1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



169 



the opening day, make his entries and receive his entry-cards, 

 correctly entered by a practical bee-keeper familiar with api- 

 cultural phrases, avoiding the necessity of going to a remote 

 part of the grounds, and then stand in line before the entry 

 clerk in the secretary's office, awaiting your turn to make 

 your entries. 



While we admire this magnlfioent building wherein to ex- 

 hibit the " little busy bees " ai.d the result of their labor, we 

 cannot refrain from mentioning that this building is due to a 

 great extent to the untiring energy of Hon. E. Whitcomb, for 

 over 10 years the President of the Nebraska Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, and to his able assistant, Mr. L. D. Stilson, edi- 

 tor of the Nebraska Bee-Keeper, and Secretary of the 

 Nebraska Bee-Iveepers' Association. 



Mr. Whitcomb has been the Superintendent of the bee 

 and honey department of the Nebraska State Pair for I'i 

 years ; and the writer well remembers the remark he made 

 when, with his own hands, he set some posts in the ground 

 and nailed on some boards, for the first separate shelter for 

 the bee and honey exhibit. lie said : " We will have some- 

 thing better.'' His extensive acquaintance with nearly all the 

 State officers, as well as the ulHcers of the Fair association ; 

 his zeal for bee-culture in Nebraska, his indomitable determi- 

 nation, bordering on obstinate tenacity that would not take 

 " no" for an answer, has been the foundation, cornerstone, 

 and superstructure of this building, to which every Nebraska 

 bee-keeper — yes, every lover of the busy bee — may point with 

 pride. E. Keetchmek. 

 *-•-♦. 



IIou«'y <'un«ly aud <'ool»ies. — Mrs. A. J. Barber, of 

 Colorado, has very kindly sent us the following recipes for using 

 honey in making candy and cookies: 



Honey-Caxhy. — One quart honey, one small teacup of granu- 

 lated sugar, butterjsize of an egg. two tablespoons strong vinegar. 

 Boil until it wfll harden when dropt into cold water, then stir 

 in one small teaspoon of baking soda. Pour into buttered plates 

 to cool. Without the vinegar and soda it can be pulled or workt 

 a long time, and is just the thing for an old-fashioned candy pull, 

 as it is not sticky, and yet is soft enough to pull nicely. 



Honey-Cookies.— One large teacup full of honey. One egg 

 broken into the cup the honey was measured in, then two large 

 spoonfuls sour milk, and fill the cup with butter or good beet drip- 

 ping. Put in one teaspoonful of soda and flour to make a soft 

 dough. Bake in a moderate oven a light brown. 



We wish to thank Mrs. Barber for these two recipes, and also 

 invite others to send in any more that are valuable, and that have 

 not been recently publisht. 



T\)^ Weekly Budget. 



Mr. G. a. foRGERSoN, of Dakota Co., Minn,, wrote us 

 March 5, when sending his renewal subscription : 



" " I am very much pleased with the stand the American 

 Bee Journal has taken against fraudulent commission-men 

 and honey adulterators. It seems to me that if bee-keepers 

 would unite, aud stand together, great good could be done 

 along this line." 



Mr. G. M. Doolittle, of Onondaga Co., N. Y., wrote us as 

 follows March 9 : 



"The snow all gone but the deeper drifts, and spring 

 seems to be coming on apace. This is early for us, but none 

 too early for the bees, which have had no chance to fly in 

 1897. Those in the cellar care not, of course, but those win- 

 tered on the summer stands begin to want a flight quite badly. 

 I hope that the American Bee Journal will meet with the 

 success it deserves." 



Dr. C. C. Miller, of McHenry Co., 111., wrote us as fol- 

 follows Wednesday morning, March 10; 



" A magnificent morning. Last night I went down cellar 

 and 'harkt' at the entrance of every hive, and found only 

 three colonies dead ; and the book shows those three queen- 

 less." 



The Doctor had 270 colonies last fall, having increast 

 during the season from 140, besides taking that nice crop of 

 10,00t) pounds of comb honey. No wonder he's been so 

 happy all winter ! 



