THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Vol, nil. larcy 1,1886. No. 13, 





The Weather still continues fine, and 



the bees are still reported as generally in 

 excellent condition. 



The Convention History of America 



and the American Beb Jodbnal. for one 

 year, will be clubbed for $1.15. 



liook Out for the colonies that may be 

 short of stores. The bees are consuming: 

 considerable honey now, and if necessary 

 should be fed liberally. 



An Ingenious Clocks moved by elec- 

 tricity, is now creating a sensation in Paris. 

 The dial resembles a tambourine, on which 

 the figures are represented by painted 

 flowers. Instead of the hands, a couple of 

 bees— one larsre and the other small— serve 

 to indicate tlie hours and the minutes. They 

 are set In motion by concealed maprnets, 

 and crawl from flower to flower, all round 

 the dial in twenty-four hours and one hour 

 respectively. — La Steele. 



Criminal Carelessness was illustrated 

 lately by the following which we notice in a 

 daily paper. A farmer by the name of 

 Hutchinson went from Kentucky to Kansas, 

 and concluded to take some bees— but not 

 knowing enough to close them into thr; 

 hives, raised great consternation. The par^r 

 says : 



He chartered a box-car at Bloomflold, and 

 Wednesday put in eight horses, witj bis two 

 sons and a dog to take care of them. There 

 was plenty of room, so he also piaeed in two 

 bee-hives. When the train had irone about 

 five miles the bees got warn^ up. poured 

 out of the hives, and a biif row followed 

 among dog, horses and bo/S. The train also 

 carries passengers, am' some of the in- 

 furiated bees got into,"''' ears and stung 

 several people sev/®',y- When it was 

 stopped Mr. H utchir"''" « /ftraily were liber- 

 ated, but they we-'."' ft fearful condition 

 It was only afte^ »"ffl pht that the hives 

 were removed.^;" ''''f Stock placed back in 

 the ear. Tha^^'O^gfme without the bees" 

 but over ar'vl'f ("""do time. 



Comb Foundation, when it was first 

 produced, was by some thoughtlessly called 

 "artificial comb." To this inexcusable 

 blunder may be charged the many stories 

 now afloat about "comb being made, filled 

 with glucose, and capped by machinery." 

 Prof. Wiley took this as the cue for his 

 wonderful but untruthful story, and many 

 others, when pressed for proof of their 

 assertions about this matter, have to refer 

 to the manufacture of " artificial comb," as 

 they ignorant ly term it, to attempt to prove 

 their stu pid and ignorant assertions ! Thus, 

 bee-keepers have some of their own number 

 to thank for making a basis for such lies by 

 their foolish blundering. 



To add to the complication, awhile ago 

 some persons advised the use of glucose for 

 feeding bees when honey was scarce, for 

 building up in the spring, etc. This gave 

 the opportunity for some to say that bee- 

 keepers were adulterating their honey, and 

 for proof many of the daily papers pointed 

 to the fact that glucose manufacturers were 

 filling orders for tons of it, to be used in 

 apiaries. The Bee Journal made a vigor- 

 ous fight against its use, and it is now 

 generally abandoned by bee-keepers. 



Another difficulty now presents itself. 

 Some enterprising reporters for the city 

 newspapers have already stated that sugar 

 is being consumed largely by bee-keepers, 

 who feed their bees sugar ; that the bees 

 filled the combs with it, and it was sold for 

 honey I In their ignorance several have 

 declared that this is easily proven by the 

 fact that so much liquid honey is now 

 " turned to sugar." They mean the granu- 

 lated honey, but are not aware that nearly 

 all pm-e honey will granulate on the approach 

 of cold weather I 



We sold some granulated honey to a man, 

 in this city, a short time ago, and a minister, 

 who was partaking of a meal at the house, 

 remarked as he ate some of that granulated 

 honey, that it was sugar fed to the bees, a- ^j 

 had "turned to sugar again ;" that^ j^jg 

 " liquid honey" on the market was V ,va but 

 it disagreed with his stomach, an ^ jp could 

 not eat it I so he preferred the a' jjjj^gcafgj i i 

 The gentleman who bought t' ,g )^oaey of US 

 came to the Bee Journ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^'_ 



Jt8 reverence" had 

 tlUt laugh at such 

 "ministenal" ign'^fBhee about hone >-. and 

 told our friend tbdt the granulation wag 

 proof of purit ^_.„,jlt nearly all the "liquid 

 honey "foPfl^ at this time of the year, was 

 adulterat ,j^ WKh flueose-and that its being 

 adulte-.-atjod accounted for its beluga liquid I 

 Nj^ the Bee Joprnal gives this caution : 

 Tc> MSB sugar for feeding bees gives an 

 opportunity for those who "know much 

 loss tbftn. they think they know" about 

 honey, to say that they " know a bee-keeper 

 who buys barrels of sugar to feed the bees, 

 which store it in surplus sections, and it is 

 sold for honey I" To " avoid the appearance 

 of evil," use honey, and honey only, for 

 feeding bees 1 In this way we may deprive 

 the enemies of our pursuit of one of their 

 pet arguments, in attempting to prove that 

 the bees or their owners are adulterators of 

 honey. 



