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ever made an offer of 81,000 for a sample of 

 manufactured honey in the comb ! and 

 dared an one to make such an offer ! He 

 also would " wager J1,000 that the Wiley 

 lie is true ! !" and tauntingly added, " Come 

 on saints and sinners, Barkis is willin'." 



It shows that it was all bombast and bluff, 

 for as soon as Mr. Doolittle referred the 

 matter to the Bee-Keepers' Union, he wrote 

 to Prof. Wiley, begging for even some 

 slight proof of that old lie ! 



When confronted by our co-laborer, Mr. 

 A. I. Root, who is also Vice-President of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Union — who also 

 assured him of his real existence ! and 

 proved that he was no imaginary indi- 

 vidual, or a financially worthless being- 

 then tiie nohle patriot tries to back down ; 

 but to show some sllglit degree of fighting 

 qualities, he proposes to " fight a wooden- 

 man, in the shape of adulterated honey !" 



He blamed Mr. Doolittle for not doing 

 the very thing that he did do— and in every- 

 way shows that he was frustrated— beaten 

 at eyery turn— and his vaunting is trailed in 

 the dirt before his very eyes ! 



Such insolent braggarts must be taught 

 to make sure of their proofs before vaunt- 

 ingly parading them in the face oE the in- 

 telligent public. The National Bee-Keep- 

 eis' Union exists to teach the impudent, in 

 a fearless manner, that Truth shall triumph, 

 even though such a " Goliah " shall defiantly 

 and tauntingly say : "Come on, saints and 

 sinueis, ' Barkis is willin'." 



Audacity cannot win, especially when the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Onion lifts up a 

 standard, and defends the pursuit. 



Lawyers, doctors and ministers have been 

 caught repeating the diabolical Wiley lie, 

 and even the unknown and unheard-of 

 Virginian essays to repeat it ! But all have 

 come to grief before the Union's triumphant 

 banner of truth I 



He Forg-ol.- An exchange tells the 

 following story. It will raise a laugh, and 

 that is as good as a dose of medicine. It 

 says : 



A forgetful man's wife sent him to a drug 

 store for some honey. He forgot the name, 

 but remembered how it was made, and had 

 a paintui memory of having come in con- 

 tact with the fire department of the honey- 

 maker, so he asked the druggist for "some 

 swate oil, made by a vicious little baste with 

 a hot fut." The man of drugs, not compre- 

 hending the man, called his wife to aid him 

 in interpreting the words of the son of Erin. 

 In the call he addressed her as " Honey." 

 " That's what I mane," said Patrick. 

 "Honey is the thing. That's what I call 

 me own darlin' Bridget, and I am mad at 

 mescit for notthinkin' of me own Honey as 

 a kind of reminder like of what I was after 

 buying." 



Tlie Convention. — The pamphlet 

 containing the report of the proceedings of 

 the Union Convention in Chicago, is now 

 published, and can be obtained at this office 

 for 2.5 cents. Or bound up with the history 

 of the International Society, and a full re- 

 port of the Detroit and Indianapolis conven- 

 tions, for .50 cents, postpaid. 



C01VVE\TI0.\ DIRECTORY. 



1888. Timt und Ptact Of Mtetinn. 



Aug. 3. Ionia County, at Ionia, Mich. 



U. Smith, Sec, Ionia, Mich. 



Aug. 14.— Colorado State, at Denver, Colo. 



J. M. Clark, Sec, Denvelr, Colo. 



Aug. 27.— atark County, at Canton, o. 



Mark Thomson, Sec, Canton, O. 



Sept. 8.— Susquehanna County, at Montrose. Pa. 



H. M. Seeley, Sec, Harford, Pa. 



7W In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— Ed. 



¥Ms^^^ 



VKhite Clover.— C. V. Lindley, of 

 Sylvauia, Ind., on June 4, 1888, asks the 

 following question : 



Will you answer t rougli the Bee Joini- 

 NAL the following i|Lieslion, for the bensHt 

 of the bee-men in Parke county : Will 

 white clover blonni the first year from the 

 seed? The old clover was about all killed 

 out last winter, but the young clover is 

 coming up. 



[It will bloom the first year from the seed. 

 It is late this year ou account of the back- 

 wardness of the season, or it would be in 

 bloom now.— Ed.] 



Hold yotir Itreatli. — L. Hanimer- 

 schmidt, Amana, Iowa, writes on June 8, 

 1888, as follows : 



In the Scientific American for June 2, 

 1.888, I find this statement : "If you hold a 

 bee by the legs, between two fingers, and 

 not let her sting ou ihe fleshy part of your 

 finger's point, as limg as you hold your 

 breath, the sting will not penetrate the 

 skin." 1 have tried this, and found it to be 

 correct ; even more, I have nut my hand 

 between two combs full of bees; have 

 taken a hand-full of be^s, and when I 

 sweep off the bees from a comb, as long as 

 I can hold my breath, they will not sting. 

