XHE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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iiiti) my warm room when the bees 

 were on tlie point of jieiishing. in 

 Older to save as many as I could. But 

 wli;it a sight it was whenever I opened 

 a liive ! 



In Germany, indeed, we can only 

 desire such a mild temperature for 

 our favorites, but we cannot create it. 

 In the struggle for existence the bees 

 ■will always have to battle against their 

 greatest foe, tlie cold. It will remain 

 our business to protect them against 

 this enemy as much as we possibly 

 can for the well-being of the bees and 

 in ourown interest, for the more honey 

 is saved bv the protection alforded tlie 

 larger will be the quantity which we 

 can harvest. 



For the American Bee Journml. 



Bee Department of the Tri-State Fair. 



DR. A. B. MASON. 



The following is the apiarian part 

 of the Premium List of the Tri-State 

 Fair Association, which holds a fair 

 here (Toledo, O.) every fall. The fair 

 begins Sept. 4th, and holds till the 

 16tli. Entries can be made so that the 

 exhibits can begin on the 4th, and 

 they may be made till six o'clock p.m., 

 Sept. 12th. There will be no charge 

 for entries in this department : 



PREinUMS. 



Comb honey in most marketable 

 shape, not less than 20 lbs., 1st, $4; 2d, 

 $2. 



Extracted honey in most marketa- 

 ble shape, not less than 20 lbs., $4 ; §2. 



Crate comb honey in most mar- 

 ketable shape, S4; §2. 



Display comb honey in most mar- 

 ketable shape, product of one apiary 

 during 1882, S5 ; S3. 



Display extracted honey in most 

 marketable shape, proiluct of one 

 apiary during 1882, S5; S3. 



Display apiarian supplies, $.5; $3. 



Display bees wax, S2; SI. 



Display, Italian, Cyprian, or Syrian 

 queens, S3 ; S2. 



Colony Italian, Cyprian or Syrian 

 bees, including its public manipula- 

 tion, So; S3. 



Apparatus for making comb foun- 

 dation to include everything necessary 

 for its manufacture, S8; So. 



Comb foundation, mill or press, S4 ; 

 $2. 



Honey extractor, $2 ; $1. 



Bee hive for all purposes in the 

 apiary, S2; SI. 



Bee hive, glass or exhibition, S2; SI. 



Honey vinegar not less than one 

 gallon, S2; SI. 



Best wax extractor, 1st prem., Week- 

 ly Bee Journal 1 year; 2d prem., 

 Oteanings in Bee Culture 1 year. 



Best winter and summer bee hive 

 combined, 1st prem.. Weekly Bee 

 Journal 1 year; 2d prem., OUan- 

 inqs in Bee Culture 1 year. 



Best comb foundation for brood 

 chamber not less than -5 lbs., 1st prem.. 

 Weekly Bee Journal 1 year; 2d 

 prem.. Gleanings in Bee (Jidlure 1 year. 



Best comb foundation for surplus 

 honey, not less than 3 lbs., 1st prem., 

 Cook's Manual of the Apiary ; 2d prem. , 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture 1 year. 



Best display of comb foundation, 1st 

 prem.. Weekly Bee .Journal 1 year; 

 2d prem., ^4. B. C. in Bee Culture. 



IJest one piece section, not less than 

 50 sections, 1st prem., Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture 1 year ; 2d prem.. Bee- Keeper's 

 Instntclor. 



Best dovetailed section, not less than 

 •50 sections. Bees and Honei/. 



Best packages for extracted honey 

 with labels. Bee Keeper's Instructor 1 

 year. 



Best bee smoker. Bee Keeper's In- 

 structor 1 year. 



Best ho'nev knife, Bees and Honey. 



Webster Thomas & Sons. Somerset, 

 Ky., publishers of the Bee Keeper's In- 

 structor, offer a pure tested Italian 

 queen as a special premium for the 

 best comb honey in the most marketa- 

 ble shape, not less than 20 pounds. 



The Association offers a Traflic De- 

 partment tills year as an experiment, 

 "the special object of which is to en- 

 able all who arrange an exhibit to in- 

 troduce all meritorious products in 

 their line into immediate and general 

 consumption, not only making tlie 

 week (or two weeks) one of sight-see- 

 ing and recreation, but profit to both 

 exhibitor and visitor." The special 

 features of the lirst week will be a 

 competitive military drill, etc. 



Any exhibitor having honey or 

 apiarian supplies in any quantity to 

 sell, " can for a reasonable rent, offer 

 for direct .sale on the grounds, all 

 manufactured wares of merit, or take 

 orders for future delivery, under such 

 rules and regulations as will guarantee 

 square dealing, and protect both buyer 

 and seller.'' 



