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VoinV. Oct, 12,1889. No, 41, 



EdITORML BUEEISGS. 



I*lea»e Read the article on page 627 of 

 last week's Jouhnai., on how to make 

 " Honey a Staple Article," and then send 

 us a Postal Card, if you have not already 

 done so. 



A S^varni of Bees at the Paris Ex- 

 position was the cause of considerable ex- 

 citement some time ago. Here is the account 

 of it, as given in an exchange : 



One morning lately, about eleven o'clock, 

 considerable excitement was caused in the 

 Food-Products and Asricultural Galleries 

 of the Pans Exhibition by tiie issuing of an 

 immense swarm of bees from one of the 

 observation hives exiiihited by Mr. Blow, of 

 Welwyii, Herts. The swarm settled ou the 

 lop ot one (It the hiuhest elm-trees, about 00 

 feet above the roadway. Several ladders 

 were tied together and placed against the 

 tree, but those who climbed into it were un- 

 }ib e to reach the bees. Eventually the 

 owner succeeded in approaching the fugi- 

 tives, and successfully "hived " the swarm. 



I>. R. Kmery, editor of the Apiary 

 Department of the Colorado Farmer, thus 

 " goes for " the fellow who wrote that arti- 

 cle for the Philadelphia Record on " Bogus 

 Comb Honey :" 



Why are not persons or papers as quick 

 to state truths as falsehoods ? A small " in- 

 sinuation of evil " or " error " is caught " on 

 the fly," wliile genuine truth and character 

 must rome with a retinue of witnesses and 

 proof I 



The writer must have had a contract to fill 

 a half column in his paper, and to siiow it 

 was simply Uilk, he concludes with a statf- 

 nient that " a Bf rkshire county bee-rearer 

 lamented that his bees could not work in 

 the dark ; so he crossed his bees on light- 

 ning bugs, and now has bees with lanterns 

 for dark niahts. He is now trying to make 

 a cross breed with gum coats and rubber 

 boots for rainy weather.'' 



Why does not the fool make paraffine and 

 glucose honey, if it is such a sure and easy 



thing made, and not bother with his patent 

 be^s? 



Friends, do not be alarmed ; the occupa- 

 tion o( our invaluable friends, the honey- 

 bees, is not yet superseded. Dowu with the 

 lies. 



M'ell Done. —In these days when the 

 newspapers and period cals seem bent on 

 publishing fal.-ehoods about manufaclured 

 honey, it is refreshinn to see the City and 

 Country, published at 235 West 23rd St., 

 New York, come out in favor of our pursuit. 

 It-i Apiary Department is in charge of A. H. 

 Dulf, of Kansas, and its September number 

 devotes three columns to the defense of the 

 purity of comb honey. It starts out with 

 this paragraph : 



We are all aware that a certain class of 

 newspapers are very eauer f'.r sensational 

 stories, and it seems that they hdve but 

 little regard for the trmh, and the conse- 

 quences are, falsehoods are sent out broad- 

 cast ovnr the country, doing great injury 

 that takes months and years to patch up, 

 and the following, !>ruong many other slur-, 

 of the kind that nave been cast at the b-e- 

 keeping traterniiy, is now going the rounds 

 of this class ot newspapers. From the 

 American Bee Journal of recent date, 

 which shi.ws up one of these deliberate lies, 

 we copy the following : 



It then copied our editorial entire, from 

 page 43*;, refuting the calumnies of the Phil- 

 adelphia Record, and other papers, and 

 stating that Bro. Root had oflEered $1,000 to 

 any one who would take him to the place 

 where comb honey is manufactured by ma- 

 chinery, etc. Then the City and Country 

 details the uses of comb foundation, and 

 adds : 



This is just how far machinery goes to- 

 wards manufacturing honey. We broadly 

 assert that all such claims that comb h,inej 

 is manufactured by machinery, and paratliiie 

 used for cmiib and ylucnse to fill the com", 

 etc., are utter falsehoods in every particu- 

 lar. It never was done, it cau't be done, 

 and it never will be done. 



Any and every reader of the City and 

 Coimfry is entitled to the atK>ve 81,000 re- 

 ward if tiiey can show up one person or per- 

 sons, or firms, engaged at this business. 



