THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



627 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Vol. nil. Oct. 9, 1886. No.40. 



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The Canadian Exhibit of honey in 

 England consists of 10 tons. The comb 

 honey was packed with great care, and 

 arrived in good condition ; it amounted to 

 some 15 tons. The exhibit is for the " Indian 

 and Colonial Exhibition." We will give 

 further notice of it next week. 



Reduced Railroad Rates to the Con- 

 vention at Indianapolis has been secured 

 only for the round trip from Chicago to 

 Indianapolis and return. Mr. Dougherty, 

 the Secretary, has made several applications 

 for reduced rates without avail. On Sept. 

 29, 1886, he sent us the following for pub- 

 lication : 



Please announce in the Bee Journal our 

 failure to secure reduced rates. Our friends 

 think strange that rates have been secured 

 from Chicago and no further. I have again 

 been before the Passenger Agent Pool here, 

 but they refuse to do anything, even over 

 the roads from Chicago. 



Frank L. Doughurty. 



After his first refusal he wrote to us, and 

 we also applied through the Pool Agent 

 here, but was refused in the same language 

 exactly as that used to Secretary Dougherty. 

 Then we " pulled another string," through a 

 friend of ours here, and obtained reduced 

 rates on all the roads between Chicago and 

 Indianapolis. We mention this only to 

 show that the Secretary is in no wise to 

 blame for not getting the usual reduction. 

 Had the Convention been held in Chicago 

 we might have succeeded in getting the 

 reduction asked for ; but when it was pro- 

 posed to carry passengers away from 

 Chicago, we found it up-hill business ; and 

 we do not think we should have met with 

 any success had it not been for our friend 

 who assisted us in " pulling the ropes " in 

 the right direction. 



We Ijearn that G. L. Marshall & Co., of 

 La Salle, Ills., who wanted consignments of 

 honey, are frauds, and that they have been 

 arrested for using the United States mails 

 for fraudulent purposes. It will not do to 

 ship honey to unknown parties. 



The liaxi Call for the intellectual feast 

 at Indianapolis, beginning next Tuesday, 

 Oct. 12, ISSC. It you miss being there, you 

 cannot blame the Bee Journal for not 

 giving you duo notice. The meeting will be 

 largely attended by many of the principa 

 apiarists of America, and promises to be an 

 intellectual feast, from which you cannot 

 afford to absent yourselves. It you go by 

 way of Chicago, write to the editor of this 

 paper AT ONCE for a certificate to entitle 

 you to reduced rates on the railroads be- 

 tween Chicago and Indianapolis. The 

 tickets are good from Monday to Saturday, 

 Oct. 11 to 16, 1886. 



To Indianapolis there are four routes 

 from Chicago— the Kankakee, leaving at 9.10 

 a.m. and 8.00 p.m.; the Monon, 6.05 a.m. and 

 7.30 p.m. ; the Pan Handle, 8.30 a.m. and 8.30 

 p.m.; and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, 

 at 8.00 a.m. and 8 p.m. every day. On all of 

 these railroads the reduced rates for a round 

 trip for $7.30 can be had upon the presenta- 

 tion of a certificate signed by Thomas G. 

 Newman. 



On the Kankakee Route, trains leave the 

 depot at the foot of Lake Street ; on the 

 Pan Handle, trains leave from the Canal 

 Street Depot ; on the Monon and Chicago 

 and Eastern Illinois, trains start from the 

 Polk Street Depot. We make these an- 

 nouncements to prevent mistakes. 



Reader, do you not just now think of 

 one bee-keeper who does not take the 

 Weekly Bee Journal, and who should do 

 so ? Perhaps a word or two from you will 

 induce him to do so. Will you not kindly 

 oblige us by getting his subscription to send 

 on with your own renewal for next year ? 

 When you do so, please select any 25 cent 

 book in our list, and we will send it to you 

 post-paid, to pay for your trouble. We are 

 aiming to get 5,000 new subscribers for 1887, 

 —will you not assist us to obtain them ? 



