BEE BOOKS

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Bees and Honey, or Management of an Apiary for Pleasure and Profit, by Thos. G. Newman. 250 pages-245 illustrations. Price, in cloth, $1.00.

Bienen Kultur, by Thomas G. Newman. This is a German translation of the principal portion of the book called "Bees and Honey." 100 pages. Price, 40 cents. Per dozen, $3.00.

The Apiary Register, by Thomas G. Newman.-A Record and Account Book for the Apiary, devoting two pages to each colony. Leather binding. The price for 50 colonies is $1.00. For 100 colonies, $1.25; 200 colonies, $1.50.

Bee-Keepers' Convention HandBook, by Thomas G. Newman.-It contains the Parliamentary Law and Rules of Order for BeeConventions-also Constitution and By-Laws, with Subjects for Discussion. Price, 50 cents.

Bee-Keepers' Guide, or Manual of the Apiary, by Prof. A. J. Cook. This book is not only instructive, but interesting and thoroughly practical. It comprises a full delineation of the anatomy and physiology of bees. Price, $1.

Leaflet, No. 1.- Why Eat Honey? Intended for FREE distribution in the bee-keepers' locality, in order to create a Local Market. Price, 100 copies, 50 cents; for 500, $2.00; for 1,000, $3.25.

If 200 or more are ordered at one time, we print on them your name and address FREE,

Leaflet, No. 2.-Alsike Clover for pastur age. Price, 100 for 50c; 500 for $2.00; 1,000 for $3.25.

Leaflet, No. 3.-How to Keep Honey, and preserve its richness and flavor. Price, 100 for 50 cents; 500 for $2.00; 1,000 for $3.25.

The Preparation of Honey for the Market, including the production and care of Comb and Extracted Honey. A chapter from 'Bees and Honey." Price, 10 cents.

Bee-Pasturage a Necessity.-This book suggests what and how to plant. It is a chapter from "Bees and Honey." Price, 10 cents.

Swarming, Dividing and Feeding. Hints to beginners in Apiculture. A chapter from "Bees and Honey." Price, 5 cents.

Bees in Winter, Chaff-Packing, Bee Houses and Cellars. This is a chapter from "Bees and Honey." Price, 5 cents.

The Hive I Use, by G. M. Doolittle.-It details his management of bees and methods for the production of honey. Price, 5 cents.

Dictionary of Apiculture, by Prof. John Phin. Gives the correct meaning of nearly 500 apicultural terms. Price, 50 cents.

How to Propagate and Grow Fruit, by Chas. A. Green.-It contains over 50 illustrations and two large, colored fruit plates. It tells how to propagate strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, gooseberries, grapes, quinces, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, pears and apples, with cuts showing how to bud, graft and propagate from layers, etc. Price, 25 cents.

Wintering Problem in Bee-Keeping, by G. R. Pierce. Price, 50 cents.

Bee-Keepers' Directory, by Henry Alley. Queen Rearing, etc. Price, 50 cents.

Honey-Bee; Its Natural History, Anat omy and Physiology, by T. W. Cowan. Price, $1.00. Rural Life-Bees, Poultry, Fruits, Vegetables and Household Matters. Price, 25 cents. ABC of Carp-Culture, by A. I. Root and Geo. Finley. 70 pages. Price, 40 cents.

Foul-Brood, by A. R. Kohnke.-Origin, development and cure. Price, 25 cents.

Advanced Bee-Culture; its methods and management, by W. Z. Hutchinson. Price, 50c, Bee-Keeping.-Translation of Dzierzon's latest German book. Price, $2.00; paper, $1.50.

Thirty Years Among the Bees, by Henry Alley. Price, 50 cents.

Grain Tables; for casting up the price of grain, produce, hay, etc. Price, 40 cents.

A BO of Potato Culture, by T. B. Terry. Price, 40 cents.

Scientific Queen-Rearing, by G. M. Doolittle.-It details his experiments in the rearing of Queen-Bees. Price, $1.00.

Pocket Dictionary.—Always useful, and often indispensable. Price, 25 cents.

Kendall's Horse Book.-35 engravings -illustrating positions of sick horses, and treats on all diseases. Price, English or German, 25 cents.

Hand-Book of Health, by Dr. Foote. -Hints and information of importance concerning eating, drinking, etc. Price, 25 cents.

