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EDITOR. 



Mim Dec. 20, 1890, No. 51. 



Ring, happy bells, for frieud and foe. 



Ring in the Merry Christmas day ! 

 Its holly-wreaths, its mistletoe, 



Its happy hearts, both bright and gaj' 



>Ve Wish all our readers, friends and 

 ■correspondents 



R. Merry Christmas ! 



The Holiday Season has again arrived, 

 and brings its Christmas cheer ! With its 

 parties and pleasures — its kind words and 

 tokens of love — its presents and remem- 

 brances — its family reunions and holiday 

 attire — it comes with its gladsome, joyous 

 merriment and annual blessedness. 



Let ever}' heart today rebound with 

 delight, and every lip respond with thank- 

 fulness tor that grand proclamation which 

 now we commemorate — 



" PEACE ON EARTH- 

 GOOD WILL TO MEN." 



One Number IVIore will end the 

 present Volume of the Bee Jouunal. 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 1G04 pajfes 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 sing^le dollai- ! 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 is even now the largest in the World ! 



?lre Bees a Nuisance ? This 



is the record of another suit to compel the 

 removal of bees from the city limits, and 

 the farcical outcome of it. Mr. Tatman 

 says : 



A neighbor became offended at me for 

 naught, and tried to compel the removal of 

 ray bees from town. It was tried before 

 the Mayor, but they failed to sustain the 

 case. I still have ray bees in town, and 

 several others keep bees here also, even 

 since the prosecution. My neighbor is now 

 on good terms, and I do not expect any 

 further trouble. My bees have done but 

 little good during the last few years, but I 

 enjoy working with them, and I cannot re- 

 frain from working with them. 



J. H. Tatman. 



Connersville, Ind., Dec. 6, 1890. 



Mr. Tatman being a member of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Union, the General 

 Manager has paid a portion of the attor- 

 ney's fee, and the legal defense prevented 

 the prosecution from being able to sustain 

 the plea. 



Lectures on bees at Farmers' Insti- 

 tutes are advocated by Mrs. L. Harrison, 

 in the Prairie Farmer. She says : 



If you have an influence with " the 

 powers that be," have a lecture on bees, 

 illustrated with charts, showing how bees 

 act as marriage priests between flowers. 

 It would be well to have a lecture of this 

 kind, during the Winter, whenever an 

 opportunity ofl'ers, whether it be at an 

 Institute, Grange, or horticultural meeting. 



This advice is good and timely. Such 

 lectures will help to dispel the ignorance so 

 prevalent about the important part played 

 by bees in the production of fruit. " Let 

 there be light " to enlighten the darkness, 

 and drive away ignorance and superstition 

 from the minds of the people. 



Don't Kail to attend the Michigan 

 State Convention at Detroit on January 1 

 and 2, 1891. You can enjoy the New 

 Year's day there, and have a delightful 

 time. We would go, but the great rush of 

 business consequent upon the New Year, 

 will make it quite impossible for us to leave 

 the office ; but Prof. Cook, Dr. Mason, Hon. 

 R. L. Taylor, H. D. Cutting, W. Z. Hutch- 

 inson, Geo. H. Hilton, and many other en- 

 thusiasts are expected to be there, and a 

 general " good time " will certainly be the 

 result. " Go up to the Feast," and you will 

 certainly come home refreshed ! 



Migratory Bee=Keeping. — An 



apiary on wheels is one of the latest inno- 

 vations in California. After the foot-hills 

 have been pastured the bee-herder moves 

 his bees to a higher elevation, where they 

 gather the nectar stored in the blossoms of 

 wildclover,chaparraI and other plants ; and 

 when these have been relieved of their 

 saccharine matter, the bees are again 

 moved to a higher elevation, where flowers 

 peculiar to that region yield up their 

 sweets to them.— £:rc?ian(;c. 



The Bec"Hivc published at Andover, 

 Conn., has now ceased to exist. The sub- 

 scription list has been bought by the W. T. 

 Falconer Manufacturing Company, and on 

 the 1 st of January they will begin their new 

 monthly called the Dee-Keeper. The De- 

 cember issue of the Dee-Hive contained 

 this item and comment : 



We understand that 1 1 colonies of bees 

 were recently sold in this State for $100. 

 It is safe to say that the party buying tbem 

 at that price will know the value of bees 

 by the time he gets back the price paid. 



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 

 be a valuable addition to " the only 

 Weekly Bee-Paper in America." By I'ead 

 ing it you will obtain the news, experi- 

 ments, inventions, and important bee- 

 literature of the World, in brief form. 



Life-lVIembcrship in the N. Tt. 

 B. K. H. -In order to become life-mem- 

 bers in this Association, spoken of else- 

 where iu these columns, all you have to do 

 is to pay $10 to the Secretary ; and when 

 j'our name is voted upon and accepted, you 

 will be a life-member, and no more .4NNBA1, 

 dues to pay. Any one thoroughly inter- 

 ested in the success of the Society (and 

 that success means a geat deal to our 

 industry in general) cannot do better than 

 to become a life-member. If he be a 

 straightforward man there will be no doubt 

 that he will be accepted. — Oleanings. 



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 



20,000. — That is the number of square 

 feet of floor surface in the new factory of 

 the W. T. Falconer Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. The omission of the last cipher in 

 their advertisement on the cover of the 

 Report of the Keokuk Convention, made it 

 nonsensical. That part of it appears as it 

 should read on page 845. 



Several new Catalogues for 1891 of 

 bee-keepers' supplies have come to hand. 

 We will notice all of them in the first 

 number for next year. In justice to our 

 patrons we shall hereafter only notice those 

 that come from our advertisers. 



For $2.15 we will send you the Bee 

 Journal, Oleanings in Dee-Culture, and 

 the Illustrated Home Journal— all for the 

 year 1891. The price quoted on page 820 

 was erroneous to the amount of 20 cents. 

 This is a rare opportunity to secure 3 good 

 periodicals for about the price of two. 



