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THOS. G. NEWMAN ?» SOI^, , 



EDITOR. 



VoinV. March 23, 1889, No. 12, 



W. M. Barniini, of Angelica, N. Y., 

 on March 11, 1889, says : 



My bees appear to be wintering well. 

 This is the general report of the coudition 

 of bees this spring, so far. 



TUe Weatlier is so mild on the coast 

 of North Wales that primroses, violets, 

 snow-drops, chrysanthemums and roses are 

 growing in the open air. The songs of the 

 thrush and black-bird are heard daily. 



Tlie Eastern Markets being glut- 

 ted with oranges, the Southern California 

 growers lately ceased picking for a week. 

 The orange crop in Florida is so great, and 

 prices so low, that much of the fruit is al- 

 lowed to rot on the ground. 



Bec-Caiuly.— The British Bee Jour- 

 nal says : " What is known as Good's 



candy should be properly called Scholtz's 



caDdy,as this gentleman was its discoverer." 

 Perhaps brother I. K. Good will tell us 

 about that ; or is the above item news to 

 him as well as to many others ? 



I^yiicli l.a-»v.— Much has been heard 

 of Lynch law, and perhaps it would not be 

 amiss to record its origin. Mr. E. C. Jordan, 

 of Jordan's Springs, Va., writes as follows : 



Henry nowe's history of Virginia, pub- 

 lished in 184.% on pagi; al2, tells when and 

 how "Lynch law " originated. The en- 

 closed paragraphs were published in our 

 local papers at a request. 1 hope you may 

 think it worthy of a place in your paper : 



OuicjiN OK Lyn-^h Law.— Lynch law is 

 pretty generally understood as the taking 

 of life, without process of law, of a felon 

 who has been convicted at the bar ot public 

 opinion of an offense deserving of death. 

 But it is not so generally known that the 

 name originated in Campbell county, Va., 

 before the Kevolutionarj; war. At that 

 period the country was thinly settled, and 

 was infested with tories and desperadoes— 

 too many ot them, apparently, for the local 

 authorities to adequately punish. Col. 

 Charles Lynch, a distinguished officer of the 

 Revolutionary army, undertook to rid his 

 county of the outlaws. He organized a 

 force, arrested the outlaws, and having sat- 

 isfied himself and comrades of the accused, 

 executed them without reference to the con- 

 stituted authorities. 



While not altogether approving of the 

 desperate remedy for a desperate cause, the 

 beneficial effect of Col. Lynch's action was 

 recognized, and has since been known as 

 "Lynch'slaw," or "Lynch law.'' 



Lynch's process of meting out speedy 

 justice extended to other parts ot the coun- 

 try, and is a well recognized form of redress 

 of grievances to-day, particularly for that 

 class ot offenses that are popularly believed 

 not to be adequately punished by the stat- 

 utes and courts ot the State. Col. Lynch's 

 brother gave his name to, and founded 

 Lynchburg, and left a son who was subse- 

 quently Governor of Louisiana. 



Keedinff Rye Flour to bees is a sea- 

 sonable matter now, and Mr. B. F. Sheets, 

 of Wellington, Ills., made this request on 

 March 9, 1889 : 



Please tell me in next week's Bee Jouk- 

 NAL just how to feed rye flour to mv bees. 

 The Bee Journal has given me lots of 

 valuable information about bees. I am 

 only a beginner in the art of bee-keeping. 



It should be put where the bees can get at 

 it. Dr. Miller says : "The best way I have 

 tried is to take hive covers 6 or 8 inches 

 deep, put a stone under each near the mid- 

 dle, and put the rye meal on them. As often 

 as the bees work down the feed, turn the 

 cover around so as to leave feed at the upper 

 end." It should be covered so that rains 

 would not make it wet. 



Ilee.«i' VisilN to l''lower!!i- — Mrs. 

 M. B. Chaddock, in the Popular Science 

 Monthly for February, takes exception to 

 an ift-ticle which appeared in the October 

 number of last year, from the pen of Mr. 

