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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Healthfuluess of Honey. 



Pliny, the Roman' historian, speaks 

 of Rurailius Pollio, who possessed 

 marvelous health and strength, at 

 over 100 years of age. Upon being 

 presented to the Emperor Augustus, 

 who inquired the secret of his live- 

 liness of spirits and strength of body 

 at so great an age— he answered: " In- 

 terns melle; exterus o/eo "—Internally 

 through honey; externally through 

 oil. 



Pure honey should be used unspar- 

 ingly by every family. It is no longer 

 a luxury to be enjoyed only by few, 

 but it is sufficiently cheap to be within 

 the reach of all. It has properties 

 which make it a valuable food. It 

 differs from alcoholic stimulants, 

 which dull the intellect— on the con- 

 trary it produces a bright intellect as 

 well as a healthy body. Children are 

 very fond of honey, and one pound of 

 it goes further than a pound of butter. 

 It lias the peculiarity of keeping good, 

 while butter often becomes rancid, 

 and injurious to health. 



The bees gather the honey from the 

 juices of healthy plants, shrubs and 

 trees, and the nectar so gatliered is, 

 therefore, the pure sweet, as it comes 

 from the hand of the Creator. We 

 therefore strongly advise every family 

 in the land to place honey on the table 

 for daily use; make cakes, cookies, 

 ginger bread, pop-corn balls, etc., 

 with it, and give it to the cliildren, 

 imparting to them health of body and 

 strength of mind, instead of using the 

 unhealthy, adulterated syrups which 

 now so commonly deal out death to 

 the "little ones," desolating almost 

 every household and hanging the black 

 pall of mourning over the world. 



Feed no Glucose to Bees.— The Cin- 

 cinnati Grange Bulletin in its last issue 

 gives the following warning against 

 feeding bees with glucose : 



We have at all times condemned 

 the use of glucose as a feed for bees, 

 believing as we do, from a long expe- 

 rience, that its use is pernicious to 

 the welfare of all bees that may be 

 attempted to be wintered on it; hence 

 we say do not try to feed your bees 

 w^ith the pernicious stuff (glucose). 



1^ Candy pulls are in fashion, but 

 they are now called "glucose ten- 

 tions." 



^'Renewals may be made at any 

 time ; but all papers are stopped at 

 the expiration of the time paid for, 

 unless requested to be continued. 



Wire Frame Holder. 



We have received from E. II. Thur- 

 ston, M. D., of Hagerstown, Ind., a 

 very simple device for holding frames, 

 which can be fastened to the side of 

 the hive. It can be attached or de- 

 tached in a moment, and will be found 

 very convenient. It is placed in our 

 museum, and the following descrip- 

 tion of it by Di-. Thurston is quite 

 complete, and will give a good idea of 

 it: 



Dear Editou— I send you, by mail, 

 a wire frame bolder. This arrange- 

 ment is of my own getting up. Wliile 

 working with my bees, I often had 

 to remove all tlie frames, and I was 

 troubled to find places to puttliem, 

 when I was looking for the queen. 

 During one night I was wakeful and 

 thinking of my bees, when the idea of 

 a frame holder came to me ; next 

 morning I put my plans into execu- 

 tion and a wire holder something like 

 the one I send you was the result. I 

 tested it and (m Tuesday I went to 

 Cincinnati. Ohio, to attend the North 

 American Bee- Keepers' Convention, 

 and took my holder with me. It met 

 the approval of Messrs. A. I. Root, I. 

 R. Good and many others who ex- 

 mined it ; all tliought it good. On my 

 return I inii)rovpd it, as the one sent 

 you to-day. The holder can be fast- 

 ened to any hive. If there be no pro- 

 jection to "fasten it to, you can screw 

 two small blocks on the" liive to receive 

 tlie horizontal bars. This holder will 

 hold .5 frames ; they may be made to 

 hold more. The cost of the holder 

 will not be more than 10c; and any 

 one can make them. I use two pieces 

 of wire, 20 Indies long, to make each 

 bracket, and 2 pieces of wire 11 inches 

 long to make the side liook braces. 

 When the holder is put on and the 

 sharp ends of the top bar pressed 

 tightly into tlie wood and side hook 

 bars well fastened you will tind it will 

 be very solid and will hold to its 

 place. The holder might be made of 

 wire about one or two sizes larger. 

 There is no patent on it, nor shall 

 there be. I wish to give a description 

 of it in the Journal so that every 

 bee-keeper may have the advantage 

 of it. Any one can make them, and 

 I think all who use them will tind them 

 very convenient. 



i^ As the time for tlie usual 

 winter rush of correspondence is Hear- 

 ing, let us try to impress on our cor- 

 respondents the necessity of being 

 careful when writing to this office. If 

 they live near one postoffice and get 

 their mail at another, be sure to give 

 the address we have on our list. 



i®°The Detroit Free Press man 

 must have been there. He says : 

 " The sting of a bee is really only one- 

 eighth of an inch long, imagination 

 makes it seem as long as a hoe 

 handle." — Excluinge. 



Bees stiU Working on Sweet Clo?er, 



—Mr. Julius Tomlinson of Allegan, 

 Mich., writes us under date of Oct. 6, 

 1882, as follows : " The weather here 

 is very warm and has been very dry, 

 but Thursday we had a tine rain. My 

 bees are working on sweet clover 

 now." Bees are still working on it in 

 Chicago, and will do so, for many 

 weeks to come, if it is warm enough 

 for them to fly. 



^° The California Apiculturist for 

 September, referring to the remarks 

 of the Bee Journal concerning the 

 uses of drones in the hive, and sug- 

 gesting that they may nurse the young 

 bees, increase the heat in the hive, 

 etc.. remarks as follows in a jocular 

 way : " It is said by some naturalists 

 that drone bees are a slandered race, 

 tliat they are not idlers, but nurse and 

 take care of the baliy bees. Can as 

 much be said of old bachelors?" 



^g" The Northwestern Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention will be held at Chicago, 

 on Wednesday and Tliursday. Oct. 18 

 and 19, 1882. By a notice on page ftSO 

 it will be seen that Dr. Miller, the 

 president, has discovered an error in 

 the date previously announced. Let 

 all take particular notice, and be pre- 

 pared to attend and partake of the 

 " feast of reason and flow of soul," 

 there to be enjoyed. The place of 

 rendezvous will be at the office of the 

 American Bee Journal, where the 

 hotel arrangements and place of meet- 

 ing will be made known. 



Wintering Bees.— As this subject is 

 now a very seasonable one we present 

 the Prize Essay on wintering bees, by 

 Mr. Clouse, in this issue. In our next 

 we expect to give an illustrated article 

 by Mr. James Ileddon on the same 

 subject. 



I^-Just as we go to press, we are 

 informed by the Secretary of the Na- 

 tional Convention, Mr. A. I. Root, 

 that he will furnish us the Official Re- 

 port in time for the next number of 

 the Bee Journal. 



Sample Copies of theAjiERicAN Bee 

 Journal will be sent free to any per- 

 son. Any one intending to get up a 

 club can have sample copies sent to 

 the persons they desire to interview, 

 by sending the names to this office. 



igfPostagie stamps, of one, two or 

 three cent denomination, accepted for 

 fractional parts of a dollar; but money 

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