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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



September 8. 



in the darker or cream-colored box. Put a cake of nice white 

 honey, for instance, down on some clean snow and it will ap- 

 pear dark by contrast. Of course, snow is whiter than the 

 whitest basswood ; but there is a great deal of this wood that 

 is much whiter than the average of white honey, and I cannot 

 ana never could see the sense of payina more money for the 

 so-called snow-white when it is quite liable to make the honey 

 it incloses appear darker by contrast. 



The supply dealer is perfectly willing to give his custo- 

 mers their choice, and if they are determined lo pay more 

 money for the white sections, he has no fault to find. 



All the same, toe prefer the white sections. Not neces- 

 sarily " snow-white," but fairly white. And at the price of 

 sections, were we using a great quantity of them, we would 

 prefer to pay a little more and get the whiter sections. For 

 marketing purposes, we certainly like to have the white sec- 

 tions, and of course want the white comb honey in It. Here 

 in the city appearanoa goes a long way whea it comes to 

 comb honey. Only the very whitest — both of comb and sec- 

 tion — will bring the highest price. And, after all, isn't it 

 advisable to aim always at producing the very best honey in 

 appearance as well as in flavor? Do the very best you can, 

 there will still be plenty of the lower grades produced. 



Folding: Paper^Xrays for SIiipping:-Cases. 



— Editor Hutchinson gives this method in the August Bee- 

 Keepers' Review, being the same as was described in that 

 paper a year ago : 



" If any one experiences any trouble in folding up the 

 paper-tray that goes in the bottom, let him make a board 

 about one-eighth of an inch, or a trifle more, smaller than the 

 inside of the case. Place the sheet of paper on top of the 

 case, lay on the board, and then gently press down upon the 

 board, forcing the paper to the bottom of the case. A nail 

 driven in the upper end of the board will furnish a handle for 

 removing the board. The lower corners of the board may 

 need rounding off to prevent their puncturing the paper. It 

 may require a little patience and practice to get the board 

 just right, and to learu how to use it, but the neatness and 

 dispatch that follow will amply repay the trouble." 



A Floi^-ing: Honey-Stream.— This occurred in 

 the Episcopal church in Tulare county, Calif., it is said. A 

 swarm of vagrant bees, while in search of a suitable home, 

 found an admirable location in the loft of that church, where, 

 having an abundance of space, they increast and multiplied, 

 and at the same time laid up a large store of honey. 



Great white combs were attacht to the rafters overhead, 

 and added to until hundreds of pounds of honey were hidden 

 away in the waxen cells. One hot day the wax gave way, 

 and down rafters, scantlings and joist began to flow streams 

 of liquid sweetness. Through every crevice it pourfd, and 

 soon altar, pulpit, chancel and pews of the sacred edifice were 

 treated to such a flood of honey as had never been witnest 

 before. 



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Mr. Evan J. Davis, of Lyon Co., Minn., wrote us Aug. 



" I have 15 colonies of bees, but not much honey. Long 

 live the American Bee Journal." 



C. J. H. Gravknhorst, the much esteemed editor of 

 Deutsche Illustriene Bienenzeitung, has been very sick since 

 the beginning of the year, and is still confined to his bed. 

 Altho past his threescore years and ten, he is a man of re- 

 markable vigor, and it is to be hoped that he maybe yet 



spared long years for the benefit of bee-culture in Germany 

 and throughout the world. [Friend Gravenhorst, despite his 

 age, seems to be one of the most progressive bee-keepers in 

 Germany. All that he has written on the subject of bees, so 

 far as I know, seems to sparkle from the fountain of eternal 

 youth. — Ed ]--Gleanings. 



Miss Mathilda Candler, of Grant Co., Wis., writing us 

 Sept. 1, said : 



"My bees have done fairly well so far, on basswood, and 

 are now busily working on fall flowers." 



My Neighbor Koeppkn, who has six apiaries, will have 

 at least 20,000 pounds of white comb honey. From some of 

 his apiaries he may get some fall honey. He had a yciung 

 man help him about three months this season. — Editorial 

 paragraph in Bee-Keepers' Review. 



Mr. W. J. PicKAKD, of Richland Co., Wis., called on us' 

 last week, and reported their crop as beiug 50,000 pounds of 

 extracted basswood hooey this year, from about 400 colonies 

 in four apiaries. It was a great season at his place, and the 

 honey is fine. Mr. Pickard's wife and daughter seem to man- 

 age the bees. And judging from the yield they know how. 



Yk Editor and Wife spent a very pleasant week in 

 northeastern Ohio — from Aug. 19th to the 27th — visiting 

 among the former's parents, brothers, sisters, and old friends. 

 It is over 14 years since we left our boyhood home for 

 Chicago, and during that time many are the changes that 

 have taken place. Some of the then older friends have past 

 on to the "other shore," and others begin to show the wear 

 of years. Yes, we are all fast hastening to that long home 

 whence none return. 



Mr. C. a. Hatch is now in Colorado, engineering an api- 

 ary, and hobnobbing with R. C. Aikin and others. Mr. Hatch 

 should not have been discouraged at the failure of the honey 

 crop in Southern California, for there are many places where 

 the bees will roll in quite a honey crop, even in California. 

 Here am I, where the alfalfa is yielding honey quite rapidly, 

 and the conditions ace so nice the ranchers believe it makes 

 better hay to stand awhile in bloom, and that is just pleasing 

 to the bee men.— J. H. Martin, in Gleanings. 



Mr. Harry E. Hill — the new editor of the American Bee- 

 Keeper — is going to give us all warm competition. His experi- 

 ence in keeping bees is probably more varied than that of any 

 other apicultural editor in the United States. He has seen 

 and kept bees from New York to California, from California 

 to Florida, and from Florida to Cuba. He, if any one, ought 

 to know the influence of locality and its effect upon bees. The 

 American Bee-Keeper, under his editorial management, fairly 

 bristles with'good things. — Gleanings. 



Mrs. E. a. Starr, editress of the Philadelphia Public 

 Ledger's apiarian department, has kept a colony of bees on 

 the window-ledge outside of her room, on the fourth floor of 

 the Ledger ofBce, for the past four years. A covering of 

 newspapers over the frames is the only protection given the 

 colony during t.he winter seasons. " The bees " says M. F. 

 Reeve, " come and go at their pleasure, and gather a great 

 deal of sweetness from Independence and Washington Squares 

 — the former directly across the street, and the latter about a 

 block away." The Quaker City has another lady bee-keeper 

 who keeps 18 colonies in a third-story window up town. 

 These are located inside, and the laden workers have for an 

 alighting-board the window-sill, while an opening is left at 

 the top for the exit of the outbound force. — American Bee- 

 Keeper. 



Honey as Food is a neat little 24-page pamphlet 

 especially gotten up with a view to creating a demand for 

 honey among should-be consumers. The forepart of the 

 pamphlet was written by Dr. C. C. Miller, and is devoted to 

 general information concerning honey. The latter part con- 

 sists of recipes for use in cooking and as a medicine. It 

 will be found to be a very effective helper in working up a 

 home market for honey. We furnish them, postpaid, at these 

 prices: A sample for a stamp ; 25 copies for 30 cents; 50 

 for 50 cents; 100 for 90 cents; 250 for $2.00; 500 for 

 $3.50. For 25 cents extra we will print your name and ad- 

 dress on the front page, when ordering 100 or more copies at 

 these prices. 



