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T'H® MBdBmicsK mmM joisrieifMiu. 



Clover as tUe I^ational Flo^Ter. 



— Mr. R. E. Carter, of Mosherville, Mich., 

 TOtes for clover as the National Flower, and 

 sends us the following on the subject from 

 the Iowa State Register, which commends 

 clover for the National Flower by reason 

 of its utility, as well as beauty. It says ; 



Probably a greater number of the city 

 papers favor the golden-rod. To the deni- 

 zens of the city, in the fall of the year, 

 when enraptured over everything they see 

 in the rural districts, the golden-rod may be 

 a beauty. But to the practical farmer it is 

 simply a useless, nasty weed of no benefit 

 as food for stock, no valuable medicinal 

 properties; has no sweet scent, and only of 

 moderate beauty just before frost. But the 

 red clover is always sweet, beautiful, and 

 in bloom nearly all summer. There is no 

 flower more valuable to man. It produces 

 the richest pasture, the most nutritious 

 hay, and its blossoms produce the choicest 

 honey, and it is claimed they have superior 

 medicinal qualities. Its blossoms contain 

 two of our National colors, while the golden- 

 rod has neither. Clover is never a weed, 

 or a nuisance in any place, or under any 

 circumstances. It has only virtues, and no 

 drawbacks. It is of utility wherever found, 

 and in the world's material wealth it has 

 no superior. Let us have something sensi- 

 ble when adopting a National Flower. 



Col. IngersoU extols its excellences and 

 beauties in this grand rhapsody : 



A wonderful thing is clover. It means 

 honey and cream ; that is to say, industry 

 and contentment; that is to say, the happy 

 bees in perfumed fields, and at the cottage 

 gate old boss, the beautiful, chewing satis- 

 faction's cud, in that blessed twilight pause 

 that like a benediction falls between all toil 

 and sleep. This clover makes me dream of 

 happy hours, of childhood's rosy cheeks, of 

 dimpled babes, of wholesome, loving wives, 

 of honest men, of springs and brooks and 

 violets, and all there is of painless joy and 

 peaceful human life. A wonderful word is 

 clover. Drop the "c" and you have the 

 happiest of mankind. Take away the " c " 

 and " r " and you have the only thing that 

 makes a heaven of this dull and barren 

 earth. Cut ofl: the " r " alone and there re- 

 mains a warm, deceitful bud that sweetens 

 breath, and keeps the peace in countless 

 homes whose masters frequent clubs. After 

 all. Bottom was right; "Good hay, sweet 

 hay, hath no fellow." 



Cannot Cool tlie Bec-Cellar. 



Our bees were put into the cellar in No- 

 vember, the bottom-boards to the hives be- 

 ing left off, and the temperature has been 

 50 degrees and above, except once, by 

 leaving the window open, it went down to 

 48 degrees, and the bees have been very 

 quiet; but this morning the temperature is 

 58 degi-ees, and there is a little disposition 

 to be uneasy shown by some of the bees, 

 and it is so warm out-doors that I cannot 

 cool the cellar. It has rained steadily for 

 the last 24 hours, and the prospects now 

 are fair for several days of such weather. I 

 ■wish it would catch the " Grippe." 



A. B. Mason. 



Aubumdale, O., Jan. 2, 1889. 



Better still, we wish it would lose its 



grip. 



Adulterated Extracted Honey. 



Messrs. Clemons, Cloon& Co., honey deal- 

 ers of Kansas City, Mo., write as follows: 



Almost every number of the American 

 Bee Journal contains an article on adul- 

 terated comb honey. Every bee-keeper, as 

 well as as every honey dealer, knows that 

 there is no such thing as adulterated comb 

 honey ; on the other hand it is well known 

 that there is such a thing as adultered ex- 

 tracted honey, also that it is being sold 

 everyday, "represented as pure honey." It 

 is also known that it can be sold at a profit 

 and a price much cheaper than pure honey 

 can be profitably produced. 



If less time was spent in discussing an 

 impossibility, and a little more attention 

 paid to a subject that we know is a reality, 

 it might result in a great benefit to those in- 

 terested in honey. If there is no law to 

 stop the adulteration of honey, it is high 

 time some steps were taken in that direc- 

 tion by the bee-keepers. 



The Bee-Keepers' Convention that lately 

 met at Higginsville, Mo., started the ball to 

 rolling, by appointing a committee to in- 

 vestigate the matter. If all bee-keepers' 

 conventions would follow their example, it 

 would not be long before all adulterated 

 honey if made or sold at all, would have to 

 be stamped or labeled as " adulterated," 

 and sold as such ; but as it is, there is not 

 much encouragement for producing ex- 

 tracted honey, when it has to go to the 

 market and compete in price with glucose 

 honey; but if these glucose men are com- 

 pelled to label or stamp their mixture, just 

 what it is, they will soon find very little 

 encouragement for their business. 



We do not believe that much adulterated 

 honey can be found on the markets. The 

 price of the pure article is so loiv that it 

 kills the business of adulteration. When it 

 will not pay men to sophisticate, they will 

 not do it. We seriously object to a law be- 

 ing enacted like the oleomargarine law. It 

 simply legalizes an evil upon the payment 

 of a tax. The whole system is unreason- 

 able, unjust and pernicious from beginning 

 to end. Instead of crushing the Monster, 

 it feeds and pets him, so that it may do the 

 more damage. 



