THE AMERICA!^ BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



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Yoinill. MarcH 23,188]. No. 12. 



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Forward ! l?larcli ! ^nd Marcb is here, 

 blustering some, but it is drying up the mud 

 and letting the ice and snow melt gently 

 under the rays of Old Sol. So far, the bees 

 are doing finely, and everything promises 

 for a good season for both bees and honey, 



More Ijles aboat Houey.— Mr. T. R. 



Whinery, of Winona, o., writes to the Bee 

 JouRNAi, as follows : 



On page 611 of Johnson's New General 

 EncyclopiEdia I find the following : "Honey 

 is said to be now much adulterated with 

 glycerine, and even imitated, as a whole, by 

 combining the latter product with other 

 material, and flavoring with appropriate 

 essential oils." Now I would like to know 

 whether it is possible to adulterate honey 

 with glycerine. 



It is " possible " to mix glycerine with ex- 

 tracted honey, but it is not done, because it 

 is not profitable to do so— and all adultera- 

 tors look out for that; that is their prime 

 Incentive. Glycerine is worth three or four 

 times as much as extracted honey, and you 

 may as well talk abo>it adulterating silver 

 by putting " pure gold " into it, as to tbiuk 

 of adulterating honey with glycerine 1 I 



Since the Wiley lie about comb honey was 

 published as a " scientiflc pleasantry," every 

 editor, author, and correspondent seems to 

 have a "license" to add more lies about 

 honey to the large stock already published. 

 They will go so far as to even intimate that 

 honey is made as a whole from glycerine 

 and other ingredients, flavored with essen- 

 tial oils. The fools never stop to think that 

 this "stuff " would cost three or four times 

 as much as the pure, unadulterated, ex- 

 tracted honey could be purchased for I 

 These fellows lie out of whole cloth when 

 the truth would serve them far better I 



Bee>Keeping In Rusala, says Ben : 

 Perley Poore in the American Cultivator, is 

 carried on to a great extent— the annual 

 product being valued at two and a quarter 

 millions of dollars. The expenditure is 

 chiefly made by the Greek Church, the cere- 

 monies of which require such a large con- 

 sumption of wax candles as to greatly favor 

 this branch of rural economy in Russia, and 

 preserve it from the decline to which It is 

 e.xpo8ed in other countries, from the in- 

 creasing use of stearine, oil, gas and other 

 fluids for illuminating purposes. The rear- 

 ing of bees is now almost exclusively 

 dependent on the manufacture of candles 

 for religious ceremonies, and on the con- 

 sumption of honey during Lent, it being 

 then used instead of sugar by the strict ob- 

 servers of the fast. The government en- 

 courages this branch of rural industry, as 

 affording to the peasant an extra source of 

 income, and has adopted various measures 

 for the accomplishment of this end. 



Sliipping Honey to Great Britain was 

 the subject which brought the Ontario Bee- 

 Keepers' Association together at Toronto, 

 on March 16. After much discussion it was 

 decided that the shipping of honey in the 



mr E, Sandrord writes thus to the 

 editor : " 1 think you ought to ask for some 

 able article on the question of grocery-men 

 not wanting to sell extracted honey, for fear 



future be left to individuals, or that some ' that it will hurt the'sale of their syrup trade. 



competent persons should purchase it in 

 Canada and take it under their personal 

 supervision to Europe and sell it there for 

 themselves. The association concluded that 

 it could not undertake the work. 



B. Z. Sniltb, of Douglass County. Ills., 

 has issued a circular on the advantages of 

 Alsike clover, which he is freely distributing 

 among the farmers in his locality, in order 

 to increase honey production. This is very 

 praise-worthy, and shows energy and busi- 

 ness-like qualities, which should be practiced 

 by apiarists all over the country. Mr. Smith 

 requested us to get up a Leaflet some weeks 

 ago on this subject, but we were feeling so 

 unwell then that we could not undertake it. 

 Now we have done BO, and as it is just the 

 time to sow the seed, let them fiy all over 

 the country. 



The Outlook In Florida Mr. John T. 



Detwiler writes thus to the Dispatch : 



Mr. Ira D. Barber, of New York, has been 

 here for two weeks, and expressed himself 

 highly satisfied with the condition of the 

 colonics. Mr. B. is a veteran bee-keeper, 

 and is one of the few men who winter their 

 bees successfully. He and his brother keep 

 nearly .500 colonies. His first visit to this 

 place was in December, 188:i, and now, since 

 the mangrove has been destroyed, he ex- 

 presses the opinion that the outlook would 

 not justify much of an expenditure for the 



Eroduclion of either comb or extracted 

 oney. 



To be Knoivn, a man must keep his 

 name before the people, and let them know 

 where be is, and what be is doing, as well as 

 what he has for sale. 



