THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS a. NEWMAN, Editor. 



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Dare to do Right ! Dare to be true I 

 You have a work that do other can do ; 

 Do it so bravely, so kindly, so well, 

 Angels will hasten the story to tell. 



Dare to do riglit I Dare to be true I 

 Other men's lailures can never save you ; 

 Stand by your conscience, your honor, vour 



faith. 

 Stand like a hero and battle to death. 



Our Hoiiiett are Liike Instrtiments of 

 music. The string's that give luelody or 

 discord, are the members. If each is rightly 

 attuned, they will all vibrate in harmony ; 

 but a single discordant string destroys the 

 sweetness. 



It is tbe Duty of every beekeeper to do 



all that is possible to strengthen the honey 

 market, and to create an increased and 

 steady demand for pure honey. This should 

 begin at home, like charity, and then ex- 

 tend as far as the influence of each apiarist 

 goes. We commend thefoUowingidea from 

 a correspondent. He says : 



All around nearly every apiary— may we 

 not say around ci'ery one— there are numbers 

 of families which never, or seldom use 

 honey. A little well-directed effort, there- 

 fore, could increase the consumption right 

 at the bee-keeper's door. Instead of look- 

 ing to the distant markets of Chicago, New 

 York, or any other place, he could probably 

 And one at home. 



This "home market" should be created, 

 and then fully supplied with this delicate 

 food. As a guaranty, or to inform every 

 buyer where more can be obtai::ed, put a 

 neat label on every package. In no place, 

 either in city or country, is the demand for 

 honey what it should be ; it therefore be- 

 hooves every apiarist to create a market 

 and hold it by fully supplying it. 



Notlilng but Gax!— A stupid article 

 appeared in the CiMivalor and Country Qen- 

 tie ma ti tor June '3, ISST, under the heading 

 of " Extracted Honey,' aud signed, G.A.S.— 

 evidently written by some blatant oas-bag I 



The " Wiley lie " about " manufactured 

 comb honey," having been demonstrated to 

 be a falsehood from whole-cloth, without 

 either "warp" or "woof" of truth, this 

 gas-conader tries to show that the bees are 

 given "sugar and water" to store in place 

 of honey, and that such is sold for " honey 

 in the com6." This is what be says : 



Many buyers still think that honey in the 

 comb must be pure, because it has been 

 demonstrated that comb honey cannot be 

 manufactured hy artificial means. The 

 general buyer, having no acquaintance with 

 bees, does not know thiit bees may be made 

 a party to fraud and swindling— that they 

 will store equally sugar and water as care- 

 fully as tbe finest honey gathered from 

 flowers, but they may be made such a party, 

 and they will surround a saccharine com- 

 pound with comb, even more beautiful, at 

 least whiter, than that built for honey. 



Any falsehood will pass current if it will 

 injure apiarists. Does not this gas-blower 

 know that " sugar and water " is not honey, 

 and will very soon become sour, and that no 

 one could be deceived enough to call it 

 honey ? 



Mr. E. E. Ewing, of Rising Sun, Md., sends 

 us another copy of that paper with this 

 written upon the margin: "This is the 

 kind of stuff that many of our leading 

 agricultural papers publish I" Yes : that is 

 true- astouishingly true 1 



What perfect nonsense is contained in the 

 following paragraph from the same article 

 by our gaseous friend : 



The two-story hive, with a set of frames 

 like the brood-frames in the second story, is 

 considered a good machine for extracted 

 honey, but experience has taught many bee- 

 keepers that the shallow frame, half the 

 length of the brood Simplicity frame, is a 

 better implement. 



Brood-frames are " n good michine for ex- 

 tracted honey." How astonishing is such 

 an announcement I But what sublime non- 

 sense is contained in the latter part of the 

 quotation : It says "thcatmUow frame, half 

 tbe length of the brood Simplicity frame, is 

 abetter implement .'" Wonderful gasbag I 

 Marvelous " shallow "-back, "halt-length" 

 double-ending implement I Astonishing 

 revelation, with meaningless words and 

 more absurd ideas 1 So try again, G. A. S. 

