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Vol. XXI. August 5, 1885. No. 31. 



APICULTURAL NEWS ITEMS. 



EDITORIAL AND SELECTED. 



Drones are tolerated in queenless colo- 

 nies ; hence, if you have a colony with 

 superior drones and want to have them fer- 

 tilize your young queens, make that colony 

 queenless. 



Folding Paper Boxes for marketing- 

 comb honey, are excellent contrivances. We 

 have just received a circular concerning 

 them, from Mr. Georg-e T. Hammond, Brock- 

 port, N. Y. They can be obtained so cheaply 

 (about I'i cents each) that they should come 

 into g-eneral use. 



Young; Bees do not gather honey from 

 the flowers until they are 14 days old. Their 

 duties are to nurse the larva;, clean the cells, 

 build and care for queen-cells, etc. They 

 are not idlers— they are workers, and as soon 

 as they become of ripe age, they will take 

 their places in the fields. 



Oleomargarine must be so "labeled " in 

 Missouri. The late Legislature passed a law 

 making it a misdemeanor for any hotel, inn, 

 or boarding-house keeper to set before his 

 guests, at any meal, any compound resem- 

 bling butter, manufactured from cattle fat 

 or beef suet, or any article known as oleo- 

 margarine, unless the name shall be clearly 

 and indelibly marked on the dish or plate 

 containing it, with its true name. Why not 

 serve "glucose" in the same way? 



(ilurose from Bags.— The Revue Indus- 

 trielle states that a German manufactory is 

 turning out over a ton a day of glucose made 

 from old linen rags. "These rags, which 

 are composed of hard vegetable fibers, are 

 treated with sulphuric acid, which converts 

 them into dextrine. The latter product thus 

 obtained, undergoes a washing with milk of 

 lime, and is then treated with a fresh supply 

 of acid stronger than the former, when the 

 mass is at once transformed and crystallizes 

 into glucose, of which confections, honey 

 and jelly may be made. The process is said 

 to be a very cheap one, and the glucose 

 chemically identical with grape-sugar. A 

 strong out-cry, however, has arisen against 

 the manufacture of grape-sugar from rags, 

 and the enterprise is understood to be in 

 danger of being interfered with by the Ger- 

 man government." 



The Southern Exposition for 188.5 will 

 be hold at Louisville, Ky., from Aug. 15 to 

 Oct. '24. The foreign exhibits are from I'l 

 different countries, and the Anierlcan exhib- 

 its are from every State and Territory. 



.\ Ills can easily be exterminated by putting 

 about two ounces of lard-oil in a small tin 

 can withouf a toj), and burying the can about 

 half way in the earth near the ants' nest ; 

 leave it until the next day, and, if any ants 

 are seen outside of the can, pour a little 

 more oil into it—stir it with a stick and let it 

 stand a little longer, when the last ant within 

 travelling distance will be drowned in the 

 oil. 



When marketing Extracted Honey, 



it is a sad hhaidey to use barrels holding from 

 .■500 to 500 pounds— they are too large to be 

 desirable for the trade, too bulky to be hand- 

 led with care in transportation, and too dear 

 to be lucrative to the producer, for honey 

 put up in such large barrels is subject to a 

 discount of one cent per pound, because of 

 the difficulty in disposing of it without 

 repacking and dividing into smaller lots. 



Paste tor Labels on Palls, Jars, etc. — 



A correspondent asks for a good recipe for 

 paste to hold honey-labels on tin or earthen- 

 ware. Here is one : " Make thin flour paste 

 in the usual way. When nearly cooked, add 

 about one-eighth as much of cheap Porto 

 Rico molasses, and cook for 10 minutes 

 longer, stirring continually to prevent burn- 

 ing. If too thick to work well, it may be 

 diluted with warm water, thoroughly mixed 

 before^using." 



Mignonette.— A California correspond- 

 ent, living not far from San Francisco, writes 

 that he has been unable to find any flower 

 that bees work on in greater numbers than 

 they do on a variety of mignonette, which 

 he thinks is Parson's New White. It is a 

 tall-growing kind, and grows in his climate 

 from year to year, and where given space it 

 spreads rapidly, as it propagates itself from 

 seed very readily. He has measured spikes 

 of bloom over two feet long, and as there are 

 numbers of them, it may be easily seen how 

 profuse a bloomer this plant must be. He 

 writes that it will take hold anywhere. 



Flowers, of gay tints and exquisite attire, 

 are made to attract the bees by their lovli- 

 ness, for the purpose of getting the bees to 

 fertilize them. The Fanciers' Friend adds its 

 testimony on this point, in this language : 

 " How easy it might have been to have 

 ordained that flawers should fertilize them- 

 selves, as many do, without any extraneous 

 intervention ; but, by this wise and benevo- 

 lent ordination, a tribe of sensitive creatures 

 is introduced, to be perpetuated, by the 

 perpetuation they supply to that which sup- 

 ports them, and in this circle of reciprocal 

 goo(\ offices, lend an additional charm to the 

 genial seasons, by the animation which they 

 give to the face of nature, in embellishing 

 the plants they visit with their vivacity and 

 music." 



