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EDITOR. 



Vol. mi. Dec, 13,1890. No. 50. 



Now doth the little busy bee 



Refrain from every toil, 

 And through the Winter season she 



All days and months beguile. 



She dines on dainties rare and sweet, 

 And wastes her time away ; 



From now till Spring she'll simply eat 

 And rest from day to day. 



Next Year we shall have a Department 

 •entitled " Current Bee-Notes," in which we 

 shall briefly give the contents of the apicul- 

 tural publications of the World. This will 

 toe a valuable addition to "the only 

 Weekly Bee-Paper in America." By read 

 ing it you will obtain the news, experi- 

 ments, inventions, and important bee- 

 literature of the World, in brief form. 



The IVIany Friends of Mr. Dwight 

 Furness, late of Indiana, will be pleased to 

 learn that he was married to Miss Anna M. 

 Rodgers, on Thursday, Nov. 27, 1890, at 

 Guanajuato, Mexico. The happy pair will 

 be at home after Dec. 15, at Guanajuato, 

 Mexico, where, we presume, they will 

 make their future home. The Bee Jouknajl 

 wishes them much happiness and pros- 

 perity. 



The Illustrated Home Journal is re- 

 ceived and examined. It is well printed 

 on good paper, is clean and handsome in 

 appearance, with contents, to match, and 

 deserves wide circulation. — Allen Pbingle, 

 Selby, Ont. 



1^" " Frank Leslies' Illustrated Newspa- 

 per" for the week endingDec. 13, has fine 

 illustrations of the Sioux Indian dance and 

 incidents of the Indian excitement, with a 

 striking full-page picture of the " Prank 

 Leslie's Alaska expedition descending the 

 perilous Alseok River." 



Suggestions about the financial and 

 permanent character of the " North Ameri 

 can Bee-Keepers' Association" are made 

 by the Secretary in Qleaninijs, as follows : 



Friend Root :— As you said at the Keo 

 kuk meeting, that you would undertake to 

 get 20 or 30 life-members to the Associa- 

 tion, and as we must try to manage to 

 save a certain capital for the Association, 

 I suggest that we make it a point to have 

 the funds thus gathered invested in some 

 safe interest-bearing investment, the inter- 

 est only to be used by the Association. In 

 this way we can iJerpetuate the good work 

 and create an interest. I would even go 

 further ; for, as the j'early subscribers are 

 usually sufficiently numerous to pay annual 

 expenses, it seems to me we ought to set 

 aside also the affiliation fees of the State, 

 Territorial and local Associations. In a 

 few years we should have a capital large 

 enough to enable us to offer prizes and 

 premiums for comiietition, and we should 

 raise an interest much greater than 

 formerly in our meetings. Would you be 

 so kind as to take the matter in hand, and 

 discuss it in Olean ings '' We must do 

 something to get out of the old rut. 



C. P. Dada.st. 



To this excellent suggestion the editor 

 appends the following : 



All right, Secretary Dadant. We will 

 back you in all your suggestions as far as 

 we can. Now, then, who among the 

 readers of Olcaninris is willing to pay up 

 and stand by us in the effort to make the 

 North American Bee Keepers' Association 

 a permanent institution ? It will cost you 

 $10, it is true; but after that you can 

 attend the Convention for 40 years, if you 

 live so long, and not pay anything. I have 

 in mind quite a few of our readers who, I 

 think, might, could, aud should stand up. 

 Let us hear from you. So far as I know, 

 the editor of the "Amekicax Bee Journ.vl, 

 and Ernest and myself, are at present the 

 only life-members. Who will stand with us ? 



Brother Root makes one important omis- 

 sion — quite unintentionally, we are fully 

 aware — that must be promptly corrected. 

 It is now ten years ago that we became a 

 life-member of the Association by vote and 

 the paj'ment of f^lO (you will see that we 

 already have our money back in annual 

 fees for ten years). We were the -first 

 life-member, but not the only one, Brother 

 D. A. Jones followed immediately, and Dr. 

 Ehrick Farmley, the Secretary, then and 

 there issued to each of us "Life-Member 

 ship Certificates." So now, with A. I. and 

 Ernest Root there are four. Who will be 

 the next i " Who will stand with us V 

 and help to make the Association success- 

 ful and permanent. 



The New Factory of G. B. Lewis 

 Company, of Watertown, Wis., to replace 

 the one burned up last Spring, is now com- 

 plete. It is a frame building, three stories 

 and basement high, 60 feet wide, 130 feet 

 in length, and contains 26,000 square feet 

 of floor room. Over 2.50,000 feet of lum- 

 ber was used in its construction. It is run 

 by both steam and water-power, and all 

 the machinery has the latest improvements. 

 We congratulate the firm upon its new 

 establishment, the capacity of which is 

 more than double that of the old one. 



IVIuch Ignorance exists concerning 

 Foul-Brood. We have received several 

 inquiries concerning it, and many samples 

 have been sent to us for inspection and 

 decision as to whether they contained the 

 disease or not. Some contained chiUed 

 brood ; others had dead brood ; and one 

 had no brood at all, as is noted on page 

 820 of this issue of the Bee Journal. 



As this question concerns very many 

 bee keepers, we have devoted four pages 

 of this paper to a descriptive article of the 

 disease from the pen of Mr. D. A. Jones. It 

 is the one officially printed by the Cana- 

 dian Government, in connection with the 

 Law, passed by its Parliament, for the sup- 

 pression of that dire disease. This, added 

 to the Law itself, and an article from Mr. 

 Wm. McEvoy, the official Inspector, which 

 we published in last week's Journal, will, 

 no doubt, satisfy our friend Pringle, Presi- 

 dent of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, that we are willing — and even anxious 

 — that every bee-keeper maybe well posted 

 concerning the disease ; and if found to be 

 in possession of sufficient information to 

 cure it — when such cure is possible— or else 

 to utterly wipe out its existence by fire, 

 when necessary. 



No samples of the disease should ever be 

 sent in the mails, or even by express, for 

 it is fraught with danger of spreading the 

 disease, it is also quite unnecessary ; for 

 any one who has common intelligence can 

 readily detect it, after perusing the articles 

 which we have presented in the Bee Jour- 

 nal during the past month, on the subject. 



T>vo Numbers IVIore will end the 

 present Volume of the Bee Journal. Next 

 year we shall change the form somewhat — 

 giving two columns to the page, but it will 

 have double the number of pages that it 

 now contains — making 1064 passes for 

 the year. It will also be printed with new 

 type, and an entire new dress. This will 

 add considerable expense and labor, but it 

 will be "a daisy." Although the Volume 

 for the year 1891 will be as thick as Web- 

 ster's Unabridged Dictionary— it will be 

 supplied for a !«inele <1olIai- ! This will 

 be the most wonderful journalistic accom- 

 plishment in the apicultural World,eclipsing 

 all others ! The American Bee Journal is 

 the only weekly bee-periodical in America, 

 and the largest one in the World ! 



Brother Root has our thanks for the fol- 

 lowing very kind allusion in Oleanitigs for 

 Dec. 1, 1890 : 



On the first of next year the old Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal is to change its size to 

 about that of these pages, and each num- 

 ber will contain 32 pages. For a weekly 

 bee-journal this is a big undertaking ; but 

 Newman & Son are equal to the task. 



Supply Dealers, before issuing 

 their Catalogues for next season, should 

 write to us for terms on the Globe Bee-Veil. 

 We have sold over 1,200 within the past 

 year. They give universal satisfaction. 



