THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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The third evil— too .spreat heat in the liive, 

 — may be easily overcome. We have only 

 to arrange so that our hives may be shaded 

 during the heat of the day. Tliis should 

 never be neglected. I have often set a full 

 cluster of bees vigorously at work, simply 

 by placing a board a foot or more above the 

 hive, thus tempering tlie intense heat of the 

 interior. Let no apiarist longer persist in 

 the habit of leaving liis bees unprotected. 

 Let mercy as well as profit urge him, either 

 by use of friendly tree, evergreen, grape- 

 vine, or boards, to see that his hives are 

 shaded from 9 to 4 o'clock, especially as the 

 heated days of May and June send aslant 

 their scorching rays. 



The remedy for the fourth trouble — 

 queenless colonies — has already been an- 

 swered, while speaking of queens. 



The last point to be urged is to always 

 keep our colonies gushing full of bees. It 

 is with bees in a colony like children in a 

 home. - You can't have too many. Then 

 robbing is unknown, the bee-moth impotent 

 to do harm, while the gathering of stores is 

 so rapid as- to make tiie apiarist rejoice with 

 with exceeding joy. To secure populous 

 colonies, we have only to follow the advice 

 already given, and suiiplement this course 

 by preventing swarming, or at least cutting 

 short after our second swarms. The great- 

 est argument in favor of artificial colonies 

 (and is a powerful one) is, that we may thus 

 keep all our colonies strong. 



Were I asked to give the golden rule for 

 bee-keepers, I would answer. Keep the 

 colonies strong. A. J. Cook. 



Our Interests. 



Wm. J. Andrews. i)resident of the Nation- 

 al Society, asks: " If there are any opposed 

 to a national organization why?" 



1, for one, am so opposed. First, because 

 of the expense of reaching its location. 

 Second, because it is tending to forward tiie 

 over-production of honey, and working 

 against the interests of the solid back bone 

 of the pursuit, viz., tliose who produce for 

 their income. Such conventions, no doubt, 

 are beneficial to the supply dealex'S, and I 

 do not blame that fraternity for trying to 

 blow the breath of life into them. Such a 

 course is your privilege, and perhaps a duty 

 to your family, but my duty is different. 



1 claim that honey is being greatly over- 

 produced, .and that the over-production of 

 any article is not only bad for tlie producers 

 but tor the country also. But for argument 

 sake, 1 will suppose that such are working 

 for the benefit of tlieir country, and against 

 their own interests. Now 1 claim that the 

 idea tiiat a cliild owes its parents an ever- 

 lasting debt for its existence and care, and 

 that the citizen owes his country that same 

 debt, is utterly false. We have three chil- 

 dren who came into our family and our 

 country, without their consent or even be- 

 ing consulted in regard to the matter. Now 

 we owe them as good care, education and 

 general bringing up as we can possibly 

 Destow upon them. Their country owes 

 them a debt she often I'efuses to pay, viz., 

 an equal cliance with their contemporaries, 

 and no more. If my family should come to 

 want, the world is cold, and the poor-master 

 says "for shame; he was a theorist, and 

 never had an eye on the main chance." 



For tlie American Bee Journal, i 



The honey producers of this country 

 want a publication devoted exclusively to 

 their interests. They also need economical 

 and select county or sectional meetings, 

 and these, I predict, they are going to have. 



I say honey is now over-produced. First, 

 honey will always remain a luxury, at any 

 price which will pay for production. Mark 

 this: A party to wliom I sold .112 worth of 

 honey in glass jars, says, " We cannot 

 handle any more honey at any price, our 

 agents find it so plenty everywhere they 

 otter it." The same cause has driven C. O. 

 Perrine out of the honey market, but see 

 how he handles maple and cane sugar 

 syrups. I am inclined to be more charita- 

 ble than my opponents and give them the 

 credit for honesty; for I verily believe that 

 these speculative, amateur and supply-vend- 

 ing bee-keepers do not see the facts in the 

 case and where bee-keeping is tending. 



They are sure to tell us about Adam 

 Grimm. If I could have Adam Grinnu's 

 chances I would bet on a competence in 5 

 years. Adam Grimm lived and labored in 

 the right time. lie had "war prices" for 

 his honey. He had lots of bees (as I have 

 now) when these prices began. He had an 

 extractor when bee-keepers had the benefit 

 of it, instead of the consumer. Through 

 good luck, or good management, he winter- 

 ed his bees when ours died, and sold to us 

 at .$12 to $15 per colony. When we must 

 have yellow bees, again he came to the 

 rescue at $5 to .$8 each (not %l each). Adam 

 Grimm was a strict economist; in other 

 words a smart financier, and such men often 

 make five times their pile in the same time 

 at almost all kinds of businesses. Please, 

 trumpeters, let Mr. Grimm rest in peace. 



A. I. Root was pleased to help the Saranac 

 man "churn" me, because I plead with bee- 

 keepers not to put poor extracted-before-un- 

 capped honey on the market. Now, see 

 how he rides my horse. He says, " 1 feel 

 like being rash enough to say I will never 

 extract any more honey until every bit of 

 it has been sealed ; and if keeping it in the 

 hive several weeks more will prevent its 

 candying entirely, don't know but we shall 

 do that too." 



Why don't his Christian spirit feel like 

 lifting some of the load he has heaped on 

 me by merely saying, " May be Heddon and 

 others are right about ripe honey?" We 

 said long ago that time would verify all 

 the predictions of to-day. Wlien the de- 

 mand for theoretical hobbies and chicken- 

 fixing supplies is over, A. I. lioot will be 

 found, like Gallup, dealing out Watt's pills, 

 or some other middle man-ism ! Mark this 

 also ! 



When you meet a man who loves you at 

 first sight, look out for iiini. Use your 

 reason. You who really believe bee-keep- 

 ing is a big tliing,remember where the dollar 

 store business landed, and try and keep it 

 big as long as you can. If you have a good 

 locality for forage, or a high-toned home 

 market, write it up just as soon as possible, 

 so cheap-honey fellows can know where to 

 ship. Every lousiness, like Gallup's pills, 

 seeks its level. 



Mr. Andrews, like many others, says: 

 " Bee-culture needs such meetings." I 

 don't know what bee-culture does need. I 

 don't know where it lives. Never heard it 

 sigh or laugh ! Don't think it needs any- 

 thing, but bee-culturists need money as 

 much as any class living, and while Bro. A. 



