THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



375 



Comb Foundation. 



Mr. Editor :— I send you by this 

 mail samples of foundation made on 

 the Given press, in answer to Messrs. 

 Bray & Seacord, of Warthan, Cal., on 

 page 338 of the Bee Journal. For 

 thin foundation the only difference is 

 the sheets are thinner ; the work is 

 the same after being sheeted. There 

 is no change in machinery from heavy 

 foundation to thin foundation. It 

 works thick and thin simultaneously. 

 Bees here are just waiting for some- 

 thing to turn up ; just making a living. 

 Thus far, the honey harvest in north- 

 ern Texas might be represented 

 numerically as follows: 000 pounds; 

 if we have no change, two more 

 naughts may be added, making it 

 00.000 pounds, surplus honey for 1883. 

 We hope our Kentucky friends will 

 remember us kindly at their coming 

 convention. I am happy to greet 

 America's greatest bee-master, Rev. 

 L. L. Langstroth, again. He is our 

 father in bee-literature. 



\Vm. R. Howard. 



Kingston, Texas, July 10, 1883. 



[The samples are received ; both the 

 thick and thin foundation have very 

 thin bases to the cells, and as both 

 were made on the same mill, this 

 full answers the query of Messrs. Bray 

 & Seacord.— Ed.] 



^:pccii\l polices. 



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 paper; it indicates the end of the 

 month to which you have paid your 

 subscription on the Bee Journal. 



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 American Express money orders for 

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■\Ve wish to impress upon every one 

 the necessity of being very specific, 

 and carefully to state what they desire 

 for the money sent. Also, if they live 

 near one post office, and get their mail 

 at another, be sure to give us the ad- 

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How to Create a Market for Honey. 



We have now published another 

 edition of the pamphlet on "Honey as 

 Food and Medicine," with more net« 

 Recipes for Honey Medicines, all kinds 

 of cooking in which honey is used, and 

 healthful and pleasant beverages. 



We have put the price still lower, 

 to encourage bee-keepers to scatter 

 them far and wide. Single copy 5 

 cents, postpaid ; per dozen, 50 cents ; 

 per hundred, $3.00. On orders of 100 

 or more, we print, if desired, on the 

 cover-page, " Presented by," etc., 

 (giving the name and address of the 

 bee-keeper who scatters them). This 

 alone will pay him for all his trouble 

 and expense— enabling him to dispose 

 of his honey at home, at a good profit. 

 Try it, and you will be surprised. 



Honey from Bine Thistles. 



Our prospects for a good crop of 

 honey were never better. The spring 

 was late, but since settled weather 

 came, the bees have built up rapidly. 

 Swarming is in full blast. On Friday 

 of last week, one of our box-hive-bee- 

 men had 8 swarms in one bunch. He 

 hived the first swarm that came off on 

 that day ; seven others came out and 

 clustered on the hive in which the 

 first had been hived, thus making 8 

 swarms together. They were divided 

 and put in 3 or 4 boxes. Have not 

 heard how they were doing. My bees 

 are storing honey rapidly from blue 

 thistle. This honey is very white 

 and of fine flavor. 



T W^ C A TJ.T'T'' R. 



Pleasant Dale, W. Va., July 11, 1883. 



1^ Articles for publication must be 

 written on a separate piece of paper 

 frofia items of business. 



Bee Pasturage a Necessity.— We have 

 just issued a new pamphlet giving our 

 views on this important subject, with 

 suggestions what to plant, and when 

 and how. It is illustrated with 26 en- 

 gravings, and will be sent postpaid to 

 any address for 10 cents. 



Our Premiums for Clubs. 



Dog Fennel Honey. 



Last year I had some very late 

 swarms that mthered a great deal of 

 honey from dog fennel. The honey 

 is unfit for use, having a bitter.taste ; 

 one dose was enough for me. Two 

 colonies had nothing but dog fennel 

 honey to winter on, and came throush 

 as strong as any. Bees will not 

 gather honey from dog fennel when 

 there is anything else to work upon, 

 though it blooms from June until 

 October. There is an immense 

 quantity of it in tliis country, making 

 the fields look perfectly yellow. 



W. S. Douglass. 



Lexington, Texas, July 16, 1883. 



Preparation of Honey for the Mar- 

 ket, including the 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. 



Any one sending us a club of two 

 subscribers for 1 year, for the Weekly, 

 with $4, will be entitled to a copy of 

 Bees and Honey, in cloth, postpaid. 



For three subscribers, with |(>, we 

 will send Cook's Manual, in paper, 

 Emerson's Binder for the Weekly, or 

 Apiary Register for 50 colonies. 



For four subscribers, with $8, we 

 will send Cook's Manual in cloth, or 

 Apiary Register for 100 colonies. 



For five subscribers, with $10, we 

 will send the Apiary Register for 200 

 colonies, Quinby's New Bee-Keeping, 

 Root's A B C of Bee Culture, or an 

 extra copy of the Weekly Bee Jour- 

 nal for one year. 



To get any of the above premiums 

 for the Monthly Bee Journal send 

 double the number of subscribers, and 

 the same amount of money. 



^" Do not send coins in a letter. It 

 is dangerous and increases the postage 

 unnecessarily. Always send postage 

 stamps, for fractions of a dollar, and, 

 if you can get them — one-cent stamps ; 

 if not, any denoiSination of postage 

 stamps will do. 



Died.— My little son, Wm. R. How- 

 ard, died of congestion, after a short 

 and painful illness, on the 3d inst. 

 Aged 3 years, 8 months and 26 days. 

 Wm. R. Howard. 



Kingston, Texas, July 12, 1883. 



1^" When writing to this office on 

 business, our correspondents should 

 not write anything for publication on 

 the same sheet of paper, unless it can 

 be torn apart without interfering with 

 either portion of the letter. The edi- 

 torial and business departments are 

 separate and distinct, and wheu the 

 business is mixed up with items for 

 publication it often causes confusion. 

 They may both be sent in one envelope 

 bvit on separate pieces of paper. 



The Apiary Register. 



All who intend to be systematic in 

 their work in the apiary, should get a 

 copy and commence to use it. 



For 50 colonies (120 pages) $1 00 



" 100 colonies (220 pages) 1 50 



" 200 colonies (420 pages) 2 00 



The larger ones can be used for a 

 few colonies, give room for an increase 

 of numbers, and still keep the record 

 all together in one book, and are there- 

 fore the most desirable ones. 



^" Do not let your numbers of the 

 Bee Journal for 188:5 be lost. The 

 best way to preserve tliem is to pro- 

 cure a binder and put them in. They 

 are very valuable for reference. 



Ribbon Badges, for bee-keepers, on 

 which are printed a large bee in gold, 

 we send tor 10 cts. each, or $8 per 100. 