 Meanwhile— Ta-ta I 



Union Convention at Clilcago.— The 



North American Bee-Keepers' Society and 

 the Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Society will 

 meet in Joint convention in Chicago, Ills., on 

 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Novem- 

 ber 16, 17 and 18, 1887. This date will 

 occur during the second week of the Fat 

 Stock Show, when excursion rates will be 

 very low. 



Hai>|>y Now may be the beekeeper who 

 has a good patch of sweet clover either on 

 his land or by the roadsides. This and 

 other fall flowers appear to be the only hope 

 forsurplus honey for this season in many 

 parts of the country. Prof. Cook, who has 

 grown sweet clover litfeMlotttsaibo) for many 

 years, gives his testimony on its value in the 

 following words : 



Sweet clover is beautiful, both in foliage 

 and blossom. It is much superior as an 

 adornment of the i-oadside to either rag or 

 May weed. It is a most excellent honey- 

 plant, comparable to white and Alsike 

 clover, or to basswood, in value. It is slow 

 to expand, and in meadow and pasture is 

 soon choked out by our cultivated grasses. 

 When once in possession of a spot, it is 

 easy to extirpate it. if it is desired to do so. 

 As IS well known, sweet clover is a biennial, 

 and so must come from the seed once every 

 two years. The plants grow from seed one 

 year, and the next year blossom and die.— 

 Thus we have only to cut the plants while 

 in bloom before tbe seed matures, to extir- 

 pate the plants in titti). Two such cuttings 

 in adjacent years will do the work most 

 thoroughly. In view of all these facts we 

 can hardly find a more safe and valuable 

 plant for waste places, and for roadside 

 planting. Farmers should encourage its 

 growth both for its beauty and worth. 



In view of the fact that almost every 

 other source for honey so far has failed this 

 year, can there be any better advice given 

 to bee-culturistsihan to plant liberally '-in, 

 around and about " their apiaries that ex- 

 cellent honey-producer— sweet clover f 



Happy indeed is the apiarist who has an 

 abundance of it now ; while those who have 

 neglected to follow our advice for years on 

 this subject, are now mourning because of 

 their lack of surplus honey 1 



The Home on tlie Farm is our beau- 

 ideal of living. It is true that our cities are 

 established by "brain and muscle, energy 

 and grit," but this is no less true on the 

 farm, which is or should be "enriched by 

 domestic love, and genuine peace and con- 

 tentment." We always think of it as a 

 "miniature heaven, where the mother- 

 angel presides, supported by the strong arm 

 and loyal heart of the president, controller, 

 banker and treasurer, all combined in one." 

 What a genuine contrast to the flght-f or-life 

 in the busy, fuming and crowded city 1 And 

 yet the farmer and city-toiler are continually 

 changing places— each one being enamored 

 of the other's pursuit. 



Do Pfot Send diseased brood of any kind 

 through the mails. It is a dangerous prac- 

 tice, and very disagreeable to the person 

 who receives such packages. We always 

 burn up such packages as soon as possible 

 after receiving them, being glad to get 

 them out of the way. We hope our friends 

 will not send us any more. It is quite 

 enough to describe them. Some time since 

 a man brought a frame of such to a conven- 

 tion, and handed it all around for examina- 

 tion. That was a very dangerous experi- 

 ment, and should never be repeated. 



Honey-Calte.- Here is a recipe for 

 honey-cake furnished by Mrs. J. M. Johnson, 

 of Saratoga, N. Y., which she says is nice 

 while "warm for tea," or "equally good 

 when cold :" 



One-half cup of honey: one-half cup of 

 sugar; one-half cup of butter: one egg; 

 two cups of flour : one cup of cold water ; 

 two tea-spoonfuls of baking powder. Flavor 

 with lemon or vanilla. This recipe will 

 make one large loaf, or can be baked in 

 gem-pans. 



One Dollar invested for the weekly visits 

 of the AMERICAN Bee Joxibnal for a year, 

 will richly repay every apiarist In America. 



From the Hut to the Pantheon, is a 



study in the evolution of architecture, 

 treated with Prof. Huxley's well-known 

 charm of style, in the Youth's Companion 

 for last week. 



Bassivood in this latitude has just com- 

 menced to yield honey, but it is too early 

 yet to say anything about the crop from it. 

 In places further south, the bloom has 

 "come and gone," and it was of very short 

 duration, and deficient in nectar. 



