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Does She Ever Rest ? — On page 469 Dr. Miller said the very things to Mrs. 

 Atchley that I wanted to say. Is there no end to the responsibility that that woman 

 is willing to shoulder ? Do you suppose she ever sits down in a sleepy hollow of a 

 rocking chair, and, folding her arms, lets go of things for ten minutes ? I doubt it. 



Mrs. Atchley, when do you rest ? Tell us, please. 



Not Honey-Dew. — Mr. Taylor, in Farm, Stock and Home, suggests the possi- 

 bility of our light fall honey being honey-dew. The drouth in this State threatened 

 our bees with starvation until after the first of August. The basswood here was 

 minus, for some reason, for I had sections with drawn comb on all my strongest 

 colonies, and I did not get a pound of sealed honey from that source. However, the 

 bees are in good condition for winter, and late in the season they stored from 30 to 

 50 pounds of surplus, per colony. The drouth that has troubled us for two years 

 has dried out the sloughs, and developed some honey-plant that is new to us. We 

 have traced the bees to our big sloughs, but have not found one plant. It cannot 

 be honey-dew — it is too fine a honey — flavored like the asters. 



Those " Othek Things." — Edwin Bevins, shake hands! I, too, have found 

 those " other things" (see page 473) connected with bee-keeping, and have all too 

 little time to do " what I love to do so well." 



Centre Chain, Minn., Oct. 12. 



t^T" Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper witn business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart wlthou 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Bees Doing Well. 



Some of my bees are doing well. I 

 have 15 colonies. One swarm issued on 

 August 10th, and it is doing well. 



D. a. Payne. 



Caddo Mills, Tex., Oct. 11. 



Two Meetings a Year. 



I read the suggestion about "Semi- 

 Annual Meetings" of the N. A. B.-K. 

 A. with delight, and with some regret. 

 I was pleased to see that two such meet- 

 ings were advocated by the editor, and 

 that he took Maine and Canada, on the 

 east, and Texas and California on the 

 west, and named times of such meetings 

 as the first of October for the West, and 

 for the East in April. I regret that he 



failed to give any recognition to all the 

 Southern country lying east of the Miss- 

 issippi river and south of the Ohio river. 



He says that the membership will re- 

 main largely locil. Having all of its 

 meetings in the North will always keep 

 it so. I know that there are a great 

 many Southern bee-keepers who to-day 

 would be members if they could enter- 

 tain the hope of meeting with the fra- 

 ternity of bee-keepers. 



I will not complain further, but will 

 make a few suggestions : In the event 

 that through the great wisdom of the 

 members they have two meetings yearly, 

 that they decide them North and South 

 instead of East and West. Starting 

 with one about March 10th, say in Cal- 

 ifornia, in ISBf); then in October, in 

 the East, for Maine and Canada ; in 

 Florida in March, 1896 ; then back in- 

 to the central North, say Ohio, in Octo- 

 ber, 1896; back South to Texas in 

 March, 1897 ; and then back to the 

 present vicinity in October, 1897. Thus 

 making the meetings every third year 

 within the territory named. This would 

 make it National, and would add great- 

 ly to its membership ; it would give 

 members in the South an opportunity of 

 meeting with its members, for the meet- 

 ings in California at that season would 

 be better for the cold Northern members 

 to attend the same in Texas, and espe- 

 cially so in Florida, where many of the 

 Northern and Eastern members would 

 delight in meeting, and enjoy hearing 



