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could be raised as easily as $500, if the matter were pusht by 

 a competent committee. 



In order to get it started, we will suggest what we thinlj 

 would be an excellent committee, to be known as "The Lang- 

 stroth Monument Committee :" 



Hon. Eugene Secor, Forest. City, Iowa, General Manager 

 of the United States Bee-Keepers' Union, chairman. 



Thomas G. Newman, San Francisco, Calif., General Man- 

 ager of the National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



Dr. G. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 



G. M. Doolittle, Borodino, N. Y. 



Mrs. L. Harrison, Peoria, 111. 



Now, why isn't that a fine committee? In it are repre- 

 sented the two Unions, and three of the oldest and best writers 

 on apiculture, one of them to represent the " dear women " 

 bee-keepers. What more do you want ? 



If this committee shall be the one selected to undertake 

 the work, and provided they accept, we suggest that they at 

 once issue an address to bee-keepers, to be publisht in all the 

 bee-papers, and that hereafter contributors be requested to 

 forward all moneys to them. Contributions can be sent to any 

 one of the five members, and all be forwarded finally to Chair- 

 main Secor, who would be authorized to pay it out when the 

 monument is selected, placed in position, and the work ap- 

 proved. 



We believe The A. I. Root Co. have in hand about §75 

 that has been contributed toward to Monument Fund, and we 

 have $10 lately sent to us. If the matter were taken up at 

 once and urged as it deserves, we think that by Oct. 1, 1S98, 

 the desired amount could be raised and the tnonument erected 

 this year. 



Provided this matter is taken hold of and workt as it 

 ought to be, our own further contribution of $5 will be made. 



Produce Only the Best Honey.— High aims 

 are always to be encouraged everywhere. Why not in the 

 production of honey, and especially that in the comb? It is 

 our opinion that too much of the inferior grades are put upon 

 the markets, and particularly city markets. We have been 

 greatly surprised at some — yes, a good deal — of the comb 

 honey we have seeu in the Chicago market the past year. We 

 truly believe there was but a small percentage that was really 

 fancy honey. 



Now it seems to us that with the experience of added 

 years, and with all the present-day improvements in bee-keep- 

 ing appliances, better-appearing honey ought to result. Bee- 

 keepers should not be satisfied to place before consumers, 

 year after year, inferior looking honey, ragged-edged, and 

 with corduroyed sides, but our aim should be to produce as 

 even and squarely-built sections of honey as we possibly can, 

 trying to improve as the years come and go. We ought to 

 make the effort, at least. 



Honey for Burns. — A 4-year old boy was badly 

 scalded, and in despair his parents had recourse to the old 

 domestic remedy — honey. Six pounds of honey were dis- 

 solved in warm water, with which the parts were several 

 times bathed. The pain departed at once, and the boy rap- 

 idly recovered. This is reported in a German paper. It does 

 not seem to make much difference whether you put honey on 

 the inside or the outside of a person, it is alike beneficial. 



Bee-Keeping; for Beginners is the title of a 

 110-page book just out, from the pen of that expert bee- 

 keeper of the South, Dr. J. P. H. Brown, of Georgia. It 

 claims to be " a practical and condenst treatise on the honey- 

 bee, giving the best modes of management in order to secure 

 the most profit." Price of the book, postpaid, 50 cents. Or, 

 we will club it with the Bee Journal for one year — both to- 

 gether for .'Sl.-iO; or, we will mail it as a premium to any of 

 our present subscribers for sending us one new subscriber to 

 the Bee Journal for a year (at iijl.OO), and 10 cents extra. 



COWDnCTED BY 



UK. O. O. -UtLX-BR, MAttENGO, ILJ,. 



[Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal, or to Dr. Miller direct.! 



Uiipaint«d t§. Painted Hives. 



What do you think of unpainted vs. painted hives, as stated by 

 Mr. Doolittle '. Iowa. 



