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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 30, 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The Effect of Bee and Honey Shows. 

 —A correspondent in the London Hor- 

 ticultural Journal, says : 



I can state without fear of contra- 

 diction that never in the memory of 

 man lias there been such a desire to 

 keep bees as at the present time. In 

 this district people have been so en- 

 couraged in bee-keeping as taught 

 through the tents, that the agents in 

 the north of Ireland have had to re- 

 peat their orders again and again for 

 bar-frame appliances, as Messrs. G. 

 Neighbour & Sons could testify. Fur- 

 ther, new manufacturers have started 

 in all parts of the country ; and besides 

 all this, I have almost daily applica- 

 tions for instructions concerning the 

 bar-frame hive. As regards sectional 

 supers, nothing could be more taking 

 than they are, and those who exhibit 

 them at shows are pressed all day to 

 dispose of them, while on the other 

 hand, few " spear the price " of a glass 

 super 21 lbs. at 2s. per lb., or a big, 

 straw skep tilled with honey, brood, 

 bee-bread, etc. 



In an age like the present, when 

 universal peace prevails, and men are 

 multiplying rapidly on the earth, new 

 occupations, new methods of earning 

 an honest living must necessarily be 

 encouraged. Millions of pounds of 

 precious nectar secreted by the honey 

 producing flora, goes to waste every 

 year for the want of the busy workers 

 to collect it and prepare it for the use 

 of man, and for the want of skillful 

 apiarists to control and direct the busy 

 workers. Let no man say he can find 

 nothing to do to get a living. 



How Cyprian Bees Behave iu Eng 



land.— The editor of the British Bte 

 Journal quoted some American com- 

 plaints about the ferocity of Cyprians, 

 and adds : 



The last extract coincides exactly 

 with our experience, and we can go 

 even further. On several occasions 

 bees that have crept between the folds 

 of our clothing (which they are very 

 prone to do), have, when liberated at 

 night, attacked us by gas-light, when 

 other bees would have been only too 

 glad to escape if ii were possible to 

 do so. 



hatched, in a close box or in bottom- 

 less hives, placed one above the other, 

 then to a smoker in full blast add a 

 tablespoonful of sulphur, and place 

 the fuming smoker in the top of the 

 box or in the upper hive ; as the sul- 

 phurous fumes are heavier than the 

 air. they will roll to the bottom and 

 suffocate the worms. This is cheaply 

 done and may save much loss and dis- 

 appointment. 



Let the honey be thoroughly graded 

 as it is put on the market ; let it be in 

 clean crates, so made that every pass- 

 er-by shall be enticed, as he sees 

 through a glass not darkly, the tempt- 

 ing honey ; let there be no possible 

 chance for the honey to leak, and dis- 

 gust the dealer, and always see that 

 every grocery-man in the vicinity has 

 a supply of this most beautiful and 

 wholesome article of food constantly 

 on hand. The best way to manage 

 sour honey is to heat it till it boils, 

 which kiils the plant-germs which 

 cause the fermentation ; then feed it 

 back to the bees. In the process of 

 restoring the honey seems to have re- 

 gained its previous excellence. 



Honey at the Arkansas State Fair.— 

 The Little Rock Democrat gives the 

 following list of premiums awarded 

 for honey at the State Fair : 



Best package comb honey in the best 

 marketable shape, 5 lbs. or more, W. 

 W. Hipolite, Duval's Bluff, $5. 



Best package extracted honey in the 

 best marketable shape, 5 lbs. or more, 

 Stacy Pettit, Fort Smith, $5. 



Best crate of honey in comb, 25 lbs., 

 W. W. Hipolite, Duval's Bluff, $20. 



Best colony of bees, movable comb 

 hives, F. J. Young, Little Rock, $10. 



Best 5 lbs. beeswax, Mrs. E. H. 

 Chamberlain, Little Rock, $2. 



Best machine for extracting honey, 

 Stacey Pettit, Fort Smith, $2. 



Best bee hive. YV. W. Hipolite, Du- 

 val's Bluff, diploma. 



Bee-Culture as a Business.— Mr. G. 

 W. Demaree, gives his views on this 

 subject in the Farmers'' Home Journal, 

 as follows : 



Bee-culture is yet in its infancy. It 

 is only about 20 years ago the Rev. L. 

