THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS a. NEWMAN, 



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Vol. nil, Nov. 3, 1886. NO.44, 



Anotber l^niou CoiiTeutloii is to be 



held in Albany, N. Y., next January. See 

 the notice on page 609. Let there be a 

 sreneral rally of the bee-keeepers of New 

 York at this union meeting'. 



W. Z. Hutcblnsou has sustained a loss 

 by Are. We are sorry to learn that on Oct. 

 25, the store, hotel, post-office, and railroad 

 depot at Rog-ersville, Mich., were consumed 

 by fire. In the depot Mr. H. had stored 1,000 

 pounds of his choicest comb honey, pre- 

 paratory to shipment. It was all consumed; 

 and it is quite a loss for our friend, who is 

 so well known to our readers, as a corres- 

 pondent. 



Mr. Edn'ard R. Newcoinb, of Pleasant 

 Valley, N. Y., had an " exhibit " and " apiary 

 tent " at the Fair,of which the Poughkeepsie 

 News-Press remarks as follows : 



The apiary tent of E. R. Newcomb, of 

 Pleasant Valley, was tilled with visitors all 

 through the day. Mr. Newcomb entertained 

 his callers by explaining to them the habits 

 of bees, and method of preparing the comb 

 and honey. His exhibits of bees, comb 

 honey and extracted honey are very fine. 



Mr. Newcomb has sent a photograph of 

 the tent containing the exhibits to this 

 office, which is placed in our Museum. 



These names were ouiitted by the 



secretary, through an oversight, in the list of 



members at Indianapolis, on page 669 : 



Rev. W. F. Clarke, Guelph, Ont. 



C. B. Parks, Wntenown. Wis. 



O. O. Poppleton. Willtamstown, Iowa. 



Arthur Todd. Philadelphia, Pa. 



Stewart Nichols. SuKar Creek, Ind. 



Madison Talbert, Morriatown, Ind. 



John Clark, Liberty. Ind. 



A. Leedy, Andrew, Ind. 



Geo. J. Frey, Lebanon, Ind. 



A. Cox, Whitellek, Ind. 



Mnccl & Bro., of Kentucky, received a 

 queen from Italy, by mail, on Sept, 27, 1886, 

 which was only 13 days in transit. She now 

 has 3 frames full of brood, and they say that 

 it was the first queen-bee to cross the 

 Atlantic in the mails. Several have been 

 sent across by mail, but which was first we 

 are now unable to say. One of the first was 

 taken from the mail at New York, custom 

 bouse fees collected, and then forwarded by 

 express to the consignee. This was of 

 course an outrage, but we know of no inex- 

 pensive redress, as we explained to the con- 

 signee, who complained to us at the time. 



Wlicre Honey Comes From.— It has 



been known for ages that honey is a vegeta- 

 ble product— that it is not " ina(h> by bees," 

 as many ignorantly express it, but gathered 

 from the flowers I Now comes a theorist 

 who asserts the opposite in the Kiirat Home 

 for Oct. 2, 1880, published in Rochester, N. 

 Y., a marked copy of which was sent to us 

 by Mr. W. E. Peterman, of Trappe, Pa. He 

 says that "honey is not secreted by the 

 Howers, but is held in solution in the atmos- 

 phere, and under favoring conditions is 

 attracted to and condensed by flowers and 

 leaves having affinity for it.*' 



The author of this statement is W. M. 

 Evans ; but there is some hope for him, as 

 he subsequently makes tliis statement con- 

 cerning honey-dew : " Before I came to 

 Virginia I did not believe in honey-dew ; 

 now belief is knowledge." He may, there- 

 fore, learn something else. He then adds : 



Last year, after the clover and all our 

 honey flowers had dried up, and before fall 

 flowers blossomed, my bees gathered 2.000 

 pounds from honey-dew on pines. You 

 could see it plainly m the morning in small, 

 white drops. In color and flavor it is equal 

 to white clover, and in body is heavier. 



We are aware that there are different 

 kinds of honey-dew, and some may be of 

 very passable quality, but most of it is 

 totally unfit for use. That Mr. Evans did 

 not believe in its existence until recently, 

 proves that his knowledge is very limited, 

 and he should be very careful in making 

 assertions in public print, so utterly un- 

 founded as the first extract we have quoted. 



