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honey, or get their liviiiB out of the honey-business. If we do 

 not do our part in consuming our own product, how can we go 

 10 others and urge upon them the iniportanceof a honey diet? 

 The editor of the Busy I5ee eats honey three times a day at 

 the rate of about 1") pounds per montli, and be has no hesi- 

 tancy in saying that honey has been one of the means of tal<- 

 ing him from a chronic state of invalidism. People who have 

 any tendency to stomach trouble should refrain from the use 

 of all sweets except honey. Most of these will find that they 

 can eat extracted honey not only with impunity but with 

 decided benefit. 



One of the things that makes it hard for me to spend any 

 length of tiine away from my home is my inability to get 

 honey, and I am sorry to say that I find this delicious and 

 healthful article of diet absent from the table of those who 

 keep bees about as frequently as I do from the table of those 

 who do not have any bees, and have to secure what honey 

 they use in the open market. 



I have thrown out these few hints that the honey pro- 

 ducers may do a little thinking along this line, and ask them- 

 selves if they "practice what they preach." 



We are with Mr. Abbott on the subject of eating honey, 

 only we hardly have the capacity of 15 pounds per month. 

 Perhaps if we were as long and lean and lank as our fellow 

 editor, we, too, could "get away" with as much honey as he 

 does. 



But Mr. Abbott makes a good point in the above, and it 

 is high time that all bee-keepers' families were using honey 

 more freely, and less of the trust aud monopolistic sugar. Try 

 it for a change, if you have not been doing it already. 



The Seneca Co., X. Y., CouTentiun will meet 

 in the Fireman's Rooms at Romulus, Thursday, Dec. 16, at 

 10 a.m. The announcement says that "the ladies are re- 

 quested to come^prepared to serve dinner and supper." Noth- 

 ing small about that invitation, is there ? Among the subjects 

 to be discust are these: 



iz: Arrangement of Out-Apiaries — Charles Baldridge. 

 ; Shipping Comb Honey — M. T. Williamson. 



The Problem of Wintering Bees— G. M. Doolittle, the 

 " convention king." 



Experience of a Novice— Prof. W. E. D. Gibson. 



Comb vs. Extracted Honey for Profit — J. C. Howard. 



Relation of Bees to Horticulture— J. B. Whiting. 



The Problem of Bee-Pasturage — Mr. Spencer, of Cornell 

 Experiment Station. 



For further particulars, if desired, address the Secretary, 

 C. B. Howard, Romulus, N. Y. 



would result in so much benefit to honey-producers as along 

 this very line. While this might not be exactly " entomologi- 

 cal," it would be a great "encouragement" to bee-keeping. 



Beeless Honey. — The following is reported as a por- 

 tion of the conversation recently held by Mr. and Mrs. Citybug: 



Mrs. Citybug — "Our grocer now delivers his goods in one 

 of.those new horseless wagons." 



Mr. Citybug — "Horseless wagons, eh! Well, he's been 

 giving us cowless butter and beeless honey ; I suppose the 

 next thing will behenless eggs." 



Apicultural Experiments are in contemplation 

 by the Division of Entomology of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, at Washington, D. C. In a report issued by Secretary 

 Wilson, in October, we find the following under " Entomologi- 

 cal Investigations in Contemplation :" 



"Experiments in apiculture come properly under the 

 head of ■ Entomological Investigations,' and will be resumed 

 under capable supervision. The honey-producing industry is 

 a large and growing one, and deserves some slight encourage- 

 ment at the hands of the Government." 



We are glad to see that ourGovernment realizes the grow- 

 ing importance of apiculture, and intends to lend some en- 

 couragement to it, even tho it be "slight." We would like 

 to suggest that among the first things investigated, the adul- 

 teration of honey would be the most promising, and then keep 

 on until a national pure food law is enacted by Congress. We 

 believe that no other line of investigation and practical work 



T1?G Weekly Budget. 



The a. I. Root Co. will have a display at the Trans- 

 Mississippi Exposition at Omaha, next year. The Busy Bee 

 says it will be a fine one. 



Mr. C. B. Bankston, of Burleson Co., Tex., writing us 

 Nov. 28, said : 



"We are having a very warm winter here, and the bets 

 are in fine condition." 



The G. B. Lewis Co. report a very large business during 

 the past season, and they have begun to prepare for a much 

 larger business in 1898.' They, too, will be at Omaha.— Busy 

 Bee. 



Virgil V. Roush, of Adams Co., Ohio, sends the following 

 with his renewal subscription : 



" I am well pleased with the Bee Journal. It has been a 

 great help to me." 



Mr. Thos. Shotbolt, of British Columbia, writing us 

 Nov. 20, said : 



"Bees on Vancouver Island have not been a success the 

 past season. I am going to do what I can to produce the best 

 forage for my bees. I am only an amateur, but take great 

 interest in apiculture." 



Mb. D. W. Heise — ono of the most respected and gentle- 

 manly Canadians at the Buffalo convention— reports in the 

 Canadian Bee Journal that at that meeting ho was several 

 times taken for Mr. Ernest R. Root, editor of Gleanings. He 

 jocosely says that it sort o' inllated him, and that he may soon 

 start a paper, to be called "Gleanings in Canadian Bee-Cul- 

 ture." But we think with proper care and sutlicient time he 

 will recover. 



Mr. W. A. Pellew, of Nevada Co., Calif., wrote us as 

 follows Nov. 27 : 



"I have been confined to the house all summer. lam 

 just able to walk on crutches now, but I take great interest 

 in reading the American Bee Journal, and could not do with- 

 out it. I got a neighbor of mine to send with me this year." 



Wouldn't it be fine it every subscriber could send one new 

 name with his or her renewal this month ? We know at least 

 two persons who would feel well at this end of the line. 



Mr. F. a. Gemmill, of Ontario, Canada, at the time of 

 sending his renewal for 189^, Nov. 30. wrote us: 



"The American Bee Journal is worth far more than the 

 amount of subscription, and having been a ' printer's devil' 

 once, in my father's oflice, I feel that i.f a paper is worth re- 

 ceiving, it is certainly worth paying for in some way or 

 another Are you going to Hamilton ? I will be there." 



We regret our inability to be at the Hamilton convention 

 of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association this week. We trust 

 it may be a grand good meeting, as it can easily be if all will 

 try to make it so. 



Mr. Jo.seph NT.SEw.\NnER— a prominent bee-'ut-pl' dealer 

 of Iowa— and also his store, are stiown in Gleanliis? for Nov. 

 15. It see.-Qi that " Joe" was once in the employ ot The A. 

 I. Root Co. as a ^tsnographer, and after about a two years' 

 stay with them he -"fi'it to Iowa, started in the bee-supply 

 business, employed a good looking stenographer of the 

 "female persuasion," and then up and formed a life partner- 

 ship with her. Editor Root says that as a result, " the busi- 

 ness boomed as it had never done before." And now Mrs. N. 

 can enjoy a 7if<;e wander (Nysewauder) over their large 

 place of business or around the town, any time she chooses ; 

 almost equal to a pleasant nimbfe with the noted California 

 " Rambler." 



