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VoiniV. Jnly 11, 1888. No, 28. 



Sucli boasting and taunting, 

 Just tiear, oh, ye heavens— 



But "Barkis is willin'," 

 Quoth W. M.Evans! ! 



■\Ve liad a pleasant call last Saturday 

 from Mr. A. I. Root's son-in-law, who is 

 also manager of the establishment at Me- 

 dina, Ohio. 



$$iig;ar ^lade from Honey.— On 

 page 371 we made some remarks about Mr. 

 Henry Alley's proposal to raise $5,000 

 "from the bee-keepers throughout the 

 United States, and paid to the person who 

 will devise some method for converting 

 honey into sugar, similar to granulated 

 sugar." We remarked that we had some 

 sugar made from honey in our Museum, 

 which had been there for a dozen years, 

 and said that it would not pay to make it. 



By request we sent some of the sugar to 

 Mr. Alley, and lie does not seem to appre- 

 ciate it. Of course we are sorry to differ 

 from our friend, but the facts remain all 

 the same. It is not a question of priority, 

 particularly; but if a good article of sugar 

 can be obtained from honey, wliich will 

 compete with cane sugar, we shall be happy 

 to see it. 



The Xliii-a Aiiniial Report of the 



General Manager of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Union is now published, and 

 has been mailed to all the members with 

 Voting Blanks for officers for the coming 

 year. We hope that a general response will 

 result in renewed subscriptions lor the 

 coming year. As the fees are now reduced 

 to a dollar a year, thousands should flock to 

 its standard at once. 



An Apiarian Exlilbit is to be made 

 under Governmental supervision at the 

 Cincinnati Centennial Exposition next 

 month. The following list of articles, show- 

 ing the history and development of the in- 

 dustry, have been sent from the Museum of 

 the American Bee Journal. After the 

 close of the Exposition they will be for- 

 warded to the National Museum at Wash- 

 ington for permanent display: 



Murphy's Honey Extractor. 



Hill's Gas-Pipe Honey Extractor. 



Walton's Reversible Honpy Extractor (Model). 



Hill's Gae-Pipe Wax-Extractor. 



Armstrong's Bee-Hive. 



Anthony Malone's Bee-Hive. 



Sbuck's Model of a Bee-Hive. 



Diehl's Leaf Bee-Hive. 



SneJl's Bee-Hive. 



Finn's Bee-Hive. 



Robert's Bee-Hive. 



Russell's Bee-Hive. 



Hoke's Straw Bee-Hive. 



C. C. Dailey's Bee-Feeder. 



Mrs. Dunham's Division-Board Feeder. 



Prof. Cook's Division-Board Feeder. 



Heddon's Bee-Feeder. 



Scovell'g Bee-Feeder. 



Henry Alley's Atmospheric Bee-Feeder. 



Smith's Queen-Nursery. 



Van Deusen's Hive Clamps. 



Ackerman's Hive Clamps. 



Wood Separators. 



Comb Honey Carton. 



Shirley's Foundation Fastener. 



Adjustable Hive Stand and Swarm Catcher. 



Frame Holder and Metal Rabbets. 



Sutcliff's Bee-Smoker. 



Bingham's Bee-Smoker. 



Bingham & Hetherlogton's Honey Knife. 



Crate for Honey Sections. 



W. T, F. Petty's Queen-Cage. 



Harris' Queen-Cage. 



Perforated Zinc Queen Excluder. 



Woodward's Section of Comb, Partly Built. 



Dr.Tlnker's Hard-wood Sand-paperfd Sections. 



Comb Foundation from Pelham's Mill. 



tVater and Salt tor Bees. — Under 

 this heading Mr. Wm. Urie writes thus for 

 the Farm, Stock and Home : 



Every apiary, however large or small, 

 should have a convenient watering place 

 for the bees. A shallow trough large enough 

 to liold say a pailful of water, without its 

 being over 3 inches deep, provided with 

 some small floats for the bees to alight on to 

 drink, is a convenient form. Bees drink 

 and use much water, and they are often 

 compelled to go long distances tor it and be 

 subjected to great inconvenience to get it, 

 at that. 



