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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[Nov-., 



which most wonderful results have already 

 come and may yet come. Already there are many 

 who either support themselyes and their fami- 

 lies entirely from the profits of beekeeijing, as 

 Dathe, Gunther, &c., or to whom the income 

 derived from their bees is a welcome addition 

 to their otherwise small income. 



Let bee culture again flourish so that every 

 one having the disposition may pursue it, and 

 then the hundreds of thousands of tons of 

 honey and wax produced in the plant world 

 will not be wasted, as is now the case ; nor will 

 there be those large sums of money sent out Of 

 the country for the purchase of these products, 

 but it will remain in the land, when honey and 

 wax becomes a paying commodity in trade ; then 

 will the ever advancing, never resting technical 

 chemistry and arts, find many now unknown 

 uses for these products. Hen«!e it appears to 

 me to be of the greatest importance, both by 

 word and writing, to advance bee culture, by 

 the reasonable employment of associations — 

 that words of destiny in the present century — 

 through beekeeper's associations in every land, 

 and the uprooting of the many prejudices still 

 existing against beekeeping. 



For the purpose of carrying out such an ob- 

 ject as this, our association has made the ex- 

 periment of calling into life the first Interna- 

 tional Bee Exposition. Whither and how far 

 this humble attempt has succeeded, you will be 

 the best judges. You must, however, make due 

 allowance for the difficulties that we have had 

 to overcome, and the brief space of time we 

 have had in which to accomplish our work ; 

 since only after the failure of our last attempt 

 to have living stocks of bees exhibited at the 

 World's Exposition, did we arrive at the con- 

 clusion to hold this Exposition, and the time of 

 opening fell very near to that of the opening 

 of the World's fair at Vienna. 



May this be a good sign of the success of 

 bee culture both here and elsewhere, that this 

 exhibition is held in the rooms of a building 

 dedicated to a new school, for every advance, 

 to be permanent, must come out of the school. 



Receive, honored citizens of the town and 

 school of Simmering, from me. from our Beekeep- 

 ers' Union, and from all the beekeepers of this 

 and foreign lands, our heartfelt thanks, for 

 your voluntary ofi'ering and hospitality. 



And to you, my beloved children, to whom 

 the future belongs, to you, of whom our Saviour 

 always spoke in the most loving terms, to you 

 especially the school belongs, and for you it 

 was built. Learn, alongside of your school 

 tasks, in your hours free from study, the life 

 and habits of the honey bee; thoughtfully ob- 

 serve them as they fly from flower to flower, and 

 follow the good example taught by these little 

 insects, t' Gather, industriously, in the bright 

 spring days of your youth, against your later 

 •days of autumn and winter, the honey and wax 



of knowledge. Learn, above all, from the bee, 

 that good concord, and peace and obedience 

 they show to their mother. 



Obey thus your parents, teachers and superi- 

 ors. And when you have grown to manhood, 

 obey the laws of the land, like the bees obey 

 their laws, love the kiug and the fatherland 

 as the bees do their mother, and when threat- 

 ened with danger fight in their defense as the 

 bees do. 



Gentlemen, in closing allow me to remind 

 you of a quotation from the Roman poet, Virgil, 

 which is the motto of our Association : 



^^ Eege incolume mens omnibus una esty 

 What the poet here says of the population of 

 the hive, apjalies to every association, and espe- 

 cially to the state. 



Let us wish for the success of those great 

 laws of modern times, which have instilled a 

 new life into our beloved fatherland, let us offer 

 an earnest prayer for the well being and success 

 of his Majesty, the Emperor, and the Empress — 

 the honored protectoress of our union." 



Then Herr Gatter explained more particularly 

 the objects exhibited in the Turner Hall, and 

 trials were made of the various honey-emptying 

 machines. Then the bee swarms placed in the 

 garden were carefully examined. At the close 

 of the exercises the younger scholars sang the 

 national song, followed by music from the bands. 



The evening was spent at Herr Kleinle's gar- 

 dens, where regular and impromiDtu toasts were 

 ofiered. Among the latter the most marked 

 was the interesting and witty sj^eech of Herr 

 Vogle. Baron Schwartz, Director of the Expo- 

 sition at Vienna, excused his absence, owing to 

 the sitting of the juries at Vienna. X. Y. 



FOUL BKOOD. 



The following letter was received by the 

 Editor Irom Herr Kaucke, of Waltinghausen, 

 with the request that it be published. 



EiLVESE, Neustadt, Juuc 6, 1873. 

 Honored Mr. Kaucke : You may remember xj^ 

 that I came to you last year at Easter. I was /^ 

 then in great trouble, as my bees were suffering 

 Irom foul brood. My 27 stocks were penetrated 

 through and through with the dread disease, so 

 that I tore out' and iDuried the interior of two 

 of them. You gave me, without pay, your 

 remedy for foul brood, and also the necessary 

 instructions for making and applying it. You 

 told me I should cut away all of the interior 

 to three combs and not to be afraid of the 

 French brandy. It was now : " bird eat or die." 

 I had an apothecary in Neustadt prepare the 

 recipe for me, and on the fourth evening after- 

 ward began using the cure, and in ten days 

 procured more. Sometime afterward my beea 

 swarmed so well that my stocks increased from 

 27 stocks to 60. Last autumn my bees were 

 fully cured. In a single weak stock there were 