 Grant , Mien, concerning the visits of bees 

 to one particular species of a plant at one 

 time when in quest of honey. She remarks 

 as follows in her own vigorous style : 



It is not true that bees only visit one 

 species ot plants on each trip. Bees will go 

 from the red to the black-cap raspberry and 

 gather honey from both ; and from our 

 sweetest and best grafted apple-trees to the 

 green, bitter, wild crab. Because bees and 

 insects do go helter-skelter among the 

 dowers, we are always budding and graft- 

 ing, and are never sure of any of our fruits 

 that come from the seed. To prove this, let 

 any one take some flour and stand among 

 the red and black-cap raspberries where 

 they grow close together, when the bees are 

 roaring around them ; put some flour on a 

 bee's back, and then watch it go from blos- 

 som to blossom. I think it must convince 

 the most skeptical of two things : First, 

 that bees work on different species ; and, 

 second, the bees know nothing, and care 

 less, about the good of the species. I say it 

 is not true that bees work on the same spe- 

 cies while on a trip after honey or pollen. 

 I claim much more than this. They work 

 on the flowers of different families. To 

 prove this, go into a garden of flowers dur- 

 ing a dearth of nectar, and watch the bees 

 go from flower to flower. They will fum- 

 ole around among the petals of any blossom 

 that contains either pollen or nectar, me- 

 chanically and indiscriminately. 



Uietl at Qnincy, Ills., at 1:30 a.m., on 

 Sunday, March 10, 1S88, Mr. C. H. Smith. 

 Mr. Allen Lewton writes us as follows con- 

 cerning the demise : 



Dear Editok :— I send you a notice of 

 the death of our friend and brother bee- 

 keeper, Mr. C. H. Smith, who has passed to 

 the summer land, and left his 118 colonies 

 of bees to be manipulated by other hands. 

 He leaves a loving wife and four little chil- 

 dren to battle with the cold world. He was 

 one of the foremost and best-posted bee- 

 keepers ot this section. 



The particulars sent are as follows, gath- 

 ered from a Quincy daily paper : 



Mr. Smith was born in New Orleans, La., 

 in 1853, and next May would have been 37 

 years of age. In 1874 he came to this city, 

 where he has since resided, marrying a 

 daughter of Mr. Summers, pattern-maker at 

 Thomas White's stove foundry. For years 

 he has been engineer at White's foundry, 

 until recently, when he was taken down 

 with inflammation of the bowels. After 

 suffering for some time he grew better, and 

 his friends looked forward to his recovery, 

 but two weeks ago he took a relapse, from 

 which he never recovered. 



Xlie January Number of the Bee- 

 Keepers' Magazine has just come to hand. 

 It contains an apology for being so tardy, 

 and an announcement of its sale to the Bee- 

 Keepers' Advance. Brother Aspiuwall bids 

 us all " adieu " in language as follows : 



It is not without many sighs of regret, 

 we say good-bye to our many readers, yet 

 we feel it is our best course The irregu- 

 larity in appearance each month has worried 

 the editor much, but the honest truth is that 

 he has not had the time to devote to the 

 work required of him as editor, proof-reader, 

 advertising agent, subscription clerk, and 

 many times, mailing clerk. 



Shake hands, brother editors, of the agri- 

 cultural world ; we say goodbye with no 

 feelings of malice towards any of you. 

 Certain it is we have had tilts occasionally, 

 but there was no malice on our side, only a 

 belief in our being in the right; a simple 

 difference of opinion. 



Lastly, to our many readers, we must sor- 

 rowfully bid adieu— may God bless you all. 



We wish the retiring editor success in his 

 new vocation (at Washington, we believe), 

 and hope it will be more pleasant and profit- 

 able than publishing the Magazine has been 

 to him. 



Ilo'iv to ltiiil«l a Honse.— This is 

 the title of a new book containing plans and 

 specifications for 3.5 houses of all sizes, from 

 two rooms up; also, engravings showing 

 the appearance of houses built from the 

 plans given. It also contains much that is 

 valuable to those who intend to build. Price 

 35 cents. Published by J. S. Ogilvie, 57 

 Rose Street, New York. 



Catalogriies for 1889 are on our desk 

 from— 



W. U. Norton, Skowhegan, Maine— 1 page 

 —Comb Foundation. 



Wm. H. Bright, Mazeppa,Minn.— 20 pages 

 —Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



S. H. Colwick, Norse, Texas— 4 pages- 

 Bees and Queens. 



Lewis Koesph, Fredonia, N. Y.— 6 pages — 

 Grapevines, Small Fruit, etc. 



