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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



by adulterating honey with their 

 wares,— "There is money to be made 

 out of it." Does not such a way of 

 doing business strongly suggest the 

 crooked methods of those who deal in 

 counterfeit money V 



Business,in any proper sense of that 

 word, means transactions between 

 parties, where both buyer and seller 

 are benefitted by the deal. Tried by 

 this standard, adulterators of the 

 great commodities of life, will not 

 seem to rise much if any above the 

 level of gamblers, counterfeiters and 

 cheats. , ^ ^ 



You will notice, Mr. Editor, that I 

 do not give to the public the name— 

 nor does Mr. McCord authorize you to 

 give it— of the company with which 

 he was in correspondence, for we do 

 believe that this company is a sinner 

 above all others who make the same 



Eroducts. The original letters are 

 erein sent to you, so that in the 

 mouth of at least three witnesses 

 their genuineness may be established. 

 Oxford, O., July 3, 1883. 



The " original " letters sent to us by 

 :^r. Langstroth, have been scrutinized 

 and returned to him. They are cor- 

 rectly printed at the beginning of the 

 above article. Just think of the vil- 

 liany of asserting that " they feed it 

 largely in California," to deceive bee 

 men in Ohio, and get them to engage 

 in the nefarious business of adultera- 

 tion! 



No matter if the large trade in Cali- 

 fornia honey is ruined by the circula- 

 tion of this false report, so long as 

 " they [the glucose manufacturers] 

 make money out of it." 



It is high time that stringent laws 

 were enacted and rigidly enforced 

 against this hydra-headed monster 

 adulterator ! 



Going Soiith.^The Planters' Journal 

 remarks as follows about bee-keepers 

 emigrating to the South : 



Large numbers of Northern bee- 

 keepers are seeking the flowery faelds 

 of the South, where the bees find 

 ample natural foraging ground, live 

 all winter without being housed, and 

 in various other respects prove more 

 profitable to their owners. There is 

 no earthly doubt but that the South is 

 destined, and that at no distant day, 

 to become the greatest honey produc- 

 ing and honey exporting country on 

 the globe. We hope soon to see a 

 regular Southward exodus of men and 

 women engaged in this industry, 

 from the North and Northwest. 



A Few Pointers. 



Honey Shower.— John B. Drake, of 

 Kappa, 111., extracted in two days, 

 recently, 600 pounds of honey from 12 

 colonies of bees. A pretty good ex- 

 ample of the " honey shower " now 

 existing all through the Northwest. 

 Keep all the buckets right-side-up, to 

 catch it. 



The Orange Bulletin contains the 

 following under the caption of 

 " Things about bees worth knowing :" 



The mother queen leads the first 

 swarm of the season, and the second 

 as well as the third swarms, are led 

 off by the young virgin queens. 



Not one swarm in a hundred will go 

 direct from the old hive to the woods 

 if led by a prolific queen, but will 

 settle near by, before taking their 

 farewell leave of the old home. 



It is always best to have your hives 

 ready for taking care of your bees as 

 soon as settled, if you allow them to 

 swarm in the old pod-auger style. Al- 

 ways do your swarming in the proper 

 manner and at the proper time, which 

 would save many would-be runaway 

 swarms if left to follow their own 

 inclinations. Artificially swarm your 

 bees. 



It is a well known fact that bees 

 never visit two or more distinct classes 

 of flowers on the same trip, but al- 

 ways procure a full load of pollen or 

 honey of which ever kind they com- 

 mence on first, and return to their 

 hive or home to unload before making 

 a change. 



Bees are very useful in the fertiliza- 

 tion of flowers, seeds and plants, as 

 well as being very necessary in the 

 proper maturing of all classes of 

 fruit, especially apples, peaches, pears 

 and plums ; also many other valuable 

 and useful fruits of which we have 

 not time or space to enumerate. 

 Watch with care and you will learn 

 many valuable lessons from your 

 bees through the various departments 

 of life. 



