June 23, 1904. 



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wrote friend " Yor ick," telling him about this wonderful canine that 

 could pronounce his name so distinctly, and that I thought 1 would 

 name him York if he had no objections. He writes bacli that I must 

 be a good interpreter, and thinks it I should send him to the St. Louis 

 Exposition he would be a great attraction for the Root Co.'s exhibit. 

 He thinks, however, if I should teach him to say " York's Honey," he 

 could use him in Chicago. He has no objection, he says, to my using 

 the name, "but it must be understood that the dog is to lie a Prohibi- 

 tionist, without any iMC-tailment about him except his own. Then he 

 winds up by saying, " Please excuse this doggoned letter." I have 

 set myself to the task of teaching the dog to howl " Y'ork's Honey " 

 just as lustily as he now " Y'or-ricks " at night ; and if I succeed I am 

 going to put him in Y'ork's advertisement to bark up trade. 



We hardly know what to think of the intended ( i) honor of 

 having a ■' cross terrier " with a " Scotch pointer " nanned after us. At 

 first we were inclined to submit, thinking that we might never be 

 guilty of any act thar would disgrace so intelligent a dog as Master 

 Leland Root owns. After reading the above, we don't see how we can 

 object, it the pup's articulate language is not misinterpreted by his 

 most intimate friends. But we fear (not having seen or heard this 

 canine prodigy) that considerable imagination is invoked by those 

 who have decided that he insists on a continuous vaudeville perform- 

 ance of "Y'or-rick." 



We have just been wondering how it would be if we should get a 

 little Duroc Jersey hoglet for a backyard pet. We could very appro- 

 priately call him " Root," as that would be about what he could do to 

 perfection. But we think we'll not get the " Root-er " until that 

 Prohibitionist pup is able to say " York's Honey," so he can earn his 

 keep by helping us to " bark up trade." 



The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Texas State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, at College Station, Tex., on July .5 to 8, promises 

 to be a big affair. A large notice has been sent out giving the pro- 

 gram, stating the advantages of membership, and also the following 

 concerning the apiarian exhibit to be held in connection with the 

 meeting: 



An exhibit of apiarian products will be made, and blue ribbons for 

 first prizes and red ribbons for second prizes will be awarded. All of 

 the bee-keepers who have something to show will please write the 

 secretary about it, and make arrangements to help make this a great 

 show of bee-keepers' productions. 



The premium list is as follows: 



BEES. 



Best single-comb nucleus, golden Italian 



Best single-comb nucleus, 3-banded Italians 



Best single-comb nucleus, Holy Land 



Best single-comb nucleus. Black 



Sweepstakes on bees — greatest number of different races; 

 races one-frame nucleus 



HONEY. 



Best exhibit of section comb honey 



Best sample (1'2 lbs.) case section honey 



Best exhibit of bulk comb honey. . . .; 



Best sample (12 lbs.) bulk comb honey 



Best exhibit of extracted honey 



Best sample (12 lbs.) extracted honey 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Best exhibit of beeswax 



Best sample cake bright yellow wax, not less than 3 pounds. . 



. Best gallon of honey-vinegar 



Best display of honey-plants, pressed and mounted 



For further information, if desired, address the secretary, Louis 

 H. Scholl, College Station, Tex. 



Honey as a tIealth-Food is the name of a 16- 

 page leaflet {3%x6 inches) which is designed to help in- 

 crease the demand and sale of honey. The first part is 

 devoted to a consideration of " Honey as Food," written 

 by Dr. C. C. Miller. The last part contains " Honey-Cook- 

 ing Recipes" and "Remedies Using Honey." It should be 

 widely circulated by every one who has honey for sale. It 

 is almost certain to make good customers for honey. We 

 know, for we have used it ourselves. 



Pricks, prepaid — Sample copy free; 10 for 20 cts.; 25 

 for 40 cts.; 50 for 70 cts.; 100 for $1.25; 250 for $2.25; 500 

 for $4.00 ; 1000 for $7.50. Your business card printed free 

 at the bottom of the front page, on all orders for 100 or 

 more copies. Send all orders to the Bee Journal office 





Sketches of Beedomites 





MRS. L. HARRISON. 



See. Langstroth Book Offer on another page of thi 

 copy of the American Bee Journal. 



As announced on page 404, Mrs. L. Harrison passed away while in 

 St. Andrew, Fla., May 26. 



