THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Vol. nil. May 26, 1886. No,21. 



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Tlilrty-Flrst of May.— A. L. T., in 

 Vick's Magazine for May, gives these 

 inspiring- tines : 



To-day sweet Spring has Itissed her buds, 



And said good-bie to ail her flowers. 

 And whispered to them of .Uine's birth, 



Of warmer airs and shining hours. 

 And, thus, tiie faint regret we feel, 



The fleeting touch of sorrow. 

 Is banished with this sweetest thought,— 



The Summer comes to-morrow. 



Mr. A. J. King has returned from Cuba. 

 His address is 336 Webster Avenue, Jersey 

 City, N. J. 



S. P. Roddy, of Mechanicstown, Md., 

 has sent us his circular and price-list of 

 bees. 



A Canadian prophet predicts that the 

 month of May will terminate in furiously 

 hot weather. It seems to have gome already 

 —for at this writing (on Friday) it is " red- 

 hot." 



Mr. O. O. Poppleton has returned from 

 Florida to his home at Williarastown, Iowa. 

 He expects to return to Florida next fall. 

 His health is much improved, and so is his 

 wife's. 



Xbe Indiana State Fair is to beheld 

 at Indianapolis, Ind., from Sept. 27 to Oct. 

 2, 1886. The premiums on Bees, Honey, and 

 Apiarian Supplies amount to $93. 



Mr. C. F. Mutli, of Cincinnati, has sus- 

 tained considerable loss at his farm in Indi- 

 ana, by the late storm. Many trees were 

 blown down, bee-hives over-turned, etc. 



From Dodd, Mead, Ac Co., 75.5 Broad- 

 way, N. Y., wc have received the excellent 

 story entitled, " From Jest to Earnest," by 

 E. P. Roe. It is gotten up in cheap form, 

 and is sold for 2.-) cents. It is the complete 

 book which usually sells for $1.50. 



Bees Annoying Onr IVelgUbors.— On 



page 314 of last week's issue, we answered 

 Mr. Deer's question relative to the above 

 subject, in a few lines, advising the removal 

 of the bees. In this week's issue, on page 

 330, Mr. Heddon gives his views of the 

 matter. He is quite correct in saying tliat 

 "our relations witli our neighbors are more 

 or less a continual compromise "—and that 

 coniproniiso can usually bo effected by 

 some little kindness or courtesy — or an 

 occasional present of honey. If such a 

 compromise cannot be effected, and if the 

 bees are a real annoyance, surely they should 

 be moved without waiting for the process 

 of law. 



Mr. C. H. Dibbern, of Milan, 111., criticises 

 our advice as follows : 



Your comments in reply to Geo. M. Deer, 

 on page .314, in regard to complaints of 

 neighbors being annoyed by bees, reminds 

 me of the recipe to keep hens from scratch- 

 ing, viz : "Cut their heads otr." Now most 

 of us are not so situated that we can at any 

 trivial complaint of a neighbor, " fold up 

 our tents like the Arabs, and as silently 

 steal away." I have neighbors living on 

 three sides of my apiary, within 300 feet, 

 and I have no serious complaints. The only 

 fault-finding I have had to contend with, 

 was by bees specking clothes on wash days, 

 early in the spring. This can be guarded 

 against to some extent by not putting out 

 any colonies from the cellar for a day or 

 two before each wash-day, which usually 

 occurs on Monday. 



I have noticed that the most complaints 

 about bees being an annoyance, rest on very 

 slight foundations ; usually there is some 

 other motive behind these complaints, such 

 as spite, jealousy, etc. It is notorious that 

 some people cannot see others prosper, 

 especially if aided by the bees, which they 

 imagine "work for nothing and board 

 themselves." The best way to allay all such 

 complaints, is to treat all our neighbors in 

 the spirit of the Golden Rule. A section or 

 two of nice honey presented to a fault- 

 finding neighbor occasionally, has a wonder- 

 ful intluenee on them. Then, too, should 

 theirehickenshappen to stray into our yards, 

 we must not shoot them, or raise a great 

 fuss about it ; but go to work and fix our 

 fences so that they cannot readily get over, 

 or through them. Also, much depends upon 

 the kind of bees one keeps. I have feared 

 that should the vicious Cyprians be gen- 

 erally introduced, they might make us a 

 " world of trouble." t would advise all bee- 

 keepers 80 situated that there might be 

 troubled by their bees annoying others, to 

 cultivate such strains of bees as have a 

 gentle disposition — such as the Italians, 

 Albinos, etc. There are some persons 

 probably who would not be satisfied, for 

 reasons already stated, short of compelling 

 one to " move on," and it seems to me that 

 there ought to be some law to protect us 

 against such unreasonable people. 



