THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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"GREELENARIAN" PENMAN- 

 SHIP. 



"Just turn to page — of The Bee- 

 Keeper for March, and see what the 

 types make me say," indignantly 

 wrote a correspondent the other day. 

 We turned to the page, and turned 

 also to the copy, and decided that the 

 editor, the compositor and the proof- 

 reader were all really entitled to 

 much credit for the way the manu- 

 script had been handled. 



If correspondents are particular to 

 have their writings appear correctly 

 in print, care should be taken in their 

 preparation to the extent, at least, of 

 legibility. 



Some very strange and amusing 

 things sometimes occur as a result of 

 carelessness in writing. Horace Gree- 

 ly used to get into all kinds of mud- 

 dles by this trait of carelessly writ- 

 ing. As an example of this, the fol- 

 lowing correspondence is said to have 

 taken place between the immortal 

 Greeley and a western lecture bureau: 



Dear Sir, — I am overworked and 

 growing old. I shall be sixty next 

 February 3. On the whole, it seems 

 I must decline to lecture henceforth, 

 except in this immediate vicinity, if 

 I do at all. I cannot promise to visit 

 Illinois on that errand — certainly not 

 now. Yours, Horace Greeley. 



M. B. Castle, Sandwich, 111. 



And here is how the lecture com- 

 mittee read it: 



Sandwich, 111., May 12. 



Horace Greeley, New York Tribune: 



Dear Sir, — Your acceptance to lec- 

 ture before our association next win- 

 ter came to 'hand this morning. Your 

 penmanship not being the plainest, it 

 took some time to translate it; but 

 we succeeded, and would say your 

 time, "third of February," and terms, 

 "sixty dollars," are perfectly satisfac- 

 tory. As you suggest, we may be 

 able to get you other engagements in 



April 



this immediate vicinity. If so, we will 

 advise you. Yours respectfully, 



M. B. Castle. 



Mr. Thos Chantry, president of the 

 "Western Honey Producers," Sioux 

 City, la., wrote, March 22, that he had 

 his trunk packed for the editor's old 

 stamping ground near Colton, Califor- 

 nia, and that prospects were favorable 

 for a good honey crop in Southern 

 California this season. Mr. Chantry 

 has sold about two carloads of honey 

 in Sioux City this winter. He is a 

 "tireless toiler," and deserves the 

 success that he is achieving. 



One of California's extensive apiar- 

 ists, from whom we had heard nothing 

 for a year or more, expresses his sen- 

 timents, under date of March 20th, 

 thus: "After reading all the bee 

 journals for years, the American Bee- 

 Keeper seems nearer to the plain bee- 

 man than any of the others. I admire 

 the stand you are taking." 



Mr. Joseph Braun, of Santo Domin- 

 go, March 8, wrote: "Bees are doing 

 well now. The past two months have 

 given a good surplus of an excellent 

 flavored and thick honey." 



PICTURE No. II. 



Chatsworth, Cal., Feb 16, 1907. 

 Dear Editor: — The picture is of my 

 extractor-house and apiary cook- 

 house. The shop is beyond the hill. 

 These hives are of overflow swarms. 

 The tank among the hives is like I use 

 to store honey in. I have 50 of them, 

 40 of which are at present filled with 

 honey. They hold 600 pounds each 

 and are constructed of a single sheet 

 of 30x96 galvanized iron, waxed in- 

 side and painted outside. I usually 

 keep that amount of honey for off 

 years and to always have the cup 

 right side up rain or no rain. 



C. W. Dayton. 



