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EDITOR. 



VoLIIlV, Sept. 26,1888, No, 39, 



Tlie Honey Exhibit at the St. 



Josepli, Mo., Fair was a very graud one, 

 and exceeded in maanificence tliat of last 

 year. The Kev. Emerson T. Abbott cap- 

 tured premiums amounting to SUO. Of the 

 other premiums we are not yet advised. 



lion. A. II. Ciieney, of Sparta, 

 Mich., is running on one of the tickets as 

 candidate for Governor of that State. Mr. 

 Cheney is a very enthusiastic bee-lieeper, 

 as well as an influential and honored gen- 

 tleman'. 



Keed the Itees in such a manner as to 

 prevent robbing. A good feeder is worth 

 many times its cost as a prevention of rob- 

 bing. If there is danger of such, contract 

 the entrance so that only a single bee can 

 pass. This will enable the bees to defend 

 their hives against intruders. 



A Cliang-e ofXinie.— Owing to the 



Quincy celebration, the next meeting of 

 the Union Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held at the Town Hall in Clayton, Ills., 

 on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. Ifi and 17, 

 commencing at 10:30 o'clock on Tuesday. 



Susquclaannii Co., Convention. 



— H. M. Seeley, of Harford, Pa., on Sept. 14, 

 1888, announces the following change in the 

 date of meeting of this bee-convention : 



Owing to the 8th day of September being 

 a very wet day, the Susquehanna County 

 Bee-Keepers' Association postponed their 

 meeting until Oct. 6, 1888, when it will be 

 held at Montrose, Pa., the same as before, 

 with the same programme and at the same 

 hour. 



I%ot a, " Corner !"— The daily papers 

 are very fond of stating that there is a 

 " corner on honey down in New York," and 

 then they invent incredible stories about 

 that "corner" or "trust." Mr. G. H. 

 Knickerbocker, of Pine Plains, N. Y., writes 

 us as follows on this subject : 



I enclose a clipping credited to the Farm, 

 Field and StiicTiinmi of Chicago. This is 

 another illustration ot the fact that some 

 newspaper men get a " hint," and then 

 build up a big lie, and the bigger the lie the 

 faster they will copy it. I have written to 

 the editor asking him to retract these state- 

 ments, as they do our association great in- 

 justice by grossly misrepresenting our 

 motives and intentions. 



Will you please publish the clipping and 

 also the enclosed circular letter, which will 

 show how utterly false these charges are ? 

 We work only for the greatest good to the 

 greatest number, and in the interest of 

 dealers as well as pro'lucers. 



Here is the item to which Mr. Knicker- 

 bocker alludes : 



A Mei>lifluent Thust. — The latest 

 thing in trusts reported is a combination of 

 honey-producers, in session at Utica, N. Y. 

 The producers present claim an annual out- 

 put of over .5,000,000 pounds of comb honey, 

 and 1,000,000 pounds ot the extracted pro- 

 duct. The large producers propose to es- 

 tablish uniformity of shape, size, and style 

 of tile packages for the coming year, the 

 price to be charged to the wholesale dealers, 

 and a plan for uniformity of action to pre- 

 vent the cheapening competition which has 

 marked Ihe honey sale during the past. A 

 trust to be composed of all the iarge pro- 

 ducers in the State is proposed, nominally 

 to regulate the size of combs, so as to unify 

 the marketable packages, but actually to 

 buy up all the surplus honey when there is 

 a glut of production, so as to keep up the 

 price and siiut out competitors who might 

 be willing to sell at a sacrifice. 



It is hardly probable that this mellifluous 

 syndicate will unify all, or even a majority 

 of the bee-men of the United States, in a 

 scheme to corner the honey-market, at least 

 so long as honey remains as a high-priced 

 luxury in the principal markets of the coun- 

 try.— Fottti, Field and Stockman. 



The following is the true account con- 

 cerning the formation of the Honey-Pro- 

 ducers' Exchange, being an official docu- 

 ment from the Secretary : 



Pine Plains, N. Y., April 2G, 1888. 



At the convention of the New York Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, held at Utica, Jan. 