Mr. Luther Hesrt Tucker, senior editor and proprietor 

 since 1873 of the Country Genteman, of Albany, N. Y., died 

 Feb. 2-1:, 1897. He was 62 years of age. He was a tireless 



toiler in his chosen pursuit, and progressive agriculture has 

 lost one of its strongest supporters. The Country Gentleman 

 Is one of our best exchanges. Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson fre- 

 quently contributes to its columns articles on practical bee- 

 culture, showing that its editor used better judgment in the 

 selection of his apiarian contributors than most agricultural 

 publications do. The Bee Journal extends sincerest sympathy 

 to the bereaved family and friends of the honored Luther 

 Henry Tucker. 



Mr. J. A. Golden, of Morgan Co., Ohio, wrote March 8 : 

 "Bees are breeding up quite a little for this climate so early." 



Hon. Geo. E. Hilton, of Michigan, writing March 8, said: 



" Long may the American Bye Journal live, and receive 



a full share of the prosperity that will surely come under the 



present administration, in which ' American markets for 



Americans' will be the watchword." 



Rev. H. Rohrs, a Lutheran minister of Rock Co., Wis., 

 gave us a very pleasant call last week. He has some 30 colo- 

 nies of bees which he cares for in connection with his pastoral 

 work. Last year he had about 800 pounds of comb honey. 

 He has been experimenting a little in wintering bees the past 

 few months, and we have invited him to write the results a 

 little later on. 



Dr. Peiro's department, which appears quite frequently 

 in the Bee Journal, is always worth reading. You will find it 

 on page 175 of this issue. By the way, if there is anything 

 wrong with your throat or lungs, it will pay you to consult 

 him. He makes a specialty of these things. He is also a good 

 family doctor — an M. D. of ovei' 30 years' standing — though 

 he prefers to sit most of the time, as he's pretty weighty ! 



Mr, J. C. Thompson, of Logan Co., Ky., sends a descrip- 

 tion of a new swarm-catcher he has invented. It is a little 

 after the plan of the Hill swarm-catcher. A box is made by 

 means of a frame of wood covered with wire-cloth, fixt on the 

 end of a pole of sufficient length. One side of the box is cov- 

 ered by a door which slides in grooves at each side, and a 

 string running through a pulley allows the operator to close 

 this door when the bees have entered. Then the box filled 

 with the swarm is laid over the frames of the empty hive, the 

 sliding door is opened, and the bees allowed to go down. 



Mr. C. a. Hatch, once one of th.i most prominent bee- 

 keepers in Wisconsin, is now in California, In an exchange. 

 Prof. Cook has this to say about him in connection- with the 

 late meeting of the California State Bee-Keepers' Association : 



"The presence of Mr. Hatch, late of Wisconsin, was very 

 gratifying. Mr. Hatch is not only a bee-keeper of prominence 

 in our country, but also a man of far more than ordinary in- 

 telligence. He was not only one of the most successful honey- 

 producers of Wisconsin, but was also quite noted as a general 

 farmer, especially in the production of sheep and mutton. So 

 successful was Mr. Hatch in his work that, for several years, 

 he was appointed as one of the lecture staff of the Farmers' 

 Institutes of that State. California is greatly to be congratu- 

 lated in having such a man with us." 



Mr, A. S. Atkins, of Washington Co., Vt., had this to say 

 March 2, when renewing his subscription : 



Dear Mr. York: — " I don't see how anyone that keeps 

 bees can get along aud never look inside of a good bee-paper. 

 I think the "Old Reliable" grows better ever week. The 

 times are very hard, but they will be much worse before I 

 shall try to get along (and keep bees) without your valuable 

 paper." 



Mr. M. a. Gill, of Mesa Co., Colo., is the bee-inspector 

 for that county. He says this in Gleanings : 



" This county (Mesa) has about 4,000 colonies of bees. I 

 personally examined 3, 100 colonies last season. I destroyed 

 by fire between 50 and 60, besides burning over 100 infected 

 hives and other fixtures. I also drove quite a number of colo- 

 nies back into their own hives after first saturating the inside 

 of the hive with coal-oil. then burning it to a char, and giving 

 them only V-shaped top-bars for starters. That the honey 

 they carry with them is digested before they can build comb 

 and store it is proven, I think, by the fact that of all the colo- 

 nies so treated only two showed signs of the return of the dis- 

 ease last fall." 



This is a good time to work for new subscribers. 



