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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 12, 



George W, Vorfc, - - Editor. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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Vol. fflV. CHICAGO, ILL, DEC. 12, 1895, No, 50. 



Editorial Budget* 



Mr. Bert Cook, of Otsego, Mich, (son of Prof. A. J. 

 Cook), recently visited Gleanings. He is reported to be mak- 

 ing a great success of farming. 



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Dr. Miller attended the 29th annual meeting of the 

 Northern Illinois Horticultural Society, at Sterling, 111., Dec. 

 3 and 4, of which he has been President the past year. 



Mr. Byron "Walker— the great Michigan honey-mau 

 — has finally arrived in Chicago for the winter, and has begun 

 business. He will deal in strictly fine honey— both comb and 

 extracted — wholly on a cash basis, and not on commission. 

 Mr. Walker's own crop, this year, was some 30,000 pounds, 

 practically all being extracted. 



The Bee-Keepers' Re-view has been forced to 

 be late recently, on account of the very severe and long-pro- 

 tracted illness of Editor Hutchinson's daughter Ivy. Were it 

 not for the aid of his two eldest daughters in the printing 

 office, Bro. H. says he would be almost "swamped." But now 

 he hopes soon to be caught up, when all will be well again. 

 Surely, he has the sympathy of every one in this trying time- 



Tlie Ontario Agfricultural and Experimental 

 Union will hold its 17th annual meeting at the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, Thursday and Friday, Dec. 12 and 13. Mr. 

 E. F. Holtermann, the Secretary of the Union, will deliver an 

 address on "Tests with Five-Banded Italian Bees." A very 

 complete two-days' program is arranged, and it will pay all 

 who can do so, to attend. Guelph is the place of meeting. 



Sorting Comb Honey.— Wanting a little comb 

 honey recently, I went to one of the commission firms here in 

 Chicago, and selected a crate, taking it upon its appearance 

 through the glassed end. The two exposed sections, I found 

 upon opening the crate, were very full, nice and white, while 

 the balauce were anything but well-filled, and, besides, were 

 not at all like the two front sections in color. 



In addition to the above deception, there were two sec- 

 tions in which the comb was only about half filled, worth per- 

 haps 5 cents each. 



Now, when a grocer, or any one else, buys what he thinks 

 is fancy honey, and pays a good price for it, he ought to get 

 just what he expects and pays for. My own experience, as 

 above given, shows that some one is not doing the square 



thing. I do not know what bee-keeper crated the honey I 

 bought, but whoever it was, he will crate, sort or grade, no 

 more for me. 



I do not think the producer of the above crate reads the 

 Bee Journal, or he would know better than to put up a job lot 

 of honey in the style mentioned. Unless a bee-keeper wishes 

 his character to be judged by the way he puts up his honey, he 

 ought to be careful. Outward appearances are very often 

 deceptive, and yet it frequently happens that no other oppor- 

 tunity is offered for judging. So it behooves producers to be 

 careful tiiat the whole of a crate of honey shall be pretty 

 nearly equal to the part shown through the glass. Otherwise 

 disappointment to the purchaser, and perhaps future loss of 

 patronage may result. Honesty and fairness should -charac- 

 terize all our actions — even to putting our productions upon 

 the market. 



The Cbicago Convention— January 9 and 10— 

 promises to be an interesting one. Mr. Ernest E. Eoot — the 

 bee-editor of Gleaulngs — fully intends being here. And Dr. 

 Miller writes thus : " I expect to be there with my whole 

 family." That means, besides the Doctor, his good wife and 

 Miss Emma Wilson. 



Now, I wish that all who will try to attend the Chicago 

 convention, would please let me know soon, so that I can 

 mention it in the Bee Journal. Why not every bee-keeper 

 who is within at least 200 miles make arrangements to come. 

 Let it be equal in numbers to the World's Fair convention; 

 then the interest and profit resulting will take care of them- 

 selves. 



Who expects to be here Jan. 9 and 10 ? 



See the convention notice on page 802 of this number for 

 information as to railroad rates, etc. 



" Bee-Keeping- has reached a stage where not many 



startling inventions need be looked for" — so says Editor 

 Hutchinson in the last Eeview. Also, "The really 'new and 

 useful' things in bee-keeping now-a-days are few and far be- 

 tween." If such be the case, what folly it is for any to think 

 of throwing their hard-earned money away on starting and 

 publishing new bee-papers ! In the light of past experience, 

 a new bee-paper is about as rifky a thing as any one can in- 

 vest in. Probably as many as 50 of them have been started 

 the past 30 years in North America, and nearly all of them 

 have been compelled to give up. 



Friends, please don't look this way for any encourage- 

 ment in starting new bee-papers, for I really think too much of 

 my good friends to want them to throw away their money, 

 either in trying to publish new papers or in subscribing for 



them. 



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