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New York or Vermont ; and the West, in 

 California. If a central one is needed, have 

 it in Kentucky or Missouri. 



If the experiment apiaries can be manned 

 and the work carried on at a minimum ex- 

 pense of $500 each, why spend something 

 over $20,000 when about $3,000 will do the 

 same work ? If the right persons can be 

 secured in four or five first-class experiment 

 stations, to take charge of such experi- 

 ments as shall be thought to be of the most 

 value to bee-culture, we feel certain that 

 the results obtained will be as satisfactory 

 and final, if not more so, than if the same 

 work was spread out among 40 different 

 apiaries and experimenters. 



Again, the reports from four or five in- 

 tellig^t and painstaking experimenters 

 will be more likely to be given in full in the 

 various bee-papers, and also will receive a 

 much better hearing and consideration by 

 reading bee-keepers than would 40 or more 

 such reports. We believe in concentration 

 rather than " scatteration " in so important 

 a work as this. 



In regard to the Bee-Keepers' Union help- 

 ing to bear the expenses of committees 

 whose duties shall be to endeavor to secure 

 the establishment of bee-experiment api- 

 aries, we would say that we also " believe 

 it would be money well spent," if used in 

 securing a limited number of such apiaries, 

 but not in all the States and Territories of 

 the Union. If the latter were attempted, 

 there likely would be scarcely sufHcent 

 funds to more than pay for the necessary 

 postage and stationery, saying nothing of 

 time and carfare required by the numer- 

 ous committees in meeting the Boards of 

 Agriculture, etc. Now that the resources 

 of the Union may be used in whatever 

 direction a majority of its members decide, 

 we, as a member of the Union, most as- 

 suredly would favor the use of a portion of 

 its funds in tliis work, as we believe it will 

 ultimately prove to be of almost as much 

 benefit as if spent in defending the rights 

 of bee-keepers. In fact, it would be exactly 

 in the line of aiding them in getting their 

 rights, when attempting to secure experi- 

 ment apiaries, for surely a portion of the 

 $15,(K)0 which each State and Territory re- 

 ceives annually belongs to apiculture, and 

 should be deVoted to its interests. 



In those States where no experiment api- 

 aries are establislied, the bee-keepers' share 

 of the $ir),00() could be used by the State 



bee-keepers' association, for the publishing 

 of its reports, and in otherwise building it 

 up and educating the people in the uses and 

 value of honey as a food and as a medicine, 

 thus creating a greater demand, and also 

 in showing the great help that bees are to 

 horticultural and agricultural crops. 



O, this is a large subject, and we have 

 said enough for this time. We would now 

 like to learn how our readers view this 

 matter of experiments in apiculture. 



Hinting- at tlie Blarney Stone. — 



A few' days ago we received the following 

 letter from our Bro. Stone, whose picture 

 and biographical sketch we gave on page 

 107: 



World's Fair Grounds, July 28, 1893. 

 Friend York: — When our President 

 Hambaugh came to the Fair Grounds yes- 

 terday, from a visit to your office, and held 

 before me the Bee Journal of July 27th, 

 asking me, •' Do you know that gentle- 

 man ?" I was much surprised in more re- 

 spects than one. First, I thought the pict- 

 ure reflected great credit on the artist, and 

 is a flattery on his part ; but when I read 

 the article connected therewith, I was re- 

 minded of the language I heard the other 

 day in the neighborhood of Blarney Castle, 

 and think my friends must have taken a 

 journey to -that place in company with 

 yourself. Yours truly, 



Jas. a. Stone. 



For the information of those of our read- 

 ers who may not have before heard of 

 Blarney Castle, we would say that at the 

 World's Fair is a reproduction of the 

 famous Castle in " Ould Ireland," and also 

 within it, so they say. a portion of the 

 noted " Blarney Stone," which every good 

 Irishman, we believe, is supposed to have 

 kissed. Now to suggest that this editor 

 and Miss " One of Them," who wrote the 

 sketch of Bro. Stone, had "taken a jour- 

 ney " to the new Blarney Castle and kissed 

 the Blarney Stone— why, it's a terrible in- 

 sinuation ! In fact, it's the " Blarney est " 

 kind of blarney for Stone to "get off;" and 

 we shall think Bro. Stone is a kind of 

 " Blarney Stone " himself, if he makes any 

 more such hints. But we'll be easy on him 

 this time, and hope he'll — weW, forgive m for 

 surprising liim with that biographical 

 sketch. 



Honey was once considered a luxury, 

 but now it is within the reach of the com- 

 mon people, pjvery bee-keeper should see 

 to it that they get it. 



