AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



589 



CONDUCTED BY 



Beeville. Texas. 

 The New Bee-Paper Idea Dropped. 



Mbs. Jennie Atchley : — I wish you 

 much success in your new home, and 

 trust it will not disappoint your expecta- 

 tions for the coming season of 1894. I 

 hope " In Sunny Southland " will con- 

 tinue to gain ground, as we like to see 

 the South have a voice in the " old re- 

 liable " American Bee Journal. We 

 hoped to see a Southern bee-paper started 

 by some of our Southern writers. We 

 know of no one that the mantle would 

 fall upon more gracefully than upon the 

 shoulders of Mrs. Jennie Atchley. Again 

 I wish you success. 



L. V. Esneault. 



Donaldsonville, La. 



Friend E., it is with great pleasure 

 that I acknowledge your kind favor. I 

 thank you also for the honor you confer 

 upon me in regard to starting a bee- 

 paper, but, after due consideration and 

 meditation, together with close calcula- 

 tions, I have decided not to attempt a 

 new bee-paper, for the present at least, 

 as it means several years of hard work 

 with a good big casJi outlay that would 

 be lost before a new paper could be 

 brought up to the paying point. So we 

 have decided to wait awhile. 



Notwithstanding this, I here ask the 

 liberty to thanh one and all that have so 

 kindly encouraged me and pledged them- 

 selves to support me in the publication 

 of a Southern bee-paper. Dear friends, 

 please bear with us a little, when we 

 ask your support to help make our al- 

 ready Southern department boom in this 

 "old reliable " American Bee Journal; 

 and I here pledge you that I shall do all 

 in my power to make it interesting for 

 you. 



Now, let us join hands and make our 

 Sunny Southland ring. Again, I thank 

 one and all. Jennie Atchley. 



Thought a Bee- Wagon was a "Show." 



Willie and Charlie have just come in 

 from a 40-mile trip out into Live Oak 

 county, where they have been to transfer 

 a large lot of bees. We are furnishing 

 an empty Simplicity brood-chamber, and 

 transferring a colony into it, for a box- 

 hive, etc. Well, the boys loaded up and 

 struck out, and their outflt attracted 

 attention through the country which 

 they went. 



Just as they were nearing Oakville, 

 there was a great crowd of young and 

 old that ran out to see what it was com- 

 ing, and as they drew up and stopped, 

 the people began to peep in to see what 

 it meant, and they quickly decided that 

 it was a show. We have a two-horse 

 wagon, with a house made on it of wire- 

 cloth, a door behind to put the bees in, 

 and a portion of about 3 feet cut ofif in 

 front for their horse feed, camping out- 

 flt, etc. 



Well, now the funny part comes. We 

 have a black shepherd dog, very woolly, 

 and he was sitting in the wire-house 

 upon the bee-hives, and the children dis- 

 covered him, and shouted out, "Yes, it 

 is a show! Just look at the animals, 

 and nothing to keep them in but that 

 wire screen ! Lets get away from here !" 

 Then both old and young retreated. 



Now Willie and Charlie have some- 

 thing to laugh about when they think of 

 the " show." However, the people soon 

 found out that it was not a show, but a 

 bee-wagon, and now they are noted all 

 over the country as the " Bee-Hivers." 

 They start to-morrow for another load. 

 They haul 20 hives at a time. They 

 just place the box-hives in the wagon, 

 bottom upward, and do not close any of 

 the hives — just shut the door, and they 

 have a bee-tight wagon. After driving 

 40 miles, there were not a dozen bees 

 flying about in the wagon when they 

 arrived home. The bees all kept per- 

 fectly quiet, and no loss at all. 



We have had about 20 beetrees given 

 to us already. We went out and cut one 

 a few days ago, and it was rich, and we 

 had a fine time. We are going to try to 

 get in 200 more colonies by Christmas. 

 We haul our own bees home to transfer 

 them. Jennie Atchley. 



Skunks in the Apiary, Etc. 



While we are in a sure enough Sunny 

 Southland, we have our pests. The 

 skunks are trying to eat our bees. We 

 have just come from the apiary ^this 



