THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



yoinill. April 20, 1881 No. 16. 



Trae VTorth is in being, not seeming. 



In doing cacli day that goes by 

 Some little good, not in the dreaming 



Of great things to do by and by. 

 For whatever men say in their blindness, 



And in spite of the fancies of youth. 

 There Is nothing so kindly as kindness. 



And nothing so royal as truth. 



It Is Announced that an apiarian exhi- 

 bition will be held in Vienna, Austria, this 

 month, at the Botanical Gardens. 



H^e Acknowledge the receipt of Nos. 1 

 and 2 of the British "Guide-Book " Pamph- 

 lets. They are written by Mr. T. W. Cowan, 

 editor of the British Bee Journal, and pub- 

 lished by Mr. J. Huckle, Kings Langley, 

 Herts. They describe the making of appli- 

 ances for bee-keepers. In a very lucid man- 

 ner, and are nicely Illustrated. 



"The Open Court, a new Fortnightly 

 Journal devoted to the work of establishing 

 Ethics and Religion upon a scientiSc basis," 

 This Is the title of a new periodical just 

 started at 175 La Salle Street. Chicago, Ills., 

 under the able management of B. F. Under- 

 wood, at $.3 a year. It is beautifully printed 

 on good paper, and its articles are highly 

 entertaining, representing all phases of 

 religious thought. 



Geo. Nelglibour ic Sons, of London, 

 England, state that through the American 

 Bee Journal and OUanings Mr. Heddou 

 and his "new hive" are "well known in 

 England." In a recent letter, they say that 

 as they wish to make some hives containing 

 "some of the features" of Mr. Heddon's, 

 and desire to " do honor " and " not be con- 

 sidered pirates," they send ten dollars as a 

 "token of respect and appreciation." As 

 the hive named is not patented in England, 

 this shows that Messrs. Neighbour & Sons 

 are most scrupulously honorable and just 

 in their business relations. With pleasure, 

 therefore, do we put this news item on 

 record, as a pattern for bee-keepers every- 

 where. 



Bee» vs. Grapes.— Dr. B. F. Dunkley, of 

 Missouri, writes thus to the Rural World : 



Ten years ago a neighbor transferred 

 some bees from a common box-hive into a 

 movable-frame hive. He made holes in the 

 sides of the frame and pushed in hard 

 hickory pins to hold the combs in the new 

 frames, and to make the combs safe be 

 wrapped the frame round with spool cotton 

 thread. The first thing the bees did was to 

 stick the combs fast with wax. then they cut 

 away all the threads, mended all the combs, 

 and then ate out all the hickory pins where 

 they came into a comb. 



What a prodigious yarn. When bees will 

 eat hickory pins andiron nails they ought 

 to be chained up like tigers, and not allowed 

 to roam at will I I 



Dr. D. makes a further 'statement in cor- 

 roboration of the above. He says : 



Many years ago I puts can of honey in 

 my cellar, covered with two pieces of sack- 

 ing, and over that a piece of oil-cloth ; the 

 first thing we knew the cellar was full of 

 starving Italian bees (It was a very dry 

 time), so full we could not go into it. The.v 

 had cut their way through the covers and left 

 half a six gallon jar of dead bees smothered 

 in the jar, but no honey. 



Now the bees are charged with cutting 

 their way through oll-oloth, as well as eating 

 hickory pins 1 Next it will be said that they 

 out through a brick wall, or an iron door 1 



Big Bee-State.— Mr. John H. Rupert, of 

 Woodcock, Pa., states bis complaint in these 

 words : 



About that " find of wild honey " in this 

 State (page 179». the editor says: "Who 

 says that Peuneyivania is not a bee-State ?" 

 No one says so that I know of I 



As another proof that Pennsylvania is a 

 big bee-State, I will add that, last fall, while 

 out hunting with D. A. Harman, we saw bees 

 in the top of a large chestnut tree ; we cut 

 the tree down and found one pint of bees 

 and about a tea spoonful of honey. 



I would like to ask Messrs. Cousins and 

 McCracken how they let that honey down 

 with a rope ? 



The word " big " was omitted by the 

 printer. We wrote It thus : "Who says that 

 Pennsylvania is not a big bee-State ?" The 

 experience of Mr. Rupert presents the exact 

 opposite to that of "Cousins and Mc- 

 Cracken"— but then it is an enormous State, 

 big enough for all kinds of " experience "II 



If they did not " let the honey down with 

 a rope," they said they " roped it in " all the 

 same. The whole story is very " ropy." 



