Ameeican Bee Journal, 



DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO BEE CULTURE. 



Vol. XII. CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1876. No. 2. 



Our Prospects. 



We most heaitly thank our numerous 

 friends for their efforts to extend the al- 

 ready large circulation of The American 

 Bee Journal. We enter upon the work 

 of the year 1876 with excellent prospects. 



The "old and reliable" American Bee 

 Journal has a reputation and standing 

 the world over, and is alike welcomed, in 

 the North, South, East and West on this 

 American Continent, and in Europe and 

 the " Islands of the Seas,"— making it at 

 once the standard magazine of apiculture 

 for a world. The influx of new subscrib- 

 ers during the past month has been larger 

 than ever before, notwithstanding the 

 general cry of " hard times." 



"Excelsior," being our motto, we shall 

 leave no stone unturned to keep and 

 maintain the proud position so long oc- 

 cupied by this, the oldest Journal of api- 

 culture in the world. 



Finding our space too limited for the 

 amount of valuable matter prepared each 

 month, on which to regale our readers, 

 we contemplate adding from eight to six- 

 teen pages to each monthly issue, here- 

 after. The March number will be a gem, 

 and will contain matter of vast importance 

 to bee-keepers everywhere. 



Since issuing the January number, we 

 found that we had not enough to meet the 

 requirements of new subscribers, and we 

 have had to reset and republish another 

 edition .for that purpose. We can now 

 supply all our new subscribers with that 

 number. Publisher. 



A correspondent desires some one 

 in ihe habit of sliipping comb-honey, to 

 give a description through the American 

 Bee Journal, of the manner found to be 

 the most successful. Will some one 

 please send us such a description in time 

 for the next number? 



A Mine of Sweetness. 



Generally, when we hear of rich strikes, 

 it is in the gold or silver line; but this 

 time it turns out to be honey, pure and 

 sweet. A few days since, as the workmen 

 on the tunnel at Cajon Pass were hauling 

 over some rocks, they came across a 

 deposit of honey and took a pole and ran 

 it into the mountain and were surprised to 

 find no bottom. They got a longer pole 

 some twenty feet long, and were unable to 

 touch bottom with that. Upon withdraw- 

 ing the pole, the honey began to run out, 

 and soon tubs, buckets and two barrels 

 ■were filled, and still itflowed. Some parties 

 came into town and loaded up with bar- 

 rels, and propose to make a business of 

 it. They put in a charge of powder and 

 blew off a portion of the rock, which dis- 

 closed tons upon Ions of honey. Our 

 informant states that after exploring it 

 from below to where the bees were found 

 to enter, it was found to be about one- 

 fourth of a mile, and in his opinion, that 

 the whole cavity is filled with honey; he 

 estimates over one hundred tons in sight, 

 and believes that one thousand tons would 

 not be an unfair estimate. This immense 

 deposit cannot be equalled by any ever 

 found. According to the above estimate, 

 it would take every barrel and hogshead 

 in San Bernardino to hold it. 



The above is from the San Bernardino 

 Argils. It is a story rich and rare, and is 

 being copied extensively into other jour- 

 nals. If it were true no doubt some of 

 our prominent bee-keepers near that place 

 would have given us a description of it. 

 Will some one in that locality please let 

 us know if there is any trutli in it. 



Alvin Taylor, of Proctorville, Vt., has 

 taken thirty boxes of honey, 280 lbs., 

 from six swarms of bees flie past season, 

 besides leaving enough for the bees to 

 feed on through the winter. He has been 

 keeping bees for twenty-seven years. 

 Within the last eighteen years he has sold 

 over four thousand pounds of honey, 

 which averaged him twenty-five cents per 

 pound. 



