1902 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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by correspondents. I reckon he leaves 

 the dates off for the same reason. 



Say, a most impertinent cuss (yes I 

 mean "cuss." that just fits) blew in on 

 me near a week ago, and say sir, he 

 just criticised nigh about everything I 

 had — even my tobacco after he'd bor- 

 rowed all I had about me. Said things 

 unprintable about those "Italians" and 

 left without saying good-by — but then. 

 he was hardly to blame for that, for 

 those bees seemed to take a likin' to 

 him. 'Bout half the colony followed 

 him out of sight. I wonder if I hit that 

 hive while he was admiring them? 



It's mighty queer how some people 

 are always criticising everything and 

 everybody; ain't it? I can't understand 

 it. Now there's one of the boys out 

 in Colorado who is great in that line; 

 keeps himself in hot water most of the 

 time — I understand he don't like hot wa-' 

 ter, either. Then there is another "boy" 

 in York state who can't agree with no- 

 body nohow unless they believe in him. 

 Deucedly odd. Then in Tennessee is 

 another fellow who gets everybody all 

 mixed up on hereditarial laws and is 

 cock sure the other boys are away off. 

 Gee whiz! Say, the woods are full of 

 them. But most reckless of all, is our 

 old friend Dr. Gallup; why he's just 

 gone and slapped the faces of every 

 queen raiser in the land. Says all their 

 queens are degenerates. Seems as how 

 a boy of his years ought to know better 

 than poke sticks into such a hornet's 

 nest. Just won't he catch it. I opine 

 he is right certain of his ground tho'; 

 he generally is before he makes state- 

 ments. 



Didn't I tell you that ructions were 

 coming, be more of 'em too, see if 

 there ain't. Here is food for some of 

 them: "Mr. G. apparently saw only 

 one side or a part of the other side. If 

 he will withold judgement until he re- 

 ceives a full statement I think he will 

 see the matter in a different light." So 

 wrote E. R. Root on the National Man- 

 agership muddle, in the A. B- J. July 31 

 1902 P'r'aps E. R. R., while he is in 

 the explainin' line, can explain to the 

 membership why they do not receive a 

 "full statement" and that before the 

 next election. 



So Dr. Miller wants me to say which 

 of you are right. Faith and ye are 

 both right and both wrong. It all de- 

 pends on whose bees ye are talking 

 about. The pure Italian is a mighty 



scare bird among domestic ones now-a- 

 days; most of 'em have Syrian blood. 



Now both of ye go and get Cyprians 

 and be happy. 



Yours as ever, 



John Hardscrabble. 



In the Bee-Keepers' Record for July. 

 twenty-seven bee and honey exhibitions 

 are scheduled to occur in England from 

 July 5 to October 10, inclusive. 



"The great secret of successful bee- 

 keeping lies in having strong colonies 

 always readj?^ to gather surplus whenever 

 a good honey-flow comes." — British 

 Bee-Keepers' Guide Book. 



Mr. Charles Dadant, of the firm of 

 Chas. Dadant & Son, Hamilton. 111., 

 a respected and prominent figure 

 throughout the bee-keeping world, died 

 at his home, July 16. 



The Central Association of Austrian 

 Bee Keepers have arranged for an in- 

 ternational exhibition of bees, supplies, 

 honey and apicultural literature, at 

 Vienna, during the festival of Easter, 

 1903. * 



Editor Morehouse, of the Rocky 

 Mountain Bee Journal, on June 11, lost 

 his beloved father, Thomas H. More- 

 house, aged about 62 years. The sym- 

 pathies of the fraternity are with the 

 bereaved brother. 



J. W. A. inquires: "Do you think I 

 can raise as good queens by his (Al- 

 ley's) plan as by any of the others?" 

 Yes. There is no apparent reason why 

 they should not be fully equal to queens 

 reared by any known method. 



It has been proven by various tests 

 that more depends on the nourishment 

 supplied for the first two or three days 

 than is generally conceded, not only by 

 the longevity of the queens and their 



