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erected in memory of Rev. L. L. 

 Langstroth, at Dayton, Ohio. The 

 shaft was erected at a cost of $300, 

 which amount was subscribed by 

 admiring bee-keepers throughout 

 the world. 



A Philadelphia correspondent 

 says New York and Pennsylvania 

 honey — -white clover, in square one- 

 pound sections — is displayed in that 

 city, quoted at ' 'twenty cents per 

 comb." Buckwheat at sixteen 

 cents. "But very few tall sections 

 are in the Philadelphia market," 

 says our correspondent. 



''Editor JoUey" is an American 

 authority on bee-keeping matters 

 now quoted by the foreign press. 

 This insinuation may be I'esponsible 

 for the protracted silence of our es- 

 teemed contributor of times past. 

 If he will favor our columns with 

 more of his interesting articles we 

 will set the matter aright before the 

 world. 



The Ausfralian Bee Bulletin says. 

 • 'Paralysis is mostly a result of close 

 breeding to get color." Its pres- 

 ence in apiaries of black and hybrid 

 stock, the breeding of which has 

 been left entirely to the bees them- 

 selves, as well as in apiaries having 

 a score of different strains of Itali- 

 ans and their black crosses, does 

 not bear out this theory. 



The queen is the hub and spokes 

 of the apicultural wheel. Contin- 

 ued success without good queens 

 Is impossible. Centered in her 

 there is not only the question of 

 ability to keep her colony up to the 

 necessary standard of strength, but 

 the whole responsibility for the 

 numerous traits of character in- 

 herent in her progeny, which de- 

 cides the fate of the enterprise. 



The editor of Gleaniugti has un- 



dertaken the task of measuring the 

 tongues of bees which may be sent 

 to him for that purpose. This is 

 done with a • view to ascertaining 

 their variations in this respect. 

 On September 1st he reported that 

 the lengths varied from fifteen- 

 hundredths of an ii.ch to twenty- 

 hundredths. When Brother Root 

 gets around to measure the tongues 

 of the progeny of the $200 queen, 

 which he recently discovered in his 

 own apiary, it is anticipated that 

 these figures will materially 

 lengthen out. 



During the past summer a verit- 

 able epidemic of Belgian hare fever 

 swept over this country from ocean 

 to ocean. It was thought that the 

 bee and hare industries would form 

 a harmonious combination which 

 would enable us to retire much ear- 

 lier in life than we would otherwise 

 be able to do. At this writing it 

 appears that the greater part of 

 its victims are convalescent, and 

 laying plans for the addition of 

 more bees or a poultry yard as a 

 more promising acquisition to their 

 stock. 



Sixteen out of twenty-one colon- 

 ies totally annihilated, over nine 

 hundred pounds of honey devoured, 

 and 376 combs destroyed, is the 

 record of a little out-apiary belong- 

 ing to the Southern Bee Company, 

 near Ft. Pierce, during one week 

 in October. The black bear under- 

 took the management of this yard 

 during the temporary absence of H. 

 E. Hill, with the above results. 

 This is the same apiary which the 

 hurricane of 1899 handled to its 

 liking for several days. .We have 

 photographs of the ruins which will 

 L.ppear in The Bee-keeper in due 

 time. 



The Canadian Bee Journal gives 

 its readers this bit of information : 



