THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



VolXXIL Fell, 24, 1886, No, 8. 



A Clergyman, who is also a bee-keeper, 

 sends us a rhyme, which reads like this : 

 Please »flve no rest 

 To Itev. K. West, 

 'Till he with zest 

 Grants your rcfjuest. 



To which we add : 



Let him do his best- 

 Counteract the Jest — 

 Or he'll l>e rutn e«t, 

 When comes the law test. 



Since the above was put in type, and just as 

 this paper is ready for the press, we have 

 received a letter from the Rev. Robert 

 West, in which he intimates that the next 

 issue of the Advance will contain somethinif 

 that will set the matter right. He a/Ids : 

 " I sincerely reg^ret if I have misrepresented 

 any honest industry." We shall look with 

 interest for his next week's paper, and hope 

 that those newspapers which have copied 

 the slanders on the industry of bee-keeping, 

 will also copy the retraction— if such is 

 made in the Advance. We have no ill-will 

 towards Mr. West, and only ask simple 

 jueUce for our purmi.ll. 



Frame Plycm, for taking frames out of 

 hives, or moving them. This Is the latest 

 tool received at our Museum. They are 

 gotten up by John M. .Tones, Palmyra, N. Y. 

 The tool is made of galvanized iron, and can 

 be utilized in many ways. It has a long claw 

 for Irmsening frames, a hook, which may be 

 used for carrj'ing other frames besides the 

 one held by the rilyers, and it is supplied at 

 a very moderate cost— by mall, for 40 cents. 



Frank lieKlIe'* Popular ^Tlonthly 



for Febniary is all that its patrons can 

 desire. The articles vary in ctiaracter and 

 treatment, are all interesting and timely, 

 and all well illustrated. Mr. Croffut's article 

 on the late William H. Vanderbilt gives a 

 striking picture of the career and life of the 

 greatest American millionaire, and the 

 reader can judge for himself of the man, 

 his palace, bis gallery, bis stables and his 

 tomb. 



Tlie ICiiral 4'aiia<llan for February is 

 lirlmful of good things. In the department 

 of '• Bees and Honey," we find among other 

 things of interest, the following Item con- 

 c:ernlng Father Langstroth at the Detroit 

 <>>nventlon : 



What a benignant face It was that smiled 

 upon us from tlie platform, showing how 

 " the grand old man" enjoyed himself, tf) 

 Hee the boys enjoying themselves I 'I'he 

 poet Osslan says : " Old age Is dark and 

 unlovely." No; not always. We have seen 

 an example of it bright, cheery and iieauti- 

 ful, and It will oft<;n re-appear In memory 

 when the vision Itself has disappeared from 

 earth. .May the day he yet far distant on 

 which that catastrophe shall happen I 

 "Touch him gently, Father Time." 



Concerning Heddon's new book and 

 management, it remarks thus : 



Hardly has the new yeardawned when out 

 comes .Mr. Heddon, like a Jack-in-the-box, 

 with a new hive and a new book. Not since 

 the discovery of the movable-frame has 

 there- been such a turn in the wheel of 

 progress. We have been nddling and fumb- 

 ling with single frames, and have meddled 

 and meddled with our bees until "confusion 

 worse confounded " has Ijwjn the condition 

 of affairs in many an apiary. N*)w. lo and 

 behold, the simple principle of handling 

 hives instead of i'rarnes has oeen enunciated, 

 and it will revolutiftnize chaos I There Is 

 hardly a needful manipulation in the apiary 

 but can be done in a twinkling on the new 

 Heddon system. It is original and unifjue. 

 Instead of one cumbrous hive, we have two 

 halves, each complete In itself. Instead of 

 one ciutnsy frame, we have two little shallow 

 ones, with closed ends. ma<Ie fast by thumb- 

 screws, which can he loo8<;ned as quickly as 

 you cati say "Ja^rk Itoblnson," when neces- 

 sary, which It seldom will be. IJo I want to 

 reverse frames y I have only to tip over a 

 half-hive. l)'> I want to tnake an artiflciai 

 swarm ? I remove a full half-hive and 

 replace it with an empty one. Do I want to 

 get rid of queen-cells, and prevent swarm- 

 ing? I upset the half-hive. Queens cannot 

 tje reared standing on their hea^ls 1 If I wish 

 to make assnratice doubly sure, I can cut 

 out queen-ceils with my pocket-knife, inside 

 of a few seconds. Do I want to contract the 

 brood-chaml>er ? I siiake the bees out of a 

 half-hive. Is it desired to force the bees 

 Into section-boxes 'f itemove half-hlve.shake 

 the bees out of it In front of the other half, 

 and put on a case of empty sections. Do I 

 want to enlarge the brood-nest? I take the 

 top half-hive, in which is the sut7jIus honey, 

 and make the bott^itu half-hive the tr>p one, 

 put on a sectlon-<;ase. If I go In for comb 

 honey, or comb f'>undatlon, if J wish to 

 extract, and up goes the surplus honey, 

 doubling the brood-nest. Do I wantt^j form 

 nuclei, rear queens, or make a home for an 

 overplus of bees ? The half-hive is just the 

 thing. Ami pr<-paring for wint/-r ? I take 

 a half-hive, supplied with stf>res, run in the 

 bees, remove the hottom-board, set the little 

 squat receptacle over my hopper-stand, par;k 

 chaff around and over it, and leave them to 

 hibernate.-, have a flight, rear brood, eat 

 pollen, or anything else at "their own sweet 

 will." until the advent of spring. Or I carry 

 the half-hive int^j the cellar, regulate the 

 temperature, and " leave It be." 



over the figures ohtained In 1884. While the 

 output, therefore, in pounds, fell short from 

 the year previous, In actual dollars and 

 cents, a large portion of this shortage has 

 i>een covered. 



