Mar. 23, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



185 



The Dot Prizes and Langstroth Fund. — Finally we 



have the work completed on the Dot Contest Prizes. All 



who did not feel like contributing- their amounts to the 



Langstroth Fund will have received them before they get 

 this number of the Bee Journal. 



The following are the names of those who gave us per- 

 mission to add the amounts of their cash prizes to the 

 Langstroth Monument Fund : 



Fourteen of the OO-cent Prizes— $S.40. 



B. W. Peck 

 John MichHels 

 W. H. Pridaen 

 H. F.Schultz 



E. D. Lercti 

 Oliver Adcock 

 CU:i3. Putman 

 H. B. McGregor 



o. Taylor 

 P.ev. W. Knuf 

 Jobn F. Logsdon 

 R. Lowey 



B. K. Lawlin 

 I,. J. Wbiiney 



Sixty-four oftlie 30>cenl Prizes— 813. *0. 



E. W. Lanier 

 Paul F. Bratz 

 Alonzn Kniuhts 

 G. L.Good 

 E. Au;;ust Weiss 

 N. H. Vogt 

 Frod Reitman 

 Mrs. M. A. Golden 

 A. J. Fisber 

 .T. \V. Lane 

 Jolin L. Waltlier 

 W. Bishop 

 Jolin K. Frisbee 

 C. E. Srydei- 

 Frank Fishell 

 J. D. Mollett 



Jos. J. (iiger 

 Wm. Wilson 

 Wm.Danbenspeck 

 Edmund Worthen 

 «. A. C. Clarke 

 G. W. Lawson 

 B. Volkeriutt 

 Stephen Lawson 

 Orville Jones 

 TlKis. S. Wallace 

 Philio Roth 

 Jesse Willis 

 Allen Lewton 

 D. L. Carlton 

 Carlos Wheeler 

 A. H. Kanagy 



L. K. Smith 



D. F. Berry 

 M. S. Snow 



F. VV. Haynes 



E. Manicke 



F. C. Wiggins 

 Wm. Wiikaisky 

 O. M. Pierson 

 Edw. Scoggin 

 H. D. Hill 

 Louis Thill 

 John T. Voung 

 T. J. Green 



L. P. Billings 

 Stoughton Cooley 



G. F. Haader 



L. P. Spring 

 J. P. Blunk 

 Geo. W. Kiker 

 Julius Herman 

 F. Sauter 

 Miletus Sini^ 

 A. T. ^mitli 

 S. S. Butts 

 Percival Goldin 

 Wm. Stewart 

 H. S. Jone^ 

 Gen. F. Fall 

 H. Nootnagel 

 John v. Enimert 

 M. S. Patterson 

 F. C. Snyder 



Forty-tliree of'tlie 10-oent Prizes— §4. SO. 



V. W. McNeil 

 J. H. Tait 

 F. A. Crowell 

 James McNeill 

 Wra. Russell 

 W. f. Copeland 

 Kep. Cbas. Horack 

 W. U. (^oiik 

 .John Kidney 

 F.J. R. Davenport 

 C. V, Mann 



Alfred B.Smith 

 A. Waddington 

 J. B. Dann 

 Lillian E. Trester 

 K.J. Purcell 

 Henry Willson 

 J. A. Tidmore 

 C. Lindblom 

 W. E. Owen 

 A, Snideman 

 L. C. George 



L. G. Purvis 

 H. Lampman 

 M. McKimmie 

 Wm. Munch 

 W. Muth-Rasm's'n 

 Ernest W. Doe 

 .1. A. Munroe 

 Geo. J. Stray 

 Aaron S.Johnson 

 Fred Welty 

 John Rogers 



Wm. J. Healy 

 L. Sta"belbausen 

 E. H. Bridenstnie 

 S. M. Bragdijn 

 J.F. Merrill 

 L. B. Boardman 

 (J. F. Sutherland 

 Wm. Kohrtg 

 Jos. Stephenson 

 Jobn M.Uunzeker 



'I'liirly-nine of tlie 5-oent Prizes— S>1.!*5. 



Thos. Dougherty 

 F. A. Chandler 



E. WoodHll 



F. Mothersead 

 Alpha Wallace 

 W. M. Barnes 

 -J. B. .Ausmus 

 Fred D. Gibbons 

 Pavne Bros. 



C. B. Howard 



■Edward Tanner 

 A. B.Cross 

 Jos. Unterbrink 

 Harry Brokaw 

 L. G. Clark 

 A. L. Heim 

 O. B. Montfort 

 Wm. Goedker 

 G, Schermerhorn 

 U. W. Roop 



Jno. W. Lyell 

 S. D. McClain 

 Mrs. LD. Harrison 

 Frank L. Goss 

 M. F. Hathaway 

 W. B McGraw 

 Jas. i^uinn 

 N. Staple 

 Jos. Ouradnik 

 H. C. Roberts 



S. A. Dickson 

 O. It. Co« 

 Geo. B. Dudley 

 Frank Coverdale 

 M. M. Stouflfer 

 Wm. N. Sessions 

 Jas. A. Stone 

 H. AV. Savage 

 K. L. Haves 



Then there is a list of 18 extra contributions that we 

 have not reported heretofore, amounting to $13.23, as 

 follows : 



