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40th YEAR, 



CHICAGO, ILL,, NOVEMBER 1, 1900, 



No, 44. 



Editorial. « *" 



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A DiNlioneNt Hoiicy-SIiipppr. — Tliis 

 ni:iy MM-Mi II sti'iintri- nntl sfvi-rf liciulinj^ for iiii 

 riiiliiriiil. ImiI it, is a true one. We met Iiirn 

 ciiil.v iiliuiil Iwo weel^K ajjo, onelicautiful ufter- 

 iiiion. Ilecaiiu'to Cliiea^ro witli liih lioiiey, 

 just across l.al<e Miclii^'an — froiu I.uiliufitiiu. 

 lie first went aiuiui^ tlie coinniission liouey- 

 lii'ulers. and llien called on us. lie told us 

 what he had at the freiH-ht depol, Mud wauled 

 us t(j see it before l)uyin;r. 



We went with Mr. II. S, ( llnucy-SliipiHT), 

 inspected liis atulier and white eoruli honey, 

 and we hotli agreed jierfeetly on the iirice. 

 He was to call at our otiice the nexl uiuruiun' 

 to aeconi])any the iTuin and wafion to (I'ct the 

 hoiuty. We had eyeii aK'reed, ui>on his request, 

 to send hiui the AnuM'ieaii liee .hnirnid for one 

 year as a " to lH>ot" for the lioney. 



We have not seen Mr. IIoney-Shi])per since 

 leaving; him that afternoon. He failed to re- 

 port at our oiliee I he "next ilay. W'liat heeaiue 

 of him and his honey ; 



Well, we learneil later that he went to ihi! 

 fi'cit^ht depot the ne.\t ilay, paid the freij^ht on 

 the honey, and evidently had it delivered to 

 some other hcuiey-dealer, who, perhaps, of- 

 fered liini ai|uarter cent more per ))OuihI than 

 the price at which he a(,'reed to sell the hoiu^y 

 to us, tho we were to pay him aliuut a half 

 cent more than another tlrni up<in whom he 

 said he had called liel'ore si'cinr us. 



Bee-kee]>erH are inelhuul to d(Miounce the 

 honey conunission men, and seem often to try 

 to show thai all the lilame is on their side, 

 lint here is a shininj? exami)le of fraud and 

 di.slionesty on the part of a hee-keeper. We 

 have lieard ui sucti cases before now. It was 

 not so much that we were disa|)pointed in mit 

 (jetting the honey that we had bought fairly 

 and B(|uarely, but to have such clear evidence 

 that the young bee-keeper in (juestion was dis- 

 honest, and evidently intended to be so. 



We think it about time to "show up" the 

 other side of the i|ue.stion of fraudulent deal- 

 ing in honey, hence we have given the fore- 

 going actual c,\])erience. We have purposely 

 ondtted the name of the shipjicr, as we don't 

 wish tf» be tfH) hard on him, Iho he deserves to 

 be given some free j)ersona] advertising. 



We believe that business can be carried on 

 successfully aiul yet honestly. N<i other way 

 of doing business can ijossibly continue very 

 long. A'nd, then, aside from its sinfulness, 

 what satisfaction is there iti schennng to de- 

 fraud one's fellow man '. What a pity it is 

 that it s(HMus almost necessary in some cases 



to waleli like a hawk lest you arc deceived 

 and beaten Old of your very boots by those 

 whom you have aright to e.xiJeet will be (he 

 very sotd of hoiH)r and uprightness! Kut the 

 heart of nnm is desi)erately wicked, and 

 highly deceitful, 'tis said, and very true it 

 often is. Vet we believe there is a constant 

 iniprovenu!nt going on generally. Those who 

 have been existing by genteel theft and de- 

 ception are linding it more diflicult every day 

 to work their schemes successfully. They are 

 being detected and exposed as never before. 



What is needed is a fearless and incorrupt- 

 ible public press that dares to warn the peo- 

 ple against those who would get their living 

 anil nil tlicir cotlers by stealing from their 

 fellows. Hilt imless the good people will in 

 return geiieiously sii|iport such a public press, 

 they will liiid very few who will feel like 

 htandiiigat tlii' rnrefi-unt lii liiitlle thus fur 

 them. 



<'iiiia<lian Honey i'l I'iiriH.— Mr. W, 



A, .Maid\iiinon. of Ontario, in charge of the 

 food products of (Canada at the Paris Exposi- 

 tion, wrote the following in a letter which has 

 been copied into the Cnuadian Uee Journal: 



On a six-sided htiuid. tliree stories high, is 

 llic display of honey. Iiolh liijuid and granu- 

 lated, in linttles of various si/.es and sha])es, 

 arranged about the eiMiter of a mirror glass. 

 The upiier half of the lower story is lifted with 

 glass panels, beliiiid which cfimb h(mey is 

 seen in sijuares just as it is sold. The uj>per 

 two stories are seiiaraled only liy a sheet of 

 |)lale glass, which siipiiorts the apex of the 

 pvramid, while resting on the tops of the 

 lii'ittles beneath. The elfeet is tliat of a solid 

 eone of glass and honey, four feet high, olfer- 

 iiig almost iin obstruction to the passage of 

 liglil, wliieli is transformed into the prettiest 

 shinies lit aiiilier anil iiearl. This exhibit is 

 one of the most attiaitive and most admired. 

