THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



VoLIIIIL Marcli 9,188], No. 10. 



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The Minnesota Valley Bee-Keepers' 

 Association was formed on Feb. 25, with 

 about 20 members, who are enthusiastic 

 hee keepers. 



Tlie February Number of the Bee- 

 Keepers' Advance is a great improvement 

 over the initial number. The type is smaller; 

 more taste is displayed in getting it up, and 

 the printing is more creditable. There is 

 still much room for improvement. 



Prof. «;. G. Uroff, of Lewisburg, Pa., is 

 ■engaged to deliver a course of lectures on 

 apiculture, open to all students, at the 

 Bricknell University in that city, next May 

 and June. This we glean from the annual 

 catalogue of the University, which is on our 

 desk. 



From England we have the following 

 letter from our friend William Carr, Esq., 

 who, during our last visit to England In 

 1879, was our constant companion. He has 

 been a reader of the American Bee Jour- 

 NAi. for many years, and a faithful friend to 

 Americans. He writes : 



My Dear Mk. Newman :— I wish you could 

 have come over to our Colonial E.vhibition 

 last autumn; and seen the rapid strides we 

 had made in beekeeping since you favored 

 us with your company in 1879. 



We made the most we could of your 

 Canadian neighbors during the three months 

 they were with us. They represented the 

 "Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association," and 

 have returned to Canada with $-1,93.5 which 

 they received for the honey they brought, 

 alter deducting the expenses. 



They went to si-o almost everything of 

 interest in all parts of this country, and 

 everything was thrown open to them, and 

 highly delighted were they with their re- 

 ception. You would see an account in the 

 bee journals of some of the entertainments 

 we gave them, and how they said they were 

 pleased. 



If you coul4only have come, you would 

 have been not onlv a New-man. but a. very 

 great man amongst us, as there is nobody 

 we should have rejoiced to honor more than 

 your kind and iieidal self. I often show 

 your photograph to my numerous bee- 

 'friends. Wishing you every happiness you 

 can desire, I am Tours very truly, 



William Carr. 



Newton Heath, England, Feb. 1-t, 1887. 



We should have been delighted to have 

 accompanied our Canadian friends ; but 

 when we make another visit we may bring a 

 shipload of honey from the United States^ 

 to "sweeten" the trip and "create" a 

 British market lor our honey ! The 180 

 tons of American comb honey which was on 

 exhibition and sale when last we visited 

 London, soon vanished, and was as success" 

 ful, we imagine, tlnancially, as the Canadian 

 shipment of last autumn. 



We thank our Bnirlish friends for the 

 many kindnesses shown to our Canadian 

 brethren— for " we are all Americans, you 

 know 1" Give us a chance to reciprocate, 

 by making a visit to America— and we will 

 try to repay the debt with Interest. 



micliigan Apiarists Aroused !— The 



Bill Introduced Into the Michigan legislature 

 by Mr. McCormIck, of Allegan, has thor- 

 oughly aroused the apiarists of that State. 

 Mr. Julius Tomlinson, of Allegan, has a 

 letter published In the Detroit BDeningiVeMJg, 

 from which we copy as follows : 



This Bill, if it should become a law and be 

 enforced, would practically destroy the im- 

 portant industry of bee-keeping in this 

 State. I venture the assertion that there is 

 not one apiary in one hundred in this State, 

 located '2,5 rods or more from the public 

 highway. In the nature of the business, 

 it cannot be so located. Apiaries must be 

 near the homes of their owners, and they 

 are so, invariably. If I had to go '25 rods to 

 attend to my bees in swarming time, and 

 care for them in other ways, I would be 

 obliged to give up bee-keeping. and so would 

 every other bee-keeper in the State. 



I cannot understand the motive for this 

 legislation. Laws should only be enacted on 

 the demand of a general public sentiment. 

 If there has been any demand for this law I 

 have not heard of it. There can be but two 

 valid reasons for this proposed law. One is 

 the protection of the public who use the 

 highway, and the other the protection of 

 homes. In both of the respects it fails. Five 

 colonies of bees near the highway maybe 

 as damaging as .50, and I apprehend that 

 should one attack the Hon. Mr. MeCormick 

 (as well they might in retaliation for such 

 legislation), he would speedily receive such 

 damage as would convince him that he has 

 made a serious [nistake in his little Bill. 

 This Bill would fail equally to protect 

 homes. Bees enter dwellings only to obtain 

 some unprotected sweets which they covet. 

 The.v roam everywhere, from three to five 

 miles from their hives ; 25 rods Is no pro- 

 tection at all. Three miles distance at least 

 would be needed. 



