THE; SMERICKN BE© JOURNSE.. 



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THOMAS &. NEWMAN, Editor. 



VoiniY. Jan. 18, 18 



No. 3. 



So I'siiv the ;;meral report is that the 

 bees are whiteriiig well. We have had many 

 cold spells, but such have been of short 

 duration, and the bees have not suffered 

 any inconvenience on that score. What the 

 rest of the winter may be, is as yet an un- 

 certainty. 



■\«-«- Patents.— Two new patents on 

 bee-hives were granted on Dec. 30, 1887. 

 One to T. M. Cobb and the other to F. Dan- 

 zenbaker. The number of the former being 

 875,361 ; and the latter 875,269. What the 

 special features are we know not. 



'rii«' Ontario bee-keepers met in con- 

 vention at Woodstock last week, and had 

 an interesting meeting. Martin Emigh was 

 elected President, and J. B. Hall Vice- 

 President. We expect to publish a report 

 of the proceedings next week. 



Xlie ;%e>v Vorlc Moe-Koepers are 



now in session. The nineteenth State Con- 

 vention met on Tuesday of this week for a 

 three days' session at Utiea. We are sorry 

 we did not get the programme until our 

 last week's issue was on the press, or we 

 should have published it entire. We hope 

 that the meeting will be one of great in- 

 terest and enthusiasm. 



I'atlK'r I^angfiiitrolli is again heard 

 from, and our readers may expect an article 

 from his pen in next week's Bee Journal. 

 He intends to go to Cincinnati this week to 

 obtain medical treatment to relieve him 

 from his distressing "head troubles," which 

 is promised by the physician he intends to 

 visit. We hope he will succeed in obtain- 

 ing a cure. 



I>i-iink«-ii l..oaf<TM. — That is what 

 the New Orleans Picayune calls the bees. 

 It says : 



A lady living in Rappahannock County, 

 Va., had 13 colonies of bees, which were 

 very valuable until a distillery was started 

 in tiie neighborhood. Since i"t was starteil, 

 however, the bees pay frequent visits to the 

 still, get very drunk, and are of little profit. 



The Chicago Hendd commenting upon 

 this circumstance, gets off the following, 

 calling them "boozy bees :" 



A lady in Virginia has a colony of bees 

 that go to a neighboring distillery and get 

 tipsy. This is a sad revelation for the 

 moralist who is fond of holding up the bee 

 as a bright and shining model lor thrift, 

 sobriety and industry. The didactic poetry 

 regarding the little boozy bee seems to be in 

 need of revision. 



Mrs. Mahala B. Chaddock remarks very 

 pointedly on the above in the Farm, Field 

 and Stockman as follows : 



Bees never work on grapes or peaches, 

 neither do they frequent cider-mills or dis- 

 tilleries, except when there is no honey in 

 the flowers. At such tim^s there is no 

 honey coming in, or not enough for the bees 

 to store it. 



No one need have the least fear of con- 

 tracting the taste for whisky from eating 

 honey, as there never was anything more 

 true than this. If bees are gathering honey, 

 they do not trouble distilleries ; if they go 

 to the stills they are not gathering honey. 



Xiie Reaction 4'oines, as well to 

 the grape-bees controversy as to many 

 other things. We find the following item 

 now "going the rounds" in the political 

 papers, and such will do much to dispel the 

 prejudices of grape-growers to the bees. 

 Here is the item : 



Bees Injuring Grapes.— The Columbus 

 Horticultural Society reports to the Coun- 

 try Gentleman an experiment performed by 

 Mr. McLain, of Aurora, Ills. In a grape- 

 house well ventilated, but bee-proof, he 

 places grapes and other ripe fruits sound as 

 well as imperfect. Three colonies of hungry 

 bees, hived on empty combs, were placed 

 within. They visited the fruit in great 

 numbers, and took advantage of every 

 crack or opening or accidental puncture. 

