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other State, but just as nice, though we 

 understand many admit that the 500 pounds 

 of comb honey shown in the Michigan ex- 

 hibit, and produced by Hon. R. L. Taylor, 

 is the finest on exhibition. 



We are very certain that our critic on 

 page 200 did not intend to cast any reflec- 

 tions on the New York State exhibit, and 

 we feel that the apparent difference in 

 opinions must result, in a measure, at least, 

 from the different ways of looking at 

 things. 



Mr. V. J. r.ye» of Delphos, Ohio, 

 visited the Bee Journal ofHce a short time 

 since. He is over 70 years old, but still en- 

 ergetic and a great admirer of the little 

 bee. In speaking of ridding apiaries of the 

 pestiferous ants, he said that he succeeded 

 splendidly with pulverized salsoda, sprink- 

 ling it wherever the ants were. He also 

 made a strong solution of it, by using 

 water, and then sprinkling it upon the ant 

 nests, and also in other places infested by 

 them. The same thing he also used to keep 

 down the grass around the hives and in the 

 apiary. It certainly has at least two very 

 good recommendations — it is cheap and 

 easily applied. 



lloiiey-I>e>v, as mentioned last week, 

 is the name of a Russian drink made 

 principally from honey, and exhibited in 

 connection with the Indiana honey exhibit 

 at the World's Fair. Mr. Hill, who has 

 charge of the exhibit, has a small pyramid 

 of pint bottles of the " Honey-Dew '" in the 

 glass exhibition case, and it makes a very 

 attractive appearance with the neat and 

 many-colored labels that decorate the bot- 

 tles containing the drink. 



Mr. Hill gave us a bottle of it as a sample, 

 which we took home and placed in a re- 

 frigerator. When cool it is a very refresh- 

 ing drink, something like Hires' root beer, 

 though we believe it is much less " sharp '' 

 in taste. 



The company, which was organized to 

 manufacture the new honey -drink at Ken- 

 dallville over a year ago, has failed, 

 through some mismanagement. Mr. Hill 

 believes that if the right parties would take 

 hold of the business, a good thing financially 

 could be made out of it, and at the same 

 time a new demand be created for ex- 

 tracted honey. 



A little over a year ago Mr. Hill had this 



to say about the drink, in his Bee-Keepers^ 

 (hiide : 



It is a very popular drink in Russia, and 

 is used in large quantities. It is kept in 

 public places, and lis sold about as we sell 

 soda-water in this country. We think the 

 new honey fresh from the flowers and 

 hives, containing all of its flavor and odor, 

 full strength, having lost nothing by stand 

 ing and candying, would make the best 

 drink. That used in Russia was " strained " 

 honey, very strong, and of all kinds, but 

 we ought to be able to furmsh each kind 

 separate. 



It looks as though this enterprise would 

 use up a lai'ge quantity of honey. The 

 drink is not intoxicating. 



Of course, if the drink were in the least 

 intoxicating we should not mention it in 

 these columns, as we think there are already 

 too many beverages that should never have 

 been invented. But if it will open up a new 

 field for the use of honey, and also furnish 

 a safe, refreshing and healthful drink, we 

 can see no reason why its production should 

 not be encouraged. 



]\ew l$ee-I*apers. — In commenting 

 upon the suspension of publication of the 



Bee-Keepen^ Guide, the British Bee JoxirnaJ 

 used these very truthful words, which we 

 commend to all who may imagine they are 

 " divinely called " to start a new bee-paper: 



Although we read year after year of new 

 journals being started and coming to grief, 

 it is astonishing to us that there are still 

 found persons simple enough to think that 

 they have merely to start a bee-paper to 

 make it a success, and yet simpler persons 

 to believe them. There are every year in 

 America a number of new bee-papers 

 started, and about as many become extinct, 

 so that we have for a long time ceased to 

 notice them. 



Kev. E. X. Al>l>oft began, in the 

 Kansas Farmer for Aug. 10th, a series of 

 articles covering pretty thoroughly the sub- 

 ject of bee-culture. He will try to answer 

 just such questions as a beginner in the 

 business would be likely to ask. We proph- 

 esy that Friend Abbott will give something 

 very interesting to the readers of that 

 paper, for he is ^capable of doing that very 

 thing, as he pushes a sharp pencil. 



4i« resit IlrilJiiM imported honey dur- 

 ing the month of July, 18fl;>, to the value of 

 about $12,000. We wonder how much the 

 United States ^ported during the sam« 

 month. 



