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1861 



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40th YEAR, 



CHICAGO, ILL,, OCTOBER 25, 1900, 



No, 43. 



\ * Editorial. * \ 



The Honey Crop of 1900, it seems, 

 will be quite well cleaned up before next 

 spring. Tlie lioney of the past two seasons 

 has found a verj' ready marliet. This has 

 been a very good thing for tliose who liave 

 been so fortunate as to have secured a crop. 

 There is no good reason why the fair prices at 

 wldch honey sells now should not be main- 

 tained right along, no matter if the future 

 crops should be larger again. Honey should 

 always be worth the price it is now bringing 

 in the markets, and will be if it is properly 

 handled. 



One of the chief reasons why honey is 

 bringing a better price almost universally, 

 is because it is being handled more and more 

 by a better class of dealers — or by dealers who 

 pay cash and get cash for it. Some of the 

 honey -commission men of the past have been 

 a great damage to the producers of honey. 

 They not only defrauded many bee-keepers, 

 but kept the price of honey down for all by 

 needlessly sacrificing what was sent to them 

 to handle. 



We believe that the end of the old commis- 

 sion frauds is very near. Bee-keepers and 

 farmers are fast learning — tho by dearly 

 bought experience — that there are still a few 

 dealers left in our large cities who are honest, 

 and who will do the right thing by their ship- 

 pers. Our own experience in dealing in 

 honey on a cash basis has been eminently 

 satisfactory — that is, in all cases where the 

 bee-keeper or shipper has wanted only what 

 was fair and right. Of course, there are a 

 few people even among bee-keepers, who need 

 to be less economical of the truth, and square 

 their consciences by the Golden Rule. The 

 commission men have not always and inva- 

 riably been in the wrong. Not by a 60-pound 

 can full of honey ! We have witnest instances 

 where the bee-keeper was really trying his 

 best to " work a game " on the commission 

 man. But the '■ game " never workt in that 

 way. We would never think of trying to get 

 ahead of even the ordinary kind of commis- 

 sion men. They are too keen ever to be 

 caught by any scheme. 



The only way to do business is to do it hon- 

 estly. No other wfiy will last very long, or be 

 at all satisfactory. The sooner men come to 

 learn that there are some things in this life of 

 greater value than the dollar, the sooner will 

 the time be here when it will be a genuine 

 pleasure to do business. Now it is too often 

 the case that one man is trying to get ahead 



of the other— trying to get up in the world by 

 using his neighbors as so many steps to tread 

 upon. That is not the way to rise perma- 

 nently. One may rise in that way for a while, 

 and to a dizzy hight, but it would be too 

 dangerously dizzy, and too great woidd be 

 the disastrous '■ come down " that must soon 

 follow. 



Let us all deal honestly, giving value for 

 value ; then, if we prosper, well and good. If 

 not, we can fail honorably, and still merit the 

 esteem of all whose esteem is worth having. 



Haul Bees Home Early. — If this is 

 your first year's experience with an out-api- 

 ary, and you are of those who must haul home 

 bees to winter in the cellar, you may make 

 the mistake of delaying unwisely the home- 

 bringing. So long as bees are gathering, even 

 if only a little every day, it is better to have 

 them as widely distributed as possible. But 

 when all gathering ceases, the sooner the 

 hauling is done the better. The bees should 

 have time to get off the effects of the excite- 

 ment caused by their ride, and should have at 

 least one good flight before going into the 



cellar. 



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The Laiigstroth Monument. — Thru 

 the courtesy of (ileanings in Bee-Culture we 

 show on our first page this week an excellent 

 picture of the granite monument erected by 

 appreciative bee-keepers to the memory of 

 the Rev. L. L. Langstroth — the father of im- 

 proved American bee-keeping. It is located 

 in Dayton, Ohio, and cost $300. 



The inscription, which is somewhat indis- 

 tinct in the picture, reads as follows, having 

 been written by Hon. Eugene Secor, who did 

 much to secure the necessary funds for the 

 erection of the substantial memorial stone : 



INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF 



BEV. L. L. LANGSTROTH, 



"FATHER OF AMERICAN BEE-KEEPING." 



by his affectionate beneficiaries in the Art : 

 who, in remembrance of the services rendered 

 fjy his persistent and painstaking observation 

 and experiments with the Honey-Bee, his im- 

 provements in the Hive, and the charming lit- 

 erary ability shown in the first scientific and 

 poinilar 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 wrt)ught well. Thy fame is sure. 

 The crown of love, which thou hast won 



For useful deeds, shall long endure. 



We are glad that the Langstroth monument 

 is in place. It lookt for some time as if bee- 

 keepers were a little apathetic in regard to it, 

 but it has been only about five years since 

 Father Langstroth past over to his eternal 

 home. Many a prominent public man who 

 left this world waited much longer for the. 



erection of a permanent and appropriate 

 shaft to mark the resting-place of all that 

 was mortal about him. 



Bee-keepers have done well ; tho perhajjs 

 there was no absolute need of the stone to 

 aid his living in the memory of a gi'ateful 

 people, as his consecrated life and abundant 

 labors must ever be a greater and more last- 

 ing monument than one of crumbling granite 

 that now stands in yonder cemetery. 



We trust that some day there will arise an 

 inspired writer who will undertake the lov- 

 ing task of writing a volume on Father 

 Langstroth's devoted life — a volume that will 

 find a place in the home of every bee-keeper. 



Winter Stores in Belgium are rated a 

 good deal nKjre heavily than in this country. 

 L. Pirson, in Le Rucher Beige, says it has 

 been proven repeatedly that for native bees 

 the minimum allowance is 44 pounds, while 

 Italians, because of their greater activity in 

 brood-rearing, must have at least .55 pounds. 

 In this country many are satisfied with lialf 

 that amount ; and no distinction is made be- 

 tween the amounts given to blacks and Ital- 

 ians. Possibly it would be the part of wis- 

 dom to make such distinction. Mr. Pirson 

 claims that the extra amount needed for Ital- 

 ians is well paid for in the extra amount of 

 brood reared in early spring. 



Unsalable Sections may be profitably 

 used to piece out winter stores. One way in 

 which they may be used is to fit them info the 

 brood-frames. If the frame is too small to 

 take eight Sections easily, take oil the side or 

 bottom of some of the sections to bring them 

 within the required compass. Trim oil the 

 edges of the sections, so the wood will not 

 project beyond the comb, unless you liave 

 plain sections, when no such trimming will be 

 necessary. 



Candied vs. Liquid Honey. — Chalon 

 Fowls has ably championed the practice of 

 selling extracted honey in the liquid form. 

 melting it for the grocers as fast as it became 

 candied, and has used the forceful argument 

 that by so doing he has obtained a high price 

 for his honey. In a foot-note to an article by 

 him in Gleanings in Bee-Culture, the editor 

 sums up the subject in the following dispas- 

 sionate manner: 



This whole question, when simmered down, 

 stands about this way : The general public 

 are suspicious of candied honey. Now, honey, 

 will candy. Considering thisfaet, Dr. Miller, 

 R. C. Aikin, el a!., argue that the public may 

 be and can be educated to the wholesomeness 

 and purity of honey in the solid form ; then, 

 if perchance the li^iuid article while in the 

 market, or in the home, shall turn cloudy or 

 solid, no suspicions will be aroused as to its 