I am not financially interested in 

 the Fair xVssociation, but am very 

 anxious that the bee-keeping frater- 

 nity shall make a creditable exhibit, 

 not only of articles entered for pre- 

 miums, but also of every article used 

 in our specialty, in large quantities 

 for sale on the grounds. Let all who 

 intend to exliibit, and those intending 

 to enter the Traffic Department, make 

 early application, so that ample room, 

 etc., may be provided. From live to 

 ten cents will take a person by street- 

 cars, from any depot in the city to 

 within a short distance of the fair 

 grounds. 



Every bee-keeper, but one, that I 

 have consulted, is desirous of organi- 

 zing a Tri-State Bee Keepers' Associa- 

 tion during the fair, to hold its meet- 

 ings annually during the fair, and it 

 is suggested that the meeting for 

 organizing be held on the fair grounds 

 Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 13th, and 

 then hold one or more sessions each 

 day or evening during the week. We 

 hope to induce the Editor of the 

 Ajierican Bee Journal; the Editor 

 of Gleanings; Prof. Cook and other 

 well-known apiarists to be present 

 and aid in organizing such an associa- 

 tion, and give us lectures on our spe- 

 cialty during the fair, and we hope to 

 make the occasion so interesting and 

 prolitable that bee-keepers will tind it 

 to their advantage to be present. 



Reduced rates for passengers and 

 freight have been secured on all 

 railroads coming here ; any inf(U'- 

 niation in regard to which, with rules 

 and regulations, and entry blanks of 



the fair association will be furnished 

 free on addressing the Secretary. John 

 Farley, Toledo, O., orDr. A. B. Mason, 

 Wagon Works, Toledo, O. 



I don't know who the Vice-President 

 of the N. A. B. K. Society for Ohio is, 

 and I hope I am not " treading on his 

 toes," but it seems to me that so im- 

 portant a fair as the Tri-State ought 

 not to be ignored. 



I hope to get permission for such 

 bee-keepers as may desire to bring 

 tents and camp on the fair grounds 

 thus reducing the expense of a one oi 

 two weeks' stay. I will answer any 

 inquiries in regard to it as soon as 

 decided by the association. 



Wagon Works, O., July 27, 1882. 



For tlie American Bee JournaL 



That Professorship. 



W3I. F. CLARKE. 



An old and not yet obsolete book 

 says : " Blessed are the jieacemakers." 

 In accordance with its teachings, I 

 like to harmonize disputants, espe- 

 cially when it can be done in so pleas- 

 ant a way as to say, " You are both 

 right." This, I think, is precisely the 

 case with the controversy between the 

 editor of the Bee Journal and Mr. 

 Heddon, in regard to the proposed 

 apicultural professorship. In my hum- 

 ble judgment, gentlemen, you are both 

 right. To till the office in question, a 

 man is needed possessed of scientitic 

 attainments in entnuKilcigy and botany 

 sufficient to enable him to give ample 

 instruction concerning the structure, 

 physiology, and habits of the bee; 

 also to inform his pupils fully as to the 

 classification, uses and culture of the 

 various plants that yield honey. A 

 man is also needed to give practical 

 teaching in bee manipulation. With- 

 out the latter, all will be theory, and 

 mere theorists are always bunglers. 

 The question is, can we get these two 

 sets of qualifications combined in one 

 professor 'f I doubt it. Prof. Cook is 

 perhaps the nearest approach we have 

 to this rare combination, and while he 

 is unsurpassed, perhaps unrivalled, as 

 an apiarian scientist, both he and his 

 most sincere admirers will readily ad- 

 mit that tliere are those who can beat 

 him hollow as a practical bee-keeper. 

 This is no disparagement to him 

 whatever, because eminence as a sci- 

 entific professor, and distinction as a 

 practical bee-keeper, are scarcely pos- 

 sible to one and the same individual. 

 Each is business enough for any one 

 man, and he wins glory enough who is 

 truly great in either of these depart- 

 ments of study and labor. 



To make a complete equipment for 

 a school of apiculture, we need two 

 professors, one of scientific and the 

 other of practical apiculture. Then 

 we will have a "full team." Except 

 on this plan, it will be only a " one- 

 horse concern." Mr. Ilecldon has 

 well said, that the management of a 

 large apiary conducted purely with an 

 eye to business, is very different from 

 the care of a few colonies of bees. He 

 is also right in the opinion that in the 

 future, bee-keeping will be largely in 

 the hands of specialists. These will 



