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AMERICAN BEE 



May 31, 1900. 



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A Happy Philosopher. 



BY R. F. GREENE. 



I like the weather rainy, an' I like the weather 



dry, 

 I like the world an' like the plan the Ruler runs 



it by ! 

 Ther's mebbe droughty seasons in some fair 



and farmia' spot. 

 While a streak of too wet weather blights 



another, like as not; 

 But I so love earth's roses that the little thorns 



don't hurt. 

 An' life to me is somethin' more than drudg'erv 



and dirt; 



God turned niy taste to sweetness, so I shun the 

 bitter lees. 



An' find so much of honey I'm a-robbin* of the 

 bees. 



A happy life's dependent not on g-umption or 

 on grit, 



But jes' the plain philosophy of make-the-best- 



of-it! 

 Of course, I ain't denyin' Sorrow's stalkin' thru 



the land. 

 But her sister, Joy, is with her, an' a-holdin' of 



her hand. 

 So write me down as happy, in the summer, 



spring, or fall. 

 An' even storms o'winter doesn't ice the blos- 

 soms all. 

 So I jes* keep on a-huntin' in the fragrance or 



the freeze, 

 An' I find so much of honey I'm a-robbin' of 



the bees. —Youth's Companion. 



Spraying Fruit = Trees Wliile in 

 Bloom. — The following letter, just re- 

 ceived from Prof. W. J. Green, of the 

 Ohio Experiment Station, will explain 

 itself : 



Mr. a. I. Root :— I enclose a letter 

 from the Farmer's Guide ; also a clip- 

 ping- from that paper, which was sent 

 me by the editor. I knew some time 

 ago that there were people who believe 

 that spraying trees when in bloom is 

 more beneficial than just before or just 

 after, but I was not aware that any 

 one would give such advice as Mr. 

 Stahl does. Mr. Stahl's position is 

 such that he can do great harm in this 

 way, because he has numerous corre- 

 spondents, and it is quite likely that he 

 will induce a great many to spray trees 

 when in bloom. 



I was present at the New York State 

 Horticultural Society meeting last 

 winter, and heard the statement made 

 that there were fruit-growers in the 

 State who intended to spray their trees 

 when in bloom, and pay the penalty if 

 fined, as there is a law in that State 

 against spraying trees when in bloom. 

 If this sentiment becomes at all uni- 

 versal among fruit-growers it will work 

 great injury, not only to bee-keepers, 

 but to fruit-growers as well. 



May 9. W. J. Green. 



The letter referred to from the Guide 

 Publishing Company, of May 7, is as 

 follows : 



Horticulturist, Experiment Station, 

 I! 'cosier, Oltio. 

 Dear Sir :— Herewith find page of 

 last week's issue of The Farmer's 

 Guide, in which we criticise fne advice 

 given by William Stahl, of Quincy, 



California Qneeas. 



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The MoNETTE Queen-Clipping' 

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 catching- and clipping- Queens 

 win^s. We mail it for 25 cents; 

 or will send it FREE as a pre- 

 mium for sending- us ONE NEW 

 subscriber to the Bee Journal for 

 a j-ear at $1.00; or for$1.10 we will 

 mail the Bee Journal one year 

 and the Clipping" Device. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY. 



118 Michigan St.. Cfaicaffo, 111. 



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 Our inducements are first-class goods, cheap 

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beautiful Oueens, from our best workers. Safe 

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 22A4t Pearl City, III. 



We are Headquarters for 



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 dollars "111 I h,vv hat iiRcil for and who is growing it. Sent for 10c 



AMERICAN GINSENG GARDENS, ROSE HILL, New York. 



2"Esi Mention the American Bee Journal. 



Rocku Mountain Bee-Plant Seed ! 



{Cleontc iniegtifolla ) 



...FREE AS A PREMIUM... 