 L. Langstroth, by his invention of the 

 movable frame hive, laid the founda- 

 tion of scientific bee-culture, and soon 

 after Mr. Wagner commenced the pub- 

 lication of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, the first paper devoted exclu- 

 sively to bee-culture ever published in 

 this country. With this state of things, 

 one would suppose that the business 

 would have moved right along, but 

 not so. People had been educated to 

 look on bee-culture as a " little busi- 

 ness," and called it " fussing with 

 bees," till ignorance and superstition 

 had taken too deep a hold to be rooted 

 out so easily. The paper was so poorly 

 supported at the start, that the enter- 

 prise was abandoned for a time, but 

 was revived about the year 1865 or 

 I860, and after the death of Mr. Wag- 

 ner (than whom no man was more 

 highly esteemed among the bee fra- 

 ternity), the paper fell into the hands 

 of Thomas G. Newman, whose learn- 

 ing and enterprise soon made it a 

 great success. This paper is now is- 

 sued weekly, and is as ably and accu- 

 rately edited as a majority of the best 

 papers in the country. There are now 

 8 or 10 papers published in the interest 

 of bee-culture, while nearly all the ag- 

 ricultural papers begin to realize that 

 the people want information on this 

 subject. And doubtless this class of 

 papers hereafter will give a due part 

 of their space to the subject of bee- 

 culture, and thereby many persons 

 will be reached who never see a bee 

 paper. 



Mitchell's Suit Dismissed. 



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Care of Surplus Honey.— Prof. A. J. 



Cook in the New York Tribune, writes 

 as follows on this important subject : 



Last evening, Mr. Samuel Hilbert 

 came to me and dolefully asked: 

 ■• What shall I do with my honey ? It 

 has all soured." " You, an old bee- 

 keeper, mean to say that you have put 

 your honey in a cellar or other damp, 

 cool place 'i Didn't you know better?" 

 " Yes, but when I took off my beauti- 

 ful white June, honey, I was |driven 

 with work, and so hurried it into the 

 nearest place, which happened to be 

 the cellar." This incident furnishes 

 a text for an opportune article on the 

 care and management of surplus 

 honey. The wise bee-keeper will re- 

 move his comb honey just as fast as 

 the bees cap it over. Let it form the 

 highway of travel for the bees but 

 for a few days, and its beauty is gone. 

 Take it off as soon as it is capped and 

 it will rival the snow in whiteness, 

 and must tempt irresistibly the buyer. 

 Secondly, put the honey in a dry, 

 warm room. If the temperature is 

 even 100° F. it will be all the better. 

 In such a room the honey will not 

 gather moisture, or " sweat," as it is 

 called, and there will be no trouble 

 from s6uring. In winter, the warmth 

 keeps the comb from becoming brit- 

 tle," and may be more safely handled. 

 Extracted honey should not only be 

 kept in a dry, warm room, but in open 

 vessels covered with cotton cloth, so 

 the moisture, in case it was extracted 

 before it was thoroughly cured, would 

 escape. If this precaution is surely 

 heeded, there is little (my experience 

 says no) danger in extracting before 

 the honey is capped over, beginning 

 just as the capping is commenced. 

 This saves no little time and labor. 

 If extracted honey is kept in a tem- 

 perature of from 80° to 100° F. it will 

 not granulate. Granulation, however, 

 does not injure the honey ; in fact, it is 

 one of the best tests of its purity. To 

 reliquefy candied honey, we have only 

 to heat it. If we are careful not to 

 raise the temperature above 180° F., 

 it will lose none of its excellence. To 

 do this easily, place the crock or can 

 containing the hoifey in a vessel of 

 water, placing something on the bot- 

 tom of the vessel so that the crock 

 may not touch the bottom and be- 

 come too much heated. Now if the 

 water in the vessel is not permitted to 

 boil, there is little danger of the honey 

 being injured. 



Care should be taken that the bee- 

 moth does not injure the comb honey 

 after it is removed from the hive. If 

 eggs are on the comb, they will hatch 

 ami possibly ruin the honey. Their 

 work is detected in the little particles 

 ■if wax seen on the face of the comb. 

 The safe way is to place all the comb, 

 one week after its removal from the 

 hive, when all the eggs will be 



The Indiana Fanner gives the fol- 

 lowing information concerning the 

 suit which N. C. Mitchell instituted 

 against it, placing the damages at 

 $5,000, and which is now dismissed : 



In March, 1880, a correspondent 

 wrote us in reference to a certain hive 

 on which a patent was claimed by the 

 above party, or his agents, and the 

 threatened prosecution for the use of 

 division boards. We answered that 

 the hive being offered was not the 

 original one on which a patent had been 

 granted, and that any one found ad- 

 vocating the same would bear watch 

 ing to say the least. A division board 

 was public property and could be used 

 by any one ; that the party alluded to 

 had been exposed frequently through 

 the various bee journals, hence the 

 suit. We asked for evidence of any 

 crooked dealings on the part of these 

 parties, and the amount of evidence 

 which has been sent us freely con- 

 firms our statement. We wish to re- 

 turn thanks to our many friends all 

 over the land for their kindness in 

 furnishing the preponderance of evi- 

 dence, we do not wish to make war 

 on any one, but we believe it our duty 

 to protect our readers as far as possi- 

 ble from all kinds of swindling 

 schemes, and we propose to do it so 

 far as is in our power, let the cost be 

 what it may. 



