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VoLIlY. SepUU889, No. 37. 



Florists Favor tlie GoIdcM-Rod. 



—The florists' convention, held at Buffalo, 

 N. T., on Aug. 23, showed a strong senti- 

 ment in favor of the golden-rod as a national 

 flovyer. We have no doubt but that it will 

 bear off the palm. 



In Germany, bee-keepers have just 

 realized the best honey season for many 

 years— this we learu from the Rev. Stephen 

 Roese, who gleans it from letters just re- 

 ceived from the "father-land." America 

 sends greetings to Germany, and congratu- 

 lations upon receiving a satisfactory honey 

 crop, with which America is also blessed. 



^'ovi' is Hie Xime to Feed if it is 



necessary, for winter stores, as well as to get 

 the young bees so necessary for safe winter- 

 ing, with which to stock up the hives before 

 putting them into winter quarters. Feed at 

 night, so as not to induce robbing. Each 

 colony should have from 25 to 30 pounds of 

 the best well-ripened honey for winter 

 stores. 



St. Josepli Exposition. — The dis- 

 play in the Bee and Honey Department of 

 this Exposition, this year, is very tine, and 

 will repay any one for vi.siting the Fair. 

 The Rev. Emerson T. Abbott remarks in a 

 private letter, that "Beekeepers who at- 

 tend the Exposition this year, will find a 

 welcome at Nos. 32 to 35 in the Main Hall, 

 also the latest copy of the AMr;nicAN Bee 

 JounxAi-." Bee-keepers will please make 

 a note of this, and accept the kind invita- 

 tion of friend Abbott. Other good bee- 

 keepers will have nice exhibits, and the 

 Bee and Honey Show will be an attractive 

 feature of the Exposition, as usual. 



Tl«e Fntoniolojg^lcal Club of Amer- 

 ica met at Toronto, Ontario, on Friday, 

 Aug. 30, 1889. There were about 400 pres- 

 ent. A special meeting was held on 

 Wednesday afternoon in "Victoria Park. 



Prof. A. J. Cook read an account of the 

 depredations of a new kind of furniture in- 

 sect, which is peculiar, as it not only de- 

 stroys furniture, but assuages the pangs of 

 hunger on such condiments as red pepper 

 and insect poison. Its one good point is 

 that it has a taste for cigarettes, which it 

 devours with avidity. 



Prof. 0. M. Weed detailed his experiences 

 with arsenical poisons. He was followed 

 by Prof. A. J. Cook, who also recounted the 

 results of his experiments in the same line. 



The following officers for next year were 

 elected by the Club : President, Prof. A. 

 J. Cook, Michigan ; Vice-President, Rev. 

 Dr. Bethune, Port Hope, Out. ; Secretary, 

 Rev. F. M. Webster, Indiana. 



The above is gleaned from the Toronto 

 Mall. We congratulate Prof. A. J. Cook 

 upon the attainment of this new honor. He 

 is " worthy and well qualified " for it. It is 

 a singular coincidence that the editor of the 

 American Bee J<)l:bnai, was on the same 

 day unanimously elected an officer of the 

 Supreme Council of the American Legion of 

 Honor, which has 63,000 members in North 

 America. 



IMinnesota State Fair at {St. Paul, 

 from Sept. 6 to 14. Mr. L. H. Wilcox is 

 assistant Superintendent of the Honey and 

 Apiarian Department. About $100 are of- 

 fered in premiums on bees, honey, and im- 

 plements ; then follows a novelty— a special 

 sweepstakes premium of Sl-50 is offered for 

 the "best display of any individual, State, 

 county, or local bee-keeper association, con- 

 sisting of not less than one ton of honey, 

 five colonies of bees, and all the necessary 

 equipments of a model apiary ; also an ex- 

 pert to handle and manipulate bees, extract 

 honey, make and insert foundation, and 

 show the use of modern improvements at 

 any time the superintendent may direct." 



This large premium should call out an 

 excellent display, and we hope the hint will 

 be taken by other Fairs next season. 



Frank I>eslie*s Illustrated News- 

 paper for Sept. 7 is a very striking number. 

