THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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WEEKLY EDITION 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Vol. XXI. Oct. 28, 1885. No. 43. 



APICULTURAL NEWS ITEMS. 



EDITORIAL AND SELECTED. 



Hoiv very fair becomes the autumn sod, 

 With all the glory of the groldenrod. 



Iiet IIS Sow good services— then sweet 

 remembrances will grow with them. 



ITIr. James Heddou has taken out a 

 patent on his new hive. It is noted in last 

 week's Scientific American. 



Mr. J. W. Tefft, of Syracuse, N. Y., de- 

 sires to say that the item on page 579 

 brought him many inquiries concerning his 

 hive, but be does not make it for sale. 



Tlie Autumnal Bloom is generally 

 abundant, but later than usual. Along the 

 rivers the bloom is very full. If the weather 

 is warm and frosts keep off there will be 

 some more honey gathered by the bees yet 

 this fall. 



Mr. Allen Prlnsle exhibited a " pyramid 

 of honey " at the Lennox, Ont., Exhibition, 

 on Oct. 5 and 6, 1885, and the Beaver, a paper 

 published at Napanee, Ont., says that his 

 exhibit was " the finest" in the line "ever 

 made" in that *' county." His summer and 

 ■winter-hives were specially mentioned. 



The Fat Stock Sbow will be held at 

 Chicago, Ills., from Nov. 10 to 19, 1885. All 

 the railroads with Chicago connections will 

 sell excursion tickets to the show at greatly 

 reduced rates. The exhibition will be open 

 to the public day and evening (except Sun- 

 day) from 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, 188.5, 

 until 10 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 19, 1883. Gov. 

 Oglesby and other noted men will be pres- 

 ent and make addresses on the opening 

 night. 



A Correspondent of the Bulletin d' Al- 

 sace-Lorraine, tells how he stopped the rob- 

 bing of a hive by means of a solution of car- 

 bolic acid. A colony having been attacked 

 by robber bees, ho made a weak solution of 

 the acid, with which he sprinkled the hive 

 and its approaches. The robbers at once 

 withdrew, and fifteen minutes later he 

 sprinkled with the same solution all the 

 other hives, including those occupied by the 

 marauders. He had no further trouble of 

 the kind. 



To Kdiicatc CoiiNumcrs or Honey on 



the ditferenco between the "strained" 

 honey of commerce and pure extracted 

 honey, is now the duty of the bee-keepers. 

 The strained honey of commerce is ob- 

 tained mostly from South America and the 

 island of Cuba. Extracted honey is the pure 

 nectar taken from tlie combs by centrifugal 

 force, tliat the combs, which are of more 

 value than the hone.v, may be returned to 

 the hives to be again and again filled by the 

 bees. 



A Neiv Poultry (>ulde, entitled " Stan- 

 dard and Commercial Poultry Culture, by 

 Artificial Process," written by Dr. T. B. 

 Spaulding, of Edwardsville, Ills., and pub- 

 lished at the oflSce of the American Poultry 

 Journal, Chicago, is on our desk. It details 

 the profitable management of a poultry 

 yard, and should be read by all who are in- 

 terested in poultry culture, and who desire 

 to make that rapidly-developing industry 

 pay. 



Tlie Complaint of the San Bernardino 

 fruit grower against the bee-keeper men- 

 tioned on page 611, states "that he is the 

 owner of a large quantity of raisin grapes, 

 and that the defendant is the owner of 350 

 colonies of bees in the same neighborhood. 

 Between Sept. 15 and Dec. 15, 1884, it is 

 alleged, the defendant's bees visited the 

 premises of the plaintiff and at,e and dam- 

 aged the drying raisin grapes to a large 

 amount. Between Aug. 35 and Sept. 8, 1885 

 the aforesaid bees again visited the plain- 

 tiff's property and damaged growing grapes 

 to a considerable extent, wherefore judg 

 ment for an amount sufficient to cover the 

 loss is asked." The suit is for $399 in a Jus- 

 tice Court. There is considerable excite- 

 ment in the neighborhood about it — and 

 there will be a lively fight. The National 

 Bee-Keepers' Union is backing up the api" 

 arist to the extent of its abilit.v. Our readers 

 will be informed of the result when it is 

 ascertained. 



Some Persons delight in getting their 

 disputes and quarrels into print, even when 

 there can be no reasonable excuse for doing 

 so. This reminds us of the advice given by 

 the sagacious William, Emperor of Ger- 

 many, when any member of the royal 

 family complained to him of another one. 

