Austro-German C ngress. 



Kedaktion des Bienenvater aus Bohmen, Prague, 

 Austria, Sept. aS. 1878. 

 Hern Thomas G. Newman, Editor American Bee 



Journal, Chicago : 



Dear Friend :— The German and Austrian Congress 

 of Bee-Keepers, will be held in Prague in August 

 (day not yet fixed), 18T9. There will be in connection 

 •with it an international exhibition of bee-keepers' 

 furniture. Please employ all of your influence to 

 have as many as possible attend, as our guests. Be 

 ■well assured that you will receive our kindest and 

 most enthusiastic reception. Accept our most cor- 

 dial salutations, inviting you and the members of 

 the National Association of America to attend, and 

 you shall receive our thrice-fold welcome. 



Our newest invention is made by a clergyman, M. 

 Knoblauch ; it is a device hitherto thought impossi- 

 ble— artificial cells and covering for them. This he 

 has already done at the Congress at Griefswald, in 

 the presence of 700 bee-keepers there assembled. 



Expecting your favorable answer, I remain truly 

 your friend and servant, R. Mayekhoffer. 



The above letter came to hand since 

 the close of the session of the National 

 Convention. As that body has voted 

 to have us represent it at the Austro- 

 German Congress, as well as at other 

 European Conventions of Bee-Keepers, 

 provided we can go when the time ar- 

 rives, we have pleasure in accepting 

 friend Mayerhoffer's invitation to at- 

 tend, and unless something unforeseen 

 shall hinder us, we expect to be present 

 and take part in the deliberations of 

 that honorable body. 



Kind Words. — During our brief stay 

 in Hamilton, Canada, in company with 

 that sterling apiarist, Mr. W. G. Wal- 

 ton, of that city, we called upon our 

 quondam friend and co-laborer in the 

 art prservative, Mr. Geo. M. Bagwell, 

 Superintendent of the Times Printing 

 Establishment. The next issue of that 

 excellent and valuable paper contained 

 the following : 



We received a pleasant call to-day from Mr. T. 

 <J. Newman, editor of the American Bee Joitknal, 

 Chicago, 111., the best publication of its class in 

 America. He is the guest of Mr. \V. G. Walton, 

 during his stay here. Mr. Newman was unanimously 

 elected President of the North American Bee- 

 Keepers' Association in New York City, at the 

 annual Convention on the 8th inst., and was also 

 appointed a representative to attend the Congi-ess of 

 European Bee-Keepers, to be held at Prague, Aus- 

 tria, next August, as well as to attend the several 

 Conventions of the Bee Associations in England, 

 France, Ualy, Germany and elsewhere, providing his 

 other duties will admit of his absence. He will, no 

 doubt, exhibit the progress of American scientific 

 bee-keeping at each of the Conventions, If he can 

 be present. 



And of the rest of the words of this Convention- 

 are they not contained in the Book of King's, vol. vL, 

 H? 



In language of similar import did the 

 writer of the ancient Chronicles take 

 comfort ! May we not draw consola- 

 tion, also, from the fact that the essays 

 not contained in this Journal, though 

 read at the National Convention, are 

 inserted in the Magazine for this month, 

 and will duly appear in the Journal 

 for December V 



A large portion of the space of this 

 issue of the Bee Journal has been 

 given up to the " Proceedings of the 

 National Convention," knowing full 

 well that thousands are anxiously wait- 

 ing to ponder them. In order to do 

 this, we have had to omit some depart- 

 ments altogether, and curtail others. 

 This, however, we feel sure our readers 

 will approve. 



Petrified Honey Comb.— While in 

 Seneca Falls, N. Y., our friend and Bro. 

 Wentworth, presented us with a piece 

 of petrified honey comb, which he had 

 found on the stamping-ground of old 

 Chief Seneca, in that county. The cells 

 are perfect (but small) and the capping 

 still more so. What stories could it 

 tell, had it the power to communicate ? 

 Bees of some kind (but perhaps smaller) 

 must have exisited on this continent 

 ages and ages ago — long previous to the 

 present race of hvimanity now inhabit- 

 ing it. Perhaps even before the ancient 

 " mound builders," whose "coming and 

 going" may have been witnessed by the 

 tiny little bees of a continent, not only 

 unnamed but wholly unknown to the 

 rest of the world in the ages of the 

 "• long ago" We have added it to our 

 Museum for the amusement of our 

 visitors. 



^^" We regret to learn that our friend W. 

 M. Kellogg, was taken sick at the Convention 

 at New Boston, ill., and has not recovered 

 sufficiently to make out a report yet. It 

 may be expected in our next. 



i^Tliere are 6,000 colonies of bees in 

 Jefferson Co., Wis. That is what we 

 should denominate " over-stocking" — 

 if such a thing be possible ! 



i^Mr. II. K. Thurber gave his indi- 

 vidual check for $1,000, to be applied to 

 the relief of the yellow fever sufferers 

 in the South. 



