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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



One man is a hardware merchant, and 

 may keep anywhere from 10 to 300 

 colonies of bees to produce honey, be- 

 sides rearing anywhere from 10 to 500 

 queens to sell. Just where the line 

 shall be drawn to make one call him a 

 " honey-producer " or a " queen-breeder" 

 might not be an easy thing to agree 

 upon. 



As the matter stands, however, we 

 have no ready means to decide from the 

 names of the members what the respec- 

 tive calling of each member may be. 

 The different classes mentioned were 

 probably all pretty well represented, as 

 is very desirable that they should be, 

 and as has generally been the case, un- 

 less it be commission men, and they 

 have not generally attended conventions 

 of bee-keepers until of late. As they 

 take quite an active part in helping to 

 dispose of the crop, it is quite desirable 

 that they should meet in council with 

 bee-keepers. 



Bicycles are getting to be very com- 

 mon now-a-days. We have two for sale, 

 and any one wanting a bargain in a good 

 bicycle, should write to the oflSce of the 

 Bee Journal. 



** Bees and Honey"— page 67. 



[For years, bee-keepers have felt that they 

 owed the Rev. L. L. Langstroth— the Father 

 of American bee-culture— a debt that they 

 can never very well pay, for his invention of 

 the Movable-Frame Hive which so completely 

 revolutionized bee-keeping throug-hout all the 

 world. In order that his few remaining years 

 may be made as happy and as comfortable as 

 possible, we feel that we should undertake a 

 plan by which those bee-keepers who consider 

 it a privilege as well as a duty, might have an 

 opportunity to contribute something toward 

 afund that should be gathered and forwarded 

 to Father Langstroth as a slight token of their 

 appreciation, and regard fell for him by bee- 

 keepers everywhere. No amount above $1.00 

 is expected from any person at one time — but 

 any sum, however large or small, we will of 

 course receive and turn over to Father L. 

 All receipts will be acknowledged here.— Ed.] 



I<ist of Contributors. 



Previously Reported |5 00 



Edw. S. Pope, Indianapolis, Ind 25 



A Friend 25 



George Bland, Easton, O 25 



Mrs. Jane Joy, Springtown, Ind .50 



Bee-Keeper, Jimtown, Ky 25 



Total $6 25 



HON. R. I.. TAYL.OR. 



This week we congratulate ourselves 

 and our readers upon being permitted to 

 read of one who has deserved and won 

 renown as a farmer, business-man, law- 

 yer, bee-keeper and State Senator. Such 

 have been the various fields of useful- 

 ness in which the bee-keeper's friend — 

 yes, everybody's friend — the Hon. R. L. 

 Taylor, has so eaarnestly devoted his 

 life. 



In Oleanings for Nov. 1, 1890, we 

 find the following delightfully written 

 sketch by Prof. Cook, which we are 

 pleased to copy for the benefit of our 

 readers : 



To my mind, the most alarming fea- 

 ture of the census just taken is the 

 rapid increase of population in the cities 

 and the corresponding decrease in the 

 rural districts. Who has not noticed, 

 during the past ten years, the constant 

 influx of energy and strength from 

 country to city ? The men of push and 

 ability who are leading our enterprises 

 to-day, not only as business, but as pro- 

 fessional men, spent their boyhood on 

 the farm. True, we have an Adams 

 family, but we have hundreds of such 

 men as Greeley, Webster, Lincoln, and 

 Garfield, that went from country to city, 

 and carried life, vigor and energy with 

 them. What will become of our cities 

 if the country fails to pour in this new 

 and vivifying power ? 



Our respected friend, R. L. Taylor, 

 Senator in Michigan, and President of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 had the advantage of country birth. He 

 was born on a farm at Almont, Lapeer 

 county, Mich., Nov. 3, 1839. This was 

 not the only vantage ground of our 

 young candidate for a place of influence 

 in the world. He was the son of Scotch 

 parents, who were pioneers in that 

 new heavily timbered part of Michigan. 



