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VOL. XXXIII. CHICAGO, ILL, MAY 10, 1894. 



NO. 19. 



Nome !Vlistal&e>>> <'orre<"lc«l. — On 



page ()()() will be fouud something from 

 General Manager Newman, about the Bee- 

 Keepers' Union and the adulteration of 

 honey, in which he explains some things. 



Mr. Ernest Myers, of Iowa, said this 

 in a letter we received from him on May 4, 

 1894: "I have been very well pleased with 

 the last year's copies of the Bee Journal, 

 and its work, for it has been a great help to 

 me in bee-culture ; and also the book ' Bees 

 and Honey.' " 



Xliey ** Caiie«l " a Bee-lieepei- — 



Prof. C. L. Buckmaster, who is a bee-keeper, 

 is also the principal of the public school of 

 Sturgeon, Mo. After the graduation ex- 

 ercises of the " Class of '94," on April 19th, 

 they kindly presented to him a " nice, 

 gold-headed cane," as a memento of their 

 appreciation. Mr. B. says that bee-keeping 

 and school principal go well together, as 

 the children entertain him during eight 

 months of the year, and the bees come in 

 on the other four months, to keep him from 

 becoming lazy. That's good. More school- 

 teachers might profit, both in health and 

 in pocket-book, if they were to follow Mr. 

 Buckmaster's example. 



Storins- Honey in tlie Sections. 



— Dr. Wm. R. Howard, of Texas, when 

 writing us on April 27th, said: " Bees are 

 booming now on several wild flowers ; the 

 silk- weed is now coming on." And on May 

 1st he wrote: " Bees are storing honey in 

 the sections now." We think this is the 

 first report we have received this year, 

 stating that bees were putting honey in the 

 sections. But Texas is a great State — and 

 so are a good many others ! 



Xra«le is Kxtremely ^Mood, says 

 one of the large dealers in bee-supplies in 

 an exchange. " In fact, we are selling 

 more supplies now than we were last year 

 at this time" — so they report. That's 

 good. We hope it may be a splendid year, 

 not only for supply dealers, but for all bee- 

 keepers and — especially, bee-papers. 



Honey Un«ler Tariff Retbnn. — 



We have received the following statement 

 from Hon. Eugene Secor, regarding the 

 subject of honey under " tariff reform :" 



I have the " Wilson Bill " as it passed the 

 House, and as reported to the Senate from 

 the Finance Committee on March 30th, 

 prepared for publication under the direc- 

 tion of the Committee on Finance April 2, 

 1894. " How does it affect the bee-keeping 

 industry ?" 



The present duty, as you are doubtless 

 advised, is 20 cents per gallon (about 1% 

 cents per pound). A person would nat- 

 urally infer from the wording that Con- 

 gress did not intend to levy a duty on im- 

 ported comb honey, but it has been decided 

 by. a Collector of Customs that comb honey 

 is also dutiable, and by the piethod of re- 

 ducing comb honey to gallons, it would 

 amount to about 2 cents per pound, as 

 nearly as I am able to guess. 



Under the Wilson Bill as it passed the 

 House, the duty is placed at " 10 cents per 



