THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Vol, nil. 



Jan. 13, If 



No. 2. 



MMlS 



'* Excellence or Clieapiiess, Which?" 



may be answered thus : 



" Economy always pays; 

 The man who saves is wise ; 

 And those content with must to-day. 

 Will surely one day rise." 



"We have Received a very good photo- 

 graph of Mr. Heddon, and placed it in the 

 Bee Journal Album, kept on our desk for 

 the examination of visitors. 



Mr. Otto Kleinotv says that he pre- 

 sented the bouquet of flowers to Mr. A. I. 

 Root, at the Detroit Convention, mentioned 

 on page 704 of the Bee Journal for Dec. 

 16, 1885. 



ITIr. S. X. Clark, of Delavan, Wis., who 

 -was well-known to our readers as a corres- 

 pondent, is dead. We have written for 

 particulars, and as soon as they are received 

 they will appear in the Journal. 



The United States .\plcnUural Sta- 

 tion at Aurora, Ills., in charfje of Mr. N. W. 

 McLaiu, is a grand step in the ri^ht direc- 

 tion, by the United States Government. In 

 a New-Year's letter to the American Dee 

 Journal, Mr. McLain remarks as follows : 



Dear Mr. Newman :— I am diligently at 

 work "plowing the ground," pi'cparatory to 

 the experimental work of the coming year. 

 Oh. what a big field it is ; and j'et it is rich 

 and promising. I hope that we may both 

 see our woric prosper, and bring forth 

 gratifying success during the year upon 

 which we have entered. 



I will have a copy of the Annual Report of 

 the United Slates Department of Agricul- 

 ture mailed to each member of the North 

 American Bee-Keepers' Society as soon as 

 issued. 



I wish to congratulate you, Mr. Editor, 

 upon the enterprise you have shown In 

 giving such a complete and accurate report 

 of the proceedings of the annual meeting of 

 the North American Bee-Keepers' Society. 

 It is an excellent piece of i-eportorial work, 

 and should be duly appreciated by your 

 i-eaders. I wish you and the American Bee 

 Journal a " Happy and prosperous New 

 Year." 



We would thank Mr. McLain for his en- 

 deavors to aid the pursuit of bee-keeping by 

 his many very interesting experiments, and 

 we fully endorse what Brother Root says in 

 Oleanings concerning it, which is as follows : 



One of the many treats to which we 

 listened at the Detroit Convention was the 

 papers from Prof. McLain, whom we have 

 before mentioned as employed by the Gov- 

 ernment, to test disputed matters in bee- 

 culture. A very elaborate experiment was 

 made to ascertain whether bees can punc- 

 ture grapes. Not only were grapes innum- 

 erable provided, but many colonies of bees. 

 The decision was in the negative. 



We are pleased to mention that he has 

 also succeeded in fertilizing queens by 

 mechanical means. It is true, this has been 

 accomplished before ; but the Professor will 

 probably soon be able to give directions so 

 that any ordinary bee-keeper can manage 

 the process with but little risk of failure. 

 We have reason to feel thankful toward the 

 U. S. Government for having furnished the 

 means for such experiments ; and we also 

 rejoice that we have secured the services of 

 so able a man. He promises to furnish 

 articles tor the different bee-periodicals in 

 due season. 



More misreprcsentatlonM About 

 Comb Honey.— The Advance, a religious 

 paper of this city, dated Dec. .'il, 188.'), ccjn- 

 tains the following misrepresentations about 

 comb honey being manufactured, etc., etc., 

 signed " R. W. :" 



The time was, until recently, that if one 

 got honey in the comb, he was sure about it. 

 But all that is changed. Men have learned 

 not only to manufacture the comb much 

 more rapidly and cheaply than the bees can 

 do It, but now fill it, capping the so-called 

 honey-cells by machinery, and sell it at a 

 lower figure than any at which the real 

 honey can be produced. Some of our readers 

 know unscrupulous men in the country who 

 having bought a few hives of bees, almost 

 immediately began selling great quantities 

 of honey in the comb. They procured it 

 from the manufacturers of the adulterated 

 article, but any one familiar with the taste 

 of the real honey easily detects the fraud. 

 I went to one grocer in this city, who had 

 recently purchased from Ohio, a thousand 

 pounds of what he honestly supposed real 

 honey, and convinced him in five minutes 

 that almost the entire quantity was made 

 up of syrups, deftly secured in the comb. 

 He simply said, " What are we coming to ?" 

 We have no State laws sufficiently guarded 

 in their pro\'isions to reach these rascals, 

 and punish them as they deserve. 