In a letter to us from her husband, Mr. L. Harrison, dated June 

 5, he writes as follows : 



Friend Y'ork :— I have little to add to Mrs. Harrison's biography, 

 more than you already possess. She was for 17 years apiarian editress 

 of the Prairie Farmer, and for two years of the Orange Judd Farmer, 

 when the infirmities of advancing years warned her to resign. 



She has spent 13 winters in her cottage here at St. Andrew. She 

 has done much mission and church work here for several years past, 

 and was held in great esteem, and was greatly beloved by the people 

 of St. Andrew. Her funeral was very largely attended. She had suf- 

 fered much for six weeks, and death came as a glad release. Her life 

 work well done, she has gone to her reward. Her age was 72 years. 



LovELL Harbison. 



In 1S93, we published the following sketch of Mrs. Harrison, taken 

 at that time from the " Portrait and Biographical Album of Peoria 

 County, Illinois," which locality was her home: 



Mrs. Harrison is deserving of special mention on account of her 

 eminent success as a bee-keeper and a writer on the management of 

 the honey-producing insects. " A B C of Bee-Culture " has this to 

 say of her : 



" Among women no bee-keeper is more widely known than Mrs. 

 Lucinda Harrison. Born in Coshocton Co., Ohio, on Nov. 21, 1831, 

 she came in 1836 to Peoria Co., 111., her parents, Alpheus Richardson 

 and wife, being pioneer settlers. Public schools were at that time un- 

 developed, and educational advantages few, but her parents gave her 

 the best to be had in private schools. Her brother Sanford was a 

 member of the first class which was graduated from Knox College, 

 and she then spent a year at an academy taught by him at Granville, 

 111. She taught school from time to time until 1855, when she married 

 Robert Dodds, a prosperous farmer of Woodford county, who died two 

 years later, leaving her a widow at 25. She was married to her pres- 

 ent husband on July 4, 1S66." 



Mrs. Harrison thus describes her entrance into the ranks of api- 



" In 1871, while perusing the reports of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, I came across a fiowery essay on bee-culture from the graceful 

 pen of Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper. I caught the bee-fever so badly that I 

 could hardly survive until spring, when I purchased 2 colonies from 

 the late Adam Grimm, of Jefferson. Wis. The bees were in 8-frame 

 Langstroth hives, and we still continue to use hives exactly similar to 

 those then purchased. I bought the bees without my husband's 

 knowledge, knowing full well that he would forbid me if he knew it, 

 and many were the curtain lectures I received for purchasing such 

 troublesome stock. One reason for his hostility, was that I kept con- 

 tinually pulling the hives to pieces to see what the bees were at, and 

 kept them on the warpath. 



" Oar home is on three city lots, and at the time I commenced 

 bee-keeping, our trees and vines were just coming into bearing, and 

 Mr. Harrison enjoyed very much being out among his pets, and occa- 

 sionally had an escort of scolding liees. 



" Meeting with opposition made me all the more determined to 

 succeed. I never wavered in my fixed determination to know all there 

 was to be known about honey-bees, and I was too inquisitive, prying 

 into their domestic relations, which made them so very irritable." 



It is credited to Mrs. Harrison that she has written more than any 

 other woman in the world on the subject of bee-keeping, as opening up 

 a new industry for women. Her writings have been extensively pub- 

 lished not only in the L'nited States, but in Great Britain and on the 

 Continent, as well as in Australia and the South Sea Islands. Her 

 articles have been translated into B'rench, German and Italian. 



Mrs. Harrison is a strong, vigorous, and advanced thinker, and is 

 a oeliever in the rights and privileges of women. Her contributions 

 in literature embrace not only articles on bee-culture, but likewise on 

 horticulture. Her first writings appeared in the Germantown Tele- 

 graph, of Philadelphia, and Colman's Rural World, of St. Louis. 



The perseverance of Mrs. Harrison was rewarded, her husband's 

 opposition ceased, and he himself became interes'.ed in the bees, help- 

 ing to care for them, declaring that he believed that it would add ten 

 years to his life. For a number of years her apiary has contained 

 about 100 colonies. She is prevented from doing as much as she other- 

 wise would by ill-health and family cares, for, although childless, she 

 has been a mother to several orphan children. 



She is best known as a writer, her many contributions to the press 

 being marked with vigor and originality, with a blunt candor that 

 assures one of her sincerity. She credits bee-keeping with making 

 her life more enjoyable by opening up a new world, and making her 

 more observing of plants and flowers, with which, we may add, her 

 home is quite surrounded. 



Mrs. Harrison is plain and unassuming in her manners, kindly 

 and charitable. She says, " The way to be happy is to be usefully 

 employed.' She has great energy and perseverance, with large ex- 



