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AMEHICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Soiind Advice is worth heeding. One 

 of our exchanges contained an item some 

 time ago that we feel well deserves to be 

 copied. Read it, and then think over it. 

 We don't print it because we have noticed 

 any dropping off of our own list of readers 

 lately, but because it has so much truth 

 in it: 



SOUND ADVICE FROM A PHILOSOPHER. 



These are hard times for the farmer, 

 there is no doubt about that, and he is look- 

 ing in every direction to cut down expen- 

 ses, and it is right for him to do so, but I 

 wish to say a word against cutting off one 

 item, and that is the farm paper. Don't 

 stop your pajjer! the harder the times, the 

 more you need the paper. If there ever is 

 a time — and there never is — when a farmer 

 can afford to do without the farm journal, 

 it is when times are good; then he can get 

 along somehow, because crops are good 

 and prices high, but even then he would 

 make more money if he kept well informed 

 about his business. 



Now, don't s'top your paper; you can 

 find some way to pay for it without sacri- 

 ficing anything essential if you try. If you 

 feel too poor to pay for your paper, you 

 will feel still poorer after you have stopped 

 it; you will feel more discouraged, for 

 while you have the paper you will read 

 how other men are doing — some of them 

 worse off than yourself— and you will feel 

 encouraged to go on and try harder than 

 ever to earn the hard-to-get dollars. 



If in the above you will substitute " bee- 

 paper " for " farm paper," it will be just 

 as truthful. By all means, read, read, 

 READ. It will pay you. 



l>r.Wm. le.Ilowarcl, of Ft. Worth, 

 Tex., is now Professor of History, Pathology 

 and Bucteriology, in the Medical Depart- 

 ment of Ft. Worth University. He is also 

 Secretary of the University Faculty. The 

 "First Annual Announcement" contains 

 this notice of Dr. Howard's work : 



This department will give instruction in 

 the use of the microscope in the cutting, 

 staining and mounting of specimens, and 

 the examination of healthy and morbid 

 tissues. Students will study in tube, plate, 

 drop culture and stained cover glass prep- 

 aration, all i)athogenic and non-jiathogenic 

 forms of micro-organism capable of culti- 

 vation. Two lectures will be delivered 

 each week, and four hours laboratory work 

 required. 



From this it will be seen that the position 

 is an imi)ortant one, which the Doctor will 

 certainly /ill accejitably. His book on 

 " Foul Brood " is a good sample of what he 

 can do iu the line of careful scientific in- 

 vestigation. 



Honey (Statistics lor 1894.— In 

 Gleanings for Sept. 1st, we find the following 

 editorial paragraphs regarding the honey 

 crop of the United States this year : 



ONE OF THE POOREST CROPS ON RECORD. 



Three weeks ago we sent out about 200 

 return postal cards on which were printed 

 these questions : 



1. What has been the honey season in 

 your vicinity, so far as you know ? 



3. What was your average yield per col- 

 ony, in honey, both comb and extracted ? 



Space was left for a brief answer under 

 each, and for name and address of re- 

 porter : 



Briefly stated, the honey crop seems to 

 have been most abundant in central and 

 lower Florida ; good in Texas ; fairly good 

 in spots, in Kern and Inyo counties, Calif., 

 in Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Minnesota, 

 Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, New York and 

 New England ; very poor in other portions 

 of most of these States and others, and a 

 total failure in the most of California, 

 Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Ken- 

 tucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Caro- 

 lina, South Carolina and Georgia. The 

 general impression given by the reports for 

 the whole country is not flattering. 



One peculiar thing we have noted from 

 reports is the uneven distribution. Of 

 two bee-keepers but a few miles apart, one 

 would get a fairly good crop, while the 

 other's bees would be starving. On this 

 account these reports may not fairly repre- 

 sent many localities, as the reports received 

 will not average more than five or six to 

 each State. 



From the above it would seem that the 

 poor crop has been so general throughout 

 the United States that there would be 

 scarcely enough honey to supply the de- 

 mand. But what do we find to be the 

 case '. Why, judging from a recent conver- 

 sation with a large dealer in honey here in 

 Chicago, there is plenty of honey in the 

 country somewhere. He said he knew 

 where he could get it by the carload— from 

 the West, and also the far East. But the 

 limited demand for honey just now, may 

 have caused the appearance of a bountiful 

 supply. 



In speaking of the honey market, on 

 another page of the same copy of GJmnings, 

 Bro. Root has this to say : 



Comparing the reports of the season's 

 honey crop with the market report of 

 prices gives a vivid picture of the very de- 

 pressing effect on prices of the close times 

 through which we have been passing. Not- 

 withstanding a very short crop, judging 

 from reports, we have never known prices 

 to be lower so early in the season. Last 

 year, those who got their honey to market 

 early, secured the best prices, as a rule. If 



