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domestic use ; and for the convenience of the women-folks it 

 is reduced to the following: 



" Two pounds of flour ; IK ounces of lard ; W-i pounds of 

 honey; 6 ounces of molasses ; % ounce of soda; 1/6 ounce 

 of salt; 1 gill of water: }-2 teaspoon of vanilla extract." 



If the honey is not of heavy body, increase the quantity 

 slightly. Perhaps the wonen-folks would prefer to have this 

 reduced to "cupfuls ;" but as such a measure is very indefi- 

 nite, we can get at the result more exactly by giving the 

 figures in pounds and ounces, and I suspect it is important that 

 the proportions be as nearly exact as possible. I believe it 

 would Do possible to use all honey instead of molasses and 

 honey. 



If all the women-folks can succeed as well as Dr. Miller's 

 have done, this recipe is going to be of great value to bee- 

 keepers. Every bee-keeper who has honey to sell ought now 

 to be able to offer to his customers honey-jumbles, home-made, 

 and they will sell like hot-cakes. 



It might be well to call attention to the fact that jumbles 

 will keep almost indefinitely. Indeed, they seem to improve 

 with age. If they get a little dry, shut them up In a broad- 

 crock, and then see how moist they will become. 



Calirornia Orang-e Honey.— Prof. Cook, while 

 visiting Riverside a short time since, secured a fine sample of 

 orange honey. The comb was white and the honey delicious. 

 It is to be regretted that the orange honey comes there so 

 early in the season. The bees at this time are so few in num- 

 bers that the product from this source can never be very 

 large or important commercially. If the honey could be pro- 

 duced in large quantities, it would rival that of the sage, 

 white clover, and the linden. So writes the Professor. 



T\)^ Weekly Budget. 



Editor Thos. Wm. Cowan, of the British Bee Journal, 

 and his good wife, are spending the winter in Placer Co., 

 Calif., with their son. 



Mr. W. K. Morrison, now residing on Bermuda Island, is 

 suggested by Gleanings as a suitable person to go after Apis 

 dorsata, if it is thought best to secure these bees for trial in 

 this country. 



Mr. Edwin Bevcns, of Iowa, wrote recently : " I am 

 getting tolerably comfortable in health again, and hope to live 

 to aid the new Union in its fight with honey adulterators and 

 rascally commission-men." 



Mr. Ferris E. Gaines, of Will Co., 111., writes: "I like 

 the American Bee Journal very much. There are frequently 

 articles in it which alone are worth the subscription. The 

 new spelling of some of the words ending in ' ed ' is very 

 sensible." 



Mr. C. P. McKinnon, a bee-keeper near Marshalltown, 

 Iowa, made us a very pleasant call recently. He has some 

 20 colonies, and runs for both comb and extracted honey, but 

 mainly the latter. He sells his surplus in the home market 

 at 10 and \^% cents for extracted and comb honey, re- 

 spectively. 



Mr. Chas. Koeppen, a 5-out-apiary bee-keeper in Michi- 

 gan, was pictured in the December Review, and also his 5 

 apiaries and honey-house. He has from 30 to 75 colonies in 

 each apiary, and his crop of comb honey this year was about 

 8,000 pounds. He has achieved his present success through 

 difficulties that would have disheartened a less persistent man. 



Mr. J. F. McInttre, of California, is one of the largest 

 bee-keepers in this country. Prof. Cook writes thus of him 

 and his iiethods: 



" I had the privilege, a few days ago, of spending a night 

 with Mr. Mclntyre, of the famous Sespe region, of Ventura 

 County. Mr. Mclntyre is not only one of the best bee-keepers 

 In the United States, but he has one of the best apiaries, and 

 one of the best plants that it has ever been my privilege to 

 inspect. The apiary is located in a magnificent canyon. The 

 hives are on a very gentle slope, and at the lower side Is the 

 extracting room. Mr. Mclntyre has an extractor of his own 



construction which holds a large number of combs, and which 

 reverses while in motion. He works entirely for extracted 

 honey. He has a large. Ore-proof honey-house, and is so fore- 

 handed that ho can hold his honey until the market suits him ; 