The patent bee-hive business has 

 been a curse to the bee-keeping inter- 

 est all over the land, and since the 

 movable frame is now public property 

 we strive to convince all beginners 

 that they do not need any kind of a 

 patent hive. Most of them are very 

 complicated, and have many useless 

 appendages, defeating the very object 

 for which they were intended. They 

 look very attractive and work nicely 

 at a fair, but with a colony of bees in 

 them, all their movable and adjustable 

 parts become glued firmly together 

 with propolis, and to loosen them jars 

 them and makes the bees hard to con- 

 trol. Beginners, especially, should 

 adopt some simple form of a movable 

 frame hive, and use them until they 

 become familiar with the nature of the 

 bees, and they will soon learn that the 

 less complicated the hive the more 

 satisfactory the results will be. 



Premiums.— Those who get up clubs 

 for the Weekly Bee Journal for 

 1882, will be entitled to the following 

 premiums. Their own subscription 

 may count in the club : 



For a Club of 3,— a copy of " Bees and Honey." 

 " " 3,— an Emerson Binder for 1882. 



" " 4,— Cook's (Bee) Manual, paper. 



5,— " " cloth. 



" " 6,— Weekly Bee Journal for 1 year. 



Or they may deduct 10 per cent in cash 

 for their labor iu getting up the club. 



1^ New subscribers for the Weekly 

 Bee Journal, for 1882, will have all 

 the remaining numbers for 1881 free 

 from the time the money is received 

 at this office. Therefore, the sooner 

 they subscribe for it, the more they 

 will obtain for the S2. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



BUYERS' QUOTATIONS. 



Office of American Bee Journal, I 

 Monday. 10 a.m., Nov. 28, 1881. ) 



The following are the latest quota- 

 tions for honey and beeswax received 

 up to this hour : 



CHICAGO. 



HONEY— The market is lively and prices steady. 



We quote light comb honey, in single comb 

 boxes. I8(^22c ; in larger boxes 2c. less. Extracted 

 a@9c. 



BEESWAX -Prime quality, isi.,22c. 



al. H. Newman. 1172 W. Madison St. 



NEW YORK. 



HONEY— The supply is full, and trade is lively. 



We quote as follows : White comb, in small 

 boxes, 18®22c ; dark, in small boxes, 15®17c. Ex- 

 tracted, white, liK'tllc; dark, 7«'HC. 



BEESWAX.— Prime quality, 21W®230. 



Thorn & Co.. 1 1 and 13 Devoe avenue. 



CINCINNATI. 



HONE Y— Is in good demand here now. 



I quote : Good comb honey, in sections, la worth 

 iNf-'U'ic, on arrival. Extracted. 7mOe. on arrival. 



BEESWAX.— imi"22c, on ariival. I have paid 

 25c. per lb. for choice lots. C F. Muth. 



BOSTON. 



HONEY.— 1-pound combs are a desirable pack- 

 age in our market, and a large quantity could be 

 suld at 2U(oj22c., according to quality. 



BEESWAX— Pi inie quality. 250. 



Crocker & Blake. 57 Chatham Street. 



BALTIMORE. 



HONEY.-But little on the market, and prices 

 are not quoted. 



BEESWAX.— Southern. pure.21@23c.; Western, 

 pure,21@ 22c; grease wax, lie— Baltimore Market 

 Journal. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



HONEY— New, in 1 or 2 lb. sections, 220250.— 



liuthuiapolix Stock Review. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



HONEY.— The supply and demand are alike 

 nominal. 



BEESWAX — Best light 23®25c— Philadelphia 

 Merchants' Guide. 



ST. LOUIS. 



HONEY.— Steady, witli sale for all offered at 

 quotations; comb at lR@22c.; strained and ex- 

 tracted, 8®12^c— top rates for choice put up in 

 small pin'kaiies suitable lur retailing, 



BEESWAX-Selling lightly at 19®20o. 



R. C Greer & Co., 1 17 N. Main Street. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



HONEY— Supply of comb is light, but equal to 

 requirements at present asking rates. The market 

 is not glutted with extracted, but holders And buy- 

 ers extremely scarce who are willing to pay the 

 prices asked. 



We quote white comb, 16(gi20c; dark to good, 10® 

 14c. Extracted, choice to extra white. 8^@loc; 

 dark and candied, 7&.NC BEESWAX— 23®25e. 

 Stearns & Smith. 423 Front street. 



CLEVELAND. 



HONEY— We report the market quite active ; 

 all our sales this week of comb honey In 1 pound 

 sections have been made at 22c, and two pound 

 sections at 20c. Extracted has taken a start, and 

 we report trade quite active in small packages. 30- 

 pouud tin cans, especially, at 12c per lb. Extrac- 

 ted in bbls. eontinuesduli 



BEESVVAX-20®22C 



A. C Kendel, 115 Ontario Street. 