 It is the eliniate of Canada in liquid and crys- 

 tal, flowers, fragrance and sunshine, eomjirest 

 into sweetness. 



( 'li|>l>iii$t t^ueciiH.— Editor Hill holds in 

 contciniit the luanner in whiidi queens are 

 usually dipt, saying: 



The aoth century bee-keeper will smile at 

 the thought of using scissors and such con- 

 trivances as the ".Ml tte " device, and tak- 

 ing queens from the comb to clip them, as is 

 yet advocated-. and well he may. 



Perhaps. And yet, Mr. Hill, don't sour on 

 the world if you find the scissors still in use 

 to a large extent in the 30tli century. Some 

 gfiod bee-keepers after having tried both knife 

 and scissors still prefer the scissors. Tlianks, 

 however, for very explicit instructions for 

 those who want to try the knife in the com- 

 ing century. The instructions are: 



An ordinary iioeket-knife is the only tool 

 neecssiiry. It should have a razor edge. If 

 the knife is not «.•/•;/ sharp some jiressure Will 

 he necessary in order III «ever the wing; but 

 with a very keen edge its own weight is sudi- 



cienl to aeciiniplish the work instantly, with- 

 out danger of cutting the linger. 



Stand the frame upon whiidi the queen is 

 found ngainsi the side of I he hive, or have it 

 otherwise liriiily sitp|Mirled in a convenient, 

 pii.silion. Do not alteiiipl to catch the wing 

 until Ihe queen, of her own ai-i.-ord. assiimcK 

 an upright, po^jtion; that, is, wait until she 

 stands or walks with head upward, which she 

 will soon do ordinarily. Now. with the knife 

 in the right hand, and the thumb and index 

 linger of Ihe litl lightly prest together, gently 

 raise the I ip of Ihe left wing with point of 

 linger, and Hitli a rolling motion, eaiised by a 

 slight contraction of the thumb and linger, 

 engage the tip of the wing, and at the same 

 instniil cut olT about three-sixteenths of an 

 inch of the iipjier wing thus held. This is 

 aeeom|ilislit by ^iinjily gi\iiig a .-light stroke 

 of llu^ knife across the wing against the linger- 

 tiji without pressure. 



FeeiliiiK Medicated Syrup l<i IScch. 



— In the foreign h jniinial.. a|iiieiir fri;- 



qiient reports of the eiii-i' iit fiiiil hroiiil by 

 means of this or thai drug. Imt in Ihiseoun- 

 try the belief in sueli driig-ciirrs has rather 

 been diseoiu'iiged. Now, however. Editor 

 Root, of (ileanings in Hce-CuUurc. eneonragcs, 

 in regions where diseases of brood jircvail, 

 the use of sonic antiseptic of recognized value 

 to me.dieatc all syrups used. This is not as a 

 cure, hut a preventive. Possibly even a cure 

 in the early stage of the disease. The edi- 

 torial on this subject is so im|iortant that it is 

 here given almost entire: 



I,et it be nniierstood that germicides, when 

 introiliieed into the food in a quantity sulli- 

 cienlly diluted to he harniless to the bees and 

 to Ihe brood, will not kill Ihe «/Mr<'.i of either 

 black or foul brood; but they will kill Ihe 

 hnciJU, or living germs, that have developl 

 from the sjiores, or, as we might say. from the 

 eggs of the microbes. The only thing we can 

 hope III aeeonijilish by inlrodiieing Iheniedi- 

 eated feed to Ihe bees dilTel, is to kill the 

 bacilli as fast as tlii'y develoji from the spore 

 stale. The active priuci]ilc of the disease in 

 the s|)ore is iirotected by a cyst, or thick 

 coaling, which. I have shown, will suceess- 

 fiilly ri'sist tlieaetion of boiling water for an 

 tiiHir, or an hour and a half, at a time?. This 

 same coating will also resist tlie action of 

 drugs wln^n given to the bees at the proper 

 dilution. 



There are hundreds of bee-kec^pcrs located 

 in vicinities where black and foul brood have 

 been raging: and I would by all means urge 

 all such 111 niedieale all the syrup they feed, 

 either with carbolic acid or beta iia]ililhol, a 

 new drug that is decidedly less objectionable 

 to the bees than the other, and quite as de- 

 sti'uctive to the active bacilli themselves. 



This sanu! drug is reexnniiiendcil by tiee- 

 keejiers in p'.nglaiid, and especially by Thos. 

 Wni. Cowan, editor of the IJrilish Bee Jour- 

 nal. It conies in a kind of powder, in one- 

 (umce boxes. Into an cight-onnee (or half- 

 pint ) bottle empty one of these iiiinee pack- 

 ages Then pour in just enough w-nod alcohol 

 to dissolve the powder; then IIII the bottle 

 full, or very nearly so. This quantity of 

 chemical in soriition is just right for 140 

 ixiunds of sugar nndissoh-ed. .Measure olf 

 .141) Iiounds of sugar, and then 141) pounds of 

 water, and mix. Pour the contents of this 



