Jan. 12, 1899. 



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darkened for a time the lustre of his achievements, and 

 marred the happiness of a grand g-ood man ? 



The committee has in preparation an inscription to be 

 engraved on the monument, which recognizes the great 

 services rendered by Father Langstroth. and which at- 

 tempts to paj- loving tribute to liis memory. It is to be 

 dedicated to him by the bee-keepers of America. 



It is neither just nor wise that a few men should erect 

 this memorial, when every one interested in bees or bee- 

 keeping is reaping the fruits of Langstroth's g'enius. 



A large number of subscriptions in amounts not to ex- 

 ceed ifS each would be a better recog'nition than a few large 

 contributions. 



If every reader of these lines who has not already done 

 so would immediately send in his or her contribution to thi^ 

 fund, it would relieve the commitlee from the embarrass- 

 ment of erecting a monuinent which they feel is in no sense 

 an adequate expression of the admiration and love felt for 

 the Father of American bee-keeping. 



The committee will proceed in the spring to erect such 

 a memorial slab as the funds in hand will warrant, and if 

 the reader does not in the next few weeks send in his mite, 

 he will miss the opportunity and privilege of being counted 

 as one of the donors. Sincereh', 



Eugene Secok. 



Now let all who have not already done so, send their 

 contributions to Mr. Seeor, or to the American Bee Journal 

 office if more convenient. If sent here, we will forward to 

 Mr. Secor, who will send a receipt for all moneys received. 

 Better attend to it very soon, and not be left out of one of 

 the best opportunities of your life to show honor to one of 

 the noblest men of this greatest of all centuries. 



Testimonials which speak in high praise of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal and its editor's humble efl'orts have just 

 poured in upon our desk the past month or so. Why, we 

 never saw anything- like it before. To say we appreciate 

 all the expressions of appreciation of our work is to put it 

 very mildly. But we can hardly feel that we merit them. 

 We should like to print all the kind words that have been 

 sent us, but that would be utterly impossible. Please ac- 

 cept our sincere thanks for such kindly expressions. 



The Bee and the Horticulturist is the title of an ad- 

 dress delivered by Editor Abbott before the Missouri State 

 Horticultural Society, and publisht in his paper, the Modern 

 Farmer and Busy Bee. It is an able discussion of the rela- 

 tion of bees to horticulture, and the delivery of such an 

 address before the leading horticulturists of a State cannot 

 fail of bringing good results. Editor Abbott is doing no 

 little to spoil General Manag-er Secor's chances for paying 

 lawver's fees in Missouri. 



The National Bee=Keepers' Union. — Tlie 14th annual 

 report of this organization, for 1898, is on our desk. We 

 hope soon to be able to publish the principal part of it. 

 which shows that General Manager Newman had the usual 

 number of troubles to settle during the past year. And the 

 usual success seems to have attended the undertakings of 

 the old Union. We notice the membership for 1898 was 149, 

 and that there is $170 in the treasurv. 



York's Honey Almanac will hereafter take the place 

 of our "Honey as Pood" pamphlet. The new pamphlet 

 contains 32 pages, with regular almanac pages, and a neat 

 calendar for the year 1899 on the front cover page. Send 

 a two-cent stamp for a sample, to the Bee Journal office. It 

 is a neat honey-seller, and will be preserved by all who 

 ffet it. 



Apiculture as a Branch of Agriculture is more and 

 more recog-nized. The December number of the Ruralist is 

 chiefly occupied with bee-culture, J. t). Grimsley being the 

 regular conductor of that department. 



A Separator=Cleaner is mentioned in the Progressive 

 Bee-Keeper by F. L. Thompson, which cleans the separa- 

 rators "by simply drawing them through between two 

 knives made of files, held pretty firmly together bj" springs 

 and a treadle, so that both sides are scraped at once." 



Don't Place Bees Along a South Wall L. P. P.. in 



Revue Eclectique. gives a sad experience with bees placed 

 against a south wall. The hot sun beating on the hives, 

 with the additional heat reflected from the walls, melted 

 the combs of a colony into a heap. A north wall is safer. 



Bees in a Bag. — In moving bees, D. L. Shangle puts 

 most of the bees in a two-bushel bag with a screen bottom 

 to give air, and also to feed if the bees are confined long. 

 After the journey, the bees are returned to the hive. He 

 finds this safer in hot weather than to have them crowded 

 in the hive. — Gleanings. 



An Uncapping=Box that gave great satisfaction to 

 Rambler is thus described in Gleanings : " It was five feet 

 in length by about 18 inches wide, six inches deep, with a 

 wire-cloth bottom. Set at an incline it would hold the cap- 

 pings for two days and drain them nicely. I like an uncap- 

 pig-box of this shape. It does not require frequent remov- 

 ing of the cappings. The cappings of to-day can be spread 

 out in the evening and drain out all night : then the nest 

 morning these cappings can be crowded to one end of the 

 box for further draining through the day, and removed at 

 night to the sun extractor." 



Bees Dying on the Snow. — G. M. Doolittle says if the 

 cause is diarrhea, the bees might as well die on the snow as 

 anywhere. If from the sun shining in the hive, put a board 

 before the entrance, and its shade will prevent the bees from 

 coming out until it is 45 degrees in the shade, at which tem- 

 perature, if still, and the sun shining, the bees can rise from 

 the melting- snow. Novices are unnecessarily alarmed at 

 seeing- dead bees on the snow, many of such being brought 

 out of the hives by the living bees when the weather allows 

 house-cleaning, and 100 bees make more show on the snow 

 than 10.000 on the bare ground. — Gleanings. 



Fast Work at Extracting Honey. — Giraud-Pabou, being- 

 somewhat skeptical as to F. Boomhowcr's report of 1,800 

 pounds of honey extracted in three hours by two men, wrote 

 to Mr. Boomhower, in New York State, asking- how it was 

 done, which reply convinced Mr. Pabou there was nothing- 

 incredible about it. Mr. B. puts Porter escapes under the 

 supers in the evening, supers of combs are taken from the 

 apiary on a wheelbarrow, honey extracted before sealed, a 

 four-frame reversible Cowan extractor used, and the honey 

 ripened in a tin tank. One colony produced 400 pounds of 

 comb honey, largely from red clover, and an apiary of 70 

 colonies produced four tons of comb honey. — Revue Inter- 

 nationale. An average of 114 pounds of comb honey is not 

 bad for the season of 1898. 



Fences and Plain Sections— Ten pages of Gleanings for 

 Dec. IS, 1898, are taken up with a symposium on fences and 

 plain sections. The editor strongly favors them, and thinks 

 the adverse reports are due to the faulty con.struction of su- 

 pers or fences. Cross-cleats were made by .some y-inch 

 wide, by others ?4 . The Roots struck a golden mean, but 

 found it was a mistake, and now have adopted 5-16. The 

 thickness of the cleat has been reduced from 2-12 to 2-13, in 

 order to be on the safe side. The editor is convinced of his 

 mistake in believing that the separator should come flush 

 with the top of the section, and the 1899 fence will drop '+- 

 inch below the top of the section. J. E. Crane says bees 

 finish sections toward the close of season more rapidly with 

 the fence than with the old-style separator. He found that 

 sections, whether plain or old-style, when used with the 

 fence, were filled of sucri even weight that they could be 

 sold by the piece more satisfactorily than sections with old- 

 style .separator. F. L. Thompson used sections and separa- 

 tors of both kinds in the same super. More pop-holes could 