Turkeys for Market and Profit, by Fanny Field, the most experienced turkey-rearer in America. Price, 25 cents.

Lumber and Log Book.-It gives the measurements of all kinds of lumber, logs, planks; wages, etc. Price, 25 cents.

Silo and Silage, by Prof. A. J. Cook.It gives the method in successful operation at the Michigan Agricultural College. Price, 25 cents.

Cheshire's treatment of Foul Brood.-Its cause and Prevention. Price, 10 cents.

Honey as Food and Medicine, by Thomas G. Newman.-In French. Price, 5 cents.

Langstroth on the Honey- Bee, revised by Charles Dadant.-It is entirely re-written and fully illustrated.

Handling Bees, by Chas. Dadant & Son. -A chapter from Langstroth revised. Price, 8 cts. Blessed Bees, by John Allen.-Full of practical information. Price, 75 cents.

Success in Bee-Culture, by James Heddon. Price, 50 cents.

Quinby's New Bee-Keeping, by L. C. Root. This is a new edition of Mr. M. Quinby's "Mysteries of Bee-Keeping," entirely re-written by his son-in-law, Price, $1.50.

A B C of Strawberry Culture, by Messrs. T. B. Terry and A. I. Root.-It is for those beginning to grow strawberries. Price, 40 cents.

Historic.-A brief history of the North American Bee-Keepers' Association, and Reports of the first 20 Conventions. Price, 25 cents.

By-Laws.-For local Associations, with name of the Organization printed. $2.00 per 100.

Ribbon Badges for Bee-Keepers, upon which is printed a large bee in gold. Price, 10 cents each. Large ones with rosette, 50 cents.

How I Produce Comb Honey, by George E. Hilton; 3d edition. Price, 5 cents. Maple Sugar and the Sugar Bush, by Prof. A. J. Cook. Price, 40 cents.

ABC of Bee Culture, by A. I. Root.A cyclopædia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. Price, $1.25.

Bee-Keeping for Profit, by Dr. G. L. Tinker. It fully details the author's new system of producing honey. Price, 25 cents.

A Year Among the Bees, by Dr. C. C. Miller. Chat about a season's work. Price, 50 cts.

Vol. XXIX. Mar. 31, 1892. No. 14.

Editorial Buzzings.

The Editor's Health has been so much impaired by three annual attacks of La Grippe, that if some radical improvement is not made very soon, a collapse is imminent. His physician prescribes "a complete rest and change of air." Accordingly, he will leave the city next week for a month's rest. The drudgery of desk-work has brought on neuralgia and brain troubles. A vigorous constitution, and strong will-power have contributed in no small degree to his holding out so long against the insiduous working of that dire disease and its results.

Meanwhile, the editorial work on the BEE JOURNAL will devolve upon the Editor's assistant, Mr. George W. York, who has been connected with the office for several years, and is thoroughly conversant with the duties of that department.

Bounty on Honey is a subject that has been pretty well discussed in Gleanings and some other bee-periodicals. Mr. Baldridge also had an article on the subject on page 220 of the AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. The idea was started at the Northwestern Convention last November, but it was so absurd that we then paid no attention to it in the AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL.

Instead of asking Uncle Sam to pay a bounty of 2 cents per pound on honey, we should join others in demanding that the bounty on sugar be repealed. It will surely be done in the near future. figures are enormous, as will be seen by the following from the daily press :

The

The U. S. Treasury issued a statement to March 1, showing that 2,523 claims for bounty have been received, amounting to about $7,000,000. Of these, 925 claims have been paid, involving about $3,000,000-$2,700,000 of which was on cane sugar alone.

Seven millions of dollars taken from the pockets of the poor and given to the rich! There is neither right nor justice in it! It is oppressive and burdensome, because at a time when there is a deficit in the public revenues, it will take ten millions annually from the alreadyburdened tax-payers, and give it to rich sugar-producers. It is also contrary to the Constitution, and violates every Those principle of our Government.

who enacted it knew this, and therefore made a permanent appropriation for the payment of this sugar bounty for 14 years. But few of such instances are on record, and let us hope that there will be no more of them.

Honey-producers would spurn the idea of such an enactment-of such a questionable transaction! They want no bounty-only a fair field, a good crop, and the stoppage of adulteration. there would be a good market for all that can be produced, and at fair prices.

