THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Vol. nil, Aug, 18, m 1.33, 





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Flfty-Xwo Dividends from the invest- 

 ment of one dollar is just what every sub- 

 scriber to the American Bee Journal 

 receives. Can any better interest be found 

 for the investment of one hundred cents? 

 If so, where ? 



Cbarles E. Gates, a bee-keeper of Gerry, 

 N. Y., called a few days ago at the oflice of 

 the Bee Journal. He came all the way 

 from New York on a bicycle. He was on 

 the way to St. Paul, Minn.— looking up the 

 country and taking notes of the crops, etc. 



To Edncate Consumers of Honey on 



the ditference between the " strained " 

 honey of commerce and pure extracted 

 honey, is now the duty of the bee-keepers. 

 The strained honey of commerce is ob- 

 tained mostly from South America and the 

 island of Cuba. Extracted honey is the pure 

 nectar taken from the combs by centrifugal 

 force, that the combs, which are of more 

 value than the honey, may be returned to 

 the hives to be again and again filled by the 

 bees. 



Dr. J. H. Kellogg, in his paper. Good 

 Health, for August, takes back what he said 

 about the adulteration of comb honey, as 

 mentioned on page 44:i of the Bee Journal. 

 He acknowledges that he was deceived by 

 that lie of Prof. W. H. Wiley. If it was 

 intended as a " scientific pleasantry," it is 

 not very pleasant to be obliged to brand it 

 as an unscientific lie every day. Wiley has 

 done more harm by that falsehood than he 

 could possibly balance with good, if he 

 should live a thousand years. 



Tlie Editor of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal was on the 10th instant elected to the 

 honorable position of " Grand Commander " 

 of the State of Illinois, in " the American 

 Legion of Honor," a life-insurance organi- 

 zation, havingoversixty thousand members. 

 This item may interest some of his apicul- 

 tural friends ; others will please pass it by 

 unnoticed. 



Tlie Bees of IHoant Slnal are men- 

 tioned by a correspondent of the Leisure 

 Hour, I. B. Bishop, when describing a pil- 

 grimage to Sinai. The sight was grand in 

 the extreme, under the bright Arabian sun, 

 \vith*'the intense blue of the Arabian sky 

 spreading in a clear vault of purity over the 

 great expanse of naked mountains." Amid 

 its awful sublimity the correspondent wrote 

 these words : '* I write from Mount Sinai. 

 I wish I could linger here to stamp its form 

 and surroundings indelibly on my memory." 

 Speaking of the peak, where itradition says 

 " the Law was given to Moses .3,500 years 

 ago," the correspondent continues in these 

 words : 



It looks as it it had been splintered by 

 fire, frost and earthquake, most desolate 

 and awful 



Barren, naked, and blasted as is this peak 

 of sublime memories, the />e€8 /turn as gaily 

 on it as mi the thymy moorlands of Tober- 

 mory ; and on the awful front of Sinai a 

 small forget-me-not raises its fragile cup 

 to-day as though " blackness, darkness, and 

 tempest" had never veiled the mountain 

 with their gloom. 



As the early rose-flush gave place to day, 

 each mountain peak, sun-kissed, turned 

 rosy, and the red granite peaks became 

 vermilion-colored. The splendor of the 

 morning was nearly overwhelming, and the 

 day has been perfect, absolutely cloudless, 

 while the heat of the sun has been tempered 

 by a keen north wind, which here, as else- 

 where, gives a peculiar brilliancy and clear- 

 ness to the atmosphere. 



In the glorious sunset the mountain land- 

 scape was seen to perfection. There was a 

 complete carnival of color. I might multi- 

 ply words without conveying ideas— it was 

 indescribable. The colors changed con- 

 stantly, ran one into another, faded, deep- 

 ened, intensified, flamed. There were metal- 

 lic gleams on the hill sides— orange. carmine, 

 vermilion, brown madder, green-brown, red- 

 brown, cobalt, indigo, lilac, butf, olive- 

 green, blue-grey, green-grey, while as the 

 sun declined and the shadows lengthened 

 the ravines became filled up with red-purple, 

 changing into violet-blue atmosphere.which 

 faded into a tender grey, while the sky took 

 to itself manifold tints of pink, green, red, 

 and orange, the green brightened by deli- 

 cate lines of pure vermilion. 



