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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Aug. 9, 1900 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



QEORQE w. York & Company, 



118 Michigan Street, CtiicaQO, III. 



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



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, 



R. C. AiKiN, 



F. A. Snell, 



'Old Grimes.' 



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VOL. 40. 



AUGUST 9, 1900. 



NO. 3z 



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. 



Dr. Miller Premium Honey=Queens As Dr. Miller is 



about caug-ht up with orders now, he will likely be able to 

 send queens quite promptly from now on. So we renew the 

 offer of one of his queens as a premium for sending us one 

 new subscriber to the American Bee Journal with $1.00. 

 See the last page of this number. 



Candied vs. Liquid Honey at Retail.— There seems to 

 be an irrepressible conflict between those who advocate 

 selling honey in liquid form and those who advocate train- 

 ing customers to accept it in the granulated condition. 

 Among the chief advocates for selling honey in the granu- 

 lated state have been R. C. Aikin, G. M. Doolittle, and Dr. 

 C. C. Miller, altho the last-named might do well to keep his 

 finger out of the pie, seeing he is a producer of comb honey, 

 and can hardly have had much experience peddling ex- 

 tracted honey to customers. In one respect, Mr. Doolittle 

 stands somewhat alone, for he preaches putting candied 

 honey in wooden packages, filling up just before the honey 

 is too solid to run. Two special advantages are claimed 

 for this, and at least for some cases they are well worth 

 considering. One is that the cost is less than for any other 

 package. The other is that there is little danger of break- 

 age, and practically none of leakage. 



Mr. Chalon Fowls steps into the arena as a " liquid " 

 champion, altho the blows he strikes in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture are by no means liquid, but very solid. In reply to 



the claim that C. F. Muth had his customers trained to de- 

 sire candied honey, he produces a letter from Fred Muth, a 

 son of C. F., who says the bulk of his father's trade was to 

 manufacturers, and it appears that those who demanded 

 candied honey were those with whom Mr. Muth came in 

 contact with personally as consumers, and could talk to, 

 and he always made it his business to talk candied honey. 



The strongest argument, however, in favor of selling 

 honey in the liquid form is that given by Editor Root, in a 

 foot-note, when he says that Mr. Fowls has been and is now 

 getting dotible prices for his honey. Surely that is good 

 pay for putting on the market a first-class article and re- 

 placing any that candies, and Mr. Fowls may well laugh at 

 Dr. Miller's " straw " argtiments. Editor Root says, how- 

 ever, referring to the great success of Mr. Fowls and W. A. 

 Selser in selling liquid honey : 



" Yet if either one of them were in Mr. Aikin's locality 

 he might find it more convenient to put out his honey in the 

 candied form, and that the profits would be just as great ; 

 or, what is more probable, the people of Colorado would not 

 pay the prices obtained by Mr. Selser and Mr. Fowls for 

 their bottled goods." 



Reporting Convention Proceedings. — There are very 

 few people who understand getting up reports of conven- 

 tions for publication. Some seem to think that the editor 

 of the paper in which the report is wanted, must publish 

 evoyihing just as written or sent in by the secretary or 

 the one who writes out the report. Of course, those papers 

 that are mostly local, and have small circulations, must fill 

 up their space in some way, and having little of value to 

 put in, will likely publish a whole lot of things of no inter- 

 est to any but those who were at the particular convention 

 reported. 



For instance, in one report sent for publication there 

 were over two pages of the manuscript devoted to what dif- 

 ferent ones said as to where the next place of meeting 

 should be. It was then decided to go, for instance, to Po- 

 dunk. Then at the next session of the same convention, on 

 the same day, the place selected was reconsidered, and it 

 was decided to hold the next meeting at Honey ville. Now, 

 what sense would there be in publishing a whole lot of talk 

 that is of no interest or benefit ny one ? Why waste 

 time in writing it out ? Why not say that it was decided to 

 hold the nest meeting at Honeyville, and let it go at that ? 

 That is all any one cares about. 



We might multiply illustrations like the above, but it 

 is hardly necessary. What a journal that circulates all 

 over the whole world should publish is simply the facts as 

 brought out at a convention. There is necessarily much 

 talk at every convention — talk that, however, is perfectly 

 proper at the time and place, but that is not worth the space 

 it would occupy in print. 



In these busy times everything must be boiled down. 

 Sugar-makers don't put maple sap on the market — they first 

 boil it down, and then offer the rich syrup and sugar. And 

 so with convention reports, they need to be boiled down for 

 the busy, up-to-date business man. 



Fumigating Combs or Honey. — Bisulphide of carbon 

 has been used to some extent in place of sulphur to fumi- 

 gate combs more or less infested with worms, and it is 

 likely that its use will become more common. C. Daven- 

 port discourses about it in Gleanings in Bee-Culture in such 

 manner as to impress one that he knows whereof he affirms. 

 It is well to have it fully understood that bisulphide of car- 

 bon is a dangerous explosive, but Mr. Davenport says there 

 is a great difference in the explosiveness of different sam- 

 ples. Either there are two kinds, or there is a difference in 

 its preparation. What he first had would explode on the 

 approach of a lighted match always before the flame 



