THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Vol, nil. Oct 13, 1886. 1,41. 



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Mollier! Of all the words in our lan- 

 guage, this is the holiest and grandest I To 

 our minds, it presents the purest love, the 

 most unfailing aflection, and the tenderest 

 care. The death of a mother severs the 

 holiest tie in this world, and overwhelms the 

 surviving familj' with sorrow. This is the 

 case to-day with the editor of this Journal. 

 His mother has just passed to the "haven 

 of rest " after 86 long years of toil and 

 sorrow ; having spent just one-half of her 

 years (4.'J) as a widow. She died at Kent, 

 Portage County, Ohio, on Thursday, Oct. 7, 

 1886, and was there buried last Sunday. 

 Death in this case was not unexpected, for 

 our mother has been awaiting the angel's 

 call for many years— and now, she has gone 

 only a few years before us. "We are ail 

 following one another to the tomb — and 

 soon our time will come. (_>ur faith and 

 hope lead us to look for a re-union on the 

 other shore of all the lovcd-ones who have 

 gone before us, for 



"Part of the host have crossed the flood. 

 And part are crossing now." 



Tlie I'iiiiadianiK In Ijondon, who have 

 charge of the Canadian honey at the "Indian 

 and Colonial E.xhibition," are being re- 

 ceived with open arms by the British 

 apiarists. On Wednesday, Oct. G, at 2 p.m. 

 the liritish HeeKeepers' Association had a 

 luncheon, at which the Colonial beekeepers 

 were their guests. They all visited the 

 Colonial exhibit of honey in a Ijody, and at 

 ."> p.m. held a conversational meeting. Mr. 

 J. M. Hooker, in the British Bee Journal, 

 thus describes the exhibit and exhibitors : 



About 40 tons of Canadian hone.v have 

 ai-rived at the Exhil>itu)n. and are now being 

 unpacKed. and will be all in order by the 

 end of this week. 



There are four gentlemen who are dele- 

 gated by the Ontario Dee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion to see to the whole thing, and right 

 well thev appear to l_pe doing it. Our old 

 friend Mr. D A. ,Tones, of Beeton, is one, 

 Mr. Cornell, of Lindsay, Mr. McKnight, of 

 Owen Sound, and Mr. Pettit.of Belmont. By 

 accident! met Mr. .Jones, who introduced 

 me to the others ; thev represent different 

 parts of Ontario, living over a hundred 

 miles one from the other. I spent part of 

 last Thursday afternoon with them, seeing 

 them unpack some of the com!) honey, 

 which you will be pleased to hear has come 

 with few breakages. There are 1.5 tons of 

 comb honey of ver.v good quality, princi- 

 ]ially clover hone.v : the packing was ver.v 

 cleverly done, and has well repaid them for 

 the great care and skill bestowed upon it by 

 the result. The.v were most courteous to 

 me, and gave nie every information, and 

 look forward to making the acquaintance of 

 some of our fraternity. All bee keepers 

 should make a point of seeing this grand 

 exhibit. 



We congratulate our Canadian? friends 

 upon the success attending their adventure. 



DeatU interferes with everything, and 

 will in all probability interfere with the 

 editor's arrangements to be at the Indian- 

 apolis Convention on the first day. He will 

 be there, however, as soon as he can return 

 from the East, whither he has been sum- 

 moned by telegraph to attend his mother's 

 funeral. 



Red Clover Honey has been gathered 

 quite freely in many localities this season. 

 It is quite thick, having considerable body, 

 but the flavor is not nearly as good as that 

 from white clover, while the color is darker 

 than the amber honey from fall flowers. 



A Company has been organized to be 

 known as "The International Honey Co.," 

 whose intentions are to establish apiaries in 

 Cuba, the United States and Canada. They 

 have accordingly made all arrangements to 

 sail from New York on Oct. 14, for Cienfue- 

 gos.Cuba, with everything necessary for the 

 equipment of a flrst-class apiary, at which 

 place they intend to locate and establish a 

 large apiary during the coming winter. 

 During the summer season, when the bloom 

 of Cuba does not yield nectar in sufficient 

 quantities to render the business profitable 

 in that island, they intend to come north 

 (where they already have one apiary), and 

 locate their next in Middlesex Co., Ontario. 

 The Company is composed of A. T. Finn. 

 H. E. Hill and R. M. Mullcr. In this they 

 calculate upon obtaining good results by 

 having a honey-flow the whole year around. 

