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EblTORIAL. 



We have on hand at present a num- 

 ber of excellent articles to appear dur- 

 ing the coming "reading season,"' in 

 The Bee-Keeper. 



The American Bee .Journal says: 

 "Many persons speak of bees being 

 'run out' by moths. Why not say the 

 weeds run out the corn?" 



E. W. Brown, Eden, N. Y., reports in 

 Ainerican Bee Journal that while his 

 apiary is composed chiefly of Italians, 

 the blacks only worked on basswood 

 this year, the "yellow fellows" sticking 

 to the clover. 



General Manager T. G. Newman, in 

 the American Bee Journal, reports an- 

 other victory before the courts of Cali- 

 fornia, for the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union. It was another "bees a nui- 



sance" case, which investigation failed 

 to justify. Some people will learn, 

 some day, that bees and bee-keepers 

 have some rights on earth. 



Editor Hutchinson, of tlie Review, 

 has been going the rounds of the state 

 fairs "out west" with his honey ex- 

 hibits, and the "firsts" and "seconds" 

 which he has gathered in, foot up a 

 snug sum of money. The chief benefit 

 arising from such public exhibitions, 

 however, is its educational effect, a 

 benefit in which every bee-keeper in 

 the land shares indirectly. 



It would seem, according to Mr. 

 Whitcomb's climatic theory, that, what- 

 ever may l)e said of the depraved appe- 

 tite and correspondingly crude diet of 

 the Esquimaux, these primitive breth- 

 ren of the far North have an advantage 

 over us in the matter of superior qual- 

 ity and flavor of honey that may be ap- 

 proximated by the intervening dist- 

 ance. The farther north the better the 

 flavor. 



The California Bee-Keepers' Ex- 

 change has now on hand orders for 

 more than 600 tons of honey for ex- 

 port. Owing to the failure of the honey 

 crop this season in Southern California 

 it seems now to be a question just how 

 to hold the European demand which 

 the Exchange has created. There will 

 always be a demand for sage honey 

 where it has once been introuduced; 

 but the market developed for cheaper 

 grades from the Paciflic coast may find 

 substitutes in abundance. 



In the engraving accompanying Mr. 

 Jolley's interesting article on the de- 

 A^elopment of greater honey resources, 

 presented in this number, is shown a 

 Pennsylvania pasture-field literally 

 carpeted with white clover, and a 

 second-growth linden in full bloom; a 

 branch of which, with clover entwined, 

 constitute the background. The pe- 



