THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOUAS a. ITEWUA^, Editor. 



Vol mi. May 11, 1887, No. 19. 



Lire Is a I.eal'or Paper Wliite, 



Whereon each one of us may write 



His word or two— and then comes night. 



Our Friend, G. M. Doolittle. is reported 

 "on the siclt list." We trust it will not be 

 lonjf before he may be reported as " fully 

 recovered," and busy with his daily duties 

 in the apiary. 



A Pound of Bees, in early spring-, with 

 a good queen and a liberal use of comb 

 foundation in the brood-chamber and sec- 

 tions, will rapidly build up into a good 

 colony, and if the season is favorable, will 

 store considerable honey during the sum- 

 mer. 



A Damp Cellar is more deadly than 

 dynamite I Do not live in a house with a 

 damp cellar. In a family of seven, two 

 have just died, and Ave are ill with typhoid 

 fever— all from a wet cellar ; the drain 

 having become filled up. 



Dr. Bronrii, of Georgia, lost his residence 

 by Are on April 20. Loss, S4:,000 ; no insur- 

 ance. We could hardly believe that Dr. 

 Brown could be so very unmindful of his 

 Interests as to neglect to insure his prop- 

 erty. That is a duty no one should neglect. 

 Our sympathies are with our friend in his 

 loss. 



" Florida Bee-Keeping has had a set- 

 back," says a correspondent. " About one- 

 half of all the bees here in January of last 

 year are now dead. The 85 colonies brought 

 here from Iowa by Mr. Poppleton, were 

 nearly all dead at last accounts." This is 

 very discouraging to apiarists in Florida. 



J. C. TIelcher, who inserted a small 

 ad^c■rtisemen^5 or 6 times in the Bee Jour- 

 N.^L recently, writes as follows : " I have 

 received several hundred answers to that 

 advertisement." This shows the value of 

 Judicious advertising in the American Bee 

 Journal. 



Liquid Honey.— In answer to a query 

 on page 292, Mr. G. w. Demareo makes this 

 announcement : 



I have found by 8 years' e.xperlence. that 

 the word "extracted," as applied to liquid 

 honey, has damaKcrl my trade in the article 

 severely. In all these years I have failed to 

 teach my nearest neighbors to adopt the 

 misnomer. 1 have yiven it up in despair, 

 and now call it liiiuid honey. 



The only objection to calling it "liquid 

 honey " is the fact that very soon after it is 

 taken from the combs, it granulates, and 

 then it is not a liquid I As well might you 

 call ice liquid water '. as to call this candied- 

 sweet liquid honey ! It would be an unfortu- 

 nate misnomer 1 1 At the convention of the 

 North American liee-Keepers' Society in 

 1879, the following resolution was passed 

 unanimously : 



Resolved. That the North American bee- 

 keepers, in con%'ention assembled, do earn- 

 estly ask the commercial reporters of the 

 newspapers to use the words "extracted 

 honey" instead of "strained honey" in 

 their price-current reports. 



Until a better name— one that can be 

 truthfully applied to it— can be found or 

 invented, we must stick to the name "ex- 

 tracted honey." Not that it is unobjection- 

 able, but it is the best that has been pre- 

 sented so far 1 The chief objection to it 

 is the fact that there are now so many 

 "extracts " on the market, and some people 

 think that this is the "extract of honey"— 

 not the real thing I We would like a change 

 —but it must be also an improvement ! 



No Patent Bee-Hives.- Some evil- 

 disposed person in Indiana is reported to 

 have stated that the Editor of the Bee 

 JomiNAL had positively asserted "that 

 there were no patent bee-hives in the 

 United States." 



We do not know who the person is, but the 

 report to us comes from Warren County, 

 Indiana. We now publicly deny ever hav- 

 ing loriMcn or stated vfrbally any such thingi 

 and demand the proof for such a charge 1 



More than any other publisher of a bee- 

 paper have we said in favor of respecting 

 patents, and the rights of individuals to 

 their inventions, as guaranteed by the 

 United States Government 1 Such a charge 

 is not only a deliberate and cruel falsehood, 

 but "made up out of whole cloth," devoid 

 of any single thread of truth I 1 



Our correspondent asks us if we do "not 

 know that James Heddon, of Michigan, has 

 a patent on a hive ? ' Most certainly we do I 

 and we also know that hundreds of others 

 have patents on hives 1 The total number 

 of beehives patented in the United States 

 up to this date, will not vary much from 

 8,10 I Of these, 591 bear date prior to Jan. 

