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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. 



VOL. XX. 



CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 23, 1884. 



No. 4. 



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Published every Wednesday, by 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Proprietor, 



^' We have received a copy of the 

 report of the Kansas State Board of 

 Agriculture for the quarter ending 

 Dec. 31, 18S3. In it we find a Table 

 showing the honey and wax product, 

 and the number of colonies of bees in 

 the State in 1882. The totals are as 

 follows : Colonies of bees, 19,752. 

 Honey product, 312,421 lbs. Wax, 4,475 

 pounds. 



^" We have a few photographs 

 (cabinet size) just taken, of the Rev. 

 L. L. Langstroth, which we can send 

 to those desiring them for 50 cts. each, 

 postage prepaid. 



i^" Mr. W. F. Clarlje has removed 

 from Guelph to Speedside, Ontario, 

 Canada. His correspondents will 

 please take due notice. 



@° The Apiculturist. for January is 

 received ; it contains a full- page like- 

 ness of Mr. Langstroth. 



Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, 

 N. Y., have sent us their Price List 

 of American Seedling Roses for the 

 season of 1883-4. 



Price Lists for 1884.— The follow- 

 ing are on our desk : 



M. Richardson, PortColborne,Ont., 

 16 pagfs— liives and apiarian supplies. 



J. C. Mishler, Ligonier, Ind., 1 page 

 —Italian bees and queens. 



J. T. Wilson, Mortonsville, Ky., 1 

 page— Italian queens. 



A. H. Newman, Chicago, Ills., 36 

 pages— bee- keepers' supplies. 



I. R. Good, Tullahoma, Tenn., 1 

 page— Syrian and Italian bees and 

 queens. 



Jas. H. French, Elizabethtowu, Ky., 

 1 page— Combination bee hive. 



Toronto Convention Report. 



It will be remembered that we sent 

 a representative to the Toronto Con- 

 vention, and that a Report of the 

 Convention, written by Mr. W. F. 

 Clarke, was pul)lished in the Weekly 

 Bee Journal for Sept. 26, the very 

 next week after the Convention, and 

 in the following number for Oct. 3, 

 we published the Reports of Vice- 

 Presidents, President's address, and 

 the essay of Mr. Clarke. Now, in the 

 light of these facts, it is refreshing to 

 read tlie following letter : 



By the way, Mr. Newman, why have 

 you never given us a full report of the 

 Toronto Convention V A motion was 

 offered by Dr. Brown, and supported 

 by Judge Andrews, of Texas, to have 

 the minutes published in pamphlet 

 form and distributed to the members ; 

 the motion carried, but the report does 

 not come, for some reason or other. 

 From hints received at Flint, there is 

 a nigger in the fence somewhere. 



Wm. Morhous. 



Dearborn, Mich., Jan. 5, 1884. 



Of course the resolution ■ to have 

 " the minutes published in pamphlet 

 form " has nottiing to do with us, or 

 the Bee Journal. Why it has not 

 been done, we know not. Perhaps the 

 Secretary can explain it satisfactorily 

 to our correspondent. 



The mystery under cover of " hints 

 received at Flint," is rather interest- 

 ing. If any one h.as anything to say, 

 it is more dignified and honest to 

 speak it right out, than to hint and 

 insinuate about " an African in the 

 wood pile." Will you please speak 

 out, Mr. Morhous — 



" Speaking may relieve you !" 



Who hinted? To whom did the 

 hints refer? What were they hint- 

 ing about ? 



The Old Virginian and Glucose. 



^" The pamphlet on "Wintering 

 Bees," containing the" Prize Essays " 

 on that subject read at the Centennial 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, is now "out 

 of print." The edition is exhausted, 

 and it will not be reprinted. 



Mr. E. E. Jordan, of 'WTiite Sulphur 

 Springs, Va., has sent us the follow- 

 ing with this introduction : " I have 

 just clipped this from one of our best 

 and most popular papers, and hope 

 you will think it worth a place in the 

 Bee Journal :" 



The Old Virginian.- And with 

 all this material progress let us put it 

 on record that the Virginian is still 

 the old Virginian: and let us be 

 thankful for that. He, with his solid 

 notions of lionor, truth, piety, purity, 

 and hospitality, is a good anchor to the 

 Nation. This old Virginian, under 

 whose solid mahogony I have had my 

 legs, is building a barn. Every timber 

 of this barn I have had to approve 

 and praise for its solidity and perma- 

 nence. His head is blossoming near 

 the seventies, but he stumps and 

 thumps every thing with his big oak 

 stick to see that it is " solid ! solid ! 

 solid ! sah !" He is building a stone 

 wall about his thousands of mountain 

 acres, and, although he well knows 

 he will never live to see it completed, 

 he lays the foundation deep in the 

 earth— solid ! solid ! solid ! And his 

 character, as well as those of his 

 neighbors, seems to be quite as sub- 

 statial. At breakfast one morning a 

 bottle of honey, so called, was brought 

 upon the table to be spread upon the 

 crisp and smoking corn cakes. Well, 

 this " honey " proved to be glucose. 

 This glucose had been poured in upon 

 a " honey-comb " which some Yankee 

 had made by machinery. The good 

 and gray old man had just finished 

 saying grace. But he got up. He 

 struck his fist in the air, and I tell 

 you he fairly turned the atmosphere 

 blue. " In France, sah, that grocer's 

 store would be shut up, confiscated in 

 ten minutes, sah. He would be tried 

 for adultery, sah. It means tliat you 

 shall not adulterate sugar, or tea, or 

 coffee, or honey, or any of God's gifts 

 to man, sah ! Honey ! Honey ! That's 

 not the work of bees. sah. Its glucose, 

 sticky, stinking glucose, sah !" 



The above is copied from the Win- 

 chester, Va., Times, and shows the 

 growth of popular indignation at the 

 nefarious work of adulteratiors. It 

 also shows how that " scientific pleas- 

 antry " (lie) of Prof. Wiley, is deceiv- 

 ing conscientious men in every portion 

 of the country. 



