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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



WASHINGTON, JUNE, 1869. 



HdTTiiE American Bee Journal is now 

 published monthly, in the City of Washington, 

 (D. C.,) at $2 per annum in advance. All com- 

 munications should be addressed to the Editor, 

 H that place. 



RWThe present is the concluding number of 

 the fourth volume of the Bee Journal. We 

 find, on examination, that a portion of our sub- 

 scribers are in arrears for this and the preceding 

 volume. As we bave to pay cash for material 

 and work, our terms are necessarily payment in 

 advance ; and we are continually receiving as- 

 surances from intelligent practical bee-keepers 

 in all parts of the country, that the Journal is 

 well worth its price. The support which it has 

 thus far received, including promises, will not, 

 however, do more tban cover cost, as the ex- 

 penses of publication here are very heavy. 

 Will not our friends join us in the effort to in- 

 crease our subscription list to a remunerating 

 point ; and those who have hitherto failed to 

 contribute tbe "material aid" due from them 

 and much needed, supply the omission promptly, 

 that we may commence the ensuing volume 

 with the conviction that the work will be per- 

 manently sustained ? 



E£"Our next issue will contain a translation 

 of the communication on foulbrood, received 

 from Mr. Lambrecbt, of Boruum, in Prussia ; 

 which may be regarded as introductory to a 

 further discussion, and, we trust, final disposal 

 of that subject by him. His investigation of 

 tbe nature, source, cause and cure of this de- 

 structive and hitherto unmanageable malady, 

 has been steadily prosecuted and carried on 

 with such satisfactory results, that he has en- 

 gaged to submit his present process, (which 

 differs somewhat from that formerly employed) 

 to a test experiment under the supervision of a 

 committee appointed by the Brunswick-Salz. 

 gUter Beekeepers' Union. His proposition is, to 

 render foulbroody a healthy colony of bees se- 

 lected by the committee ; and after the exist- 

 ence of the disease in its worst form, in such 



colony, has been demonstrated, to effect a per- 

 fect cure in the course of two days at most. 

 He will not make known his process until after 

 the committee report the issue of this trial. 



ESTThe late Convention of German Bee- 

 keepers at Darmstadt, resolved to hold a jubilee 

 at their next meeting in Nuremberg, in Sep- 

 tember next, in honor of Mr. Andrew Schmid, 

 Seminary-prefect at Eichstiidt, in Bavaria, and 

 Editor of the Bienenzeitung, which paper has 

 just entered on its twenty-fifth year under the 

 editorial management of Mr. Schmid. It is 

 proposed to use the occasion to provide and 

 present to Mr. S. a " free will gift" of money 

 and other valuables, by contributions from Ger- 

 man beekeepers ; who are also solicited to ac- 

 company their offerings with their photographs 

 and autographs respectively, for an album dedi- 

 cated to the honored object of this demonstra- 

 tion. A committee has been named in further- 

 ance of these measures, and consists of the 

 Baroness von Berlepsch, Messrs. Dathe, Dzier- 

 son, Gravenhorst, Hofman, Hopf, Von Hrusch- 

 ka, Rev. Mr. Kleine, Prof. Leuckhardt, and 

 Dr. Ziwansky. Mr. Hugh A. Hopf, bauker, of 

 Gotha, has been appointed treasurer of the 

 fund. American beekeepers will be invited 

 to participate in the movement designed to se- 

 cure to Mr. Schmid a gratifying testimonial of 

 the appreciation of his services entertained by 

 those engaged in bee-culture. For a quarter of 

 a century Mr. S. labored with untiring indus- 

 try and unflagging zeal to advance practical 

 and scientific bee-culture ; and his efforts have 

 been eminently successlul. It is known, how- 

 ever, that during a large part of the time his 

 paper was sustained mainly by the editor's pe- 

 cuniary sacrifices and gratuitous services ; and 

 it is believed that the former were never reim- 

 bursed, nor the latter adequately compensated, 

 from the profits of the publication. It is there- 

 fore fitting that those who have been so largely 

 benefitted by his labors should join to do 

 him honor, by giving him tangible evidence 

 of their just estimate of the ability and success 

 with which he discharged his functions as 

 editor. 



A swarm consists not of all young bees, as 

 many falsely imagine ; but of a queen, of 

 drones, and of working bees, both old and 

 young — such as happen to be at the doorway 

 when a swarm rises, and catch the emigration 

 impulse. 



