ers attended. If it weren't for our modesty, we'd suggest that the 

 proper place for holding such a show is in Chicago, where carloads 

 upon carloads of honey are shipped annually, and surrounding which 

 city there are thousands of bee-keepers. Besides, everybody wants 

 to come to Chicago, while mostly politicians and office-seekers care 

 to go to Washington '. Poor old Washington : What a tough time 

 she must have I Better come to Chicago with that show. It can 

 be a great success here. 



Report of the Utah Conventioti. 



BY " REPORTER." 



The Utah State Bee-Keepers' Association held their regu- 

 lar semi-annual meeting here on April 6, with President 

 Lovesy in the chair. The meeting was replete with interest 

 to the bee-keepers. After recei.'ing the reports and reception 

 of members the election of officers was proceeded with, and 

 the following were elected for the ensuing year : 



President, E. S. Lovesy, of Salt Lake City; Vice-Presi- 

 dent-at-large, Geo. Hone, of Benjamin ; Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, Geo. E. Dudley, of Prove; Assistant Secretary, J. B. 

 Fage, of East Mill Creek. 



The following County Vice-Presidents were also elected : 

 Weber Co., R. T. Rhees, of View; Cache Co., Henry Bullock, 

 of Providence ; Davis Co., T. B. Clark, of Farminglon ; Tooele 

 Co., Geo. Craner, of Tooele ; Salt Lake Co., H. W. Dudley, of 

 Mill Creek, and Wm. Philips, of Salt Lake City ; Utah Co., 0. 

 B. Huntington, of Springville. and Wm. Peay, of Provo ; 

 Wasatch Co., J. A. Smith, of Heber City ; Ranab Co., J. L. 



