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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Nov. 29, 1900. 



to the words, " the moth that infests comb honey there," 

 and says, " An injustice has been, and is, done to Colorado 

 bee-keepers by allowing those words to stand without re- 

 traction." Mr. Thompson calls attention to the fact that it 

 was the editor who used the words, but he seems not to 

 have noticed the equalh' prominent fact that in the same 

 item it was no less an authority than Prof. Gillette, a Colo- 

 rado man, occupying a chair in the State Agricultural Col- 

 lege of Colorado, who said, " there is a small moth. . . .which 



I have repeatedly seen infesting honey-comb and I 



have seen them in crated sections of comb honey." The 

 American Bee Journal has neither motive nor desire to do 

 injustice to Colorado bee-keepers, and it is not likely that 

 many Colorado bee-keepers feel that any injustice has been 

 done. Will Mr. Thompson please answer just one ques. 

 tion : When Prof. Gillette said, "I have seen them in 

 crated sections of comb honey," was he not speaking of the 

 larvse of the moth that infests comb honey there ?" 



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Mr. W. L/. Porter, of Arapahoe Co., Colo., made us a 

 very pleasant call Nov. 13th, when on his way to visit in 

 Michigan and elsewhere. Mr. Porter's honey crop the past 

 season was something like 30,000 pounds, about one-third 

 being comb honey. He has four apiaries, being one of the 

 big bee-keepers of that great honej' State. 

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Mr. George E. Dudley, of Arapahoe Co., Colo., writ- 

 ing us Nov. 12th, said : 



" The bee-keepers have not been very prosperous in the 

 West for the past two years, tho honey has been quite high. 

 Owing to the lack of rain and the grasshoppers the crop has 

 been very light. In Colorado the honey crop was fair, and 

 the last carloads of comb honey sold in Denver for S3 00 

 per 24-sectiou case." 



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Father Joshua Terry, of Salt Lake Co., Utah, called 

 on us last week when he was attending the national irriga- 

 tion congress which met here. Father Terry is 76 years 

 old, a pioneer of three States — Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho — 

 and is the oldest living mountaineer in the West. He cer- 

 tainly is a patriarch, and can give some wonderful accounts 

 of life among the Indians and in that wild country a half 

 century ago. He has been a bee-keeper for some 30 years, 

 but lately his apiary has been run down from 90 to 13 colo- 

 nies, on account of the smelter smoke, it is thought. 



We hope Father Terry may survive yet many years, 

 and continue to be one of our oldest esteemed readers of 



the American Bee Journal. 



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Mr. Thos. Wm. Cowan, whose splendid convention 

 paper appears on page 758, sent the following explanatory 

 letter with it to Secretary Mason : 



Pacific Grove, Calif., Aug. 17, 1900. 



Dear Dr. Mason : — I have much pleasure in sending 

 you a paper on the Chemistry of Honey. I have endeavored 

 to write it in such a way that every one should clearly un- 

 derstand what I mean, and I hope it may be of some use in 

 clearing up some of the confusion that exists in a few 

 minds about honey, glucose, and sugar. I have tried to 

 make it as short and concise as possible, and I hope it will 

 not be considered too lengthy. You will see that the chemi - 

 cal make-up of glucose is not the same as honey, if we un- 

 derstand by glucose the common sense of the term, namely, 

 commercial glucose. 



I am sorry I shall not be able to be with you at Chicago, 

 so you must convey my greetings to the bee-keepers assem- 

 bled, and say I hope they will have a successful meeting. I 



should certainly have greatly enjoyed being with you, and 

 meeting those I have seen before, and the larger number of 

 those of whom I have only read. I hope you will enjoy the 

 convention. Yours very truly, 



Thos. Wm. Cowan. 



The National Association, and bee-keepers in general, 

 can count themselves very fortunate in being permitted to 

 have among their number a man of such great ability as 

 Mr. Cowan — and one who is so willing to impart his large 

 fund of information for the benefit of all beedom. Wees- 

 teem it no little honor to number Mr. Cowan among our 

 personal friends, and are glad that now he is practically 

 one of the United States bee-keepers, seeing he makes his 

 home with his son in California, tho still editor of the 

 British Bee Journal, publisht in London. 



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The Deai h of Editor Hutchinson's Father, at the 

 age of 82, was chronicled on page 724. Those who know 

 Mr. Hutchinson's kind heart will not be surprised at the 

 following reminiscence of his father : 



I can remember, soon after we came from York State, 

 our one cow wandered so far into the woods in search of 

 better pastures that she did not reach home until the next 

 day. Did father get a bsh-pole and proceed to dress her 

 down ? No, sir 1 He went into the house and spread a big 

 slice of bread and butter, sprinkled on a thick layer of 

 sugar, and then fed it to the truant. I can remember yet 

 how she bobbed her head up and down while she was.eating 

 it, and how she followed father around afterwards, and 

 kept smelling and sniffing to see if she could find another 

 sweet morsel. 



The notice ends by the editor saying of his father what 

 is much to say of any man, viz.: " Father was a Christian, 

 a kind husband and father, and an honest and upright 



man." 



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Secretary A. B. Mason, of Toledo, Ohio, writing us 

 Nov. 17, had this to say about his bees, etc.: 



Friend York : — Cold weather came on the 14th, and 

 our bees went into the cellar yesterday in good condition. 

 I had but little surplus honey this year — perhaps 25 pounds 

 of extracted per colony. 



Well, it's so late I believe I'll not send you an invitation 

 to my 67th birthday (or is it the 68th ?) anniversary, that 

 comes to-morrow, but we'll not celebrate till the next day. 

 Very truly yours, A. B. Mason. 



Too bad we had to miss that anniversary occasion — 

 both on account of receiving no invitation, and because Dr. 

 Mason doesn't know any better than to live so far away 

 from Chicago ! Well, just the same we wish him a large 

 number of returns of the day, before he shall be called to 

 join the great majority of good bee-keepers and others who 



have " gone on before." 



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Mr. W. H. Neblick, of Indian Territory, we must 

 thank for a nice box of open cotton-bolls, sent Nov. 5. He 

 reported the cotton-fields as being white at that time, with 

 no frost yet, and that bees had done well this year. We 

 have never seen cotton growing, but think it would be a 

 beautiful sight. We divided some of the cotton-bolls among 

 the employees of this office, reserving several for our own 

 home. They are ornamental in this locality, and will be 



prized by all. 



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The Novelty Pocket-Knife offered on page 765, will 

 hereafter be f 1.25, or the knife and the American Bee Jour- 

 nal one year — both for $1.90. In either case the knife is 

 sent by registered mail. If wanted in time for using as a 

 Christmas present, the order should be sent to us as early as 

 possible. There is always a great rush for these knives a 

 week or two before Christmas, and then they are more likely 

 to arrive after Christmas than before, spoiling the effect of 

 the present somewhat. 



