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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Feb. 8, 1900 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 



115 Michigan Street, Chicago, III. 



[Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter.] 



EDITOR: 



■^"oie^ik:. 



DEPARTMENT EDITORS: 



Dr. C. C. miller, E. E. HASTY, 



" Questions and Answers." * * " The Afterthought.' 



LEADING CONTRIBUTORS: 



G. M. Doolittle, C. p. Dadant, Prof. A. J. Cook, 



F. A. Sneli., R. C. Aikin, ""OldGrimes.' 



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VOL 40. FEBRUARY 8, 1900. NO. 6 



closed there will be a treatise on extracted-honey produc- 

 tion, foUo\Ying' up the whole matter to the marketing- of the 

 product. 



It will pay every one of our subscribers to read Mr. 

 Aikin's articles carefulh-, and try to put his excellent ideas 

 into practice. His articles alone will be worth more than 

 the dollar subscription price of the Bee Journal, to say 

 nothing- of the many valuable articles written by Messrs. 

 C. P. Dadant, G. M. Doolittle, Prof. Cook, and others. The 

 bee-keeper who can not get back more than his little dollar 

 investment in the American Bee Journal each year, must 

 be a queer specimen of humanity. He certainly ean't be 

 very much interested in making a success with bees if 

 he isn't wonderfully helpt by what some of the leaders in 

 bee-keeping write for these columns every year. 



Note— The American Bee Journal adopts the Orthof^rapby of the follow- 

 ing Rule, recommended by the joint action of llie American Philolog- 

 ical Association and the Philological Society of England: — Change 

 -**d" or *'ed" final to "t" when so pronounced, except when the "e" af- 

 fects a preceding soand. Also some other changes are used. 



Mr. Theilmann's Honey = Lawsuit.— We are pleased to 

 be permitted to give a short history of this celebrated case. 

 Mr. Theilmann deserves the hearty thanks of every honey 

 shipper for his Boer-like tenacity and genuine fighting 

 qualities shown in running down a Chicago commission 

 shark. If onh' the others, who at that time (in 1896) could 

 have had a similar dose, it would have been very beneficial 

 to the legitimate commission business and a satisfaction to 

 many honey-producers. 



We desire personally to congratulate Mr. Theilmann 

 upon the success which has finally crowned his efforts in 

 this exceedingly trying case. While to push the case to a 

 finish undoubtedly cost about all the over 10,000 pounds of 

 honey was worth, it is money well invested. Mr. Theil- 

 mann has not only done a good thing for himself, but has 

 placed every bee-keeper in the land in his debt. Hurrah 

 for Mr. Theilmann and all who helpt him get deserved 

 justice I 



Some Articles on Honey=Production— a connected 

 series — will be publisht in the Bee Journal before July 1, 

 next, written by that very practical bee-keeper and fluent 

 writer, Mr. R. C. Aikin, of Colorado, the hustling president 

 of the Colorado State Bee-Keepers' Association. The series 

 will begin with comb honey, giving the details of manage- 

 ment which is the foundation of success. Before thev are 



Educating Customers as to Candied Honey. — What- 

 ever may be said for or against selling- honej' in the granu- 

 lated form, there is no disputing the fact that whoever suc- 

 ceeds in getting a set of customers educated properly as to 

 the matter will have an easier time of it ever after. There 

 seems just now to be a mild tide setting in favor of the 

 practice, and Dr. A. B. Mason is found in the ranks of 

 those who have " good words " to say for it. He says in 

 the Bee-Keepers' Review : 



" Several months ago I was in a grocery in this city 

 and saw several dozen jelly-tumblers of candied honej- that 

 had evidently been put aside as unsalable. I saw the pro- 

 ducer's name (a Michigander) on the label, and knowing- 

 the producer well, I knew the honey was all right. I askt 

 one of the salesmen if they had any good extracted honey 

 for sale. He said, ' No ; we have some adulterated stuff we 

 bought for honey, but it's no good.' He showed me some of 

 it, and I soon showed him that it was first-class honey, and 

 how to put it in the same liquid condition it was in when 

 they bought it ; and I believe they now sell more candied 

 honey than they do of the liquid." 



Sub.Garth Ventilation for Cellars had a good many 

 advocates a few years ago. The theory was that if the aii-^ 

 could enter thru tile buried four or five feet deep, it would 

 enter at a raised temperature, thus giving fresh air without 

 cooling off the cellar. One after another of its advocates 

 have apparently abandoned it, and now Dr. Miller, one of 

 its most faithful adherents, confesses in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture that his sub-ventilator has become clogged, and- 

 that he has not taken the pains to clean it out, because he 

 is a little skeptical that the quality of the air thus introduced 

 is not as good as that which finds its way thru the cracks 

 in the walls of the cellar. But he insists as strongly as 

 ever upon the advantage of a stove in the cellar when the 

 temperature is too low, and even when not too low, but when 

 the temperature outside and inside is so nearly alike that 

 there is no change of air. 



Eccentricities of Candied Honey. — The editor of 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture says that at the Colorado conven- 

 tion some of those present reported that their honey, after 

 candying solid, would return partly to a liquid form. In- 

 deed, in some cases it happened that one can would candy 

 solid, Vfhile another, Ji tied out of the same lot of honey at the 

 same time, would remain liquid. Editor Root explains : 



" As we learned later in the convention from Dr. Hed- 

 den, of the Colorado Agricultural College, there is onlj' a 

 certain portion of honey that really candies or assumes the 

 granular form. Honey is made up of two elements besides 

 water — levulose and dextrose. The latter candies, and the 

 former remains a liquid. When one looks at a jar or pail 

 of candied honey it seems almost impossible to believe that 

 every particle of it has not candied. But the Professor ex- 

 plained that, if the mass were subjected to a heavy pressure 

 the liquid portion (the levulose and water) would be squeezed 

 out." 



