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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



rights of others, and self-interest. 

 They are like the air-brakes on a rail- 

 way train, sometimes failing to oper- 

 ate, but usually effective, and the 

 best at present available. 

 Guelph, Ont. 



Eecipes for Destroyim Ants, 



HENRY T. WILLIAMS. 



1. Take 4 ounces of quassia-chips,- 

 boil tor ten minutes in a gallon of 

 ■water, dissolving in the liquid while 

 cooling 4 ounces of soft-soap. 



2. Take 1 pound of black soap, dis- 

 solve it in 4 gallons of water, and 

 sprinkle the solution through a hne 

 rose over the runs and nests, taking 

 care, however, not to water the roots 

 of the plants with it. 



3. The following is a successful 

 poison: Ferrocyanide of potassium, 

 1 drachm ; raspings of quassia, 1 

 drachm ; sugar in sufficient quantity 

 to form a syrup. The ants are said to 

 devour this greedily and die almost 

 immediately. 



4. Fresh Peruvian guano will drive 

 ants from any spot, however firm a 

 hold they may have obtained on it. 



Paraffine and benzoline oil are said 

 to have the same effect. 



Turpentine, gas- water, flowers of 

 sulphur, lime-water, a decoction of 

 elder leaves, chloride of lime dis- 

 solved in water, and camphor have all 

 been used. 



5. For ants in a 'lawn put a large 

 flower-pot over their hole or place of 

 operations. The ants will build up 

 into the pot, and in a short time it 

 may be lifted up and carried away 

 and dropped into a vessel of water, 

 which will be the end of them. 



6. For ants on fruit-trees put a line 

 of gas-tar all around the tree, and 

 that will stop their progress. 



7. Ants in flower or garden beds 

 may be destroyed as follows : 



Take 2 ounces of soft-soap, 1 poood 

 of potash, and about 2% pints of 

 water. Boil the whole together for 

 some time, stirring the ingredients 

 occasionally. The liquor may then 

 be allowed to cool. 



"With a pointed stick ordibble make 

 holes wherever the soil is infested. 

 Drop the mixture, tilhng the holes 

 full once or twice. 



Fill small vials two-thirds with 

 water, and add sweet-oil to float on 

 the water to within half an inch of 

 the top. Plunge these upright in ihe 

 ground, leaving only halt an inch 

 standing out, near the nest or runs of 

 the ants. The ants will come for a 

 sip and go home to die. !No insect 

 can exist with oil stopping up its 

 spiracles, or breathing pores. 



Boiling water and arsenic are fatal ; 

 coarse sponge dipped in treacle- water, 

 and afterwards dipped in scalding 

 water, will catch thousands. 



May be destroyed by a few fresh, 

 unpicked bones being placed tor 

 them, or sponges wetted and filled 

 with sugar, or treacle in bottles or 

 pans. 



For t&e American Bee Joumair 



Tie Honey Season in MoilelsM 



SAjrOEL CUSHMAN. 



My surplus crop so far is even less 

 than last year. That from fruit- 

 bloom was all stored in the brood-nest. 

 Raspberry and white clover failed en- 

 tirely, and on July 1 the sections were 

 unoccupied. Then the basswood 

 shade-trees about the town yielded 

 considerable honey for about a week, 

 and a tew Italian and Syrian colonies 

 that were extra strong stored from 20 

 to 40 pounds in the sections, and all 

 the others filled up the brood-nests, 

 but did not draw out the foundation 

 in the supers, although the empty 

 combs were filled. 



A field of sweet clover now keeps 

 the bees busy ; some of it is 8 feet 

 high. I am well pleased with it, and 

 shall sow more of that seed. A field 

 of buckwheat is now coming into 

 bloom, and the bees are not so 

 troublesome or inclined to rob as 

 usual. A nice field of Alsike seemed 

 to fail to secrete honey, as well as 

 white cloyer. 



At my country apiary locust was 

 the first yield to be noticed, and the 

 brood-combs were well stocked. The 

 next yield was from chestnut bloom ; 

 this came in with a rush, and boxes 

 were quickly filled. This honey is 

 dark but rich ; it does not sell so 

 readily in sections, so 1 put on as 

 many as possible to get the founda- 

 tion drawn out. This location is a 

 good one for goldenrod and aster 

 honey, and I shall endeavor to get it 

 all in the sections, if it is a possible 

 thing. Last year our surplus was 

 taken before June 1 ; this year, all 

 since July 1. 



