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all beiDg done just about sundown), put 

 it in a cool place three days, then gave it 

 a good young queen from a nucleus hive, 

 and let them work about two days, or 

 until I knew the queen was all right 

 and laying, then shipped it. And T have 

 had the report from such a colony gath- 

 ering over 100 pounds of surplus that 

 season. 



I gave the full colonies, where the 

 eight frames were taken, empty frames 

 with foundation starters, and the effect 

 was so much of " the drop in the bucket" 

 character, that it was not perceptible 

 after the frames were taken out ; but, 

 on the contrary, when I went to take ofif 

 the crate of sections, I have often found 

 a frame of nice comb honey where I had 

 placed the empty frame. 



There is no fiction or theory about all 

 this, it is only bee-keeping in the South, 

 and any one that will try and work 

 rightly, can do the same. J. A. 



Bee-Keeping in Florida, Etc. 



On the south side of Orange Lake, 

 Fla., Mr. Chas. F. Henning has some- 

 where in the neighborhood of 900 colo- 

 nies of bees, spring count. He has been 

 engaged largely in queen-rearing until 

 this season. In a recent letter he states 

 that he has taken off 2,000 sections of 

 honey, and has 5,000 more on the hives. 

 This season he will devote his time prin- 

 cipally to advancing the interests of bee- 

 keepers all over the State. 



Continuous rains on South Side Lake 

 Harris have prevented the bees from 

 giving as much surplus comb honey. We 

 are hoping for some surplus from the 

 later flowers, but comb honey from the 

 orange was short. Those who run their 

 apiaries for extracted honey had the ad- 

 vantage this year. Last year the season 

 was all that could have been desired. 



A LAW AeAINST ADULTEKATION. 



I fully agree with the editor of the 

 Bee Journal on the way to deal with 

 honey adulterators. We need a law 

 against selling glucose for honey, as 

 well as against selling oleomargarine for 

 butter. And more, we want a law for- 

 bidding the manufacture and sale of 

 artificial honey under any and all cir- 

 cumstances. 



Let us take this matter in hand, as 

 suggested by Mr. Newman (page 697 of 

 the Bee Jouenal for Nov. 24, 1892), 

 and raise whatever amount will be 

 needed to carry on the fight to the end. 

 Let each one who is interested, send in 



his dollar, or more, according to his 

 ability, to be retained until suflScient 

 funds have been raised to put the matter 

 through. Let the producers of pure 

 honey petition for a stringent law 

 against selling anything but pure honey, 

 under any name that will injure our 

 legitimate business, or throw discredit 

 on any honest producer. 



Some may say, " A law will not pre- 

 vent adulteration." There may be vio- 

 lators of this law, as well as the laws 

 against stealing, fighting, etc. There 

 are some who would sell artificial honey 

 if there were no law forbidding it, who 

 would not do so in violation of law. 

 With a heavy penalty attached to the 

 law, many others wonld be deterred, and 

 this difficulty would be practically re- 

 moved, and our chances of success in 

 this our chosen pursuit be increased. 

 Mrs. Minnie Wood Gordon. 



Bloomfield, Fla., March 30, 1893. 



Father IL.ang-strot]i, in his enter- 

 taining "Reminiscences," which are being 

 published as a serial in Gleanings, gave some 

 " interesting incidents of Samuel Wagner, 

 founder of the American Bee Journal," in 

 the number for April 1st. After giving a 

 letter received from Mr. Wagner in 1852, 

 Mr. Langstroth follows with these two 

 paragraphs, showing the excellent charac- 

 ter and qualities of the lamented founder of 

 this journal : 



As soon as Mr. Wagner became acquainted 

 with my hive, instead of publishing his 

 translation of Dzierzon, for which he was 

 then in negotiation, he urged me to write a 

 book which he believed would, with my 

 movable frame, do more for the promotion 

 of American bee-culture than anything 

 from abroad. Being an excellent German 

 scholar, and very famUiar with both an- 

 cient and modern apiculture, more espe- 

 cially with all that could be learned from 

 German sources, he placed all his varied 

 information at my command absolutely 

 without money and without price and 

 labored with untiring zeal to make mv 

 book and hive a success. Seldom do we 

 find such an admirable example of rare 

 magnanimity and disinterestedness 



Visiting him at intervals, and corres 

 ponding with him frequently, he kept me 

 posted up m everything occurring in Ger- 

 many which was of interest in our favorite 

 pursuit. His large library, so full espe 

 cially in the German literature of bee-keep 

 ing, was thoroughly at his command and 

 he could turn at once to book or periodical 

 for information on any point that mieht 

 come up for discussion. ° 



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