THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



675 



THOUAS Q. NEWMAN, Editor. 



3^o\ToeM. 



Yoinni. Oct. 26,1887, No. 43. 



After Awhile— 'a busy brain 

 Will rest from all its care and pain. 

 After awhile— earth's rush will cease, 

 And a wearied heart find sweet release. 

 After awhile— a vanished face. 

 An empty seat, a vacant place. 

 After awhile — a name forgot, 

 A crumbled head-stone— unknown spot. 



The Pennsylvania State Ajfricultural 

 Society at the Exhibition held at Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., Sept. 17, 1887, awarded the flrst- 

 class diploma to E. J. Baxter, of Nauvoo, 

 Ills., for the best 10 pounds of extracted 

 honey. 



Reduced Rates on all railroads are 

 granted to attend the Fat Stoclj Show in 

 Chicago from Nov. 8 to 18, 18S7. Tickets 

 will be issued at one-and-one-flfth fare for 

 the round trip. Bee-keepers who wish to 

 see the Fat Stock Show should come the 

 last and best week, and can then attend the 

 convention which occurs on the last three 

 days, Wednesday to Friday, Nov. 16 to IS. 

 The meeting will be held at the Commercial 

 Hotel, on the corner of Lake and Dearborn 

 streets, within a few blocks of all the rail- 

 road depots. The invitation is general— 

 COME. 



Mr. and Mrs. T. AV. Conrau have, no 

 doubt, reached their home long ere this, and 

 we hope with renewed energies and re- 

 cruited health. Mr. Cowan, in the last issue 

 of the British Bee Journal, makes mention 

 of the "hearty welcome " he received in 

 America, in these words : 



We have, throughout our journey, been 

 treated with the greatest hospitality and 

 consideration, and shall ever remember 

 with pleasure our coming over to this New 

 World— so wonderful in its growth and 

 (■pirit of progress. We shall carry away 

 with us pleasant recollections, many of 

 which appear later on in the pages of the 

 Journal. Suffice it now to say, we are 

 anxious to state this at once that our friends 

 may see how much we have appreciated 

 their kindness. 



We remember with pleasure the visit of 

 our cotemporary to Chicago, and shall be 

 glad to record his safe return to his home 

 and his multitudinous duties in connection 

 with apiculture. 



A tiew Inveullon.— The Rev. W. F. 

 Clarke has been on a visit to Mr. D. A. 

 Jones, and says in OUanings that he had a 

 triple surprise. The flrst being that Mr. 

 Jones had joined the qhurch ; the next is 

 that he had given additional proof to the 

 hibernation theory, by demonstrating that 

 bees can live without food for three weeks. 

 On this point Mr. Clarke says : 



Mr. Jones has demonstrated that bees can 

 live without food for a considerable space 

 of time. Three weeks is the longest period 

 he has proved to be safe, but he is inclined 

 to think that bees can fast longer than that 

 ivlthout risk. I have no doubt that, in the 

 winter cluster, they can go for a month 

 without eating. Of course, this does not 

 prove the fact of hibernation, but it harmo- 

 nizes with the theory most completely, and 

 naturally suggests a species of dormancy 

 during long fasts. It would seem a wise 

 adaptation of Nature and Providence that 

 insects, gifted with such Intense activity 

 during the working season, should undergo 

 a change to lit them tor long spells of rest 

 during cold weather. If that change lulls 

 their intense activity into comfortable re- 

 pose, and so quiets down all their functions 

 that digestion becomes a very slow process, 

 and they need a meal only now and then, we 

 have a wonderful and beautiful example of 

 that harmony between the various forms of 

 animated life and their environment, of 

 which we see so much in other departments 

 of nature. 



On the third surprise, Mr. Clarke gives the 

 following extravagant opinion. He is care- 

 ful not to "give it away," or to describe it, 

 and Insofar is guilty of just what he has 

 many times severely condemned in others 

 at conventions, etc.. but perhaps he is hold- 

 ing it back to electrify the coming Union 

 Convention at Chicago next month. This Is 

 what he says concerning it : 



