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(il.KANlNtiS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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will piiy for ilic sim)kt'r. His iiiiiiif is Wi'siiv 

 Khiiii'liiirt. V. S. Tiioiunoion. 



('hiliic'otlif. Mo.. July '.".i, IS'.f.'. 



Friend liiint: I licn-w ilii inclose a i-iippiiii; 

 from tl\i> Fort .'>mith />('i/i/ 7'/;;i«'.s' of .Inly .!. 1 

 tlioiiglit you would perhaps like it for your To- 

 Inu'oo Cohimn: 



rHAHLEY WAI r.ACE DEAD. 



Yi'Sti'iday uuiriiinji- Cliark'y Wallaco, son ol' Mike 

 Wallai'o, hi'valliod liis la,sl at his father's irsititMicH' 

 ■<m Twelfth St. His illness was Idiig- and jniinful, 

 and was ea\ised \n the I'.xci'ssive u.se of eijiiirettes. 

 He was a lirijrht In'iy, ami jiave promise of making' a 

 tine man, as he had many line traits of eharacter; 

 luit he liCM-ame addicted li> the use of the deadly 

 eijrarette. His lather and mother were eonslantiy 

 in attendance at his bedsit k' duriiifr his lung: illness, 

 and all tlial medical skill could do was done to alle- 

 viate his snlft'rinjrs. 



Mike Wallace, the hoy's father, is one of our 

 most [irosperous Inisiuess men. and his many 

 friends sympathize with him and his wife in 

 their heroavemciii. We have a law in this 

 State which prohibits the sale of cisai'ettes to 

 any one under 1(1 years of age: but W(> liave 

 some men among us who care very little for the 

 law so long as there is a dime in sight. The 

 man who had been selling Charley the cigar- 

 ettes was arrested, and fined .^10 for his offense, 

 which I deem a light penalty for what is but 

 little hettei' than murder. Z. Wei.i-s. 



Fort Smith. Ark.. .Iiilv 4. 



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 00 P£BY£ARj 



For our light arttictiou. whicli is but for a moineiit. worketh 

 for us a far iin>re txceeding weig-lit of (floi-y.— II. COR. 4 17. 



This is a great year foi' honey '/(^c but not 

 received. 



Some one is doing some very excellent edito- 

 ial work in the Cdtiadidii Bee Journal. Some 

 of it. at least, sounds like .Jones the bee-man. 



TiiK editor of the Xd ira ska Bee-keeper ■■iay~. 

 he has attended one State and three county 

 fairs this fall, and at none of them has he heard 

 a good word spoken for the I'unic bees. 



The old e.vploded sting-trowel theory — bees 

 capping over honey with their stings as trow- 

 els, and injecting bee-sting poison into the cells 

 — is now going, or. rather, trying to go, the 

 rounds of the press again. 



.\s will b(! seen in another column, the IJritish 

 bee-keepers have detinitily arranged for an (ex- 

 hibit of Uriiish honey at ilie World's Fair. We 

 may rest assured that oiii English cousins will 

 make a line exhibit. In theirown country they 

 excal us in honev and bee shows. 



We are getting reports now, that a solution of 

 salt water fed to the bees in syrup, or sprayed 

 direct on tiie combs, does not cure bad cases of 

 bee-paralysis inameless Ix^e-disease). As tlie 

 disease sonu'times goes ofl itself, it may be ques- 

 tioned whetlmr it does any good, even in mihl 

 cases. How is it. friends? 



We have just received from the W. T. Fal- 

 coner Co. samples of their new Falcon sections. 

 In our judgment they are the nicest of any 

 thing heretofore put upon the market by any 



maker. Our wow section-machinery will lie 

 tloiu' in a few weeks, at which tinu; we hope to 

 make a product fully their e(|ual. To make 

 any thing better would be impossilile. 



\\k regret to announce that the health of .Mr. 

 .1. iluckle, business manager of the Britisli Bee 

 .InnrnaJ. has been sucli that he has been obliged 

 to give up his work. Our business relations 

 with Mr. Iluckle have been very pleasant, and 

 we hop(» that si rest will restore him to healtli. 

 The business hitherto done at King's Langley 

 will be transferred to 17 King William St".. 

 Strand, \V. C. London, where all communica- 

 tions for the B. B. J. should be addres.sed. 



The October RevleAV contains a couple of ex- 

 cellent half-tones showing the exhibits of 

 Hunt and Hutchinson, reference to which was 

 made in oui- editorial on page 710, for Sept. 15. 

 Hoth these exhibits were unique in their way. 

 and we had intended to " do 'em up'' in haJf 

 tones, bat the daylight photos were too poor to 

 be worked up satisfactorily. Bro. Hutchinson 

 succeeded in giving some good pictures from 

 fiash-light photos which we judg(i were taken 

 later. 



We regret to announce that the oflice of the 

 Pnxiressive Bee kcti>cr. of rnionville. Mo., was 

 destroyed by tire last month. I5ro. Quigley lost 

 the back numbers of his journal, including 

 books, papers, and other stock. Although there 

 was no insurance, and the loss a severe one, the 

 I'riKjrcxsivc Bee-keeper w\]\ be issued just the 

 same, the subscription-book having been saved. 

 Hy the way, there are too many bee-keepers 

 and supply-dealers who go without insurance. 

 At the low rates usually secured, no one shouUI 

 think of going without protection. 



(H'l'i'K a number of our friends (well meaning, 

 of course) take the liberty, without orders or 

 first writing, of sending iis queens that thev 

 have after uniting. Along with the queen's 

 comes a card asking us to credit on account 

 what we can. It seems like a hard thing to do. 

 but we are obliged- to send the queens right 

 back by the next mail, as we have no u.se for 

 them. We, like all the rest in tlie North, are 

 uniting, and. of course, have a surplus of queens 

 on hand of our own raising. Our stocks, as we 

 advertise, are bred fiom selected mothers. either 

 in our own yards or in the yards of our regular 

 (^ueen- breeders in the South. It would not be 

 lair nor right for us to accept queens from eve- 

 rybody, and send them oui to our customers. 

 The xtock might be just as good, but we have 

 no assurance or guarantee of it. 



HARD ON FUNICS. 



We extract the following from the CaiiadUtn 

 Bee Jnurnal for October 15: 



Tlie Funics are the biffffest fraud ever put on the 

 l)ee-keei)ing woild. I g-ot one twelve m(>nth> ago to 

 see if it woukl improve the yield of an (jut-apiary 1 

 am operating. She turned out fertile, and the titty 

 colonies in that yard are nio.stly pure Funics itho.s'e 

 that are left, I mean), luuing- killed and replaced a 

 number. The Funics sling woisc, and tlie sting is 

 more painful. The <iueen is more difficult to tiiid. 

 and they prefei' to fill I he lirood-chamber with honej- 

 rather than store above. I adveitised them in the 

 spring:, and, judging from the letters I had, I eould 

 have sold hundreds, if I had not given my eustoni- 

 ers my opinion of them. 



Avery, La. H. Fit/, Hakt. 



Some of our friends will renuimber that we 

 were severely scored because we told some hard 

 things about the Funics. The above from the • 

 Canadian Bee .lnurnal looks as if we told some 

 straight facts, and thus saved some of the 

 friends from investing early in the season in 

 some verv undesirable bees. 