" WUere to Keep Honey ?" is the title 

 of Leaflet No. 3, uniform in size with Nos. 

 1 and 2, and published at the same prices. 

 This is in accordance with the recommenda- 

 tion of Mr. G. M. Doolittle,on page 243 of this 

 number of the Bee JonRNAi,. Its Judicious 

 use will undoubtedly increase consumption. 

 Heretofore we have printed the first line 

 thus: "American Bee Journal Leaflet No. 

 2." We shall hereafter omit the words 

 "American Bee Journal," and simply call 

 them " Leaflet No. 2," or any other number, 

 as the case may be. 



Onions inhaled cause sleep, rest, and 

 refreshment. The soldier on his march, and 

 the exhausted worker gets great strength 

 from eating the onion. Tie a fresh onion 

 around the neck and bruise It to make its 

 odor thorough, and you secure sound sleep 

 from its nightly inhalation, so says Daniel 

 R. Clymer. 



J. K. Ijludley, of Georgetown, Ills., died 

 on March G, after an illness of one week. 

 He leaves a wife and three little children to 

 mourn his loss. Mr. LIndley was at the 

 Indianapolis convention, and we little 

 thought then that it would be the last time 

 he would attend such a meeting. We offer 

 our condolence to the stricken family of the 

 brother departed. May Heaven protect and 

 bless the little ones. We hope he carried 

 aofne life insurance. We do not believe any 

 one has a right to bring children into the 

 world, and then not provide for them in 

 case of death. 



W^e Wish to Add our testimony In favor 

 of Alsike clover, says E. W. Powell in Farm, 

 Stock and Home. We raise it for the honey 

 It contains, but consider it a splendid grass, 

 either for hay or pasture. Our practice is 

 to BOW timothy with it for hay, as it will fall 

 down and mat if sown by itself. Of course 

 we only speak from our limited experience, 

 in our own soil, which is a sandy loam from 

 which the timber has been cleared. Alsike 

 can be cut but once each season for hay, but 

 will make a fine fall pasture. It also bears 

 seed the first crop. If there are any honey- 

 bees in the neighborhood to fertilize the 

 flower. 



Bee-Keeplug In Japan.— From I/Api- 



coUore, of Milan, Italy, we glean the follow- 

 ing item of interest : 



Chevalier L- Sartori, of Milan, was, a few 

 days ago, favored with the visit of two 

 Japanese delegates, viz., Messri. G. R. Hida 

 and H. Danke, Councellers of the Japanese 

 Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. 

 The distinguished visitors had not been long 

 in Mr. Sartori's well-known apiary before it 

 became evident that they were not novices 

 in matters connected with bee-keeping, as 

 their numerous and pertinent inquiries 

 plainly testified. Nothing, It appears, es- 

 caped their observation, and much Interest 

 was exhibited when examining the new 

 large plates recently published by Mr. 

 Sartori, with explanations in four languages. ' 

 in fact, beforebringing their visit to a close, 

 they left an order for 400 sets of these illus- 

 trations for the Government of Japan, upon 

 which notes will be inserled In the Japanese 

 languaee. Of course, the natural beauty of 

 the Italian bee was of itself, an object of no 

 small interest, and a few colonies were 

 ordered for shipment to their country. 

 They were, however, not a little surprised 

 when Mr. Sartori placed before them two 

 large plates Illustrating Japanese beekeep- 

 ing. Before leaving, they expressed them- 

 selves highly pleased with what they saw in 

 Mr. Sartori's noted establishment. 



New Catalogues and Price-Lists are 



on our desk. Those desiring to obtain any 

 of them should send to the addresses given 

 —not to us. The following have arrived 

 during the past week : 



t pages 



Thomas S. Wallace, Clayton, Ills.- 

 -Queens. 



E. A Sheldon. Independence, Iowa— 1 page 

 —Apiarian Supplies. 



Cheney & Comstock, Sac City, Iowa— 2 

 pages— IJees and Supplies. 



Encalyptuiii Honey for ITIedlclne.— -M. 



Gullmlth, the French traveler, while on a 

 Journey in Australia, discovered some bee- 

 hives in a gigantic eucalyptus tree, of 120 

 metres in height. The honey was strongly 

 scented with the perfume of the flowers of 

 the tree. Prof. Thomas Karraraan has ex- 

 amined it, and] believes it to have b eneficial 

 medicinal properties./ — — ^ 



