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THOS. G.NEWMATJ E^SON, 



CHICAGO, IL.L. 



THOMAS «. I^EWJ»IA«f, 



EDITOR. 



VoiniV. FeU.UJ 



No. 5. 



ItllKX, ItllKZ, KlIZZ ! 



From morning's first gray light, 

 Till fading of dayliglit, 

 It's singing and toiling 



The summer day through. 

 Oh ! we may get weary, 

 And think work is dreary ; 

 'Tis harder by far 



To have nothing to do. 



—St. Nicholas. 



Ml*. It, J. Keiidall, whose many 

 articles appeared in the Amekicax Bee 

 Journal three years ago, is now in New 

 Zealand. 



l>t'ei» Sno>v is reported in all the New 

 England States and Canada. Michigan, too, 

 is reported to have snow 2 feet deep on the 

 level, with the temperature at from zero to 

 16° below. 



Host for Advertising-.— Mr. Geo. E. 

 Hilton, of Fremont, Mich., on .Jan. 2(j, made 

 this assertion, about advertising : 



My pamphlets are going off like hot cakes. 

 I am advertising in seveval periodicals, but 

 the Amekican Bee Jouknai, has brought 

 me more responses, so far, than all other 

 sources combined ! Long may it live. 



Honey Vinegar.— A correspondent 

 in the Dee-Keepers' Magazine tells what to 

 do with dark fall honey, and make it of 

 cash value, thus : 



I had about 40 pounds of nice fall honey, 

 so 1 asked a store-keeper wliat he was pay- 

 ing for such kind. He said Scents a pound, 

 but I refuse<l to sell, and took my honey 

 home, put it in two 4.5-gallon barrels, and 

 put b<'iling hot rain water with it. When it 

 cooled off I put some vinegar "mother" in 

 each barrel, and in the summer, I sold 90 

 gallons of the best vi.^ecar that was in the 

 county, at 16 cents per gallon. I paid my 

 tax with it. 



Al nie St. L,oiiis Fair, held last fall 

 the premiums amounted to $140, besides the 

 diplomas awarded. These exhibitors ob- 

 tained all the awards : William Kimble, 

 DeWitt, Iowa, $58 ; R. Grinsell, Baden, Mo., 

 843; Dr. G. Leibrock & Sons, S39 ; and 

 Simon Moser, Bridgeton, Mo., SI. It cer- 

 tainly paid the three first-named exhibitors 

 to make a show of their bees and honey. 

 They also obtained many premiums at other 

 Fairs and E.xhibitions in the West. 



Xlie Ai>i<-nlliiri»«t is here in good 

 time. The February number was on our 

 desk on Dec. 27, and it is full of good mat- 

 ter on " bees," and forltheir "keepers." 



Xlie Year ISSS promises to be event- 

 ful. Five eclipses will occur— three of the 

 sun and two of the moon ; the first of which 

 was a total eclipse of the moon on Jan. 28. 

 It also gives five Wednesdays in February, 

 being leap-year, consequently there will be 

 five issues of the Amekicam Bee JoirRNAL 

 in the shortest month of the year. It is only 

 once in four years when there is more than 

 just four weeks in the month, and the first 

 and last days may not come on Wednesday 

 for half a century. 



Bees antl Ants as Food.— An ex- 

 change says that the Cingalese (natives of 

 Ceylon), eat the bees after robbing them of 

 their honey. Caterpillars and spiders are 

 dainties to the African bushmen. Ants are 

 eaten by vaiious nations. In Brazil they 

 are served with a resinous sauce, and in 

 Africa they are stewed with grease or but- 

 ter. The East Indies catch them in pits 

 and carefully wash them in handfuls, like 

 raisins. In Siam a curry of ant eggs is a 

 costly luxury. 



Xlie L,ittle Son of Dr. A. B. Mason is 

 very ill, and the Doctor writes us that he 

 has not had his " clothes off for six days and 

 nights." We are much pleased to learn that 

 he is a little better now, with prospects for 

 recovery. The Doctor and his family have 

 our sympathies. 



