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have stated is no guess-work — it is on 

 record. 



Now I, like all bee-keepers, would like 

 to get a race of bees that would produce 

 more honey, but, when I think about it, 

 there is one great difficulty that stares 

 me in the face. There passes my house 

 every fall, large herds of cattle ; they 

 are range cattle, and among them may 

 be seen samples of all the different 

 breeds that were ever imported to Amer- 

 ica — a perfect mongrel herd ; and why ? 

 Because in a range herd they cannot be 

 purely mated. The American people 

 are also a mongrel race, and cannot be 

 purely mated, still we are a pretty good, 

 all-purpose "gang;" and may we not 

 with some degree of reason hope that 

 the many experimenters and speculators 

 in queen-bees may still leave us a good, 

 all-purpose strain of bees, though mon- 

 grels they be, in spite of all the queens 

 we may buy to improve our stock ? 



Montrose, Colo. Wm. Willis. 



An Octogenarian Subscriber. 



I have every volume of the American 

 Bee Journal yet published. I com- 

 menced in 1866, and afterward pro- 

 cured Vol. I. For many years, at the 

 conclusion of each volume, I had them 

 neatly bound in cloth. It is highly im- 

 probable that I shall subscribe again, 

 having attained my 81st year. 



W. P. Taylor. 



Fitzroy Harbor, Ont. 



[We hope our aged friend may be 

 spared yet many years to enjoy life and 

 the old American Bee Journal. — Ed.] 



First Experience with Bees. 



Last summer I got 4 colonies of bees, 

 and that was my first experience. I was 

 bothered all summer with one colony 

 being queenless half the time, but I got 

 140 pounds of honey from the others. 

 All colonies have plenty of honey to last 

 through the winter. I read the Bee 

 Journal, and try to keep posted. 



W. W. Gardner. 



Chanute, Kans., Feb. 23, 1893. 



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 " Bees and Honey" as a premium, for 

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t^tFT4P~;J1^® semi-annual meeting of the 

 Utah Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in 

 Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 10, 11, 1893. 

 All interested are cordially invited. 

 View, Utah. R. t. Rhees, Sec. 



PENNSYLVANIA.-The Susquehanna Co. 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will hold their 12th 

 semi-annual meeting at the Tarbell House in 

 Montrose, Pa., on Thursday. May 4, 1893. All 

 are invited. H. M. Seeley. Sec. 



Harford, Pa. 



NEW YORK. - The next meeting of the 

 Alleganv County Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held at Belmont, N. Y., oh May 4th 

 1893, in the Hotel Belmont. All bee-keepers 

 are invited to attend and make it what it 

 should be— an interesting meeting. 



H. C. Farndm, Pres., Transit Bridge, N. Y. 



COLORADO,— The adjourned meeting of 

 the Colorado State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held in the Charles Block, corner 15th 

 and Curtis Streets, Denver, Colo., on April 18 

 1893. Business Important to all honey-pro- 

 ducers will come before the meeting. 



Littleton, Colo. H. Knight, Sec. 



aKANSAS.— The Kansas State Bee-Keepers' 

 ssociation will hold their annual convention 

 at Ottawa, Kansas, on April 6 and 7 1893 

 All bee-keepers are cordially invited to attend 

 this convention, and make it one of the most 

 interesting ever known. There will be a 

 good programme. Bring something to ex- 



^i!^!*- ^ ^ L. Wayman. Sec. 



Chanute, Kans. 



TEXAS.- The Texas State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will hold its 15th annual convention 

 in Greenville, one mile north of the Court 

 ^^"Hl^'i'^* ^'^^ apiary of Mrs. Jennie Atchley 

 on Wednesday and Thursday. April the 5th 

 and 6th, 189.3. One of the biggest bee-meet- 

 mgs ever held in the South is anticipated. 

 Everybody Is invited. No hotel bills to pay. 

 Come one, come all. and let us have a lovely 

 meeting, and an enjoyable time. All bee- 

 keepers invited to bring along something to 



^^rlVS*- rv A. if. Jones. Sec. 



Golden. Texas. 



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