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Wavelets ol News. 



Reckless Driving Around Bees. 



Lately there was a swarm of our bees 

 rounding up and flying quite low in the 

 street ; so low indeed, that I thought 

 they were going to cluster upon the 

 black mud, as it had been raining. I 

 saw a man approaching, driving a one- 

 horse wagon, and I motioned him to 

 drive another way, telling him that the 

 bees might sting his horse. He drove 

 right through them, and the bees fol- 

 lowed him fully a square ; the poor 

 horse was terrified, and had he had more 

 oats there might have been trouble ; but 

 he was a crow-bait. In most instances 

 where horses are stung to death by bees, 

 it is owing to the carelessness of their 

 drivers ; and they should never be 

 hitched close to a colony. — Mrs. L. 

 Hakrison, in the Prairie Fanner. 



Free Delivery of Farm Mail. 



It will cost the Government nothing 

 but the expense of the plant. The profit 

 will be immediate and large. Aid, in 

 every way, the hastening of this good 

 day when every farmer will have at his 

 door the postman, whose visits now are 

 monopolized by the inhabitants of the 

 cities. The rich and the poor are treated 

 alike there ; the day is near when the 

 citizen of every age and condition will be 

 treated alike, regardless- of his place of 

 residence. 



Public opinion will compel it. The 

 farmer's vote is a power in the land ; it 

 outnumbers the residents of the cities ; 

 his voice is heeded when he demands. — 

 Agricultural Review. 



Birds as Horticulturists' Enemies. 



The question of the bees injuring fruit 

 is again brought up by those who devote 

 more study to horticulture than to bees; 

 but if these same fruit-growers would 

 look to the birds, they would find that 

 they are their enemies, and not the 

 bees. 



The birds are not only the enemies of 

 the fruit-growers, but the enemies of the 

 bee-keepers. If it were not for the 

 great prolicfiness of the queen-bees, whole 

 colonies of bees would be destroyed by 

 the voracious birds. So determined do 

 the bees become, at times, that they 

 follow the bees up to their hives, and 

 watch for their coming out to seize 



them. Tbe shot-gun is the only appeal 

 for the bee-keeper at such times. 



In the fields the birds are attracted to 

 the bees, probably for the little sacs of 

 honey which they carry, and not so 

 much for the bees themselves. 



The birds are also the chief offenders 

 against the fruit-growers. They pierce 

 the fruit with their bills, and allow the 

 nectar to escape. Decay soon sets in, 

 but the bees are on hand, and sip the 

 juice as it escapes. They never touch 

 sound fruit, but always go for those 

 having the skin punctured by the birds, 

 thorns or limbs. — American Cultivator. 



Advantage of Persistence. 



An English firm that manufactures a 

 condiment of world-wide fame had been 

 in the habit of advertising to the extent 

 of about £5,000 a year through one of 

 the most eminent advertising agencies 

 in London. They thought they could 

 dispense with advertising, seeing that 

 their specialty was on every table. 

 Accordingly all orders and contracts 

 were stopped. Sales began to fall off, 

 and the decrease continued until the 

 firm went back to their agents and an- 

 nounced that they would advertise again. 



But the decline had become so serious 

 that, in order to recover lost ground, 

 they have now to spend £10,000 a year 

 where formerly they spent £5,000. It 

 is well known that wholesale houses re- 

 duce their orders when they find that 

 the article they have been dealing in is 

 no longer advertised. They do this to 

 save themselves from future loss, be- 

 cause their experience teaches them that 

 the public demand declines as advertis- 

 ing declines. — Exchange. 



Make No Mistake. 



Bee-keepers who are looking for a 

 good bee-periodical, will make no mis- 

 take if they invest in the Weekly Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal pubished by Brother 

 Thomas G. Newman, Chicago. It is 

 lively, progressive, and costs but a 

 couple of cents a week for a magazine 

 of 32 pages, or 1,680 pages a year.— 

 Lewiston, Maine, Journal. 



The Illustrated Home Journal is a 



valuable and interesting family maga- 

 zine, full of facts, news, anecdotes, his- 

 tory, recipes, puzzles, etc. — in fact some- 

 thing that will interest the whole family 

 from the sedate Pater-Familias to the 

 most rollicksome kid. — Colorado Farmer. 



