AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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ONE DOI^IiAB FEB YEAR. 



dub Rates,— Two copies, $1.80 ; 3 copies, 

 $2.50 ; 4 copies, $3.20 ; 5 copies, $3.75. 

 Mailed to any addresses. 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, EDITOR. 

 GEO. W. YORK, ASSISTANT EDITOR. 



VolJIIX. ADril 21, 1892, No, 17. 



Editorial Buzzifigs. 



Z May Not Beach the heights I seek, 

 My untried strength may fail me ; 



Or, half-way up the mountain peak. 

 Fierce tempests may assail me. 



But though that place I never gain. 



Herein lies comfort for my pain — 

 I will be worthy of it. 



Xlie Blood of 



it is colorless. 



bees is not red, but 



Hntbusiasin and perseverance 

 are the peculiar characteristics of bee- 

 keepers. 



"We Regret to learn that our 

 friend D. A. Jones (editor) and Mr. 

 Somers (proprietor) of the Canadian 

 Bee Journal, are both laid up with La 

 Orippe. As the Spring weather comes, 

 they will no doubt be able to throw off 

 its baneful influence, and we hope will 

 fully recover their former health and 

 strength. 



Once More we have cause for 

 rejoicing; the trouble about importing 

 queen-bees free of duty has been ar- 

 ranged again. When the new tariff 

 went into effect, queens were charged 

 a duty of 20 per cent. We made a fuss 

 about it in the American Bee Journal, 

 and Oleaninys, and obtained temporary 

 relief. Now permanent relief has come, 

 by a decision to that effect by the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury — and they are now 

 in the same category as "animals for 

 breeding purposes," even though they 

 are not "regularly entered in recognized 

 herd-books," We are, no doubt, in- 

 debted to Frank Benton, now an at- 

 tache of the Department of Agriculture, 

 and to Prof. Willits, late of the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College. 



Xhe Kentucky Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, of the State College at 

 Lexington, Ky., has sent to us Bulletins 

 Nos. 36, 37, 38 and 39, treating of 

 various subjects of great interest to all 

 Kentucky farmers. Copies of Bulletins 

 of this Station can be had free, by send- 

 ing name an address to the Kentucky 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, at 

 Lexington, Ky. 



Self-Hi-ving- Arrangfements 



are now receiving considerable attention 

 on the part of the inventive geniuses in 

 the bee-keeping fraternity. Mr. Wesley 

 Dibble, of Middleburgh, N. Y., has sent 

 excellent photographs of his self-hiving 

 device, to be placed in the Bee Journal 

 album. They will be placed therein for 

 the inspection of visiting bee-keepers. 



Mr. C. A. Phenicie, of Tacoma, 

 Wash., is dead. He had been an earnest 

 student of apiculture for the past twelve 

 years, having, the past year, 84 colonies 

 of bees, which will be cared for by his 

 son. We extend our sympathy to the 

 bereaved ones. 



Good Honey 



heavier than water. 



is about one-third 



