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XHOiflAS Ci. I^E1V9IAIV, 



XDITOR. 



voinv. Oct, 5,m No. 40. 



Ebiwrml Bumimgs. 



lliiiidreds oi* Stars in the pretty sky; 



Hundreds of shells on the sliore together; 

 Hundreds of birds that go singing by ; 



Hundreds of bees in the sunuy weather. 



Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn ; 



Hundreds of lambs in the purple clover ; 

 Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn ; 



But only one mother the wide world over ! 



If If on are Extraotiiie:. beware of 

 extracting the honey too closely. Leave 

 enough for winter stores, or you will re- 

 pent it. 



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A Strong Colony ot Italian bees 

 are moth-proof. Keep thera strong, and 

 they will never be troubled with the moth. 



Uuflalo is suggested by the Canadian 

 Bee Journal zs the place for holding the 

 International Bee-Convention in 1890. The 

 suggestion is a wise one, and we second the 

 motion. 



Xhe :viollier of Mr. S. F. Reed, North 

 Dorchester, N. H., died on Aug. 25, 1889. 

 The Bee Journal offers its condolence. 

 Bro. Reed's bees are also in trouble, for he 

 writes : " We have no honey this season ; 

 it has been too cold and wet." 



Friend Uoolitlle has been " on the 

 sick list " for two or three weeks. He is 

 reported to be " around a little,"' but he can 

 only; do little— ot course ! A lack of circu- 

 lation seems to be the main difficulty. His 

 feet and legs seem to feel like " sticks," 

 more than like flesh and blood ; they lack 

 warmth and feeling. The Bee Journal 

 offers its sympathy, and hopes that he will 

 soon resume his usual health and strength. 



Ae:ain»it !\'!itiire.— A writer in the 

 Western Apiarian has a •' funny " way of 

 expressing himself on this subject. It will 

 create a laugh, and that will be of some 

 benefit. Here it is : 



I satisfied myself years ago, that it was an 

 ab'iOlute necessity for queens to have a 

 chance to lay some drone-eggs, and for that 

 rea>.on I put into a hive that I am rearing 

 queens from, a full drone comb, or give 

 them an empty frame and let the bees fill it 

 witti drone comb, so that the queen can lay 

 in It ; because reason, instinct, and nature's 

 laws and facts in sight, prove that laying 

 drone-egL'S is a rest to the spermathetic pro- 

 duction ; a preventive to rearing those 

 diminutive worker-cell drones, and render 

 [he workers and queens of a stronger con- 

 stitution. 



We must not violate nature's laws, to suit 

 our own notions, because old Dame Nature 

 is a stern and set old critter ; she carries a 

 positive and powerful sway ; and when she 

 says, " So far. and no farther," you had bet- 

 ter give in to her, or she will give a yank on 

 the halter, and make your heels break your 

 neck every time. 



From such lessons, that have cost me time 

 and money, 1 have been forced to abide by 

 nature's laws, and look for a place where 1 

 can work with her help, and not against 

 her. 



I am not smart enough to outwit the old 

 dame ; and my belief is, that she has every 

 one living by the nap of the neck. 



So much tor what we can or cannot do. 



Xlie Fools are not all dead yet, says 

 the Fai-m, Field nyid Stockman of last 

 week, when mentioning the "glucose and 

 paraffins comb" story, which is going the 

 rounds of the press now-a-days. This is its 

 item : 



The Idea that comb honey is ever manu- 

 factured is as absurd as it is false, and has 

 been refuted so many limes that further 

 denial seems superfluous, and yet we occa- 

 sionally see a newspaper with an article on 

 glucose and paraffine, and the American 

 Encyclopedia contains a rehash of the same 

 old slander. The fools aren't all dead yet. 



Mrs. 1.. C Axtcll, of Rossville, Ills., 

 writes to an exchange as follows about her 

 honey crop : 



We have had a cooler summer than is 

 usual, but as we had an abundance of rain 

 and a warm winter, white clover was very 

 abundant, and about the time the clover 

 was in the height o( bloom, the weather was 

 quite warm and moist, consequently we 

 secured a good yield of honey from the 

 clover, or about -50 pounds per colony in our 

 two apiaries of 207 colonies. 



Xlie Honey Crop in Fngpland is 



said to be quite large this year. An ex- 

 change thus mentions the honey yield in 

 Yorkshire, England : 



It is many years since bees have had such 

 a season for honey-gathering in the valleys 

 as during the present summer. Although a 

 large number of colonies were lost during 

 the winter, with the wet and unfavorable 

 moor season, still what remained to start 

 the spring with have done exceptionally 

 well, and swarmed most prolifically. The 

 long period of bright sunshine which was 

 experienced during the months of June and 

 July, was the saving of the bees in this part 

 of the county. The quality of the honey is 

 excellent, and there is a grand heather 

 bloom on the moors. 



A Fisliy Story is told about honey and 

 gold, and is as follows : 



Clinton A. Snowden, of Taconia, saw 

 bees going and coming from a lioliow tree. 

 He built a fire, smoked out the bees, and cut 

 down the tree to get the honey, lie fmind 

 a great lot of it; but, better still, a large 

 quantity of gold was in the hollow trunk. 

 It had evidently been deposited tliere by 

 nature, and the wise men out there think 

 that it was "gradually washed up every 

 year by the flow of sap, and in course ot 

 tmie accumulated into a solid mass." Mr. 

 Snowden got over $7,000 for the gold. 



It is foolish to say that the gold wfs 

 washed up into the tree by the sap. Tl e 

 brain which invented the idea merits the 

 cognomen of " sap-head," so often bandied 

 about by urchins on the street. But that 

 item will be copied by thousands of papers, 

 and go the usual rounds of the press, with- 

 out a thought of questioning its truthful- 

 ness. 



A Ilandiiionie Pre.sent.— 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 : 



Deae Editor :— Your little " Convention 

 Hand-Book " is really a very handv thing. 

 At two or three ditt'erent times I have been 

 called on to get up something for special 

 occasions, and I have found the " Hand- 

 Book" just 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 

 wlio may desire not only information, but a 

 perfect form for organization of a conven- 

 tion of any kind of a convention, as it will 

 " fill the bill " completely. J. E. Pond. 



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 ! 



An Appendix to "Scientific Queen- 

 Rearing," byG. M. Doolittle, is given in 

 the Second Edition, which details his 

 further experiments in his methods of 

 Queen-Rearing. 



This " Appendix " will be mailed free ot 

 cost to all who have the first edition, upon 

 application at this office. It is now ready 

 for delivery. 



The "Second Edition " of this interesting 

 book will be mailed to any address, post- 

 paid, for Sl.OO. 



Green's new Fruit Catalogaic (Hochestcr, N. 

 Y.) is on our desk. Pears a specialty. 