Pawtucket,5 B. I., July 20, 1887. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Re-NamiM Honey ont of tlie Coml]. 



G. W. DEMABEB. 



There is nothing more unpleasant 

 than to feel that one is misunderstood. 

 When I wrote my article for the Bee- 

 Hive I had never seen anything from 

 our Editor's pen on the subject of a 

 proper name for " honey out of the 

 comb," except his comments on my 

 answer to Query 415; and there he 

 proposed to " stick to the name ex- 

 tracted honey until a better name can 

 be found." The difference was, 1 do 

 not propose to stick to the misnomer 

 it a better name is never found. 



My allusion to Bro. Islewman's posi- 

 tion, in my arlicle for the Bee-Hive, I 

 thought was couched in language 

 more complimentary than otherwise, 

 and, behold, he thinks it " ungener- 

 ous, unkind and untrue." Does he 

 not know that the word " untrue," as 

 he used it, is a tough word, that most 

 people are disposed to resent ? Is it 

 ■' generous and kind "for our Editor 

 to quote what he has written on the 

 subject since I wrote that article, and 

 parade it as evidence that I have 

 sinned against light, and misrepre- 1 



sentedhim? I wrote my reply to the 

 editorial on page 291, immediately 

 after I saw it, and although under the 

 circumstances it should have had 

 prompt attention, it was left to take 

 the chances for a place in the paper 

 for over five weeks, and now Bro. 

 Newman quotes his foot-note to my 

 reply as though I had it before me 

 when I wrote my article for the Bee- 

 Hive a month previous. I mention 

 these things not that I care anything 

 about them, but to show how easily 

 one can be misunderstood, and how 

 "mole hills" can be swelled into 

 " mountains," when the imagination 

 is set to work on them. 



One thing is remarkable, and that 

 is, after 1 had explained fully in my 

 article on page 421— Bro. Newman's 

 own paper— that I did not offer 

 "liquid" as a substitute for "ex- 

 tracted " as a commercial name for 

 " honey out of the comb," Mr. New- 

 man ignores all I did say in the way 

 of explanation, and refers to " liquid " 

 as my " pet name " for honey out of 

 the comb ! After this, no one can be 

 at a loss to know who wears the " war 

 paint." 



I have never in any of , my articles 

 proposed " liquid honey " as a com- 

 mercial name tor honey out of the 

 comb. In fact, " liquid honey " as a 

 commercial name would be seriously 

 objectionable to me. I have never 

 used the appellation " liquid honey" 

 except in way of explanation, to es- 

 cape the old bore of a name, " extract- 

 ed honey." 



For several years I have furnished 

 a lady of Jeffersonville, Ind., from 50 

 to 100 pounds of honey out of the 

 comb, and the packages were always 

 labeled " extracted honey, etc." Well, 

 after all these years, 1 now have an 

 order from my old customer which 

 runs thusly : "Please send me two 

 three-gallon buckets of pressed honey, 

 etc." Pressed honey I Well, that is 

 better than " extracted," because it 

 does not smack of doctored " ex- 

 tracts." Last year my old customer 

 had it " strained honey," this year it 

 is "pressed!" This is only one ex- 

 ample out of many. I presume that 

 hundreds of honey-producers know 

 how it is. 



For one, I am free from the old 

 bore of a name— I no longer mention 

 the old name " extracted honey " to 

 my customers, and my " morals " are 

 improving. I am anxious to have a 

 suitable commercial name for the 

 article out of the comb, and 1 believe 

 the classificatiou suggested by the 

 Editor on page 435, is the best 1 have 

 seen, viz : " honey ' for the article out 

 of the comb," and " honey in the 

 comb;" for the article commonly called 

 "comb honey." 



But why not go further, and have 

 it "honey out of the comb" and 

 " honey in the comb i"' The one is as 

 expressive as the other, and the dic- 

 tion, if faulty, applies to both alike. 

 Let us have a name that will need no 

 wearisome explanation. 



Christiansburg,5 Ky. 



[As Bro. Demaree wrote that article 

 for the Bee-Hive long before it ap- 

 peared, that explains matters consid- 



