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bee-keeping world can spare his head just 

 yet— and will never willingly do so. 



The cause of his sufferings may have 

 been an over-supply of "straws" sticking 

 in his brains, but by this time we should 

 think that cause would be ended, judging 

 from the great number of little " straw- 

 stacks " he has furnished Gleaumgt^. 



The Doctor is now able to attend to his 

 bees and literary work about as usual, we 

 believe, and with the warning he has had, 

 we hope he will see the necessity of taking 

 better care of himnelf hereafter. 



Xlie Second Volume of the Austra- 

 lian Bee-BiMetln was completed with the 

 March number. Seldom does a new bee- 

 paper show such signs of improvement in 

 so short a time. Surely, our Australian 

 brethren are making apiarian history very 

 rapidly indeed. We wish their valuable 

 journal still greater success, and its pub- 

 lishers all the prosperity their splendid ef- 

 forts merit. 



Friiit-Meii stn<1 Ifiees. — In a com- 

 munication received from Prof. Cook, last 

 week, were these words: 



I tell you this is a grand place. I like 

 everything here. My work now is to con- 

 vince fruit-men that they need the bees. It 

 is emphatically true, and I can show it. 



Claremont, Calif. A. J. Cook. 



On page 660 of this number of the Bee 

 Journal is the first part of a convincing 

 lecture given by Prof. Cook before the con- 

 vention of California horticulturists re- 

 cently. Be sure to read it all. The Profes- 

 sor is doing some grand work these spring 

 days, both for fruit-growers and for bee- 

 keepers. Let the good work go on. 



YoM Can't Allbr«l It I— What can't 

 you afford ? Oh, lots of things ! But there 

 is one thing that a bee-keeper cannot afford 

 to do — and that is, to drop his bee-paper 

 during what some folks call " hard times." 

 While we have had a very few who have 

 done so, still we are glad to say that we 

 believe nearly every one of our subscribers 

 will never stop the Bee Journal on ac- 

 count of hard times. They certainly will 

 remember that in such times the publisher, 

 worse than ever, needs money to keep the 

 paper going till 'good times " come again. 



But, actually, one of our subscribers said 



this, when paying up his arrearage: "I 

 will renew when times get better." Of 

 course we were glad to know that he in- 

 tended to " renew " sometime, but what if 

 every subscriber should follow his example 

 in dropping his paper ? Well, the result 

 would be that publishers would have to 

 quit, and when the good times come once 

 more, they wouldn't have anything with 

 which to start up again. 



No, dear reader, above all things, don't 

 drop your best helpers — the bee-papers, or 

 any other good paper, for that matter. 

 You can't afford to do it. If you expect to 

 make a success of the bee-business, and 

 keep up with the procession, by all means 

 don't stop your bee-paper. During hard 

 times you need it more than ever, to help 

 you to make money enough to carry you 

 through to the " good time coming," and 

 also to encourage you by reading of what 

 others are doing. Every way you look at 

 it, you will find that you can't afford to 

 drop your best reading matter. It is better 

 to economize in some other direction, if 

 you must economize at all. 



Big- Iloney-Flo-w. — Mrs. Atchley, 

 writing on May 12th, said: 



We are having a big honey-flow here in 

 Texas, right now — the second one this year 

 — and we expect two more yet, so you can 

 imagine how busy we are. We have our 

 new residence nearly enough completed so 

 that we are in it, and now are building a 

 lOO-barrel underground cistern. We wiU 

 have a hydrant from our windmill tank in 

 all our rooms, a brick milk -house, and a 

 large ^.<-acre pool just above our garden, 

 and be fixed to irrigate and raise vegeta- 

 bles all the year round. We have had new 

 beans and Irish potatoes since April 1st. 

 Jennie Atchley. 



Xlie ^^econd Annual Report of 



the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 is on our desk. It is neatly bound in cloth, 

 and contains 260 pages. The subject matter 

 consists of the reports of recent meetings 

 of the State Association, and also the 

 whole of the report of the Columbian meet- 

 ing of the North American, with all the 

 illustrations that appeared in connection 

 with it. 



Bro. Jas. A. Stone, of Bradfordton, Dl., 

 the tireless Secretary of the Illinois Asso- 

 ciation, has gotten out a book that is in 

 every way a credit to the association, and 

 an honor to the State. Cloth-bound copies 



