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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



From — 



The Stinger. 



" Next cum along wuz little Miss Bee — um, 



hum! 

 She cum roight from her hoive — bee-gum !" 

 Sings Pat as cheerily on he goes. 

 Till pretty Miss Bee alights on his nose. 

 "Phat's that?" cries Pat. "Oh! Ouch! 



Begorry ! 

 If that's your kiss, for your feller Oime 



sorry!" 



The Chinese are said to give the bees 

 a wide berth in California. The little 

 insects must have said, "The Chinese 

 must go." 



Mrs. Jennie At^'hley is trying hard to 

 be the big queen-bee in the great hive of 

 apicultural economists. But none of 

 the males in the same colony want the 

 distinction of being the biggest drone. 

 Just see what there is in a name, some- 

 times ! 



Why don't some enterprising bee- 

 keeper of a literary turn of mind get out 

 a little volume of all the meritorious 

 poetry that was ever written about the 

 honey-bee ? It seems to me that such a 

 book should have sufficient sale to war- 

 rant its publication. 



I would like to know what New York 

 is going to do when the Fair is over with 

 all that comb honey she has piled up in 

 those cases in the apiarian section in the 

 Agricultural Building? Will she send 

 it to California, in order to show that 

 State by the Pacific what a great honey- 

 producing country the Empire State is ? 

 If she does, won't it be hard on the api- 

 arists of the Golden West who were mis- 

 represented by their State Commission- 

 ers ? 



It has long been supposed that millers 

 ground out flour, but the Miller of 

 Oleanings in Dee-Culture reverses the 

 operation and grinds out straws. If the 

 good Doctor got a little further down 

 the straw he would have been able to 

 use roots in his grist-mill. It is a long 

 way, comparatively speaking, from the 

 head of the straw to the roots, and, per- 

 haps, the Doctor chose the medium in- 

 stead of the extreTnes, at the same time 

 hoping to work toward the ends. If this 

 be so, we would like to know which he 

 proposes to grind first, the Roots or the 

 " Heads of Grain !" 



MR. L. WOOLVERTOX. 



"Bees and Honey" — seepage 250. 



We have been requested by one of his 

 many good friends, to present in our 

 biographical department Mr. Linus 

 Woolverton, M. A., the popular and effi- 

 cient Secretary of the Fruit Growers' 

 Association of Ontario, Canada, and also 

 the able editor of the Canddian Horticul- 

 turist. Mr. W. deserves the thanks of 

 all bee-keepers, for, having carefully 

 studied the subject, he knows that bee- 

 keeping and horticulture have much to 

 bind them together. 



In the journal of which Mr. Woolver- 

 ton is editor, there is a department for 

 those engaged in fruit-culture who are 

 also interested in bee-keeping. In that 

 department articles have appeared from 

 the pen of such well-known Canadian 

 bee-keepers as R. McKnight, of Owen 

 Sound; S. Corneil, of Lindsay; and R. 

 F. Holtermann, of Brantford, the new 

 and genial editor of the Canadian Bee 

 Journal. Mr. Holtermann recently had 

 in the Canadian Horticulturist an illus- 

 trated article, six pages in length, upon 

 the benefit the bees confer through fer- 

 tilization of flowers. 



Mr. Woolverton, we may say further, 

 has charge of the Canadian fruit depart- 

 ment at the Columbian Exposition. He 

 can be found at almost all times of the 

 day in the Horticultural Building on the 

 Fair Grounds. 



The following biogra])hy was writ- 

 ten some time since for the Canadian 

 HortlruUurist, where it appeared in con- 

 nection with a picture of Mr. W., all of 

 which we take pleasure in reproducing 

 for the benefit of our readers: 



