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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, EDITOR. 

 GEO. W. YORK, ASSISTANT EDITOR. 



VolJXIX, Aim 14, 1892, No, 16. 



Editorial Buzzljigs, 



When amid the apple-bloom 



You hear the bees a-humming-, 

 When from the woodland comes the sound 



Of partridges a-drumming ; 

 When softly cooing turtle-doves 



In couples go a-chumming. 

 And love-lorn swains the sad guitar 



By moonlight area-thrumming — 

 We know by these unfailing signs 



That Summer is a-coming. 



Rev. E. X. Abbott is now editing 

 an apiarian department in the Kdnsas 

 Farmer, and he can do it satisfactorily. 



Xbe Outlook for a favorable 

 honey season in the Eastern States never 

 was better than it is this Spring, and a 

 large yield is hoped for. - So says the 

 White Mountain Apiarist. 



Xhe Hditor already reports some 

 improvement in health since getting 

 away from the busy cares of hi^ editorial 

 work. The Bee Journal readers will 

 no doubt be much pleased to learn t'liis,- 



Bro. A. I. Root} our co-laborer in 

 apicultural journalism, returned to his 

 home in Medina, O., on March 5, after 

 a several months' trip to the "Golden 

 Gate" of the West, and " Mexican Gulf " 

 of the South. He visited many apiarists 

 during his absence, and created much 

 interest and enthusiasm in the pursuit 

 wherever he came in touch with its rep- 

 resentatives. We are glad to note that 

 Bro. Root returns with improved health. 

 No doubt Mrs. Root's continual presence 

 with her husband aided greatly in his 

 reaping the full benefit from such a 

 pleasant and far-reaching journey, in 

 the endeavor to recuperate weary en- 

 ergies and worn health. 



March was a cold and disagreeable 

 month. Vegetation was retarded, but 

 this may be "blessing in disguise," for 

 there were no buds to kill by the frosts. 

 The Chief of the Weather Bureau re- 

 marks as follows : 



The weather during the past month 

 has been unusually severe, especially in 

 the central valleys and the Southwest, 

 and the continued cold, with more or 

 less frost in the ground, has delayed the 

 farm work. 



The slight growth that the crops have 

 made renders it impossible to determine 

 the amount of damage which has re- 

 sulted from the unfavorable conditions 

 that prevailed. 



Mrs. ly. Harrison, who has been 

 at St. Andrews' Bay, Fla., for a few 

 months, will soon be once more at her 

 old home in Peoria, Ills. On April 2, 

 she wrote as follows from Florida : 



Please change my address to Peoria, 

 Ills. I shall soon start to visit Wewa- 

 hitchka — that great bee-country ; and 

 then home. 



Mrs. Harrison is perhaps the best- 

 known lady bee-keeper in America. Her 

 vigorous apiarian writings are always 

 read with interest, as coming from one 

 who knows whereof she writes. Her 

 many friends will be pleased to learn of 

 her safe arrival home, after ^ vacation 

 irj our Sqqny Soutljland, 



