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THOMAS Q. NEWMAN, 



Vol. nil, June 23, 1886, No, 25. 



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TUe Resolutions proposed by Mr. 



Clarke, on page 389, sufficiently explain 

 themselves. Modesty forbids our endorse- 

 ment of them so far as they relate to the 

 Manager ; the others have our hearty appro- 

 val. As to the "cane" business, it may 

 *' raise Cain," and should not be attempted ; 

 the Manager -will be abundantly able to 

 continue to "walk straight" without its 

 aid I "United action" is of more impor- 

 tance than any public act of endorsement ; 

 harmony and persistent work far more 

 necessary than any token of approbation I 



Mr. D. A. Jones contracted an affection 

 of the eye during his tour in Oriental Lands, 

 some years ago, and it troubles him con- 

 siderablj', causing acute pain and much 

 annoyance to such a "busy man" as he is. 

 His many friends all over the world will be 

 sorry to hear this. 



Rains have been numerous lately, and as 

 the roots of the clover had penetrated 

 deeply into the earth after moisture during 

 the preceding drouth, the bloom is profuse, 

 and honey is being gathered in abundance. 

 Mr. Wm. Malone, of Oakley, Iowa, on the 

 17th wrote as follows : 



We are having a large crop of white clover 

 honey. I have taken about 900 pounds of 

 honey from white clover from 24: colonies, 

 spring count. The linden never was more 

 promising for a heavy honey yield. The 

 honey is of excellent quality. We feel good 

 over the prospect for 188G. 



A Correspondent who has but just com- 

 menced keeping bees, asks whether the old 

 or young queen goes with the first swarm. 

 As several questions of similar import have 

 been received lately, we will reply to them 

 all at once. 



The old queen goes with the first swarm 

 before the young queen emerges from its 

 cell. The old queen is prevented from 

 destroying the young queens by the bees 

 before swarming. Previous to the issuing 

 of a swarm the " piping" or shrill notes of 

 the old queen in answer to those of the 

 young queen yet in the cell, may be heard 

 several feet from the hive. An experienced 

 apiarist knows that a swarm will soon issue. 

 But it is not consistent with the nature of 

 bees for the young queen to hatch while the 

 old queen is present. In some eases, when 

 the bees need a queen to supersede an old 

 or worn-out queen, mother and daughter 

 live together in harmony in the same hive, 

 but this is an exception to.the general rule. 



Concerning tUe Wiley Lie about 

 combs being made by machinery and filled 

 with glucose, mentioned by Rev. W. F. 

 Clarke on page 389, as being contained in 

 Appieton's Cyclopaedia for 1881, the reader 

 is referred to an editorial in the American 

 Bee Journal for 1883, page 209, where we 

 ventilated the matter. We sent a copy and 

 a letter to the Appletons at the time, but 

 they took no notice of it. We will now do so 

 officiallj', as Manager of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Union, and will announce the 

 rebuilt in due time. 



We are Sorry to learn by the Canadian 

 Bee Joiiniai of last week that Mr. Frank 

 Benton, who is now in the Island of Cyprus, 

 has an attack of fever. Our Canadian 

 eotemporary adds the following : 



We are also infoi-med that those disagree- 

 able quarantine regulations with which they 

 fumigate everything passing through the 

 mails, has prevented the shipping of queens 

 and carrying on the operations as success- 

 fully as they could wish. We hope that these 

 objections may soon be removed, and that 

 friend Benton will recover, so that he may 

 carry on his noble work. Any one who 

 sacrifices the comforts of American life for 

 the discomforts of life in the East, in order 

 to carry ou the operation of exporting 

 queens, should not only receive the good- 

 will of every one who desires them, but 

 deserves to have health and prosperity. We 

 fear Mr. Benton will have to abandon the 

 work or sacrifice his life to the climate of 

 that country, as it is not adapted to Ameri- 

 cans, and by the time a person becomes 

 acclimated, his constitution would be 

 ruined. 



Sliadc for Hives,— The American Rural 

 Home contains the following note concern- 

 ing a new shade for hives : 



N. N. Betsingor, of Marcellus, N. Y., has 

 just invented a novelty in the line of a 

 shade-board for hives. It is made so as to 

 take the place of the roof, is of light 

 material, which is covered with tin, so as to 

 prevent leaking, and painted white, so as to 

 absorb as little of the sun's rays as possible. 

