THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



83 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Vol, nil, Fell, 10, 1886, 1,6. 



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Mr. John Peacock, of Chicago, Ills., an 

 enthusiastic bee-keeper, was run down by a 

 train on Sunday, Jan. 31, and killed. He 

 was buried on Thursday last, and was over 

 78 years of age. 



TUe Honer Crop for San Dieg-o County, 

 Calif., for 1885, is reported thus : Comb 

 honey, 1,107,000 pounds ; extracted, 1,284,- 

 500 ; total, 2,177,500 pounds. This is equal 

 to 1,088 tons, or over 100 carloads of honey. 

 At 8 cents per pound it is worth over 

 $178,000. 



«. M. Doollttle, Borodino, N. Y., writes : 

 "I look forward with pleasure to every 

 Thursday night when the American Bee 

 Journal arrives,' fresh and newsy,' and just 

 as regularly as the day comes. I do not 

 know but there could be a better Bee Journal 

 gotten up, than the one you publish, but so 

 far, there never has been," 



New Price-Lists have been received 

 from the following persons : 



Cole Brothers, Pella, Iowa. — 40 pages- 

 Flower, Vegetable, and Garden Seeds. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown, Augusta, Ga.— 20 pages 

 — Italian Bees, Queens, and Apiarian Sup- 

 plies. 



Earle Clickenger, Columbus, O.— 1 page— 

 Bee-Supphes. 



Wm. Groir, Rome, N. Y.— 4 pages— Com- 

 mon-Sense Bee-Hives. 



F. A. Salisbury, Geddes, N. Y.— 28 pages- 

 Queens, Apiarian Implements and Supplies. 



J. B. Mason & Sons, Mechanic Falls,Maine. 

 —.50 pages— Bees, Queens, and Apiarian 

 Supplies. 



A, C. Nellis & Co., Canajoharie, N. Y.— 100 

 pages— Flower, Field, and Garden Seeds. 



Berlin Fruit-Box Co., Berlin Heights, O.— 

 10 pages— Berry Packages and Apiarian 

 Supplies. 



Thomas G. Newman & Son, Chicago, Ills.— 

 30 pages— Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



A. A. Ahbolt, Morenci, Mich.— 16 pages- 

 Plants, Seeds, etc. 



Any one desiring a copy of either of them, 

 can do so by sending a postal card to the 

 address as given above. 



Adulterated Food.— The Illinois State 

 Board of Agriculture, after a prolonged 

 discussion, has adopted the following reso- 

 lutions : 



Rcmlved. That we respectfully request 

 I (ingress to enact a law placing'all dairy 

 products and all imitations of or substitutes 

 lortUe same, underthe control of a com- 

 petent Government in.speetor, to the end 

 that such articles shall be branded and sold 

 under their proper names and on their 

 merits. 



Rctsiilved, That we respectfully direct the 

 attention of Congress to the unwholesome 

 adulteration of other food products, and 

 pray tor proper legislation for the adequate 

 protection of the people from the same. 



The recent Iowa State Dairy Convention 

 at Oskaloosa, appointed persons to secure, 

 in every county, signers to a petition to the 

 General Assembly requesting that body : 



1. To prohibit by law the sale as butter or 

 cheese of any substance not the unadul- 

 terated product of pure milk or cream. 



2 T9 enact suitable penalties for the 

 violation thereof. 



•'!. To appoint a dairy commissioner for 

 Iowa, charged with the enforcement of the 

 law, and appropriate ample funds for this 

 purpose. 



Now add honey, and all other articles of 

 food which are so often adulterated, and let 

 Congress prepare to defend the whole people 

 of the United States against the nefarious 

 schemes of adulterators. Things have been 

 so lax, that now there is hardly an article of 

 human food which escapes the manipulation 

 of these adulterating scoundrels. The 

 "whipping-post" and "pillory" are the 

 most appropriate punishments for adultera- 

 tors. 



