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ISAJt Mentic 



I Bee Journal. 



•' grand old maD." Dr. C. C. Miller, who is so 

 kind and obliging in telling us what we want 

 to know. Some day we shall lose him, and 

 his place will be hard to fill. May the Father 

 above be good to the Doctor and his, is my 

 prayer. 



What would we better do with Mr. Hasty ? 

 He appears to be having a circus with us all. 

 How would the editor like to go fishing with 

 him. and afterward hear him tell how all the 

 big 'uus got away — from the other fellow ? 

 J. P. Blusk. 



Webster Co., Iowa, March 9. 



[No, we don't know anything about Ashing, 

 so if Mr. Hasty wants a companion, on such a 

 job, he'd better take Mr. Blunk, who is a 

 diligent student of the late, lamented Izaak 

 Walton. — Editor.] 



Mistake in "Averaging Up." 



On page 157, J. D. (iehring wonders '■ it F. 

 .J. Gunzel's report of 14,000 pounds from 94 

 colonies is not a mistake. " One thing is cer- 

 tain, as Mr. Gehring " figures it," his 170 

 pounds average is a huge mistake. Would 

 not 149 pounds (nearly) reduce the cause for 

 wonderment >. Wm. Wrat. 



Gratiot Co., Mich. 



Queen-Button Bees Wintered 

 Poorly. 



I think that little queen-button is the best 

 thing out to advertise a bee-keeper, and I am 

 sure that if every bee-keeper, old and young, 

 male and female, would wear one of these 

 little "catches" they would catch many a 

 pound of honey which would otherwise re- 

 main paekt away in the honey-room. When 

 taking the last number of the American Bee 

 Journal from the post-office, and glancing 

 thru it to page '303, a bystander noticed the 

 picture of the queen-button, and the first 

 question he askt was, " Say, Mr. Golden, have 

 you any honey ? Seeing that bee just put me 

 in mind of the honey." 



Some time ago I frequently spoke to our 

 bee-keepers that I was fearful that our bees 

 would suffer greatly on account of the quality 

 of winter stores and long confinement. Surely, 

 mv prediction is being fulfilled thruout this 

 section, not because it has been so cold, but 

 on account of the long confinement without a 

 flight, and bad winter stores. 



.J. A. Golden. 



Morgan Co., Ohio. April 1. 



Wintered Well. 



I wintered 25 colonies in chaff-packt hives, 

 and up to this date they seem to be lively and 

 doing well. Albert Baxter. 



Muskegon Co., Mich., April 1. 



Mistake in Mathematics. 



In Mr. Getaz' article, on page 151. a little 

 mistake in mathematics appears, and should 

 be corrected without any offense being given, 

 because mistakes— according to an old maxim 

 — are no haystacks. 



If a man is to carry 2.000 pounds of mate- 

 rial, taking 50 pounds on a trip, to a place .500 

 yards distant, he will truly have to make 41) 

 trips, but in going to and from the place of 

 dep<i>it 111- will have to walk 1.000 yards to 

 coiiLpU'U" his trip; therefore, the man carry- 

 ing 50 pounds on a trip will cover a total of 

 40.000 yards, and the one carrying 100 pounds 

 will walk one-half the distance, or 20,000 

 yards. E. F. Trittexbach. 



Northampton Co.. Pa.. March 11. 



Experience in Getting Subscribers. 



The editor has said from time to time that 

 any one could get at least one new subscriber, 

 but I have tried every man in this vicinity 

 that keeps bees, and sent in 16 names at one 

 time for sample copies, but not one would 

 part with his dollar for subscription, but let 

 his bees rot with foul brood, and then say, 

 '• Let them go; they don't gather any honey, 

 anyway, bo they might as well be dead as 



