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ifornia, nor even for friend Ilarf s vicinity 

 down in Florida, but straiglit for the island 

 of Cuba. Well, well, wliat nexty 



PROMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. 



Our Friend "Wm. Muth - Rasmussen, of the 

 Pacific Coast. 



IU>W lit; I.OOIvS AMONG HIS FJlIiCXU.S. 



0UR friend whom we mention above, and 

 whose picture we give below, has been 

 for many years a sort of representative 

 man aniong California bee-keepers. 

 We shall not attempt to give much of 

 a biography, for he verv kindly furnishes us 

 th e folio .V II ig 1-tter: 



Sov(U"al jcais ajio you wcfc kind cmioukIi to send 

 me, at my iwiuost, your photograph. Please acoept 

 hereby mine in return. I do not pretend to I)e a 

 "pi'omincnt" bee-keeper, nor do 1 l)elonf? to the 

 sery extensive ones, having seldom c.veeoded over 

 KK) colonies at any one time. But I chiim to be a 

 bee keeper from the bottom of my heart to tlic 

 very tips of my fingers. About 10 yeaVs ayo I was 

 attacked by th(^ bee-fever, and liavc suffered from 

 tlie com plaint (ncr since. 



that 1 occasionally appear as a contributor to the 

 bee-papers. During' the last year I have been en- 

 g'aged to furnish i-egular articles for the bee-keep- 

 ers' department of the Pacific Rural Press. 



I send this picture, principally in the hope that 

 other bee-keepers, whom I h9,ve known for years 

 througrh their writing-s, may follow my example, 

 and thus not only aid you in keeping up this de- 

 partment of Gle.\nings, but give us all the pleas- 

 ure of looking- at each other's faces, though we may 

 never become personally acquainted. 



By the way, friend Koot, why don't you give us 

 the picture of Doolittle, James Heddou, Mrs. Harri- 

 son, and other well-known and appreciated writers, 

 whom you probably have in your "bee-keepers' 

 medley," and could transfer into Gleaxincs? 



Wm. MlTTH-RASJtUSSEN. 



Independence, Inyo Co., Cal., Jan. 26, 1885. 



Friend :NL, we would have given Doolit- 



tle"s picture long ago, but he would not let 



us have it ; said he had not time to go to the 



I artist's and have it taken, or something like 



I that. Mrs. Harrison sent us her picture. 



j which you will tind on page 27-5 of the A B C 



I book, and in Gt.eanings, page 123, 1S82. 



' Since vou mention it. it occurs to us that 



lleddoifs picture would come in very niceh 



at this crisis; and so. friend II.. straighten 



up a bit. rub the cobwebs out of your eyes, 



and send us your picture, and we will tell 



our engraver to do his level best. If you are 



busv just now. send us some picture you had 



taken' some other time. It will be like you, 



no doubt. 



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A\ M AH 1 II-! V-^H -^-I \ 



il 1 bMv^i ipln 1 will ill 111 It 1 nil a 

 Diiu 1)\ biith 111(1 iltci u(e\in^>- a /ood college 

 v.diiv..J.>j.., I k.c.iiK,J the tiaJi ol m.ith.nibt. In 

 IFCit 1 came to this State, and, finding business very 

 dull in my own trade, I engaged to work a summer • 

 for a bee-keeper in Los Angeles To. Well, I found | 

 that I liked the business, could stand the stings, J 

 etc., and I have stayed with it over since. After j 

 living at Los Angeles for ten years I moved to Inyo 

 Co., where I have now been located during the last 

 five years; have for several years been Vice-Presi- 

 dent for California, of the North-American Bee- 

 Keepers' Society, though I do not regard that as 

 owing to mj- "prominenoy," but simply tP the fact 



"THINKETH NO EVIL." 



IIAVK Just read Gi,kam.\(;s for Feb. 1.5. In 

 reply to Bro. Heddon, I will say that I meant 

 page'-' instead of 20. I can not say whether 

 the mistake is mine or the printer's, nor what 

 year the price list is for. since there is no date 

 on it. I presume Bro. H. is right when he says ho 

 meant the l"i - inch sections would not weigh a 

 pound when separators were used, but he says so 

 only by inference. 



1 had not received his price list for 1885 when my 

 letter to friend Hutchinson was written, so the part 

 concerning the making crates for 8 cts. does not 

 count; but the ne.xt hit, where ho gives rather 

 a broad hint on my veracity— did you ever? What 

 will come nc.\t'/ I have not the pleasure of personal 

 acquaintance with brother H. or I should feel rath- 

 er hurt at that; but as it is, we will let it pass as a 

 " scientific pleasantry." I did think of these moral 

 points, Bro. H.. and that is just what set me to 

 writing. , C. A. H.\tch. 



Ithaca, Wis., Feb. 16, 1885. 

 Tliank vofi, friend II. I sliould be very 

 sorrv indeed to see any thing unpleasant be- 

 tween two good men like Hatch and 

 Ileddon, and whv should we not all 

 remember tliat it is a very safe thing to 

 do. to put things rcri/ mildlyV It almost 

 always transpires, when you come to get 

 down to the facts, tliat it was a misunder- 

 standing, instead of any purposed evil. Let 

 us call it ''scientitic pleasantry," and drop 

 it, and it seems to me there might be a good 

 many more tilings that we might put under 

 that head, 