 Its interesting pages represent scenes dur- 

 ing the Sheepshead Bay racing season, " A 

 Fishing-camp in Maine," "An Evening 

 Procession of Boats on Lake George," and 

 scenes on the grounds of the Hobokeu Tur- 

 tle Club. 



Brand tiie Bees.— The papers gen- 

 erally are "poking fun" at the decision of 

 the New York court in the case of S. W. 

 Rich. The American Analyst gets off the 

 following : 



The general term of the Supreme Court in 

 the central part of this State has decided 

 that it is trespass for honey-bees to go upon 

 lands not belonging to their owner. This 

 may be good law, but the wonder is hdw this 

 law is to be carried out. It perhaps will 

 offer a new field for the rubber-stamp men 

 to affix the owner's initials to the bees' 

 feet, or Mr. Edison might invent some elec- 

 tric appliance by which trespassing bees 

 could be made to leave their mark ; or na- 

 ture, perhaps, would be sufficient if the 

 bees would notify the owner of the land 

 where the trespass is committed by pre- 

 senting their " business end " as a sort of 

 card of identification ; or the owners of the 

 bees might brand them. Otherwise we can- 

 not see how this decision will help those 

 who are trespassed upon. 



The "card of identification" from the 

 " business end " of the bees will no doubt 

 be the most satisfactory and convincing 

 argument of the presence of the winged 

 intruders. The one whose duty it might be 

 to brand them would have a picnic— and a 

 red-hot time, at that. 



A Bislionorable Xransaction 



stamps the character of the man. Mistakes 

 will happen, but such are always easily 

 rectified if a spark of honor remains in the 

 bosom of the person responsible for such. 

 A gentleman in Kansas seeing an advertise- 

 ment of " Italian Bees for Sale," signed by 

 "A. Meyer, Pekin, Ills.," sent him the price 

 of a colony with sufficient to prepay the 

 transportation charges, and received a col- 

 ony of poor hybrids, and had to pay $2.10 

 for charges a second time. We wrote to 

 Meyer more than a month ago for an expla- 

 nation before publishing this. The letter 

 was 7iot returned "after 10 days," as re- 

 quested, but no reply has come to hand. No 

 more money should be entrusted to him 

 until he explains or clears up this transac- 

 tion. 



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Ho^v Xiiinsrs Have Clianged. — 



Henry Alley, of Wenham, Mass., thus de- 

 scribes the changed aspect of things in his 

 State about the honey crop : 



I tell you, friend Newman, things have 

 changed here woiiderfully during the past 

 twenty days. Rainy weather has gone l)y, 

 and our bees have done a heavy business in 

 gathering honey from golden-rod and other 

 fall flowers. All of my hives are solidly 

 full of honey of the best quality, and yet 

 the flow continues. The weather is exactly 

 tiie reverse of what it was one year ago. It 

 is liot and dry, just the condition all bee- 

 keepers like to have when there is plenty of 

 honey the bees can gather. 



The depression in spirits we have ex- 

 perienced for nearly a year has vanished. 

 Every order on our books for queens will .)e 

 filled on the 7th. We never received more 

 orders for queens than this year, hundreds 

 of them coming from my act vert isement n 

 your valuable American Bee Journal. 



r^ The beekeepers of sanRamon and adjoininK We hope tills change is general all through 

 nunties are requestLMi t.j meet in the Supervisors' fjjg Eastern States, where heretofore the 



Room of the Court House m Sprlnieflehl, Ills., on " ^ '. .,11. 



Wednesday, Sept. 25. iM»y, at 10 a.m., for the purpose reports have been SO discouragmg about the 



of organizing a bee-keepers' association. All are in- . 



vited.-D. D. Cooper, Geo. V. Robbins, C. E. Yocum. I hOney Crop. 



Busy as a Bee.— It is said that to col- 

 lect one pound of honey, 63,000 heads of 

 clover must be drained of their nectar ; and 

 to do that requires 3,(>.50,000 visits from the 

 bees. It means something when we say, 

 " Busy as a hee."— Exchange. 



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