Silo and Silajje, by Prof. A. J.Cook, 

 of Agricultural College, Mich., is the title 

 of a pamphlet of 44 pages, just issued. It 

 contains a plain statement of the method 

 adopted and in successful operation at the 

 College. The Professfor says: "My silo 

 has been a surprising success, and in this 

 little brochure I shall tell in a plain, simple 

 way, how I gi'ow the corn, build my silo, 

 fill and cover it, and feed the silage." 

 Every farmer should read it. 



To open the Bee Journal and have 

 it lie flat, carefully fold over each crease 

 the opposite way to what it was when in 

 the mails. Then lay it out on a table or 

 desk, under a large book, and the leaves 

 will soon become straight. 



Doollttle on Queen-Rearing^. 



Queens can be reared in the upper stories 

 of hives used for extracted honey, where a 

 queen-excluding honey-board is used, which 

 are as good, if not superior, to Queens 

 reared by any other process ; and that, too, 

 while the old Queen is doing duty below, 

 just the same as though Queens were not 

 being reared above. This is a fact, though 

 it is not generally known. 



If you desire to know how this can be 

 done — how to have Queens fertilized in up- 

 per stories, while the old Queen is laying 

 below — how you may safely introduce any 

 Queen, at any time of the year when bees 

 cay fly — all about the different races of 

 bees — all about shipping Queens, queen- 

 cages, candy for queen-cages, etc. — all 

 about forming nuclei, multiplying or unit- 

 ing bees, or weak colonies, etc. ; or, in fact 

 everything about the queen-business which 

 you may want to know, send for"Doolit- 

 tle's Scientific Queen-Rearing;" a book of 

 170 pages, which is nicely bound in cloth, 

 and as interesting as any story. Price, 

 $1.00. 



An edition in strong paper covers is is- 

 sued for premiums. It will be mailed as a 

 present to any one who will send us two 

 new subscribers to either of our JonRNALS. 



Convention IVotices. 



Clii1>s of 5 for S4.00, to any addresses. 

 Ten for ?i7.50, if all are sent at one time. 



Xlie Apicnltiirist for January comes 

 to hand with a new cover and an "im- 

 proved make-up." It is printed in good 

 style, and is full of practical ideas and sug- 

 gestions. We wish it abundant success. 



t^" The spring meeting of tbe Northern Illinois 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, will meet at the residence 

 of D. A. Fuller, in Cherry Valley. Ills., on May lath, 

 1890. D. A. Fuller, Sec. 



t^~ The Ohio State Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held in Cleveland, O., on Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day. Feb. 19 and 20, 1890. 

 Miss Dema Bennett, Sec. and Tr«as., Bedford, O. 



tW The Northeastern Ohio. Northwestern Penn- 

 sylvania, and Western New York Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, will meet in joint session with the Ohio 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, in Cleveland, Con 

 Feb. 19 and 20, 1890. GEO. Spitler, Sec. 



tw The annual meetint; of the Colorado State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, wili be held in tbe Cham- 

 ber of Commerce building, in Denver, Colo., on the 

 third Monday in January. |H90, for the election of 

 officers and other business. Everybody is invited to 

 attend. E. MiLLESON, Pres. 



r^~ The Eastern New York Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, will meet in Convention. Jan. 2n and 21, 1890, in 

 Agricultural Hall, Albany, N. Y.. at 10 a.m. All in- 

 terested in bee-keeping are cordially invited to 

 attend. The Farmers' Institute is held at the same 

 place on Jan. 22 and 23, 1890. 



W. S. WARD, Sec, Fuller's Station, N. r. 



JW The 21st annual meeting of the New York 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in the 

 Court House at Rochester, N. Y.. on Feb. .5, 6, and 7 

 l>J9o. iledured rates will be given at hotels and on 

 all principal railroads. The programme and full 

 particulars will appear in due time. Each county 

 association is requested to send two or more dele- 

 gates. G. H. Knickerbocker. Sec. 



tW~ The twenty-third annual meeting of the Min- 

 nesota State Horticultural Society, in joint session 

 with the Minnesota Bee-Keepers' Association, will 

 be held in the Town Hall, at Excelsior, Minn., on 

 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Jan. 21. 

 22. 2;i, 24, 1890. The Hee-Keepers' Association will 

 occupy a portion of Friday morning for its second 

 annual meeting, and will ,liscuss questions pertain- 

 ing to bee-culture, as related to horticulture. For 

 further particulars, address Wm. Urie, Secretary of 

 the Minnesota Bee-Keepers' Association, Minneapo- 

 lis, Minn. 



tW The annual meeting of the Vermont State 

 Bee-Keepers* Association, will be held at Burling- 

 ton, Vt , on Jan. 21 and 22. 1890. Excellent hall ac- 

 commodations have been secured at the VanNess 

 house. The Central Vermont Railroad has granted 

 round-trip tickets from the following places: Rut- 

 land. Wiiite River Junction, Cambridge Junction, 

 Richford via St. Albans, Ticonderoga. and all inter- 

 mediate points, to Burlington and return for fare 

 oneway. A good meeting is expected, and all are 

 invited. For further information and programmes, 

 apply to the Secretary. 



J. H. Lakkabee. Larrabee'3 Point Vt. 