I trust that the manifest Injustice of this 

 Bill will convince the legislature that Its en- 

 actment would be a grievous mistake. 



A Section Case, to bold 30 one-pound 

 sections. Is received from J. W. Powell & 

 Son, of Mankato, Minn. The sections are 

 protected from the bees on all sides, keeping 

 them clean and marketable, by a honey- 

 board with slots to correspond with the 

 openings to the sections. We have before 

 received several with such protections at 

 the bottom of the case, but none with it at 

 the top also, allowing them to be tiered up 

 and still kept from contact with the bees. 

 It is placed In our Museum for the inspec- 

 tion of visitors. 



Eastern Oregon may not be very noted 

 for bee-keoping, but a farmer there dis- 

 covered si.x pounds of honey In a pumpkin, 

 as will be seen by the following Item from 

 an Oregon paper : 



In the lower Kock Creek country Mr. 

 Kcene has colonies of bees, and he says 

 lh»y did fairly well last year. He raised 

 souio large pumpkins In his corn-patch, and 

 some of them got so ripe that they bursted 

 open. He noticed some of his bees making 

 regular trips to one of the pumpkins, and 

 going In and out of a crack in it. He cut the 

 pumpkin open and there found 6 pounds of 

 honey. He says that before going to Oregon 

 ho had read much about the advantages of 

 the State, but none of it ever said that he 

 could raise pumpkins and honey on the 

 same vine ! 



At tlie Nebraska Convention Mr. Henry 

 (as was reported on page 119) had burned his 

 bees that were thought to have foul brood. 

 Dy an oversight, the vote of thanks which 

 followed this announcement, was omitted. 

 This course, the vote stated, " saved the 

 cost of inspection, and danger of the disease 

 spreading." In the third paragraph the word 

 "not" was omitted. It should have read 

 thus : 



Mr. Mulr said he had not found it to pay to 

 ship honey to city markets to be sold on 

 commission. 



A letter from Mr. Shier, of Sanilac county, 

 Mich., quite agrees with Mr. Mulr. He says 

 he sent 1,'200 po\ind8 of nice comb honey to 

 a commission merchant, who was found to 

 be offering it at 8 cents per pound, but 

 could not make a sale. 



Tlie Annual Review, by Geo. W. 

 Meade & Co., of San Francisco, Calif., is re- 

 ceived. It gives statistics of the crop for 

 last year of dried fruit, raisins, prunes, 

 almonds, walnuts, peanuts and honey. They 

 say that the crop of honey has all been sold, 

 and that the outlook for the future is 

 bright I 



Catalogues for 1887.— Those on our 

 desk are from 



Geo. E. Hilton, Fremont, Mich.— 1 pages- 

 Apiarian Supplies. 



F. A. Salisbury, Syracuse, N. T.— 24 pages 

 — Apiarian Supplies. 



Samuel Cushman, Pawtucket, R. I. — l 

 pages— Honey. 



Wm. W. Gary, Coleraine, Mass.— 28 pages 

 —Bees and Apiarian Supplies. 



M. S. Roop, successor to A. B. Howe, 

 Council Bluffs, Iowa— '20 pages— Bee-Hives 

 and Supplies. 



John S. Collins, Moorestown, N. J.— 18 

 pages— Small Fruit Plants and Trees. 



J. A. Everitt & Co., Indianapolis, Ind.— 48 

 pages— Vegetable Seeds. 



C. W. Costellow, Waterboro, Maine— 12 

 pages— Apiarian Supplies. 



M. J. Dickason, Hiawatha, Kans.— 16 pages 

 —Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



Lewis Roesch, Fredonia, N. Y. -12 pages- 

 Grape Vines, .Small Fruit Plants, etc. 



M. H. Hunt, Bell Branch, Mich.— 12 pages 

 —Bees, Queens, and Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



Thomas G. Newman & Son, Chicago, Ills.— 

 36 pages— Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



F. D. Wellcome, Mechanic Falls, Maine— 16 

 pages— Small Fruit and Bee-Keepers' Sup- 

 plies. 



The First Number of "The Canadian 

 Honey Producer," to be published by E. L. 

 Goold & Co.. Brantford, Ont., is on our desk. 

 It contains 24 pages— about one-half of them 

 being very creditably filled with matter of 

 interest to honey-producers ; the other 

 pages are devoted to advertising. It has a 

 healthy appearance, and we wish it pros- 

 perity. It is edited by R. F. Holterraann, 

 who is known to our readers as a former 



1 correspondent to the American Bee 



1 Journal. 



