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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



prominent beekeeper in Norway, 

 and is editor of the only bee paper 

 published in that country. His visit 

 to America is to learn our method of 

 beekeeping, and he comes not only 

 on his own account but in the inter- 

 est of the Norwegian government. 



Mr. Young arrived at Wenham at 

 noon time, and as soon as we had 

 taken in a good dinner we were 

 ready for business. After spending 

 a while in the office talking over bee 

 matters, we soon discovered what 

 points our visitor was most interested 

 in, and at once went out among the 

 bees. 



We regret very much that Mr. 

 Young arrived so late in the season, 

 as we had but little to show him 

 about our method of rearing queens, 

 as the cell-building season was over. 

 Nevertheless, there was a large num- 

 ber of our beautiful queens in the 

 apiary, and hive after hive was opened 

 until brother Young said, " You 

 shall open no more, I have seen 

 enough." 



Mr. Young expressed his pleasure 

 at what he had seen and learned 

 while here. We could hardly make 

 him believe that the bees he saw 

 were Italians as he had never before 

 seen any so beautiful for he seemed 

 to have an idea that the Cyprian and 

 Syrian races were the handsomest 

 bees known. 



Mr. Young speaks quite good Eng- 

 lish, but said he could better under- 

 stand us than some others he had met, 

 as most of the Americans speak so 

 rapidly he could not interpret as fast 

 as they talked. Mr. Young left here 

 for Niagara Falls, and after spending 

 one day there intended to visit the 

 Exhibition at Toronto, Ca. There 

 he would meet the prominent bee- 

 keepers of Canada, also Mr. Cowan, 

 editor of the B. B. J. 



Mr. Young spoke of the little tilt 

 between D. A. Jones and Mr. New- 

 man, regarding his visit to American 

 beekeepers and laughed heartily over 

 the matter, remarking at the same 



time that he supposed that he had 

 included Canadian beekeepers with 

 American beekeepers. 



From Toronto, Mr. Young will go 

 to Chicago, thence to Minneapolis, 

 Minn, to visit a brother. On his way 

 back a visit will be made to Mr. Hed- 

 don and other prominent beekeepers 

 at the west whom he can reach readily. 

 On his return to New York, Mr. 

 Young will visit the Knickerbocker 

 bee farm, Aspinwall and Treadwell, 

 and Mr. L. C. Root at Stratford, 

 Conn., also the apiary of Mr. Cush- 

 man at Pawtucket, R. I., as Mr. 

 Young, on his arrival at our place, 

 found some very cordial invitations 

 from most of the above named parties 

 to visit them. 



Mr. Young is a very large man, 

 should say he would tip the balance 

 at about 300 pounds, and is more 

 than six feet high. As a smoker, 

 Mr. Young will find but few rivals in 

 this country. When he visits our 

 good friend Root at Medina, and 

 takes out the old pipe, and gets up 

 steam, we kind o' imagine that we 

 can see brother Root going for one 

 of those bellows smokers and pre- 

 senting it to Mr. Young on condition 

 that he quits smoking. We would 

 be willing to bet a small sum that 

 brother Root has not smokers enough 

 in his extensive establishment to in- 

 duce friend Young to throw away that 

 old pipe. If the writer could enjoy 

 and take so much comfort in smoking 

 as Mr. Young seems to, we would 

 smoke. Our friend and visitor no 

 doubt finds more pleasure and com- 

 fort in smoking now while he is 4,000 

 miles from his family and home, than 

 ever before. Who would care to de- 

 prive a man of such comforts under 

 the circumstances. 



We assured our distinguished vis- 

 itor that he would receive a most 

 hearty and cordial welcome from all 

 the beekeepers whom he could visit. 

 Beekeepers are noted for the cordial 

 and brotherly feeling existing among 

 the bee fraternity. 



