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AMERICAN BEE JOUENAL 



Jan. 30, 19C2. 



I Weekly Budget. I 



Jas. a. Stone & Son make annual exhibits 

 at the Illinois State Fair. On the first page 

 and also on this page is shown the display they 

 made at the last Fair. All the Lincoln Monu- 

 ment lacks is the statuary. It was made by 

 the son. " Percy," and must have involved 

 considerable work. Both the comb honey dis- 

 play and the monument received the 1st 

 premium, or blue ribbons, as, apparently, 

 they well deserved. 



The Illinois State Fair has had fine displays 

 in its apiary department for several years. 

 While the number of exhibitors has not been 

 large, the displays have been both large and 

 good. In fact, this department is one of the 

 most attractive of the whole Fair, and Jas. A. 

 Stone tt Son have contributed no little to 

 this result. 



Mr. J. B. DoDDS, the bee-inspector for Jef- 

 ferson Co., Colo., has been in Chicago for 

 about two weeks. He came with a ear-load 

 of No. 1 alfalfa comb honey, which he was 

 holding at ?3.00 per case. A dealer here pur- 

 chased 100 cases of it, and found that it 

 weighed all the way from 17}4 pounds to 2i'.2 

 pounds, net, of honey per case. So the light- 

 est eases cost about 1? cents per pound, while 

 the honey in the heaviest cases cost about 12 

 cents. While it may have been all right to 

 sell or buy the 100 eases, as a lot, by the case, 

 any one may easily see the injustice it would 

 be to the consumer were a case of the 

 lightest sold to him at the same price as a 

 case of the heaviest. 



As the 100 cases averaged practically an even 

 20 pounds net per case, there was no injustice 

 done the buyer or seller of this particular lot. 



A GREATMAP.—CalvinL. Walton, Ph. D.,is 

 a professor in the Lake View (Chicago) High 

 School, and an instructor of marked ability. 

 He has one of the maps that we are offering, 

 and he expresses his opinion concerning its 

 value in the following unsolicited manner: 



Dear Editor York :— For some time I 

 have been waiting^ for a good opportunity to 

 tell you how much we appreciate the Reversi- 

 ble Wall Map of the United States and the 

 World, but find none better than the present. I 

 say ur, not in any editorial sense, but in a 

 broad family way, meaning the entire house- 

 hold. 



In the first place, the maps are very attrac- 

 tive in appearance. The bright colors will 

 catch the eye and hold the attention of even 

 the smaller children of the home, and they 

 are studying geography before they know it. 



In the second place, it is up-to-date and 

 thoroughly reliable. The publishers have too 

 good a reputation to maintain to allow any 

 faulty or inaccurate map to go from their 

 press, so whatever knowledge the boys and 

 girls get from the study of these maps will 

 not be gainsaid anywhere. 



In the third place, there is a whole encyclo- 

 pedia of geographic information on the two 

 sides of the map. In country homes, where 

 reference books are few. the marginal refer- 

 ences will be found very ample and complete, 

 so that when the map is thoroughly mastered 

 one will have a very tjroad and comprehensive 

 knowledge of geography and geographic his- 

 tory. The ocean currents, which have such an 

 influence on the distribution of temperature, 

 and which exercise such a general climatic 

 control, are clearly defined and easily traced. 

 Then the routes of the ocean vessels are 



graphically shown, and one can see at a glance 

 the growing need for a deep-water isthmian 

 canal to connect our eastern and western 

 coasts. 



The most convenient place for hanging the 

 map temporarily was the dining-room ; and 

 as we occupy but three sides of the table, the 

 map was hung where all could see it, espec- 

 ially nine-year-old Arthur, who is studying 

 geography in the public school. During meal- 

 time the conversation generally gets around 

 to some phase of geography or travel, owing 

 to the presence of the map, and we find it in- 

 tinitely better to talk about foreign places 

 and people than about the block in which we 

 live and the good ( * ) neighbors all around 

 us. 



