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studied by generations of bee-keepers 

 yet to come. 



I would be glad if I could have the 

 privilege of being the happy possessor 

 of a photograph of each of these old 

 heroes, to place in my album ; and if 

 Father L. and Father G. will let me 

 know if I could get one of each of their 

 photographs, I would jvillingly pay for 

 the same. Should I never be permitted 

 to meet them here, I do hope to greet 

 them "Over the River." 



Jennie Atchley. 



Something More About Texas. 



Mks. Atchley : — Since you have been 

 writing up Texas, I have caught the 

 fever, and if I live I shall make Texas 

 my home. There are one or two ques- 

 tions I desire to ask concerning Texas, 

 that you failed to speak of in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. 



What kind of poisonous insects and 

 reptiles have people to contend with? 

 "What diseases are most fatal? and does 

 the yellow fever plague ever visit Texas? 



Now, Mrs. A., I will ask a few ques- 

 tions for my own benefit : Is there any 

 chance for a poor, hard-working man to 

 get hold of a piece of land ? Where is 

 the school land that you speak of ? Is 

 the land good, or is it bad ? 



Humphries, Mo. W. R. Elwood. 



Friend Elwood, the insects and rep- 

 tiles are of such little notice here that I 

 did not think it worth mentioning, as I 

 have not seen anything in Texas that I 

 was afraid of. I work in my out-api- 

 aries every year, and I have not seen 

 more than two or three little, harmless 

 snakes during a period of three years. 

 There are some rattle-snakes in some 

 parts of Texas, but they are scattering, 

 and live mostly in waste places, and in 

 the mountains. I believe more people 

 die here with pneumonia fever in the 

 winter than any other disease ; this I 

 believe is caused by people exposing 

 themselves, and from the sudden 

 changes from warm to cold in winter, 

 when I have seen it turn from a tem- 

 perature of about 70° down to 30° in 

 10 minutes ; these are what are called 

 .* "Northers" in this country, but they 

 seem to be getting milder every winter. 



Honest, hard-working people are the 

 very ones that get hold of land in this 

 country. I know of several in this 

 neighborhood that came to Texas a few 

 years ago without a nickle, that now 

 have good farms and are well-to-do 



people. This, of course, is largely owing 

 to the ability of people— some are better 

 managers than others, and you probably 

 know that some people would not have 

 anything if you would give it to them, 

 as they would soon make way with it. 

 In short, there is plenty of room here for 

 thousands and thousands of honest, 

 hard-working people, which are the best 

 people any country ever had. There 

 are yet plenty of school lands in one- 

 quarter of the counties of the State — in 

 Archer, Baylor, Tom Green, Lampasas, 

 Burnett, Llano, and other counties. 



Here is another letter requesting in- 

 formation about this State: 



Mrs. Atchley : — I am an old bache- 

 lor. My old mother and I live here to- 

 gether, and we keep, on an average, 100 

 colonies of bees, and there have been 

 so many failures of late years that we 

 are becoming very much discouraged. 

 Permit me to ask you a few questions in 

 regard to Texas : 



How often does the honey crop fail in 

 Texas ? About what would be the aver- 

 age of comb or extracted honey per col- 

 ony in your State ? How do you mar- 

 ket your honey, and what is an average 

 price ? How much capital, besides the 

 bees, should a person have to start 

 with? Do you think that it would be 

 healthy for mother down there ? Would 

 I be likely to find employment so as to 

 make my board, at least, should I go 

 down there about the first of March? 

 Are you quite sure I would find a place 

 to suit me, as I do not want to use my 

 money to no purpose, but I very much 

 desire to move to a better place for bees 

 and fruit. Could we rent a place for 

 awhile, till we could have a chance to 

 select a home ? If you can help us to 

 to find a good home, we will be thankful. 

 Murphy, Iowa. W. C. Nutt. 



Friend Nutt, I am a little afraid to 

 advise you, as I fear you might not be 

 satisfied. • Please allow me to relate to 

 you a good lesson I learned when I was 

 a girl. 



In Tennessee, where I was brought 

 up, there used to grow on the hills and 

 mountains huckleberries, and they were 

 scattered all over the hills. On Satur- 

 days myself and a lot of schoolmates 

 would go berrying, and there were 

 usually two companies of us— one com- 

 pany would persist in running from hill 

 to hill, hunting for the thick patches, 

 while the others would gather the ber- 

 ries as they came to them. Now, I al- 

 ways noticed that the ones that took 

 the berries as they came to them, would 



