THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



1901 



"twins" with you or me or that Rhode 

 Islander. 



In Gleanings' "Home" papers for 

 October 15, A. I. R. talks of the send- 

 ing of "expert teachers to the utter- 

 most parts of the earth" Hum! seems 

 to me our Scholars go to the uttermost 

 parts of the earth for knowledgt.— and 

 find it- Think he ever heard of the 

 civilization and culture that existed 

 thousands of years before we appeared 

 on the turf? We're not the whole 

 thing and we can learn a lot from 

 those poor, ignorant foreigners. May- 

 hap we can give them points on eco- 

 nomical manufacture and on commerce, 

 but in matters of profound and ab- 

 struse thinking— well, 'twere meet that 

 we observe extreme modesty. 



There is one of the boys who, no 

 matter what the subject may be, is al- 

 ways giving his opinion on it, and 

 though his name carries weight, his ig- 

 norance of some things is profound. 

 Evidently he little wots that "That 

 which we least know we most firmly be- 

 lieve." He is getting to be to progress- 

 ive bee-keeping what the Old Man of 

 the Sea was to Sinbad- Never mind his 

 name, but if you can't guess I will tell 

 you sometime. Yours as ever, 



John Hardscrabble. 



Good counsels observed are chains of grace. 



— Fuller. 



The annual eouvention of the Ontario 

 Cimitv. (N. Y.) Bee-keepers' Associa- 

 tion wil lV>e held at Canadai.sna. Dec. 

 13 and 14. 



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Germany- Austria. 



Germany and Austria have two great 

 bee-keepers' organizations, the older 

 •jne, the Wander-Verein, the other of 

 later origin, the Central-Verein. These 

 two bodies held a joint meeting a year 

 ago, which proved to be a success. This 



the good of an exhibition can only be 

 had on the spot, there and then- (It 

 has been the opinion of the writer that 

 this feature, of an accompanying ex- 

 hibition might be added to our Amer- 

 ican bee-keepers' gatherings with prof- 

 it.) To what extent these exhibitions 

 are carried on may be judged from the 



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year again both met in Breslau, the jact that there were 95 exhibitors, show- 

 residence of Dr. Dzierzon. A grand j^g ijve bees in full colonies, nucleus 

 exhibition of bees, bee hives and sup- hi^gs and queen cages. Over 100 colo- 

 plies was held in connection with the ^igg of bees were exhibited. A con- 

 meeting- In fact these exhibitions al- ygnt from Breslau brought several in- 

 ways form the most interesting and im- habited old and clumsy log-gums secur- 

 portant part of the whole proceedings, ed by heavy iron hoops and pad-locks. 

 Bee-keepers come from far and near to Another exhibitor had placed eighteen 

 inspect the hives and fixtures in partic- colonies of bees on exhibition. Gun- 

 ular The discussions taking place at ther-Gispersleben was present with an 

 the sessions can be read in the bee old, badly worn hi^^e, which served him 

 journals at leisure any time after, but when he began bee-keeping 50 years 