Then let bee-men have it published in their 

 home papers." 



This is a question of "business," and we 

 hardly know what more could be said to 

 induce grocery-men to push the sale of ex- 

 tracted honey when put up in nice salable 

 packages, than has already been printed in 

 this JonRNAL. It any "able articles" are 

 offered on that subject they will receive our 

 best attention and full endorsement. 



A IV^est Virginia Bee-Keeper tells 

 how he out-witted the middle-man of his 

 home town, as follows : 



Last fall I drove into a town, a few miles 

 distant, with a load of honey, and went to 

 the principal dealer in honey and stated my 

 price. Said he: "I can buy just as nice 

 honey as that for 10 cents." "And you re- 

 tail it for 20 cents, do you?" "Yes, and 

 have no trouble to get it." "Well," said I, 

 " you wMi have trouble in the future." So 

 at the house adjoining his store I com- 

 menced selling nice comb honey at 18 cents, 

 and extracted at l^J'i cents, or 10 pounds 

 for SI. I visited this town once a week 

 while my honey lasted, selling on each trip 

 an average of 50 pounds of comb honey, and 

 450 pounds of extracted. It is needless to 

 say that the sale of honey by middle-men in 

 that town was completely ruined. 



Well, this is stale. It was written for the 

 Bee Journal by J. A. Buchanan, and pub- 

 lished on pagelOB. It is "going the rounds" 

 of the papers without credit, when it should 

 have been credited to this paper. 



Another " Find " of tVIId Houey is 



thus mentioned by a correspondent from 

 Utica, Pa., in the New York Sun. He says : 



A few days ago James Cousins and S. P. 

 McCracken were going through the woods, 

 when they were surprised to see bees swarm- 

 ing about an old and very tall tree, near the 

 top. Believing that the tree contained a 

 great store of wild honey, the two men set 

 about securing it. Two 25-foot ladders were 

 spliced together and run up the tree, but 

 they fell 25 feet short of reaching the spot. 

 Cleats were then nailed on the trunk of the 

 tree from the top of the last ladder to the 

 hollow place. Standing on the top pair of 

 cleats one of the men chopped a hole in the 

 trunk. A hollow place 10 feet deep and 14 

 inches in diameter was found. It was packed 

 full of honey. The mass was taken out en- 

 tire, without breaking the immense comb, 

 and lowered successfully with ropes to the 

 ground. There were over 300 pounds of 

 honey. After securing the honey the bees 

 were hived, and will lay up their next sea- 

 son's store in a modern hive. 



Who says that Pennsylvania is not a bee 

 State ? How about combs 10 feet long vs. 

 Langstroth frames I Big story 1 Happy 

 Cousins I 



Mr. James Heddon is now an editor. 

 He has just purchased the Dowagiac Times, 

 and his first numhei- is on our desk. It looks 

 well and reads well, and we wish him success 

 in this new field of labor. 



Catalogues for 1887.— Those on our 

 desk are from 



Aspinwall & Treadwell, Barrvtown, N. T. 

 — .'!8 pages— Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



Frank A. Eaton, Bluffton, O.— 1 page— 

 Section-Case and Skeleton Honey-Board. 



E. S. Armstrong. Jerseyville.Ills.— .'i6 pages 

 -Reversible and Crown Bee-Hives, and Bee- 

 Keepers' Supplies. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater, Columbus, Nebr. — t 

 pages— Bees, aud Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



F. A. Salisbury, Syracuse, N. Y.— 28 pages 

 —Apiarian .-Supplies. 



Arthur A. Davis, Clark's Green, Pa.— 12 

 pages— Bees, Apiarian Supplies, etc. 



J. C. Wilms. Waupun, Wis.- 8 pages— Bees. 

 Poultry and Ea-gs. 



Abbott Brothers, Southall, London, Eng- 

 land— 50 pages— Bee-Hives and Appliances. 



Thos. Jackson, Portland, Me.— 10 pages- 

 Small Fruit and Nursery Stock. 



E. M. Bullard, West Swanzey, N. H.— '28 

 pages— Poultry, Seeds, Plants, etc. 



Joseph Nysewander. Des Moines, Iowa— 30 

 pages— Specialties In Apiculture. 



A. L. Swinson, Goldsboro, N. C— 2 pages- 

 Queens. 



Frank Ijeslie's Sunday Magazine for 



April is redolent with the breath of spring, 

 which will soon break all over the land. 

 Here we have picture and poem, song and 

 story, carrying with them the graceful 

 recognition of rc-awakening Nature. There 

 are several very beautiful full page engrav- 

 ings, and this number will certainly be gen- 

 erally recognized as an excellent one. 



