6. Do you know anytliing about Florida? 

 I do not. 



7. Can you inform me of any locality 

 that I could go to where pasturage is good? 



You will find bee pastureage good in 

 nearly all pastures of middle and east 

 Tennessee. You will probably find lands 

 cheaper in east Tennessee. We have quite 

 a number of inquiries concerning that por- 

 tion of our state, but we are not sufficiently 

 acquainted with it to give the desired infor- 

 mation. We refer all making inquiries 

 about that section of our state, to our friend 

 S. C. Dodge, Chattanooga, Tenn.. whom we 

 know will cheerfully respond to any letters 

 addressed to him. w. j. a. 



Friend Andrews, we have been con- 

 fined to our room and bed for one year, and 

 after suffering the pains and aches subject 

 to this life, we had finally to submit to the 

 amputation of our right limb; but we are 

 happy to say that we are again up, and feel 

 as Duoyant as, a boy, and hope hereafter to 

 occasionally send some items for the Jour- 

 nal. A. F. Moon. 



We are right glad to hear from friend 

 Moon again, but sorry to learn of his suffer- 

 ing and misfortune in the loss of one of his 

 limbs. We are well prepared to fully sym- 

 pathise with one in his condition, for we 

 have not been able to raise our right arm 

 since 1868. w. J. A. 



C^^Dr. G. D. Lawrence, Cedar Bluff, 

 Ala., writes that he started in the spring 

 with 13 colonies (4 weak and 2 queenless). 

 He increased to 30 and got 40 to fiO lbs. honey. 

 He intends to increase to 100 next season. 



W. H. Green, Sparta, Ga., writes: Bees 

 have done well. Extracted 1,000 lbs. of 

 honey from 5 colonies. 



Dr. Larch, Ashland, Mo., writes: Have 

 14,000 lbs. of choice honey, averaging 110 lbs. 

 to the hive. Season only a poor one. 



A. F. Moon, Rome, Ga.: Bees done well; 

 wintering on summer stands, with not even 

 a honey board on them. Since Dec. 6, bees 

 have been carrying in pollen freely. Some 

 colonies have brood, and all are dry, 

 sweet and lively. 



In Annals of Bee Culture, Mrs. Tupper 

 stated that she succeeded, in 1870, with 27 

 queens, more than nine-tenths ot the time 

 ^le attempted it. She further stated that 

 during that season she did not fail in a sin- 

 gle instance when she tried. If these are 

 tacts, is there not enough of genius 

 among our bee keepers to make this a suc- 

 cess? We have hundreds of bee keepers 

 that are as well qualified, who understand 

 all branches of bee culture, as wel 1 as Mrs. T. 

 Then let their light shine. A. F. Moon. 



We never like to assert that a thing can't 

 be none; but as to fertilizing queens in con- 

 finement, we do emphatically say we don't 

 believe it, nor never will believe it until we 

 have a practical demonstration of the fact — 

 any essays to the contrary notwithstanding. 



Twenty-Five Dollars Premium. 



I will give $3.5 in cash for a successful 

 method of fertilizing queens in confinement, 

 the test to be made by three practical and 

 disinterested bee-keepers. I want no essays 

 about the matter, but facts demonstrated by 

 experiments. A. F. Moon. 



IW In a note dated Nov. 22, Miss Anna 

 Saunders writes us ot the death of her 

 favorite niece. » 



We extend our warmest and most heart- 

 felt sympathies in this, her sore bereave- 

 ment, w. J. A. 



■ I had 4 queens hatched in Oct. They 



were small but well bred; the weather con- 

 tinued cold and wet for over 21 days, so 

 that no swarms flew. These queens, 

 strange to say, were fertilized on the 23rd day 

 after being hatched. A. F. Moon. 



North Eastern Bee-Keepers' Ass'n. 



The North-Eastern Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its Annual Meeting at the City- 

 Hall, Syracuse, N. Y., on the 6th, 7th and 8th 

 of February, 1878. First session at 1 o'clock, 

 p. M., of the 6th. 



Papers on important subjects are expected 

 from some of our own members, as well as 

 from eminent apiarists abroad. Among 

 those may be mentioned an essay on " Re- 

 cently Discovered Parasites of the Honey 

 Bee, and their Connection with Successful 

 Wintering. " 



The Marketing of Honey will receive 

 special attention, and it is expected that 

 initiatory steps will be taken toward sup- 

 plying each member of the Association with 

 reliable data of much importance to honey 

 producers. To secure satisfactory results, 

 a full attendance of this class is especially 

 desired. P. H. Elwood, Pres't. 



J. H. Nellis, Sec'y. 



Bee Poisons in Medicine.— Diptheria, 

 which in North America, England, and the 

 coast lands, has for years been epidemic, is 

 also becoming common among us, and 

 during this damp, cold winter, particularly, 

 it has manifested its malignancy. The 

 symptoms of this disease may be known to 

 our readers, but it is not as probable that 

 the fact is known that apis (bee poison), 

 has been used with excellent results in 

 cases of this malady. This remedy is also 

 successfully employed in cases of scarlet 

 fever; in dropsy, particularly, which often 

 appears after scarlet fever; in eruptions 

 of various kinds; diseases of the eyes; diz- 

 ziness; palpitation, and other complaints. — 

 Just here, I cannot refrain from mentioning 

 the view of a homaipathest, who recomends 

 as a preventive of croup, scarlet fever, and 

 eruptions common among children, the use 

 of comb-honey. The combs, which, in 

 their removal from the hives, have the bees 

 brushed from them, (not smoked off), 

 become in a certain measure infected with 

 the bee poison; tor the sudden pressure 

 causes tlie stings of the bees to be thrust 

 out involentarily, and the poison moistens 

 the combs, upon which fact he bases his 

 y'xavf.—Schleslsche Imker, Troppan, Low- 

 er Silesia. 



