THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor. 



Voinill. Sept, 14, 188], No, 37. 



Onr Friend and co-laborer, Thomas W. 

 €owan, Esq. .editor of the British Bee JoumaJ, 

 visited Mr. A I. Root, at Medina, O., last 

 week, and is to be at the Toronto Exhibition 

 this week. On the 5th inst., we received the 

 following from him, expressing the pleasure 

 he has in his present short visit : 



Mr Dear Sir :— I must write and thank 

 you for your hospitality and to say how 

 much I enjoj'ed my visit with you, and only 

 wish I had been able to stay lontjer. and to 

 see more of the American bee-keepers, but 

 this must be a pleasure reserved fora future 

 not tar distant occasion. I enjoyed my visit 

 to Mr. Dadant's and I am altOKCtber pleased 

 with all I have seen. 



His next visit we trust will not be su short, 

 lor many of our apiarists have been sadly 

 disappointed in not meeting our distin- 

 guished visitor, and will look forward to his 

 next trip to America as so much pleasure in 

 reserve. The best wishes of American 

 apiarists will follow him and his devoted 

 wife, hoping that her health will be much 

 improved by this excursion to America. 



Xhe market Qaotations for comb- 

 honey are still advancing. White honey in 

 one-pound sections is quoted in New York 

 at 19 cents ; in Vermont it brings 20 cents ; 

 In Boston it is quoted at 22 cents. The cry 

 is, " there is none offered for sale." Well, 

 that is just the reason for the advance in 

 prices. " Hold on to what you have" is the 

 watchword. Do not sell any until next 

 month, and 25 cents will come more readily 

 than 15 cents did last season. Mr E. L. 

 Westcott, of Fair Haven, Conn., wrote us as 

 follows on the 6th inst.: 



A bee-keeper of this State lately received 

 20 cents per pound for his honey that he 

 sent to a commission house. How will that 

 do for prices ? I understand he had about a 

 ton of white comb-honey, and it was all 

 closed out at once I I Intend to make a 

 shipment there immediately, of about a ton 

 and a half. I will not give you the firm's 

 name and address now, as I cannot tell what 

 the result might be if too many should rush 

 in their honey at one central point. It 

 might possibly lower prices. 



The Baltimore Count)^ Fair was held 

 at Tlmonium, Md., on Sept. to 9, 1887. In 

 the Bee and Honey exhibits $.14.00 were of- 

 fered as premiums. 



Wiley's " Scieiitlflc Pleasantry " 



Doomed at laot !— The " scientific pleas- 

 antry " which has made the name of Wiley 

 so infamous throughout the world, and 

 which was so greedily " caught up " and en- 

 larged upon by sensational newspapers, 

 with sundry " variations " to " spice up the 

 story," has at last come to grief I 



It ran like lightning I Factory after factory 

 was built (in imagination), fitted up by 

 special machinery to make the comb. But, 

 alas, when cornered by a demand to point 

 them out. the '* loud-mouthed " prevarica- 

 tors found it impossible to find even one! 



When taunted with the offer of a thousand 

 dollars to lead a committee of investigators 

 to the spot where such a factory existBd— 

 lo, it had vanished nut of sight ! ! 



Undaunted falsifiers said that such institu- 

 tions were "running day and night, filling 

 fraudulent combs with glucose " — but when 

 pressed to name the number, street and city 

 —they failed to find any such place— even 

 hundreds of dollars were tendered for a 

 sight of such a place I 



Then " the runners " who visit country 

 merchants, gloated over the sensation and 

 averred most positively that such honey- 

 combs made of parafflne, filled with glucose, 

 and sealed over by machinery, could be 

 found on sale by the ton in Chicago. But 

 when offered $500 to conduct us to the place 

 and witness the process, they were forced to 

 acknowledge that they, too, had been duped 

 by the Wiley lie, and that they had added 

 "variations" to makela spicy Isensation! 



Lawyers, doctors, and even ministers were 

 " caught in the act" of villifylng an honest 

 pursuit ; having swallowed Wiley's " scien- 

 tific pleasantry," without suspecting that it 

 might be an mj-scientlflo and un-pleasant 

 falsehood ! 



Nevertheless, the story ran like wild-fire— 

 newspapers and correspondents added to it_ 

 to suit their " fancy," and varied it to make 

 it " spicy," until the pursuit of bee-keeping 

 was, like a " bleeding lamb," sacrificed to 

 their Moloch ; and beekeepers were derided 

 and mocked when they attempted to deny 

 the " story," and prove its falsity I But now 

 that " scientific pleasantry " has been struck 

 by lightning, exposing all its baseness, de- 

 formity and falsehood— for 



" Truth crushed to Rarth will rise afiain, 

 The eternal years of God, are her's." 



