THE AMERICAM BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Vol, nil, April 14,1886, No, 15 



Aim at K.\<-«'llfiifi*, and excellence will 

 be attained. This is tlie greatest secret of 

 success and eminence. " I cannot do it " 

 never aceoraplished anything-, '*lwllitry" 

 has wrnnsrht wonders. 



Mr. IV. W. nciiulii-H Keport on e.xperi- 

 menta in apiculture, which was read at the 

 Detroit Convention, has just been received. 

 It was a Keport made to the I'nited .States 

 Entomoloi^ist, and is published by tlie United 

 States Department of .\griculture. We shall 

 give it In the Hee .Journal as soon as it is 

 possible to tlnd room lor it. 



Traiiwlerriiiy: Beew should be done while 

 the fruit trees are blooming-. The honey 

 obtained from the fruit blossoms will stimu- 

 late tlie bees to repair the damajred and 

 mutilated combs. 



BecH and fiirapen.— C. M. Clay, in the 

 Soutiiei'ii Planter, gives this testimony : 



If the bees could puncture the grapes, one 

 being found, as the grape is much richer in 

 sugar than the melon, itis logical to suppose 

 that they would attack the grape in force ; 

 but no such aeti<*n takes place : a few bees 

 tlnd the broken hulls and suck the juices, 

 but J have never seen any indication of a 

 pei^oratioii of whole-skinned grapes. 



U'eak Colonies In tlie Sprliiiz will 

 need care and attention. Mr. F, I„ Dough- 

 erty, in the Indiana Farmer, gives the follow- 

 iDg hints coiiceroiDg them : 



From various causes some colonies come 

 out weak in the spring. .Such will rer|Uire 

 much care to build them up ready for the 

 honey harvest when it comes, and unless 

 they are got into working condition by that 

 time, they are worse than useless capital. 

 In their weak condition they can Increase 

 but very slowly for lack of heat, and should 

 be assisted as much as possible, by the 

 closing up of all space whereby the heat 

 may escape. Entrances should be made 

 small, so that they may be able to protect 

 themselves from the depredations of rob- 

 bers. They will breed very slowly at first, 

 but with plenty of stores easy of access, 

 they will grow rapidly as the weather 

 tiecomos warmer. Later in the season they 

 can be assisted with frames of hatching 

 brwxl from stronger colonies. 



I»r. miller, in his new book, carefully 

 describes in detail the work that should bo 

 done all through the year, beginning with 

 the taking of the lices from their winter 

 'luarters, and carrying the apiarist on day 

 liy day until the bees are again sal'i.'ly placed 

 Into winter quarters. In his preface Dr. 

 Miller says : 



I have IK) e.\pe(-Iation fiordestre tn write 

 acompletetreati.se on bee-keeping, .Many 

 Important mutters connected with the art I 

 do not mention u( nil, because they have not 

 come within my own experience. Others 

 that have eorne within my experience I do 

 not mention, because I suppose the i-eadcr 

 to be familiar with them. I merely try to 

 talk about such things as I think a brother 

 bee-keeper would be most interested in if 

 ho should remain with me during the year. 



Xelllii:: the Bee«. — The Cincinnati 

 KitijUlrer gave tiiis item on the subject to the 

 world In a late number of that paper : 



A cottager leaned whisperingby her hives. 

 Telling ner bees some news as they lit down, 

 A nd presently a bee, a great bee, golden bee. 

 That appeared to be the watch-dog of the 

 treasury. 



Shot like a ball from out the waxen town. 

 And on the nose of cottager serenely sat 



him down. 

 Saying, "Excuse this liberty. Oh, pretty 



maid divine. 

 But I have news to tell thee, in return for 



news of thine," 



The maiden didn't linger long a-whisperinU 



to the bees. 

 But struck a frightful galopade, her hair 



upon the breeze, 

 Am\ the howls that she emitted, as slie' 



danceMi, and pranced, and ran. 

 Were heard, the neighbors tell me, clear 



from Heershebato Dan. 



But the Kni/uitxrlmust be sadly imposed 

 upon — 



For that poet, never naw it—] 

 Not a bit, did he : 



Else he'd know it, failed to do it- 

 Did that " golden " bee. 



Mr. T. I'. Klii::liHin, of Abronla, MIoh., 

 has Just returned from Central America, 

 whore he securerl a colony of stingless bees, 

 and has brought them home with him, Ut 

 a.scertain If they will thrive in this cllmat«. 