Then

We fully agree with the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, given by Justice Miller, that "to lay with one hand the power of the Govern

ment on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprise, and to build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the forms of law, and is called taxation."

It is altogether wrong, and as beekeepers we only desire what is right.

The following, from Volney White, of Findley's Lake, N. Y., published on page 82 of Gleanings, states the matter very clearly, and we endorse it most fully :

Again, I ask, by what principle of justice can the government put its strong hand into my pocket and take my money and give to somebody else because he is engaged in another kind of business?

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I make some butter, as duce some honey; and as prices have been for a number of years, I have not netted 2 per cent. on the capital invested, with labor thrown in; please tell me why I should not have a bounty of 5 cents per pound on my butter; and then the men who produce pork, beef, wheat, oats, potatoes, and, in fact, every product of labor, should have a bounty; for the producers all say, and truly, that they cannot make reasonable profits on their business.

A man who desires the government to take other people's money and give to him, for no equivalent, is either very selfish, or else he has not looked the matter over carefully; for it indisputably would be a violation of every principle of justice.

Let us use our efforts to get stringent laws passed in all of the States against the adulteration of honey, and then get, if we can, executive officers elected who will not neglect their enforcement; and that is the best we can do.

Speaking of seed catalogues lately sent all over the country, Mrs. L. Harrison wrote thus to the Prairie Farmer:

When looking over these gems of art which come to us so freely, "without money and without price," arrayed in all the colors of the rainbow, let us not be unmindful of our little pets. If anything grown would pay us for honey alone, it would be the raspberry; its hanging blossoms yield nectar following rain. Order some mignonette and sow a bed, if for nothing more than to see the bees enjoy it, and carry its fragrance into their hives.

New Honey-Plant for Bees. -Bulletin No. 95, issued by Director E. W. Hilgard, of the University of California, mentions a waste-land forage plant which is a good honey-plant for bees, and offers seed for free distribution provided a small amount is sent him, sufficient to cover postage and packing. The plant (Sida elliottii) is thus described by an exchange:

It is a green shrub or little bush which grows spontaneously to a height of 18 inches to 2 feet. Cattle and hogs are very fond of it; horses and mules as yet do not seem to like it.

The plant has a long tap-root, taking possession of waste places and wild lands. It seems to prefer hard clay or rocky land. Scatter the seed on the hills, and in a few years it will cover the whole surface. In the meantime, pasturing does not hurt it. The seeds germinate readily.

It is a member of a family which are all innocuous. Mucilaginous and nutritive, it requires no irrigation whatever, and while young is quite leafy and succulent, and seeds freely. Sowing the seed is not advised except on places designed for permanent pasturage, and not on meadows intended for mowing.

Weak Colonies.-The National Stockman offers this very timely advice:

Look after the bees, and see if each colony has plenty of stores. They may have honey, and possibly live through, but that is not the main point; if they have not plenty, they will not be rearing young bees as they should, and when Spring opens, you will have a weak colony or dead bees. A colony that is weak when fruit bloom comes, will require a greater part of that season to build itself up, and cannot store much surplus honey. To help the weak colonies, feed them regularly from now until bloom comes. Do not feed much at a time; about a quarter of a pound of syrup a day is sufficient if fed regularly. I have tried this, and know that it pays.

Another new bee-escape has been placed in our Museum. It is the one illustrated and described on page 451, and is a double-acting bee-escape, and hence it is called the "Lightning."

Paddock's Pure-Food Bill is before Congress, and as there is some inquiry as to its provisions, we will give the following:

A food or drink shall be deemed to be adulterated

1. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its qualities or strength; so that such product when offered for sale shall be calculated and shall tend to deceive the purchaser.

2. If an inferior substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article, so that the product when sold shall tend to deceive the purchaser.

3. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted, so that the product when sold shall tend to deceive the purchaser.

4. If it be an imitation of, and sold under the scientific name of, another article.

5. If it be mixed, colored, powdered or stained in a manner whereby damage is concealed, so that such product, when sold, shall tend to deceive the purchaser.

6. If it contain any added poisonous ingredient, or any ingredient, which may render such article injurious to the health of the person consuming it.

