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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



August 



ed to be a bunch of long black hair, 

 as father looked it moved a bit. and 

 lo, it was a bear. The faithful shep- 

 hard stayed to watch while father 

 homeward came, to get his gun and 

 then go back and shoot his lofty game. 



Bruin was soon lying low beneath 

 the forest trees, and on his paws 

 there honey was and in his hair were 

 bees. As father looked upon these 

 signs the truth to him did come, the 

 bees a home had in the tree for he 

 could hear them hum, and home he 

 brought the bear that day, a monstrous 

 looking thing, and as I stroked his 

 shaggy neck a bee my hand did sting. 



A wailing then you bet there was I 

 thought the bear did bite, and as 

 father showed me then the bees I'll 

 ne'er forget the sight. Bruin's hide 

 was carefully tanned and then a robe 

 was made, that very robe up in my 

 room a handsome rug has made. The 

 bees were hived into a skep and then 

 them home did bring, that apiary in 

 the orchard there from that old skep 

 did spring. 



Franklin, Pa. 



THE NORTH AMERICAN BEE-KEEPERS 

 ASSOCIATION. 



The Quarter Centennial meeting of 

 this society will be held at St. Joseph 

 Mo., October 16th, 17th and 18th, 

 1894. It is the first convention of the 

 North American Association beyond 

 the western bank of the Mississippi, 

 and large delegations from the great 

 west will be present. We hope the 

 east, the north and the south will 

 gather with them. 



Frank Benton, 



Secretary .North American Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 





Editor American Bee-Keeper, 

 Dear Sir : — You will remember that 

 I wrote you early in the spring that I 

 had the bee fever, but I did not think 

 the bees would hear of it. However, 

 they have got onto it someway for I 

 had one hive put outfive swarms in one 

 week. I did not take out the queen 

 cells as some do, but I had a hive that 

 got the loafing fever and I tried every- 

 thing to get them to go to work, but 

 the more I worked at them the worse 

 they got, so I took all of them out ex- 

 cepting three frames and put in three 

 other frames filled with comb just 

 started. I am now getting more honey 

 from them than any of the rest. 



These loafing bees taught me the 

 best lesson I have had, and that is 

 that I must keep all black clothes out 

 of sight when handling them, and even 

 the hive should not have any black 

 on it. I notice that the instant I 

 raise the cover they pitch at anything 

 that is black. I discovered this on 

 June 22nd at about three p. m., and 

 before I went to bed that night I had 

 painted everything a different color. 

 I had four hives that were painted a 

 very dark color. 



Bees have been doing very well 

 here, and I hope it will be a success- 

 ful year all around. Yours truly, 

 D. A. Carr, 



Long Eddy, N. Y., July 9, 1894. 



The W. T. Falconer Man'f'g Co. 

 Gentlemen : — The goods you sent me 