Wm. Munch $ .10 



li. A. Syverud 2t 



N. Staple 25 



Wm. Hildebrandt.. .2,^ 



C Harkens 30 



Wm. Wilson 30 



A.J.Fisher 28 



John Stroebel,Jr...$ .35 



C.D.Day 50 



A. B. Cross 50 



J. A.RossoD l.'O 



Edw. S.Goudge ... LOO 



C. Theilmann LOO 



W. A. .\lder l.W 



L. Kreutzinger $1.2o 



Mrs. N. L. Stow 2. (i 



Lewis J. Whitney.. 2.i1o 

 John A. Blocher ... l.uo 



TotaL 



$i:(.-J3 



All the foregoing amounts to S40.68. There are 160 of 

 the Dot Contest contributors, upon which we agreed to add 

 two cents each extra, as we would have been compelled to 

 spend that two cents on each in order to have mailed their 

 several amounts to them. This makes $3.20 more. So the 

 check which we mail Mr. Secor. who has charge of the fund, 

 would be $43.88. No, we will make it an even SoO.OO. and 

 contribute the difference ourselves, tho we have con- 

 tributed several times before. But a $50.00 check looks so 

 much better than one written for S+3.88 1 



Thirty Poisonous Plants. — Under this title the De- 

 partment of Agriculture has issued Fanners' Bulletin, No. 

 86. This is a reproduction, in part, of Bulletin No. 20, of 

 the Division of Botany, sent out in July, 1898, and entitled, 

 "Principal Poisonous Plants of the United St9.tes."' 



The statement is made, by the botanist of the Depart- 

 ment, that the publication of that bulletin, instead of satis- 

 fying the demand for information on jjoisonous plants, has 

 increast it, and in order to supply the innumerable requests 

 received since its appearance, it has seemed desirable to re- 

 publish the information which it contained in a condenst, 

 less expensive, and more popular form. As this Bulletin is 

 distributed free, those wishing it should request it by ad- 

 dressing the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. R. C. Aikin, President of the Colorado Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, read a paper recent!}' on '" Fruit vs. Bees," 

 before the Farmers' Institute, which was publisht in the 

 Loveland (Colo.) Register, of March 8. It filled three col- 

 umns, and of course was an able and interesting production. 

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Editor E. R. Root, in Gleanings, had this kind word 

 to say about our new department : 



" The department called ' Afterthought,' by ' Cogitator,' 

 now running in the American Bee Journal, is a good one, 

 and is a real addition to the Old Reliable." 



The M. Rumely Comp.axv was establisht 46 years 

 a;go, and has been doing business all these years at 

 LaPorte, Ind. The M. Rumely separators and engines are 

 known everywhere for the superiority of their construction 

 and the uniform high quality of their work. They make 

 compound traction engines, portable engines and semi-port- 

 able engines. In threshers they manufacture the New 

 Rumely Separator. A full line of'Dingee-Woodbury horse- 

 powers, saw-mills of various sizes, and Maurer's Automatic 

 Bailing Presses completes the line. Every article is the 

 complete embodiment of good material, good skill and per- 

 fect workmanship. Write them for large illustrated catalog 

 which they will take pleasure in mailing to our readers, if 

 the American Bee Journal is mentioned with the request, 

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Kerosene Emulsion in Spraying. — The value of kero- 

 sene as a material for spraying has been generally appre- 

 ciated by horticulturists and others for some time, but the 

 difficulty and uncertainty of preparing and using of the 

 various emulsions of kerosene have prevented its general use. 

 With an eye singly fixt on its value. The Deming Co., of 

 Salem. Ohio, set to work experimenting for a machine that 

 would make its own emulsion while in the act of spraying. 

 The result is the " Weed " Knapsack Kerosene Sprayer, the 

 " Success" Bucket Kerosene Sprayer, and the " Peerless" 

 Barrel Kerosene Sprayer. The great success of these sev- 

 eral machines is due to the fact that the force applied in 

 pumping injects just the amount of kerosene desired into 

 the spraj- in such a manner as to make a perfect emulsion. 

 The amount of kerosene is easily regulated by an indicator 

 on the top of the kerosene tank which controls the percent- 

 age of oil. The Deming Co. 's illustrated catalog contain- 

 ing complete formulas for spraying, in addition to descrip- 

 tions of their very complete line of pumps and nozzles, will 

 be sent on application. Be sure to mention the American 

 Bee Journal when writing them. 

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Dr. Peiro, when in California last summer, learned 

 something about the Chinamen's bee-keeping, and tells of 

 it in the following : 



One has to go from home to study some of the least 

 known characteristics of bee-keeping. The celestial is not 

 so much more removed from the best methods as are 

 some of his brothers with less slant of eye and deprest 

 cheek-bones. But as with others not governed by right 

 ways of bee-keeping, results are equally discouraging. 



" A Chinaman's bee-vard offers the most variegated as- 

 sortment of hives that have prevailed the last thousand 

 years — the grass, rope cupola, hollow knot-hole, cracker- 

 box, and beer-keg. Bees of any nationality are alike to 

 John. The poetic Italians have no greater honor shown 

 than the more obstreperous German. To him they all sting 

 alike, and their fierv darts are all equally hot. He carries 

 his fan to cool off excessive temperature, a failure in that 

 direction alwavs being veiled in his peculiarly high key— 

 " Hellee !" which being interpreted in the vernacular means 

 " Fire." . 



The crop of honev obtained from those and side-hills in 

 California is small indeed, and attended with great vexa- 

 tion of spirit, but I suppose the flavor is the sweeter for the 

 trouble endured. -Dr. Peiro. 