 17, 18 and 19, 1888, a committee composed ot 

 John Aspinwall, C. G. Dickinson, A. I. 

 Root, and P. H. Elwood, was appointed to 

 dratt a scheme looking to the organization 

 of an Inter-State Association, which should 

 not be confined to any (me section, but 

 should, in the broadest sense, he. a benefit 

 to its reporters and members all over the 

 United States. 



This committee made the following re- 

 port, which was adopted : 



Your committee would suggest that this 

 Association shall resolve itself into a 

 Honey Producers' Exchange, for the pur- 

 pose of gathering statistics of the wintering 

 of bees and the honey crop throughout the 

 United States. 



Besolvcd, That the duties of the Secre- 

 tary of this Assaciation shall be the for- 

 warding of suitable blanks to reporters, so 

 that they shall report on the first day of 

 May, June, July, August and September 

 from every honey-producing State. No 

 State to have more than six reporters, who 

 shall fill them out and send by return mail 

 to the Secretary. He shall have the reports 



printed and mailed to members and re- 

 porters by the luth of each month. 



Resolved, That the Secretary keep ac- 

 count of his time involved in this work, and 

 report the same at the next convention. He 

 sliall be empowered to draw upon the 

 Ireasurerfor funds necessary to carry out 

 the work. 



This organization is to be a secret one, 

 and the statistics obtained are not to be 

 made public, but are tor the exclusive use 

 ot the members and reporters of this Honey 

 Producers' Exchange. To obtain reliable 

 statistics (per centage of loss in wintering, 

 honey crop, percentage of increase, quan- 

 tity of honey on the market, prices offered, 

 etc., etc.) will require the hearty co-opera- 

 tion of intelligent reporters throughout the 

 Uinted States. The advantages of these 

 statistics are too plain to every honey-pro- 

 ducer and dealer to require any elaboration 

 here. We would only say that if you know 

 the honey crop, the market is yours, and 

 you can secure prices in keeping with the 

 amount of honey which you know is on the 

 market. 



On the last of April, May, June, July and 

 August postal-cards with a set of questions 

 to be answered on them and returned at 

 once, will be sent to each reporter, and the 

 compiled report will be sent out bv us on 

 the 10th of each month. 



Others who desire these reports can have 

 them by sending us one dollar, which will 

 make them members of the Exchange, and 

 also of the New York State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. 



G. H. Knickekbocker, Sec. 



All the newspaper sensations about ' 

 "corners" and "trusts" having nothing 

 else to rest upon than the above— which is 

 only a system of "gathering statistics of 

 the wintering of bees and the honey crop 

 throughout the United States !" Just that 

 aud nothing more ! Will the newspapers 

 now as readily copy the facts as they did the 

 falsehood ? 



Another Bee-Keeper Crone Mr. 



F. A. Snell, of Milledgeville, Ills., on Sept. 

 13, 18S8, wrote as follows concerning the 

 death of a lady bee-keeper : 



Mrs. Catherine Hendrick departed this 

 life on Sept. 13, 188S. She leaves a husband 

 and four children to mourn her death. She 

 was 44 years old, and her disease was can- 

 cer. Mrs. Hendrick, though not an exten- 

 sive bee-keeper, was one of our most suc- 

 cessful ones. In her well-managed apiary 

 she kept only pure Italian bees. She used 

 the modern improvements in hives and sur- 

 plus receptacle.s, and was well informed, 

 liaving read numerous work on bee-culture. 

 Mrs. Hendrick was a true Christian, and 

 was loved by all who knew her. She had 

 kept bees tor 10 years, and had resided here 

 31 years. 



Xiic Preserving- qualities of honey 

 are immense. The best hams are cured 

 with honey, and pears and apples are often 

 preserved in honey. In fact, honey has the 

 quality of preserving for a long time in a 

 fresh state anything that may be laid in it or 

 mixed with it, and to prevent its corruption 

 in a far superior manner to sugar ; thus 

 many species of fruit may be preserved by 

 being laid in honey, and by this means will 

 obtain a pleasant taste, and give to the 

 stomach a healthy tone. One who has once 

 tried it will not use sugar for preserving 

 fruit. 