The editor of the Bek Journal can 

 imagine something like the sublimity of 

 Mount Sinai, when contemplating the views 

 he obtained in company with Mons. and 

 Madam Bertrand, in Switzerland, of that 

 grand old mountain of light— Mount Blanc— 

 which, at sunset, constantly changed color, 

 the hues ever blending into each other ; and 

 also when viewing the eternally snow- 

 capped mountains in the glacier region of 

 the Alps. There, too, on the sides of the 

 mountains are millions of honey-bees. One 

 of the apiaries of Mons. Bertrand (our 

 friend and brother editor who publishes the 

 Bulletin d' Apiculteur at Nyon, Switzerland) 

 is located on the side of a mountain in the 

 Alpine region. 



If bees are not fond of magnificent 

 scenery, certain it is that they are found in 

 many of the grandest portions of the earth. 



J. E. Pond, Jr., writes us that he has 



lost his father, and as we know that his 

 many friends will sympathize with him, we 

 will quote this from his letter : 



I have just lost a dearly loved father, who 

 was buried on Saturday last. The house is 

 lonely now. No one can tell how much a 

 father is missed till the loss comes: and in 

 my case the loss Is the greater from the fact 

 that he has lived with me for 2.5 years. He 

 was almost 7» years of age, and a " full 

 shock ripe for the harvest." 



liOcal Markets for Honey is what the 

 Bee Journal has been advocating for 

 years, and believes it to be the only solution 

 of the question of marketing the crop and 

 keeping the prices up. Had our advice 

 been followed, the present low prices would 

 not have been reached. A correspondent 

 writes as follows : 



I notice that great stress is placed upon 

 creating local honey markets, by scattering 

 the Leaflets, "Why Eat Honey?" I have 

 been trying this plan, and find that it will 

 greatly help to sell in a home market. If 

 apiarists would give this subject more 

 attention, instead of rushing the honey to 

 city markets, it would be better for both the 

 producer and consumer. 



There can be no doubt about the efficacy 

 of this method of educating the public con- 

 cerning the use of honey, and we believe 

 that if there were a judicious distribution 

 of the Leaflets, entitled, " Why Eat Honey ?" 

 one crop would all be sold before another 

 crop is produced. 



Another point of vital importance is the 

 fact that more than double the price can 

 easily be obtained in the local market (when 

 we consider the cost of barrels, transporta- 

 tion, commissions and leakage), than that 

 price which can he obtained in quantity in 

 the wholesale markets. 



There are many methods of advertising 

 honey for sale, which will be found to pay 

 well. A sign at or near the residence or 

 apiary with " Honey for Sale " in large 

 letters, will be a valuable help. A few lines 

 in the local paper, announcing the fact, will 

 be valuable. Scattering " Leaflets " or 

 " Honey as Food and Medicine," with the 

 producer's card printed on them, will sell 

 tons of honey in almost any locality. Just 

 try it ! 



We have Received some samples of 

 comb foundation which it is claimed are 

 new inventions. Two samples are " thin 

 foundation," made from bleached wax, which 

 has proved decidedly objectionable to the 

 bees in past years, the aroma and pliability 

 of the wax having been lost in bleaching. 

 Some of the first sent out by Mr. Hoge.being 

 of bleached wax, caused its condemnation by 

 several bee-keepers who tried it at that early 

 day. 



In another sample coarse cloth is dipped 

 in melted wax, the cloth forming the " mid- 

 rib," as the English apiarists call it, and is in 

 fact the base of the cells. Still another is 

 made on very coarse cloth, the threads 

 being l-i of an inch or more apart. These 

 are both very objectionable, because the 

 bees will very often amuse themselves by 

 removing the threads, and thus "spoil the 

 f un " of those who put the threads there. 



We cannot see where the claims for 

 " improvement " or " new invention " come 

 in. The ideas are old, and the plans have 

 been tried and discarded many times during 

 the past 12 years. 



Now is the Time to Join tlie Onion. 



— Let every bee-keeper send for a copy of 

 the Annual Report and Member's Blank— fill 

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

 interest of every one to do so. The dues are 

 only 2.5 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 

 Membership Blank. 



