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and these plain flgures are so easily 

 read. Just tliink of White, Extra 

 White, Supeffine, etc. — too much name 

 for me. I shall brand what section 

 honey I produce, No. 1, No. 2, No. 8, 

 etc., and try to school my Southern con- 

 sumers to understand the meaning of 

 the same. Jennie Atchley. 



Resources of Honey, Etc. 



I am told that everything that has 

 thorns on it produces honey, and if that 

 be the case, there are but few shrubs 

 that do not furnish honey. West of this 

 place, for 40 miles, or as far as I have 

 been out, it is thickly covered with 

 shrubs, vines, etc., not much taller than 

 one's head, and I will name a few for 

 the benefit of bee-keepers who might 

 wish to make inquiry. 



Catclaw is very thick in places, so 

 thick that cattlemen sometimes have to 

 pay Mexicans a big price to go into the 

 catclaw brush and "round out" their 

 cattle. " Waheeah " is another sticky 

 brush that is very plentiful, and a good 

 honey-producer. "Wesach" is about 

 the earlist bloom we have — now ready to 

 bloom — and fine for bees. Then we 

 have black and white chapparal, both 

 good for bees. Mesquite is here in 

 abundance, and also yields honey, and 

 there are a great many other plants 

 that yield honey that I know no name 

 for. 



And now, while the honey-producing 

 plants have thorns, the bee-keeper feels 

 some of them, in the way of drouths, 

 skunks, cutting ants, moth-worms, and 

 other drawbacks ; but if one will make 

 up his mind to overlook these troubles, 

 he will find this a fine bee-country. 



Jennie Atchley. 



Bi-o. Claas. II. Xliies, of Steelville, 

 Ills., has been greatly bereaved in the 

 death of his mother on Dec. 19th. In a 

 kindly letter written to us on Christmas 

 Day, he speaks thus tenderly of his blessed 

 mother : 



Friend York: — While I have never met 

 you, and you have never met me or any of 

 us knowingly, yet I feel as though I could 

 divide my sorrow by writing you a few 

 lines. In the past years, wlien Ifelttroubled 

 or sad, I could tell my mother, which 

 seemed to unload just half of my trouble, 

 and she was always very glad to share in 

 our troubles and sorrows, as well as in our 

 joys. But since Tuesday, Dec. 19th, she has 

 not been with us, for God saw fit to take 



her Home, where sickness, pain or death 

 will never more reach her. 



She told us before going, that she would 

 like to stay with us longer, but that if God 

 wanted her she was ready to go. 



We are all grown up, and do not need a 

 mother to supply us with our daily bread, 

 etc., but yet we should have been glad to 

 have had lier witli us a few more years. 

 We are trying in this case, as in many 

 otliers, to say, '• Thy will be done," yet it 

 seems a little liarder now than in many 

 cases, particularly for my aged father, who 

 is now TO years old. 



But one thing we are glad of, mother did 

 not suifer long. If each of us only can 

 truly say, when our time comes, "I have 

 fought a good fight," we have the assurance 

 of meeting her again. 



Yours very truly, 



Charles H. Thibs. 



[Yes, Bro. Thies, one by one our loved 

 ones are passing to the other side of the 

 river, and we all will soon be called to fol- 

 low. Then " what a meeting and a greet- 

 ing" there will be ! 



Although we are personally acquainted 

 with but few of our readers, yet in their 

 sorrows as well as joys, we feel deeply in- 

 terested, and wish to assure them that es- 

 pecially in the sad hours of bereavement 

 they have our sincerest sympathy. Surely, 

 we are only a large family ,»and of all folks 

 bee-keepers, it seems to us, are more inter- 

 ested in each other's welfare than are any 

 other class of i)eople on this earth. Please 

 remember, then, that the Bee Journal is 

 always ready to hear from its large family 

 of readers, and, whenever possible, will be 

 only too glad to help them. — Ed.] 



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Qiieenless aiii Brooilless Bee;?. 



Query 905.— If the queen and all the brood 

 of a colony were removed, 1st, Would the bees 

 thus suddculj^ deprived, slay iu the hive, or 

 scatter around '? '-i. Would they (after the 

 first two or thiee days of mourning- for the 

 queen) go to work and store honey ?— Tean. 



I don't know. — Eugene Secor. 



They would speedily be " no more." — 

 Will, M. Barnum. 



1. Most of them would scatter around. 

 2. No, or very little. — Dadant & Son. 



