THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Voinill. Jan. 5, 1887. No.l. 



Ring out, O Bells! ring silver sweet, 



O'er hill and moor and dell ; 

 In mellow echoes, let your chimes, 



Their hopeful story tell 1 



Ring out I ring out I all-jubilant, 



This joyous, glad refrain ; 

 " A bright Now Year, a glad New Year 1 



Hath come to us again* 1'* 



Tlie First MontUIy for January, 1887, 

 which came to our desk v/aathe ApiculturUt. 

 It is vastly improved under its present man- 

 aRement. We congratulate Mr. Alley upon 

 his punctuality in publishing it. 



Tlie best tiling we can do to extend 

 the circulation of the paper is to ask our 

 subscribers to consider themselves on 

 especially friendly and co operative rela- 

 tions with our aims and purposes, and send 

 us the names of the right kind of people, to 

 whom we will send sample copies. When 

 they read the paper even once, a great many 

 of them become regular subscribers. 



A Tlslt from Frank Cheshire may be 



expected next summer. Mr. Arthur Todd 

 writes us as follows : 



I received a note from Frank Cheshire, of 

 London, England, last week, in which he 

 tells me that he is thinking of visiting the 

 United States the coming summer. It he 

 does, I hope the bee-brethren will extend to 

 him a hearty welcome. 



Tlie Brltlsb Bee Journal and the 



AMERiCA>f Bee JonnN.tL will hereafter be 

 clubbed at $3 for the two, postpaid, for a 

 year. This change in the clubbing price Is 

 neceessary on account of an advance in the 

 club rate of the former. 



1^~ Sample Copies of the Bee Jocrnai, 

 will be sent free upon application. Any one 

 intending to get up a club can have sample 

 copies sent to the persons they desire to in- 

 terview, by sending the names to this office, 

 or we will send them all to the agent. 



The Year 1886 has waxed old and 

 passed away 1 The new year has come, has 

 taken possession of the destinies of man- 

 kind, and changed the dial of time one 

 figure ahead. A philosopher has well said 

 that change, incessant change, is the con- 

 stant law of nature 1 The flower changes 

 into the fruit, the seed ^into the stalk, the 

 boy into the man, life into death, the old 

 year into the new year 1 The seasons 

 change, the skies change, the oceans change, 

 the whole face of nature changes I Filled 

 with the mighty thoughts that these un- 

 varying facts produce, we enterto-day upon 

 the duties and responsibilities which the 

 new year presents, remembering that the 

 old year, wili;all its joys and sorrows, pains 

 and pleasures, toils and troubles, is no morel 



How rapidly the day8,!months and years 

 pass on, in the sweeping tide of time I The 

 1.3 years of j. toil which we have spent in 

 guiding the destiny of this JotiRNAL, seem 

 but a few months, now that they are past I 

 But it is very pleasing to realize that it now 

 enjoys a reputation and influence second to 

 none In the world of apiculture I Its weekly 

 visits to thousands of homes all over the 

 world is welcomed with enthusiasm ! 



The " fleeting shadows " warn us of our 

 approaching end, and bid us to be ready for 

 it. Meanwhile to us is appointed the strife 

 and peril of warfare— battling for the right, 

 waging war on the errors of the past, and 

 doing our share in erecting the temple to be 

 dedicated to truth, honesty, justice and 

 progress. If we shall do our work faithfully 

 and well, we may expect the welcome 

 words, '* Well done I" Our co-workers in 

 "the ages to come," will sit in judgment 

 over our labors, and their verdict, shorn of 

 all the prejudices of the present" time, will 

 be based upon the just merits of the case. 

 Let our work, then, be done faithfully and 

 well, and with reference to the ever-advanc- 

 ing principles of progressive thought and 

 action. 