This would apply to extracted-honey when adulterated. The chief point is that an article is condemned when it deceives the public. It was the first Bill introduced in the LIId Congress, and hardly a day has gone by since its introduction, that Senator Paddock has not appealed to the Senate to let this measure be considered. It ought to pass both Houses of Congress, and become a law.

A Curious Ceremony is mentioned by a clergyman who lives upon an estate in Switzerland, as having been lately performed there with the bees.

He says:

The proprietor of a large domain not far from the mouth of the Rhone died. As soon as life was extinct, one of the relatives went to the bee-hives and attached a piece of crape to each hive, saying to each, "The master is dead."

On the day of the interment the same relative again visited the hives; took off the crape, and carried to each hive some

cake and some wine, which had remained from the collation.

Dipping a piece of cake in the wine, he placed some at the eatrance of each hive, each time repeating, "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."

He said that if it had not been done, the bees would not have recognized their new master, but would have left.

A Swiss, however, informs me, that the custom is general among bee-keepers, but the belief is that if it were neglected the bees would die instead of migrating.

The Fools are not all dead. A patent has just been issued to U. G. Matthew on a bee-hive. His claims are as follows:

1. A bee-hive having the bottom provided with a ventilating-opening, and a moth-trap, and guides on the said hinged bottom, whereby the moth-trap may be moved to either close or uncover the ventilating-opening, substantially as de

scribed.

2. A bee-hive having the supportinglegs, the hinged bottom, with the ventilating-opening and the guides, and the moth-trap having flanges fitting in the guides, and adapted to be moved to close or uncover the ventilating-opening, substantially as described.

It is the same old "moth-trap humbug" with not. a new feature in it. What a swindle the patent office is! Patents are issued on old, worn-out, and worthless features of bee-hives; the poor inventor being deceived, and made to believe that he has something of value, when even the paper used in recording the patent is spoiled by that worthless transaction. There is absolutely no value in this new patent, and the inventor is defrauded out of his money.

Mrs. Potter Palmer, President of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Fair, will drive the last nail used in completion of the Woman's Building. This nail will be furnished by the women of Montana, and will be a very wonderful one, as is indicated by this description of it, given by the Helena, Montana, Independent :

The nail has been so made as to form the back or cross-bar of a brooch, which is to be a shield bearing the coat-of-arms of Montana, reproduced in native gold without a trace of alloy in its composition. The shield will be of gold, and the symbolical figures will be made of the same metal, but of different colors. The waterfall in the foreground will be of light colored gold, sunk into the shield, and the plow and pick, standing at the foot of the falls, will be of a darker shade, as will be the background or relief. The wreath surrounding the escutcheon will be of native gold, and

the figures of the two men supporting the whole on either side will also be of the same rich, yellow gold. Underneath will be the scroll, bearing the motto of the State, "Oro y Plata." In the two upper portions of the wreath two Montana sapphires will be inserted. Instead of merely engraving the figures, each will be wrought separately, and then fastened together, making the task of shaping the brooch not only a delicate, but exceedingly difficult one, and one that will require much skill and patience.

To Mrs. J. E. Rickards, of Butte, belongs the credit of the happy idea of making the last nail one of such interest. In design the nail, which is being made by a Butte jeweler, will be the conterpart of an ordinary twelve-penny nail, and will be composed of three strips with silver in the center, and the gold and copper on either side. The nail and brooch are distinct articles, and after the former has been driven it will be drawn from the wood, fastened to the brooch, and the whole presented to Mrs. Palmer.

The women of Nebraska have undertaken to furnish the hammer with which this last nail" will be driven. A description of the hammer has not yet been given, but it is the intention to make it worthy of the aristocratic nail with which it will be brought in contact by Mrs. Palmer. It has been suggested that it be made of native Nebraska woods, inlaid with gold, silver and pearl.

Fatal Maladies among bees are to be found at all times in some part of the country, the same as among other animals. But just to what extent may be the resulting fatalities, and to what degree such may affect the general wealth, are often difficult to determine. In the Toledo Blade for March 15, 1892, a "special" from Shepherd, Mich., under the heading, "A Short Honey Crop," says this concerning the bees in two counties in the central part of that State :

Many colonies of bees have been lost this Winter through Isabella and Clare counties. There is evidently some fatal malady in beedom, that will shorten the honey crop very materially.