 They will report the result of the e.xperi- 

 ment in the Bee Jouknal in due time. 



Money Orders can now be obtained at 

 the Post Offices at reduced rates. Five 

 dollars and under costs now only 5 cents. 

 As these are absolutely safe, it will pay to 

 get them instead of the Postal Notes which 

 are payable to any one who presents them, 

 and are in no way safe. 



Exactly So !— The American ApicuUurist 

 for November contains the following offer : 



The Amekican Bee Journal is the best 

 weekly bee-paper published in the English 

 language. Price. $1 per year. It any new 

 suViscribers to the Amp-rican ApiculhtriM, or 

 those who renew or desire to take the 

 Weekly Bee JfjURNAL, we will send both 

 papers for $1.70. The above offer is to com- 

 mence with the Nos'ember number of the 

 ApicuUurist. 



Of course we will make the same club 

 rate for the two papers, when sent to this 

 olKce. The change in management has 

 resulted in an infinite improvement in the 

 tone of the " Api." We wish it success. 



Bee-IfceeperH have themselves to blame 

 for many of the "mistakes" now so com- 

 monly made when speaking of matters con- 

 cerning the pursuit of bee-keeping. An 

 extensive advertiser for years persisted in 

 calling comb foundation by the mistaken 

 cognomen of " artificial comb ;" thus giving 

 the only plausibility to the "scientific pleas- 

 antry" of Prof. Wiley. Others talk and 

 write about bees makUifi htnicy, when they 

 know full well that they simply gather what 

 is already made in the blossoms by Nature. 

 In the Prairie Farmer Mrs.L. Harrison makes 

 a good point on the latter in these words : 



A person would suppose, by reading Mrs. 

 Lizzie E. Cotton's arivertisement. that her 

 hive made honey, instead of the bees gather- 

 ing it. All this fuss and feathers about bees 

 producing more hone.v in my hive than in 

 yours, is all moonshine. Elistia Gallup once 

 said ver.y truthfuil.v, that "other things 

 being equal, a colony of bees will build as 

 much comb, and produce as much honey in 

 a nail-keg as in any hive, and thev will pro- 

 duce as much honey in my nail-keg as in 

 yours." This is one of the axioms of bee- 

 lore, that tiees will store as tnuch honey in 

 a hollow tree, log-gum. salt barrel or tiiox- 

 hive, as in any controllable or reversible 

 hive made. 



Movable frame hives give ease and com- 

 fort in manipulation, and sections in which 

 honey is to be stored only enhance its 

 market value. 



The Bee-Keepers' Magazine for October 

 contains the following : 



We see City and Country still publishes 

 that advertisement of Lizzie E. Cotton, who 

 is a fraud, though we sent them a marked 

 copy of tlie magazine containing our article 

 upon her workings. It is rather anomalous 

 to see the advertisement of a prominent 

 Bee Journal on the next page to hers (or 

 hisl. We should think the ads. would fight. 



The Bee Journal mentioned is the Ameri- 

 can, and the point is well taken. Tne pub- 

 lishers of City and Country are imposing on 

 us by inserting Lizzie's advertisement when 

 they ought to know that she has been re- 

 peatedly published as a fraxtd by every 

 reputable bee-periodical in America. 



Some Gross Libels on bee-keepers ap- 

 peared in the Rochester, N. T., Morning 

 Herald, of July 1.'?, 1886. A man by the 

 name of McDowell, who had an experience 

 of a few weeks in keeping bees, was stated 

 by that paper to be "an expert apiarist," 

 and is responsible for this remark : 



Rather sharp practice is employed by some 

 bee-keepers, who place glucose near their 

 hives and allow the bees to draw from it 

 instead of from the natural source. This 

 enables the bees to fill their combs quickly, 

 and produces a bluish white honey which is 

 more pleasing to the eye than Hower honey. 



This statement is damaging to bee-keepers 

 of that localit.y. and we wrote the editor to 

 correct it ; but it has not been done. We 

 now therefore publicly call upon Mr. Mc- 

 Dowell either to prove his assertion or to 

 "take it back," in the Herald. We ask no 

 favors— all we want is justice. 



J. K. Mcl/cndon, Stoddard. Montgom- 

 ery County, Ala., wishes to correspond with 

 all the bee-keepers in Alabama relative to 

 organization, and requests every one in that 

 State, to send him a postal card, giving 

 name and address. Now let Alabama be 

 beard from with a strong society of bee- 

 keepers. 



