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TIIOlflAS C IVK^VIVIAN, 



EDITOR. 



Vol. mi. Not. 15, 1890, 1.46. 



Ediwrml Buzeimgs, 



Xhc North American Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association is to be incorporated by 

 law. We hope that this step will be the 

 beginning of a new life for it, and that the 

 glorious past will be even eclipsed by the 

 grander future of the International Society. 



3S Little Queen in the Arnold hive 

 at Richmond, Iowa, died on the 28th ult,. 

 and this is what her disconsolate father 

 says about the sad event. They were going 

 to the Keokuk Convention, had this death 

 not occurred • 



Sad are these few lines to us. The dar 

 ling queen of our home was taken from us 

 by the dread disease, diphtheria, on Oct. 

 28. She was my only child, a daughter, in 

 her eleventh year. (She was the grand- 

 daugher of J.O.Todd.) We are all one 

 family. She was not afraid of the bees at 

 all ; she would often put on a bee-veil and 

 be out with us in the apiary. 



I. N. Arnold. 



The Bee Journal condoles with the 

 stricken family. 



The IVIlchigan State Convention 

 ■will be held at Detroit on Jan. 1 and 3, 

 1891, and we hope it will be largely at- 

 tended. Concerning hotel rates, Mr. M. H. 

 Hunt writes bs follows : 



I was in Detroit lately, and made ar- 

 rangements for the bee keepers at the 

 Hotel Normaudie ; also I found that I 

 could get rates for those who thought that 

 the rates were too much at the Normaudie. 

 The Perkins Hotel on Grand River street, 

 is being rebuilt, and is a good common 

 place to stop at; rates -$1.85 per day. I 

 am going to furnish them with a veiy fine 

 sample of extracted honey to be on tap for 

 the beekeepers. I hope that we will have 

 a grand meeting. 



Foul=Brood.— In the Voluntary Essay 

 read at the Keokuk Convention, from Mr. 

 Allen Pringle (see page 702), it is stated 

 that, though a copy of the Canadian Act, 

 for the sui>pressiou of that dreaded disease 

 was sent to the Americ.\n Bee Joukxal 

 and other bee-papers of the United States, 

 that it was not published. If it was sent, 

 it never reached this office, or it would 

 have been published at once. We have, 

 however, published several articles refer- 

 ring to it. One of them from Mr. Pringle, 

 of nearly three columns, may be found on 

 pages 597 aud 598 ; another from Mr. J. 

 E. Firth, of four columns, on pages 551 and 

 552. Besides these, there are several 

 shorter ones. 



The imputation that the "tribunes" — 

 the "great guns " -i.e., the editors of the 

 bee-periodicals, we suppose — are too much 

 "exalted" (in their own estimation, of 

 course) to listen to advice from Canada, is 

 absurd, and beneath the dignity of " the 

 President of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' 

 Association." 



Harmless banter is all very well, but this 

 would be taken for sober fact, by the 

 generality of bee-keepers, were we to pass 

 it by in silence. They would say, very 

 innocently, that the "Voluntary Essay" 

 was sent to the Convention because the 

 matter was ruled out the bee-publications. 



Now, Mr. President of the Ontario Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, we take an appeal 

 (kindly but firmly), from your hasty 

 decision, to the apiarists at large, and have 

 no fear about their sustaining the appeal, 

 and reversing your unfair ruling. 



IVIice and Bees in Winter.— 



At the Keokuk Convention it was asked if 

 mice and rats were injurious in a winter 

 repository for bees. The answer was em- 

 phatic and proper— Yes I In last week's 

 New York Woi'ld we notice a similar ques- 

 tion from a correspondent in Ohio, which is 

 answered thus ; 



Mice are a decided nuisance in the 

 apiary, and ctmsequently must be guarded 

 against. They will often enter the hive 

 standing outof doors when not excluded, 

 and make extensive depredations. Some- 

 times, cutting a space in the combs, they 

 will make their nests there. 



The animal heat created by the bees 

 makes a tempting place for their winter 

 quarters. The entrance to the hives ought 

 to be sufficiently contracted to keep mice 

 from entering. 



Rats are fond of honey, and when this is 

 accessible, will eat quantities of it. The 

 entrance of hives standing out-of-doors are 

 too small to admit a rat. Where the bees 

 are wintered indoors, too great care can- 

 not be exercised to keep the apartment 

 clear of both rats and mice, as their run- 

 ning over the hives, even if prevented from 

 entering them, disturbs and irritates the 

 bees. 



Xliose 'Wlio HsiTe any honey to 

 dispose of should use the Honey Almanac 

 as a salesman. We have a few left for this 

 year, and offer them at half price. See 

 page 751 of last paper. 



Sn Enjoyable Visit.— According 

 to announcement, the business men of 

 Hamilton, of Ills., took 54 members of the 

 International Convention in carriages to 

 the residence of Messrs. Dadant & Son, in 

 the afternoon of Friday, after the last 

 session. The bee-keepers seemed to take 

 the place by storm, and thoroughly en- 

 joyed their visit. The Keokuk Co?(st«MtM)»l- 

 Demcx/ratot Nov. 1, contained the follow- 

 ing concerning the affair : 



Delegates to the Bee-Keepers' Conven- 

 tion Entertained at the Dadant Apiart. 

 —Yesterday afternoon 54 lady and gentle- 

 men delegates to the International Bee- 

 Keepers' Convention, visited the Dadant 

 apiary, two miles north of Hamilton, and 

 were right royally entertained. They were 

 given the freedom of his handsome resi- 

 dence and grounds. 



They examined his rat-proof granary, 

 sampled his fruit, looked at and talked 

 about his bees and hives, passed their 

 opinions about his frames and foundation 

 comb, played with his jig saws, tasted of 

 his honey, looked at the immense quanti- 

 ties of beeswax in store, visited and com- 

 plimented his wine rooms and presses, 

 looked into his ice-house, sipped his wine, 

 ripped his bee-hive lumber, ate his cake, 

 asked questions about his shrubbery, filled 

 their pockets with apples, took possession 

 of everything and everybody on the place, 

 and came away as happy as larks on a 

 bright Spring morning. But the happiest 

 man in the crowd was Charles Dadant. 



" Milk and Honey."— This item is 

 from last week's New York Tribune, and 

 we shall be glad to have all the other 

 papers in America herald the news that 

 " milk and honey " are "grand things for 

 poor humanity." That is a true statement 

 of it— both for body and mind I as well as 

 for food and medicine. Here is the item : 



Mr. Thomas G. Newman, of the American 

 Bee Journal, thinks milk and honey a very- 

 wholesome combination — " grand things 

 for poor humanity." 



The Order of the King's Daughters, 

 in New York City, has actively identified 

 itself with the great Charity Doll-Show, to 

 open in New York about the middle of 

 December. Dolls are to be dressed for this 

 exhibition, and then will be distributed 

 among the worthy poor children in public 

 institutions. The King's Daughters could 

 undertake no better work. Particulars are 

 given in " Frank Leslie's Illustrated News- 

 paper" of last week. 



an Who Subscribe for the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal can hereafter have our 

 Illustrated Home Journal also, from the 

 time their subscriptions are received to 

 Jan. 1. 1892— both papers for only gl.35. 

 We can also furnish Oleanings in Bee- 

 Cidture for same time with the above, for 

 $3.15 for all three periodicals This is an 

 offer that should be accepted by all who 

 keep bees, and desire the regular visits of 

 these standard' publications— all three pe- 

 riodicals from now to Jan. 1, 1892, for the 

 price named. 



