THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



VoLXXIL May 19, 1886. No,20. 



Artificial Honey.— The late falsehoods 

 about the "manufacture" of "artificial 

 honey," by the religious and secular press, 

 has led many to offer to sell recipes for 

 malting: such. A correspondent sends us a 

 circular offering recipes for sale, with the 

 following letter : 



point," and demand legislation to protect 

 tliem from such depraved and infamous 

 scoundrels, we know not 1 Meanwhile 

 millions are being poisoned daily; by slow 

 but sure steps, hopelessly driven to their 

 graves by the cupidity and avarice of 

 villainous adulterators! 



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I enclose an advertisement of recipes. 

 Among them is one for malting "artificial 

 honey." It is claimed that this stuff can 

 scarcely be diRtinguished from the genuine 

 article. This advertisement is from a firm 



by the name of Ellis, in Chicago. If there is i. . ^, , , 



aiiy law for prohibiting the manufacture of thus of the good prospect . 



Outlook for tlie Honey Crop.— On 



page :!l-t, Mr. S. F. Newman, of Norwalk, 

 Ohio, asserts that the present season has 

 been the best, so far, for bees, that he has 

 "ever known," and adds : "We have had a 

 constant flow of honey for about five weeks 

 from maples andfruittrees, and the weather 

 has been very pleasant. We already have 

 about 1,000 pounds of honey, and our bees 

 are in fine condition to take advantage of 

 the white clover when it blossoms— the 

 lower stories of the hives being packed full 

 of bees and honey. We expect a very pros- 

 pei'ous season." 



Mrs. J. N. Heater, of Columbus, Nebr., 

 says that her bees are " all booming on fruit 

 bloom now, and some are preparing to 

 swarm." 



Ale.t Rose, of Sullivan, Ills., reports that 

 his " bees are storing honey in the sections 

 now," and that the prospect is fine for an 

 early honey-harvest." 



C. W. Dayton, Bradford, Iowa, reports the 

 first natural swarm on May 8, and that the 

 bees are gathering honey freely from fruit 

 bloom. 



Dr. H. R. Dorr, of Worden, Ills., reports 

 that his first swarm came out on Sunday, 

 April 18. 



Geo. E. Hilton, of Fremont, Mich., writes 

 Never in the 



blackberries, etc., aiV just «f>enln^( itvi 

 that with the locusts ^C^ve fh^ bees 

 they can attend to.' 



Other testimony Is 

 Take the country all 

 Dibbern is quite correct ill 

 the weathershall continue! 

 ne.vt 7 or 8 weeks, we shall 

 and largest crop of honey this countiT, 

 produced.' 



Honie«ITIacle Binders for the Beb 



.loURNAL. — Mr. Gardner H. Perkins, of 

 Cazenovia, N. Y., has sent us a sample of 

 one he uses, and we will attempt to describe 

 it. 



He has a cover of card-board large enoush 

 to wrap around tho Journals to be bound. 

 Then runs a long pin through each end of 

 a whalebone spring (2 inches long), and then 

 through the cover and Journals — the point 

 of the pin is then turned up something like 

 a meat hook. The spring holds them tight, 

 and other Journals can be added by hitch- 

 ing them on this hook, inside the last cover. 

 Of course to use such a binder is better than 

 to let the numbers be lost or soiled, but an 

 Emerson Hinder, made expressly for it, is 

 vastly superior, and with care will last for 

 8 or 10 years— making the real cost only 

 about 10 cents a year. Every one should 

 obtain an Emerson Binder if possible : if 

 not, then make such as is described above. 



such stuff, it should be put in force imme- 

 diately, and this compans' be prosecuted.— 

 K L. C. 



Here is what is said about the recipe in 

 the circulars : 



Artificial Honey.— Equal to bee's honey, 

 and often mistaken by the best of judges to 

 be genuine. It is palatable and luxurious : 

 costs 8 cents per pound, to make, and will 

 sell for 10 cents per pound, while bee's 

 hfiney sells for '25 to 3.5 cents. Agents make 

 mnney fast selling the recipe to boarding- 

 hC)uses, stores, and private families at SI 

 cai'h. In an average territory you can easily 

 sell ten recipes a day, tor SI each. Ten 

 dollars clear profit. One agent writes ; "I 

 average a recipe at every sixth house." 



