(W ^ OLDEST BEE PAPERK^y 

 -^^ 'N AMERICA -•i^'- 



VOL. XIX. 



CHICAGO, ILL., JULY 4, 1883. 



No. 27. 



Published every Wednesday, by 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Proprietor, 



What to do with the Honey. 



The honey crop, this year, will be 

 simply immense. Mr. F. L. Dough- 

 erty, in the Indiana Farmer, says : 

 "From daylight, to dark, yes, away 

 after darlc, too, honey is coming at a 

 fearful rate." And this state of 

 things is corroborated by hundreds of 

 letters from all over the American 

 Continent. Not only is this so in 

 America, but we hear that it is also 

 true of England. The British Bee 

 Journal for June 1.5, says : "A month's 

 uninterrupted tine weather hasamptly 

 repaid those who were careful to get 

 there stocks in order for the drst 

 honey glut, which, from reports that 

 have come to us, has been a very 

 heavy one. We hear of the extrac- 

 tor being at work and supers being 

 tilled with marvelous rapidity." 



As the crop will be an exceedingly 

 large one— the question at the head of 

 this article is very pertinent. The 

 markets of the large cities will be 

 glutted— and, unless bee-keepers come 

 to the rescue, by creating a home 

 market, the prices will be run down 

 very low, and sales, at the,same time, 

 will be exceedingly slow. 



Every bee-keeper must take the 

 matter in hand, and create a home 

 market for his honey, by putting it 

 up in attractive shape, both comb 

 and extracted, to entice the lovers of 

 pure sweets, making many more con- 

 sumers. By the aid of small packages 

 of comb honey, in one and two-pound 

 sections, and small pails of extracted 

 honey, containing from 1 to 10 pounds, 

 an immense amount can be sold in 

 every town on the American Conti- 



nent, if the right methods are em- 

 ployed for creating a market. 



We know of no better plan than to 

 spread information on the uses for 

 honey, its healthfulness and medi- 

 cinal qualities, among the people in 

 every town adjacent to your apiary. 



We have given this matter much 

 serious thought, and have concluded, 

 in order to assist honey consumption, 

 in the present emerg^iicy, to revise 

 and condense our pamphlet on 

 " Honey, as Food and Medicine " to 

 16 pages, so that it may be scattered 

 like autumn leaves throughout the 

 length and breadth of the country at 

 a small cost to bee-keepers, and thus 

 CREATE a market for our honey. 

 Twenty thousand copies have already 

 been sold, and we will have another 

 edition of 10,000 copies printed by the 

 time this paper is in the hands of its 

 patrons, ready for immediate work. 

 They will be printed in English and 

 German, and may be had in either 

 language as may be desired, or some 

 of the German may be put in an order 

 for 100 or more, if requested. On the 

 first page we will print a card, free of 

 cost (when 100 or more are ordered), 

 something like this : 



PEESENTED BY JOHN SHORT, 



Swaneetown, Qa. 



Producer of Comb and Extracted Honey. 



Orders by Postal Card promptly tilled. 



These pamphlets will retail at 5 

 cents each, or 50 cents per dozen. 100 

 copies (with Card printed free of cost) 

 3 cents each ; 500 copies at 2}i cents 

 each, or 1,000 copies at 2 cents each by 

 mail postpaid. If these pamphlets 

 are properly distributed, they will 

 become salesmen through whose in- 

 fluence every pound of honey that is 

 produced, v^'ill lind a ready and re- 

 munerative sale, and will prevent a 

 Jioney glut in our large cities, as well 

 as make both producer and consumer 

 happy. Hundreds of bee men have 

 already tried this plan, and found it 

 to "work like a charm." If twenty 



thousand of these silent " salesmen " 

 have already wrought wonders in 

 creating a market for honey, what will 

 a million of such faithful " workers " 

 accomplish in the " hive of nature?" 

 Just try it, and astonish yourselves 

 with the results! 



The Rev. L. L. Langstroth. 



Again, after a lapse of nearly two 

 years, we have received the following 

 note from the greatest American bee- 

 master, the Eev. L. L. Langstroth : 



The Weekly Bee Journal is reg- 

 ularly received, and abounds in matter 

 both interesting and valuable to every 

 bee-keeper. After being laid aside 

 from the use of my pen for almost two 

 years, I am able again to take interest 

 ill bee matters, and hope to send you 

 an article shortly. I am trying to 

 induce a neighbor to send you a cor- 

 respondence between himself and one 

 of the glucose manufacturers. He 

 wrote for terms of grape sugar for 

 feeding bees this last spring, and the 

 glucose was sent instead, as a good 

 thing to mix with honey ! With sin- 

 cere thanks for your many acts of 

 kindness, I remain, as ever, very truly 

 your friend. L. L. Langstroth. 



Oxford, Ohio, June 28, 1883. 



The whole apicultural world will be 

 glad to learn that this veteran is 

 again able to use his pen, and will 

 read his articles with the greatest 

 avidity. We do not think he intended 

 his private note to us, for the public 

 eye, but knowing how great is the 

 desire still to hear from our common 

 friend, we take the liberty of pub- 

 lishing it. If strength of mind and 

 body are still retained, our readers 

 will doubtless hear from him as 

 opportunities may present themselves. 



New Music— We have received two 

 new pieces of music from the author 

 Mr. W. Chitty, St. Jolins' School, 

 Pewsy, Wilts, England. They are 

 new and popular Marches, and very 

 pretty. Mr. Chitty is one of our 

 English subscribers, and is very en- 

 thusiastic on bee matters. He will 

 send these Marches, to any address 

 for 25 cents each. 



