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Mr. DRArEK has sent us a sample of his straw mats, 

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Many questions are asked in regard to matters treat- 

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 part of our readers have Gleanings from its com- 

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 over the ground again. We will always indicate where 

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We were agreeably surprised on getting hold of the 

 Fruit Recorder and Cottage Gardener to find a peri- 

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 to Gleanings, only that friend Purdy talks of fruit, 

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In speaking of Imported Queens on another page, 

 we spoke only of those we had tested in our own api- 

 ary. Although we have never tested the Dadant 

 importations, of course they have the same qualities 

 as our own. We sent them an order in '72 for two 

 Queens but the money was promptly returned on ac- 

 count of their losses that year. In regard to the decis- 

 ion at the last National Convention, Mr. D. writes : 



When we read the report of the Beekeepers 

 Convention, we immediatly wrote to Mrs. Tupper & 

 to King for an explanation. Mrs. Tupper answered: 



"I said no such thing as I am reported as saying at 

 the Convention. Some one asked me it their was not 

 danger of Italians in Italy being mixed with Egyptian 

 blood, and I replied that I did not tliink any Egyptian 

 had ever been carried to Italy and that I had received 

 line queens always, though 1 thought pure Italians 

 were improved by being brought to our climate. I 

 have corrected it in January No. E. S. T.'' 



King says: "The report in A. B. J. is incorrect. I 

 never uttered such language. I was absent from City 

 when Dr. Rush's report was received but returned 

 in time to promptlv correct manv incorrected state- 

 ments. &c. H. A. K." 



We wrote to Dr. Rush to And where that came from. 

 What do you think of it ? 



Ch. 1). & Son. 



One who attended the convention stated very pos- 

 itively, substantialy the same as the reporter, even be- 

 fore it came out, i. e., that importing from Italy was 

 not to be encouraged. Benedict clearly had a motive 

 for this, but as Mrs. Tupper has advertisol and sold 

 imported Queens largely, even recently, we are puz- 

 zled to understand what motive should jtrompt such 

 advice from she and King. We have just had a con- 

 versation with Mr. Nunn, and he agrees perfectly 

 with Grimm and I)a<laiit, and all careful observers, 

 viz: that none but three banded bees are to be found 

 in Italy, although many of them are <iuitc dark— the 

 bauds being more of a leather color, than yellow. 



We can almost forgive Professor Tyndall, if he di<l 

 blunder on the way bees build comb— see Popular 

 Science Monthly for Oct. 1874— when we read the fol- 

 lowing beautiful sentiment copied from Christiuir- 

 Union of Nov. 25th, '74 : 



He had been making some beautiful experiment-^, 

 showing the structural ))ower of molecular forces, 

 when he referred, parenthetically, to the revelations 

 of science as calculated to awaken our surprise. "We 

 are surrounded." he said, "by wonders and mysteries 

 everywhere. I have sometimes— not sometiiiies. but 

 ofteii— in the springtime watched the anvancc of the 

 sprouting leaves, and of the grass, and of the flovvei's, 

 and observed the general joy of opening life in nature 

 and I have aske<l myself this question, • Can it be that 

 there is no being or "thing in nature that knows more 

 about these things than I do? Do I in my ignorance 

 represent the highest knowledge of these things ex- 

 isting in this universe?' Toadies and gentlemen, the 

 man who puts that question fairly to himself, if he be 

 not a shallow man, if he be a man capable of being 

 penetrated bv jirofound thought, will never answer 

 the question by professing that creed of atheism which 

 has been so lightly attributed to me."' A]»preciativc 

 cheers followed this happy and iiresnmably sincere 

 rejoinder to those who see in Tyndall nothing but 

 enmity toward God. 



It would be sad indeed to think that no being in the 

 universe knew more of the hidden mysteries connect- 

 ed with bee culture than our own "awkward selves." 



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