THE MMERICaPf BEE JOHRlMMt. 



787 



XH051AS G. WE^VJIAN, 



EDITOR. 



MXXIV, Dec, 5, 18 



No. 49, 



Patience, O mortal. Patience yet awhile I 

 How long soe'er iby evils here, the gates 

 Of glory do but wait to open wide 

 For him who waits I 



Xypiioid Fever, says the Cmuidian 

 Bee J(jwr)i(i(, lias laid low two of the chil- 

 dren of Mr. G. A. Deadman, of Brussels. 

 Ont. lie and the entire household were 

 stricken with the fever, but they have re- 

 covered. Our sympathy is with our brother 

 in his affliction. 



XUe l^ansTStrotli Fund has had 



quite a boost, by a contribution from our 

 English brethren amounting to about S112. 

 This was forwarded by Mr. Thos. Wm. 

 Cowan to Dr. C. C. Miller, and by the latter 

 sent to Mr. Langstroth. The following 

 letter of acknowledgement is published in 

 the British Bee Journal for Nov. 15, 1888, 

 which has just come to hand : 



Mv Dear Mr Cowan :— Yours of the 5th 

 inst., with 231 5s. M. for the Langstroth 

 Fund, is received. It is not necessary that 

 I should otfer any words of thanks to you 

 and y(pur countrymen for your aid in this 

 worthy work, fur the reward comes with the 

 doing ; yet I would do violence to my own 

 feelings did I not express to you my deep 

 feeling of gratitude that God has prompted 

 you to this act. 1 am sure 1 know the bee- 

 keepers of America well enough to say that I 

 am speaking fur them when 1 sav, "Thank 

 you, thank you." Surely such things bring 

 us nearer together. The ocean is not quite 

 so wide as it was. The bond of friendly 

 feeling between the two countries grows 

 stronger each day ; and it I were ever to 

 stray so far from these " western wilds " as 

 totind myself on "Albion's green isle," 1 

 am quite certain I could sing " God Save the 

 Queen !" as heartily as any of you. 

 Most cordially yours, 



C. C. MlI.LEK. 



Marengo, Ills., Oct. 24, 1888. 



Our British Friends are having a 

 fierce fight in the British Bee Journal over 

 Carniolan queens and bees. The combat- 

 tants are Mr. Simmins, Mr. Benton, Mr. 

 Blow and "Amateur Expert." The editor 

 and sub-editor of the Britlsli Bee Journiil 

 also take a hand in the contioversy — Mr. 

 Blow's last article being written from Wis- 

 consin. After one of these articles by 

 "Amateur Expert," in the issue for Nov. 

 15, he remarks as follows concerning the 

 annual convention at Columbus, O., and 

 our article on European adulterated honey, 

 in the American Bee Journal for Oct. 

 24, 1888, on page 691 : 



Now let us cross "the pond." While we 

 are stinging each other in this fashion, our 

 friends over yonder have been holding a 

 bigconvention at Cnlunilin«, Ohio. Mr. E. 

 Secor, the bee-men's Laureate, has com- 

 posed two "bee-poems," and Dr. Miller 

 has set them to music ; cons^qnently. they 

 sing these hymns in the meetings as Crom- 

 well's " Ironsides " sang when on the 

 march. We shall have to gf r a piano at 

 .Jermyn Street for the " Annnnl," so that we 

 too may have a harmony. Would it not be 

 a strong inducemnnt for more to ait'ml ? 

 Ton will find the music and words in Qlcan- 

 inqs and the American Bee Joitrnai,. 



Talking about the American Bee .Iour- 

 NAL, reminds me Iriend Newman has hnen 

 giving us a poke i" the ribs over adultera- 

 tion. He finds " C. Lyle patented a mix- 

 ture in England (patent No. 8SK3) of grape 

 sugar, fruit sugar, and glucose ('Ipxtrose, 

 levulose, and glucose), with the addition of 

 fruit essence, and thinks this comnound is 

 equal to any natural honey." Mr. Newuian 

 wishes to know what we know about it, or 

 if it is only a " joke," as " adulterated bee- 

 farms" in America, that we are so fond of 

 talking about, are only a joke. Perhaps Mr. 

 Hooker will look up the patent when he 

 next goes to the Patent Office. As to the 

 stuff, 1 do not know if anv is made from 

 Lyie's prescription, but I do know that all 

 onr grocers sell what they call "honey 

 syrup," at five-pence per pound. It is liuht- 

 colored, like clover honey, does not granu- 

 late, is evidently flavored with some es- 

 sence, and is presentable both to the eye 

 and the palate. I cannot find that any one 

 buvs it for "honey" but perfectly unl^er- 

 stands it is a manufactured article, conse- 

 quently no harm is done ; and that is alto- 

 gether a different matter from the bogus 

 noney put up by purveyors and sold as the 

 product of the bee at more than double price. 