 He invariably advises thus : " Do nothing ; 

 say nothing ; time will put everything to 

 rights." He has a great aversion to washing 

 dirty linen in public, and never forgives one 

 whose indiscretion causes a scandal. 



Men Pass A^vay ; monuments crumble 

 into dust ; and what remains of human life 

 is human thought. The printed page is the 

 embodiment of the thoughts of those who 

 will soon think no more— but these printed 

 thoughts will live, and energize those who 

 follow in their footsteps, long after this 

 generation shall have crumbled to dust, and 

 individual bickerings have been forgotten. 

 Let all, therefore, look to the future good 

 when writing of the present. 



At the Pennsylvania State Fair, Ar- 

 thur Todd, T. C. Davidson, Dr. S. W. Morri- 

 son, J. F. Turner, and John Pyewell were 

 awarded the prizes in the Apiarian Depart- 

 ment, which was in charge of the Philadel- 

 I phia Bee-Keepers' Association, 



Karly In the War, says the Boston 

 Budi/et, a number of ladies sojourning at 

 Washington undertook to organize an asso- 

 ciation called "The Order of the Bee," 

 which bound its members not to purchase 

 any imported goods until peace had been 

 conquered. Mrs. Lincoln, on being asked 

 to join, expressed much interest in the pro- 

 posed reform, but said that she should like 

 to consult her husband before signing. .She 

 invited the committee to accompany her to 

 ask him, and after they had explained the 

 project to Mr. Lincoln, who heard them with 

 his usual patience, he asked : " But how is 

 this to alfect the public revenue, ladies ? 

 The Government needs just now every dollar 

 that it can rake or scrape, and those very 

 imported goods that you propose to dis- 

 pense with form a large item of the receipts 

 at the treasury. How do you propose to 

 make up the deficiency which you will 

 create 7" This was a poser, and the pro- 

 posed " Bee " did not "improve the shining 

 hour." 



Another Bee-Suit. — The Harrisbui-g 

 Telegraph gives the following account con- 

 cerning a suit against a bee-keeper there : 



An unusal case is being tried in the Cum- 

 berland county (Pennsylvania) court this 

 week— that of testing by a jury whether the 

 keeping of a large number of bees in a town 

 or borough is a public nuisance or not. The 

 case is from West Fairview, a small town on 

 the opposite side of the river from Harris- 

 burg. Two citizens had about 1.'30 colonies 

 of bees, and, as the summer was sparce of 

 material such as the bees feed upon, they 

 came in large numbers into the houses, 

 stores, grape-arbors, and wherever there 

 was anything for them to feed upon. 



The defense claimed that the rearing and 

 keeping of bees was an industry, and as 

 such could not come under the head of a 

 public nuisance, and that suit could not be 

 brought nor damages recovered for the 

 keeping of honey-bees. The attorneys on 

 both sides presented the opinions of several 

 judges and the law points in the case, after 

 which the court decided the case should be 

 tried, and the testimony was received. But 

 one case seems to be on record in the State, 

 and that was tried before Judge Pearson in 

 Dauphin county years ago, in which the 

 defendant was ajudged guilty, had to pay a 

 fine, and abate the nuisance. 



A Correspondent in the London Jotirnal 

 of Horticulture gives the following as his 

 opinion of Syrian bees : 



The Syrian bees have some good qualities, 

 and but for their spitefulness, and tender- 

 ness during cold weather, would prove a 

 good variety. Like the Cyprian crosses the 

 Syrian ones crossed with Carniolan drones 

 have proved themselves good honey gath- 

 erers, and, as is usually the case with 

 crosses partaking of the nature of the male, 

 they are therefore very docile. The pure 

 Syrians, I observe, are capital sealers of 

 their honey ; they do not, like some varie- 

 ties, have much loose honey in their hive. 

 These good features palliate their stinging 

 propensities, which I am inclined to think 

 climatic infiuence will lessen. 



While manipulating several hives of pure 

 Syrians lately, I was savagely attacked by 

 them, but having my knife in hand I cut a 

 piece of their honey-comb. Their propen- 

 sity for honey being so great they at once 

 ceased the attack and fiew to the honey, 

 when I was allowed to have my will while 

 they had theirs. I have more to say about 

 these Syrians, but wait till I have more data. 



To give a^vay a copy of " Honey as Food 

 and Medicine " to every one who buys a 

 package of honey, will sell almost any quan- 

 tity of it. 



1^~ We want one number each of the Bee 

 JonKNAL of August, 18GG— February, 1867. 



