THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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J. O. GRIMSLJCV. 



this line, in an apicultural way, is the 

 Queen Breeders' Union. The idea origin- 

 ated with :\Ir. J. O. Grimsley, of Byrds- 

 town, Tennessee. 

 The object is to 

 protect and ben- 

 efit both queen 

 b r e e der s and 

 (| ue e n buyers. 

 No breeder will 

 be admitted who 

 has not a clean 

 record; and any 

 case of crooked- 

 m-ss on the part 

 ot a member will 

 cause him to be expelled. Only honest, 

 straif^ht-forward, reliable breeders will be 

 admitted, and if it is found that a mis- 

 take has been made in admitting a man, 

 that mistake will be rectified. Ex])ul- 

 sion from the Union \v )uld ])ractica]ly 

 ruin an\' breeder's business, and no man 

 will be expelled unless his business proves 

 to be such that it ought to be ruined. Of 

 course, not to join the Union need not 

 nece.ssarily be construed as a reflection up- 

 on a man's honor or integrity, buL /ojoinil 

 shows that he is willinj^ and readv to 

 stand with those who intend to do ri,L;lit; 

 and to place himself in such a position 

 tluit he jnust do riglit or be publicly 

 bran le 1 as a rogue. If a mm buys 

 queens of a member of the Union he can 

 rest assured that he will be treated fairly. 

 If he isn't, he will have in his hands a 

 pretty big club to hold over the head of 

 the man who has dealt unfairly. 



Another object of the Union will be to 

 protect its members against dishonest 

 queen -i6«)/t'/-5. Occasionally there is a 

 man whj starts oat witli thi deliberate 

 purpose of defrau iing quean breeders. He 

 orders cpieens and pro'nises to pa}- at a 

 certain time; gets all the queens that he 

 can on credit of one bree ler, and then 

 proceeds to "work " some one el.se. Of 

 course, a man may not always be able to 

 pay when he has promised to pay, but the 

 man whj dilibera:ely goes to work to 

 ' beat " queen breeders will soon find out 



that they are " on to him " as the saying 

 goes. 



The business of organizing this Union 

 has, I believe, been all conducted by 

 mail, and I am not certain that it is yet 

 complete. It is likely that more par- 

 ticulars can be given a\ a later issue of 

 the Revie.v. In the me mtime, all who 

 are interesLe 1 cnn p.-joibly gain more 

 information by ad Iresstng Mr. Grimsley. 



Later — The election of officers has 

 now been completed, and is as follows : 

 President, G. W. Hufstedler, Beeville, 

 Texasr Vice President, J. B. C-se, Port 

 Orange, Florida; General Manager, W. 

 II. Pridgen, Creek, X. C; Secretary and 

 Traesurer. J. O. Grimsley, Byrdslown, 

 Tenn. 



iu"ck\vhi-;at. 



I>y tlie time that the June Review is 

 out it will be time to begin thinking 

 about the sowing of buckwheat. I would 

 be glad of a few articles on that subject 

 for publication in the June Review. In 

 this part of the country the raising of 

 buckwheat is somewhat of a side-issue. 

 If there is some rough piece of ground, 

 hard to w;jrk or cultiv;ile, it is sown to 

 buckwheat. In the newer jiarls of the 

 country, after the .spring crops are in, a 

 piece of land is .sometimes cleared and 

 sown to buckwheat. Sometimes there is 

 a piece of land that is too wet to work 

 early in the spring, but it dries out in 

 time to sow it to buckwheat. Occasion- 

 ally an earl}- sown crop of some other 

 kind is destroyed or injured in some way, 

 and it is too late to replace it, then the land 

 is sown to buckwheat. vSometimes buck- 

 wheat is sown early and plowed under to 

 enrich the soil. Circumstances like these 

 lead to tlie cultivation of buckwheat in 

 this part of the country; although it is 

 true that good land is often designedly 

 kept and used for the growing of buck- 

 wheat. There are, I believe, parts of the 

 countr}', some parts of New York, for in- 

 stance, where buckwheat is one of the 

 main crops. I wish that some of the 