I would most heartily recommend the 

 map to every member of Prof. Cook's " Home 

 Circle," (that includes every reader of this 

 journal), feeling confident that the nominal 

 price asked for it will indeed seem small 

 when compared with its actual value and its 

 educational influence in the home. 



C. L. Walton. 



We believe Prof. Walton has not said a 

 word too much in commendation of the map. 

 It is indeed a fine one, and should adorn the 



well, I think. I owe most of my success to 

 the reading of bee-literature, especially the 

 " Old Reliable " and other papers. Long may 

 they live to proclaim the wonders of beedom, 

 and speak for truth, temperance and righteous- 

 ness. R. RODENBERGER. 



The Mexican Mutual Plasters Co., 

 writing us from Old Mexico, Jan. 8, reported 

 that bees there were " doing well, queens lay- 

 ing, pollen coming in, and comb-building go- 

 ing on splendidly." Quite a difference be- 

 tween the condition of bees there and in 

 Manitoba, Canada, on the same date. 



Mr. Wm. W. Case, of Hunterdon Co., N. J., 

 is doing some good work in his locality to 

 down the comb-honey lies that some people 

 have been helping to circulate. In the Hun- 

 terdon County Democrat, under date of Dec. 

 31, ISIOI, Mr. Case has quite an article which 

 includes the ?1,000 reward offered, and a 



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DISPLAY OP JAS. A. STONE ,V SON AT THE ILLINOIS STATE FAIR 

 AT SPRINGFIELD, IN OCTOBER, 1001. 



walls and instruct the people of every home. 

 The price of the map alone is ?1.50 prepaid, or, 

 if taken with a year's subscription to the 

 American Bee Journal, both will be sent for 

 only 82.00. If we ever made a good offer to 

 our readers it is this one. It shows nil t/ie 

 coiiutlt'n of every State of the United States. 



Mr. R. Rodenberoer, when sending the 

 picture of his apiary shown on page 78, wrote 

 as follows: 



In the spring of 189.5 I caught the bee-fever; 

 so I bought two colonics ot bees in box-hives 

 and transferred them into new ones which I 

 had made the previous winter. I now have 

 all hives and frames exactly alike, and all 

 numbered as will be seen in the picture, which 

 was taken two years ago. I now have 51 col- 

 onies. 



Before I began with bees. I did not know 

 the least thing about them, but got several 

 text-books on bee-culture and have read every- 

 thing I could get hold of ever since. 



I sold my home last fall in Waukesha 

 County, and bought a farm in Milwaukee 

 County, where I am now located. I success- 

 fully moved my bees on one load. Nov. 15, a 

 distance of 35 iTiiles. I expect this to be a 

 better location, as there is a great deal of sweet 

 and white clover as well as basswood and 

 golden-rod. 



Considering all things, I have done fairly 



statement of how the comb-honey lie was 

 given to the public by Government Chemist 

 H. W. Wiley, about 20 years ago. 



It seems that Mr. J. S. Trigg, of Iowa, (see 

 page 35), conducts a farm department in the 

 paper Mr. Case wrote to, and the editor, in 

 introducing Mr. Case's article, says Mr. Triggs 

 signs his name and address, " and we have no 

 doubt that he will either prove he is right or 

 admit thar he has been led into a misstate- 

 ment by being misinformed." 



We understand Mr. Triggs has since then 

 done the handsome thing by admitting his 

 error, and is doing all he can to counteract 

 its mischievous effect. As .soon as we see Mr. 

 Triggs' correction we will place it before our 

 readers. 



But let all get " The Truth About Honey " 

 published wherever they can. 



H. W. CoRNELisoN reports that he started 

 last spring with 93 colonies of bees and got 

 4,000 pounds of honey, for which he received 

 ?-ir5, and an increase of 25 colonies of Ijees, 

 not counting the honey his family consumed. 

 — Wasburn Co., (Wis.,) Register. 



