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EDITOR. 



yol.XXM, Not, 5,1891, M19, 



Editorial Buzzings. 



It LrOOkS very much as if we were 

 in for a hard Winter. The weather 

 prophets threaten us with a number of 

 killing blizzards. 



Xlie :Nortli American Bee- 

 Keepers' Convention will be held at 

 Albany, N. Y., Dec. 8 to 11. Reduced 

 rates on all the trunk line railroads are 

 secured. Read the notice on page 596. 



Qeo. H. Hilton has been ap- 

 pointed by the Board of World's Fair 

 Managers for Michigan, a member of 

 the special committee on apiarian prod- 

 ucts. It would have been about the 

 right thing to have made George chair- 

 man of the national committee on that 

 "subject," as there is probdbly no 

 better authority on matters concerning 

 the apiary than Mr. Hilton.---Fr6mont 

 TmUcMtor. 



Spraying: Fruit for the preven- 

 tion of the ravages of insects and fungus 

 diseases is no longer an experiment, but 

 a necessity, in order to get large crops 

 of perfect fruit, but the blossoms must 

 not be sprayed with the poison. 



As noted on page 428, the New York 

 City Board of Health recently condemned 

 grapes on the market that showed signs 

 of poison on the stems, and had tons of 

 them destroyed. The hasty action of 

 the Board caused a grape panic. 



An investigation showed that the 

 grapes had been sprayed with a solution 

 of the Bordeaux mixture, and that traces 

 of the sulphate of copper remained on 

 the stems. 



The matter was referred to the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, which has for 

 several years been recommending the 

 spraying of grapes with this mixture, as 

 a preventive against fungus diseases. 

 The Department officially replied that 

 over a ton of grapes, sprayed eight times 

 with the mixture, would be required to 

 furnish a single poisonous dose. 



In this transaction, the spraying of 

 fruit has received an advertisement that 

 will result in making known its merits 

 far and wide. For, after consumers 

 understand it, they will not hesitate to 

 purchase perfect fruit because of the 

 means used to make it so, as long as they 

 are harmless, and applied at an appro- 

 priate time, so as not to endanger the 

 lives of our honey gatherers. 



For full information on this subject, 

 as well as the necessary outfits for doing 

 the work thoroughly and effectually, 

 address William Stahl, Manufacturer of 

 Excelsior Spraying Outfits, Quincy, Ills., 

 who will send free a full and complete 

 treatise on the spraying of fruit. 



Honey Candy, — This recipe was 

 published in a late number of the Ladles"^ 

 Home Journal : 



Take one pint of sugar, with water 

 enough to dissolve it, and four table- 

 spoonfuls of honey. Boil until it becomes 

 brittle on being dropped into cold water. 

 Pour off into buttered pans to cooL 



