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papers. It is over a decade ago that the 

 first bee-paper was started there ; since 

 then two others were sent forth to battle 

 with the waves of the tempestuous sea of 

 journalism, and they had all to succumb 

 after a short existence. Those started 

 in the past were published outside the 

 great honey-producing sections of that 

 State, so there is hope for the forthcom- 

 ing California bee-paper to do something 

 more than come into life, and, butterfly- 

 like, die in a short time. If any part of 

 the Golden State is by nature the home 

 for a bee-publication, it is Los Angeles. 

 It is in that city of the angels, so the 

 rumor goes, that the new candidate for 

 the favors of the apicultural argonauts 

 is to be born and published. Though 

 the field it will have to labor in is a lim- 

 ited one, and hardly sufficient to support 

 a paper of its kind, still The Stinger 

 hopes that it will be able to realize the 

 most sanguine hopes of its publishers. 



How the Stinger would like to get 

 after that Celestial correspondent of the 

 American Bee Journal ! If I wouldn't 

 puncture him right and left in a way 

 that would out-do the method the said 

 Wung Lung took to cure his fellow 

 countryman of rheumatism, I have lost 

 my cunning. The place to hurt a China- 

 man, like almost any one else, for that 

 matter, is by getting at his pocket. But 

 the way I would get at Mr. Wung Lung, 

 in a way that would drive him from 

 keeping bees, is this: I would manage 

 to get his bees crossed with Italians. 

 From some practical experience I have 

 had I know as a fact that Dagos do not 

 like the Celestial " monkeys." Give an 

 Italian a fair chance, and he would fly 

 at a Chinaman's throat. It is for this 

 reason that I think that an Italian bee, 

 which would like to keep up the reputa- 

 tion of its country, would go for the 

 Mongolian in a way that would leave 

 the owner in possession of the field. In 

 making these remarks I do not wish to 

 speak in any way disrespectful of Mr. 

 Wung Lung, who, for aught I know, 

 may be a very excellent gentleman. I 

 have made reference to the matter 

 wholly in the interests of our white bee- 

 keepers, who, no doubt, would like to 

 see the field kept exclusively to them- 

 selves. 



Please Send Us the Names of your 

 neighbors who keep bees, and we will 

 send them sample copies of the Bee 

 Journal. Then please call upon them 

 and get them to subscribe with you, and 

 secure some of the premiums we offer. 



Offlccrs of the IVew iSoiitli Wales 

 Bee-Keeper§' Union. 



On the opposite page we are afforded 

 the pleasure of presenting an interesting 

 group of eight of the most prominent 

 bee-keepers who live in New South 

 Wales, Australia. We are very certain 

 that all of our American readers will be 

 delighted to thus form the acquaintance 

 of their far-away brethren, even though 

 that acquaintance be at very long range. 

 We have a number of subscribers in 

 Australia, as well as in almost every 

 other known foreign land, and we are 

 glad to have the opportunity to see some 

 of them, even if it must be only on 

 paper. Some time we hope to meet them 

 all face to face, though it may never be 

 upon earth. 



Without further delay, permit us to 

 introduce you to each one of our Aus- 

 tralian brethren, by way of a brief 

 sketch : 



No. 1. — The Rev. J. Ayling, Vice- 

 President, started bee-keeping in South 

 Australia in 1858, and for the last eight 

 years he has kept bees rather exten- 

 sively, his object being to instruct his 

 neighbors in the art, and help them to 

 increase their rather scanty incomes. 

 He uses the Langstroth hive, with Hoff- 

 man's frames, and last year he produoed 

 about a ton of honey. 



No. 2.— Mr. W. S. Pender, of West 

 Maitland, Vice-President, started bee- 

 keeping in 1880, but did not make a 

 business of it until 1889, when he in- 

 creased to 20 colonies. In 1890 he in- 

 creased to -10 colonies ; in 1891 to 50, 

 in which year he took the first national 

 prize. In 1892 an out-apiary was 

 started in Mulbring, which now numbers 

 50 colonies. He is assistant editor of 

 the Australian Bee Bulletin. 



