AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



817 



Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Secor, 



of Forest City, Iowa, dropped into our 

 office one day last week, on their way to 

 the Washington convention. They will 

 spend a few days visiting old friends in 

 New York State before going to Wash- 

 ington. Being the honored President of 

 the great North American Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, it is important that Mr. 

 Secor should be present at the meeting 

 next week, hence he takes an early start. 

 We should indeed be glad to attend 

 also, were it possible to leave at this 

 time of the year, but as Bro. A. I. Root 

 expects to be there, and with Bro. 

 Hutchinson as Secretary and reporter 

 for the Bee Journal, the literary part 

 of the pursuit will be ably represented. 



The Pure Food Bill, intro- 

 duced into Congress by Senator Paddock, 

 should be passed at this session of that 

 body. It is expected that the North 

 American Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 do something to help along the matter 

 at its convention next week. Producers 

 of pure honey are much interested in 

 Senator Paddock's Bill. They ought to 

 be, as it will be a great aid in prohibit- 

 ing the adulteration of honey, as well as 

 other food products. 



Italians vs. Blacks.— The edi- 

 tor of the American Bee-Keeper says 

 that "there is no doubt of the superior- 

 ity of the Italians over the black bees, 

 and, in fact, the Carniolan bees are con- 

 sidered by many to be equal, if not 

 superior, to the Italians. Of course the 

 black bees have some characteristics 

 which are better than are found in either 

 Italians or Carniolans, but taking every- 

 thing into consideration, they are much 

 inferior." 



Mr. James Forncrook, of the 



firm of James Forncrook & Co., Water- 

 town, Wis., called at the Bee Journal 

 office last week. He had been at the 

 Springfield meeting of the Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. 



Changing the Air in Cellars. 



— Mr. S. Plummer, of Mannsville, N. Y., 

 asks the following questions about keep- 

 ing the air in motion in a cellar contain- 

 ing bees : 



1. My cellar is quite wet, and the 

 combs in the hives are apt to mold some 

 — too much for the good of the bees. 

 Will it do any good to place a fan wheel 

 in one side of the cellar, and run by a 

 wind-mill, so as to put the air in motion 

 around the cellar ? 2. Will it have any 

 bad effect on the bees in the cellar ? 

 S. Plummer. 



Changing the air in the cellar in any 

 way'will be a good thing for the bees, 

 and it is not very likely that there will 

 be any mold where the air is constantly 

 renewed. The only question as to dan- 

 ger is whether so much of a current 

 might be forced on the bees that they 

 would be made uneasy by it, or be made 

 cold by it. For you must remember 

 that when you force a current of air 

 into the cellar, as a general rule in win- 

 ter, it will send in colder air than that 

 already in the cellar. But bees will 

 stand more cold in pure than in foul 

 air. If your bees are quiet and com- 

 fortable, you needn't feel very anxious. 



Tomato Honey.— The following 

 recipe for making tomato honey is given 

 by Mrs. Wm. Kenmuir, of McKeesport, 

 Pa., in an exchange : 



Select ripe tomatoes, weigh and cut 

 them into slices and put in a kettle. For 

 each pound of tomatoes add the grated 

 rind of one lemon ; simmer gently for 

 about 30 minutes, then press through a 

 cloth. Measure the liquor and return 

 to the kettle, and for each pint add one 

 pint of sugar and four tablespoonf uls of 

 lemon juice. Boil until a jelly-like syrup 

 is formed, then put into bottles. 



Beet-Sugar,'Not Bee-Sugar, 



was what we meant to say in referring 

 to the forthcoming book by W. A. Pryal, 

 on bee-keeping in California, and the 

 fruit and beet-sugar industries, men- 

 tioned on page 723. Omitting one letter 

 (t) in the word beet-sugar makes some- 

 thing entirely different, and senseless. 



