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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 25, 



GBORCE; NV, YORK, • Editor. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 IIS JUioblssan St.. - CHICAGO, ILL. 



$1.00 a Year — Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 [Hntered at the Poat-Offlce at Chicaito as Second-Class Mall-Matter. 



United States Bee-Keepers' Djiioii. 



Organized to advance tlie pursuit of Apiculture: to promote the interests 



of bee-keepers : to protect its members : to prevent the adulteration 



ol honey: and to prosecute the dishonest honey-commission men. 



Membership fee-S1.00 Per Annum. 



ExGOutive Committee, 



Presipent— George W. York. Vice-Pres.— W. Z. Hutchinson. 

 Secretary— Dr. A. B. Mason, Station B, Toledo, Ohio. 



Board of Directors, 



E. Wbitcomb. E. T. Abbott. 



C. P. Dadant. 



E. R. Root. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. Dr. C. C. Miller, 



General ilXanao-er and Treasurer. 



Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



VoLfflVII. CHICAGO, ILL, NOV. 25, 1897, No, 47. 



Editorial Con)n)crft^^ 



Xlie BuflTalo CotiTention Report we will be- 

 gin next week, and do our best to get it all in this year's num- 

 bers of the Bee Journal. We had expected to begin It this 

 week, but couldn't well do it. In place of it, however, will be 

 found a very interesting report of the Southwestern Wiscon- 

 sin convention. 



Xlie Apiary shown on the first page this week is that 

 of John Trimberger, of Clark Co., Wis., which contains 212 

 colonies of bees. It is the home apiary. The out-apiary is 

 4X miles in a southwesterly direction, with 200 colonies. 

 Mr. Trimberger has been a reader of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal since 1879. During the last 10 years he has followed 

 bee-keeping almost exclusively. White clover and basswood 

 have yielded sparingly this year, in his locality, his entire 

 crop for the season being only 15,000 pounds of comb honey 

 and 600 pounds of extracted. 



Plea for Honey— Honeyed Baked Apples. 



— We have received the two following dipt paragraphs from 

 Mr. George fjacey, of Livingston Co., N. Y., which bo thinks 

 deserve a place lu the Bee Journal — and in so thinking he Is 

 correct: 



A Plea fok Uonky. — Many a weary house-mother exerts 

 herself to put up rows on rows of jellies, jams and canned 

 fruit, often In the extreme heat, when the same amount of 

 time, more healthfully spent out-of-doors, would supply her 

 family with a like ijuantlly of sweets (lulte as wholesome and 

 palatable to the average household. Of course a variety Is 

 desirable, and I would not do away with the time-honored 

 preserve closet, but its dainties might well be dimlnisht in 

 quantity and supplemented with those which require no ma- 



nipulation. Especially where there are children is it desirable 

 to have a supply of natural sweets— honey and maple syrup — 

 as it is noticeable that a child can eat much more freely of 

 these than of candy or jams without ill-effects. — Country 

 Gentleman. 



Honeyed Baked Apples. — In baking apples, honey for 

 sweetening Is truly delicious. Wash the apples and core 

 them, but do not peel ; a bit of cinnamon may be put in the 

 holes made by removal of the cores. Put the apples into a 

 baking-pan, with just enough water to cover the bottom of 

 the pan. When the apples have baked for 20 minutes, add 

 the honey and baste them frequently until done. For very 

 sour apples use a half gill of honey to every six apples. Eaten 

 hot or cold, with or without cream, they are good. — Exchange. 



Fruit-Gro-wers and Bee-Keepers.— The per- 

 secution of bee-keepers by fruit-growers in California is not 

 yet at an end. An orchardist, of Orange, has brought suit 

 against an apiarist because of his bees depredating on the 

 fruit. The fruit-grower was defeated in the justice court, but 

 has appealed the case to the higher court, where no doubt the 

 decision will be reverst. There has, as yet, been no farmers' 

 institute ai Orange. Prof. Cook says he will soon go down 

 there, and hopes that the bees will be set right in the popular 

 mind. 



The olive-growers are generally aware that they cannot 

 secure good crops unless they mix varieties, and have bees 

 close at hand to do the work of pollination. Olive-growers 

 are now very generally acting on this suggestion. 



"W^etting: Sections. — Dr. Dubini having quoted in 

 tha Italian bee-journal, L'Apicoltore, Dr. Miller's plan of wet- 

 ting sections too dry to fold, evidently supposing each section 

 was wet separately, F. L. Thompson makes the correction in. 

 Review, saying that a box of 500 or 1,000 sections are wet 

 at once. A wooden plug is made to fit in the end of a funnel, 

 a groove being made in the plug, so that a very fine stream of 

 water will pass through. Boiling water is then poured into 

 the funnel from a teakettle, and the fine stream directed right 

 over the grooves, moving along so that just enough water is 

 poured to reach clear through all the sections. 



Tlie Ontario Convention will be held in the 

 County Council Chamber at Hamilton, Dec. 7, 8 and 9, 1897. 

 A good p'ogram has been arranged, and liberal hotel rates 

 (•SI. 00 per day) have been made by the St. Nicholas Hotel. A 

 cordial invitation is extended to all bee-keepers to attend and 

 help make this meetiug a grand one. For further informa- 

 tion, address the Secretary, Wm. Couse, Streetsville, Ont. 



Honey as Food is a neat 24-page circular for use 

 In creating a local demand for your honey crop. We mall a 

 sample free. Ask for it. Prices of quantities are given on 

 another page of this number. 



Canadian Bee-Keeping' Interests. — The To- 

 ronto Globe for Oct. 1-4 contained the following paragraphs 

 concerning a visit there, made by Editor Holtermann, of the 

 Canadian Bee Journal : 



Mr. R. F. Holtermann was in the city yesterday. In the 

 interests of bee-keepers he had an interview with the Hon. 

 John Dryden, Minister of Agriculture. There Is at present 

 an act to prohibit the spraying of fruit-trees while in blossom. 

 The object of this is to prevent the poisoning of honey-bees 

 when working ou the flowers. Mr. Holtermann slated that 

 the intelligent fruit-grower knew perfectly well that it was 

 not alone useless, but even endangered the fruit crop to spray 

 fruit-trees while in blossom. The injury was done by a few 

 who were still ignorant in this respect, and a less number who 

 did things In a slipshod way. The bulk of mischief was done 

 by men who were about the country with spraying outflts, 

 charging so much for each tree. It was to their Interest to 

 begin as early and spray as late as they could induce the 



