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and obtained from him, after being 

 properly sealed and stamped by the 

 American Express Company, a bottle 

 of the disputed honey which Mr. Von 

 Dom claims is adulterated. The 

 sample will immediately be forwarded 

 to a chemist of one of our State insti- 

 tutions f )r analysis ; and that analysis 

 will be sent to the Editor of the Bee 

 Journal, for publication, as soon as 

 obtained from the State chemist, who 

 knows nothing in regard to the dis- 

 puted honey. Mr. Tamblin is a gen- 

 tleman, a scholar, and a man of busi- 

 ness ; and he desires to know by 

 whom he has been wronged. As the 

 chemist of the Nebraska State Uni- 

 versity analyzed a sample of that 

 honey and pronounced it pure, and 

 the chemist of the Chicago Sugar Re- 

 fining Company pronounced it im- 

 pure, he wants to know which is right. 

 Mr. Tamblin says that the bottle of 

 honey brought with him was taken 

 promiscuously from the lot, and with- 

 out any expectation of having the 

 sample analyzed, but brought it along 

 to show to disinterested parties. I, 

 for one, must say that it has a fine 

 appearance and "good flavor. Mr. F. 

 H. Hunt, of Centre Point, Linn 

 County, Iowa, is an extensive bee- 

 keeper, though comparatively a 

 stranger to me. as I have met him but 

 a few times ; and he says that he is 

 willing to abide the consequences of 

 a fair test. We, as bee-keepers, are 

 all interested in this affair, and want 

 to have honor given to whom honor 

 is due. J. W. Sanders. 



The Bee Journal having pub- 

 lished the charges of adulteration 

 must, in justice to Mr. Hunt, give 

 him a hearing, for it has no wish to 

 deal out anything but " equal and ex- 

 act justice " to all ; in fact, we invited 

 him to reply, as will be seen on page 

 724. We shall publish the result of 

 the analysis by the Iowa chemist, and 

 hope that will satisfy all concerned. 

 As that is being done at the request 

 of the merchant who bought the 

 honey of Mr. Hunt, it would appear 

 to be a fair imdertaking, and we trust 

 will result in an amicable settlement 

 of the whole matter. 



®° More wild bees have been 

 caught this season in the vicinity of 

 Kingston, Green Lake county, Wis., 

 than ever before. 



Moving Bees a Short Distance. 



®° Small fruits and flies are now 

 gone, the cooler weather excites the 

 appetites for sweets, and if your honey 

 crop is not sold, now is the time to 

 dispose of it. The local market should 

 be looked after first, and no honey 

 sent to distant markets until the local 

 demand is supplied. If there is no 

 local market, make one ; if you have 

 never tried, you will be astonished at 

 what can be accomplished by a little 

 push.— £a;c/i. 



A correspondent in the Kansas Bee- 

 Keeper gives the following as his ex- 

 perience in " moving bees a short dis- 

 tance :" 



Moving bees a short distance is a 

 square issue with nature. " Old 

 fogies "will tell you that it can't be 

 " did," because it's contrary to " na- 

 ter." I have more practical experi- 

 ence in this matter of moving bees a 

 short distance than I care to have. 

 Last May I moved 50 colonies two or 

 three hundred feet, without any per- 

 ceptible loss of bees. They were 

 moved near my oSice and honey store- 

 rooms. Well, last summer convinced 

 me that they were too close to the 

 public road, and while I thought that 

 there was no probability of them ever 

 disturbing anybody while passing the 

 road, some "people were afraid of 

 them, and this was enough. I de- 

 termined to move them back out of 

 all danger. I selected a day that was 

 cool in the morning, but warm enough 

 for the bees to fly in the afternoon. 

 Early in the morning the hives were 

 all closed, and borne between two 

 men to their new positions. Of course, 

 the new yard was staked off and made 

 ready beforehand. The hives were 

 all kept closed till late in the evening. 

 Boards were placed in front of the 

 hives, and the bees were not let out 

 till quite late, under which circum- 

 stances bees are most likely to mark 

 well their new location, and to this 

 management I attribute my good suc- 

 cess. But the next day was the most 

 trying of all. The old yard was 

 cleared of every thing, and changed 

 as much as possible in appearance. 

