1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



873 



much in two meals as they can in three. 

 Possibly they mis^ht be better off — I don't 

 know — if they would eat three meals a day, 

 and eat only the ri^^ht things and the right 

 amount; but it is easier to cut out one meal 

 a daj' than it is three times a day to obey 

 the injunction of the wise man, " Put a 

 knife to th}' throat, if thou be a man given 

 to appetite." If you dismal dyspeptics 

 would cut out of 3'our meals all the things 

 that you know hurt j'ou, and a third of the 

 things that are good for you, this would be 

 a good deal brighter world. [I have known 

 some children that have had to go to bed 

 hungry, simplj' because there was not any 

 thing in the house to eat, or very little at 

 least, and yet thej' were rudd}' and healthy. 

 A stomach occasionally empt^' for ten or 

 twelve hours is sometimes just the condi- 

 tion that one needs. There is too much 

 overloading; and, as you sa}', if the quan- 

 tity of our rations were cut down we should 

 live longer and better.— Ed. ] 



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The following is from the JMoryiin^ Echo, 

 of Bakers field, Cal. It is an account of one 

 of the most gratif3'ing arrests known to bee- 

 keeping. Rambler once said that if one 

 undertakes to do any thing in California 

 he must " bore with a mighty big auger." 

 It seems that stealing there is sometimes 

 carried on in that way. 



Deputy Sheriff Johnson and F. D. I,owe returned 

 last night from the Hoy ranch with a large part of 

 the honey which had been stolen from Mr. Lowe. 

 They were unable to bring it all at one load, so the 

 rest was left at Sunset. 



Deputy Sheriff Johnson, who was interviewed last 

 night, gave the facts of the detection and arrest of the 

 thieves and the discovery of the stolen goods as fol- 

 lows : 



.\ week ago last Sunday Mr. L,owe, who has a bee- 

 ranch at Rosedale. sent for Deputy Sheriff Johnson, 

 told him of the loss of his honey, and engaged hitn to 

 help find it and capture the persons who stole it. 



It was dusk when Mr. Johnson reached the Lowe 

 ranch, but they succeeded in getting a few clues that 

 night. They found that the honey had been moved 

 from the store-room to the road in Mr. Lowe's own 

 wheelbarrow, and that an effort had been made to 

 obliterate the tracks by sweeping them with a brush. 

 The next morning the deputy sheriff, who, by the 

 way, is a trailer of long experience, identified the 

 tracks of one of the horses that had hauled the stolen 

 honey away. One of the animal's feet was crooked, 

 and it wore a peculiar shoe. This track was followed 

 into town and to a point where it turned south. 



Deputy- STeriff Johnson then made a search to con- 

 vince hfraself that the honey had not been shipped 

 from Bakersfield or Kern. For certain reasons he 

 could not take up the .search for a couple of days, and 

 in the meantime Mr. I.^we went out to the Hoy ranch 

 and secured sufficient evidence to swear out a'search- 

 warrant. Wilh this the t«o, with Deputy Sheriff 

 Stanley. to;)k up the trail and followed the peculiar 

 track very easily to the Hoy place. They secured one 

 can of honey here, and arrested the elder Hoy. While 

 Deputy Sheiifif Staley brought the prisoner to town, 



Johnson and Lowe tracked young Hoy and Westley 

 to the upper ranch. The young men were out hunt- 

 ing, and returned at ten o'clock at night to find the 

 deputy sheriff and the bee-keeper awaiting to receive 

 them. The men were well supplied with arms, hav- 

 ing, besides their hunting outfit, six rifles, two shot- 

 guns, and a couple of six-shooters. 



As soon as they had landed their prisoners in jail, 

 Johnson and Lowe went back after the honey, which 

 they found in a cabin belonging to a sheep man about 

 500 yards from the Hoy cabin. It was cleverly con- 

 cealed in a corner of the room, and the door and win- 

 dows were securely nailed up. 



There were 20 shipping-cases containing 24 sections 

 each, and seven supers containing 2(i3 sections. It 

 was impossible to bring the entire amount at one 

 load, so seventeen cases were stored at Sunset. Three 

 cases were left at the jail as evidence, and the remain- 

 der was taken to Mr. Lowe's ranch. 



U< 

 LONDON GROCER. 

 I find the following in the London Grocer 

 for Sept. 19. Coming, as it does, from so 

 good an authority, it will be found of inter- 

 est to all bee-keepers in this country: 



Reports reach us from Scotland as to the prospects of 

 a poor honey harvest there this season. For the sec- 

 ond year in succession Scotch bee-hands have to be 

 content with a crop which will reach only about one- 

 half that of ordinary seasons, owing to an'abnormally 

 cold and backward spring being followed by an equal- 

 ly adverse early summer. At Ayrshire, a town famed 

 for the indstrious bees, the outturn of honej' will once 

 more be very limited. Various other parts of the west 

 of Scotland report that the produce of honey will be 

 short. Comb honey of good quality is scarce, and those 

 who possess such ask for a further increase in prices 

 from those of a year ago. Pressed heather honey in 

 bulk and in bottles will no doubt be more plentiful ; 

 but with the failure of the crop of 1902 the price of this 

 article will have an upward tendency, so that we are 

 safe in assuring those members of the trade who deal 

 in this article that there will be a verv restricted sup- 

 pi}' this season. In the south of England the honey 

 harvest is over, and reports state that the crop is no 

 better, and the quality not quite so good as last year. 



At the London market recently, 78 packages "of Ja- 

 maica honey were sold at $5.S3 per 100 lbs. Chemists 

 are now retailing honey at 32 cts., per lb. against the 

 grocer at 21 cts. for the same quality. Honey is an ar- 

 ticle which meets with a ready sale in the grocers' and 

 oil-men's business, more especially during the winter 

 months. We presume the Pharmaceutical Socie'y will 

 not deem the grocer a trespasser on the preserves of 

 the chemists by the sale of honey, simply because 

 chemists use honey largely in making up their reme- 

 dies for the cure of winter colds. They have for many 

 years encroached upon the tea-dealer's trade bv sell- 

 ing tea. upon which they make a large profit Why, 

 then, should not the grocers push the sale of an arti- 

 cle within their legitimate trade which is as justly re- 

 nowned for its value as pleasant to take? 



The above indicates that honey sells at a 

 higher price there than here. The reader 

 will also note the absence of any reference 

 to American honey, owing to the idea cur- 

 rent in England that our honey is adulter- 

 ated as soon as it leaves the hive. While 

 the English trade has been imposed on, no 

 doubt, by unscrupulous venders on this 

 side, the purchase of the best hone}"^ in the 

 world can be more easily effected here than 

 anywhere else. 



BEE KEEPERS' REVIEW. 

 Mr. Hutchinson has devoted a large part 

 of the October issue to California as a hon- 

 ey State. It is superhlj' illustrated with 

 photos taken by Mr. H himself, and the 

 description is from his own pencil as he 

 saw things there. It presents the bright 

 and the dark side of California life in the 

 apiary in a way never before attempted. 



