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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Song of the Goldcn=Rod. 



Oh, not in the morning of April or May, 

 When the young light lies faint on the sod, 



And the windflower blooms for the half of a 

 day— 

 Not then comes the golden-rod. 



But when the bright year has grown vivid and 

 bold 



With its utmost of beauty and strength. 

 Then it leaps into life, and its banners unfold 



All along the land's green length. 



It is born in the glow of a great high noon. 

 It is wrought of a bit of the sun ; 



Its being is set to a golden tune. 

 In a golden Summer begun. 



No cliff is too higli for its resolute foot. 



No meadow too bare or too low ; 

 It asks but the space for its fearless root. 



And the right to be glad and to grow. 



Its bloom knows no stint, its gold no alloy, 

 And we claim it forever as ours — 



God's symbol of freedom and world-wide joy- 

 America's flower of flowers ! 



—Selected. 



Queries ajid Replies. 



GoTeriiment Bounty on Honey, 



Query 816. — Is a Government bounty 

 on honey desirable ? — Ohio. 



No.— R. L. Taylor. 

 No. — Eugene Secor. 

 It is not. — M. Mahin. 

 No.— J. P. H. Brown. 



No. — G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



No. — J. M. Hambaugh. 

 I think not. — G. L. Tinker. 

 Not in my judgment. — A. J. Cook. 

 I do not think it is. — C. C. Miller. 



No. Simple protection will do for me. 

 — H. D. Cutting. 



No. The business should be self- 

 supporting. — C. H. Dibbern. 



No. We are no infants. We were in 

 the Ark with Noah. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Yes, to the producer of honey, if he 

 can enjoy dishonest money. — James 

 Heddon. 



No ; but why should sugar-growers 

 be helped against our own interests as 



producers of sweets ? and if they are to 

 be helped, what right have they to it 

 more than we have ? — Dadant & Son. 



I think we are as much entitled to a 

 bounty as sugar makers ; but I am 

 against the bounty. — E. France. 



No. We were hurt by the removal of 

 tariff and substitution of a bounty on 

 sugar; but we can be, and ought to be, 

 helped and protected in other ways.— P. 

 H. Elwoou. 



If we produce more honey than is 

 consumed in this country, I should say 

 no ; but if our home markets are sup- 

 plied with imported honey, then a rea- 

 sonable bounty to stimulate the industry 

 would be desirable. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



I do not think it is. I do not think 

 that any business that needs a bounty to 

 make it successful, will be of advantage 

 to the general public, and certainly It 

 should not be given to sustain luxuries. 

 —J. E. Pond. 



Not for me. Bounties are good things, 

 sometimes. The Government bounty on 

 sugar is a good thing for the poor man 

 and his family. 1 pay 4 cents a pound 

 now for the same quality of sugar I paid 

 7 cents for before the bounty was given.' 

 — A. B. Mason. 



I have not had time to think about it 

 much right here in our own State. 

 Thousands are paid to our sugar farmers 

 as bounty, and it does look as though 

 we ought to have a bounty on honey 

 also. But this subject, properly hand- 

 led by the right person, would likely fill 

 this number of the Bee Journal. — Mrs. 

 Jennie Atchley. 



No. All bounties that favor the few 

 at the expense of the many, is an un- 

 bearable fraud. Down with the robber 

 tariff, and all subsidies and bounties. 

 The man who quits work to go about 

 clamoring for "bounties," bogus pen- 

 sions, etc., thus debauching and paup- 

 erizing his fellow citizens, could not 

 make himself a worse enemy to the best 

 interest of humanity. — G. W. Demaree. 



I am opposed on principle to the 

 giving of bounties by Government. If 

 the producers of sugar are given a 

 bounty, the producers of honey are in- 

 jured, and ought to have a bounty to 

 offset this injury. If they get it, the 

 manufacturers of fruit sauces are handi- 

 capped, and need a bounty to put them 

 square. If this is granted, justice de- 

 mands a bounty somewhere else. Better 

 let the whole system alone. — James A. 

 Green. 



