XHU SMERICffilSt BEE JOlJRKSIr. 



797 



in St. Lawrence county. White clover 

 yielded no nectar, and buckwheat was cut 

 by tlie frost on Sept. 1 ; since then there has 

 not been a drop ot honey, and it has been 

 cold and raining about 30 days out of the 

 month. As a result, 1 have not been able 

 to look through the hives and prepare the 

 bees for winter. I think that some of them 

 will have to subsist on candy. 1 introduced 

 3 Carniolan qunens in August ; the first one 

 was introduced by taking as many frames of 

 sealed brood as would till a hive, without 

 any bees adhering, and keeping in the house 

 with the queen conflned until the brood hart 

 mostly hatched, when it was put out, a full 

 colony of bees. 



[Photography and bee-culture are admir- 

 ably adapted to go together, as you have no 

 doubt discovered experimentally.— Ed.1 



Silver Uning-— Phi-c Honey.— J. 



C. Armstrong, Bromley, Iowa, on Nov. 27, 

 1888, writes : 



"All is well that ends well." I am able 

 to give a little better report for my bees 

 from that given on page 515. Then, appar- 

 ently, the best part ot the honey season was 

 past, and man>; of our bees were on the 

 point ot starvation. They remained in that 

 condition until about the middle of August, 

 when the loug-louked-for "silver-lining" 

 came ; wlien tor nearly a month, 1 think, I 

 never saw htves fill up so last before. Some 

 of my best colonies tilled up one set of sec- 

 tions, and were crowded for room before 1 

 was aware of it. Unfortunately a light 

 frost catue on the night of Sept. 12, followed 

 by cool weather, which checked the honny- 

 flow, alter which tliey did not more than 

 hold their own. My bees have ample stores 

 for winter, and, like all others, I am looking 

 for a good honey season next year. 



While I have the subject of honey, I wish 

 to ask the readers ot the Amehicax Bee 

 Journal a question for inforniation (and 

 no one needs It worse). We have, for some 

 length of time, read through the papers a 

 great deal about pure and adulterated honey. 

 In such reading 1 have trrentally asked the 

 question, "What is pure honey?" Prof. 

 Cook says that it is " digested nectar." All 

 riaht ; but is not the nectar of one flower 

 different from that of another ? The nectar 

 from white clover is different from that of 

 buckwheat, both in color and flavor ; hence 

 there must be ingredients in the one not 

 found in the other. A person analyzing dif- 

 ferent samples of honey, as has been done 

 to show up the dishonesty of bee-keepers, 

 and having the common idea that bees make 

 honey instead of gathering it from the 

 flowers, and taking white clover honey as 

 pure honey, would pronounce buckwheat 

 honey adulterated. Hence the question, 

 what is pure honey ? 



Ready Tor tlie ^Viiitcr.— W. V. 



Bosworth, Jr., Clockville, N. T., on Nov. 23, 

 1888, says : 



I have 60 colonies in good condition for 

 winter in chatf hives, and, like all bee- 

 keepers that have had their eye-teeth cut, 

 and have learned by experience that one 

 head does not carry all the knowledge there 

 is in bee-keeping, 1 hope to have the same 

 number next spring. 



Xlie Xime tor Readings has come, 

 with the long winter evenings. We have a 

 large stock of bee-books, and would like to 

 fill orders for them. To read and post up is 

 the way to succeed in any pursuit— in none 

 is it more important than in bee-keeping. 



BiiJraiiiMi 



AI>FREI> H. l^ElVSIA^i, 



BUStNESS M.^NAQER. 



Uusiucss 3j0ticc$. 



14 You Uve near one post-ofSce and 

 get your mail at another, be sure to give the 

 address that we have on oru: list. 



Oit-e a Copy of " Honey as Food and 

 Medicine " to every one who buys a package 

 of honey. It will sell lots of it. 



If yoH L.o!<ie Money by carelessly en- 

 closing it in a letter, it is without excuse, 

 when a Money Order, which is perfectly 

 safe, costs but 5 cents. 



I*iire Mienol tor FonI Brood. — 



Calvert's No. 1 phenol, mentioned in Che- 

 shire's pamphlet on pages 16 and 17, can be 

 procured at this office at 25 cents per ounce. 

 Not being mailable, it must go by express. 