My third surprise was created by an inven- 

 tion which will shortly cause a great com- 

 motion among the dry bones, and not yet 

 extinct fossils of beedom : for there are 

 those who have virtually taken the position 

 in regard to apiculture that the new is not 

 true, and the true is not new. Nobody can 

 invent anything any more in connection 

 with bee-keeping What will these modern 

 mummies think or say when I tell them that 

 friend Jones has invented an aopliance 

 practicable with all movable-frame hives, 

 from the old Langstroth to the new Heddon, 

 which revolutionizes the manipulation of 

 them, and will reduce the cost of comb 

 honey production at least 25 per cent ? It is 

 applicable to both open and closed-end 

 frames, both to the brood and section de- 

 partments of a hive : dispenses with tin 

 strips and thumb-screws, prevents frames 

 and sections being fastened with propolis, 

 and is. by all odds, the best invertible. con- 

 vertible, and change-placeable contrivance 

 yet devised. By its use, you can turn over 

 a hive in a twinkling if you wish to do so, 

 and take it all apart with equal celerity: 

 you can manipulate brood-chambers and 

 section-cases at will, and do it all without 

 rough disturbance of the bees. The crown- 

 ing marvel of this new invention is. that it 

 Is ridiculously cheap, costing only a few 

 cents. It Is so simple that you are ready to 

 wonder why every practical bee-keeper did 

 not think of it at one and the same time, and 

 .vou can hardly help laughing outright at 

 the stupidity of the whole tribe, that not one 

 of their number ever thought of it before. 

 I know that all this will seem ridiculously 

 extravagant to many, who will be ready to 

 think I am easily carried away, and soon ex- 

 cited. Well. I have no ax to grind, except 

 the ax of universal apiculture, so I can af- 

 ford to be pooh poohed, and I rather enjoy 

 the fun of tormenting prejudiced unbe- 

 lievers. To all such, let me sa.v in concln- 

 Eion, "Look oht for the locomotive 



WHEN THE BELL RINGS." 



Mr. A. E. Mannm will ship about eight 

 tons of honey this year. This is about two- 

 thirds of an average crop. This seems to be 

 about the average for New England. 



The Judge Never Heard of such a 

 lawsuit before. That is what is affirmed of the 

 " Rich " case mentioned last week. It was 

 tried before Judge Boardman at Ithaca, N. 

 Y., and Mr. Rich writes us as follows con- 

 cerning the Judge and his rulings : 



. I DOW write you the result of my case In 

 the Supreme Court. The plaintiff received 

 six cents damages, and the costs are taxed 

 to me. The Judge granted an Injunction to 

 move the bees, and we have got a stay of 

 proceedings for ninety days. We did every- 

 thing possible, and the facts were all set up 

 in good shape. But the Judge ruled against 

 us from the beginning to the end. and in 

 charging the jury compared the bees to a 

 pigsty and a slaughter-house. What do 

 you think of that? 



This was the flrst case with one exception 

 ever tried in the State, and the Judge had 

 no law to go by, so ruled just according as 

 lie thought, with the above result. 



Mr. Olmstead sued Mr. Rich for $1,500 

 (and was awarded 6 cents) as damages. This 

 ease cannot remain where it is. and the 

 Bee-Keepers' Union will, in all probability, 

 take an appeal. While the payment of 6 

 cents is an easy matter, the costs are heavy. 

 But the point Is, that the bees toust be re- 

 moved as a nuisance : just like " a pig-sty or 

 slaughter-pen," says Judge Boardman. 



No, sir ; the bees must not be likened to a 

 pig-sty or a slaughter-pen I Bee-keeping Is 

 an honest and honorable pursuit, and Its 

 rights must be preserved. 



Mrs. Ij. Harrison referred to the late 

 visit of Mr. Cowan (in the Prairie Farmer) in 

 these words : 



Mr. Thomas William Cowan, editor of the 

 British Bee Journal, has lately visited this 

 country and the offices of bee-publications 

 and prominent apiarists. He reads most of 

 the modern languages, and Is possessor of 

 one of the largest libraries exclusively on 

 bees in the world, and Is acquainted with 

 almost everything that has been written on 

 bees, whether of the present or past. He 

 brought with him one of the best and finest 

 of microscopes, and examined with it foul 

 brood as it is developed in this country, and 

 pronounced it to be Identical with that of 

 Europe. This visit of Mr. Cowan and wife 

 will form a pleasant and profitable page in 

 the history of those who enjoyed It, and 

 that they may safely return in health and 

 happiness, is the prayer of their many 

 American friends. 



AVe have Received some of the honey- 

 candies made by Mr. Arthur Todd, of Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., and can vouch for them as 

 being of excellent quality. To the children 

 such candies are a boon, being so much 

 superior to the ordinary poisonous ones. 

 If the children must have sweets, let thena 

 have honey-candy, fresh and pure. 



An Examination of the Illustrated Lon- 

 don News (American reprint) for Oct. 22, 

 will show the English view of the trial yacht 

 race, illustrations in connection with the 

 state of Ireland, etc. The price of the 

 number being only 10 cents, places it within 

 the reach of all. Every news-dealer has It. 

 The office of publication Is in the Potter 

 Building, New York. 



A Hive is a Rox or House where a 

 colony of bees reside ; the stand Is the place 

 where the hive is located ; the family of 

 bees is, when organized, a colony ; the bees 

 leaving the colony with a queen to form 

 increase, is a swarm. 



