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part of the summer and fall just as 

 many of the willow-herb. 



In Lake county there was less timber, 

 and the golden-rod predominates in the 

 fall, and there is not so much willow- 

 herlj. From Baldwin north there are 

 acres and acres of golden-rod, that re- 

 semble fields of wheat. If I could be 

 with you, I could tell you much more 

 about this country than I can write, 

 and it is the first time, I think, in 14 

 years, that I have missed a State con- 

 vention. 



I wish you all a pleasant and profit- 

 able time, which I know you will have. 

 Geo E. Hilton. 



Byron Walker — I have been in the 

 locality of the willow-herb one year, and 

 it did not yield honey that year. I be- 

 lieve it is considered a sure producer of 

 honey. In Clare county there are many 

 asters, and bees have died in the winter. 

 Perhaps the yield was light. 



Chas. Koeppen — I believe that more 

 depends upon ventilation than upon the 

 stores. The foul air and moisture must 

 be carried off. I have two apiaries — in 

 one there was a good yield, and in the 

 other but little. 



H. L. Hutchinson — I have not had a 

 .failure with golden-rod in ten years. 



E. G. Grimes — Alsike furnishes the 

 most honey in my locality. 



Mr. Koeppen — Alsike is like other 

 plants. Sometimes it furnishes honey, 

 and sometimes not. 



H. Webster asked if there was any 

 foundation in the assertion that some 

 bees gathered honey from red clover 

 while others did not. 



W. Z. Hutchinson — I one year had 

 1,000 pounds of honey from red clover. 

 It was the result of a drouth that short- 

 ened the tubes of the blossoms. I had 

 Macks, hybrids and Italians in the 

 yard, and they all gathered honey from 

 red clover. 



August Koeppen said that it would 

 pay to move bees to some other locality 

 only when there was nothing that could 

 be gathered at home. Migratory bee- 

 keeping is largely practiced in Germany. 

 (Continued next week.) 



''I'lie Honcy-ISee : Its Natural 

 History, Anatomy and Physiology," is the 

 title of the book written by Thos. Wm. 

 Cowan, editor of the JJritixh JJee Journal. It 

 is bound in cloth, beautifully illustrated, 

 and very interesting. Price, -SI. 00, post- 

 paid ; or we club it with the Bee Journal 

 one year for .$1.6.5. We have only three of 

 these books left. 



From "The Stinger.' 



The " Stinger's " a poet,i 



Knows a sheep from a goa-et. 

 And he stings at random all day ; 



He thinks he's a honey. 



Because he's so funny — 

 For reference see A. B. J. 



— Progrexsivc Bee- Keeper 



No, I'm not a poet, 



Neither did I know-et, 

 Nor do I sting all the livelong day ; 



Once a week I've some fun 



Making you folks jump and run — 

 So, what more do you wish me to say ? 



A certain editor reckoned without his 

 host when he tried to heap more accom- 

 plishments upon Editor York than the 

 latter was entitled too. Though Mr. York 

 is a hard working man in the office of the 

 Bee Jouknal. he is saved the task of doing 

 the stinging; which is, at times, hard 

 work, for some of the people and things 

 that "The Stinger " has to punctuate are 

 pretty tough. 



I think the reason why Editor York is 

 not a " Stinger " is because he has not had 

 much to do with the Panics. If he linew 

 from practical demonstrations what those 

 bees were, he would probably become a 

 stinger, too. This is not intended as a joke 

 on somebody's bees. 



Rambler was hurt at last. For a time he 

 was confined to the hospital, wliere I send 

 all those who have been hit with my darts. 

 He announced his injury in th'e Bee Jour- 

 nal for Dec. 7', 1893, page 730, and he 

 thought the wound inflicted by me must 

 have been produced by a ramrod out of my 

 gun. If he had been hurt as badly as he 

 admitted he was, I am surprised. When 

 my sting penetrated his thick liide he must 

 have seen stars, consequently, at the same 

 time, he had no trouble in magnifying a 

 sting into the proportions of a ramrod. I 

 would say in a fatherly way: My dear 

 Rambler, keep your nose from rambling 

 around in the loose way that you have 

 been letting it stray about, and there will 

 be little danger of its running up against 

 the sting of The Stinger. 



Rambler says he smiled a " smole "' when 

 his nose came in contact with my " stinger." 

 Stings seem to liave the same efi'ect upon 

 him that laughing-gas has upon a patient 

 in a dentist's chair. Rambler, beware, for 

 have you not heai'd that " laughing often 

 comes to crying ? ' The next time we may 