 Will some others of the fraternity try this 

 and report ? 



Puttings Bees Out of Cellar!*. — 



Julius Le Fevre, of Pottsdam, N. Y., writes 

 as follows on the above subject : 



I started the spring of 1887 with 3 colonies 

 of hybrid bees. I increased them to 7, and 

 obtained from them 100 pounds of comb 

 honey. I put them in the cellar on Nov. 

 37 ; the temperature ranging in my cellar 

 from 30° to 3.5= all winter, from Dec. 35 until 

 about March 1.5. They wintered well, al- 

 though many of the bees died from March 

 15 until I put them out on April 27. at 1 

 p.m. It was a very hot day, being 85° in the 

 shade. I do not think that it is a good plan 

 to put bees out when It is so hot, for this 

 reason, that someof thecolonies will swarm 

 out. Three colonies of nine swarmed out 

 before they marked their locations, and be- 

 came badly mixed up. They went to one of 

 my neighbor's and alighted, and clustered 

 on a small tree, and they remained there for 

 some time. When I came home (about 5 

 o'clock) they were gone ; so I lost them. 

 Well, I think that this will learn me a good 

 lesson, by experience. Ttie morning is the 

 best time to put bees out, when it is cooler 



than 85° in the shade. I received two pack- 

 ages of the Chapman honey-plant seed in 

 March. 1 planted the seed on April 1, and 

 It is doing well. The American Bee 

 Journal is just what every bee-keeper 

 needs to read, and post up on bee-keeping. 

 I should feel lost without it. 



]>iot ITIiK-li Honey from Apple 

 Bloom. —A. Damarin, of Mason City, 

 Ills., on Junes, 1888, writes : 



I had 6 colonies of bees on the summer 

 stands. I lost 3, and the others are strong. 

 It was too cold during apple bloom for bees 

 to get much honey. White clover is begin- 

 ning to bloom, what little there is left. I 

 do not look for much lioney this season. 

 Nearly everybody has given up bee-keeping 

 around here, on account of last year's fail- 

 ure. I shall keep on trying. 



White <.'lover in Bloom.— J. W. 



Bittenbender, of Knoxville, Iowa, on June 



8, 1888, writes : 



Bees are swarming, but are gathering 

 very little honey. White clover is in bloom, 

 but the weather is too cool ; the wind is 

 mostly in the north and northwest. The 

 nights are very cool for this time of the 

 year. Unless the weather will soon change, 

 the honey crop will be short. 



CL,UBBirVC} I>ISX. 



^Ve Club the American Bee Jcnumal 

 for a year, with any of the following papers 

 or books, at the prices quoted iu the 1..ASX 

 column. The regular price of both is given 

 in the first column. One year's subscription 

 for the American Bee Journal must be sent 

 with each order for another paper or book: 



Price 0/ both. Club 

 The American Bee Journal 1 00. . . 



and Gleanlng-s in Bee-Culture 2 00 1 75 



Bee-Keepers'Magazine 160 140 



Bee-Keepers' Guide 150 140 



Bee-Keepers' Review 150... 140 



The Apiculturist 173 160 



Canadian Bee Journal 2 00 180 



Canadian Honey Producer... 1 40 130 



The 8 above-named papers 5 65 5 00 



and Cook's Manual 2 23 ... . 2 00 



Bees and Honey (Newman)... 2 00 175 



Binder for Am. Bee Journal.. 1 60 1 50 



Dzierzon's Bee-Book (cloth).. .3 00.. .. 2 00 

 Roofs A B Cof Bee-Culture.. 2 25.... 2 10 



Farmer's Account Book 4 00 2 20 



Western World Guide 150,,.. 1 30 



Heddon's book, "Success,".. 150.. 1 40 



A Year Among the Bees 1 75 1 50 



Convention Hand-Book 1 50 1 .30 



Weekly Inter-Ocean 2 00.... 1 75 



Iowa Homestead 2 00 ... 1 90 



How to Propagate Fruit 1 50 ... . 1 25 



History of National Society.. 1 50..., 125 



Al^-ays Mention your Post-Office, 

 County and State when writing to this 

 office. No matter where you may happen 

 to be for the hour when actually writing— 

 never mention anything but your perma- 

 nent address. To do otherwise leads to 

 confusion, unless you desire your address 

 changed. In that case state the old as well 

 as the new address. 



Cive a Copy of " Honey as Food and 

 Medicine " to every one who buys a package 

 of honey. It will .•^ell lots of it. 