 thus he is always able to get a good price for his product. He 

 alms to keep about fiOO colonies, and so manages as not to go 

 beyond this number. After he reaches the desired number, 

 he returns swarms to the hive, taking out the combs, to build 

 up weak colonies. He thus has, at the dawn of the honey 

 season, his 600 colonies all vigorous and strong. By this 

 method of management he'i^ften takes over 30 tons of honey 

 In a single season. I think his crop a year ago was about 32 

 tons. He reports that the bees just about held their own 

 last year. Mr. Mclntyre is very careful not to extract so 

 closely as to endanger his bees from starvation." 



Mr. E. C. Wheeler, of Marshall Co., Iowa, wrote us as 

 follows Jan. 3, about the prospects for next season in his 

 locality : " I have much hope for the coming season, as white 

 clover had a new start the past season, and we are having a 

 fair amount of wet weather this winter." 



The Dowager Empress Frederick, of Germany, takes 

 great interest in all the occupations of country life, and has 

 lately turned her attention to bee-keeping, which she con- 

 siders a most useful industry for the peasant population. In 

 order to encourage bee-keeping she has become the honorary 

 President of the Weisbaden District Bee-Society. A subscriber 

 sends us this bit of news. 



Hon. Sydney E. Fisher, the Dominion Minister of Agri- 

 culture, attended one session of the Ontario convention at 

 Toronto in December. He delivered a very cordial speech, 

 showing his interest in bee-keeping as a branch of the great 

 work of his department. The bee keepers of Ontario have 

 much reason to be grateful to their Government for the sub- 

 stantial interest it takes in their pursuit. Would that our 

 Government were as anxious to aid its bee-keepers. 



Mr. J. S. Scott, of Utah, wrote thus Jan. 9 : "I gladly 

 send you .Si. 00 as the membership fee to the New Union, 

 with the privilege of calling for any amount hereafter re- 

 quired to prosecute honey adulterators and other swindlers. . . . 

 Talk about the home market ! I think we produced in our 

 three apiaries more comb honey last year than could have been 

 sold in Utah for home consumption. Hence we are compelled 

 to sell in the East. .. .1 bad the usual experience with swind- 

 lers last year — Wheadon and all the rest — but I did not bite." 



Mrs. A. J. Barber, of Montezuma Co., Colo., we believe 

 is the only woman bee-inspector on this continent. It is quite 

 a distinction. She was appointed inspector for her county 

 last spring, and has made a pretty thorough canvass of the 

 bees kept in her domain. For thoroughness and conscientious 

 work, commend us always to the good women. (This will not 

 be construed as a reflection upon the splendid work done by 

 Inspector McEvoy, of Canada, and others, for it is not so 

 intended.) 



Prof. Cook, in a letter from Los Angeles Co., Calif., 

 which we received Jan. 16, said : 



" While we have not yet enough rain to insure a good 

 honey crop for the coming season, the outlook is very hopeful. 

 We are already within one or two inches of the amount of 

 last year, and have within half enough to make the outlook or 

 prospects very favorable. Thus it is to be hoped that we shall 

 have a good season in 1897. and thit the Exchange will have 

 plenty of work to do." 



Mr. J. J. Marshall is one of Wisconsin's large bee- 

 keepers, as will be found by the following item, which ap- 

 peared in a local newspaper: 



"J. J. Marshall was here on business Monday. In company 

 with L. Dalton, they took and sold from their bees, 18,500 

 pounds of extracted honey the past year. This means that 

 they used about 60 ordinary barrels to hold it." 



Mr. Marshall has been in the bee-business 8 years, and 

 has had but one year of failure— that was 1893. He feels 

 that adulteration of honey and dishonest commission men are 

 to be dreaded far more than foul brood in Wisconsin. That 

 may be true, and yet aH deserve such laws that beekeepers 

 can help to enforce when necessary in order to protect them- 

 selves. 



1^" See " Bee-Keeper's Guide" offer on page 45. 