 As they are of but little use as honey-gath- 

 erers in their tropical homes, they will 

 probably not be of mucli value in this cold 

 climate. On last Thursday Mr. II. wrote us 

 the following item concerning them : 



My ('entral Arneriean bees Hew out to-day 

 and brought In |iollcn. They are in good 

 conditioir ; none worth mentioning havlnjf 

 died on the trip, lam glad I brought them 

 home witli me. anil 1 believe I shall be able 

 to learn tlieir habits this summer. 



Honey In Vlr;;lnla — This Is what the 

 Richmond DinjiaUh says about that "new 

 industry" in the South : 



The production of honey is becoming an 

 important interest in Amherst. One of the 

 citizens got from his hives, last year, ',',000 

 pounds, and another (this a Northern man) 

 about :i,000. The Italian bee is preferred, 

 and these (the queens) arc sent away or 

 received by mall. What the Ijce-men call 

 " foundation " is made by hand, and this is 

 put into the hives, and upon this the bees 

 build, Hone,v without the comb sells at 10 

 cents, with the comlj :!."> cents, and when I 

 Inquired the reason for this dilfercnce in 

 price. I was told that the honey can, by a 

 certain process, be forced from the comb, 

 and that the combs thus emptied are placed 

 in the hives and again filled by the bees, and 

 much time and labor is thus saved to them. 

 Honey, say those who have given this new 

 industr.v a fair trial, pays belter than 

 tobacco. 



That is not such a bad description for one 

 who knows nothing about honey-production. 



H<inpy Soamtn In <'alllornla.— Mr. D. 



Wood, of Santa Barbara, writes thus to the 

 Indlatia Farmer dated March ].j : 



This has been the coldest winter here for 

 man.v years. We had one genuine hail- 

 storm, the first 1 have seen. It was very 

 fine, but plenty of It, and the moutain peaks 

 were covered with snow. Nevertheless 

 flowers bU)om, and last year's tomato vines 

 are still hearing. Some of last year's apples 

 are still on the trees, while others have 

 .young apples as large as small hens' eggs. 

 My bees arc storing honey rapidly. .Some 

 have a two-story hive full above and below 

 — about the same as two Langstroth hives 

 placed one above the other. To-day I trans- 

 ferred three colonies, cutting and fitting 

 comb and honey, in the middle of the apiary, 

 with 100 colonies at work, and not a robber 

 bee came near me. Bits of broken comb and 

 honey have been in open air, not two rods 

 from the hives, untouclied for 8e\-eral da.vs, 

 I found several r(ueen-cellB ready to seal. 

 Honey is plenty in the field, and transferring 

 can be done in the yard. 



Wli)- IH It <'alle<l llie Honeymoon? 



asks an exchange. Honey, because it is full 

 of s(c)ells : and moon, because it "comes 

 high." 



flew Price-LlMtm have been received 



j I'rom the fril lowing persons^ 



Bright Brothers, Mazeppa,,Minn. — 'M pages 

 —Bee-Keepers' Supplies, Bees and Queens, 



W. G. Kussell, .Millbrook, Out.— 1.5 pages— 

 Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



H. H. Brown, Light Street, Pa.— ^!; pages- 

 Bees, Queens, and Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



A. Snyder, Indian Melds, N. y.— 1 page — 

 Bees and Queens. 



Eureka Mower <'ompan.v, I'tica, N. Y.— '24 

 pages— Mowers. 



Smith A: Smith, Kenton, o.— 'H pages — Im- 

 plements in Bc-e--(;ulture. 



.1. W. Eekman. Kichmond. Texas — .'» pages 

 —Bees, Queens, and Comb Foundation. 



Any one desiring a copy of either of tbem, 

 can obtain It by sending a postal card to the 

 address as given above. 



The Bee-Stlns Beniedy lor Kheu- 

 inatlHiii was lately tried by a man living in 

 Georgia, which resulted as follows, says an 

 exchange : 



Divesting himself of his clothing, he got 

 into bed and covered up, and told his 

 attendant he was ready. A swarm of young 

 bees was then put into the bed with him, and 

 the remedy commenced. It took four men 

 to bring hlra back to the house, and it would 

 have required forty to have put him In the 

 bed again. He still has the rheumatism. 



\Vv have .(imt Ke<-elve<l from the 

 putdishers a c<jpy of the poem " Ostler Joe," 

 which is published in neat pamphlet form, 

 with aliout forty other choice recitations. 

 "Ostler Joe" is the t)oem, the reading of 

 wlil'-h by Mrs. i'otter in Washington Society 

 a few da.vs agf>, caused sucli a sensation. J. 

 S. Ogilvie 4: Co., publishers, :U Hose Street, 

 New York. Price, V,i cents. 



To any One sending us one new sub- 

 scriber with their own renewal (with $2.00), 

 we will presefii a <.-opy of the new "Con- 

 vention History of America." 