If honey is not secreted by the flowers, 

 how does Mr. Evans account for the fact 

 that in '* new country,'* before so much land 

 is brought under cultivation, where wild 

 flowers abound, so much more honey can be 

 obtained than after the same lands have 

 been cultivated ? If " the honey were held 

 in solution in the atmosphere," cultivation 

 which destroys the wild flowers should not 

 make so much difference I 



Again, how comes it that the honey from 

 basswood, white clover, buckwheat, etc., so 

 much differ in color and taste it it is held in 

 solution in the atmosphere, and is simply 

 " attracted to and condensed by the flowers 

 and leaves ?'* If his theory were true would 

 it not all be of the same color and taste ? 



Mr. Evans than rattles off the " Wiley lie " 

 about fllling combs and glucose, and selling 

 that which he calls " Devil's honey " for the 

 pure article, in lots of 10,000 pounds, and 

 denominated "apple blossom honey " in the 

 New York market. It is all bosh ! He is 

 only adding to Wiley's nefarious lie, by 

 "drawing on imagination for facts," and 

 then swearing they are true statements of 

 the case 1 1 He then gets excited and writes 

 these frenzied words in conclusion : 



The hells of adultery, adulteration, brib- 

 ery, corruption, and all kinds of human 

 cussedness have broken loose and taken 

 hold of all classes I 



We think that it Is the worst kind of 

 "cussedness" to lie about a pursuit and 

 endeavor to ruin it by such stupidity and 

 unreasonable assertions as Mr. Evans in- 

 dulges in I 



'That Lawsuit against Mr. C.C. Richard- 

 son, of Tipton, Ind., for damage alleged to 

 be done by his bees to a neighbor, will come 

 up in the November term of court, on 

 appeal from a .lustice's Court. 



At the Indianapolis Convention anotber 

 neighbor of his made some assertions about 

 the Union not having given Mr. R. any 

 assurance of help in defending the suit. 

 Not remembering the details of so much 

 correspondence as of necessity he has in 

 such matters, the Manager promised the 

 Convention that he would examine the re- 

 cords in his office, on his return, and make a 

 public statement of the case. Upon looking 

 the matter up, he found that he had written 

 to Mr. Richardson on Aug. 4, 1886, request- 

 ing him to make the defense as thorough as 

 possible, assuring him that the Llnion would 

 help him to a reasonable amount. To this 

 Mr. R. replied that he had permitted the 

 case to go by default in the Justice's Court 

 in order to take an appeal to a higher court. 

 The Manager, on Aug. 2.'i, requested him to 

 ascertain from his attorney the probable 

 cost of the suit including the appeal ; and 

 again assured him that the Union would 

 render him all the aid in its power to defend 

 the case. 



After ascertaining these facts in the ease, 

 the Manager then wrote to Mr. R. stating 

 what had been said by a member at the 

 Indianapolis Convention, and asked : " Did 

 he speak thus with any authority from 

 you ?" To this Mr. R. replies as follows, by 

 return mail : 



I hasten to answer your inquiry, " Did 

 he speak thus wiih any authority from 

 you ?*' with a positive denial. He had no 

 grounds for making the statement on any 



authority My case will come up in the 



November term The costs of the suit will 



amount to about $40. I stand by the Union, 

 and whatever help can be rendered by it will 

 be satisfactory. C. C. Richardson. 



Probably the person who made the re- 

 marks referred to at the Convention (hie 

 name is forgotten), intended no wrong, but 

 either his memory was defective, or he 

 failed to comprehend the facts in the case. 



The Manager has copies of all his official 

 letters, which are not a few, but are always 

 accessible to any member of the Union who 

 may desire to review them, in any applica- 

 tion for defense or other official act. This 

 is done not only for convenience but for 

 proof, in cases like the one under considera- 

 tion. 



Mr. O. O. Poppleton's honey crop for 

 this year amounts to 15,500 pounds, and is 

 mostly extracted honey— as yet all of it is 

 unsold. In May he had 141 colonies, which 

 have increased to '^33 now. 



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