he was left with a family of motherless 

 children, two of whom died in infancy 

 and three in womanhood — the last of 

 them, Mrs. Pameala Tanner, with her 

 two little ones perished in the "Pesh- 

 tigo Fire." He leaves a wife and nine 

 surviving children, all of whom were 

 present at his burial except Mrs. Ada 

 Ballou, of San Francisco. 



By his death his family have lost a 

 kind husband, an indulgent father, a 

 wise counselor, and the community a 

 valued citizen and respected friend. 



Extracted Honey. 



REV. O. CLUTE. 



The market reports in the large city 

 dailies give quotations of "strained honey." 

 All know that strained honey was formerly 

 pressed out of old black combs that were 

 taken from the box-hives after the bees had 

 been brimstoned. To any one who ever saw 

 honey strained in the old way, its associa- 

 tion with the juices of half-grown bees is 

 by no means appetizing. At the best it 

 usually has a dark color and a rank flavor of 

 bee-bread. As to its production, all intelli- 

 gent bee-keepers will agree in the advice 

 given by Punch to couples about to get 

 married — "Don't." 



A serious evil which strained honey has 

 created is the tendency, among nearly all, to 

 put all liquid honey in the class with it, and 

 so to do great injustice to "extracted honey." 

 Extracted honey is honey in its purest 

 shape, and to class it with the pollen-spiced, 

 maggot-fJavored strained honey, is like put- 

 ting the nectar of the Olympian gods on a 

 par with forty-rod whisky. All bee-keep- 

 ers should endeavor to have the real charac- 

 ter of strained and extracted honey fully 

 known, and should labor to convince the 

 public that extracted honey is in the purest 

 and most cleanly condition. Like all new 

 articles of food, it will take time to make its 

 merits widely known. When people be- 

 come acquainted with its real merits and its 

 cheapness, there is no doubt but it will be 

 in large demand. 



But this wide popularity can be obtained 

 and maintained only by producing an ex- 

 cellent article. To this end bee-keepers 

 must strenuously insist upon two things : 

 that the honey shall be sealed or just ready 

 to be sealed before extracting, and that it 

 shall have no suspicion of adulteration. 



The nectar gathered by bees from flowers 

 cannot be called honey until the evaporat- 

 ing or ripening process has so far gone on 

 that the bees are beginning to seal the cells. 

 Some bee-keepers advocate extracting as 

 fast as the honey is gathered. It is quite 

 clear, however, that honey so extracted 

 lacks very much in the delicious flavor that 

 belongs to a good article. If we are to build 

 up the market for extracted honey, we can 

 do so only by giving a genuine honey, and 

 not the crude, watery nectar as is first gath- 

 ered from the flowers. 



The ease with which extracted honey can 

 be adulterated, and the large profits derived 



from the cheat, have in a few cases led to 

 such dishonest practices as seriously to 

 injure the bee-keeping business. There are 

 probably only a few individuals and a few 

 firms that have been guilty of this fraud, 

 but their guilt is a damage to every bee- 

 keeper throughout the country, for in the 

 general ignorance as to extracted honey,, 

 whatever tends to cast suspicion on it, de- 

 creases the demand for it and so lowers the 

 price. Hence there has been need on the 

 part of bee-keepers for agitation against the 

 practices of unscrupulous men who are sell- 

 ing glucose or grape sugar for honey. We 

 may hope that the conviction and punish- 

 ment of a few of these scoundrels will 

 effectually end the fraud. In self-protec- 

 tion, the various local and State organiza- 

 tions of bee-keepers, and the National 

 Association, should employ experts to ex- 

 amine all suspected honey, and should pros- 

 ecute vigorously every person against whom, 

 good evidence of adulteration can be found. 



Comb honey has such intrinsic qualities 

 of excellence and beauty that it will always 

 be in demand. A pure article of well-rip- 

 ened extracted honey also lias most excel- 

 lent qualities which, when known, will 

 commend it to wide favor and secure for it 

 a large consumption. 



Johnson County, Iowa. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



New Mode of Transferring, &c. 



J. D. ENOS. 



The " Old Reliable " comes regularly 

 and always some new item of interest. 

 I would like to give your readers an 

 idea of fixing the comb in frames that 

 I have never seen in print on your side 

 of the liocky Mountains. 



I fasten the comb with wires which 

 secure them and is more easily adjusted 

 than any way that I have ever seen or 

 heard of ; would like to have you try it 

 and if you find it speedy and practica- 

 ble to give it to your readers and bee- 

 men, or women in particular. After 

 having fitted the combs to the frames, 

 or rather before, take the frame that is 

 to hold the combs, get some No. 14 

 annealed wire bend }i inch at right 

 angles, then bend at right angles the 

 width of the top-bar from that, then 

 measure from the top of top-bar to 

 bottom of bottom-bar and bend paral- 

 lel with the last bend and cut about % 

 inch from the angle, leaving an end % 

 inch long. Now to use it, fit the comb 

 as usual to the frame, take an empty 

 frame and fill one side with as many- 

 wires as are necessary, by fitting it on 

 the top-bar first and pulling it down so 

 that the % inch end slips under the 

 bottom-bar (I generally have two light 

 boards the size of frame or very little 

 larger, the comb resting on one of 

 them), then press the frame down over 



