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Of Real Value to Bee-Keepers. 



—Mr. C. H. Dibberu writes to the Western 

 Bowman a resume of the Arkadelphia law- 

 suit, and the decision of the Supreme Court 

 that bee-lveeping is not a nuisance per se. 

 He then adds : 



This decision is of real value to bee- 

 keepers, and is the first ease of the kind 

 decided by ihe Supreme Court and State. 

 Hereafter people having imauinary griev- 

 ances against beekeepers will likely think 

 twice before commencing petty suits. Bee- 

 keepers will hereafter be responsible tor 

 the real damage that may be caused by their 

 bees, just like any other property. More 

 than tiiat, no bee-beeper ought to ask. 



Now while this suit was ostensibly car- 

 ried on by Mr. Clark, the Bee-Keepers' 

 Union was the " power behind the throne," 

 and it has cost a good deal of money. Mr. 

 Clark, being a poor man, could not have 

 afforded the expense to carry the case to the 

 higher court, and employ first-class legal 

 talent. The management of the Union de- 

 serve great credit in this, as in all other 

 cases it has ever taken up, never having lost 



The first thing the Union does when a 

 case of any member comes before it, is to 

 determine if the case is a just one. If not, 

 he is advised at once, and a satisfactory set- 

 tlement is soon made. If he is in the right, 

 he is helped in his defense to the last. 



Now is it not very strange that all bee- 

 Keepers do not belong to the Uuion, when 

 all possible assessments amount to but 81 

 per year ? Tet, .strange to say, the member- 

 ship is still less than 500, when it Should be 

 at least 10,000. , ^ 



Some bee-keepers may have been kept 

 out, by being afraid of becoming involved 

 in lawsuits, but are they not much more 

 liable to become involved in such suits by 

 staying out ? Then, too, is it not worth 

 something to give our mite to protect a 

 worthy man, like Mr. Clark, in his rights. 



Yes, Brother Dibbern, the bee-keepers are 

 standing in their own light in not joining 

 the Union by the thousand. The few who 

 have joined the Union have demonstrated 

 what can be done in defending the pursuit. 

 Now, if the mass of those interested, persist 

 in withholding their influence, the Uniou 

 will be unable to cope with the enemies of 

 bee-keepers, for lack of funds ; and its fail- 

 ure to do so, will be charged rightfully to 

 the apathy of bee-keepers themselves— not 

 to the weakness of the management. 



Xl»e <:iticae:o Convention will be 

 held on Friday ana Satnrday, Oct. 



11 and 13, 18S9. The Railroad Traffic 

 Association has made a rate of one fare for 

 the round trip from any point within 300 

 miles of Chicago, good on Oct.l0,and can be 

 used on any train returning after that until 

 Monday, Oct. U. The first session will be 

 held at 9 o'clock in the morning of Friday, 

 and an adjourumentcan be had on Saturday 

 afternoon In time for those who may wish to 

 return on that day. Those who can remain 

 over Sunday will have an opportunity of 

 visiting our magnificent chnrches and cathe- 

 drals in the morning and evening, and of tak- 

 ing a pleasant walk in the parks or riding 

 on the boulevards in the afternoon, as their 

 iuclinatioa and tastes may lead them. 



Mr. C Scliliesmayer, of Pasadena, 

 Calif., has sent us two large views of his 

 apiaries. One is his home apiary, and the 

 other is one up in the mountains. He has 

 another apiary, the best of all, but these 

 views show that he is an extensive apiarist. 

 In the present poor season he has obtained 

 6,300 pounds of honey in the comb, and 900 

 pounds of extracted. The Tasadena Star 

 of July 23, makes the following mention of 

 his honey crop : 



The most successful honey-producer in 

 the county, C. Schliesmayer, drove past the 

 iSJ«r olfice this morning with a thousand 

 pounds of the whitest, purest-looking comb 

 honey that bees are capable of producing, 

 which he had just taken from his hives in 

 the mountains north of town. It is the third 

 load that he has taken to Los Angeles this 

 summer, all of it beautifully put up in boxes 

 with glass ends. Mr. Schliesmayer disproves 

 in the most emphatic way the assertion that 

 bee-keeping cannot be made successful in 

 this vicinity, for a finer article than he pro- 

 duces would be dithcult to find in California. 



Mr. S. has sold his comb honey at 13),^ 

 cents per pound, and expects to sell the ex- 

 tracted to the same firm for 8 cents per 

 pound. 



He says : " I owe the American Bee 

 JoiTRNAi, for much that I know about bee- 

 keeping, and offer to the Editor my thanks 

 and gratitude. I have been in the business 

 for nearly 20 years ; but I have learned 

 more about it in the past few years, since I 

 have read the Bee Joxjknal, tlian I ever 

 knew before." 