 Some smothered fires made of wet 

 straw were kept going in the old yard, 

 and changed about where most; 

 needed. Well, on the third day I had 

 my bees carrying in "meal" and 

 sweetened water as though nothing 

 had happened. Of course a few strag- 

 gling bees will go back and look over 

 the old grounds for several days, but 

 this amounts to nothing, as they 

 know how to return home. 



Timely Hints. 



The Texas Farm and Ranch con- 

 tains the following interesting items : 



In selecting the site for your bees, 

 have one where the ground slopes, so 

 that rain will run off freely, and make 

 the hives face south or east, never 

 north. 



To raise prices by individual effort, 

 work your home market for all that it 

 is worth, and ship as little as possible 

 to the cities, so as to avoid a glut in 

 the market. 



Mr. R. Wilkins, -of California, has 

 obtained 100,000 pounds of honey from 

 1000 colonies of bees. S. T. Miller, of 

 Los Angeles, took 40 tons from 270 

 colonies and increased them to 370. 



See that your hives are high and 

 dry, and not; liable to have rnins or 

 floods wash in. Place a piece of board 

 to enable any belated or tired bees to 

 crawl up into the entrances, in case 



they may miss the alighting board on 

 their return from a fly-out. 



Two bee-keepers living in the same 

 locality, both using the same hive 

 (Langstroth) and having the same 

 facilities and advantages, report as- 

 follows : A doubled the number of 

 his colonies and took an average of 

 100 pounds of honey from each. B 

 about doubled his "colonies, but did 

 not get ten pounds of honey per hive> 

 The difference was the result of man- 

 agement, care and attention. 



Honey for Home Use. 



The Indiana Farmer remarks thus- 

 upon the keeping of bees on farms, 

 for the purpose of producing honey 

 for the use of the farmer's family : 



Aside from the hopes for any pecu- 

 niary gain, there is a great induce- 

 ment for the keeping of at least a few 

 colonies of bees. In these times of 

 adulterated sweets, about the only re- 

 sort is to buy directly from our neigh- 

 bor or produce our own. Honey is one 

 of the most delicious sweets produci- 

 ble, and can be produced with as lit- 

 tle expense and labor as anything, 

 especially so in a small way. People 

 who make a specialty of poultry-rais- 

 ing, bee-keeping, etc., give all the 

 time possible which they think will 

 pay one penny more ; yet honey may 

 be produced as chickens are, for home- 

 use, with but very little care. The 

 perfectly straight combs sell at a bet- 

 ter price but do not affect the flavor 

 of the honey. A partially filled sec- 

 tion will bring only half price in the 

 market, but it is just the same honey 

 as fills the section without an empty 

 cell ; and with the knowledge of the 

 present day, we are enabled to secure 

 more honey from three or four colo- 

 nies than our fathers obtained from, 

 three times the number. 



i^ The Texas Farm and Ranch 

 remarks thus concerning the Cheshire 

 Foul Brood Cure : 



I want particularly to call the atten- 

 tion of my bee-keeping readers to aa 

 article in the American Bee Jour- 

 nal for October 8, 1884, on " Foul 

 Brood, its Propagation and Cure." It 

 is a paper read before the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Bee-Keepers held 

 in London a few weeks ago, by Frank 

 Cheshire. It is exhaustive, and Mr. 

 Cheshire claims that his cure is abso- 

 lutely sure. Mr. Newman, the Editor 

 of the Ajmerican Bee Journal, has 

 done the apiarists of America a con- 

 siderable favor by publishing it, and 

 it has been intimated to me by that 

 gentleman that eminent United States 

 bee-keepers are going to give Mr. 

 Cheshire's cure a thorough test. With 

 this essav in, and the anticipation of 

 the results of these tests and these 

 discussions, the Bee Journal be- 

 comes absolutely necessary to bee- 

 keepers ; at least it is not safe, not 

 wise to be without it. 



1^ We can supply photographs of 

 Rev. L. L. Langstroth, the Baron of 

 Berlepsch, orDzierzon, at 2.5 cts. each. 



