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EDITOR. 



Vol. mi, AllE. 23, 1890, Nfl. 34. 



Bee-Keepers' Uay at the Detroit 

 Fair and Exposition is to be on Friday, 

 Aug. 29, 1890. As first suggested by 

 friend Hutchinson, it was to have been on 

 Tuesday of the next week, but this has 

 been deemed too late by those who have 

 the matter in charge, and now it is settled 

 for Friday. We hope to meet our many 

 friends and have a grand re-union on Fri- 

 day, the 39th inst. 



J^t»t Honey only, but the crops gen- 

 erally are not prospering. The cause is the 

 abnormally high temperature, with an in- 

 sufficient rainfall. One factor in the 

 blighting of vegetation has evidently been 

 the hot winds that have scorched it, from 

 one end of the continent to the other. 

 These have also dried up the nectar so that 

 nothing was left for the the bees to gather. 

 The honey crop is therefore a very light 

 one, and the prices must go up. 



<]ioI<Ien-Rod — Mrs. B. A. Manley, of 

 Milo, Iowa, on Aug. 11, 1890, sent us a 

 iiower, requesting us to give its correct 

 name. It is soUdaffo —commonly called 

 golden-rod— and usually gives abundance 

 of honey. It blooms early in August, and 

 the bees work on its yellow plumes until 

 frost and cold weather confine them to 

 their hives. It yields amber-colered honey 

 Of excellent flavor. 



A Soiilli Carolina I>arky recently 

 hitched his mule, with a bale of hay on its 

 back, near a neighbor's bees, which were 

 about to swarm. The bees came forth, and 

 settled on the bale of hay, after which the 

 Darky drove the mule home, and hived 

 the swarm of bees. 



'I'liose Horrid Ilecs*. — Under this 

 beading, the Ncivs of Miami, Mo., on July 

 19, 1890, accused the bees of that city in 

 the following bombastic way : 



Now that the first fruits are beginning to 

 ripen, the citizens of Miami are beginning 

 to find out how very trouVilesoine and an- 

 noying the bees are, to say nothing of the 

 damage the little pets can do the fruit. 



When the first warm days of spring came, 

 and the bees cames out in numbers, we 

 then predicted that they would prove to be 

 a nuisance, and we have no reason to 

 change our opinion. 



They not only destroy the fruit, sting old 

 and young alike, but the housewife who 

 takes her preserving kettle to the porch, or 

 yard, is eompelled to divide her time be- 

 tween fighting the bees and attending to 

 her preserves. 



Our grocery merchants are also greatly 

 troubled by the pests that swarm in the 

 cellar and upon the fruit they have ex- 

 posed for sale. 



Again, we say, the bees are a 7iitisanee ; 

 and further say, that it is a shame that so 

 many people should be made to suS^er in- 

 convenience and losses for the benefit; of 

 so few. 



The City Council should take immediate 

 steps to have the nuisance abated, and if 

 they have any doubts about what the peo- 

 ple think of it, they have only to ask, and 

 they will find that nearly every citizen be- 

 lieves as we do, especially the ladies. Do 

 not wait until greater damage is done, but 

 act now. 



All this is aimed at one of our lady bee- 

 keepers, who resides there- Mrs. J. M. Null, 

 who is a member of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Union. 



The lady wrote to the Manager of the 

 Union that the editor of the News (who is 

 also the Mayor of the city), is trying to 

 array her neighbors against the bees out of 

 "pure meanness," and without the least 

 provocation — there being no complaint 

 from any one of the bees being trouble- 

 some. 



The Union has taken steps to defend the 

 bees and their lady bee-keeper, and will 

 see to it that ninlice and meanness shall not 

 prevail. 



Are yon Ooing- to the Fair ? If so, 

 will you kindlj' send to this ofiice and get a 

 few samples of the Bee Joukxai., and give 

 them out to your friends there, and get up 

 a club i We will send them to you with 

 pleasure. 



Fee«l tlie IJees where they have no 

 honey, and none is to be obtained by the 

 bees in the fields. Do not let the bees 

 starve just because they are temporarily 

 out of honey. Look ahead, and make pro- 

 vision for the good times yet to come. 



Xlie jfall Crop"ot Honey is yet 



an unknbwn quantity, but the prospects 

 now are'that it may be considerable of a 

 crop. Some of the best fall crops of phoney 

 we ever heard of followed a dry summer. 



Honey ITIine ! — A correspondent asks 

 about a wonderful " Mine of Honey " found 

 in Kentucky, thus : 



The bees are on a strike. They will not 

 gather any more honey then wiU feed them 

 this winter. The following is clipped from 

 a Chicago paper : 



" A wellburer named Starks has drilled 

 a three-inch hole into a cliff on the Cumber- 

 land river, near Franklin, Ky., and at the 

 depth of 85 feet struck a mine of honey. 

 Since the strike was made, tons of the 

 sweet have been pumped out and shipped 

 to Louisville." 



This explains the matter clearly ; the 

 bees cannot compete with that way of get- 

 ting honey. If that is not stopped, it will 

 ruin the business entirely. — H. T. Apple- 

 gate, Scotch Grove, Iowa. 



The papers now-a-days are full of such 

 items about honey in the rocks, etc., but this 

 beats them all. Honey found at the depth 

 of 85 feet Ijelow the surface and enclosed 

 in a solid rock ! ! Wonderful ! What kind 

 of bees was it that gathered the honey ? 

 Where did they get the honey — without 

 plants, trees or shrubs ? Prodigious yarn ! 

 Humbug ! Lies ! 



It should make the newspaper scribblers 

 blush to write such foolish sensational 

 stories, expecting any one to believe them. 



Sii^de the Hives if the sun shines 

 on thejm intensely hot. Unless this is done 

 the combs may melt down. 



n'ind-Ureaks for the Apiary. — 



An exchange contains the following para- 

 graph about constructing wind-breaks for 

 bees in winter : 



Wind-breaks around the bees during 

 winter are very beneficial, and it will pay 

 well to erect high board-fences for this 

 purpose. These may be temporary, and 

 may be removed in the spring. We have 

 known farmers who keep a few colonies 

 who would move their bees and set them 

 against some biiilding when winter came, 

 to protect them from the cold wind. This 

 won't do at all. The bees must not be 

 moved to a new location, for on the first 

 warm day they come out they will go back 

 to the old place and become lost, and never 

 find their hives again ; thus the colonies 

 are badly weakened. Fix them up where 

 they stand, and never move them at such 

 a time unless you place them in the cellar 

 or something of that kind. Never wait 

 until cold weather before fixing up the 

 bees. 



In England the honey crop is a fail- 

 ure, but from just the opposite cause of its 

 failure in America. Here it was hot and 

 dry. There the sun refused to shine, and 

 rain has been incessant. In our case the 

 sun dried up the nectar. In England, the 

 rains washed out what little there was. 



Xrial Snhscribers. — In order to get 

 as many as possible to read the American 

 Bee Journal, we will take Trial Subscrib- 

 ers from the time the subscription is 

 received until the end of 1890 for 25 cents 

 each. Or for any one sending us $1.00 for 

 1891, we will give the numbers for this 

 year /rec from the time the subscription is 

 received at this office — so the sooner they 

 subscribe the more they wiU get for the 

 money. 