A Fire, on March 71 destroyed a warcA 

 house filled with bee^keopers' supplipg, . 

 belonging to Mr. A. I. R»ot, Medina, O. As 

 it was a building withouX a chimney, and 

 never had a fire in It, the cohclirslon is that it 

 was the work of an Inccndi'ivry. Mr. Itoot 

 remarks thus in the last issue of- Glaininy» : ," 



Somebody deliberately took SbwcJAre 

 stout bar across the doorway, swung the 

 doors open, unbuckled the head-straps to 

 the halters, turned the horses loose, and 

 then set fire to the hay, straw, and combus- 

 tible goods stored near it, even while he felt 

 the stifl* southern breeze blowing strongly 

 toward the long r(iws of seasoned lumber 

 piles, on each side of the railway track, from 

 the wai'chouse to the factory. 



The loss is about ten or twelve thousand 

 dollars— something less than $."),000 more 

 than the insurance. 



As Mr. Root went home, while the fire was 

 still in progress and the firemen were work- 

 ing to quench it, and went to sleep, it did not 

 seem to worry him very much. How he 

 could have done so, however, is more than 

 we can imagine ! 



There will be a Rush for supplies 

 needed in the apiary ;'after awhile, and v^g 

 cannot do better than to urge all to 'look 

 over their stock, ascertain what '^jn bo 

 needed, and get it on hand before '^ jg nec- 

 essary for use— thus avoiding th-^^ perplexity 

 consequent upon its possible r'.elay in reaoh- 

 ing them in time. 



formed us of what 

 asserted. We could 



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 doth the little bus ^ ^p^_,. ,^ ^g follows, and 

 was sent to us t ^^ ^^^ ^f „^,^ subscribers : 

 How? 8io g,,|y gjj^^ii ^^ijj ^^1^ stlng-buK 

 Im-im-i _^|,|Qyg g^iy giixty minnlt all a time. 

 ""■ P' .ciiyM up stinit- bud Juice all a day 

 A' iin' places 'loun' flowels just got busted. 



New Price-Lists have been received 

 from the following persons : 



Watts Bros., Murray, Pa. — 48 pages — Bee- 

 Keepers' Supplies, and " a short but practi- 

 cal treatise on the art" of bee-keeping. 



T. S. Sandford, Bradford, Pa.— 8 pages- 

 Bees, Queens, and Supplies. 



A. O. Crawford, South Weymouth, Mass. — 

 Ifl pages— Honey Labels and Apiarian Sup- 

 plies. 



W. H. Osborne, Chardon. O.— 8 pages- 

 Fowls, Bees, and Apiarian Supplies. 



S. Valentine & Sons, Hagcrstown, Md.— 26 

 pttges^Albino and Italian Bees, Success 

 Bee-Hive tind Apiarian Supplies. 



Any one desiring a copy of either of them, 

 can obtain it by sending a postal card to the 

 address as given above. 



The First V.>]unie of the Cciimdifin Bee 

 Joitriial^ was comiileted with last week's 

 is.sijjj. '|Ve wish. Jt, logg life and prosperity. 



Frank LeslIe^s Sunday ltla£:azine for 



April is an exceedingly ',interesting:number, 

 containing articles to please all tastes. It is 

 especially rich iUiengravings from paintings 

 and drawings, and the artj lover will also 

 find congenial matter in the sketch of 

 Leonardo Da Vinci, with itsitwolaccompany- 

 ing portraits. There are portraits of jBishop 

 Hannington, who is supposed to have^been 

 martyred in Africa, Archbishop Gibbons, of 

 Baltimore, the second American, '.Cardinal, 

 and the late Vice-President; Hendricks, 

 whom Dr.^Talmage eulogizes as a " Christian 

 Politician." There are many other articles 

 of present and future interest, and the 

 number is full of beautiful pictures which 

 please all, young and old. 



