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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 5, 1900 



PUBLISHT ^'EEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. York & Company, 



116 Michigan Street, Chicago, III. 



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

 EDITOR: 



DEPARTMENT EDITORS: 



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



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



LEADING CONTRIBUTORS: 



G. M. DoOLiTTLE, C. P. Dadant, Pkof. a. J. Cook, 



F. A. Snell, R. C. Aikin, ** Old Grimes." 



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VOL. 40. 



APRIL 5, 1900. 



NO. 14. 



Note — The American Bee Journal adopts the Orthography of the follow- 

 ing- Rule, recommended by the joint action of the 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 sound. Also some other changes are used. 



Bees Have Wintered Well, according- to the g-eneral 

 run of reports, there being- quite a contrast between pres- 

 ent reports and those given up to this time last year. 



A Convenient Bee=Tree is that reported in the British 

 Bee Journal in which the owner of the tree referred to 

 "works "the bees located in it on a plan not g-enerally fol- 

 lowed ; in fact, he first cut a g-ood-sized hole in the tree so 

 as to lay bare the combs, and by means of his pipe the bees 

 were smoked off, and several slabs of honey cut out and 

 appropriated. This done, the opening was covered by a 

 sack nailed on, and the bees left to repair the loss as best 

 they could. They g-ot on very well, and the owner for sev- 

 eral years has in summer helpt himself to honeycomb as 

 wanted as before, and covers up his " honey-cupboard " by 

 ag-ain replacing the sack. 



Honey=Recipes — We take the following from Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culture, having been furnisht by Mr. W. L,. 

 Porter, Editor Root vouching for the excellence of the coffee 

 and taffy : 



Honey-CkrEai, Coffee. — Five pounds of fresh wheat 

 bran ; mix with 2 pounds of rye flour, 2 pounds of alfalfa 

 honey. Mix the honey with 3 pints of boiling water. After 

 the honey and water have come to a boil, pour into the bran 

 mixture. Stir thoroly and knead to a s/i'ff' dough ; put thru 

 a domestic meat-grinder to separate them. Dry in a warm 



oven. Brown the same as coffee. For a coffee flavor, add 

 2 pounds of the di's/ Mocha and Java. Have it all ground, 

 and put in air-tight cans for future use. 



Honey-Taffy. — Boil extracted honey until it hardens 

 in cold water. Pull until white. Any quantity may be 

 used. One pound requires about 20 minutes' steady boiling. 



Mary C. Porter. 



Honey-Paste for Putting Labels on Tin. — Take 2 

 spoonfuls of wheat flour and one of honey ; mis the flour 

 and honey, and add boiling water to make right thickness. 

 This is fine for labels, or wall-paper where paper will not 

 stick with ordinary paste. W. L. Porter. 



Tlie Langstroth flonument After $100 or more had 



been raised for a monument, the matter was taken up by 

 General Manager Secor, with a result that $275 has now 

 been reacht, which will erect a fine shaft. Mr. E. R. Root, 

 President of the National Bee-Keepers' Association, re- 

 quested Mr. Secor to add to his good work by writing a 

 suitable inscription for the monument. This Mr. Secor has 

 done in such a fine manner that American bee-keepers will 

 be none the less proud of their poet-laureate. We reprint 

 the inscription which appeared on page 200 of this journal 

 for 1899 : 



INSCRIBED to the memory OF 



REV. L. L. LANGSTROTH, 



"father of AMERICAN BEE-KEEPING," 



by his affectionate beneficiaries in the Art ; who, in remem- 

 brance of the services rendered by his persistent and pains- 

 taking observation and experiments with the Honey-Bee, 

 his improvements in the Hive, and the charming literary 

 ability shown in the first scientific and popular book on the 

 subject of Bee-Keeping in the United States, gratefully 

 erect this monument. 



Rest thou in peace. Thy work is done. 



Thou hast wrought well. Thy fame is sure. 

 The crown of love which thou hast won 



For useful deeds shall long endure. 



All Should Join. — Mentioning the fact that the Wis- 

 consin is the first association to come as a body into the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association, Editor Hutchinson 

 makes a good point when he says, in the Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 view : 



" There is often an advantage even in numbers. When 

 our representative, be he delegate, attorney, or manager, 

 can say : ' I represent an organization of 1,000 bee-keepers !' 

 it has weight." 



Care in Breeding is a matter receiving considerable 

 attention nowadays. Not that professional queen-breeders 

 alone are to be careful, but every producer of honey. Upon 

 this point Ebenezer Skies talks some very good sense in the 

 American Bee-Keeper. His statement that any bee that 

 will gather honey will do for extracted honey needs some 

 qualification, but the rest is all right. He says : 



" Any bee that will gather honey will do for extracted 

 honey, but not so for comb. Only those colonies should be 

 selected that are nearest perfect as corab-builders, and 

 whose cappings are the whitest. Only such colonies as 

 these must be used as breeders. No drones must be allowed 

 to fly from any colony, except those having these desirable 

 qualities. No queens must be reared from any but colonies 

 having these qualities. 



" If this is done persistently, and every queen destroyed, 

 the work of whose progeny falls below the standard you 

 have set, for a few seasons, you will have an apiary of 

 thorobred, fancy comb-honey producers — that is, as far as 

 the bees go." 



Honey for Poultices hardly receives the attention it 

 deserves. A prominent British bee-writer, Mr. W. Woodley. 

 gives the following in the British Bee Journal : 



" We have here two cases for which lam supplying 

 honey. In one case (a damaged elbow) a blacksmith was 

 screwing a nut on the underside of a wagon, when the 



