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EDITOR. 



Voiny. Oct. 26,1889. No. 43. 



EDITQRmL BuiEISGS. 



Altont 30 I'er Cent, more colonies 

 of bees will be put into winter quarters this 

 year than last. The fall honey crop was 

 about 40 per cent, of an average crop ; but 

 the summer crop of Money " hung along " 

 until the end of July— a mohth later than 

 usual. 



K^oose Expressions often do harm, 

 as well as cause much annoyance to those 

 who try to " call things by their right 

 names." In an article recently written by 

 an apiarist for a metropolitan weekly we 

 notice the following incorrect expression: 

 " The safest food ( for bees) is honey made 

 from cane sugar." The writer well knows 

 that honey is never made from cane sugar, 

 nor, indeed, Is it rruide at all ; it is pure nec- 

 tar gathered from the flowers ! But some 

 smart scribbler may now be found to claim 

 that " honey is made from cane sugar," and 

 to prove his claim he will quote from an 

 article in the Times the very words desired 

 to substantiate his assertion. That these 

 words were thoughtlessly written we grant, 

 but the harm done is just the same as 

 though they were deliberate and intentional. 



We insist upon "calling things by their 

 right names," and if writers will not do it 

 in their manuscripts, we invariably make 

 the corrections iu this office. But when they 

 write to farm and miscellaneous papers, 

 such corrections are not made, and an in- 

 jury is there done to our pursuit. 



A ICepresontatiTe Society l^ady 



whose picture is given in this week's Frank 

 Leslie's lHuslrtited Newspaper, is Mrs. 

 Elliott Roosevelt, and her fair face is most 

 pleasing. Pictures of the Visit of the Veiled 

 Prophet to St. Louis present many grotesque 

 and suggestive sketches. 



Tiie Honey Almanac will be pub- 

 lished about the first of November, as we 

 have received sufficient responses to war- 

 rant us iu issuing it. Orders may now be 

 sent in with copy for the Honey-Producers' 

 Card. We will ship them as soon as issued. 

 Prices : 83.50 per 100 ; .500 copies for JIO.OO ; 

 1,000 copies for $1.5.00, delivered at the 

 freight or express office here. Please read 

 the announcement on page 629, and see if 

 you do not need some. We are getting an 

 excellent amount of new material for it, in 

 the shape of recipes for cooking and me- 

 dicinal applications. It will be a very nice 

 and attractive Annual. 



Mr. A. F. Randall, of Bandalia, Iowa, 

 writes thus about the Honey Almanac : 



Now you are on the right track in regard 

 to advertising honey and recipes for using 

 honey. You can count on me now for 100, 

 and if 1 can use more I will order them 

 later. The recipes for making cakes and 

 drinkables I think will help us all to sell 

 our honey. Please to give H. O. Kruschke 

 thanks for me. 



Mr. Allen Pringle made an exhibit 

 at the Lennox County Fair, Ontario, and 

 the Nappanee Beaver makes this note con- 

 cerning it : 



Mr. Allen Pringle had erected, in his 

 usual place, a pyramid of honey, which was 

 pronounced by all to be equal to anything 

 .seen at the Industrial Exhibition, Toronto. 

 He hail several new styles of bottles for ex- 

 tracted honey, which set off his display to 

 excellent advantage. The comb honey was 

 of a superior quality. 



Dr. S. P. May, Superintendent of the 

 Mechanics' Institutes and Art Schools of 

 Ontario, who is at present ;making a tour of 

 inspection, paid Nappanee a visit. He 

 visited the agricultural fair, and expressed 

 himself pleased with the exhibit, especially 

 the display of honey by Mr. Allen Pringle. 

 The Doctor is an experienced man at exhi- 

 bitions, having represented Ontario at the 

 Centennial, and the Dominion at the Paris 

 Exhibition, so that his commendation is 

 worth something. 



Xiie ■''arm Journal, Philadelphia, 

 Pa., has the largest circulation of any agri- 

 cultural periodical in the world— 1.50,000. It 

 is now in its 13th volume, and is a good, 

 practical Monthly. 



