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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Feb. 13, 1902. 



however, has a slightly yellowish tinge due to 

 its impurities, which also gives it a rank, fetid 

 odor that is extremely obnoxious. These im- 

 purities add to its poisonous qualities. When 

 the impure article is used, some slight residue 

 may be left after the evaporation of the 

 liquid. For this reason this grade will stain 

 goods, and it should not be poured upon food- 

 stuffs, though its vapor will do them no harm. 

 Liquid carbon bisulphid is not at all explo- 

 sive, so there need be no fear of handling it, 

 provided the cans are perfectly tight. It is 

 best kept in an out-house where there is no 

 tire and where it is dry, so that the cans will 

 not rust and allow the vapors to escape 

 through leaks. The liquid boils at 115 degrees 

 F., but a few degrees higherthan the tempera- 

 ture of the human body. One volume of the 

 liquid is said to give 375 volumes of vapor 

 upon evaporation. * 



As a vapor, it is 2.63 times as heavy as air, 

 and so can be poured from one glass to an- 

 other almost like water. Understanding its 

 weight, it will easily be understood why it is 

 directed to have the vessel containing the 

 liquid iiCui'f the combs to be disinfected, and 

 that the vapor will be more dense at the bot- 

 tom. The first effect of inhaling the vapor is 

 giddiness, and upon the first feeling of giddi- 

 ness if one immediately gets to the open air 

 to breathe, the ill effects will soon pass off, 

 while death may ensue if the vapor is inhaled 

 for a sufficient length of time. If one should 

 desire to remain in a room with the vapor a 

 few minutes it may be safely done by resort- 

 ing to the following device : 



A large paper bag (20 quarts or more) is 

 tied tightly around a short piece of tubing of 

 glass, rubber, or metal, inserted in its mouth. 

 When inflated, the bag contains suthcient air 

 to enable one to respire into it for several 

 minutes without discomfort. Being very 

 light, it can be carried by the tube iu the 

 mouth, thus leaving the hands free for any 

 work desired. 



Of course it is understood that the vapor 

 must be confined to be effective, and the 

 amount of vapor needed depends much upon 

 the closeness with which it is confined. One 

 pound of liquid bisulphid to each 1000 cubic 

 feet of space, which is equivalent to 1 part of 

 vapor to UO parts of air, will, if the vapor be 

 properly confined, destroy insect life in a few 

 seconds, and the same result will follow in 7.5 

 minutes if there be one part of vapor to 354 

 parts of air. The weaker the vapor the longer 

 the time required. 



" Carbon bisulphid is put up in tight tin 

 cans or iron drums holding from 1 to .50 

 pounds. It may be purchased In small quan- 

 tities of any druggist, at from 25 to 35 cents 

 per pound ; " and at a very much less price by 

 the quantity from wholesale dealers or manu- 

 facturers. 



To destroy ants with this drug, trace the 

 ants to their nests, make one or more holes in 

 the nest with a stick or iron bar, pour into 

 each hole 1 or 2 ounces of the liquid, and 

 then close the hole immediately by stepping 

 on it. 



It should be emphasized that bisulphid of 

 carbon is a dangerous explosive if the least 

 spark of fire should touch it. 



Working for Wax and Honey.— A. 



Maujean gives in the Revue Eclectique a plan 

 by which he gets a crop of extracted honey 

 and a considerable quantity of wax, which he 

 thinks costs him nothing. His extracting- 

 coml>5 are spaced I'-.i inches from center to 

 center, and are left in the hive till sealed over. 

 Then they are cut down to 1 inch in thickness, 

 yielding considerable wax. 



I Weekly Budget. I 



Out op No. 1. — Unfortunately we have run 

 out of the first number of the Bee Journal for 

 this year, dated Jan. 2. We wonder if some 

 of our readers, who do not preserve them for 

 binding, would not like to send us that copy. 

 If so we will send them in exchange a copy 

 of the song, " Buckwheat Cakes and Honey," 

 if those who return to us that number of the 

 Bee Journal will write their name and address 

 with pencil on the first page before wrapping 

 for mailing. 



Mb. Geo. W. Bboubeck, of Los Angeles 

 Co , Calif., wrote us Jan. 25, as follows, when 

 sending a short report of the recent California 

 convention : 



"California bee-keepers have been appre- 

 hensive of another dry year, as the rainfall up 

 to the present has been below the average, 

 and up to two days ago we had no rain for 

 over two months. The past 24 hours, though, 

 has brought us a fall of 1.32 inches, with a 

 prospect of more, consequently we feel some- 

 what relieved." 



Ipaho ORGAjiizED.— We learn from Mr. 



E. F. Atwater, that the Idaho State Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association was organized at Parma, Jan. 

 IS, with the following officers: President, 



F. R. Fouch; vice-president, W. F. SchuU: 

 general manager, E. F. Atwater; secretary, 

 Miss B. M. Petersen. Membership fee, $1.00 

 a year. 



