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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Xhe Honey and the Gall. 



Wheu a man ain't got a cent, an' he's feeling 

 . kind o' blue. 

 An' the (.'louds hang- dark an' heavy, an' won't 



lettlie sunshinethrough. 

 Tt's a great thing, oh, mj- brethren, lor a feller 



just to lay 

 His hand upon your shoulder in a friendly sort 



o' way ! 



It makes a man feel curious; it makes the 



tear-drops start. 

 And you sort o' feel a flutter in the region of 



your heart. 

 You can't looli up and meet his eyes; you 



don't know what to say. 

 When his hand is on jour shoulder in a 



friendly sort o' way ! 



Oh. the world is a curious compound, with its 



honey and its gall. 

 With its cares and bitter crosses : but a good 



world after art. 

 And a goinl God must have made it— leastways. 



that's what I say 

 When a hand rests ou my shoulder in a 



friendly sort o' way ! 



—Atlanta Constitution. 



Sublime ! We were almost struck 

 dumb upon receiving the following letter 

 from a Western firm, dated Dec. 15. 

 1891 : 



At what price could you use some 

 "artificial honey comb"' in sections, 

 ready to be put in the hives, to be filled 

 and capped over by the bees '? 



The combs will be made of wax, 

 double or two sided. Cells fi of an inch 

 long, and he.xagon-shaped. The sections 

 will be about ^Hx-ifi, and will be put 

 up in white-wood 12-section cases, with 

 glass fronts. 



This manner will enable the bee- 

 keeper to produce more honey at a 

 much less cost than at the present time. 



We also expect to be prepared to 

 furnish " artificial comb honey '" in a 

 short time, both white and amber. I 

 would be glad to hear from you on the 

 above subject. 



Can it be possible tliat they take us 

 for adulterators, frauds, green-goods 

 men, or the like of that? 



We wrote them that if they hail any 

 "artificial honey-comb," or "artificial 

 comb-honey," we should like to see 

 samples of it ; that we had no evidence 

 that any such things were in existence, 

 etc. 



We shall see what will come in reply, 

 if anything. We really cannot imagine 

 why they wrote to us about it, andjiave 

 not yet been able to come to a conclusion 



as to whether they are deceivers, or are 

 being deceived. 



They say that they "expect to be 

 prepared to ftirnish artificial comb- 

 honey in a short time, both white and 

 amber." This shows that they are not 

 confident ! Are they furnishing money 

 to some sharper, who is deceiving them, 

 by promising to invent the "artificial 

 comb-honey " hi a short ihne — to enable 

 them to make fortunes? 



Xlie Meanest tactics that could 

 be employed are sometimes resorted to 

 by persons who are controlled by their 

 passions. Mr. G. W. Gish, of iSouth 

 IJend. Ind., writes as follows: 



I am troubled here by two fruit men, 

 who kill not only my bees, but those, 

 belonging to other persons. They hire 

 boys to stand at convenient places with 

 paddles and tweezers to kill all the bees 

 they can. In such i)laces the sidewalk 

 was almost black with dead bees. 



To thus interfere with the legitimate 

 business of any one is a crime, and 

 should be severely punished. Every 

 honorable person will condemn such 

 nefarious practices. 



Spraying' fruit trees in order to 

 destroy injurious insects which prey 

 upon the fruit is a matter which has 

 received lonsiderable attention among 

 fruit-growers. 



At first they sprayed the bloom with 

 London purple or Paris green, but more 

 lately with the Bordeaux mixture. This 

 spraying of the trees ivliile in bloom has 

 caused much trouble by the bees work- 

 ing on the blossoms, and being poisoned 

 thereby. Mr. John G. Smith, of New 

 Canton, Ills., lost 00 colonies from thaj, 

 cause, as was noted in the Bke Journai- 

 for April IG, 1891, on page 505. 



The bee-periodicals raised such a cry 

 of alarm that now cases are very few 

 where the spraying is done before the 

 formation of the fruit, for it has been 

 demonstrated that the curculio and cod- 

 ling moth work on the newly-formed 