 1, 1874 1 The number of United States 

 patents Issued on bee-hives up tg Jan. 1, 

 1886, were 810 I The next malicious falsifier 

 will please step to the front 1 Next I 



An Aplcultnral Congress and Exposi- 

 tion is to be held in Hanover next fall. The 

 Minister of State will award the premiums 

 to exhibitors. The money prizes offered 

 amount to $1,500 besides the medals. 

 German apiarists are a vigorous and push- 

 ing lot of individuals, and leave no stone 

 unturned to make a large show of honey, 

 and thus educate the people to eat honey in 

 place of other sweets. 



A Bold Trickster in St. Louis has been 

 doing business on a very small capital and a 

 mountain of " cheek I" He bought a very 

 small stock of groceries of a wholesale firm 

 for cash, and then used the wholesale Arm's 

 name without authority, for reference to 

 those whom he proposed to swindle in large 

 amounts. 



Prom one man In Indiana he had ordered 

 a carload of butter-tubs ; from another, 

 willow-ware. Dun's and Bradstreet's agen- 

 cies were overwhelmed with inquiries about 

 him. They started an investigation, and 

 learned that he had Aooded the country with 

 letters soliciting flour and other goods from 

 millers and dealers, and giving them for 

 reference. A number of millers believing 

 his statements, shipped him large consign- 

 ments of flour, some of which he has dis- 

 posed of at half their value. They are still 

 waiting to be paid, although the under- 

 standing was that the transaction should be 

 conducted for cash. 



This illustrates in some measure how pro- 

 ducers are swindled out of their goods, by 

 shipping them to irresponsible persons, who 

 intend io swindle every one they can. 



No one should send honey to be sold on 

 commission with6ut first finding out if the 

 parties they ship to are reliable, and good 

 for at least twenty times the amount of the 

 goods to be shipped to them. 



The moral taught in the above is— never 

 to ship goods or pay money to any one with 

 whom you are unacquainted, without first 

 ascertaining whether they are responsible 

 and have good credit 1 



Sliade for Htves.- In the Plowman, Mr. 

 C. H. Dibbern gives the following as his 

 advice on the above topic : 



There will be many hot days during this 

 month, and the beekeeper should provide 

 some protection both for himself and the 

 bees. Small trees, if not allowed to grow- 

 too thick, so as to obstruct the flight of the 

 hees. furnish a grateful shade for both. 

 The bees seem to appreciate the shade, as 

 well as man, and will seldom leave a hive if 

 placed in the cool shade of a tree. If no 

 trees are at hand, then some protection by 

 covering the hives with boards is desirable. 



Failures.- Who make them ? Why the 

 men who lose heart and fail to continue the 

 journey once begun. The man who starts 

 for the city of Success, and gets part way 

 and then returns to the starting place to 

 take another road, and again pursues his 

 journey for a little distance only to turn 

 back, never reaching the city. It is only he 

 who, setting out, keeps his face as a flint, 

 and turns neither to the right hand nor to 

 the left, that enters the city in triumph.— 

 Exchange. 



BeeTllle, In Bee County, Texas, situated 

 about 25 miles from the bays that fringe 

 the Gulf of Mexico, ought to be a good 

 location for bees. It is generally rolling 

 prairie, with a soil of dark,sandy loam. The 

 county contains 900 square miles, and has a 

 population of about 3,000. One-fourth of 

 the county is covered with timber. We have 

 often had letters inquiring about different 

 parts of Texas as a location for bee-keeping. 

 Our correspondent has resided there for 28 

 years, and will answer letters about that 

 county, if addressed to "County Judge," 

 BeevlUe, Bee County, Texas. 