Queens are produced from the com- 

 mon eggs that would have hatched 

 worker bees if left in the common 

 brood-cells and fed the usual food of 

 honey and farina; but having been 

 provided with a royal cell and also 

 royal paste, as food on which they are 

 bountifully provided, it transforms 

 them into a royal queen, who is to be 

 the mother of the future increase of the 

 hive, or swarms. 



Bee-Keepers' Picnic— The Indiana 

 Farmer gives the following as a par- 

 tial report of a bee-keepers' picnic in 

 that State : 



The bee-keepers of Hendricks and 

 Boone counties held a joint society 

 meeting at the residence of Dr. J. H. 

 O'Rear, at Lizton, June 23. The gath- 

 ering was really a bee-keepers' picnic, 

 and was well attended, bespeaking 

 success to the Societies. Every sub- 

 ject of interest to bee-keepers of the 

 present time was thoroughly dis- 

 cussed ; the members showing a 

 knowledge of the subject which can 

 only be acquired by careful study and 

 diligent inquiry. A committee of 

 members from both Societies was ap- 

 pointed to arrange a second joint 

 meeting of the Societies at some 

 place in Boone county during July or 

 August. Too much cannot be urged 

 in the furtherance of meetings of this 



kind. The plan has been followed 

 by the many horticultural societies 

 throughout the State, making them 

 very successful and interesting to all 

 concerned. 



OBITUARY.— We are sorry to an- 

 nounce that Death has entered into 

 the circle of publishers of bee papers, 

 and snatched, as its victim, Mr. Theo- 

 dore Houck, late publisher of the 

 Bee-Keepers' Exchange, Canajoharie, 

 N. Y., who died at Denver, Col., on 

 Saturday, June 16, 1883, at the age of 

 26I4 years. His death was quite sud- 

 den. The Exchange gives the following 

 particulars : 



We are reminded, in the death of 

 Mr. H.. of the fraility of this life. Up 

 to the first of last January Mr. H. was 

 a perfectly healthy man, having passed 

 an examination just prior to that for 

 a life insurance. On the 2d of Janu- 

 ary, Mr. H. attended the meeting of 

 the Eastern New York Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, held at Albany. He put 

 up at a hotel that night, and was as- 

 signed a room and bed that had not 

 been used for some time ; the conse- 

 quence was that he took a severe cold 

 which settled on his lungs and hurried 

 him to his grave with quick consump- 

 tion. Mr. Houck was a thorough bee 

 man, beginning when a boy, and con- 

 tinuing until his health gave out and 

 death came. He loved the bees, and 

 was never happier than when among 

 them. His public career was short, 

 about 18 months ago he purchased the 

 supplv business and Bee-Keepers' Ex- 

 change from Mr. J. H. Nellis, and con- 

 ducted them up to within a few weeks 

 of his death, his failing health com- 

 pelling him to place them into other 

 hands. He leaves a widow bowed 

 down with grief, having in one short 

 year buried her husband and little 

 boy, their only child. 



,,The Bee Journal condoles with 

 the stricken family in their affliction, 

 and sincerely hopes that Mr. H. had, 

 in life, provided for his family by ob- 

 taining the insurance policy men- 

 tioned by the Exchange in the above 

 paragraph. 



Lessons of Industry.— An exchange 

 remarks as follows : 



The bae has long been a type of the 

 industrious worker, but there are few 

 people who know how much labor 

 the sweet hoard of the hive repre- 

 sents. Each head of clover contains 

 about 60 distinct flower tubes, each of 

 which contains a portion of sugar not 

 exceeding the five-hundredth part of 

 a grain. Tlie proboscis of the bee 

 must, therefore, be inserted into 500 

 clover tubes before one grain of sugar 

 can be obtained. There are 7,000 

 grains in a pound, and as honey cou- 

 tains three-fourths of its weight of 

 dry sugar, each pound of honey rep- 

 resents 2,500,000 clover tubes sucked 

 by bees. 