 This board has a projection of about 18 

 inches in front of the hive, so as to thor- 

 oughly shade the entrance from 9 a.m. to 3 

 p.m., and is hinged to the hive in such a way 

 that when the operator wishes to manipulate 

 the hive it tips up, and the projection holds 

 it in place entirely out of the way. Further- 

 more, it has a place in what is now the top 

 of it, for the handle of an umbrella, so that 

 in hot days the apiarist can sit and work in 

 the shade. It takes but a moment to open 

 and close the hive, and works so easily that 

 only one finger is required to operate it. 

 The whole thing is very ingenious, and Mr, 

 B. deserves the thanks of bee-keepers for 

 an invention which gives comfort to both 

 the bees and the bee-keeper. 



Mr. Betsinger is troubled very much with 

 rheumatism, and invented this shade be- 

 cause he is unable to lift anything heavy. 

 He is one of the most prominent bee-keepers 

 of the Empire State. 



About Protecting Combs from the 

 ravages of the moth, says the Indiana 

 Farmer, we have many inquiries. One asks : 

 " Will it keep out the miller to paste muslin 

 over all the cracks in the hive?" From 

 another, "Will putting the combs in tight 

 boxes, and closing up do, etc. ?" There 

 seems to be an entire misconception of the 

 moth miller. Understand, in the first place, 

 where the combs are, the moth will be also. 

 They live in and around the hives and 

 combs, and in shutting up the hives you 

 close them in instead of shutting them out. 

 They will do no harm until the arrival of 

 warm weather, unless the combs are kept in 

 a warm place. The best plan is to pack the 

 combs in a tight box of some kind ; examine 

 them at intervals of ten days or two weeks. 

 If you find they have commenced work, 

 fumigate the combs with sulphur. Keep all 

 closed up tight. One time may be sufficient, 

 but if, after a couple of weeks, you can still 

 find signs of new work, give them another 

 dose of sulphur. Twice fumigating will 

 generally do the work. The fumes of sulphur 

 will kill all the worms, and if there are no 

 more eggs to hatch, once will suffice, but it 

 will not destroy the eggs, so they must be 

 watched until all the eggs have hatched. 

 Afterwards, so long as they are kept closed 

 up they are safe. 



'* Diflferent Kinds of Suffar," says an 



exchange, "such as sucrose, glucose, and 

 lactose, agree in containing carbon, hydro- 

 gen and oxygen, the latter two in the 

 proportions in which they form water. This 

 sugar becomes the heat-giver to the bee in 

 the following manner : Air containing 

 oxygen is taken in by the bees through 

 spiracles (the breaking openings) in the sides 

 of which are 14 in number, and this oxygen 

 is by degrees united with the carbon of the 

 sugar, which is being carried about in 

 solution in the fluids of the insect." 



Tlie Times, published by Mr. Henry A. 



Cook, at Eureka Springs, (a pleasure resort 

 of Northwestern Arkansas) is one of the 

 brightest and liveliest daily papers among 

 our exchanges. Mr. Cook is a vigorous 

 writer, an excellent editor, and a good 

 printer. He was a pupil of the Editor of the 

 Bee Journal, some 16 years ago. We wish, 

 him much success. 



Mr. Ernest Root, son of the editor of 



Gleanings, " has taken unto himself a wife." 

 The American Bee Journal wishes him 

 prosperity and much happiness. 



Now is tUe Time to Join tlie Union. 



—Let every bee-keeper send for a copy of 

 the Annual Report and a Voting Blank— fill 

 it up, and become a member. It is to the 

 interest of every one to do so. The dues are 

 only 2.") cents a year ; and it is intended only 

 to call for one assessment (of $1.00) each 

 year. Send to this office for the Report and 

 Voting Blank. 



Bee-men at Fairs attract crowds while 

 handling bees. Bo not fail to employ this 

 method of advertising the honey product, 

 and at the same time create thousands of 

 consumers of honey, who may be reminded 

 of the value of honey for nutriment and 

 medicine by seeing your bees and honey on 

 exhibition. 



