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EDITOR. 



M mi, July 19, 1890, No. 29, 



The L,eS!ion of tlie Hour is : Next 

 season order your supplies for tLe apiary 

 early, and have them on hand, ready for 

 use, long before they are needed. 



Il®~ E. L. Pratt, of Marlboro, Mass., 

 writes: "The American" Bee Journal 

 turns in more orders than any other bee- 

 paper. We have the largest honey-flow 

 ever seen here." 



iW The annual circular of G. K. Hub- 

 bard, of Fort Wayne, Ind., is on our desk. 

 It contains 16 pages, and presents a nice 

 appearance. 



'SiW E. L. Pratt is writing a book to be 

 entitled, "My New Method of Securing 

 Fancy Comb and Extracted Honey ; and 

 Queen Rearing." It wil' probably be born 

 ere the commencement of another honey 

 season. 



Close ■iXlrsiclinK' is thus commented 

 upon by a writiT in the Runil CanaiUun : 



July is the month when many bees are 

 wmter-killed. This may appear strange, 

 but not so. With many the end of July 

 brings the end of the honey season. Bee- 

 keepers will take too much honey from 

 their bees, and in winter they perish ; this 

 is careless and unwise. 



Leave plenty in the combs ; if you can, 

 set aside some combs, and if you find later 

 that you do not require it, there is no difli 

 culty in extracting it ; but it is a difficult, 

 expensive, and tedious work to replace it 

 in the combs after removing it. 



You might as well work your horse to 

 death, set a hen under more eggs than she 

 can cover, and the like, as to extract too 

 closely, and allow your bees to perish near 

 spring for want of stores. Remember this, 

 and your winter losses will decrease. 



R. F. Holtermann, of Romney, Ont., 

 writes us the following item, to correct a 

 mistake that has been made by some. He 

 says : 



I have, in several places, seen it stated 

 that I am Secretary of the Ontario Bee- 

 Keepers' Association. It should have been 

 cx-Secretanj. I resigned that position, 

 and for a number of years our good frieud 

 Wm. Couse, of Streetsville, has filled the 

 position ; and so well has he filled it, that I 

 believe no one has ever thought of a 

 change.— R. F. Holtermann. 



Frank I>eslie's Illustrated News- 

 paper" for the week ending July 13, has a 

 striking double-page picture of the House, 

 Ways and Means Committee which formu- 

 lated the McKinley Tariflf Bill, and it gives, 

 in connection therewith, an article from 

 the pen of Prof. Van Buren Deuslow, on 

 the proposed tariff in South America. Prof. 

 Denslow joins issue very decidedly with 

 the scheme proposed by Secretary Blaine, 

 and his article is sure to attract a large 

 measure of public attention. 



Our Illustrated Home Journal 



IS thus highly complimented by E. F 

 Nason, Editor and Publisher of "The Illus- 

 trated Companion," of New York City : 



TnrBv f.' ^^^ I'^^l ^^^ Illustrated Home 

 JOURN.VL IS the best and most readable 

 magazme, at the price, that we have 



Td °o^,?T. ^r^''^^'' ' ^''•^ when peopTI 

 find out that you publish such a really 

 good magazme, I am sure that your sub 

 scription list will increase. 



We club the Illustrated Home Journai 

 (price .$1.00) with the American Bee Jour- 

 nal for one year for only *1.60. You can- 

 not afford to do without either- the one as 

 an aid to practical bee-keeping, and the 

 other as an invaluable literary and home 

 periodical for the whole family 



Our Politest Row is given to the 

 "Api"for complimentary words on page 

 105 of the July number. How much 

 pleasanter is this, than to be pursuing one 

 another with unkind and jealous remarks. 

 There is plenty of room for all— and the 

 reading apiarists will patronize those 

 periodicals which are the most worthy of 

 their patronage and esteem. The Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal is now prospering more 

 than ever before, and hopes all other bee- 

 periodicals are similarly situated. 



