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THOS. G.NKWMAN ^.SON, 



CHICAGO. IL.L. 



XIIOIflAS «i. I«EYV91AIV, 



EDITOR. 



Voiny. Sept. 21, 1889. No. 38, 



DITORIML MMEm€S, 



Xlie Pertbrations in metal sheets 

 that will admit workers and exclude queens 

 should be five thirty-seconds of an inch. 

 This will answer a question by John 

 Blakely, and others. 



The Hall County Fair will be held 

 at Grand Island, Nebr., on Tuesday, 

 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 24, 

 2.5, 26 and 27, 1S89. Louis Von Wasmer is 

 Superintendent of the Bee and Honey De- 

 partment, and $5i are offered in premiums. 

 Mr. William StoUey will have a nice ex- 

 hibit of honey and apiarian implements. 



Xhe Itrotvu County, Ills., Fair 



closed on the 7th inst, and we learn with 

 pleasure that the exhibits of Messrs. Ham- 

 baugh and Petty were exceedingly attrac- 

 tive. The Versailles Enterprise remarks 

 thus concerning them : 



The exhibits of 'Messrs. Hambaugb and 

 W. T. F. Petty & Son covered nearly one 

 whole side of the Farm and Kitchen Pro- 

 duct Building, and was the chief attraction 

 of all who entered it. 



Mr. UambauKh's exhibit consisted chiefly 

 of extracted honey put up in glass and tin 

 vessels suitable for the trade, and the honey 

 almost transparently clear, in rows, tiers, 

 «nd pyramids, fringed on all sides with 

 natural tiowers, made a very nice showing. 



Mr. Petty's exhibit consisted of comb and 

 extracted honey, principally comb, put up 

 In one-pound sections, and packed in crates 

 Of 12 or 16 pounds to the crate, and glassed 

 »t the sides. These crates were packed one 

 On another, pyramid shaped, till it reached 

 almost to the ceiling. The virgin white 

 honey, peering through the glasses, was 

 very inviting, and redects great credit on 

 the Bentleuien and the industry. In con- 

 nection with their exhibits, both parties had 

 live bees in observatory hives, which were 

 a source of curiosity to many. 



A Jnxt Rebnlie.— The Managers of 

 Fairs should be more particular about get- 

 ting damaging matters into their premium 

 lists. Last week's Indiana Farmer con- 

 tains the following from Mr. E. H. Collins, 

 President of the Indiana State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association : 



I am surprised and annoyed to see in the 

 premium list of the Indiana State Fair a 

 mistake for which some one should be re- 

 sponsible. It is in Class 38, Bees and 

 Honey, where it lists the premiums tor 

 "Apparatus for the manufacture of comb 

 foundations, etc., the owner to manufacture 

 comb during the time of exhibit." 



An expert bee-keeper would know that 

 the word " comb " could only apply to comb 

 foundation, but the public have been hum- 

 bugged so much by sensational lies written 

 by " smart " reporters, even describing the 

 manufacture of comb by machinery, and 

 filling it with glucose, etc., that it is a great 

 damage to the business of the honey-pro- 

 ducer. 



The apiarists of the country have been of 

 late years, constantly correcting such 

 stories, but the papers publishing the sensa- 

 tion do not care to correct it, and the masses 

 do not read the corrections in the bee-papers, 

 80 that is strange to see how many intelli- 

 gent people in this credulous age ot inven- 

 tion really believe that comb honey can be 

 manufactured as readily as oleomargarine. 

 Conseouently they are suspicious of all 

 comb honey, unless its producer be well- 

 known to them. 



Our State Society appointed a committee 

 to look after the exhibit at the Fair, and 

 such a harmful, misleading error should not 

 have been allowed to go out with such an 

 oflScial authority as this premium list. Such 

 things give force and character to the 

 already too wide^spread belief that it is pos- 

 sible and practicable to make comb honey 

 by machinery. 



Mr. A. I. Koot, of Medina, Ohio, has a 

 standing offer of Sl.OOO for any one who 

 may show him where they do this thing by 

 machinery. 



