1898 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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plies. Regarding this, compare prices of a few years ago with 

 those of to-day ; sections especially have fallen. If plain sec- 

 tions ever eet to be popular, it ought to be patent to any man 

 who " can see through a ladder," that they can be made 

 cheaper, and will consequently be sold for less money than the 

 old-style sections usiny more Umber, and requirinij more liOior 

 to make them. Plain sections, of course, cost a little more 

 than they will in the future, because this is really their first 

 year in the market ; I.e., they have been pusht into promi- 

 nence. It is hardly fair to compare the cost of these things 

 with that of other separators and other sections that have met 

 the competition of the markets for years. 



Why, we are working as fast as we can to avoid the ex- 

 pense of the extra amount of lumber; and, moreover, we hope 

 these new fads are going to save labor. The old fads have 

 done so, otherwise they would not be in the market today. 

 Mr. Thompson would not avoid improvements simply because 

 they cost money at first. Smokers, foundation, and extrac- 

 tors, for instance, were costly improvements. 



Hoiiej-IWead, Metheglin, Etc.— It seems that 

 a subscriber to Gleanings decided to stop taking that paper 

 because it refused " to print a recipe for making mead or 

 metheglin (intoxicating drinks) of honey." After giving his 

 idea of such things, Mr. A. I. Root said : 



"I should not be very much surprised if all the other good 

 bee-papers would take the stand that Gleanings does. How is 

 it, ' brother editors ?' " 



Well, we can only speak for this editor and this paper, 

 and we can't imagine how any one could get us to so far for- 

 get that we had a conscience as to print a recipe of the kind 

 referred to. Not much. There is too much of using brandy in 

 sauces and pies even, and thus begin to cultivate a taste for 

 something stronger in the children and young people of our 

 land. Why any one with any kind of a head on him should 

 want to so debase honey as to make it into mead and metheg- 

 lin, we can't understand, especially in these days when there 

 should be great alarm taken at the way strong drink is de- 

 stroying our people. 



We are not personally acquainted with an editor of a bee- 

 paper that we think would print a recipe for making mead or 

 metheglin. What decent man would want to be guilty of 

 teaching people how to gamble? And strong drinking is 

 worse. 



A Course in Bee-Keeping. — American bee-keep- 

 ers are given to pluming themselves upon their advancement 

 and the enterprise of their government as compared with 

 others. That this pride is not always well founded may be 

 seen by the following notice of a German enterprise : 



Course in Bee-Keeping in Ossmannstedt. — This year, 

 as yearly. Pastor Gerstung will give a course in advanced bee- 

 keeping at his apiary at Ossmaiinstedt, at Whitsuntide (May 

 31 to June 4). No charge for attendance, the only expense 

 being for board and lodging. Those of limited means are in- 

 formed that so far the government has always willingly af- 

 forded all necessary support to those who have made applica- 

 tion for it. Apply direct to Pastor Gerstung, Ossmannstedt, 

 Thuringen. 



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Oinger Honey-Cookies are made as follows, 

 according to a writer in Gleanings : 



One cup granulated sugar ; 2 cups honey ; 4/5 cup 

 shortening; 13i!cups sour milk; 1 tablespoonful of soda ; 1 

 tablespoonful of ginger : 1 teaspoonful of salt, and enough 

 flour to roll out good. Put the sugar, honey, and shortening 

 on the stove and stir till all is melted together; then take off 

 and add milk and all the other ingredients. A. C. L. 



We would like to invite our readers to send in any good, 



new recipes that call for honey among the ingredients used. 



Bee-keepers' families might well use more honey in place of 

 buying less-wholesome sugars. 



Every Present Subscritoer of the Bee Journal 

 should be an agent for it, and get all others possible to sub- 

 scribe for it. 



Prof. Leuckart, whom the older readers will remember 

 as the able German scientist who helpt to establish the Dzier- 

 zon theory, died in January, aged 74. — Gleanings. 



Mr. E. T. Flanagan, the veteran migratory specialist of 

 the Mississippi valley, is at it again. This time Mr. F. has 

 gone with 300 colonies nearly to the Rio Grande, in southern 

 Texas, a move of about 1,400 miles from his southern Illinois 

 home. — American Bee-Keeper. 



Hon. Geo. E. Hii.ton'.s Mother died April 19. Had she 

 lived a few days longer she would have been 7'2 years old. 

 She was the mother of 10 children, 9 of whom are living. Her 

 five sons acted as pallbearers. George E. Hilton is the well- 

 known Michigan bee-keeper and supply dealer, also postmas- 

 ter at his place in Newaygo county. 



Mr. G. M. Doolittle's writings show conclusively that 

 he is not "carried away" with the plain section, as some 

 others of the fraternity seem to be. A four-piece nailed sec- 

 tion is still used in his apiary ; yet we do not know of another 

 man in the United States who makes a small apiary pay as 

 big as does Mr. D. — American Bee-Keeper. 



Rev. H. Rohrs, of Rock Co., Wis., called on us last week. 

 Owing to his time being limited, his stay was very short. Mr. 

 R. is a great reader of the German literature on bee-keeping, 

 and is much interested in the controversies that arise concern- 

 ing bees across the water. He is making a success of bee- 

 keeping, as would naturally be expected of one so interested 

 as he is. 



Mr. Wm. Stolley reports in Busy Bee that his bees have 

 been trapt and killed by the bushel at a beet-sugar factory, 

 and asks if the Union can help him out. There's probably no 

 help for him with present laws; but if proper efforts were 

 made laws might be secured obliging such bee-traps to screen 

 out the bees. Bee-keepers, however, are very shy about ask- 

 ing any legal protection. —A "Straw" in Gleanings. 



Mr. Fred L. Craycraft, of Havana, Cuba, we learn, tho 

 amid the rumblings of war is still extending his business 

 there by establishing out-apiaries; and that he will extract 

 from over 1,000 colonies next season. Fred L. is one of the 

 American boys who have made a success of bee-keeping, and 

 he knows by years of experience in Cuba just what her capa- 

 bilities are in the line of houey-production. — American Bee- 

 Keeper. 



Price of Comb Foundation Advanced.— Messrs. Chas. 

 Dadant & Son and The A. I. Root Co. recently advanced their 

 prices of comb foundation 3 cents per pound, on account of 

 the growing scarcity of beeswax. We presume other manu- 

 facturers of foundation will also raise their prices. Beekeep- 

 ers should always remember that the prices of comb founda- 

 tion are liable to variation, according to the shortage or abun- 

 dance of pure beeswax in the market. 



Mr. Ed JOLLEY is one of the jolly kind of bee-keepers. 

 He has often contributed to the columns of the American Bee 

 Journal, and also to the American Bee-Keeper, in the April 

 number of which he gives this paragraph about " Jacob Vet- 

 terstein ;" 



"We have in what is known as the Pennsylvania Dutch 

 settlement an embryo bee-keeper, who gives promise of mak- 

 ing a name for himself. According to Mrs. Vetterstein, the 

 boy's mother, 'Shakey has two leddle poxes of pees, und he 

 make honey more as a horse could haul. Shakey,' she says, 

 'is a shmart poy und he learns about pees like nottings. Mr. 

 Kohlmeyer, who knows effrydings apout pees, tolt Shakey ef 

 somedimes he dond know nottings apout pees, to come ofer 

 und he vill told id to him.'" 



We hope "Shakey" will found oud somedings alretty, 

 mebbe, ven he talks mit Hans Kohlmeyer apout doze pees und 

 der honig. 