I»reseiTe Tonr Papers for future 



reference. If you have no BII^WER we 



will mail you one for CO cents ; or you can 

 have one FREE, if you will send us 3 new 

 yearly subscriptions for the Bee Joubnai., 



Tncca Briislies, for removing bees 

 from the combs, are a soft, vegetable fiber, 

 and do not irritate the bees. We supply 

 them at 5 cents each, or 50 cents a dozen ; if 

 sent by mail, add 1 cent each for postage. 



Please -write American Bee Journal 

 on the envelope when writing to this office. 

 Several of our letters have already gone to 

 another firm (a commission house), causing 

 vexatious delay and trouble. 



A Home Market for honey can be 

 made by judiciously distributing the 

 pamphlets, "Honey as Food and Medicine." 

 Such will create a demand in any locality at 

 remunerative prices. See list on the second 

 page of this paper. 



Apiary Register.— All who intend to 

 be systematic in their work in the apiary, 

 should get a copy of the Apiary Re^ster and 

 begin to use it. The prices are as follows : 



For 50 colonies {120 pages) $1 00 



" 100 colonies (220 pasfes) 125 



" 200 colonies (420 pa^es) 1 50 



PUotoerraphs ol Bee-Kcepers.— 



The " medley " gotten up by E. O. Tuttle, 

 contamiug the faces of 120 representative 

 apiarists, and a. printed sketch of each one, 

 will be sent with the Bee Journal for one 

 year for $1.75; or we will present it free, by 

 mail, to any one, for a club of tliree subscri- 

 bers and S3.00. 



tS" Xlie I\alional Bee-Keepers* 



Union fiscal year has heretofore ended on 

 June 30. Sometime since it was proposed 

 to have it end with tlie calendar year. It 

 was submitted to vote, and every vote so 

 far received is ot tlie same tenor as the fol- 

 lowing from Mr. U. K. Staley, Pleasant 

 Ridge, Ohio: 



At the request ot the Manager of the Bee- 

 Keepers' Union, for the memtiers to vote 

 on the proposed change for the paying of 

 the annual dues 'from June to January, I 

 vote in the positive, or in other words, I 

 favor the change. 



If any one wants to vote in the negative, 

 please let it come at once ; if none are re- 

 ceived by Dec. 10, the motion will be de- 

 clared to be carried, and the change made 

 accordingly, by consent. 



This change will make the time for pay- 

 ing dues and voting for officers come on 

 Jan. 1, and blanks will be sent out on Dec. 

 15, for that object— unless somebody votes 

 against the change. 



International Bec-Confention. 



—The Pamphlet Report of the Columbus, 

 Ohio, Convention is now issued, and copies 

 have been sent to each member, as well as 

 to the Colleges, Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Societies and periodicals devoted to 

 the industry. Copies can be obtained at 

 this office, by mail, postpaid, for 25 cents. 

 This pamphlet contains the new bee-songs 

 and words, as well as a portrait of the 

 President. Bound up with the history of 

 the International Society, and a full report 

 of the Detroit, Indianapolis and Chicago 

 conventions, for 50 cents, postpaid. 



Oood Enougli.- Andrews & Lock- 

 hart, of Patten's Mills, N. Y., on Oct. 13, 

 1888, wrote as follows concerning their use 

 of the advertising columns of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal : 



We got more orders from our advertise- 

 ment in the American Bee Journal than 

 from all the other bee-papers put together. 

 We shall advertise in it again next year. 



^Ve Supply Chapman Honey-Plant 

 SEEI> at the followmg prices : One 

 ounce, 40 cents ; 4 ounces, $1 ; K pound, 

 $1.75 ; 1 pound, S3. One pound of seed is 

 sufficient for half an acre, if properly 

 thinned out and re-set. 



Paper Boxes— to hold a section ot 

 honey for retail dealers. We have two sizes 

 on hand to carry sections 4Xx4K and 5J^x53^. 

 Price, Sl.OO per 100. or $8.50 per 1,000. 



Xl«e Bate on the wrapper label ot 

 your paper indicates the end of the month 

 to which you have paid. It that is past, 

 please send us a dollar to carry the date 

 another year ahead. 



Bo TSot Fail to get up a club and send 

 it with your renewal for next year. 



