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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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low prices when the American bee- 

 keepers have had such poor honey sea- 

 sons for the past two years. He asks 

 that some American-German bee-keep- 

 er will arise and explain. 



Mrs. Lizzie Coton of "remote fame" 

 has found a follower of late m Freuden- 

 stein, Germany- The latter does, as the 

 former did many years ago, advocate 

 feeding sugar syrup to bees and selling 

 the product as pure honey, claiming 

 that the syrup will be changed into 

 honey by the bees. The Freudenstein 

 idea, however, does not take well in 

 Germany. 



^'alentin Wust says in Leipz. Bztg. 

 the reason why pear blossoms are not 

 visited by bees to any great extent 

 is because the nectar they secrete, 

 though plentiful, contains but little 

 sweetness. 



GERMAN EAST AFRICA. 



East Africa is well supplied with hon- 

 ey bees. The natives use wooden tubes 

 for hives, also tube-shaped hives braid- 

 ed from grasses, coated with clay and 

 closed at both ends with wooden disks. 

 But many of the honey-loving negroes 

 are too lazy to keep bees in hives and 

 obtain the honey by hunting bees in the 

 woods- 



ENGLAND- 



The voracity of the spider is general- 

 ly well known and it is therefore well 

 to keep our hives clear of them. Sir 

 John Lubock has figured out that if a 

 man should eat as much in proportion 

 to his weight as does the soider he 

 would consume inside of 24 hours as 

 much as two whole beeves, thirteen 

 sheep, ten hogs and four tons of fish. 

 F. Greiner. 







My Dear Bro. Hill: 



On the left lies the Deep Sea of Sub- 

 scribers, on the right the Devils of con- 

 tributions and atwixt are the Editors 

 and a jolly nice fix they're in, thank 

 goodness. But for the land sakes what 

 for do they class nic along with you 

 uns? I got a letter tother day fairly 

 blue with brimstone flames. 'Twas 

 good tho', jolly good. Here be some 



of its terse things thoughtfully trans- 

 cribed: 



"If you're afraid use a nom de 

 plume." 



"If you're licked, lie-" 



"If you'd be popular try the sancti- 

 monious style." 



"If your 'c py' don't 'go,' borrow 

 tother fellows." 



"If in doubt, lie awake o' nights and 

 you'll guess as near as you'll ever 

 come to it-" 



"If the system won't work, blame the 

 originator." 



"If the bees sting, blame the breed, 

 not your own clumsiness." (Wonder 

 if he meant me and my Syrians?) 



"If the queens ever die, blame the 

 breeder." 



"If lost in introducing, 'blank' him.'' 



"If you're s'^upid, use other folks' 

 thoughts-" 



"If supers stay empty, the hive is too 

 smj^ll — or too big-" 



"If the flowers don't yield, 'tis the 



