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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



larger ones, and fills the space with 

 leaves. , 



Mr. Black asked Mr. Dadant if spring 

 stimulating paid. Answer — If properly 

 done, it may pay. He used to practice 

 it wlien they did their own work, but 

 quit it when they began to hire. Mr. 

 Dadant thought that bees wintered, and 

 also went through the spring, better in 

 the sun than in the shade. He thinks 

 the chalT hive a failure. 



C. M. Beall, of Clayton, had 10 colo- 

 nies in the spring, and no increase. He 

 had no honey except 150 pounds of 

 honey-dew. The bees were in good con- 

 dition for wintering in the cellar. He 

 has no winter loss In the cellar. 



J. M. Hambaugh, of Spring, had 115 

 colonies in the spring, and increased to 

 120. He produced 1,000 pounds of 

 extracted — half honey-dew and clover 

 mixed, the balance Spanish-needle of 

 superior quality. His bees were in good 

 condition for wintering, partly in the 

 cellar and partly on the summer stands. 

 He removes the honey-board for cellar 

 wintering and replaces it with a venti- 

 lator, giving air at the top. 



S. N. Blatik, of Clayton, had 37 colo- 

 nies in the spring, and 44 now. He pro- 

 duced 150 pounds of mainly white 

 clover, buckwheat and heart's-ease 

 honey. Bees were in fair condition for 

 wintering. He has but little loss either 

 in cellar or out-door wintering. He ex- 

 pected to put them into the cellar this 

 winter. 



On motion by A. N. Draper, Article 5 

 of the By-Laws was amended, changing 

 the words " Upon the Executive Com- 

 mittee," to "'Upon an order signed by 

 the President, and countersigned by the 

 Secretary." Carried by a two-thirds vote. 



The convention then adjourned sine 

 die. Jas. a. Stone, Sec. 



"A Mo«lei-ii JSee>Fariii and Its 



Economic Management," is the title of a 

 splendid book on practical bee-culture, by 

 Mr. S. Simmlns, of England. It is 5^x8)^ 

 inches in size, and contains 270 pages, 

 nicely illustrated, and bound in cloth. It 

 shows " how bees may be cultivated as a 

 means of livelihood; as a heelth-giving 

 pursuit ; and as a source of recreation to 

 the busy man." It also illustrates how 

 profits may be "made certain by growing 

 crops yielding the most honey, having also 

 other uses; and by judgment in breeding a 

 good working strain of bee^." Price, post- 

 paid, from this office, .$1.00; or clubbed with 

 the Bee Journal for one year, for fl.GO. 



From "The Stinger. 



Only a bee ! 

 Only a bee, as it flew through the air, 

 And tried to hum the sweet elfin air. 



Only a bee ! 

 Only a bee, and yet when it stings. 

 The air with loud cries of pain loudly rings. 



Only a boy ! 

 Only a boy, on mischief bent, 

 Only a boy who was not content. 



Only a grave ! 

 Only a grave on yonder hill. 

 Contains a corpse both cold and still. 



The man who wrote that "poem " must 

 have thought himself funny ; to The Stinger 

 he was a — I don't think I shall say fool this 

 time, but I hope the next time he tries his 

 hand at rhyming, he will give us something 

 with more sense in it. No bee has yet 

 driven a boy into an untimely grave; the 

 boy of these times cannot be killed so easily 

 as the writer of the above lines would seem 

 to imply. 



However, The Stinger would say to all 

 boys bent on teasing the bees: Keep away 

 from tlie dear little insects until after they 

 are fed, or they might hurt you. 



In casually looking through the November 

 number of the lici'ifw, I saw the name of Mr. 

 H. A. Burch mentioned along with that of 

 James Heddon. 1 remember the time when 

 the name of Mr. Bui-ch figured quite prom- 

 inently in the pages of our bee-papers. It 

 was he, I believe, who used to furnish the 

 delightful series of " Walks and Talks" for 

 the earlier volumes of the old Bee-Keepers'' 

 Magazine. 



These "Walks and Talks," with some 

 other articles that appeared in the 2fagazine, 

 gave it a tone that I do not find in any of 

 the bee-publications of this later day, I am 

 sorry to say. It seems, that although we 

 have some very good writers on apiculture 

 pure and simple, still we have none of those 

 classic writers of a number of years ago. 

 My taste may be somewhat vitiated, and I 

 am unable to recognize the beauty of style 

 of the leaders in apicultural literature of 

 the present time. 



If I remember correctly, it was the same 

 James Heddon that J just referred to, that 

 found fault with the writings of " these 

 literary fellows." Yet it is this same critic 

 who has secured no less a writer than the 

 Mr. Burch I have mentioned above, to as 



