The Langstroth Fund. 



The following letter from Mrs. A. L. 

 Cowan has been received, acknowledg- 

 ing the receipt of the money collected 

 at the late Convention. We shall be 

 glad if those who subscribed and did 

 not pay, will send on the amount so that 

 we may forward it to Mr. Langstroth. 

 Any others who would feel it a privi- 

 lege to contribute their " mite," may 

 also send it to us : 



Oxford, O., Oct. 29, 1879. 



Mr. Thos. G. Newman— Dear Sir: 

 I exceedingly regret that the kindness 

 of my father's many friends can at 

 present meet with no better recognition 

 than an expression of thanks by my 

 hand. Your favor of the 25th inst. was 

 received yesterday, and its unexpected 

 enclosure of $120 will provide for him 

 many needed comforts for the coming 

 winter. He wishes me to say that he 

 deeply feels the kindness of his friends, 

 which have been of material assistance 

 to him. 



Sincerely thanking you for your gen- 

 erous and successful effort in my fath- 

 er's behalf, permit me to sign myself, 

 Respectfully your friend, ' 



Anna L. Cowan. 



The following will be read with 

 interest : 



Thomas G. Newman, Dear Sir:— I 

 see you are Treasurer of the Langstroth 

 fund. Please take charge of the in- 

 closed for the fund. 



It seems hardly possible that it can be 

 18 or 20 years, since he Mr. L., was here 

 on a visit, and stopped over night with 

 us. He looked very well then, and was 

 the owner I thought of the finest head 

 of hair I ever saw on a man. It was of 

 a rich chesnut brown, as thick as it 

 could grow, and not a grey hair in it. 

 He must be very much changed since 

 then. I recollect that he was very much 

 interested in my experiments with foul 

 brood, and I accompanied him to the 

 city the next day, where we ransacked 

 the library of the Pennsylvania Hospi- 

 tal in search of information regarding 

 it, but found nothing of any account, 

 excepting a few translations from the 

 German. I think he was on his way to 

 visit Mr. Wagner at York, Pa., when 

 he stopped here. 



It was only accidentally that I learned 

 what ailed Mr. L., as he very seldom 

 spoke of himself. I often thought I 

 might have been of service to him had 

 I known sooner. His complaint, if I 

 am right, is generally supposed to be 



incurable, but this is not so. It can 

 be cured sometimes. I ought to know, it 

 had hold of me once, and from the age 

 of 17 for 40'years it never let go for a 

 whole day at a time. I suffered "many 

 things from many physicians," yet I 

 got entirely well. The treatment for 

 consumption is the only one to be relied 

 upon. Active exercise, or better, some 

 profitable employment that compels 

 muscular exertion, and a life altogether 

 in the open air. This and total cessa- 

 tion from brain work, and not neglect- 

 ing to u throw physic to the dogs," is 

 what cured me. A bad cold, in mid- 

 winter, will still bring me back a re- 

 minder, and then iron and quinine in 

 moderate doses has always broken it up 

 in about 2 days. 



I wonder if any one outside of Mr. L's 

 family knows his full name ; I got as far 

 as L. Lawrence, and there I stopped. 



Last winter was long and the season 

 opened late. White clover finished 

 blooming about July 10 and after that 

 we got almost nothing. The crop of 

 honey was less than one-quarter. Late 

 in August the drouth set in, and from 

 that time until now, we have had just 

 about % inch of rain. Natural swarms 

 about 4 per cent. C. W. Taylor. 



igi In appointing the time for Con- 

 ventions, it would be well to consider a 

 few points. By holding them early in 

 the month, say from the 1st to the 10th 

 or 15th, it would give time to get a re- 

 port of the proceedings in the Bee 

 Journal the following month. This 

 is often very desirable ; for many who 

 are unable, from some cause or other, 

 to attend, get quite impatient to learn 

 what was done ; and if any action is 

 taken that is of interest to or affecting 

 other organizations, Bee or Honey 

 Shows, or anything else of general im- 

 portance, it should be published as soon 

 as possible. A delay of a month or so, 

 is sometimes quite an inconvenience to 

 many persons, and when it can be 

 avoided, it is certainly worth while to 

 do so. " A word to the wise is 

 sufficient." 



i^°By an oversight the sections, all 

 in one piece, which were exhibited by 

 Lewis & Parks, at the National Con- 

 vention, were not included in the list 

 of exhibits on page 528, of the last 

 Journal. It was quite a large exhibit 

 and the sections were very nice. 