It was in Indiana that Wiley manufac- 

 tured his " scientific pleasantry," and im- 

 posed on Gov. Porter, who innocently re 

 peated it before the Indiana Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention, when giving that body a wel- 

 come at Indianapolis. This called attention 

 to it, and made its odiousness so apparent, 

 that the author of that nefarious "joke" 

 has been compelled to retract it. But the 

 effect of his effort can never be recalled. 



Convention Hand-Book.— As the 



convention season is just approaching, we 

 want to direct attention to the little book 

 which every bee keeper needs when attend- 

 ing these gatherings. Here is what Mr. J. 

 E. Pond says about it : 



Deak Editor :— Tour little " Convention 

 Hand-Book " is really a very handy thing. 

 At two or three different limes I have been 

 called on to get up something for special 

 occasions, and I have found the " Hand- 

 Book" just the thing to save me quite an 

 amount of time and labor, as it was a very 

 simple matter to use the " book " as a basis, 

 making only such few changes as were 

 necessary to fit the special time and place. 



I can cordially recommend it to any one 

 who may de.sire not only information, but a 

 perfect form for organization of a conven- 

 tion of any kind of a convention, as it will 

 " fill the bill " completely. 



Every Hand-Book contains a simple Man- 

 ual of Parliamentary Law and Kules of 

 Order for Local Bee-Conventions ; Constitu- 



tion and By-Laws .for. a" Local Society ; 

 Programme for a Convection, with subjects 

 for discussion. They sell at .50 cents each, 

 and are nicely bound in cloth covers. 



We make every subscriber this offer : Go 

 and call on your neighbor who keeps bees 

 and ought to t^lce the Bef, Jot;usai-. Get 

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 send it to us, and we will present you a copy 

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 cent ! 



XUc "Bee- War" has reached St. 

 Joseph, Mo., as we notice by the following 

 item in the daily Gazette of a late date : 



When the sanitary committee met last 

 night,Clerk Defonds unintentionally created 

 a disturbance at the very beginning of what 

 promised to be a harmonious session, by 

 springing a petition from Marks, the wine 

 maker, out at the end of Grand avenue, 

 asking that the bees of Emerson T. Abbott, 

 the noted bee-keeper, be declared a nuisance 

 and ordered removed. The petition bore 

 the signature of twenty persons. 



The matter had just been referred to the 

 sanitary sergeant when Mr. Abbott put in 

 an appearance. He was given the privilege 

 of the floor, and in about twenty minutes 

 had given the learned gentlemen of the 

 committee a vast amount of information on 

 the characteristics of the honey-bee, and 

 had just about stung to death the germane 

 portions of the petition. 



Mr. Marks interrupted the gentleman fre- 

 quently in a broken sort of way, that con- 

 vulsed Mike Kane, Meat Inspector Pinger, 

 and more or less of the members ot the 

 committee. 



The matter was taken under advisement, 

 and the committee will go out to-day to eat 

 honey with Mr. Abbott, and ascertain if his 

 bees are of the kicking variety, or just 

 plain, every day, hard-working bees. 



With such an able talker as is Mr. Abbott, 

 we have no fear of the ignorant or malicious 

 attacks of any one. He will carry the City 

 Council, Sanitary Committee, Meat Inspec- 

 tor, and all the newspapers, and sweep them 

 all before him, like stubble before the wind. 

 Give it to them, Bro. Abbott, red hot, and 

 plenty of it. 



Can You Believe It V— The com- 

 plete works of Charles Dickens in 1.5 vol- 

 umes, nicely bound in paper covers, are 

 mailed to our subscribers, postage paid, with 

 one year's subscription— all for 82.10. No 

 one who sees them can understand how 

 they can be produced at that price, includ- 

 ing postage ! 



It pays to be a subscriber to our papers, 

 for none will be sold at that price to any one 

 but subscribers. They cannot be sent to 

 any foreign country at that price. These 

 books will be sent as a premium, postage 

 paid, for four subscribers at one dollar each. 



As each set will be ordered from and 

 mailed by the publishers, there will be an 

 interval of a week or ten days between the 

 receipt of the money and the mailing. 

 Complaints should be made if not received 

 within twenty days. Complaints must be 

 made within five weeks to secure proper 

 investigation. 



