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outside case without packing, and a 

 tliin un[)ainted brood-chamber covered 

 with a cushion. 



F. D. Lacy has an arrangement lie 

 calls '-The New Idea." A cage of some 

 kind is placed before the entrance of 

 each hive in which the bees receive 

 feed, if necessary. The hives are kept 

 in a light warm room, and the bees al- 

 lowed to fly in and out of their entran- 

 ces as they choose. He says the bees 

 he is treating in this manner are doing 

 better than those in the cellar. The 

 character of the device will be kept se- 

 cret until success attends it. 



Brother James Heddon has come out 

 with a new hive. We wish Bro. H. 

 would come out with a good article on 

 Bee culture for the Api. The last we 

 received from him was returned because 

 we were not willing to let Brother H. 

 use our columns to "blow up" a friend 

 and one of our best writers. Brother 

 H got pretty mad about it. We sup- 

 posed he would forget it, and think he 

 will after a while. If this does not 

 draw him out, we will try again. 



Dealers in supplies are on the in- 

 crease. Some will succeed, others will go 

 to the wall. Some people have an idea 

 that if they can get ten cents by spend- 

 ing twenty cents in advertising they are 

 making money. There really is not room 

 for so many dealers in Beekeepers' Sup- 

 plies. 



In the January 15th number of 

 Gleanings, A. I. Root recommends 

 leaving the great questions of the day 

 in the unmerciful hands of the ques- 

 tion department, a worthless string of 

 words, words that seldom give the 

 reader any satisfaction. The Api was 

 the first to start this style of literature 

 and the first to discard it as utterly 

 worthless. Ves and No answers de- 

 cide nothing and consume valuable 

 space. One brief, well-written article 

 by an experienced apiarist carries more 

 weight than a dozen columns of that 

 rubbish under the head of "Query De- 

 partment." 



THE COMING WORLD'S COLUMBIAN 

 FAIR. 



Would it not be a good plan for the 

 leading beekeepers of such States as 

 have no beekeepers' societies to get 

 together and organize, or, by corres- 

 pondence, agree upon some plan, and 

 appoint suitable persons to look after 

 the needful legislation and appropria- 

 tion, and for doing all other needed 

 work ? for, if this matter is left ovor till 

 next winter, it maybe too late. — A. B.J. 



We want the beekeepers of Massa- 

 chusetts who are interested in this mat- 

 ter to send suggestions. We should or- 

 ganize at once or by correspondence 

 agree upon some plan and appoint suit- 

 able persons to look after the needed 

 legislation and appropriation by the 

 State of Massachusetts. 



We suggest Brother E. L. Pratt as a 

 proper person to attend to the matter 

 for Massachusetts beekeepers. 



SPRAYING FRUIT TREES WITH 

 POISON. 



A law is uaeded a^^ainst spraying: fruit 

 trees with poison while they are in bloom. 

 A correspondent writes about it as fol- 

 lows : 



It seems to me that the matter of spray- 

 ing frnit trees while in bloom, and the 

 consequent poisoning of bees, is some- 

 thing that might well occupy the attention 

 of the Union. Much spraying Avill be 

 done in the southern part of Illinois, here- 

 after, and, of course, ignorant or malic- 

 ions people will do enough of it while the 

 trees are in bloom t > poison many colo- 

 nies of bees. 



A friend, living some twelve miles 

 away, lost sixty or seventy colonies that 

 way, last spring. Cannot the Beekeep- 

 er's Union get a law passed in our legis- 

 lature, this winter to make it a misde- 

 meanor, with suitable penalties, to spray 

 fruit trees while in bloom. 



Such a law would benefit the fruit grow- 

 ers hardly less tlian it would beekeepers. 



T. P. Andrkws, Farina, III. 



We need some new law here in Mas- 

 sachusetts, on this same point. It is 

 now most too late to take the matter 

 to our legislature this year, as the date 

 for receiving new business has passed, 

 Had the matter been brought to our 

 notice sooner we would have made an 