Ily special contract we have secured 

 terms by which we can offer the Farm 

 Journal and either the A»rERicAN Bee 

 Journal or the Illustrated Home 

 Journal from now until Dec. 31, 1S90, for 

 S1.20. 



Or, we will give it free for one year to 

 any one who will send us one new sub- 

 scriber for either of our Journals with SI. 00 

 (the subscription price). 



This grand offer should bring us thou- 

 sands of responses at once. 



To Ripen Honey is very essential, 

 either before it is taken from the hives or 

 after it is removed. Which of the methods 

 is the better one, is a question that all are 

 not agreed upon. One of those in attend- 

 ance at the Ontario Bee-Convention remarks 

 thus : 



I have said in conversation and through 

 the i)ress, that if there was any one thing 

 that I knew— it one thing I could cordially 

 recommend— if one item of advice I could 

 uive with pleasure, it was : Do not extract 

 honey until it is ripe. And yet, strange as 

 It may seem, there are men who know much 

 more about bees than I do, who say that it is 

 not necessary— that honey can be ripened 

 after it is extracted. I cannot account for 

 this, except on the principle that some men 

 lack ability to judge both flavor and texture. 



We hardly think the last sentence is a 

 charitable one. Many of those who advo- 

 cate the ripening of honey after it is taken 

 from the hives are apiarists of excellent 

 ability, and fully able " to judge both flavor 

 and texture." That honey must be ripeued 

 is a fact— the best way to do it is only in 

 dispute. 



Miss (Viertriiae <,ilbl>s reported the 

 late Bee-Convention iu this city for the 

 Fai-mers' Review. She is a smart young 

 lady. 



Bees and Urapes.— A correspondent 

 in the Indiana Farmer closed a letter a few 

 week's ago by saying : " Bees are damag- 

 ing the grapes." Another correspondent 

 replies to it with these unanswerable facts 

 in this week's Farmer : 



In the summer of 1887 it was quite dry in 

 this section, during the time of ripening of 

 our grapes ; so much so that bees were not 

 working any. I had some 40 colonies of 

 bees, mostly setting In the shade of grape 

 vines— all near them, and the grapes ma- 

 tured without a single instance of the bees 

 disturbing them, that was spen. Then in 1888 

 the same thing was repeated— only the bees 

 were starving for something to eat, the hives 

 being nearly empty— some absolutely so, so 

 far as I could see. I thought I would have 

 to feed or lose all. Again we had a most 

 beautiful crop of grapes; in many instances 

 ripened on the hive, some bunches remain- 

 ing until the grapes dropped off, and not on 

 a single grape did I see bees working, and 1 

 looked caretuUy. 



If bees will not work on grapes at such 

 a time, when will they ? 



There is one of two things true in my 

 opinion, grapes either crack, or sdme other 

 insect opens them before the bees will dis- 

 turb them, just as they do the apple, and 

 some other fruits. After being opened they 

 will likely work on them, but it not opened, 

 1 think they will starve first, not because 

 they would not, but because they could 

 not break the skin. 



I. Ifi. Oood has moved 18 miles, to 

 Vawter Park, Ind., where he intends to 

 start a Carniolan apiary. His son will con- 

 tinue the Italian apiary at Nappanee, his 

 old address. 



Xliis is what our friends say about the 



Illustrated Hume Journal : 



Rer. Stcphnn lioeso, of Maiden Ro<-k. Wis., 

 states his opinion in thoscworcls : '"J'lic Ir.i.iTS- 

 TiiATKi) KoMK .loiritNAi^ IS ouo of the iiaiid- 

 Romest and most interestinfr magazines for the 

 family that. I ever saw. • It is rich and rucy." " 



IMrs. .). N. Heater, of Columlius, Nel)r., says : 

 "The Ii,r,usTnATEi> IIOMK .Tourxai. is just 

 snoh a niaj^azine a.s 1 have been wiinlinir to 

 tulce for a lonir time, and I appreciate it. 1 

 wish it success." 



