1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



863 



make the trip to Fort Valley. Probably Er- 

 nest or myself will be on hand — possibly both. 

 The only trouble will be in keeping us supplied 

 with plenty of beefsteak. 



In his usual department in this issue, Doolit- 

 tle gives some very interesting experiments on 

 feeding back. 



As previously announced, this edition num- 

 bers 15.000 copies. We shall be printing this 

 number for the rest of the year. 



In order to make room in this issue, and still 

 not crowd out the other matter, we add sixteen 

 extra pages, to take in the symposium on win- 

 tering. 



I TAKE pleasure in introducing to you " Sky- 

 lark," or. rather, he introduces himself. See 

 his "Pickings by the Way," just after Straws, 

 in this issue. If in his soarings he "picks" 

 some of us pretty hard — well, just score the 

 editor, and he will try to get even with the 

 lofty bird. 



We regret that the announcement of the next 

 meeting of the California State Bee-keepers' 

 Association did not appear in our columns in 

 due time. In some way the copy was put with 

 Ramble No. 143 (both written by the same 

 person, on the same kind of paper), and we did 

 not come across it till the last Ramble was put 

 in type— too late to do any good. We write 

 thi5 to exonerate the secretary more than our- 

 selves. The meeting takes place on the 18th 

 and 19th of this month. 



that eucalyptus honey from australia 



that was on exhibition at the 



world's fair. 



The following, just received from Dr. Miller, 

 will explain itself: 



Dear Editor :—Ciin any one tell us what became of 

 the fine exhibit of eucalyptus honies at the World's 

 Fair ? One hundred and twenty-six two-pound g-lass 

 jars of the various kinds were sent by the Hunter 

 River Association from Australia, and the proper 

 commissioner was requested to hand over tlie entire 

 exhibit to Dr. Riley, to be placed in the museum for 

 permanent exhibition at Wasliing-ton. Dr. Riley 

 also promised to send an exhlV)it of U. S. honey to 

 be placed in the Technicnl Museum of the Aus- 

 tralians. Unless very lately done, this promise has 

 never been fulfilled; and in the changing of officers 

 it may have been forgotten. Please tell us what can 

 be done to help keep our credit good with our Aus- 

 tralian brethren. C. C. Mili.er. 



Marengo, 111., Nov. 11. 



I may explain that the above was called forth 

 by a letter to the doctor, received from the sec- 



retary of the Hunter River Association, Mr. R. 

 Patten, asking him in regard to that honey. 

 He had already written the Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, and also to Mr. 

 Frank Benton, without reply; and now he ap- 

 peals to the doctor to help him out. We will 

 send a marked copy of this to the Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, and we hope the 

 proper person will be able to give us the infor- 

 mation desired. 



BEEJOURNAL EDITORS AND THE BEEF DIET. 



The editor of the Canadian Bee Journal,! 

 regret to say, has been very much " under the 

 weather" — so much so that the two last issues 

 of his journal have been delayed some. But 

 he has (or had up to Oct. 9) gained strength 

 enough to be back at the editorial helm a few 

 hours a day. A year ago, you will remember, 

 I was placed almost in a similar position; but, 

 I am happy to say, thanks to the beef-diet 

 treatment which I am still taking. I am just 

 about out of the woods. I feel belter than for 

 years; indeed, 1 am putting on good solid flesh 

 — anywhere from one to four pounds a week — 

 the latter being made during the last 7 days. 

 Besides all this, I feel as if I had a mountain of 

 strength an'd a big stock of reserve force. I 

 propose to keep right on with the diet until I 

 get a constitution that will not be affected by 

 " weather" or any thing else. 



I have been trying to get Bro. Holtermann 

 on the same treatment, and he has partially 

 consented to come and go with me to see Dr. 

 Lewis, of 176 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, O. He is 

 too valuable a man to be laid up thus by the 

 "weather." 



By the way, the editor of the Review says all 

 the bee-editors have been ailing to a greater or 

 less extent, and it looks as if he were right. 



If this thing keeps up I shall be preaching 

 beef diet to all of them. I succeeded in getting 

 A. I. R. on to it, much to his benefit, as you 

 know; and, after my earnest solicitation, F. A. 

 Salisbury, that bee-keeper and supply-man of 

 Syracuse, N. Y., went on to it, and at this writ- 

 ing he has been on the diet some five weeks. 

 Oh, yes! Dr. Miller and family are taking it too. 



VISITORS AT THE HOME OF THE HONEY-BEES; 

 THE ALFALFA FIELDS OF THE WEST, ETC. 



We have just had the pleasure of a visit 

 from two prominent bee-keepers— one from the 

 extreme eastern coast, and the other from the 

 far, far away West. Mr. Francis Danzenbaker, 

 of Washington, D. C, called in the interests of 

 the new hive which he has just gotten out. 

 It has a single-:story brood-nest, something 

 after the style of his last year's hive, with some 

 little added improvement. The surplus-apart- 

 ment remains I practically the same. But he 

 will have something to say concerning this in 

 Trade Notes later on. 



