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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



November 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



-=D Established by Samuel Wagner Jn 1861 



The oldest Bee Journal in the English language. 

 Published Monthly at Hamilton, Illinois. 



Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Hamilton, Illinois. 



^UBSCRiPTLON Rates — In the United States, 

 Mexico and Canada. $1.50 per year; five 

 years, $6. Other foreign countries, postage 

 25 cents extra per year 



All subscriptions are stopped at expiration. Date 

 of expiration is printed on wrapper label. 



THE STAFF 



C. P. Dadant Editor 



Frank C. Pellett Associate Editor 



Maurice G. Dadant Business Manager 



(Copyright 1921 by C. P. Dadant.) 



THE EDITORS' VIEWPOINTS 



THE MILLER MEMORIAL FUND 



Receipt of contributions for this 

 fund have been made in the bee jour- 

 nals and the thanks of the committee 

 which has the fund in charge is ex- 

 tended to each contributor. These 

 thanlis are extended in behalf of the 

 thousands of friends of Doctor Miller 

 everywhere, who are anxious that 

 this memorial shall be worthy of tho 

 man. 



As is well known, the undersigned 

 committee was chosen by Mr. C. P. 

 Dadant to act informally in collecting 

 and expending the money to be con- 

 tributed by the many friends of Doc- 

 tor Miller. At the time of the first 

 announcements it was quite impossi- 

 ble to tell what form the memorial 

 should take, and as a result the whole 

 matter was presented in quite an in- 

 definite way. Suggestions were made 

 to the committee of various forms in 

 v/hich the memorial could be estab- 

 lished. Some desired a monument to 

 be erected at his grave, but this was 

 quite disapproved by most of those 

 with whom we could talk, because it 

 did not seem fitting that Doctor Mil- 

 ler's memory should be perpetuated in 

 such a manner. 



Following out the widely approved 

 idea that this fund should be put to 

 work for the benefit of beekeeping 

 for all time, which is the type of me- 

 morial that fits the character of our 

 esteemed friend, the most feasible 

 suggestion seems to be to establish 

 a library in which may be collected 

 the books, journals and reprints of 

 scientific articles on bees and bee- 

 keeping, available to those who desire 

 to make special studies in this field. 

 Such a memorial will be less widely 

 available than we would wish, but it 

 follows out the ideas of the many 

 friends who are interested in the fund 

 better than any other that has come 

 to us. This is what we shall work for. 



The location of the library is, of 

 course, still undecided, and the meth- 

 od of management and the safeguard- 

 ing of the funds for the future are 

 matters which can be determined only 

 after we are able to know how much 

 will be available, but in any event we 

 hope to establish a fund which shall 

 be permanently invested so that the 

 interest shall be used for the further- 

 ance of this library. 



For the funds available we know of 

 no more important endowment than 

 this one, for there is today no library 

 ir the United States that approaches 

 co'rpleteness in this field. There are 

 reveral excellent private libraries on 

 lo3keeping and also several growing 

 i'"stitutional libraries of great value, 

 but we hope as the years go by that 

 the Miller Library of Beekeeping will 

 surpass any of them. We also hope 

 tJiat contributions of valuable books 

 and pamphlets will be made so that 

 this library will grow rapidly. 



With this definite plan we make 

 another appeal to the beekeeping 

 friends of the late Doctor Miller to 

 contribute still more liberally than 

 they have to this fund. Many are 

 able to increase their contributions, 

 and a still larger number who have 

 not contributed will now, we feel, be 

 anxious to help in this worthy cause. 

 Im contributing to a lasting memorial 

 of this kind we not only honor the 

 memory of a great friend but we help 

 in the furtherance of the industry in 

 which we are all so greatly interested. 

 Contributions may be sent to the ed- 

 itors of the American Bee Journal and 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture, and will be 

 acknowledged through these journals. 

 IVay we not ask for greater liberality 

 now that we are able to announce a 

 more definite plan, and may we not 

 all unite in making this a project in 

 which all beekeepers throughout the 

 world may take just pride? 



We would also ask that at the meet- 

 ings of beekeepers for the next few 

 months this project be brought to the 

 attention of those in attendance so 

 that they may have an opportunity to 

 make contributions. Several bee- 

 keepers' associations have already 

 tpken such action and in this way lib- 

 eral contributions have been made. 

 We ask for the hearty co-operation of 

 each and every beekeeper in this 

 movement and want each one to feel 

 that this is not merely an eff'ort being 

 made by a committee, but that it is 

 a project dear to the heart of every 

 beekeeper everywhere. 



C. P. Dadant, 

 E. R. Root, 

 E. F. Phillips, 

 E. G. LeStourgeon, 

 B. F. Kindig. 



Fruit Scare; 

 Honey in Demand 



Mr. Honey Producer, do you real- 

 ize that when fruit is high in price 

 and hard to get, there is more demand 

 for honey? Do you realize also that, 

 if everybody in the countr-y could be 

 convinced that your honey is, really, 

 pure bees' honey, unadulterated, you 

 could not begin to supply the demand 

 for it, at remunerative prices? So do 

 not lose heart, if some one offers you 

 too low a price at wholesale. Get out 

 of your lethargy, and stir yourself 

 enough to apprise the world that you 

 have pure honey for sale, that you 

 guarantee it and will put up any 

 amount of money to back its punty. 

 Advertise; it will pay you, not only 

 for the coming winter, but for many 

 a winter to come. This is not guess 

 work, but the practical experience of 

 the man who writes this, who has 

 sold honey for more than 50 years, 

 with profit. 



Honey as Sauce 



Years ago, I remember James Hed- 

 don arousing my indignation by say- 

 ing that, at best, honey was only suit- 

 able as "sauce." Sauce! That is to 

 say, he could not see the use of honey 

 except as a condiment for something 

 else, a secondary affair. Well, I don't 

 see it that way. Every morning I eat 

 honey for breakfast, on either bread 

 or hot cakes, not as a sauce, but as 

 the principal ingredient of my meal. 

 The bread or cakes are only used as a 

 carrier for the honey. Of course we 

 can use honey also on different dishes. 

 But the man who does eat honey, 

 without the idea of securing the high 

 flavor of the flowers from which it 

 was gathered, is not a lover of honey. 

 If you add butter, or jelly, or any 

 other edible than good bread or cakes 

 to your honey, you spoil or hide the 

 fine flavor of it and you deserve to be 

 condemned to eat nothing better than 

 the vile corn syrup which many peo- 

 ple call a delicious food. Don't mix 

 fine things with other things of less 

 delicate flavor if you want to get the 

 full benefit of them. The great fault 

 with our people is that they aon't 

 really know "how to eat"; they gulp 

 down their food. They do as the 

 drunkard who does not want a light, 

 tasteful drink, but seeks the kick, and 

 wants it hard. Let us learn how to 

 eat, and we will then appreciate pure 

 honey from the blossoms, the finest 

 gift of nature, the ambrosia which 

 was said to be the aliment of the gods 

 in Olympus. The Greeks, at least, 

 knew honey to be something more 

 than "a sauce." 



F. W. L. Sladen 



In another column the reader will 

 find an obituary of Mr. Sladen, by 

 bis assistant, Mr. Gooderham. We 

 wish to add a few words. 



Mr. Sladen was an ardent natural- 

 ist and scientist. To appreciate it one 

 needs only to peruse the pages of his 

 two leading works, "The Humble- 

 Bee" and "Queen-Rearing in Eng- 

 land." A slight awkwardness in his 

 speech, especially when he used some 

 foreign language like French, pre- 



