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XIIOMAS 6. IVE^V91AI«, 



EDITOR. 



inv. Jnne 1,1889, No, 22, 



" EiCt old and young unite 

 On faithful hearts to write 



Firm loyalty. 

 In grateful mem'ry keep 

 Heroes in soldier sleep 

 On land, or in the deep, 



For liberty." 



■\Ve liad a short but enjoyable visit from 

 Mr. J. E. Pond, of North Attleboro, Mass., 

 last week. He was^n his way home from 

 Minnesota, where he had been, for a few 

 days, on professional business. 



We Regret to learn that Mr. W. W. 

 Gary, of Coleraine, Mass., is unable to at- 

 tend to business, having been sick for some 

 time. This information comes from his 

 good wife. We hope for a speedy recovery, 

 and a safe return to his usual good heath. 



Memorial Day has come again and 

 passed into history. To decorate the graves 

 of the patriotic dead with flowers, once a 

 year, is a fitting tribute to their memory, 

 and should receive that hallowed tenderness 

 at the hands of every patriotic citizen. 



Tl»e Ilee-Keepers* Pofket Com- 

 Itanion is the title of a little book of 32 

 pages, with thick covers, just issued by the 

 Crown Bee Company, Brighton, England. 

 Besides a monthly calendar, it contains 

 many interesting items of instruction for 

 bee-keepers. The arrangement of the book, 

 and the instructions are given by Mr. S. 

 Simmins, the manager of the company, with 

 whom our readers are familiar, as he is the 

 author of the book entitled, " A Modern 

 Bee-Farm, and its Economic Management." 



II is >ot XriK- that honey in its purity 

 is so scarce as some try to make out. The 

 Sanitary Em, a paper published in New 

 York, was sent to us sometime since by one 

 of our readers, with an article marked, 

 which, after stating tliat honey was an ex- 

 cellent remedy for many diseases, preserv- 

 ing fruit, etc., went on to say this : 



The difficulty is to get honey, for love or 

 money. It is almost useless to look for it 

 outside of the native comb ; and since the 

 comb has begun to be made artiflcially to 

 save the bees the trouble,there is no security 

 that artiticial honey nf glucose and sugar, 

 with a little bitter almond flavoring, may 

 not take the rest of the business out of the 

 mouths ot these insects. 



It is said that bee-keepers want a law 

 similar in effect to that on the sale of oleo- 

 margarine. The niaiuifacturers ot artificial 

 honey should be obliireil to stamp their pro- 

 duct so that the public will not be deceived. 



No ! No ! The Sanitary Era is informed 

 that bee-keepers do not want any law simi- 

 lar to the oleomargarine law. That law 

 recognizes and legalizes an abomination, 

 and would do the same with " artiticial 

 honey," if such a law were enacted. 



Adulteration should be frowned down — 

 not legalized ! It should be crushed out of 

 existence— not made respectable ! 



But the statement made by the Sanitary 

 Era, that it is difficult to get pure honey 

 "for love or money," is a glaring untruth. 

 It can be obtained in all its virgin purity in 

 almost any quantity, on a few day's notice, 

 either at this office, or of any bee-keeper or 

 honest honey dealer. 



This is but another version of the Wiley 

 lie. Comb is not made artificially to be 

 filled with glucose and sold for honey ! No, 

 sir. Weed, in Detroit, tried to bolster up 

 Wiley's lie by a poor substitute for comb, 

 but it is safe to say that comb has never yet 

 been made artificially, and we do not think 

 it ever will be. 



The Sanitary Era has been " sold " by the 

 ever-flying falsehood, and now should give 

 place in its columns to the truth— and thus 

 counteract, as far as possible, its evil effects. 

 If it is fair, and had an honest intention in 

 writing as it did,it will gladly tell its readers 

 the truth of the matter. We shall easily 

 measure its stature by its action. 



Xiie First IViiite CIoveriBlooni. 



—Allen Latham, of Cambridge, Mass., on 

 May 18, 18S9, wrote as follows : 



I send the first Mossms of white clover 

 that I have seen this spring. They are 

 good, healthy blossoms, and if they fulfil 

 their promise, there will be a great honey 

 year in this State. I never saw the clover 

 more promising, nor the bees in better con- 

 dition. 



The blossoms came duly, and promise 

 well for a good honey crop, if other condi- 

 tions are favorable. The West greets the 

 East upon its prosjiect, and hopes for a large 

 harvest for the whole country— East, West, 

 North and South. 



" Tliis is the first quarter of the honey- 

 moon,"' remarked Jinks as he handed his 

 bride twenty-five cents.— Exchange. 



Jor<Iun Springs, Va., is a famous 

 watering place, and the hotel is kept by our 

 friend E. C. Jordan. Mr. Wellington, who 

 has just gone down there from East Sagi- 

 naw, Mich., writes thus : 



I have just spent nearlv an entire day in 

 the apiary of Mr. E. 0. Jordan, who has a 

 fine lot ot bees in a splendid location. I 

 arrived here on the morning of May 10, and 

 found Mr. Jordan suffering greatly from a 

 badly swollen right hand. Two or three 

 days before he had been bitten by a squirrel, 

 and the day that I came he was out ; since 

 then he has been confined to his bed, suffer- 

 ing intensely ; and although he has been 

 kept under the influence of opiates, he has 

 gotten but little rest, and has taken hardly 

 any nourishment for the past five days. 



To-day (May 15) the attending physician 

 lanced the hand, and predicted great relief ; 

 hut seven or eight hours has passed, and the 

 relief has not come. The prospect now is 

 that Mr. Jordan may lose his hand. 



Mrs. Jordan, a most estimable lady, has 

 been constantly at her husband's bedside, 

 and is nearly worn out. Although the family 

 have been so greatly affiicted since I have 

 been here, I have been most royally enter- 

 tained. They are the kindest and most 

 hospitable people I have ever met. 



I have not been in this locality long 

 enough to form much of an idea about the 

 country, hut what I have seen I like very 

 much. Bees seem to do well here. 



Later news, through Mr. J. 11. Welling- 

 ton, informs us that, on May 23, Mr. Jordan 

 was a little better, but not out of danger. 

 That baneful disease, erysipelas, has com- 

 plicated matters by its presence— and, worse 

 still, the strain on the nerves ot his devoted 

 wife and faithful nurse, has been too much, 

 and she is now confined to her bed by a 

 severe attack of neuralgia. We deeply 

 sympathize with these affiicted ones, and 

 hope for speedy restoration to health. 



JTiiilsre W. H. Andretrs, ot Mo- 



Kinney, Texas, one of the best apiarists of 

 the South, delivered four lectures on bee- 

 keeping before the Texas Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, at its late meeting at Greenville, 

 Texas. The lectures covered every point in 

 southern bee-keeping. B. F. Carroll, the 

 chairman of the committee on programme, 

 says : " It is believed by this committee 

 that more light has gone out from its meet- 

 ings than from any like body in America." 

 That is saying considerable, but it may come 

 pretty near the truth, "for a' that, and a' 

 that." 



The Judge will no doubt formulate his 

 ideas, and give them to the public before 

 long. 



Red /Inis are sometimes very trouble- 

 some, and a subscriber wants to know how 

 to get rid of them. This can be done after 

 finding their nests by sprinkling powdered 

 borax around it, and when a rain comes, it 

 will be carried down into the nest, and they 

 will then remove to new quarters to get rid 

 of the soapy borax. 



Xlie Rev. <jJeorKe Raynor, one of 



the most eminent English bee-keepers, died 

 on May 3, 1SS9, aged TO years. The cause of 

 his death was, angina pectoris. 



