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EDITOR. 



Vol. mi, Not. 22, 1890. No. 41 



No rustling leaves upon the trees, 

 No zephyrs, and no pleasant breeze. 

 No birds, no flowers, no honey-bees — 

 November. 



Use AVhite Clover Honey 



instead of sugar, when you put up fruit, 

 make apple-butter, preserves, etc., and you 

 will find that it is superior to granulated 

 sugar for that purpose. 



Mlictiigan is not to be outdone for a 

 honey crop in the past poor season. The 

 .Saginnwian stands sponsor for this item : 

 "John Schneider, a farmer living in Iosco 

 county, got 13,000 pounds of honey this 

 year from 300 colonies of bees. He Sold 

 5,000 pounds in one shipment t« Ohio, and 

 received 12 cents per pound for it, and 

 freight paid." 



Hon. R. I*. Taylor, the retiring 

 President of the North American Bee- 

 Keeper.s' Association, has just been re- 

 elected to the Senate of the State of 

 Michigan. His great popularity secured 

 for him that position, even when every 

 other Republican candidate for Senator in 

 that State was defeated. We roomed with 

 him at the hotel in Keokuk, and iuciden 

 tally inquired how, being a candidate, he 

 could leave home on the eve of the election. 

 He replied that the matter gave him no 

 uneasiness whatever. 



As a presiding officer he was dignified 

 and courteous, and kept excellent order. 



The pursuit is to be congratulated upon 

 having such a practical apiarist and able 

 representative in the Michigan Senate. No 

 unfavorable legislation is to be feared in 

 that State, while he is there to guard the 

 •interests of apiculture. 



Imitation Honey-Comb.— Mr. S. 



J. Youngman, of Lakeview, Mich., has 

 sent us an item from the Detroit Free Press 

 of Sept. 20, 1890, which stated that "an 

 ingenious individual on Urand River 

 avenue (Detroit) is engaged in making so 

 perfect an imitation of honey-comb that 

 the bees themselves are deceived by it, and 

 eat it in winter." 



The Free Press, of course, refers to E. B. 

 Weed, who has been for years trying to 

 make, of pure beeswax, full-depth cells of 

 honey-comb, to be used in place of comb- 

 foundation by bee-keepers, and we are 

 glad to notice that Mr. Weed has com- 

 menced a libel-suit against the Free Press 

 for«10,000. 



These scribblers for the daily papers 

 make consummate nonsense of things when 

 they undertake to write on subjects con- 

 nected with apiculture ! The idea of bees 

 eating comb in winter ! ! 



Mr. Weed's invention is simply a sort of 

 comb-foundation with deep cells, but on 

 account of the extreme delicateness of the 

 comb, and the care necessary to protect it 

 in transportation, we fear it will never be 

 of any practical value to apiarists — but 

 time will tell. 



Of oce thing, however, we may be 

 assured — it will confuse the public, and 

 give some slight confirmation to the silly 

 stories about " the manufacture of comb- 

 honey," which have been going the rounds 

 of the press. While it is of no practical 

 use to bee-keepers, its announcement is a 

 positive damage to the fraternity 1 



1664 will be the number of pages in the 



American Bee Journai, next year— just 

 double the number that it now contains — 

 and all for one dollar, Bro. Hutchinson, 

 of the Review, remarks as follows about it, 

 in a recent number : 



We are pleased to note that with the 

 beginning of the new year the Americas 

 Bee Jour.v.il is to be changed to a two- 

 column, thirty-two page paper ; the same 

 size that it was when a monthly. We think 

 this the most desirable size for a magazine. 



In this connection we might mention 

 that the price of the Illustrated Home 

 Journal has been reduced to only fifty 

 cents. It is clubbed with the American 

 Bee Journal for only $1.35. This lower- 

 ing of the price is done to secure an im- 

 mense circulation which will command a 

 a large advertising patronage. 



Kanny Field's Poultry |Book is 

 given for one new subscriber to the Home 

 Journal, for a year, when accompanied 

 with 60 cents to pay the subscription price 

 of the same. By an oversight the;| printer 

 put that notice on page 750 of the Bee 

 Journal, omitting the word "Home" 

 before Journal, looking as though it 

 referred to the Bee Journal. The error is 

 manifest. 



We give it for a new yearly subscriber 

 for the Bee Journal, when accompanied 

 with -51,00. The book alone costs 25 cents. 



Next Year's Honey Crop.— 



According to the views of Prof. Cook, as 

 expressed in his essay, read at the Keokuk 

 Convention (see page 777), the prospect 

 for a good honey crop in 1891 is excellent. 

 A correspondent in the Homestead quite 

 agrees with Prof. Cook, and gives the fol- 

 lowing points as "favorable indications" 

 for prosperity for bee-keepers next year. 

 He says : 



The excessive June rains this season gave 

 the weeds the start in that month that were 

 left in abundance in the corn-fields, es- 

 pecially plenty of heart's-ease, and that, 

 together with buckwheat, forms the best 

 Fall bee-pasturage. 



The long drouth following the June rains 

 injured the linden honey-flow, and stopped 

 the breeding of bees, and caused them to 

 dwindle in numbers, until, when Fall 

 arrived, with a few cool, early nights, and 

 some Fall rains, that put the buckwheat 

 and heart's-ease at their best; bees then, 

 with an instinctive energy only known to 

 them, filled their hives with brood and 

 honey so quickly that their work seemed 

 like magic. Young bees, full of vigor, win- 

 ter best. The old bees, in the sudden at- 

 tempt to make the best of a bad season for 

 the bee-business, wore out their wings and 

 fell by the wayside. As a result, the hives 

 are full of young bees. 



Since farming is developing more in the 

 line of grass, especially clovers, there will 

 be an increase of pasturage, and since bees 

 have been so thoroughly Italianized, the 

 widespread sowing of clovers will extend 

 pasturage from linden to Fall wild-flower 

 season. 



All these facts point to a successful honey 

 year in 1891. So do not neglect your bees. 

 Take care of them now, and have some- 

 thing more than empty hives in the Spring. 



" Canadians are not Americans," 

 said Mr. Clarke at the Keokuk Convention. 

 What are they then ? Those whose home 

 is located anywhere on this whole Conti- 

 nent, are Americans — that, surely, includes 

 Canada ! How silly it would be to claim 

 that Englishmen were not Europeans ! or 

 that Egyptians were not Africans 1 It is 

 equally absurd to claim that Canadians are 

 not Americans ! We want Bro. Clarke to 

 give up that " foolish notion." 



Of course it is very flattering to those 

 who live in the United States — to even 

 intimate that they are the only Americans ! 

 But as it is not true, they will cheerfully 

 divide the honor with the inhabitants of 

 other parts of this great Continent ! 



In the language of Gerald Massey, each 



on this side of the line, will reply to Bro. 



Clarke's couplet, in the same words — 



"Give me vour hand— you shall, you must— 

 1 love you as a brother !" 



for we are of the same stock ; we speak the 

 same language, we live on the same Conti- 

 nent, and heartily congratulate one 

 another upon the proud distinction of being 

 rightly caUed— AMERICANS ! 



Xliose ^Vlio Have any honey to 

 dispose of should use the Honey Almanac 

 as a salesman. We have a few left for this 

 year, and offer them at half price. See 

 page 783 of this paper. 