Answer.— Mr. Doolittle says he wouldn't allow his hive-bodies 

 to he painted if any one would give him a dollar a piece for it, for 

 it would make a difference of ^I.W each in the development of 

 brood in spring. I don't know bow exact those figures may be, but 

 I've so much faith in the general principle that I haven't painted a 

 hive for many years, except to paint the covers. 



Foul-Brood Trcalmeiit. 



1. My bees are troubled with foul-brood, and I got Dr. How- 

 ard's pamphlet with McEvoy's fonl-brood treatment. Is his treat- 

 ment the best to cure foul-brood, and is it as good or better than 

 the starving plan ? . , , . , ^i, 



3 Also, could I use the honey that was in the hive where there 

 was foul-brood, to feed the bees, if I boil it well ? N. Jersey. 



Answers.— 1. You can probably do nothing better than to fol- 

 low the plan mentioned, which is practically the same as the starv- 

 ing plan, as it uses up all the infected honey before any can be fed 

 to brood. 



2. Yes, only such honey will not be fit tor winter. 



Crimson Clover as a Honey-Yielder. 



We have been having ideal spring weather for about a week 

 now, and the bees are working like trojans. They are about a 

 month ahead of what they were last year, and if the weather does 

 not take a change for the worse, I will have honey in the sections 

 within a week, which is something unusual for this section. 1 

 would like to know the honey-producing quality of crimson (not 

 red) clover, as compared with white clover. There is about lUU 

 acres of it on all sides of me. and if it yields much nectar. I should 

 have a good crop of honey. There is also a good lot of white clover 

 in my vicinity; saw the fir^t blossoms on it yesterday (March 1S>.) 

 I have a good stand of sweet clover, planted as an experiment, and 

 will report later how it turns out. Please advise me as to the 

 crimson clover as early as possible. I might mention that the bees 

 work on it very freely. Georgia. 



Answer.— You are the very man to give something definite 

 about crimson clover, and it is to be hoped that you will keep your 

 eyes wide open to tell us all about it as soon as it gets through its 

 principal blooming. Reports so far say it is a great yielder, and 

 there can hardly be any doubt on that score in the mind of any one 

 who has seen the bees at work on it. I do not know whether any 

 one as yet has had so large a quantity of it in one place as to be 

 able to say exactly as to the quality, the supposition being that it 

 is excellent, and on this point you ought to be able to enlighten us. 

 As it comes earlier than the other clovers, with 100 acres you prob- 

 ably ought to be able to have it unmixt with other honey. Be sure 

 to report. _ 



Question on Transfcrriiifs. 



I am a beginner, having only had bees last summer, and getting 

 out of health during the honey-flow and ever since, I have not done 

 them the justice that I might. 1 got 24 old hives with bees, and 

 some empty in addition, increast to over 40, commencing the winter 

 with 39, which are good now; one was short of " funds," so I to- 

 day exchanged two empty for two full combs, with another. 



1. What I want to know is, your opiuion of the best way to 

 change the bees from seven or eight hives of odd patterns, in which 

 the frames are lockt and crooked. I wish to get them into stand- 

 ard eight or ten-frame dovetailed hives. I have seen several 

 methods described, and I am not satisfied with any given in books 

 or papers Could I not set the hives (old and new) one on the 

 other, and drive the bees into the fresh hive until I knew the queen 

 was in the upper new story, then put a queen-excluding zinc be- 

 tween them, and in a few days make the entrance at the upper 

 story and close the lower, and V)y thus doing induce them to leave 

 the old hive nearly empty of everything but old comb, and make 

 one excessively strong colony ? Or. would the bees insist on tilling 

 the comb In the old hive full of honey as the brood hatcht out ? It 

 they would not fill the old story tight full, the combs could be cut 

 out and melted down with little trouble. 1 judge they would when 

 treated thus, cut out any queen-cells there were in the old story 

 when the new one was added and the queen sent upstairs. If they 

 would not do so, the simplest way. of course, to avoid trouble and 