Success to the new Idaho Association. 



Mr. Fred W. Muth, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 gave us a pleasant call last week. He had 

 been on a business trip to Wisconsin. The 

 firm of Fred W. Muth & Co. has dissolved 

 partnership, and hereafter it will be " The 

 Fred W, Muth Co.," an incorporated concern, 

 with an authorized capital stock of iS10,000, 

 about a third of it being fully paid up. Mr. 

 Muth himself will manage the business, 

 which means that it will be well managed. 

 Handling bee-keepers' supplies and honey will 

 be the business of the new firm, as it was of 

 the old one. Their prospects are exceedingly 

 bright. We wish them all success, which 

 they will certainly have, as they are pushers 

 for business. 



" The Truth About Honet " is being pub- 

 lished in various newspapers throughout the 

 land. The first to come to our desk contain- 

 ing the Chicago Association committee's re- 

 port was the Wood County Reporter, of 

 Grand Rapids, Wis. 



The next we received was Agricultural Ad- 

 vertising, the sparkling monthly that unfor- 

 tunately published Mr. John M. Stahl's 

 foolish paragraph on manufactured comb 

 honey, which we reprinted on page 803 (1901). 

 In addition to giving " Tlie Truth About 

 Honey"' in full. Agricultural Advertising 

 had this editorial utterance, which shows that 

 its heart is still in the proper place: 



Agricultural Advertising has received a 

 score or more protests from honey-producers 

 the country over who object to the strictures 

 laid upon the honey-trade in a paper read be- 

 fore the National Agricultural Press League 



and printed in the November Agricultural 

 Advertising. 



Agricultural Advertising takes off its hat 

 and apologizes to the wardens of the busy bee. 

 Personally they are the salt of the earth, and 

 we believe they never made a pound of artifi- 

 cial comb honey in all their days. 



The American Grocer— the leading peri- 

 odical devoted to the grocery trade — in its 

 issue for Jan. 29, had an illustrated article 

 written by Mr. W. P. Root, an employee of 

 the A. I. Root Co., counteracting the effect of 

 the manufactured-honey misrepresentation, 

 and trying to set the grocers right on the 

 subject of comb honey. It was well done. 

 Every bee-keeper or other person who can in- 

 fluence the publisher of any paper to give the 

 truth about comb honey to its readers will be 

 doing a good thing. 



Mr. W. A. Prtal, of Alameda Co., Calif., 

 wrote us as follows, Jan. 21 : 



■' The weather around Christmas was as fine 

 as any summer weather we ever had in this 

 State, with the exception that some of the 

 mornings were a trifle sharp. But the weather 

 was just grand. 



We are having nice rains at last. Crops 

 are in splendid condition here, and the pros- 

 pects are good for an aljundant harvest." 



Mr. Pryal also wrote us that his oldest sister, 

 "Ella," died Christmas morning, lastly of 

 pneumonia. She was a very bright person, a 

 teacher of a dozen years' service, a gifted 

 artist in coloring, and withal a beautiful char- 

 acter. Mr. Pryal will have the sympathy of 

 all in his bereavement. 



The Chicago Daily News. — After reading 

 that the Daily News had published " The 

 Truth About Honey," as mentioned on page 

 51, a subscriber to the Bee Journal wrote us 

 as follows: 



" I am glad to see your good report of 

 the Daily News. I think I will subscribe for it 

 when my time is out on another Chicago 

 daily paper. Why should the News not get 

 some fresh subscribers from bee-keepers on 

 the strength of its attitude toward them ? " 



We believe that bee-keepers should patron- 

 ize the papers that treat them right. Editor 

 Smith, of the Chicago Daily News, would no 

 doubt be pleased to hear from the bee-keep- 

 ers, not only with their subscriptions for his 

 paper, but a letter of encouragement and 

 thanks for his treatment of them would be 

 appreciated. The editor of a daily newspaper 

 has no easy job, especially the editor that 

 wants to do the right thing. 



Not a "Fling." — One of our valued read- 

 ers says this in a private letter : 



" I am sorry you made that fling at ' the 

 editors who enjoy showing themselves off in 

 their own papers.' " 



Why, bless you, that wasn't intended as a 

 "fling," at all, unless it was a fling at our- 

 selves as well. Wasn't >nfr turn picture in 

 the American Bee Journal last spring or sum- 

 mer, in connection with two other bee-paper 

 editors i And. once upon a time, wf had a 

 reproduction of our homely phiz shown inside 

 of a bee-veil, and usetl it in connection with 

 the word " Editorial " at the head of that de- 

 partment. But, say, we hope our readers for- 

 gave us at the time, and have not laid it up 

 against us. We must admit it wasn't a 

 modest thing for us to do, and we promised 

 ourselves we wouldn't do it again. But, then, 

 ■IK do and .say lots of Ihings that afterward we 

 find would better have been left undone and 

 unsaid. But wf are not perfect yet. Are yy«, 

 dear reader ? 



