1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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them. I have never been able to edu- 

 cate my bees to do such nice work. I 

 use the one-pound section with separa- 

 tors, and the paper cartons with my 

 name and address neatly printed on one 

 side. This is a very neat and attractive 

 way of putting it on the market, and 

 costs but little. 



There are two grocers that have sev- 

 eral crates of this " California honey," 

 as they call it, that they bought last 

 winter, but have not been able to sell a 

 pound of it since my honey has been on 

 the market. I do not believe that the 

 manufactured honey has hurt the sale of 

 mine in the least; in fact, it has driven 

 the trade to me. People who have a 

 chance to know what pure honey is are 

 not easily fooled. On the adulteration 

 question I am a little like the fellow said 

 about a nest of polecats : " Just let them 

 alone, and they will soon stink them- 

 selves out." C. W. CONKLIN. 



Logan Co., III., Dec. 1. 



[While it has often been rumored that 

 comb honey was being manufactured, so 

 far as we know, not one pound of it has 

 been produced. The honey referred to 

 by Mr. Conklin may be some mild- 

 flavored variety that is too tasteless for 

 most people. The producer may have 

 used extraordinary care in scraping the 

 sections. We should like to see a sam- 

 ple of this honey. — Editor] 



Prospects Never Better. 



For this time of the year, the prospect 

 for a crop of honey was never better. 

 To secure the best results, we require 

 early and late rains — a long season. The 

 heavy rain of the latter part of October 

 started all honey-plants to growing, and 

 the manzanita — which is the first to 

 respond — is now in full bloom, and our 

 bees are just tumbling over each other 

 to get the honey into their hives. This 

 bush will yield honey all of this month 

 and part of January ; then, if rains 

 come, other flowers will come out, and 

 by March 10 swarming will begin. 



G. F. Merriam. 



San Diego Co., Calif., Dec. 3. 



Dr. Howard's Foul Brood Book. 



I have just received, and read with 

 care, " Foul Brood," by Wm. R. Howard, 

 M. D., and leaving out his quotation 

 from Wm. McEvoy, I must confess that 

 I do vrjt know as much about foul brood 

 now as I did before I read it. 



Is there no bee-keeper who has studied 

 the foul brood question that can write a 

 treatise on it and frame his ideas in lan- 

 guage that can be understood by the 

 common or average bee-keeper ? When 

 one of these M. D.'s gets to writing, he 

 thinks he is either writing for the benefit 

 of other M. D.'s, or wishes to air his 

 scientific knowledge by using such scien- 

 tific terms that the average reader is lost 

 as to his meaning, and his writings are 

 of no use to the bee-fraternity at large. 

 Here is an illustration, taken from page 

 14 of the book in question : 



"For rotten brood to produce foul 

 brood it would be necessary for putre- 

 factive bacteria to become strictly 

 pathogenic, those forms of fission-fungi, 

 non-spore-producing bacteria and micro- 

 cocci to change into spore-producing 

 bacilli, and there would be a time in 



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j^* This little picture will come Lgy 

 YJ^ home with telling force to many v^tf 

 ^i a lived and overworked farmer's t^i 

 Ttfi wife, who has often felt that she 1^. 

 Is could not lonp;er stand the strain Jl 

 yJ5 and who finally succumbed to JJu 

 P^ disease. Poor woman I Doyou«»» 

 *K oot know that there is within iyji 

 e^ your easy reach a remedy that 4»2i 

 Qt^ Will quickly restore you toja} 





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of every Bee- Keeper In Amer- 

 ica. I supply Dealers as well 

 as consumers. Send for cata- 

 logs, quotations, etc. W. H. PUTNAM, 

 River Falls. Pierce Co.. Wis. 



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The Place to Live 

 'Mid Siiu and Flowers 



Possibly you have stood the Tn- 

 tcuse C> Id, the blizzards and the Kill- 

 ing- Heat of the Kast and the West un- 

 til you are sick ot them— perhaps your 

 health has been about ruined by such 

 climato. Don't you think it is about 

 time to seek a pUce where you can en- 

 joy life? Of course you do. Califor- 

 nia is the plaoe for a man to live who 

 wishes to be g: )od to himself and his 

 family— there's a g-enlal sun— flowers 

 and fruits every day in the year— Pure 

 a'r — Pure water — every thing- that's 

 good. Now ts the time to p 'Ssess such 

 a home — they are cheaper now than 

 they ever will be again. Don't wait- 

 write to us telling what kind of a place 

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 the desired information. 



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OAKLAND, CALIF. 



Please mention this Journal. 



their organism that they would possess 

 all of these characteristics at once." 



Oh, dear ! what a string of scientific 

 words. But where is the bee-keeper 

 who is not an M. D. that can get any 

 more meaning out of it than to hear 

 geese " squawking ?" An M. D., or any 

 other D,, using such Latin terms, ex- 

 pecting the average bee-keeper to un- 

 derstand it, should have a viscid sina- 

 pism applied to his spinal column until 

 the epidermis or integument became 

 rubific and almost epispastic or epheme- 

 ral, or until formication was produced, 

 and until he became so hypochondriacal 

 that he would need no hypnotics. And 

 that nuerasthenia would be so great 

 that while in this comatose he would be 

 cleansed from all ascarides without hav- 

 ing to deglutite an anthelminthic ; and 

 that it may effect the cerebellum and 

 cause asthenia or cachexy that he would 

 be incapacitated from masticating or 

 deglutiting any electuary without a 

 deobstruent. 



Yes, by all means, let us have a work 

 on foul brood that is not full of goose 

 language to us that are not M. D.'s 



Geo. W. Williams. 



Polk Co., Mo. 



[We presume, Mr. Williams, in giving 

 the natural history of such a disease as 

 foul brood, technical terms cannot well 

 be avoided. But whether or not any- 

 body has comprehended Dr. Howard's 

 book, it Is true that it has received many 

 flattering testimonials in its favor. Of 

 course, yours Isn't one of them, Mr. W. 

 — Editor.] 



New or Old Comb for Section Honey. 



I notice the answers regarding comb 

 refilled being first-class comb honey. 

 Don't you accept before testing the 

 same. As for myself, I have failed to 

 find it such, and there Is one Doubting 

 Joseph (not Thomas). If when a section 

 of comb is leveled, say half down, have 

 it rebuilt and filled with honey ; let it be 

 a little cold, take a knife, and after the 

 comb is out of the section, with the 

 blade press on one edge of the comb 

 about as deep to where the new comb 

 was built from, and it will separate al- 

 most as nicely as If a piece of paper had 

 been laid between the new and the old, 

 showing the soft and hard or old comb. 



Morgan Co., Ohio. J. A. Golden. 



Yellow Jackets— Oregon Plants. 



Does any one know of any sure way to 

 get rid of yellow jackets? They de- 

 stroyed 5 colonies for me In spite of all 

 I could do. 



The honey crop was almost a failure 

 here this year. I increased from 11 to 

 2,5 colonies, but took only 100 pounds 

 of comb honey, but I am hoping for a 

 better season next year. 



I will give a list of the honey-plants in 

 the order they bloom through the sea- 

 son : First, the bees get a fine start in 

 early spring from the gray willow — in 

 fact, almost before the first sunshiny 

 days it is in blossom. This plant yields 

 nothing but pollen. The next Is a curi- 

 ous kind of maple called " vine maple;" 

 it generally comes as early as the last of 

 April, or the first of May, and lasts 

 about a month, and as near as I can un- 

 derstand, it is almost, if not quite, as 