Honey Jumbles. — When at the Co- 

 lumbus convention we purchased a package 

 of the honey jumbles which were being sold 

 in the building devoted to the bee and 

 honey exhibit, by a young man in charge of 

 A. I. Root's exhibit. They were nice. This 

 is a description of them from Gleanings : 



One of our men sold in a few days seven 

 barrels of these honey cakes, and could 

 have sold a gnod many more had he been 

 able to get them from the factory before 

 the Exposition closed. At one time he sold 

 two barreU in about twelve hours. Now, 

 the particular point aboutthislotnt jumbles 

 that made them sell, is, I hat they were a 

 year old, and yet they were just as nice to 

 eat as the day they were baked, and not one 

 of Ihegreat crowd took a single exception 

 to them. This is the great point in using 

 honey for making jumbles. Tou can keep 

 them just as long as you choose, and they 

 do not get dry and hard, like cakes made of 

 sugar or molasses. Possibly under some 

 circumstances they may dry up ; but by 

 placing the barrel in the cellar, or anywhere 

 else where it is a little damp, they will very 



soon become soft and delicious, and yet 

 there is no danger of mold or anything of 

 the sort. 



A B C of Bec-CMllure.— The 37tb 

 thousand of this excellent book by A. I. 

 Root, of Medina, 0., is now published, and 

 a copy of it is on our desk. 



The book has been thoroughly revised, 

 and brought down to the present day. Our 

 ever-changing pursuit demands these re- 

 visions every year or two, in order to keep 

 abreast of the times. The book now con- 

 tains 400 large double-column pages o( 

 closely printed matter, and over 300 engrav- 

 ings ; many of which are executed in the 

 best style of the art. Generally speaking, 

 the printing is also done very credilably, 

 though some of the engravings are not up to 

 the mark in the matter of press work. 

 About .50 new engravings have been made 

 for this edition, and about .50 pages of en- 

 tirely new matter have been added to the 

 body of the work in addition to the other 

 new matter under various headings, to take 

 the place of the discarded matter. 



At the end of the book we discover 16 

 pages devoted to biographical sketches of 

 some of onr promineut apiarists, accom- 

 panied with illustrations. These are mostly 

 from the fei tile pen of Dr. C. C. Miller, of 

 Marengo, Ills., who has given iu a con- 

 densed form biographies which are very 

 interesting. 



The author of the book gives the follow- 

 ing concerning it in Oleunings In Bee-Cul- 

 ture for November : 



In 1880 we employed G. M. Doolittle to 

 carefully read the ABC and point out such 

 faults and add such suugestinns as his large 

 experience might dictate, llis commeias 

 have been found to be so valuable that we 

 Ihiiught best to employ a no less iJi-actical 

 and extensive beekeeper. Dr. C. C. Miller, 

 to perform the same task on the present 

 edition. He did so, adding his comments, 

 or suggestions, to the latter portion of the 

 work. The experience of two snch every- 

 day bee-keepeis, confinnator.v, in the ma- 

 jority of cases, on various topics brouaht up 

 in the A B C liook, will be round to be ex- 

 ceedingly valuable to the reader 



Noih'ng hut that which is known to be 

 thoro^lyhly practical has been admitted to 

 its pai:e-^. In cither words, every subject 

 has been treated from a dollar and cent 

 pointofview. Strict attention to this par- 

 ticular, more than to anything alse, has 

 given the ABC enormous sales. Althnui'h 

 we have added greatly to the value of the 

 book, as well as to its cost, ilie price will he 

 the same as heretofore— $1.35 in cloth ; $1.00 

 in paper, postpaid. 



This book and Prof. Cook's are well 

 worth the prices at which they are publish- 

 ed, and we cannot do better tiian to advi,se 

 every apiarist to get both and study them 

 well. Prof. Cook's is more full and valua- 

 able on the anatomy and physiology of bees, 

 while Mr. Root gives interesting details 

 about all the implements used in the apiary, 

 and how to make them. Much of the new 

 matter iu the latter is in reference to hive- 

 making, comb honey, comb foundation, 

 swarming and rearing queens. 



We are well pleased with these new books 

 for 1888, and specially recommend them 

 both to the craft in general. 