It then quotes another misrepresentation 

 from the Cleveland P;«(nDeaJcr, giving a 

 rehash of the article from the Philadelphia 

 Record. City and Country sums up its 

 reply in these words : 



Now, we wish to give the Cleveland Plain 

 Denier a puint'T: A. 1. Root, of Medina. 

 Oiiio (and, by the way, it is but a shott dis- 

 tance from Cleveland), has a standing re- 

 ward of $1,000 tor such comb honey as you 

 descrit>e. Now is your chance, put up your 

 manufactured honey and take t'le money. 

 If >ou Ciinnot do this, then we will expert 

 you to correct the malicious, injurious false- 

 hood that appeared in your paper. 



That is just riaht ! The City and Covn 

 try is entitled to our thanks for its manlj 

 defense of our industry. If other papers 

 would only be as fair and honorable, we 

 should have notliin:^ to complain of. Mr. 

 W. C. Turner, the Managing Editor, is 

 worthy of our hearty commendation. 



Sii1)scri1>ers who do not receive this paper 

 promptly, will please notify us at once. 



Xlie Australasian Bee Journal for 

 September notices the result of the .Vrba- 

 delphia bee-lawsuit, and adds : 



The Union deserves the hearty support of 

 all America bee-keepers, tor had they not 

 persisteiilly fnUi:ht out the.se cases iu the 

 law courts, without doubt a urievous wrong 

 would have have been inflicted upon Ameri- 

 can bee-keepers. 



We have two cases now on hand, both 

 appeals to higher courts, and we hope that 

 the record of the Uniim will not be broken 

 in these. So far it has not lost one of its 

 suits, a record wliich is beyond all reason- 

 able expectation, and compares very favor- 

 ably with any other similar organization in 

 existence. 



If its friends, and those who are benefited 

 by its labors, rally around its standard as 

 they should do, the ilanager of the Union 

 will do his best to bear off the victory in 

 these suits. But it takes money as well as 

 brains to do that work, and there outcht to 

 be ten thousand bee-keepers who would 

 gladlj spring to their feet and offer their 

 membership fees at once, so that the Union 

 could hire the best law talent in existence, 

 and thereby insure in advance the victory — 

 for our cause is just ! 



Mr. R. McKnigrht's exhibit in the 

 Apiary Department at the Toronto Indus- 

 trial was undoubtedly the attraction of that 

 section of the exhibition. The Empire 

 says of it : 



In this department Mr. R. McKnight, of 

 the Uomewond Apiary, Owen Sound, who 

 has done much to encourage bee-culture in 

 Ontario, has for several seasons past been 

 laboring to make the exhibit an attractive 

 one, and while the large number of prizes 

 he took this year attested the excellence of 

 tlie various grades of honey shown by him, 

 crowds were attracted around his exhibit 

 from the handsome appearance it presented, 

 it was certainly the finest and most artisti- 

 cally arranged display that has ever been 

 seen in the Apiary Department. 



The exhibit was awarded 4 first, 2 second, 

 and 2 third prizes. In addition to these, 

 Mr. Mi'Knight secured a silver medal for the 

 best style of tins for holding extracted 

 honey, and also a bronze medal for the best 

 assortment of glass for the same purpose.— 

 Owen Soimd Times. 



Bec-I>isease in California. — L. 



E. Mercer, of Ventura, Calif., writes to 

 Gleanings about a singular disease with 

 which the apiaries in California are affected 

 each succeeding season. He says : 



This disease appears every spring and 

 summer in a very few hives in nearly every 

 apiary in the county, but it has caused no 

 serious alarm until recently. The bees 

 Usually get over it themselves, hut we do 

 not tei much honey from the colonies that 

 are so affected. A friend on the Ojai has 

 been experimenting a little with thecolo- 

 ni- s that were thus diseased. He took the 

 nueen out and replaced her with another 

 Irom a healthy hive. The disease entirely 

 disappeared ; and from putting the queen 

 from the diseased colony into a colony that 

 was perfectly healthy, it also became dis- 

 eased in a very short time. 



