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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



May 



cover. But "scraps" have their uses 

 b'gosh, 'tickularly scraps of gossip. 

 Have you read Gleanings for April 

 1st? You should have. Lots o' queer 

 thing-s in it and useful too. Ernest tells 

 how McEvoy works when bees get up 

 all at once and swarm — just pulls the 

 blanket up over their heads. Odd con- 

 ceit, but he says it works. 



Bro. McEvoy is also quoted as say- 

 in' that foul brood will soon be a thing 

 of the past in Ontario. Let's send him 

 to Cuba. 



But you just oughter hear how 

 they're agoin' to stop pear blight. 

 They're agoin' to keep a surgeon with 

 anaesthetics, antiseptics, cosmetics and 

 other 'ticks in each orchard and when 

 a tree is taken sick the surgeon is 

 to amputate the sick spot. 



Bro. Pridgen has part of quite a 

 long story about some queen rearing 

 hives he's made. Let us hope he is 

 not going to try to sell 'em to us. 

 We'll buy his queens but not his fix- 

 ins'. 



Bro. Holterman does some good 

 emphasizing about comb foundation 

 but I reckon a good many of we uns 

 won't agree with all he says just the 

 same. 



Then there is a chap named Girruls 

 who is a shouting for "chunk" honey. 

 By the way if you want a jolly scrap 

 say something against "chunk honey" 

 and Bro. Hyde will accommodate you. 

 'Pears as if he's afraid that if he don't 

 holler, and holler loud, the sale for it 

 will stop. 



Bro. Aiken and Ernest are having 

 a little tilt over philological matters 

 and I note that "shooked" swarms are 

 now "forced." Slowly the world do 

 move. 



I see Bro. Moorehouse of the Rocky 

 Mt. has got the "foot note" disease. 

 Wonder did he get it from nightly 

 promenades with that new assistant of 

 his? However, he's got it, its bad, 

 powerful bad. 'Minds me of an old 

 woman who is bound to have the last 

 word, and its discourteous to his con- 

 tributors and readers both, whether the 

 foot note commends or condemns. 

 Here's a hopin' he soon gets over it. 

 Wish Ernest could get over it too, but 

 I fear tis bred in his bones, b'gosh. 



"To the makin' of books there is no 

 end" for which same we uns should be 

 truly grateful elsewise Dr. Miller's 

 latest might not have appeared. Pow- 

 erful obliged to you_for the copy you 



sent me. Here's hopin' again that 

 you'll live to write about your forty or 

 more years among the bees — if you 

 don't get switched off on cameras. 

 Yours as ever, 



John Hardscrabble. 



NEXT NATIONAL CONVEN- 

 TION- 

 Chicago, 111.. April 14, 1903. 

 Editor American Bee-Keeper: 



Los Angeles, California, has been 

 selected by the Executive Committee 

 as the place for holding the next an- 

 nual meeting of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, and August 18, 

 19 and 20, 1903, are the dates. 



The main reason for deciding on 

 Los Angeles was on account of the low 

 railroad rates in force at the time of 

 the Grand Army meeting at San Fran- 

 cisco, which is held the same week, 

 and the same rates apply to Los An- 

 geles. 



Further particulars will appear in 

 the regular official notice to be issued 

 by the Secretary of the Association lat- 

 er on as soon as definite arrange- 

 ments can be made as to hall for hold- 

 ing the meeting, hotel accommoda- 

 tions, etc. 



We maj' say that San Antonio, Tex., 

 and Salt Lake City, Utah, made honor- 

 able strenuous efforts to secure this 

 year's meeting of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, but those who 

 have had the most experience know 

 that in order to have the best and full- 

 est attendance, the meeting must be 

 held when low railroad rates all over 

 the whole country can be taken ad- 

 vantage of, and the Grand Army beats 

 them all in that line. So that fact 

 had great weight with the committee 

 in deciding the matter. 



Executive Committee, 

 George W. York, Sec. 



As is quite usual under such condi- 

 tions, the beautiful weather of March 

 so genera! throughout the country, was 

 followed by an April more winter-like, 

 and serious losses to bee-keeping in- 

 terests have doubtless resulted. From 

 information at hand, we incline to the 

 belief that very heavy losses in bees 

 have been experienced in many north- 

 ern localities during the past winter. 

 The greater, then, is the necessity for 

 care of the remaining stock. 



