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EDITOU. 



YoiniV. A1.U8 



No. 31. 



Xlie Itee-Kecpcps' A«lvaiice and 



Poultryinen's Journal lias now swallowed 

 the PduUei: It is nicely printed, and well 

 gotten up. It is a matter for conyratulatinn 

 that all tlie bee-periodicals are now well 

 printed— presenting a vast improvement in 

 a dozen years. 



J. W. llilleubender, of Knoxville, 

 Iowa, has sent his foundation fastener for 

 brood-frames, and one for sections, to be 

 exhibited at Cincinnati, O., at tlie Centen- 

 nial Exposition, and after that to go to the 

 National Museum at Washington for perma- 

 nent exhibition. 



Bees to iVIanitoba.— We learn from 

 our Canadian coteniporary for June 30, that 

 Mr. D. A. Jones, of Beeton, Ont., has made 

 a shipment of .50 colonies of bees to Mani- 

 toba, to a point beyond Winnipeg. This is 

 the greatest distance to which so large a 

 shipment has ever been made. Tlie bees 

 were sent in combination hives, by express, 

 and a practical bee-keeper went iu charge 

 of them. 



More " Wiley " Nonsense.— The 

 editor of the Danville Daily JVcujs of July 

 7, contained an item stating that "comb 

 and honey are made by machinery." Mr. J. 

 P. Faurot, of Hope, Ills., replied to it on 

 July 24, and showed that the story had no 

 foundatiAn except iu the imagination of 

 Prof Wiley. The editor of the News fol- 

 lows it with this paraj^raph : 



We wish to do no injury to any honest 

 industry. Our statement was, that honey- 

 comb is made by machinery, and also 

 honey (so-called), which is a fact. It is 

 this fact, well known to the people, which 

 injures tlie producers of real honey, as the 

 fact of adulterated laid, buckwheat, butter, 

 and a long line of foods injures the pro- 

 ducers of the real articles. 



Mr. A. R. Simpson, of State Line City, 

 Ind., sends us the paper, desiring the 

 Union to take the matter iu hand, and to 

 demand the proof for the glib assertions of 

 the News editor. 



The Manager of the " Union " has writ- 

 ten to the News, demanding the proof for 

 the assertions— asking how he knows it to 

 be a fact, etc. ? Has he seen it ? If so, 

 where and when ? Of course he is but 

 another dupe of " the Wiley lie." The in- 

 jury done by that nefarious "pleasantry" 

 is enormous, and to bee-keepers it is very 

 UNPLEASANT. 



Tlie Union.— James McNeill, Hudson, 

 N. Y., on July 2.3, 1888, when sending his 

 vote and fee for the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union for the ensuing year, remarks as fol- 

 lows : 



It seems like an imposition to ask you to 

 continue to perform the duties of General 

 Manager, which, I doubt not, imjioses con- 

 siderable additional labor upon an occupa- 

 tion which you already find quite engross- 

 ing of your time and energy. But the 

 Union has been so eminently successful in 

 your hands, tliat I hope you will find suffi- 

 cient compensation for the extra labor 

 which the Union imposes ujjon you, in the 

 thought that you have earned the hearty 

 commendation of all its members. 



Brother McNeill is right. We have more 

 to do than we ouglit to undertake, but re- 

 garding it a duty to continue to conduct the 

 Union's business, we cannot say No, when 

 such a unanimous vote is given for us. 



More Recruits.— E. Lovett, Bernardo, 

 Calif., on July 17, 1888, thus expresses him- 

 self about the National Bee-Keeper.s' Union: 



I hope that our membership will increase 

 during the next term. I will try and get 

 two or three friends to join us, as it is to 

 their interest as -well as ours, if each of 

 the niemtjers can get a friend to join and 

 double the membership, we would then be 

 in a better position. 



Yes; that is just what every member 

 should do— get another recruit. By so doing 

 they are conferring a favor on the new 

 member, because such a person is fully as 

 much Interested as an older one. 



Xlie Oliicers of the Bee-Keepers' 

 Union are all re-elected— the exact figures 

 we shall be able to give next week. Mr. R. 

 F. Holtermann, of Brantford, Ont., thus ex- 

 presses himself concerning the Union : 



Probably no better staff of officers than 

 the old could be secured ; certainly the 

 Union has firmly and consistently carried 

 out, throush them, its object ; at the same 

 time avoiding unnecessary litigation, which 

 is very desirable. Whilst the officers of the 

 Union have so ably done their work, I am 

 afraid bee-keepers at large have not done 

 their part, but I trust a heartier response 

 will be forthcoming during the coming 

 year. 



Yes ; it is surprising that the membership 

 is less than ten thousand— but we imagine 

 that a good honey year would show an 

 enormous increase. 



W^ax A«liiIt«'ration. — Sometimes 

 beeswax is adulterated, but not often, for it 

 is so easily detected. An exchange re- 

 marks that when earth or meal is used to 

 sophisticate it, the wax becomes brittle and 

 grayish, and may be detected and separ- 

 ated by melting the wax, when the irapnri- 

 ties may be strained out. Resin makes the 

 fracture smooth and shining instead of 

 granula, and may be dissolved in cold alco- 

 hol, while the wax remains untouched. 

 Tallow or suet renders the wax softer, and 

 gives it an unpleasant odor when melted. 



Xiic Canadian Bee Journal, to 



which Prof. Wiley sent an explanatory let- 

 ter concerning " the Wiley lie," and com- 

 plaining of atlacks being made upon him, 

 etc., gives a good editorial answer in these 

 words : 



To make the statement which Prof. Wiley 

 did without sufficient foundation, even 

 though it did emanate from the authority 

 which he says in his letter, was very wrong; 

 and very much harm has been wrought by 

 it to our eoininon industry. The least that 

 the author of tlie .'statement could have done 

 would have been to have corrected the 

 erroneous statement as soon as it was 

 brought to his notice, instead of which, this 

 is the first intimation that we have seen 

 wherein he gives his authority for what he 

 wrote as far hack as 1881 .... 



His delay in not before setting the matter 

 before the people in its right light is suffi- 

 cient cause for violent attack. He should 

 have taken pains to have first ascertained 

 the effect such a statement as the one he 

 purposed making would have on the bee- 

 keeping industry at large. While we give 

 the above communication space, yet we in- 

 cline to the opinion that bee-keepers will 

 put just about as much faith in this letter 

 as they did in his former one— which wasn't 

 much. 



The Professor need not look to bee-keep- 

 ers for sympathy. They liave suffered 

 enough both in mind and purse from the 

 effect of his nefarious "scientific pleas- 

 antry," so-called. 



Mr. Jas. Ileddon says : " Basswood 

 bloomed well here, but yielded only about 

 one-eighth of the usual crop. Clover was a 

 total failure. The crop is light, but what 

 there is will sell readily at good figures." 



Oi»en-Si«ie Sections.— On page 467, 

 we noticed the open-side sections of Mr. 

 Walter S. Ponder, of Groesbeck, 0. In 

 reference to tliat " notice," Mr. Ponder re- 

 marks thus : 



In regard to my new open-side sections, 

 permit me to say that they can be used iu 

 the X-super, or any other super, and still 

 be open-side sections. Please refer to tlie 

 sample again ; aUo, that tliey can be made 

 of one piece just as well. 



To be of any value, of course these sec- 

 tions must be made in the popular "one- 

 piece" style. This can be done, as Mr. 

 Ponder says. We had not put the section 

 together when we wrote the item— having 

 now done so, we see that Mr. Ponder is cor- 

 rect about their use in the supers. They 

 ' are very well made, and smoothly finished. 