The Sun, whose burning rays dried up veg- 

 itatlon and destroyed the honey-producing 

 plants, and thus prevented the bees from 

 gathering nectar from the flowers, has also 

 scorched and dried up Wiley's lie, so that it 

 will never more show its loathsome head I 



The markets of the world are bereft of 

 honey I The merchants' demands for nice 

 honey in the comb, are incessant. They ad- 

 vertise for it : write to apiarists for it, 'and 

 offer " golden shekels "for iti— still there is 

 not nearly enough to halt supply the de- 

 mand, even though the prices go up, higher 

 and higher every week I 



Since writing the above paragraph, a honey 

 merchant of Kansas City, called at this 

 office. He Is scouring the country— east 

 and west— to find nice honey in the comb, 

 offering cash for it at the apiarists' doors. 



Now, here for weeks and months has the 

 "golden opportunity" been presented, as 

 Mr. Dibbern puts it on page 584, " for these 

 mythical factories to run night and day to 

 supply the demand " for glucose in parafflne 



combs I Let them bring on the fraudulent 

 article, " the combs of which are made by ma- 

 chinery, from parafflne, filled with glucose 

 and sealed by hot irons I" Show up the 

 beautiful stuff, which Is such " a good imita- 

 tion that only an expert can tell it from the 

 genuine article gathered by the bees from 

 Nature's finest flowers I" Yes, exhibit the 

 tons of it produced by " running the ma- 

 chinery night and day 1" Now is the time 

 for the frauds to show up I Forward 1 

 March to the front I 



Dare any one to say that if such machinery 

 existed— if such manufactured " comb 

 honey " were to be had— that it would not be 

 forced upon the markets in such quantities 

 as to flU the present urgent demand? A rich 

 harvest is here presented— but not a po0nd 

 of the bogus stuff is presented for sale, at 

 any price I— a confession that the so-called 

 " scientific pleasantry " is a pernicious false- 

 hood I a villainous, debasing and diabolical 

 lie 1 which was struck by lightning, and lit- 

 erally burned up by the fierce rays of old 

 Sol, at the same time that they destroyed the 

 nectar of the flowers, and starved myriads 

 of bees to death I 



Ta ta " Scientiflc pleasantry I" 



Begone, vile monster I 



Thy sulphurous breath shall no more be- 

 foul that God-given, heaven-distilled sweet- 

 ness —delicious honey 1 



The Rev. L. It, Lan^stroth appears to 

 have improved in health again. His son-in- 

 law (with whom he resides) has moved his 

 family to Dayton, O., and Mr. L. writes us 

 that the change has been of some benefit to 

 him. He adds : " I hope for relief from the 

 head trouble." His numerous friends 

 throughout the world will be glad to know 

 that he has had even a slight relief in the 

 malady from which he has so long suffered. 

 His address is 928 Steele Ave., Dayton, O. 



One of «he old-fogle "know it-all" bee- 

 keepers got a lot of honey, stored by the 

 bees in soap-bo.ves, and such boxes as he 

 could pick up at a grocery store, just as a 

 matter of economy, and to save buying the 

 " new-fangled " one-pound sections. The 

 honey was gathered from white clover, and 

 was a very nice article, and had it been stored 

 in one-pound sections would have readily 

 brought 20 cents per pound now, or 25 cents 

 per pound later in the season. He shipped 

 300 pounds of It to a commission house in 

 Chicago some weeks ago, and, as it was leak- 

 ing, the commission man wanted to get rid 

 of the sticky stuff, and he sold the lot at 5 

 cents per pound— the first offer that was 

 made for it I This transaction ought to give 

 a salutary lesson to the know-it-all bee-man, 

 but as he does not take any bee-paper, and 

 knows nothing, about the present value of 

 honey, or a rising market, it is doubtful it 

 he will learn anything I After deducting 

 commissions and freight he received about 

 f 1.3 for what should have readily brought 

 from $60 to $75 in his home market. It was 

 a pig-headed saoriflce of about $.50 ! All on 

 account of his bigoted opinion and general 

 ignorance ! The fool-killer ought to dispatch 

 him without further delay. 



Fall Floivers are blooming profusely; 

 and where these abound, bees are happy. 