Xlie Proceedings of the Missouri 

 State Bee-Keepers' Convention, held at 

 Marshall, Mo., on April 16 and 17, 1890, 

 are published in a neat pamphlet form, 

 making 8 pages of essays and discussions. 

 We presume that copies of it can be had 

 by addressing the Secretary of the Asso- 

 ciation—Mr. J. W. Rouse, of Santa Fe, Mo. 



Supply Dealers who desire to handle 



a good Bee-Veil, should write for our dozen 



I rates on the"Globe" Bee-Veils, to sell again. 



Anollivr Wiley l»up<; has been 



beard from— and this time from that pro- 

 gressive and exemplary State known a,s 

 Iowa. Mr. O. S. Comptnn, of Glenwood, 

 Mich., on July 7, 1890, wrote as follows, 

 regarding a conversation with a resi<lent of 

 Sac City, la., about "artificial comb honey :" 



Here is another Wiley dupe— his name i>. 

 A. Baxter, of Sac City, Iowa. He declared 

 that W. Cheney, of that town, has a large 

 factory devoted to the production of arti- 

 ficial comb honey ; that he had witnessed 

 the process with his own eyes ; that Cheney 

 shipped all bis honey to a commission man 

 in Chicago, and got 15 cents per pound, 

 while genuine bees' honey sold for 18 cents;, 

 and that I had never been " around much " 

 if I had never seen artificial honey I 

 offered him -$1,000 for a sample crate, but 

 he said I could get a crate by sendiug a 

 few dollars to Cheney. I wrote to W. 

 Cheney, Sac City, Iowa, and asked him to- 

 name a price on a sample, if he had such, 

 and enclosed find his reply to the same 



This little dialogue took place at Goshen, 

 Ind., on May 20, 1890, while waiting to 

 take a train for home. How I did wish for 

 a reward card, such as Mr. Root sends out ! 



O. S. COMI'TON. 



In reply to Mr. Compton's letter, Mr. 

 Cheney wrote thus : 



I have just had the pleasure of receiving 

 your letter, and in reply I will say that il 

 A. Baxter told you what you say he did, 

 he told you a lie ! There is no factory here 

 to make artificial comb honey, and no such 

 honey is on the market. I am not the 

 manager of any such concern ; I have 1 23 

 colonies of bees in my home apiary, and 

 have a lot more out on shares, and sell 

 pure honey. Wesley Chenet. 



In the above we have another illustra- 

 tion of the manner in which pure fabrica- 

 tions are proven to be such ; and it also- 

 shows that those who pretend to any 

 knowledge of the art of honey production, 

 (unless they be actual bee-keepers) know 

 nothing about that which they presume to- 

 inform. 



The only rational way to counteract such 

 slanders of our sweet product, is to cducale 

 the people on the subject. To do that, 

 there is no better method than by gener- 

 ously distributing the "Honey Almanacs " 

 in every neighborhood throughout the 

 country, and even among city people, whom 

 bee-keepers desire to secure as regular 

 customers. Try it, and see for yourself the 

 great value of the Almanacs to those who 

 judiciously use them. Prices on page 494. 



Mees in a Cliurck.j^pire In the 



new Epwortli HcriiUl for July 12, 1890, 

 published here in Chicago, we find the fol- 

 lowing account of a swarm of bees whose 

 aspirations were unusually high, though 

 bees have frequently been known to put on 

 "pious appearances," which is quite appro- 

 priate when the sweetness of their labors 

 is considered. Here is the item referred to : 

 In New Portland, Maine, a swarm of 

 bees, evidently tired of being disturbed 

 and robbed of their honey, have sought 

 refuge in the top of a church-spire the 

 hollow space of which they are filling with 

 sweets for their own benefit. Nobody can 

 climb the steeple, and, consequently those 

 sagacious bees will no longer be plundered. 



