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GLliiANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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gotten now what it wa§ about, and who it 

 was that wrote it. I thank God I have for- 

 gotten, dear friends; for if I should meet 

 the man here to-day who wrote it, I could 

 shake hands with him pleasantly, without 

 even remembering it was he who wronged 

 me. Well, 1 was so badly stirred up I could 

 hardly write without trembling. 1 would 

 write only just a few words to set myself ; 

 right. Those few should l)e right to the 

 point. 1 wrote and wrote and wrote, and 

 still there was just one more very important 

 point that you all ought to know in the case. 

 I had neglected my work for an hour or 

 more ; and when I looked at the long manu- 

 script, I had a sort of misgiving that there 

 ought not to be any occasion for such a long 

 rigmarole, no matter how much I had been 

 abused. At this crisis our pastor happened 

 to come in, and I laid the matter before him 

 in a general way. 



"•Brother R.," said I, "is it not a fact, 

 that there is something wrong, whenever it 

 becomes necessary for us to use that amount 

 of space in self-defense?" and I held up the 

 long manuscript. His assent was more in 

 his kind look than the words. 



" Yes, my friend, there is something 

 wrong when so much needs to be said, or 

 seems to need to be said, on either side." 



Down it went into the waste-basket, and 

 you can hardly tell how thankful I am that 

 it did go there. The controversy stopped at 

 the beginning. I do not think I ever suffer- 

 ed much in the estimation of any one, for 

 people judge more by the life a man lives 

 right along year after year than by what 

 somebody says about him, even if it is said 

 in print. Do you ask, then, what harm 

 these unjust attacks do in a journal? My 

 friend, it harms the one who writes them ; 

 it harms the editor who gives place to it, 

 and it harms those who read. If every word 

 of it be true, and it be written in an unkind 

 and unchristianlike spirit, it harms the 

 guilty party, for it makes him harder and 

 more wicked. As quarrels are contagious, 

 and in one sense fascinating to the young,— 

 are you aware, friends, that a dog-tight has 

 its fascinations?— well, our growing-up chil- 

 dren at your house and my house enter into 

 the spirit of these controversies, and get to 

 thinking it is the way to do business, to fi^ht 

 it out in words in this way. Both parties 

 get stirred up, and fearfully exaggerate, 

 without meaning to, or, in fact, without. 

 knowing they have done so, and on and on 

 it goes, may be ending in lawsuits, and 

 years of quarrels. Did you never observe, 

 that when a man has a quarrel or controver- 

 sy with oiie person, he is pretty sure to have 

 another very soon with somebody else? He 

 has got mentally sick, as it were ; and the 

 worst part of it is, he does not know he is 

 sick. 



It isn't alone we who are comparatively 

 without talent, and a high order of educa- 

 tion, that are guilty of a want of courtesy 

 through the papers and journals ; but it 

 sometimes happens that ministers of the 

 gospel, and professors in our schools and 

 colleges, seem to forget, or be sorely tempt- 

 ed, at least, and to have faith in a war of 

 words, rather than to have faith in the 



teachings of our Savior when he said, "Do 

 good to those who hate you." 



A very good friend of mine was once 

 shamefully abused by one who, like himself, 

 stood prominently before the people. The 

 injured one sat down at his desk and took 

 the article, point by point, and paid him 

 back in his own coin, driving him into cor- 

 ners he could never get out of, and he did it 

 so nicely, and with such skill, he could not 

 resist the temptation of carrying the paper 

 home to his wife, to let her see how cleverly 

 he had done it. To his surprise, she did not 

 commend him for his wisdom and skill in 

 making his clever hits, but, on the contrary, 

 declared he must under no circumstances 

 think of having it go into print. Like a 

 good husband, he yielded to his wife's supe- 

 rior cool wisdom, and wrote so kind a reply 

 that his opponent was ashamed of himself, 

 and the two are, I trust, to-day on a friendly 

 footing, even though their lifework both lies 

 in the same department of natural science. 

 I believe if these things were shown to our 

 wives oftener than they are, it would be a 

 better world than it is. I presume we can 

 not all of us be always quiet and cool 

 under all provocations ; but I feel sure we 

 can, if we try hard, let nothing ever go into 

 print, over our own signatures, but what is 

 kind and gentle, even though it be written 

 to and of the iinthankful. "lie that ruleth 

 his spirit, is greater than he that taketh a 

 city." 



THE CENTRAL. MICHIGAN BEE 

 EKS' ASSOCIATION. 



. KEEP- 



SECRETARY'8 report fob P0BLICATION. 



f]]HE meeting was held in the capitol buildingr, at 

 Lansing, Sept. 19. A call to order was made 

 by President Ash worth; the Secretary then 

 called the roll. The first question discussed was the 

 size and style of 



A UUILDINO TO EXHIBIT BEES, HONEY, AND APIA- 

 RIAN SUPPLIES. 



After a spirited discussion, a motion was carried, 

 by which a committee of three, consisting of Prof. 

 Cook, President Ashworth, and N. V. Goodnow, all 

 of Lansing, was appointed, to request the managers 

 of the agricultural fair to erect a building suitable 

 for the exhibition of bees, honey, and apiarian sup- 

 plies. 



The President then called for expressions of opin- 

 ions on the best methods of rearing queens. The 

 topic was discussed by E. S. Vannetter, S. Hilbert, 

 H. L. Denncy, and others. Mr. Denney Said, when 

 rearing queens for his own use he stimulates his 

 best stocks to breeding early, so they will have 

 drones flying before there were any other drones 

 out. 



A recess was taken until 3 p. m., when. President 

 Ashworth being called away upon urgent business, 

 Prof. Cook was called to the chair, and the meeting 

 opened with a renewal of the discussion of the best 

 methods of exhibiting bees, honey, and apiarian 

 supplies, at the fair. 



A QUEEN FERTILIZED IN THE HIVE. 



Prof. Cook, stated that he had this season a queen 

 fertilized in the hive. 



He also stated that he had used foundation this 

 season from nearly all the different makes of ma* 