Surely creative wisdom is ever glorified 

 by, her oflspring. She spreads a "table of 

 plenty" before the bees, enticing them to it 

 by billions of resplendent l^lossoms, exquis- 

 itely perfumed by the balm of thousands of 

 sweet-scented flowers, while they in turn, 

 present their thank-offering in the " merry 

 hum " of their supernal " matin-song." 



Bee-Keepers' National Union.— The 



voting for officers under the Constitution, 

 for the coming year, was closed on Aug. Ist, 

 and resulted in the election of the following 

 persons ; 



President— James Heddon. 



Five Vice-Presidents— G. M. Doolittle, 

 G. W. Demaree, A. I. Root, 



Prof. A. J. Cook, Dr. C. C. Miller, 



Manager, Sec'y & Treas.— T. G. Newman. 



The details were as follows on the vote for 

 President : James Heddon 60, A. I. Root 38, 

 Prof. A. J. Cook 8, Thomas G. Newman 6, 

 G. M. Doolittle '2, Dr. C. C. Miller 2, J. E. 

 Pond, Jr. 2, Alfred H. Newman 1, Rev. W. 

 P. Clarke 1. 



For Vice-Presidents : G. M. Doolittle 77, 

 G. W. Demaree 6.'), Prof. A. J. Cook 61, Dr. 

 C. C. Miller 62, A. I. Root 59, S. M. Locke 45, 

 A. J. King 44, H. Scovell 38, A. G. Hill 33, 

 James Heddon 33, Chas. Dadant 16, W. Z. 

 Hutchinson 7, A. H. Newman 5, C. F. Muth 5, 

 Dr. G. L. Tinker 5, S. I. Freeborn 4, E. M. 

 Hayhurst 3, C. P. Dadant 3, Wm. Muth-Ras- 

 mussen 2, Rev. L. L. Langstroth 2, Paul L. 

 Viallon 2, O. O. Poppleton 2, T. G. Newman 

 2, Geo. Grimm 2, W. H. Stewart 2, Rev. W. F. 

 Clarke 2, J. E. Pond, Jr. 2, Judge W. H. An- 

 drews 2, Dr. H. Besse 1, Mrs. L. Harrison 1, 

 C. Theilmann 1, E. France 1, Rev. O. Clute 1, 

 Arthur Todd 1, Dr. E. B. Southwick 1, Allen 

 Pringle 1, Dr. J. P. H. Browu 1, Christopher 

 Grimm 1, A. A. Baldwin 1, E. A. Gastman 1, 

 H. Alley 1, Barton Forsgard 1, D.A.Jones 1, 

 Chas. H. Green 1, W.H. Shirley 1, L.E.Rootl, 

 J. B. Mason 1. 



For Manager, Secretary and Treasurer : 

 Thomas G. Newman 115. Blank 5. 



There are about 30 voting blanks that have 

 not been returned, and so these votes are lost 

 —not being here on the 1st day of August. 

 There were no candidates nominated, and 

 hence no one is defeated. The voting was 

 as free as it was possible to be, as is shown 

 by the scattering vote. 



All those who are elected have been 

 notified, and the first business (that of select- 

 ing proper counsel) has been laid before 

 them for action. Now we are ready to work, 

 and every bee-keeper should at once join 

 the Union and help to supply the funds 

 necessary for defense. 



1^" The Cedar Valley Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will hold its annual meeting at the 

 office of Jerry Moser, on Fourth street, east 

 side, Waterloo, Iowa, on Aug. 12, 13 and 14, 

 1885. All interested in bee-keeping are cor- 

 dially invited. A. D. Bennett, Sec. 



iS~ Owing to a very heavy rain-storm 

 during the forenoon of July 18, the meeting 

 of the Marshall County Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation was deferred until Saturday, .\ug. 29, 

 1S85, at 10.30 a. m., in the Court House at 

 Marshalltowh, Iowa. Subjects: "Fall Man- 

 agement of Bees" and "Care and Sale of 

 Honey." All bee-keepers are invited. It 

 will be a time of rest from other labor, and 

 we hope to have a good meeting. 



J. W. S.iNDEKS, Sec. 



t:^~The third Annual Picnic of the Eastern 

 Iowa and We.'*tern Illinois Bee-Keepera' Associa- 

 tion, wilt be held at Black Uawh's Watch Tower, 4 

 miles south ot Rock Island, on Thursday. Auff. 13, 

 1HK.5. Cars leave Terry I^anding, in Kuck Island, 

 for the Krounds every half hour. A pleasant time 

 is anticipated. Bee-keepers and their friends are 

 cordially invited to attend. We are glad to an- 

 nounce that Mr. I. V. McCagg. President and 

 founder of the Association, is improv inp, and will 

 shortly again be able to be with us, after an illness 

 of some 60 days, the greater part of the time being 

 confined to his bed with intense suffering from 

 inflammatory rheumatism. He expects to be sp 

 much improved as to be able to attend the picnic. 

 WjM. Goos, Sec. 



