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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



— We have just received from 

 Mr. Cbas. Lake of Baltimore, Md., 

 a description of his beekeepers' 

 exhibit to be shown at Timonium 

 Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 ; Elkton, Oct. 6 

 to 11 ; and Richmond, Va., Oct. 23 

 to 26. The description and dia- 

 gram give evidence of great ability 

 and thorough, systematic manage- 

 ment on the part of Mr. Lake. 

 We expect an article on the exhibit 

 and will only say here that for a 

 beekeepers' variety exhibit, we 

 never saw a better plan. What we 

 need are associations so thoroughly 

 organized that they can assist the 

 beekeepers in making such exhibits 

 Come, brother beekeepers ! shake 

 offyour lethargy and take active in- 

 terest in advancing the cause of 

 apiculture. There is much work to 

 be done and we need laborers. 



— The September number of the 

 Deutsche illustrierte Bienenzei- 

 tung contains a fine likeness of its 

 editor ;* the well-known German 

 beemaster, C. H. Gravenhorst. 



— One of our exchanges con- 

 tains the following " Onion juice 

 instantly allays the pain caused by 

 the stinging of hornets, yellow 

 jackets, wasps, bees, etc., etc. 



— Do not fail to read our club of- 

 fers and respond at once; we expect 

 to add two thousand subscribers to 

 our list within the next few months 

 and can do so if each one will do 

 his part of the work. 



— Mr. S. E.Boylston of Charles- 

 ton, S. C, in the last number of 

 "Gleanings," calls the attention of 

 his brother beekeepers to the fact 

 that it is the duty of each one who 

 is reaping the benefit of the mov- 

 able frame hive to contribute his 

 mite toward placing the Rev. L. L. 

 Langstroth in his declining years 

 beyond the necessity of anxiety as 

 to how he shall provide for the 

 wants of his home. And we would 

 most cheerfully and heartily en- 

 dorse friend B's proposition which 



was this : each person using the 

 movable frame hive send to Mr. 

 Langstroth each year either 20 

 cents per hive ; or, if less, whatever 

 his circumstances will warrant. 

 It is a pleasant thought to us that 

 beekeepers are beginning to rec- 

 ognize the fact that those should 

 be honored " to whom honor is 

 due." 



On a recent trip to Boston we 

 were pleasantly entertained by 

 Messrs. Blake and Ripley, who sta- 

 ted among other things that, in 

 their opinion, the beekeepers should 

 hold their honey in the markets at 

 a uniform price so far as possible 

 each season, regardless of the 

 extent of the honey crop, as honey 

 must become one of the necessities 

 like sugar and syrup and not as it 

 is to-day a luxury. Messrs. Blake 

 and Ripley have made the honey 

 market a careful study for a num- 

 ber of years and their suggestion 

 should be carefully studied. 



We have just received the Consti- 

 tution and Bj'-laws of the Hamilton 

 Co. (Texas) Beekeepers' Assoc, 

 and wish to quote one of the arti- 

 cles which is worthy of notice as 

 diflering from the general constitu- 

 tions. 



" Article 6, Sect. 1. Upon any 

 member of this association being 

 charged with unfair dealings in 

 connection with the beekeepers' in- 

 terests, or with any otlier conduct 

 derogatory to the standing of tlie 

 association, the executive commit- 

 tee shall excimine into the case and 

 if it shall find the charge sustained, 

 it shall present the facts to the 

 members of the association at their 

 next meeting, and if there are 

 more than two black balls cast 

 against the offender he shall be ex- 

 pelled." 



This is a move in the right direc- 

 tion and if we keep on we shall yet 

 have a system of associations that 

 will be of great benefit to the bee- 

 keepers. 



