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do uot have to spend their precious 

 time in making comb, but can devote 

 every moment to the glad work of 

 gathering the rich liarvest with which 

 the flowers overtiow. This enables 

 them to store many more pounds of 

 honey than they could secure if they 

 had comb to build. 



Again, honey comb is made of bees- 

 wax. Wax is made by the bees from 

 honey. When bees need comb in 

 which to store tlieir honey, they fill 

 themselves with honey, and liang 

 themselves up in large clusters in the 

 hive. While they thus remain quies- 

 cent for several hours the honey 

 undergoes a process of digestion, and 

 is changed into wax, which appears 

 in minute scales on the underside of 

 the rings of the abdomen. Then they 

 help each other in taking off these 

 little scales, and in kneading them 

 into comb. It has been estimated by 

 competent oliservers that it takes 

 from (ifteen to twenty-flve pounds of 

 honey to make one pound of wax. 

 The producer of extracted honey, by 

 saving his combs and having them 

 filled several times each year for many 

 years in succession, saves all the honey 

 which would otherwise be used in 

 making wax, and thus largely in- 

 creases his annual honey product. 



Moreover extracted honey can very 

 easily be transported to any part of the 

 world. It has but to be put into good 

 barrels and it can go wherever rail- 

 road or steam-ship will carry it. It is 

 injured by neither cold nor heat. It 

 may be kept for months, or even years, 

 without losing its good qualities. 

 Hence it may seek a market the whole 

 world around, in torrid or frigid zone. 



These advantages are so evident 

 that not a few bee-keepers are gi\ang 

 exclusive attention to the production 

 of extracted lioney. The production 

 is already so large that some are 

 beginning to fear that prices will fall 

 Tery mucn. I am convinced that this 

 fear is well-grounded. The prices of 

 extracted honey will undoubtedly fall. 

 Already the best honey can be bought 

 for ten cents a pound. Once sugar 

 was so expensive that it appeared only 

 on the tables of the rich. After a 

 time, improved cultivation and ma- 

 chinery rapidly increased the produc- 

 tion of sugar. The increased quantity 

 largely reduced the price. Pretty soon 

 sugar began to appear on the tables 

 of the poor, and its consumption 

 increased enormously. When only the 

 rich could buy it, enough to supply 

 the demand was produced by a few 

 planters and laborers. When the 

 prices fell so as to bring it within the 

 reach of the masses, the consumption 

 increased so greatly that very large 

 numbers of laborers were needed, and 

 planters, though netting a small profit 

 on each pound sold, were able to make 

 large incomes because the market 

 demanded a large number of pounds. 

 Extracted honey will take the place 

 of much of the unhealthful syrup and 

 poor sugar that are now consumed, 

 and a very large quantity will be 

 needed to supply the demand. Then 

 the bee-keeper, who now gets an in- 

 come of five hundred dollars by the 

 production of five thousand pounds 

 of honey, can get an income of five 



thousand dollars by the production of 

 one hundred thousand pounds. 

 Iowa City, Iowa. 



For the American Bee Journal 



A Visit Among Indiana Bee-Keepers. 



W. T. .STEWART. O, 



The second week in August I started 

 for a two weeks' visit among Indiana 

 bee-keepers. The first one that I 

 visited was S. E. O'Neil, of Dupont, 

 who has about 70 colonies of good 

 Italians, and does not like Cyprians. 

 He had a good fall crop of honey, and 

 his bees winter on it with good re- 

 sults ; he uses the Heddon case for 

 sections and Jones' perforated-zinc 

 honey-board, and likes both. Mr. 

 O'Neil is a good bee-keeper. 



1 then visited Mr. J. M. Brooks, 

 who has been breeding queens for 

 beauty, but says he got them " bred 

 up " so that they were above work 

 and put on " airs," while he had to 

 draw on the more common bees for 

 honey enough to supply queen-cages 

 to ship them with. Mr. Brooks is a 

 scientific bee-keeper, and has a fine 

 apiary. It being centrally located, he 

 has a honey store in front and retails 

 his honey at home. 



I next went to Wesley Morgan's 

 apiary, near Burnsville. He works 

 mostly for extracted honey, and gets 

 it, too. 



Next, I -called on Elias Morgan, a 

 brother of Wesley ; he has a small 

 apiary, but is somewhat enthusiastic 

 on bee-culture. All the above named 

 are readers of the Bee Journal. 