Their Main Stay — Mrs. L. Harrison, in 

 the Prairie Farmer, during the late drouth, 

 remarked as follows concerning sweet 

 clover : 



The blue grass has turned brown, and 

 crumbles under the feet, by reason of the 

 drouth, yet sweet clover blooms, and is 

 visited from early morn until eve by the 

 bees, which are making a living chiefly from 

 it, which is another proof of its great value 

 as a honey-plant, as it fills the interim be- 

 tween clover and fall bloom. 



As there Is Another firm in Chicago by 

 the name of " Newman &. Son," we wish our 

 correspondents would write " American Bee 

 Journal " on the envelope when writing to 

 this office. Several letters of ours have 

 already gone to the other firm (a commis- 

 sion house), causing vexatious delay and 

 trouble. 



Wednesday.— It is a serious blunder to 

 appoint a District or National Convention 

 to commence on Tuesday|morning. In order 

 to get there, persons living at some distance 

 are obliged to leave their homes on Sunday 

 (and some on Saturday night) in order to get 

 there at the first meeting. This is true 

 also of some who live on railroads requiring 

 two or three " changes " to " get there." As 

 this mistake is so often Innocently made by 

 those having the matter in charge, we have 

 concluded to make this public protest 

 against such blundering In the future. 



The North American Bee-Keepers' Society 

 this years is called to mee at Indianapolis, 

 Ind., on Tuesday at 10 a.m. We know of 

 several prominent apiarists who cannot get 

 there until Tuesday night or Wednesday 

 morning, unless they pay some $8 or $10 

 extra, which, of course, they do not wish to 

 do, and hence will be absent from all the first 

 day's sessions. 



We do not blame the present executive 

 committee for this— they have but followed 

 the example before them, the last few meet- 

 ings of the society having been begun on 

 Tuesday — but we desire to enter an earnest 

 and public protest against any future 

 meetings being called before Wednesday 

 morning. 



Sweet Clover.— Prof. A. J. Cook, In an- 

 swer to a question in Oleanings, makes the 

 following statement concerning sweet clover 

 and its cultivation : 



1. Sweet clover is a very excellent honey- 

 plant. 2. It is very beautiful, both from its 

 rich fine foliage and graceful sweet-scented 

 blossoms. Surely, ragweed, mayweed, 

 smartweed, etc., bear no comparison to it as 

 an adornment to the highway. .3. It is not 

 bad to spread at this place. We rarely find 

 it starting at any considerable distance 

 from our beds ; and when it does start In 

 meadow or pasture it rarely holds on, being 

 choked out by our cultivated grasses. 4. 

 When once started it is no difficult matter 

 at all to get rid of it. As is well known, this 

 clover is a biennial, and grows from seed, 

 flowering the second year. Thus by cutting 

 while in bloom, or before the seeds mature, 

 we shall quickly extirpate it. It cannot re- 

 main longer than two years after such 

 cutting, as it must come from seed every 

 other year. So I am tree to urge farmers to 

 foster rather than destroy this plant. At 

 this writing our beds of sweet clover— 

 (melilulus alha) are in full bloom, and it 

 is hard to say which is more attractive to 

 the bees— this or the basswoods, which are 



also in full bloom. 



The October number of the ApicuUurist 

 has eleven articles on the wintering prob- 

 lem. These articles cover the entire ground, 

 and are by some of our best apiarists. 



Oleomargarine. — The act of the late 

 session of Congress regulating and legaliz- 

 ing the sale of oleomargarine takes effect on 

 Oct. 31, 1880. Instructions, prepared by 

 the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, are 

 being sent to the revenue officers in the 

 several districts, with the necessary revenue 

 stamps, etc. We understand that the Com- 

 missioners construe the Act of Congress as 

 relating only to imitations of butter consist- 

 ing of mixtures of tallow, suet, beef-fat, etc. 

 Mixtures of' lard not being Included under 

 the term oleomargarine.— Exc?io?i06. 



Five Thonsand new subscribers to the 

 Bee Journal Is what we have made our 

 calculations for ; they will come in clubs 

 between now and next spring. Installments 

 are coming every day. 



Frank Clieshlre's new book on Bees 

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

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