The photographs are placed into our Bee 

 Journal Album, with thanks. 



Xlie Vermont State Fair was held 

 during the first week of this month, and 

 was a great success. Heretofore the mana- 

 gers have offered no premiums for apiarian 

 products, but this year they have done so, 

 and this is what the Rutland Herald says 

 about the exhibit : 



An exhibit that attracts much admiration 

 is that of J. H. Larrabee, of Larrabee's 

 Point, who shows a large amount of fancy 

 comb and extracted honey, as well as a col- 

 ony of bees, including the queen, in a glass 

 hive. A machine for pressing comb foiin- 

 rtation is shown in operation, and full 

 descriptions of the methods of his busy 

 honey workers aie cheerfully given to all 

 inquiries. All the different publications re- 

 lating to bee-culture are given to interested 

 parties, as well as samples of the comb 

 foundation. This is the first year that pre- 

 miums have been offered tor bees and 

 honey, and it is hoped that hereafter a large 

 number will compete for them. 



Bee and honey shows are the attractions 

 wherever they are suitably encouraged. 



Mistakes of Bee-Keepers was the 



subject matter of the Bec-Kcepers' Review 

 last spring. Among the mistakes enumer- 

 ated by the correspondents were— rearing 

 poor queens ; overstocking a locality ; too 

 much increase ; too many irons in the fire ; 

 too much confidence in the statements of 

 persons over-enthusiastic on some particu- 

 lar point, etc. 



Convention Iland-Book. — As the 



convention season is just approaching, we 

 want to direct attention to the little book 

 which every bee keeper needs when attend- 

 ing these gatherings. Here is what Mr. J. 

 E. Pond says about it : 



Dear Editor :— Your little " Convention 

 Hand-Book " is really a very handy thing. 

 At two or three ditlerent times I have been 

 called on to get up something for special 

 occasifins, and I have found the " Hand- 

 Book" jutt the thing to save me quite an 

 amount of time and labor, as it was a very 

 simple matter to use the " book " as a basis, 

 making only such few changes as were 

 necessary to fit the special time and place. 



I can cordially recommend it to any one 

 who may desire not only information, but a 

 perfect form ior organization of a conven- 

 tion of any kind of a convention, as it will 

 " fill the bill " completely. 



Every Hand-Book contains a simple Man- 

 ual of Parliamentary Law and Rules of 

 Order for Local Bee-Conventions ; Constitu- 

 tion and By-Laws for a Local Society ; 

 Programme for a Convention, with subjects 

 for discussion. They sell at .50 cents each, 

 and are nicely bound in cloth covers. 



We make every subscriber this offer : Go 

 and call on your neighbor who keeps bees 

 and ought to take the Bee Journal. Get 

 his subscription and one dollar for a year ; 

 send it to us, and we will present you a copy 

 of the Hand-Book for your trouble— by mail, 

 postpaid. Here is a grand chance for all to. 

 get a valuable book without costing them a 

 cent ! 



A New Serial Story, entitled 

 "Heron's Wife," by Etta W. Pierce, is be- 

 gun in the October number of Frank Lea- 

 lie's Popular Monthly. The color, pict- 

 uresqueness and dramatic force of this 

 novelist have already given her a reputation 

 as a sort of American Ouida— a reputation 

 which this latest work from her pen will 

 fully sustain. The literary and artistic fea- 

 tures of this number of the magazine are 

 even more profuse than usual. 



The National Plower.— A vote was taken, 

 as we are informed by Mr. L. F. Abbott, at the 

 Maine State Fiiir, on Thursday, the third day 

 of the Fair, hy Mr. D. H. Knowlton, Secretary 

 of the Maine Pomological Society, and resulted 

 as follows : Golden-rod 135, lily 14, rose 13, 

 sunflower 8, und arbutus 6. "Straws show 

 Which way the wind blows." 



A correspondonl on a farm requests us to 

 record his " vote lor the morning-glory, be- 

 cause the goUlcn-rod is not a distinctive 

 flower— only ii weed." This reminds us of 

 what a farmer from Jersey county. Ills,, 

 wrote to an exchange on this very subject. He 

 says : 



^Vhcn it comes to putting such a detestable 

 vine a.* the morning-glory iihead of the golden- 

 vod I thiuk the average farmer will hold up 

 hi< 'hands in horror, lor if. in this locality, 

 there is a weed more complained of and more 

 hard to eradicate than the morning-glory, 1 

 have vet to And out what it may be. Corn- 

 fields arc ruined bv it, and the only way to gel; 

 rid of it is to duiuge crops. I never knew any 

 one to be damaged by the graceful goldcivrod. 

 whose golden plumes nod and swiiy with a 

 willowy grace uuri\-aled by auy other llowcr. 



The golden-rod is "our choice, first, last and 



all the time." 