As Ellis only offers to sell the recipe for 

 making "artificial honey," and get his agents 

 to do the same, there seems to be no law to 

 privent him from doing so. He sells it for 

 \vliat it is— making a bogus article: an 

 imitation I ! 



W h at /oo!s people must be to buy a recipe 

 to make a bogus article, an imitation, when 

 the genuine article can be purchased for 

 about the same price I 



What a liar Ellis is to say that " bees' 

 hrmey sells for 2,5 to 35 cents " per pound ! 

 Many bee-keepers would be glad to get 10 

 cents per pound for their crop of extracted 

 honey in bulk. 



Uut— just as long as people will allow the 

 nefarious trafiic of selling food which is 

 adulterated (such as bogus butter and the 

 likci, there will be no law to prohibit its 

 manufacture and sale 1 When "the people " 

 demand that such a law be enacted and 

 rigidly enforced, then it will be done— as it 

 is in Great Britain and other oldercountries. 

 How long it will take the people of America 

 to " screw up their courage to the sticking 



history of my keeping bees has there been 

 so favorable a spring as this. The weather 

 has been of the very best. Ever since the 

 first willow bloom there has been honey 

 enough coming in to stimulate brood-rear- 

 ing, and now we are in the midst of fruit 

 bloom, and my strongest colonies have been 

 at work in the surplus cases. My first swarm 

 came out on May 11, which is 10 days earlier 

 than I ever had one before. The prospects 

 for a good yield were never better." 



C. H. Dibbern, of Milan, Ills., adds his 

 testimony as follows : " I have never known 

 a season so favorable to bees as the present. 

 They have worked almost every day since 

 they were put out,about the middle of April. 

 There has been no cold storms to chill the 

 brood, and they have built up nicely. The 

 weather is now just right for honey gather- 

 ing, and the bees are improving the "shining 

 hours" from dayligbtuntil dark ; some even 

 returning so late that they cannot find their 

 hives ; others drop exhausted at the en- 

 trances. If we have suitable weather for 

 the next two months, we will have the finest 

 and largest crop of honey this country has 

 ever produced. The statement that after 

 fruit bloom there will be a dearth of honey 

 till white clover comes, does not apply to my 

 locality. Bees just now are fairly booming 

 on honey locusts, which is yielding honey 

 abundantly. Our fruit bloom, apples, plums, 

 cherries, etc.. is immediately succeeded by 

 the wild crab and hawthorne, of which we 

 have an abundance. The honey locusts are 

 only just commencing to bloom, and as we 

 have hundreds of trees within reach, they 

 will carry us into the white clover harvest 

 1 without any dearth. Theu, too, raspberries, 



Punctuality in sending the Bee Jour- 

 nal results in its being received puuctually 

 by its readers. They always know when it 

 will come, and do not have to make a num- 

 ber of trips to the Post-othce for it, and 

 sometimes be bitterly disappointed in its 

 non-arrival. Mr. C. W. Dayton, of Bradford, 

 Iowa, writes thus on this subject : 



I take and read seven papers, four of them 

 bee-periodicals, but among them all, there 

 is none so punctual as the A.merican Bee 

 Journal. Every Thursday morning at 9 

 o'clock I take it out of the office, year in and 

 year out, and that punctuality alone is in 

 itself a gratification worth many times the 

 subscription price. If $5 instead of $1 was 

 required to get it, I should take it all the 

 same. 



" System " and " order " are necessary to 

 satisfy our patrons, and we are glad to 

 know that our efforts are appreciated. The 

 forms of type are closed up every Saturday 

 afternoon. On Monday they are placed on 

 a fast-running steam press, and even while 

 its readers are asleep on Monday night, the 

 presses are still rattling away for their 

 comfort and edification. On Tuesday 

 morning .50 girls fold up the sheets, and 

 theu they are stitched by steam wiring 

 machines. While this is being done the 

 addresses are printed and pasted on the 

 wrappers by machinery, and at 4 p.m. the 

 Journals are wrapped up, put in sacks and 

 taken away in a wagon to the General Post- 

 Olfice, 3 miles away. This programme does 

 not vary au hour scarcely once a year. 



Hives for increase will be needed soon. 

 Order them at once if not already done. 

 Also sections for the surplus honey crop, 

 which will soon be on hand. 



Franli Cliesliire's new book on Bees 

 and Bee-Keeping, can be had at this office. — 

 Vol. I, bound in cloth, $2.50, postpaid. 