The ABC of Bee-Culture says of it: ''This 

 is a beautiful plant fur the flower-g-arden, to 

 say nothing- of the honey it produces. It g-rows 

 from two to three feet in bight, and bears large 

 clusters of brig^ht pink flowers. It g-rows natur- 

 ally on the Rocky Mountains, and iu Colorado, 

 where it is said to furnish larg-e quantities of 

 honey." 



We have a few pounds of this Cleome seed, 

 and offer to mail a H-pound package as a pre- 

 mium for sending- us ONE NEW subscriber to 

 the American Bee Journal, with $1.00; or % 

 pound by mail for 40 cents. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



lis Michigaa St., CHICAGd, ILI<. 



111., on spraviiii;' fruif-trees in full 

 bloom. We are in receipt of a letter 

 from Mr. Stahl in response to our crit- 

 icism in which he says : 



" I regret that you are just a little behind the 

 times in jjiviu^ your advice. Spraying in full 

 bloom is nothinir new to me, as 1 have been ex- 

 periruentiag in this direction for several years. 

 M3' own trees have not only been sprayed once, 

 but have been sprayed twice, and I have most 

 excellent prospects. It may be well to state, in 

 connection herewith, that, in the fj'rape-growingr 

 section of Nauvoo, which is only 50 miles north 

 of here, and consists of 500 acres, almost every 

 acre will be sprayed this year in full bloom." 



Mr. Stahl enclosed a copy of a letter 

 from Mr. J. H. Fishel, a fruit-grower 

 of Grant Co., Ind., in which he says 

 that he has been spraying- in full bloom 

 for 3 years, and that his fruit is 90 per- 

 cent perfect, and that he has plenty. 

 He intimates that he has kept his plan 

 a secret, and adds : 



"I am aware that the idea prevails that it 

 kills honey-bees, and I have found, also, that it 

 is not necessary to have bees to fertilize the 

 bloom of fruit. I have been frequently askt why 

 I have such perfect fruit and so much of it when 

 others have scarcely any, and what they have 

 is not worth anythinj^. I do not tell my secret, 

 for fear of being blamed of killing bees." 



Now, if we are behind the times we 

 want to know it and to know the safe, 

 sure, and good way to catch up. If 

 spraying in full bloom is better than 

 otherwise, if bees are not needed in 

 fertilizing and pollenizing, and that it 

 is right to kill them in secret, or other- 

 wise, we should like to know it. 



We are addressing this letter to 7 

 experiment stations besides yours, and 

 await the replies with considerable in- 

 terest. Thb Guide Publishing Co. 



May, 1900. 



The clipping from the Guide, which 

 we believe to be absolutely correct, is 

 as follows : 



A farmer came into The Guide sanc- 

 tum Saturday, bearing a look of un- 

 usual disgust. He had recently ordered 

 one of Stahl's spray-pumps, and with 

 it had received a letter from the 

 manufacturer vouchsafing to him a 

 great secret, which is furnisht with 

 every spray-pump upon request, which 

 secret is as follows : 



"Give your vines and trees one ad- 

 ditional spraying this year when in 

 full bloom, using for this spraying 

 Bordeaux mixture, and adding thereto 

 Paris green in the proportion of one 

 pound to 160 gallons of Bordeaux 

 mixture." 



The manufacturer states that, where 

 the spraying was done where the trees 

 were in full bloom, the results were 

 simply wonderful. If the sprayer man- 

 ufactured and sold is of as much 

 doubtful utility as the above advice is 

 unsound, then would we hesitate to 

 buy it or advise its purchase. Any 

 benefits that spraying might have on 

 the fruit while the trees are in full 

 bloom, over omitting the spraying at 

 this time, is surely overcome by the de- 

 struction of the fruit-growers' best 

 friends, the bees. Spraj'ing with Paris 

 green at the rate of one pound to 200 

 gallons of water is sufficient to destroy 

 injurious insects ; but when the amount 

 of Paris green is increast, the destruc- 

 tion of the honey-bees and other pol- 

 lenizing insects is enhanced. This is 

 so plainly recognized in Michigan, New 

 York, and other States, that laws have 

 been past forbidding the use of poison- 

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