The American Bee Journal is published 

 in the interestjof honey-producers, and its 

 chief work and aim is to present the best 

 thoughts and methods of the ever-advanc- 

 ing apiarist of to-day. It aims to record 

 what is being done by practical and experi- 

 enced men in every department of our 

 pursuit, and to take every advantage of the 

 aid offered by scientiflc discoveries. To 

 show that itbas done this in the past, it is 

 only necessary to point to the copious index 

 at the end of each volume. 



It is quite unnnecessary to state that we 

 shall in the future, as in' the past, endeavor 

 to "keep abreast of the times," and place 

 before our readers all the new things in our 

 ever-advancing pursuit, as soon as they 

 come to light. The record, charftcter, power 

 and usefulness of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, in the past is its guarantee for the 

 future. It will further the interests of 

 honey-producers by losing no opportunity 

 to create a demand for this product, both at 

 home and abroad— thus aiming to beneflt 

 the pursuit at large. 



Our friends are invited to sustain and ex- 

 tend the influence of a journal devoted to 

 their interests and pursuit; one.which has 

 demonstrated through a career of 'nearly a 

 quarterof a century, its ability to sustain 

 and promote their cause ! It is, in fact, a 

 common cause, one which all should feel 

 proud to join in advancing. 



Driven from Pillar to Post.— The 



believers in the "Wiley lie," about the 

 manufacture of comb from parafflne, filling 

 it with glucose and sealing it over with a 

 "hot iron," are industriously engaged in 

 finding the place where it is said to be man- 

 ufactured—but each time are tolled in the 

 attempt ! A correspondent lately wrote us 

 the following : 



An acquaintance of mine says that they 

 manufacture comb honey in Chicago, at the 

 northeast corner of Adams and Halstead 

 streets. He told me that he saw them cap- 

 ping the cells with a " hot iron," but that he 

 did not see them making the comb. Suppose 

 you do a little detective work and try to find 

 out what is going on at that corner. 



Upon investigating that locality the 

 "detective" could find nothing of the so- 

 called "manufactory;" a drug-store, two 

 saloons, and a shoe-store were all that could 

 be discovered 1 There were no basements 

 under these stores. 



One block from that corner there is a 

 laundry with a Chinese near the window 

 ironing collars, cuffs, etc., with a cake of 

 beeswax by his side ; and it Is quite possible 

 that this innocent laundry-man has been 

 accused of "making comb" and "capping 

 the cells with a hot iron I" 



It is positively disgusting to notice the 

 persistency with which it is reported that 

 persons have seen "comblmanufactured and 

 sealed with machinery." Y'et ; whenever 

 " cornered " for the proof, they are never 

 able to say more than somebody saw it done 

 somewhere, by somebody. 



Tlie Standard-Bearer of the apicul- 

 ture of today, says an exchange, is the 

 sound. Intelligent man who believes that 

 progress is the law of our' race; who holds 

 that no man of enterprise can afford to 

 stand still while the world goes forward- 

 that inactivity means simply stagnation and 

 decay, and that.the surest proof of vitality 

 and vigor, both of muscle and brain, is the 

 steady, forward movement of wise and 

 practical men, who are always intent on 

 working out better methods, and always 

 ready and willing to enrich the general 

 fund of knowledge with the fruits of their 

 experience. Whenever such, in the course 

 of their investigations, succeed in bringing 

 to light new facts or new processes, they 

 give a fresh impulse to industry, and make 

 their couDtrymen their debtors. 



Every Day the business letters that come 

 to this ofiBce are fully attended to and finally 

 disposed of— none are left until the next 

 day, except those in which the writer has 

 omitted either name or Postoflice address. 

 We endeavor to be prompt and accurate, 

 and if our subscriliers will practice the 

 same virtues, more than half of the little 

 annoyances that happen will be done away 

 with. 



Clubs should be forwarded to this oBlce 

 as soon as two or three subscribers have 

 been obtained. Any one having sent three 

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 more with $1.S."), making 80 cents each for 

 the five, and at the same late for all above 

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