ESTABLISHED ^l 

 N 1861 



VOL. XIX. 



CHICAGO, ILL., SEPTEMBER 19, 1883. 



No. 38. 



Published every Wednesday, by 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



EDtTOK AND Proprietor, 



Bee and Honey Show at Toledo, 0. 



As we proini.seda year ago to attend 

 the above Exhibition, and our health 

 improving some, we concluded to go 

 —the "change," and meeting with 

 companions and friends, with a sub- 

 sequent visit of a few days to friends 

 in Ohio, inviting us to brave the 

 journey. 



At Toledo we met a host of friends, 

 among whom were Dr. A. B. Mason, 

 Mr. C. F. Muth, Hon. I. N. Cotton, 

 Messrs. Aaron Benedict, H. H. Over- 

 meyer, C. H. Christiancy, P. H. Puhl, 

 Dr. H. Besse, A. Gander, A. I. Boot, 

 H. B. Harrington, £. E. Hasty, J. 

 Forncrook, and J. F. Hart, of Florida, 

 and a host of others whose names we 

 cannot now recall from Ohio, Indiana, 

 Michigan and five other States. 

 , The Fair was good, and the exhibit 

 of bees, honey, wax and apiarian 

 supplies all that could be wished. 



The Convention of bee men was 

 enthusiastic and interesting. As the 

 secretary will give a report of these 

 sessions, we will not forestall that 

 report, but will simply state that a 

 more enthusiastic set of men we have 

 seldom met. » 



Altogether, the Bee and Honey 

 Show of the Tri-State Fair will be an 

 " educator" of the people of the sur- 

 rounding country, which will tell on 

 the consumption of honey, for a long 

 time to come, and greatly aid in the 

 development of the honey market. 



®" Do not let your numbers of the 

 Bee Journal for 1883 be lost. The 

 best way to preserve them is to pro- 

 cure a binder and put them in. They 

 are very valuable for reference 



Baltimore Bee and Honey Show. 



In the Baltimore ISun of Sept. 7, we 

 notice the following concerning the 

 honey exhibit at the Fair at Balti- 

 more, Md. : 



One of the most attractive exhibits 

 at the Fair is the apiary, in charge of 

 Mr. Charles H. Lake, proprietor of 

 the Sunny -Side apiary, on Green- 

 mount avenue. Mr. Lake has on ex- 

 hibition a lot of fine Italian bees in 

 glass cases or frames, showing the 

 bees at work and the movements of 

 the queen bees, which attract much 

 attention. He has also on exhibition 

 a hive of bees which were allowed the 

 free use of the grounds, and the own- 

 er handles them with all the freedom 

 of pet canaries. He has receptacles 

 for honey in the shape of hearts, 

 shields and stars, and has trained the 

 bees to till them so as to make novel 

 ornaments for the table. 



The Commercial Advertiser remarks 

 as follows : 



The apiary, in charge of Mr. Chas. 

 H. Lake, had many visitors, however, 

 in spite of the bees flviiig about. The 

 ingenious idea of making the cells for 

 the bees was illustrated there. Sheets 

 of wax were passed between two roll- 

 ers, and came out with the cells al- 

 ready designed. The bees were all of 

 the Italian variety. In one hive the 

 swarm was free. The glass cases of 

 another were placed upon seperate 

 stands, and all the processes in the 

 life-history of the bee could be seen. 

 The queen, easily recognized from her 

 large size, was industriously deposit- 

 ing eggs in some of the cells ; working 

 bees were preparing other cells for 

 eggs. Some of the young bees, having 

 passed from the larvfe state, were 

 gradually working their way out of 

 the cells in which they had been im- 

 prisoned, fed in the meanwhile by the 

 workers. From one hive of the bees 

 245 pounds of honey have been ob- 

 tained in a single season. 



This is the way to aid the sale and 

 consumption of honey. There Is 

 nothing like attractive exhibits to call 

 attention to the honey. 



®" To give away a copy of " Honey 

 as Food and Medicine " to every one rvho 

 buys a package of honey at Fairs, will 

 sell almost a fabulous quantity of it. 



Honey-Producing Plants. 



Prof. A. J. Cook, in the Btmd New 

 YorJcer, when advocating the advan- 

 tages to be derived from planting for 

 honey bloom, says: 



There is probably no subject in 

 which the bee-keepers of to-day should 

 take a deeper interest than this one 

 Honey plants are capricious, and only 

 give up the precious nectar at such 

 times as dame nature's mood is agree- 

 able to them. Let it be too wet, too 

 dry, or too cold, and the flowers yield 

 not one drop of the coveted sweets. 

 We see then, that a constant success- 

 ion of honey plants, from the time of 

 the opening of the willows and maples 

 in April, till the frost licks up the last 

 homed secretion from the asters and 

 the golden rods, will not only yield 

 greater profits every year, but often 

 such a succession is absolutely essen- 

 tial to any success. 



1^" The Illinois State Fair will be 

 held in Chicago Sept. 24 to 29. Indi- 

 cations are that this year's Fair will 

 eclipse all preceding ones. Almost 

 all the railroads will bring passengers 

 at 1}^ rates. We hope there will be a 

 large Bee and Honey Show there. 



1^ It is a fact that glucose will kill 

 bees if you attempt to winter them 

 upon It, either in liquid form mixed 

 with honey, or sugar syrup, or in the 

 form of candy.—Planiers' Journal. 



1^ The Editor of the Bbe Jour- 

 nal being unable to attend the Na- 

 tional Convention, it will be repre- 

 sented by the Rev. W. F. Clarke, of 

 Guelph, Ont., who is duly authorized 

 to take subscriptions and orders for 

 any of our publications. 



^" An English paper says that 

 "Mr. Firth, a Radical member of 

 Parliament, is the largest bee-master 

 in England. He is the owner of from 

 80,000 to 100,000 bees." As that is 

 only about two good colonies, we ex- 

 pect there is a "huge joke" some- 

 where about that ambiguous an- 

 nouncement. 



