u Jonrnal, 



DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HOiNEY. 



VOL. XX. 



CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 1, 1884. 



No. 40. 





Published every Wednesday, by 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



EDiTor ,»ND Proprietor. 



Death of Mr. L. S. Given. 



Mr. D. S. Given, the inventor of the 

 Given Foundatiou Press, died in Los 

 Angeles, Cal., on July 10, where he 

 went in November 1881, hoping to 

 regain his health. He was born in 

 Muskingum County, O., Dec. 22. 1843, 

 and removed to Illinois in hStil. In 

 1S6G and 1867 he was secretary of the 

 Freedman's lUueau. In 1868 he mar- 

 ried Miss Hill, of Pennsylvania, who 

 has survived him ; they had one child. 

 His partner in business is Mr. J. B. 

 Caldwell, who, in company with the 

 widow, will hereafter carry on the 

 business, as will be seen by a notice 

 on page 638. 



i^ To Canadian subscribers let us 

 say tliat we have made arrangements 

 so that we can supply the Faitner's 

 Adi-ocate of London, Ont., and the 

 Monthly Bee Journal for one year 

 at SI. 25 for the two. This is a rare 

 chance to obtain two good papers for 

 about the price of one. 



^" Urge the store-keeper to whom 

 you sell your honey to keep it in view. 

 People seldom go to a store expressly 

 to buy honey ; they are induced to do 

 so by seeing it on the counter or 

 shelves. The neater and nicer it 

 looks, the quicker and better it will 

 sell.— Texas Bunch. 



t^ Convention at Chicago, Oct. 1.5. 

 It promises to be a very interesting 

 re-union of the bee-men of the West. 



]S~ The Northern )richi>an Bee-Keepers 

 will hold a Convention at Greenville, on Oct. 

 C and T. The notice did not reach this office, 

 until the forms were all made up. We 

 sqeeeze in this item. 



Bee and Honey Show in Indiana. 



The Porter County, Ind., Vidette, 

 gives the following items about the 

 display of honey at the Fair : 



It is only a few years since bee- 

 culture has taken a prominent part in 

 the products of the land called In- 

 diana. The old-fashioned bee-hunt- 

 ing, where a man's trowsers was in 

 constant danger in climbing in search 

 of honey, with a fair chance of meet- 

 ing Mr. Bruin to dispute the way, has 

 been done away with, and but an 

 occasional land-mark is found of ye 

 olden times. Porter county, as well 

 as portions of the State, are progres- 

 sive ; and among the exhibitors at the 

 Fair we notice T. S. Bull & Sons, who 

 have a line exhibit of honey from 

 their apiary, live miles north of the 

 city. They have 200 colonies of bees, 

 and the products of the year are 1,200 

 pounds of comb, and 10,000 pounds of 

 extracted honey. 



Another exhibitor in the bee-depart- 

 ment, is Dwiglit Furness, of Furness- 

 ville. He has a large number of colo- 

 nies, and his specialty is comb honey. 

 He has a tine exhibit, and a new idea 

 he shows is in pound packages en- 

 closed in a neat paper basket which 

 makes a neat package for dealers to 

 handle. 



MARRIED.— In Cleveland, Ohio, 

 Sept. 18, 1884, by the Rev. William 

 Gaston, pastor of the North Presby- 

 terian Church, at his residence 1083 

 Superior street. Alfred J. Fisher and 

 Miss Lora ]M. Kinsey, both of East 

 Liverpool, Ohio. 



The Bee .Journal acknowledges 

 the receipt of a box of wedding cake, 

 and wishes the happy pair all the joy 

 they wish themselves. Mr. Fisher 

 has been a correspondent and sub- 

 scriber to the Bee Journal for years, 

 and is well-known to our readers. 

 Last year he argued, on page 108, that 

 " more honey would be stored without 

 than with separators." Acting upon 

 this idea himself, he has concluded to 

 allow nothing to separate him from 

 his Lora, and l)oth may now be ex- 

 pected to lill their hive [home] with 

 honey [sweetness] imalloyed and un- 

 adulterated—beginning with the 

 " honeymoon," and ending with life's 

 journey. 



Bees at the Iowa State Fair. 



The Times, a paper published for 

 the Fair, has the following items rela- 

 tive to the Bee and Honey exhibit of 

 the Rev. O. Clute : 



A very interesting display was that 

 of Rev. O. Clute, of Iowa City, con- 

 sisting of tine extracted honey, and 

 also of numerous glazed cases show- 

 ing different kinds of bees. 



Hon. Thomas B. Wales, came 

 from Iowa City with a magnificent 

 herd of thorough-bred Ilolstein cattle, 

 his party consisting of himself, 

 daughter and son, the Misses Nellie 

 Younkin and Editli Shipley, of Iowa 

 City, and the Rev. O. Clute and his 

 two assistants in the apiary dis- 

 play. This happy family had at their 

 disposal two large wall-tents, sub- 

 divided into reception room, dining 

 hall, boudoirs, sleeping apartments 

 and kitchen, and lived al fresco in 

 most luxurious style. A limes artist 

 has attempted tlie portrayal of their 

 canvas home. That the young ladies 

 can prepare an excellent" picnic din- 

 ner, another Times representative 

 will testify. 



The engraving shows the family 

 •tent to good advantage. They must 

 have had an enjoyable time. 



Bees Gathering Honey. 



The Kansas Bee-Keeper gives the 

 following rules to indicate to novices 

 when bees are gathering honey from 

 the flowers : 



In giving instructions for general 

 management in the apiary, the expres- 

 sion. " when tlie bees are gathering 

 honey from the llowers," is often used, 

 and the question is almost as often 

 asked by the novice in bee-culture, 

 " How am I to know when my bees 

 are gathering honey from the fields 'r''' 

 The experienced bee-keeper judges of 

 this l)y the action of the bees in and 

 around the hive. Tlie novices may 

 judge with equal certainty by the fof- 

 lowingtest: place a little honey or 

 sugar syrup m the open air, if it is 

 quickly found and carried away bv 

 the bees, we may safely judge there is 

 no nectar being secreted in the flow- 

 ers; but if It remains untouched a 

 greater part of the day, we may know 

 that at such times there is a plentiful 

 flow of honey from the flowers, which 

 engages the attention of the bees. 