*' Tlie Itee-Keepers' Advance 



and Poultryman's Journal " is the title as- 

 sumed by Brother J. B. Mason, in the sec- 

 ond volume. The January number is just 

 at hand. It is enlarged to 20 pages, and 

 looks well. 



Convention :\nml>er— that is what 

 the next issue of the Bee Journal will be. 

 We already have the reports of the proceed- 

 ings of four conventions waiting, and we 

 shall give nearly.all our space to them next 

 week. 



Volume II of " Bees and Bee-Keeping," 

 by Mr. Frank R. Cheshire, is published. As 

 soon as we receive a copy we shall give a 

 review of it. 



<«ivins- <'redit for SeleetioiLS.— 



On page BU of the Bee Journal for last 

 year, we called attention to a chapter from 

 our pamphlet, "Honey as Food and Medi- 

 cine," being copied into several papers, 

 credited to the Farmer and Dairyman, and 

 signed Thos. Brasel, Portland, Oreg. In the 

 last issue of that paper, Mr. Brasel makes 

 an apology in these words : 



I was surprised myself when I read the 

 above notice ; it was the first intimation I 

 had of not giving Mr. Newman credit for his 

 articles, and, of course, it was unintentional 

 neglect on my part, and I tiiink it was the 

 first time I neglected to do so. 



In past years I had furnished the Farmer 

 and Dairyman several articles for publica- 

 tion, in which were occasional quotations 

 from Mr. Newman's pamphlet, "Honey as 

 Food and Medicine," and my only oljject in 

 doing so was to inform the people all I could 

 on the good qualities of honey as food and 

 medicine. 



We are always glad to have our articles 

 copied by other papers when due credit is 

 given, and we are glad to learn that the 

 omission in this case was unintentional. 



Xlii.x istlie Time for reading. The 

 long winter evenings can be utilized by 

 reading up bee-literature. We have all the 

 newest bee-books, and can fill all orders on 

 the day they are received. 



Bees Flying-.- In answer to the ques- 

 tion, " At what temperature do bees fly?" 

 the editor of Qleanings in Bee-Culture re- 

 marks thus in its issue for Jan. 1.5, 1888 : 



I know exactly, for I have just been out 

 this 6th day of January, and watched the 

 bees which were pouring out of the hives in 

 different directions. As the sun did not 

 shine at all, and there was no wind, I had ' 

 an opportunity of getting a pretty fair test. 

 A few started out when the thermometer 

 stood at .50', but there was not a general 

 flight until it stood at about .55'. Had there 

 been sunshine it would have made a vast 

 difference ; but as it was, they flew from 

 entrances pointing to the north just as 

 freely as if they were facing the south. 



TIi«' Oliio «"onvention.— We expect 

 to publish the report of its proceedings 

 next week. In Gleanings, Brother Root re- 

 marks as follows concerning one well- 

 known to our readers : 



Dr. G. L. Tinker, of New Philadelphia, 

 also contributed much of value to our meet- 

 ing. The Doctor is not only a bee-keeper, 

 but he is one of the finest workers, both in 

 wood and metal, that we have in our State. 

 He exhibited some beautiful samples of 

 cases for sections, honey-boards, perforated 

 •zinc of his own manufacture, etc. Dr. 

 Tinker is a firm advocate of sections open 

 at the sides as well as top and bottom. 



l»oor Seasons and Hard '%Vin- 

 ters are an injury, but poor seasons coiue 

 to nearly every business. In calculating, 

 the profits of bee-keeping, we must make 

 allowance, for poor seasons, and a loss in 

 winter occasionally. After making this 

 allowance the experience of those who put 

 energy and push into their efforts, shows as 

 good profits are are usually obtained in any 

 other rural pursuits.— E.t-c/i(i?ige. 



