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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



March 



the world fairly clamors — should be 

 controlled by persons whose ambition 

 finds such complete p;ratification in two 

 or three hundred nuclei? No Schwab 

 or Morgan blood in this firm, verily. In 

 it lies no hope for the University of 

 Chicago. Those who seek endowment 

 of public libraries must continue to 

 look for such to those who have devel- 

 oped superiority in armor-plate, and not 

 in queen bees. What a pity a mere an- 

 tipathy to publicity should preclude 

 the achievement of so much good, and 

 thwart such a noble example of the 

 strenuous life. 



Many and earnest are the commenda- 

 tions we have received from bee-keepers 

 for the stand we have taken against 

 the quoting of inferior honey as 

 "Southern." One corresponden,t be- 

 lieves that the use of the word in quo- 

 tations, as it has been used by some, 

 affords the dealer an excellent method 

 of disposing of the nation's dirty, sour, 

 good-for-nothing "honey," at the ex- 

 pense of the reputation of but one- 

 quaner thereof. There may be some 

 tru'h in this assumption; but so far as 

 Mr. Muth is concerned, we do not now, 

 nr.r liave we at any time,, believed that 

 he would willfully wrong the bee-keep- 

 ers in any quarter of ^ the country. 

 Quite an extended correspondence with 

 Mr. Muth himself in regard to the mat- 

 ter, convinces us that his firm desires to 

 do only that which is right and fai-- 

 v/it 1 the producers evevywhere. The 

 difficulty has been in his inability to 

 fully appreciate the damage that the 

 practice is doing the progressive pro- 

 ducers of the South. We hopefully 

 anticipate a conclusive announcement 

 from Mr. Muth on this point, in time 

 for our next issue; and believe bee- 

 keepers will find therein the evidence 

 of his readiness to change his mind, 

 when shown his error. 



Professor Fred W. Mally and Mr. 

 Wilmon Newell have issued a very in- 

 teresting report of the past season's 

 work in the experimental apiary of the 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College of 

 Texas, "together with practical sug- 

 gestions in modern methods of bee- 

 keeping as applied to Texas condi- 

 tions." The Report comprises 53 pages 

 and presents much of interest to the 

 general student of apiculture. Statis- 



tics compiled by Prof. Mally place the 

 valuation of Texas apiculture in 1900 

 at $2,153,225.20. Mr. Newell, as Prof. 

 Mally's assistant, is conducting opera- 

 tions at the experimental apiary with 

 commendable enthusiasm and energy, 

 and we have been much interested in 

 looking over his report. It's a poor 

 book, though, that will not afiford its 

 reader one smile. Here is where we 

 found ours, on page 52: "Upon bee 

 culture there are a number of reliable 

 text-books, adapted to the beginner in 

 about the order named: Roo,t. 'A B C 

 of Bee Culture;' Maeterlinck, 'The 

 Life of the Bee;' Cook. 'Manual of 

 the Apiary;' Dadant, 'Langstroth on 

 the Honey Bee;' Cheshire. 'Anatomy, 

 Physiology and Floral Relations of the 

 Hive Bee;' Morley. 'The Honey Mak- 

 ers;' L. C. Root. 'Quinby's 'New Bee- 

 Keeping.' and Doolittle. 'Scientific 

 Queen Rearing.' " 



"RAMBLER" IS NO MORE. 



Mr. John H. Martin, better known as 

 "Rambler," under which name he has 

 written ex,tensively for Gleanings, re- 

 cently died in Cuba, where he has been 

 conducting apicultural operations since 

 Novembei. igoi. The loss which the 

 fraternity has sustained through Mr. 

 Martin's death, is so fittingly express- 

 ed in a private letter from A. C. Miller, 

 that we can do no better than present 

 Mr. MiJler's words, as follows: 



"I learned yesterday by Gleanings of 

 Rambler's death, and it came as a pain- 

 ful shock. I knew him well and we 

 have corresponded for years. Kindly, 

 genial, gentle-spirited, large-hearted 

 and always tolerant of the failings of 

 0|thers. believing that all persons pos» 

 ses some good, and looking for that 

 and not for their shortcomings, in his 

 quiet way he steadily tried to make life 

 more worth the living. Broad in his 

 own religious belief, trusting implicit- 

 ly in the goodness and wisdom of his 

 Creator, his was a quiet, praqticaj, 

 workaday Christianity. Full of dry wit 

 and gentle satire he made us smile 

 while showing us our foibles. The bee- 

 keeping world can ill spare such as he 

 and to those of us who were so fortu- 

 nate ,as to be called his friends, the loss 

 is irreparable. 



Following so closely as it did after 

 the death of genial Dr. Mason, his 