 They never molested sound fruit. If the 

 skin of a grape was broken or burst from 

 over-ripeness, the bees sucked the exposed 

 juices. They did not attempt to break the 

 skin. The experiment was continu^^d 30 

 days, with 30 sorts of grapes, with the same 

 result. When grapes were punctured with 

 needles, the bees sucked the juice out only 

 so far as they could reach. 



■*V. R. 6ri-siliani, Greenville, Texas, 

 on Jan. 10, 1888, writes his congratulations on 

 the Bee Journal for 1888, and adds : 



I obtained nine cash premiums at the 

 Texas State Fair and Dallas Exposition, on 

 bees, honey, and bee-fixtures. 



" I'p to litis Time I think bees are 

 wintering good. The weather has been 

 favorable ; not much zero weather." So 

 writes M. L. Spencer, of Little Genesee, N. 

 Y. He then adds : " I congratulate you on 

 the appearance of the American Bee 

 Journal. 1 think it much improved for 

 1888." 



If ces from Carniola or Kraiii, in Austria, 

 are generally known in Europe as Krainer 

 bees ; in America as Carniolan bees. Many 

 of these queens are now sent across the 

 ocean by mail, every year, by Mr. Benton, 

 of Munich. Mr. B. is an American, and 

 used to attend theMich.AgricuItural College. 



Carniola is a province of Austria, just 

 south of Vienna, and nearly borders Italy 

 on the northeast— the Adriatic intervening. 

 A continuation of the Alpine Mountain 

 range runs through the province— and hence 

 the hardihood of the bees from that moun- 

 tainous region. 



Cabltag-e and Celery l»Iauts.— A 



guide to their successful propagation. A 

 new manual of instruction by Isaac F. 

 Tillinghast. Seed and plant grower, and 

 editor of Seed Time andHarvest, LaPlume, 

 Pa., 33 pages. Illustrated. Price 25 cents. 



This little volume relates in an interest- 

 ing manner how two farmer's boys started 

 a vegetable plant trade, on a farm in the 

 country, which developed into a large seed 

 and plant business, which now reaches into 

 every comer and section of the Union. It 

 gives modern plans for constructing low- 

 cost hot-beds and greenhouses, to be heated 

 by fermenting manure, fire flues, and hot 

 water. Also, how to successfully grow 

 cabbage and celery plants in the open 

 ground, with certain methods of protecting 

 them from destructive insects and diseases, 

 which have not heretofore been given to 

 the public. 



There are no doubt thousands of locations 

 in which, with the aid of this little instruc- 

 tor, an active farmer's boy, or established 

 market gardener, might work up a very re- 

 munerative plant business with very little 

 expense or trouble. 



^er We will send the above and the Bek 

 Journal for one j'ear, for $1.15. 



Every One having a garden, or even a 

 shrub, should own and study Vick's Floral 

 Guide, published at Rochester, N. Y., price 

 10 cents, and a due-bill for 10 cents worth of 

 seeds accompanies the Guide. 



Interesting' I^ibrary. — Mr. S. B. 



Brillhart, of Kendallville, Ind., writes thus : 



For the past five years I have had the 

 American Bee Journal bound, and it is 

 beginning to make a very interesting library 

 on "the bee." The Bee Journal is just 

 what every one who owns bees ought to 

 take. It pays, and that is a good reason. I 

 usually keep about 25 colonies of bees. 



TScw Catalogues for 1888 are on our 

 desk, from the following persons: 



J. D. Goodrich, East Hardwick, Vt.— 10 

 pages— Apiarian Supplies. 



H. G. Frame, North Manchester, Ind.— 4 

 pages— Bees, Queens, etc. 



Geo. H. Kirkpatrick, New Paris, O.— 10 

 pages— Bees and Supplies. 



A. D. Hale, Deer Lodge, Tenn.— 30 pages 

 —Poultry. 



Cole & Brother, Pella, Iowa— 40 pages- 

 Vegetable, Flower and Garden Seeds. 



