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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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perience with these bees that where 

 the bee-keeper is on very bad terms 

 with his neighbor, these characteristics 

 are manifest to a slight degree, the 

 more antagonistic the more percepti- 

 ble, just Hke chicken and dog tracks 

 in the garden. Persons wishing to 

 test some of these remarkable bees, 

 or wishing any information in regard 

 to them can address, 



Nectar and Venom. 

 — from Reynoldsville (Pa.) Star. 



Reynoldsville, Pa., July 8, 1907. 

 Editor Bee-Keeper: 



When my attention was called to 

 the item referred to in the enclosed 

 clipping, the accusation being so false 

 and there being only one person in 

 every thousand keeping bees here, it 

 made the attack seem so personal that 

 I felt like going after them with some- 

 thing a little keener than my pen point, 

 and if they make any more such as 

 saults I will go at them venom end 

 first, and if on account of friendly re- 

 lations or through fear of not getting 

 their garden seed for free distribution 

 in the spring, the local papers refuse 

 to publish my article, I will try and 

 find some other medium through which 

 to reach the people. We can coax 

 some with nectar, but we can deter 

 more wth venom. I believe Pennsyl- 

 vania bee-keepers will feel like de- 

 claring themselves in a body when I 

 tell them that the Daily Spirit in which 

 this item was printed in the first month 

 of its publication, is edited by a pet 

 son who has been helping to enact 

 our State laws for the last ten years, 

 and the paper is likely to have a wide 

 circulation among law makers. 



I would like to suggest that someone 

 slip one of these Polkadot bees in his 

 ear. He knows the signs, and will 

 understand the rest. 



' Yours respectfully. 



Nectar & Venom. 

 Full Cousin Jekyll and Hyde. 



FORESTRY, 



GEO. H. WRIGHT IN FLORIDA AGRI- 

 CULTURIST. 

 Back in the early eighties, I was 

 engaged in growing and planting forest 

 trees in the Northwest, and during 

 that time I received several volumes 

 of books from Russia, which had been 

 translated into English. These books 

 gave a very clear account of work that 

 had been done by the Russian govern- 



ment, and by individual planters, in 

 forest tree planting. 



The magnitude of the work was a 

 surprise to me, and the more I read 

 the more I became interested in what 

 was being done. 



The same summer I attended a 

 meeting of the American Forest-tree 

 Convention, held at the city of Min- 

 neapolis, Minn. There I presented 

 the subject to several members of the 

 society, among them the Hon. Charles' 

 Gibbs, of Abbottsford, Quebec, one of 

 the most enthusiastic members, on the 

 subject of planting forests, then in 

 America. 



Before the meeting adjourned, Mr. 

 Gibbs and I had agreed that we would 

 make a trip to Russia and Germany 

 and see for ourselves what was being 

 done. In a very few weeks thereafter, 

 armed with letters from our Govern- 

 ment authorities at Washington and in 

 Canada, and also letters from the Rus- 

 sian ambassador, we started on our 

 long trip to Russia. 



On our arrival in London, each of 

 us called on our minister, and with 

 him on the Russian minister, and from 

 him received letters to the minister of 

 the Interior, of Russia, at St. Peters- 

 burg. 



When we arrived at St. Petersburg, 

 I called on bur American minister, 

 and with him on the minister of the 

 Interior. We found this high function- 

 ary very enthusiastic and ready to give 

 us all necessary documents to facilitate 

 our investigations. By the way, with- 

 out those documents we would have 

 found it uphill work getting through 

 the country and into places which gave 

 us valuable information. 



We soon found that the half haii 

 not been told about the magnitude of 

 the work that was being carried for- 

 ward by that great tyranical govern- 

 ment. In brief, let me state that we 

 found twelve hundred forest tree 

 schools devoted to teaching students 

 how to grow and care for forests. We 

 found young men from the most 

 wealthy families in these schools, being 

 taught how to gather seeds, how to 

 care for them, how to prepare the land 

 and how to plant the seeds, nuts and 

 cuttings, and all the rudiments of 

 growing forests for profit and for or- 

 nament. 



I well remember an expression of 

 Mr. Gibbs', "This may be a despotic 

 government, but it is far ahead of 