Foraging for water consumes much val- 

 uable time which would be employed in 

 protitable work if water was kept at hand. 



Bees need salting, also ; it is as necessary 

 to them as to cattle. About once a week 

 put a handful of salt in the pailful of water 

 contained in their trough, and notice with 

 what avidity the bees will go for it. 



Do not give too much salt, but the pro- 

 portion noted will be found both gratifying 

 and beneficial. 



Xiie Tliirtcentli annual meeting of 

 the American Association of Nurserymen 

 was held at Detroit, Mich. This industry 

 does much to beautify the country and 

 ennoble the people. Without fruits and 

 flowers tills would be a dreary land. The 

 past season this society has secured reduc- 

 tion in freights by different classiHcation, 

 which is worth more to nurserymen and 

 the people than the society ever will cost. 

 No nurseryman can afford to exclude him- 

 self from such an association. Send S'iOO 

 for a membership fee to Chas. A. Green, 

 Secretary. Rochester, N. Y. Then you will 

 get the official report free of cost. "The next 

 meeting will be held in Chicago. 



ItassMood is in bloom now in quite a 

 number of localities, and the yield bids fair 

 to be plentiful. The weather is warm and 

 moist, and everything augurs well for the 

 secretion of nectar, and we hope to be able 

 to report a bountiful harvest. A few trees 

 are in bloom near the office of the Bee 

 Journal, and tlie bees are happy. Mr. 

 Root, in Oleanhigs for July 1, makes these 

 remarks on basswood in his locality : 



This 30th day of June, bees discovered a 

 little cluster of blossoms on one of the bass- 

 wood trees that skirt the road in front of 

 our dwelling. Only a dozen or two buds 

 were opened, but the bees were having 

 quite a rejoicing over them. The trees are 

 loaded with buds. Wliat shall the harvest 

 be ? 



Chas. F. Ifluth & Son, of Cincin- 

 nati, have issued a set of 5 illuminated cards 

 on "Bees and Fruit." The pictures are 

 fine, and well colored and finished. On the 

 reverse may be found three paragraphs 

 from our Leaflet No. 1, entitled, " Why Eat 

 Honey ?" After these comes the following 

 announcement : 



"We have always made it a point, ever 

 since we existed, to supply honey in its best 

 forms, and never soiled our fingers by adul- 

 teration." 



That announcement is something to feel 

 jwoMd over being able to truthfully make. 

 It is worth more to a true man than all the 

 gold of California, or the diamonds of 

 Africa. That it is truthfully made by our 

 friends, " Muth & Son," no one who knows 

 them would deny. It is almost proverbial 

 that Mr. C. F. Muth is the personification of 

 truth and honor, and bee-keepers are to be 

 congratulated in having such a man among 

 their number. We beg his pardon for this 

 notice— but it was called out by those at- 

 tractive cards, placed on our desk by the 

 mail-carrier just as these forms were ready 

 for the press. 



Every Itee-Keeper who realizes the 

 importance of the work now being done in 

 the interest of the pursuit should send a 

 dollar to this office and become a member 

 of the Natioual Bee-Keepers' Union for the 

 ensuing year. " In Union there is strength." 

 Reader, can you afford to remain outside 

 any longer ? 



Dividing: Swarms.— On this subject 

 Mr. G. K. Hubbard remarks as follows in 

 Indiana Farmer for last week : 



When two swarms go together they may 

 be separated by setting two hives on op- 

 posite edges of a sheet and shaking the bees 

 between them and brushing them with a 

 feather to see that an equal number of bees 

 go into each hive. A sharp lookout should 

 be kept for the queens, and one put in each 

 hive. Sprinkling the bees with water re- 

 tards their movements, so that you are 

 much more apt to find the queens. When 

 the swarms that cluster together are put into 

 one hive they should be given plenty of 

 room in the surplus boxes, and a little brood 

 put into the brood-chamber to insure that 

 no brood is put above. 