To still further Increase and ext/md the 

 sale of Calllornlii comb honey, we again 

 repeat our former suggestions, that a one- 

 pound section lie adopted lnstea<l of the 

 two-pound now HO generally used, and that 

 at least one-half of the eases be rna^le U> hold 

 hut 'iO pounds lnstea<l of making them all 

 11(1 iiounds, or thereabouts, as Is now the 

 cuHt/»rn. 



California honey.both comb and extraeted, 

 is now recognized everywhere as the finest 

 produced In the world ; and while bad 

 seasons and low prices will be met from 

 time ti) time, on the whole the tiee-lndustrj 

 of this State.one year with another.promlses 

 as fair returns for the labor and capital 

 Invested, as any other growing Industry 

 of the fJolden Htau,-. 



Hiint'M Adultcratlona received much 

 attention in the Ube Jouknai, for 1884, on 

 pages 47.'j, T.H, 787 and Si;;. .Mr. T. L. Von 

 Dorn, President of the Nebraska Bee-Keep- 

 ers' .Society, lia<I the so-called honey tested, 

 and the result was published. Mr. Hunt 

 denied the adulteration, and the Marshall 

 county, Iowa, .Society proposed to have it 

 re-teBted,and we agreed X/i publish the result 

 of that test, but so far no such matf.er has 

 been offered us for publication- though it 

 is over a year since. Now .Mr. Von Dorn has 

 sent us a " statement " of the proprietor of 

 theTownley House, at Lincoln, Nebr., and 

 its clerk, Mr. Adams, who says that Mr. 

 Hunt Inquired of him where he could pur- 

 chase glucose which he desired to mix with 

 honey he ha<l for sale ; that he did procure 

 it and sold theTownley House .'j gallons of 

 the mixture, claiming that it was Just as 

 good as the pure article, and that but few 

 could discover the difference. Doubtlesi 

 i Mr. Von Dorn has act^jd for the interests of 

 I bee-keepers In the matter, but It must be 

 said, however, that the Townley House 

 proprietor bought the mixture (not as pure 

 honey, but an adulteration), knowing Its 

 true character. This statement we make In 

 iuntlce to all concerned, and now the subject 

 Is dismissed from our columns. 



To any One sending us one new sub- 

 scriber with their own renewal (with $3.00;, 

 we will present a copy of the new " Con- 

 vention History of America." 



COeo, W. .Tlcade ic Co.,of San Francisco, 

 Calif., have issued their annual Ueview of 

 the Crop of Honey, from which we extract 

 the following : 



The honey product of 188r> was : Ex- 

 tracted, ],.V)0,000 p.iundB ; comb, T.tO.OOO 

 pounds; b<;eswax, 00,000 pounds; raisins, 

 470.000 20-lb boxes. 



We could scarcely expect the crop of 

 extracted honey or 188.',. from various 

 a^iverse circumstances, Ut equal the out-put 

 of 1884, which was a phenomenal honey 

 year, but we make a very respectable show- 

 ing nevertheless. 



Like extracted, and for the same reasons, 

 the product of comb honey of 18H5 Is con- 

 siderably less than fliat of 1884. but unlike 

 the extracted there has ruled such a brisk 

 demand on P^astern account for our comb 

 honey that we may safely say the bulk of 

 the crop has alreadv tieen marketed, and at 

 prices all the way from '^Ty to 100 per cent. 



Neiv Prlce-lilHt* have been received 

 from the following persons : 



J. M. .lenkins, Wetumpka, Ala. — 20 pages 

 —Implements In Bee-Culture. 



A. B. Howe. Council Bluffs, Iowa. —20 pa^es 

 —Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



D. A. Fuller, Cherry Valley, Ills. — 4 pages 

 —Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



Oscar F. liledsfje, Orena'la, Miss.— pa^s 

 — Queen Breeder. 



E. T. lAswiH & (U>., Toledo, O.— 2 pa^es— 

 Honey Extractor. 



F. A. Snell, MllledgeTllle, Ills.— 10 pages- 

 Apiarian Supplies. 



Elvin Armstrong, .lerseyville, Ills. — 24 



F ages— Crown Hive, Bees, and Apiarian 

 mplements. 



J. E. Pryor. Dexter, Iowa.— 8 pajjes- Bee- 

 Keepers' Supplies. 



J. W. K. Shaw & Co., Loreauville, La.— 4 

 pages— Early ,S<juthern Queens. 



Hutchlnsfjni Taylor (W. Z. Hutchinson. 

 IV>gersville, Mich., and H. L. Taylor. Lapeer, 

 Mich.) — 4 pages— Bees, Queens. Comb Foun- 

 dation, et/;. 



Frank A. Eat/jn. Bluffton, O.— 2 pages- 

 Italian Bees and Queens. 



Joseph E. .Shaver, North Kiver, Pa.— 1 page 

 —Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



.\. J. Norrls. Cedar Falls, Iowa. — it pages — 

 Italian and Carniolan Bees. 



Anyone desiring a copy of either of tbem, 

 can obtain It by sending a postal card to the 

 address as given above. 