Willis Gully, of Burnsville, has a 

 small apiary, but is well up with the 

 times in bee-keeping. The next was 

 G. W. Vandergrift, of Vernon, who 

 has a fair-sized apiary, uses the 

 Mitchell hive, but does not give his 

 apiary the attention necessary to 

 make it profitable ; besides that, 

 Vernon is rather a poor location for 

 bees 



I next visited Dr. C. C. Firth, of 

 Wirt, and remained there all night. 

 We talked about bees till a late hour. 

 Dr. Firth is Secretary of the South- 

 ern Indiana Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion. He is well up in the knowledge 

 of bee-keeping, and has a nice apiary, 

 but he is young in practical bee-cul- 

 ture. 



Frank Mayfleld was next inter- 

 viewed. He has a large apiary. His 

 bees are all in box-hives, and he 

 trusts to " luck " for surplus honey. 



I next called on H. C. White, of 

 Madison. He is enthusiastic, and has 

 been successful, but his location is 

 not good for honey. 



I remained all night with Jonas 

 McKay, near Vevay. Mr. M. is the 

 big bee-man of the vicinity. He ship- 

 ped eight tons of comb honey last 

 year. His bees are mostly in bee- 

 houses. 



Chas. Cain has a bee-house, and a 

 dozen others in Switzerland county 

 have bee-houses, and I think that it 

 is the best county in Indiana for bee- 

 keeping. 



Wm. Borclierding, near Madison, is 

 an enthusiastic bee-keeper, and will 

 rank high in the near future. 



Mr. Augustine, of Madison, is 

 another able bee-keeper, and will 

 some day make his mark in scientific 

 bee-culture. 



All through my journey I was look- 

 ing for a good location to which to 

 move my bees, and found what I be- 

 lieve to be the best I ever saw, aU 

 things considered. I secured it, and 

 the last week in August I shipped my 

 bees (nearly 100 colonies) by rail and 

 river nearly 100 miles. My loss in 

 shipping was about 15 per cent, by 

 combs breaking down and drowning 

 the bees. I have learned a lesson on 

 shipping bees, and at some future 

 time I will give to those interested 

 the benefit ot my experience. 



I am now located three miles west 

 of Madison, Ind., on the Ohio river, 

 above highwater mark, where I shall 



five bee-keeping ray entire attention, 

 ly address hereafter will be Madison, 

 Ind., instead of Eminence, Ky. 

 Madison, Ind., Nov. 8, 1884. 



For tbe American Bee Joomal. 



Bee-Sting Poison. 



B. F. LITTLE. c$ 



Having shown Dr. Horton the arti- 

 cle by Dr. Tinker, he kindly furnished 

 me the following opinion : 



"Brush Creek, Iowa, Nov. 6, 1884.— 

 I had my attention called to an article 

 in the Bee Journal, by Dr. Tinker, 

 relating to my patient, Mrs. Sturde- 

 vant, who died from the effects of a 

 bee-sting. I cannot agree with the 

 Doctor in the way the poison is taken 

 into the system. In the case referred 

 to, I believe that the poison was in- 

 jected into the circulation by the sting 

 entering the inferior palpebral vein, 

 the poison being carried from there 

 into the facial vein, and from that 

 into the internal jugular and directly 

 into the heart. I believe that the 

 poison acts much the same as that of 

 poisonous reptiles. I reported the 

 case to Prof. Laning, of the Hahne- 

 mann College in Chicago, and he also 

 holds to my theory, citing Bollinger 

 as the highest authority. The cam- 

 phor treatment of which the Doctor 

 speaks, I know nothing about ; but in 

 the other treatment to which he al- 

 ludes, I quite agree with him. I con- 

 sider iodine as the best antidote for 

 bee-stings. W. H. Horton, M. D." 



I think that my bees are going into 

 winter quarters in fine condition. I 

 began the season with 80 colonies, and 

 now have 123. I run 90 of them for 

 extracted honey, and obtained 7,200 

 pounds ; the rest I run for comb honey, 

 and got about 1,200 pounds. I have 

 taken no honey since the basswood 

 flow ceased ; although I might have 

 taken six or eight hundred pounds. 

 It is in the combs yet ; but for so nice 

 a fall the honey-flow was wonderfully 

 short. 



Brush Creek, Iowa. 



1^" The bee-keepers of McDonough 

 and adjoining counties are requested 

 to meet at Bushnell, 111., on Nov. 20, 

 1884, for the purpose of organizing a 

 bee-keepers' association. 



J. G. Norton. 