The author of the article is the Rev. Robert 

 West, who has been deceived by that 

 "scientific pleasantry " (lie) of Prof. Wiley, 

 and has unwittingly reiterated the falsehood 

 —giving it a fresh impetus, greatly to the 

 Injury of the industry. of bee-keeping. As 

 "Manager of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union," we have requested the author to 

 publish a full retraction and apology in the 

 Advmwe, or take the consequences of a law- 

 suit. That is the only way to counteract 

 such misrepresentations and falsehoods. 



Prof. A. J. Cook has been appointed by 

 President Cutting, of the North American 

 Bee-Keepers' Society, a committee to confer 

 "With the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington, in reference to National apicul- 

 ture. President Cutting says : 



I have appointed Prof. A. J. Cook a 

 committee to confer with the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture, with reference to Apiculture 

 and the U. S. Depai-tment of Agriculture.— 

 From my personal knowledge of Prof. 

 Cook's fitness for this position, I think he 

 •will accomplish much good for this Society. 



To Ohio Bee-Keepers.- Dr. H. Besse, 

 ex-President of the Ohio State Bee-Keepers' 



Association asks us to give the following 

 notice. It came a day too late for our last 

 issue, and it is therefore of but little use 

 now : » 



As the time for holding our annual State 

 Bee-Keepers' Convention is nearly at hand, 

 I take the liberty to say that we will have a 

 meeting at Columbus, on the l'3th and l.lth 

 inst. and all interested in bee-culture are 

 invited. Such will call at the Farmers' 

 Hotel, when they will be instructed as to 

 place of meeting. Important business will 

 be transacted. 



" Success in Bee-Culture, as practiced 

 and advised by James Heddon," is the title 

 of a pamphlet on bee-culture just received. 

 It consists of 1"28 pages ; is well-printed on 

 good paper and illustrated. It covers the 

 whole field of practical apiculture, and is 

 intended for specialists and those who keep 

 bees for the money to be obtained from the 

 business. In his preface the author says : 



In the delineation of methods of manage- 

 ment, and of implements and devices, 

 appertaining thereto, it has been my con- 

 stant aim to present such only as will 

 approximate uniform and unvarying suc- 

 cess, as nearly as possible, when the 

 requisite conditions have been complied 

 with, and thereby obviate the disappoint- 

 ments and vexatious losses, resulting from 

 the complicated and impracticable in both 

 management and utensils. In short, the 

 instruction herein given, is from the dollar- 

 and-cent basis — the financial results to 

 accrue therefrom, and not from the vagaries 

 and inconsistencies of empiricisms, aiming 

 to present the new and useful rather than 

 mere repetition of the old. 



At this season of the year we are too busy 

 to read a book through and review it (that 

 we shall do hereafter), but after reading 

 several chapters we are sure that its perusal 

 will handsomely pay every honey-producer. 

 It can be obtained at this office for 50 cents. 



Newr Price-Lists have been received 



from the following persons : 



A. I. Root, Medina, O. — iO pages— Bee- 

 Keepers' Supplies of all Kinds. 



Paul L. Viallon, Bayou Goula, La.— 16 

 pages— Implements for the Apiary. 



I. R. Good.Nappanee, Ind.— 1 page— Italian 

 Bees and Queens. 



C. W. Costellow, Waterboro, Maine— 16 

 pages— Apiarian Supplies. 



James Heddon. Dowagiac, Mich.— 30 pages 

 -Prospectus of his Now Book, " Success in 

 Bee-Culture "—price .50 cents. 



D. Landreth & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.— 98 

 pages— Seed Catalogue. 



E. R. Badger, Rochester, N. Y.— 16 pages- 

 Incubator and Brooder. 



Any one desiring a copy of either of them, 

 can do so by sending a postal card to the 

 address as given above. 



The Cincinnati Illustrated Graphic, 



of Jan. 16, will contain a double page 

 illustration of the Cherokee Nation, again 

 brought so prominently before the public 

 by the leasing of six million acres of their 

 land. Pictures will be 'given of Chief 

 Bushyhead and other prominent Cherokees, 

 and of their principal buildings. Accom- 

 panying this pictorial effort will be a full 

 and interesting history of the Nation, by the 

 well-known author, John R. Musick. 



If You Want a handsome Calendar for 

 1886, get Hood's Household Calendar. You 

 may search for davs, but you will not get 

 one more artistic, more beautiful, or more 

 convenient than that issued by the proprie- 

 tors of Hood's Sarsaparilla. Ask for it at 

 your druggist's, and if you cannot get it 

 thei'e, send 6 cents for one copy, or 10 cents 

 for two, to C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. 



