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this side the line to "pull together" 

 for one place, and :is the cast is en- 

 titled to it. lei it be Buffalo. 



Editor York, following the lend of 

 Gleanings we suppose, has started a 

 department entirely foreign to bee- 

 keeping, a medical department in fact. 

 We regrel he has made this "innova- 

 tion," it don't become the American 

 Bee Journal at all. We believe when 

 a bee-keeper pays ."Hie or *1 for a bee 

 paper lie wants that paper to give him 

 all the information possible concern- 

 ing matters pertaining to bees. Any- 

 one can liny all the medical, agricult- 

 ural and religious literature they want 

 at much less cost elsewhere. Stick 

 to the bees Brother York. 



We are just in receipt of the last 

 issue of Success in Bee Culture, which 

 combines the April, May and June 

 numbers. Editor Sage says editori- 

 ally that it is the last number of his 

 magazine. Lack of support and hard 

 times made it impossible for him to 

 continue its publication. We regret 

 that Success in Bee Culture could not 

 have been made to pay its publisher 

 and continued along with the rest of 

 us. All the new ventures in the way 

 of bee papers have now gone out of 

 existence, leaving only the " old 

 ones "again, and thus "history re- 

 peats itself." 



The wrapper for sections of hone}' 

 advertised elsewhere by H. R. Wright 

 is a very desirable and cheap article 

 for improving the appearance of 

 honey. It is neatly prin ed and is 

 made of heavy card board, it costs 

 less than half as much as the regular 

 cartons. 



We understand there are several 

 candidates tor president of the North 

 American Bee-keepers's Association 

 for the coming year, hut we believe 

 the present vice-president, Mr. (). L. 

 Hershiser, is enlitled to theoffice and 

 would do honor to the position. 



The honey How in our immediate 

 locality has been very good bul gen- 

 erally speaking there has been only 

 a fair crop through the state. 



We are beginning to look for a visit 

 from Editor Hutchinson of the h'eview. 

 He promised to he here in August, 



but we have not heard that he has 

 yet started on his trip. Dont fail to 

 come W. Z. 



Pasteboard cartons are coming into 

 quite general use. They give a very 

 neat appearance to the honey, mak- 

 ing it convenient to carry and more 

 salable. They are not very expen- 

 sive and every honey producer should 

 use them for a part of his product at 

 least. Prices will be found in our 

 catalogue. 



At the present time in this locality 

 there is very little honey flow and the 

 bees only get enough to supply their 

 immediate wants and keep up breed- 

 ing. Now is a good time to intro- 

 duce new queens. If the honey flow 

 should cease altogether as it some- 

 times does, bee-keepers will look out 

 for robbers. It is also important to 

 keep all colonies strong which can be 

 done by dividing up the weaker colo- 

 nies and adding them to others. 



LITERARY ITEMS, 



THE MERCENARY CHINEE. 



Ch'ien, ch'ien, ch'ien — money, money, 

 money— is the real Chinese < rod. At home 

 or abroad, the Mongols are a race of simp- 

 keepers, buying, bartering, exchanging 

 and selling is the order of their everv-dav 

 life. 



Ch'ien is the one BUhject that their hearts 

 are full of, and rarely enough, among the 

 common people at leist dees one rise above 

 the sordid greed for gold, or know a higher 