It the complaints of neighbors arc in- 

 spired by jealousy or ill-will, then the case 

 is quite different. Mr. Deer admits that his 

 neighbors claim that he must move his 

 " bees away so that people will be safe in 

 their own houses, and along the street, and 

 so that they can cook victuals." He also 

 admits that the bees " worked on meal that 

 one man fed his horses," and the result was 

 that they "were then taken out of the shed." 

 "The owner" of the horses, continues Mr. 

 Deer. " said that if I did not move my bees, 

 ho would." 



If Mr. Heddon and Mr. Dibbern will read 

 the letter on page 314 again critically, we 

 imagine they will agree with us. If they do 

 not, however, it will simply be a case of 

 agreeing to disagree. They do not look 

 through our spectacles. We prefer to agree 

 with our correspondents, but unfortunately 

 we cannot always do so — though we respect 

 their opinions just the same. 



" How to KalMe Comb Honey " la the 



title of a new Illustrated pamphlet of 16 

 pages, by Oliver Foster, of Mount Vernon, 

 Iowa. He says that It describes his "im- 

 provements in methods resulting from ten 

 years' practical work and extensive experi- 

 ments," and Includes his "adjustable honey- 

 case and clamp." It can be obtained for 5 

 cents, either of Mr. Foster, or at this office. 



We have Received a copy of the 

 " Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of 

 Natural Sciences." This is a book of 3.50 

 pages, and covers a period of over three 

 years. It is very interesting and instructive, 

 giving some valuable history of the dis- 

 coveries in connection with the " mound 

 builders" of the great West— particularly 

 in Iowa. It is beautifully printed and 

 profusely illustrated. 



Crossed the River.— Two more bee- 

 keepers have crossed the river of death. 

 Mr. J. M. Clark, of Hillsdale, Mich., on May 

 21, 1886, writes of them as follows : 



We have this month lost by death two of 

 our Hillsdale bee-keepers. They are W. B. 

 Dresser, who has often been heard from 

 through the columns of the Amerio.in Bee 

 Journal, and Wm. Moshier, who has been 

 quite a successful bee-keeper for an invalid, 

 which he has been all his life. Both of these 

 were very estimable young men, and we 

 shall miss them sadly. 



Putting on Sections for Surplus 

 Honey.— Mr. F. L. Dougherty, in the In- 

 diana Farmei; gives his method thus : 



It is hard to define just the exact time 

 when the surplus boxes should go on as 

 much depends on the general condition of 

 things. The experienced eye can easily tell 

 the proper time, in fact the very humming 

 in the air will tell him what the bees are 

 doing. At the proper time the cells un- 

 occupied with brood will be filled with 

 honey, the combs at or near the top will be 

 built out, and the bees will be adding little 

 patches of white comb here and there 

 showingthat they are gathering more than 

 what is required to supply their immediate 

 wants, and they are needing more room 



An Advertiser in Iowa, writes as fol- 

 lows : " I advertised considerable by circu- 

 lars, near home, but as most of my orders 

 came from New York, 'Vermont and Ohio, 

 where I sent no circulars, the American 

 Bee Journal obtained the orders for me." 



As this was only a o-line notice, and 

 inserted only twice, does it not demonstrate 

 the wisdom of employing ourcolumns when 

 it is desired to reach bee-keepers with any 

 announcement? 



The Journal of Progress remarks that " an 

 advertisement in a good trade paper, repre- 

 senting your line of business, is the best 

 kind of a traveling salesman. It has most 

 of the merits and none of the vices of the 

 "traveling man," besides many advantages 

 that are entirely its own. It travels in all 

 directions at once. It visits your customers 

 continually. It talks with thousands of 

 tongues, and has the confidence of its 

 hearers. 



The Catalogue of the D. A. Jones Co., 

 (Limited) is received. It contains 10 pages 

 of prices and descriptions of Bee-Keepers' 

 Supplies. 



A Circular is on our desk descriptive of 

 a Drone and Quein Trap, gotten up by J. A. 

 Batchelder, Keene, N. H. 



