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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. 



VOL. XX. 



CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 22, 1884. 



No. 43. 



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Published every Wednesday, by 



THOMAS Q. NEWMAN, 



EDiTor AND Proprietor, 



The North American Convention. 



1^ Mr. William Williamson, of 

 Lexington, Ky,, writes us that he has 

 been in correspondence with the au- 

 thorities of the World's Exposition at 

 New Orleans, La., relative to the 

 holding of the next meeting of the 

 National Convention next March at 

 that place, instead of in the fall. 



Under Oate of Oct. 4, 1884, Hon. G. 

 C. Brackett, Superintendent of the 

 Farm and Garden Products, writes as 

 follows : '■ If the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Convention is called at New 

 Orleans, during the Exposition, I can 

 only assure you of a cordial welcome, 

 and every reasonable courtesy which 

 the management of the Department 

 of Agriculture can give you. This 

 Department includes the apiarian in- 

 terest in its provisions. I shall be 

 pleased to receive your further com- 

 munications bearing upon this matter 

 in detail." 



If the National Society desires to 

 accommodate the bee-keepers of the 

 South, and at the same time to place 

 the pursuit to advantage before the 

 world, here is a grand opportunity 

 for it to do so. 



^^ Married, on the first day of 

 October. 1884, at the residence of 

 William Coulter, at Black Oak Grove, 

 by Elder E. S. Riley, Mr. Ira Bull, of 

 South Liberty, to Miss Ida B. Coulter ; 

 all of Indiana. Many elegant presents 

 were made, and the wedding festivi- 

 ties were very interesting. The bride 

 and groom have our best wishes. 



1^ Messrs. J. VanDeusen and Son, 

 of Sprout Brook, N. Y., were at the 

 Chicago Convention last week. 



Maine Bee and Honey Show. 



From the Home Farm we glean the 

 following concerning the Maine show: 



In the upper story of the main 

 liuilding, in the west wing, was the 

 display of bees, bee-equipments, and 

 literature, under the superintendency 

 of Mr. Horace B. Cony, of Augusta. 

 This department, although not very 

 large, was extremely interesting, and 

 during the Fair was visited by scores 

 of those directly interested in practi- 

 cal bee-culture, and by hundreds who 

 came out of curiosity and to learn of 

 the habits and management of these 

 thrifty workers. The principal ex- 

 hibits were made by Jas. B. Mason, of 

 Mechanic Falls, E. P. Churchill, of 

 North Auburn, Edward Tarr, of 

 Castle Hill, T. F. Blaisdell, of Fort 

 Fairfield, and G. W. P. Jerrard, of 

 Caribou, whose exhibit is included in 

 the special exhibit of Aroostook 

 county, on the second floor. 



Canada Bee and Honey Show. 



At the Toronto Fair the splendid 

 bee and honey show attracted much 

 attention this year. The Toronto 

 Mail gives a lengthy notice of it, 

 from which we extract the following 

 items : 



Mr. Jones exhibited about 30,000 

 pounds of honey, a vast quantity of 

 which was in cans, beautifully labeled ; 

 and in addition to this he presented a 

 wonderful exhibit of apiarian supplies, 

 arranged in a pyramid in the centre 

 of the honey house, which attracted 

 much attention. 



Anotlier pleasing feature was in- 

 troduced by Mr. Jones, by the exhi- 

 bition of not fewer than torty differ- 

 ent kinds of honey-producing plants, 

 showing, as they did, that Canada has 

 more honey-plants than any other 

 country in the world. The unini- 

 tiated or novice in bee-farming has 

 only a very crude idea of the extent 

 of our honey-plants, which include 

 many known only thoroughly to the 

 busy bee, whose duty and pleasure it 

 is to find them out. 



As an evidence of Mr. Jones' faith 

 in the development of bee farming in 

 Canada, he has lately increased his 

 productive power of apiarian supplies 

 by an expenditure of t8,00() or §10,000 

 on new machinery, including a new 

 Corliss engine, manufactured ex- 



gressly for him by Messrs. Inglis & 

 [unter, of this city. 



Among the other exhibitors of 

 honey was Mr.Hall, of Woodstock, who 

 succeeded this season in having gath- 

 ered about 16,000 pounds, but in order 

 to do this he was compelled to greatly 

 increase his stock, owing to the cold- 

 ness of the honey season. 



Messrs. William Ellis, of St. Davids, 

 Ont., Mr. Geo. Tye, of McPherson 

 Avenue, North Toronto, and Messrs. 

 Granger & Duke, of Deer Park, North 

 Toronto, were also exhibitors of the 

 nectar. Each of these exhibitors se- 

 cured prizes for various classes of 

 honey, the latter getting a prize for 

 fruit preserved in honey instead of in 

 sugar, the usual method. Mr. Goold, 

 of Brantford, also showed a few apiari- 

 an supplies. Altogether the exhibit of 

 honey and apiarian supplies was well 

 worth inspection, and more especially 

 by those contemplating bee-farming 

 as a lucrative and enjoyable occupa- 

 tion. 



i^° From the Chicago Tribune we 

 copy the following item : " The yield 

 of the apiary of H. C. Parks, of 

 Riverside, San Bernardino County, 

 California, is the most remarkable 

 on record. From 33 hives Vif tons of 

 honey were obtained, an average of 

 439 pounds to the hive." 



There is a large crop in California 

 this year, and 439 pounds is a large 

 average, but not " the most remark- 

 able on record," when we remember 

 that it is on " record " that B. F. Car- 

 roll, in Texas, had 1,200 pounds of 

 honey to the colony, in 1883. 



IS~ The B. & O. Red Book for Illinois is 

 ready for distrilnition, and in more than one 

 respect, is the most valuable of any of tlie 

 editions hitherto liased upon this State. As 

 has always been the rule, the forwarding of 

 a stamp to ('. K. Lord, Baltimore, is all that 

 is necessary to secure a copy, and in fact 

 the only way, as the Red Booit issues are all 

 for mail circulation. The present %-olume ia 

 replete with political statistics and con- 

 densed data, not only as regards the Presi- 

 dential. State and Congressional elections in 

 this State, but relatinfr as well to elections 

 since admission into the Union. It will t)e 

 difiBcult to imagine a moi-e complete show- 

 ing of past results in the State, or a more 

 neatly put together and printed little book. 



Preparation of Honey for the Mar- 

 ket, including tlie production and care 

 of both comb and extracted honey, 

 instructions on the exhibition of bees 

 and honey at Fairs, etc. This is a 

 new 10 cent pamphlet, of 32 pages. 



