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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Bees and llorticiiltiire.— The an- 

 nual meeting of Northern Illinois Horticul- 

 tural Society was held at Marengo, 111., 

 Dec. 5 and 6. Dr. C. C. Miller is given the 

 credit of being its projector, having made 

 the iirst plea for it, and being elected its 

 first Secretary, 27 years ago. He was 

 elected President of the society at its re- 

 cent meeting— a thing to which he would in 

 no wise have consented, but that he 

 thought it possible thereby to unite more 

 closely bee-keepers and fruit-growers. We 

 hope bee-keepers everywhere will take a 

 deeper interest in horticultural matters, 

 and thereby help to show horticulturists 

 that bees are their friends instead of sup- 

 posed enemies. Bee-keepers and horticul- 

 turists should pull together, and not be 

 blind to the fact that in a " union " of these 

 two natural forces " there is strength."' 



Xlie I^ortli Aiiiei-ican. — Bro. Hutch- 

 inson, in the last number of the Review, 

 comments on the suggestions that have 

 been made in the American Bee Journal, 

 about the North American holding two or 

 four meetings a year. To sum up what he 

 says, we quote his closing sentence: "When 

 the North American attempts to hold more 

 than one meeting annually, it is doomed." 

 May be so. But we'd like to see two meet- 

 ings a year tried first. And yet we don't 

 want to see it "doomed." Before the next 

 annual meeting in Toronto there will be 

 ample time to look on all sides of the mat- 

 ter, through the bee-papers. We think the 

 Review and the American Bee Journal are 

 the only papers so far that have expressed 

 an opionion on the subject. We wonder 

 Low the other editors stand on the question. 



Inseet I<liieiiiies of ISet^s. — Prof. A. 

 J. Cook, of Claremont, Calif., is trying to 

 keep track of all the insect enemies of bees, 

 and desires that all such, whenever found, 

 be sent direct to him. He will then report 

 on them through the American Bee Jour- 

 nal. Be sure to write Prof. Cook, at least 

 a postal card, telling him when you send 

 him anything, and also put your name on 

 the package when mailing it, to prevent 

 mistakes being made. 



Prof. Cook, besides being a bee-keeper, is 

 an expert entomologist and biologist, and 

 will be able to help bee-keepers to distin- 

 guish any or all insect or other bee-ene- 

 mies. 



A Pi-oiiipt Reiie^val of all subscrip- 

 tions that expire this month is earnestly 

 desired at this office. We wish to take this 

 opportunity to thank all the friends of the 

 old American Bee Journal for the interest 

 they have manifested in its welfare, by 

 sending in new subscriptions, and by con- 

 tributing whatever bee-information they 

 have been able to furnish. We believe in 

 giving everybody a chance to be heard, es- 

 pecially when they write something of 

 interest or special value, be it ever so little. 

 We never expect to be open to the charge 

 of having "pet contributors," unless all 

 who feel like writing for our columns are 

 considered " pet contributors." The Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal is here to help every bee- 

 keeper in every possible way. 



I.,ai-se Haiidlei's of Honey. —Edi- 

 tor Holtermann, of the Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal, visited the big honey-firm of Chas. F. 

 Muth & Son, at Cincinnati. Mr. Muth has 

 done business at the same place for 33 years. 

 They handle honey in enormous quantities 

 —the freight on a single shipment having 

 been as high as .fSOO. One shipment con- 

 sisted of 187 barrels of honey. Another, a 

 carload of comb honey, over one-half sold 

 in three days. They make regular ship- 

 ments of honey to Germany. If every city 

 had such pushing, energetic and honest 

 honey-dealers as Chas. P. Muth & Son, 

 there would be no trouble in finding a good 

 market for every pound of surplus honey 

 bee-keepers could produce. 



Mr. Alfred illottaz, of Utica, 111., 

 gave us a short call last week. He has 90 

 colonies of bees, and had about 2,500 pounds 

 of extracted honey this year — mostly from 

 heart's-ease and sweet clover. 



*»• liii|>roTiii$>- itee - l.,iteratiire " 



is a phrase that some folks are nowadays 

 rolling, as a sweet morsel, on their egotistic 

 tongues. If what we have seen so far from 

 their pens is a fair sample of what they 

 consider "improved bee-literature," the 

 best we can say of it is, " the cure is worse 

 than the disease"— yes, infinitely worse. 

 But, then, there are people who have to 

 "blow oflf " about so much or "bust." 

 They have our full consent to do either or 

 both. When they are through, probably 

 they will find the world still revolving upon 



