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aeOROB W. YORK, Editor 



CHICAGO, ILL,, OCTOBER 26, 1905 



VoL XLV— No. 43 



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Honey Publicity 



One of the beet articles yet written on ad- 

 vertising honev appears on page 743. Mr 

 Green has certainly given a whole lot of sound 

 advice to honey-producers in a very short 

 space. And if his suggestions are carried 

 out a great deal more honey will be consumed 

 by the public than is now being used. 



What The Honey-Producers' League needs 

 to do is to get busy on a trade-mark or brand 

 for the honey of its members, and then adver- 

 tise such trade-marked or branded honey in 

 periodicals like the Ladies' Home Journal, 

 The Delineator, Woman's Home Companion, 

 etc. 



Mr. Green gives the League a very strong 

 endorsement, and also points out almost its 

 only weak spot — having provided for no 

 trade-mark or brand for the honey of its mem- 

 bers. But this can be remedied, and doubt- 

 less will be. 



Surely, what breakfast-food makers have 

 done in the way of creating a great demand 

 for their products, honey-producers can also 

 do, if they will follow the same sensible, busi- 

 ness-like methods. The Honey-Producers' 

 League was organized for a good purpose, 

 and its machinery needs only to be worked in 

 order that resulting benefits may be enjoyed. 

 But a larger membership is also needed. See 

 page 738 for directions for joining. 



Treatment of Robbin); Among Bees 



The following methods are given in the 

 British Bee Journal : 



" Remove the hive attacked to some shed or 

 outhouse, giving the bees ample ventilation. 

 Allow the robbers free entrance into a new 

 hive on the old stand, supplying them with 

 very weak syrup. When they have had some 

 of this, dilute it until it is little more than 

 sweetened water. They soon give up in dis- 

 gust, and, next day, the colony may be safely 

 restored to its old stand. 



" As a means to prevent robbing, use cheese- 

 cloth. It is very cheap and durable. Envelop 

 the hive with it, and in 10 or 15 minutes open 

 the cloth at the top to allow the robbers with- 

 in to escape, and then close it again, repeating 

 t^he operation about every 10 minutes until all 



have escaped. The home bees are allowed to 

 enter at sundown, though it is better to leave 

 the cloth on for 24 hours, if robbing hasibeea 

 persistent. If however, the cloth was put on 

 when robbing first began, it may be removed 

 within an hour, as the colony will then have 

 recovered from their disorganization." 



If the last method proves successful, it 

 might be made to work automatically, thus 

 saving the trouble of attention every 10 min- 

 utes, by having the cheese-cloth finished out 

 at the top with a Miller escape; that is, a 

 robber-cloth with wire-cloth cone. 



A plan of treatment that comes from Ger- 

 many, is to cellar the victim and put in its 

 place an empty hive of the same appearance. 

 In this empty hive put a smoker going full 

 blast, and before long the robbers will desist 

 in disgust, and next day the colony can be 



returned. 



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How You Can Help Others 



It frequently happens that a question is 

 asked in these columns which can be an- 

 swered only by a. bee-keeper in the locality 

 referred to by the question. Whenever such 

 question appears, any one who is able from 

 actual experience to give the information de- 

 sired, is requested to do so without further 

 invitation. 



It is our desire to make the American Bee 

 Journal as valuable as possible to all of its 

 subscribers, but in order to do so we often 

 need the help of our readers. As you have 

 been aided by the writings of others, why 

 not give out a little yourself, when some ques- 

 tion is asked, to which you really can give 

 the right answer; Why not? 



Why the Failure of Honey Harvest? 



In Irrigation — the official organ of the Col- 

 orado State Bee-Keepers' Association— R. C. 

 Aikin discourses in a very interesting man- 

 ner regarding the failure of the honey crop in 

 Colorado. It is evident that he has been 

 watching the matter with keen interest for a 

 series of years, and be tells about failures or 

 successes under this or that condition, and 



then just as the reader with tense interest is 

 expecting an answer to the long-unanswered 

 problem, Mr. Aikin says: 



" Almost daily I am asked why the honey 

 failure ; I am forced to admit I do no not 

 know. We all do know that we may have the 

 bees and the bloom, yet no returns. Why?" 



And there you are, with the problem 

 thrown back upon your hands. 



Although the question is one that will 

 always be of interest, even if always left un- 

 answered, there is comfort in the thought 

 that even if we did know all about the cause 

 of the failure to secrete nectar, it is some- 

 thing beyond human control, and the solution 

 of the problem would only satisfy curiosity, 

 leaving us as powerless as before to do any- 

 thing about it. 



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Photographs of Things Apiarian 



We wish to invite those of our subscribers 

 who have good photographs of apiaries, or 

 something apiarian, to send them to us for 

 the American Bee Journal. We may not be 

 able to use them all, either because we do not 

 think them available, or from defective pho- 

 tography. 



If, after receiving the photographs, we 

 decide that we can use them, we will request 

 some descriptive matter to accompany them 

 when used in these columns. If it is desired 

 that we return any photographs, either used 

 or unused, we will do so if requested. 



We wish to thank those who have kindly 

 sent us good photographs in the past. They 

 have helped greatly the appearance of the 

 American Bee Journal. Should any, whose 

 pictures have been reproduced, desire to^pur- 

 chase the engravings, we will be pleased to 

 sell them at a liberal discount. 



Educational Advertising on Honey 



We find the following item in the Septem- 

 ber Butterick Herald, a magazine for adver- 



Honey Ignorance^ ^ 



Honey has attached to it a great popular 

 suspicion that ought to be overthrown by 

 educational advertising. There never was in 

 this world a pound of artificial comb honey. 



Counterfeit strained honey is in the market 

 by the ton, but to put the sweet into a wax 

 comb is a trick that can be performed only 

 by bees. Yet somehow, somewhere, a super- 