Mr. GastaT Bobn, who was sued by 

 fruit-growing neighbors in California for 

 damage said to be done to raisins by his bees, 

 and fined $75 therefor, is preparing to 

 appeal the ease, under the direction of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Union. The appeal 

 is set for next month. Mr. Bohn writes as 

 follows about his position in the premises : 



If this suit goes against us, bees cannot be 

 kept in the State, as all that will be needed 

 is for some one to set out some grapes, and 

 bee-keepers must move. I had mv bees in 

 there present location before my neighbors 

 had their grape-vines set out. I purchased 

 the place from a bee-keeper, who kept bees 

 on it before me. I am located at the toot of 

 the last range of mountains this side of the 

 desert, so all will see that I have not moved 

 my bees here to feed on my neighbors' 

 fruit, as was testified to by some of thera 

 who grow fruit, one of them having grape- 

 vines in the nursery for sale by the hundred 

 thousand, and one having five times the 

 number of acres set to grapes as the plain- 

 tiffs, and but one mile from me. Those are 

 some of my witnesses. 



The Statistics reported at the North- 

 eastern Ohio and Northwestern Pennsyl- 

 vania Bee-Keepers' Convention, held at 

 Meadville, Pa., Jan. 20 and 21, 1886, were as 

 follows : 



Number of colonies fall of 1884 3,.'!71 



spring of 1885 1,838 



" pounds of comb honey, 1885. .48,890 

 " " extracted honey, 1885.12,240 

 " " beeswax, 1885 488 



TUe IVational Agricultural and 

 Hairy Conventions, under the auspices 

 of the American Agricultural Association 

 at the Grand Central Hotel, New York, Feb. 

 16, 17 and 18, should be attended by all 

 interested in agriculture and dairying. 



Dr. J. TV. Vance, of Madison, Wis., haa 

 sent us the following resolutions, which 

 were unanimously passed at the Wisconsin 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, on Feb. 4, 

 1886, on home markets for honey : 



Resolved. That the bee-keepers of this 

 btate endeavor as far as possible to create a 

 horne market for their honey, so that there 

 will be no need of seeking city markets in 

 which to dispose of our surplus products. 



Resolved, That we thank Mr. T. G. Newman 

 of Chicago, for his cfTorts in securing re^ 

 duced rates of transportation on honey, and 

 congratulate him upon his success. 



Resolved, That we desire to express to Mr 

 Newman our sincere appreciation of his 

 labor and zeal in fighting the glucose adul- 

 terators, and bringing to light their 

 nefarious schemes against the interests of 

 bee-keepers. 



Resolved. That the bee-keepers of the 

 State are urged to make more creditable 

 exhibits at the next State Fair. 



Mr. F. I,. Douglierty, in the Indiana 



Farmer, remarks as follows : 



A thorough system of management is as 

 necessary in bee-keeping as in any other 

 business. A hap-hazzard way of doing 

 things will never win any but meager re- 

 turns. He who looks ahead and prepares 

 tor his work before the time for the work to 

 be done, will And the result far exceeding 

 those of the one who waits until the work 

 needs to be done, and then has to hurry in 

 the vain endeavor to catch up. 



This is excellent advice. If system is nec- 

 essary anywhere, it surely is so in the 

 apiary, and no one should expect success 

 without it. Be in time ; get everything you 

 need for the honey crop on hand in good 

 time, and keep everything in order. You 

 will thus have your tub "right side up" 

 when the honey-flow comes. 



Tlie Bee is a firanger, says the Detroit 

 Free Press, "and started the first co-operative 

 store ; established the first savings bank, 

 and organized the first mutual-aid associa- 

 tion." What next ? 



A Brier History of the North American 

 Bee-Keepers' Society, with a digest of its 

 55 Annual Conventions, and a full Report 

 of the Proceedings of the 16th Annual Con- 

 vention held at Detroit, Mich., on Dec. 8 to 

 10, 1885. This is the title of a new pamphlet 

 of 64 pages just issued at this oflBce. Price, 

 25 cents. • 



This pamphlet also contains engravings of 

 the principal honey-plants, and portraits of 

 the Rev. L. L. Langstroth, of Ohio, and 

 Moses Quinby, of New York ; two of the 

 pioneers who helped to revolutionize Ameri- 

 can apiculture, and usher in a new era. 



One of tlic Results of publishing, in 

 pamphlet form, the proceedings of the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Society, is 

 that hundreds of papers are now publishing 

 condensed portions on each of the subjects 

 upon which addresses were given followed 

 by discussion. This will probably continue 

 during the whole year, more or less, in many 

 agricultural and other papers, and people 

 in general will become better informed on 

 the pursuit of honej'-production. This may 

 help to counteract the falsehoods promul- 

 gated by ignorant scribblers in many of the 

 newspapers at the present time. 



