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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



The Bee-Keepers' Union has 



another "feather in its cap." It has 

 won another victory without expense or 

 effort. Mr. John F. Haeger, of Hill 

 City, Tenn., on July 2, 1892, wrote as 

 follows concerning the influence of the 

 Union, and its effect upon a threatening 

 neighbor : 



My neighbor threatened to poison my 

 bees with arsenic, because his grapes 

 rotted this year, it being a rainy reason. 

 I mentioned to him the consequences of 

 bees putting arsenic and honey in the 

 surplus cases, as consumers might die 

 from its effects. I also explained to 

 him the reason for the existence of the 

 Bee-Keepers' Union, and convinced him 

 of his folly. The next day he apologized. 

 Stick another feather in the Union's 

 cap ! John F. Haegeb. 



After reading the above, and the 

 many similar reports of the quiet but 

 effective influence of a "standing army" 

 of bee-keepers for their protection 

 against threats and persecutions, we 

 cannot understand how any apiarist can 

 feel right while outside of the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Union. Send $1.00 for a year's 

 membership to Thomas G. Newman, the 

 General Manager, 199 Randolph St., 

 Chicago, Ills. 



Be Sure to read offer on page 69. 



A Money-Bee Enemy in Cali- 

 fornia is mentioned in Insect Life. 

 Specimens of the insect — Heteropteron 

 apiomeris flaviventris — have been sent 

 to Washington for examination by the 

 Entomological Division. Both the adults 

 and the nymphs were seen feeding upon 

 honey-bees in California. 



Mrs. Jennie Atchley, who, 

 among other prominent bee-keepers, an- 

 swers queries in the Bee Journal from 

 week to week, is again sick, we are 

 sorry to learn. Her many admiring 

 friends will unite in the hope that she 

 may soon be wholly restored to usual 

 health and strength. 



Small Bees.— Mr. W. C. Frazier, 

 of Atlantic, Iowa, on July 2, 1892, 

 mailed us a sample of some small bees, 

 concerning which he wrote as follows : 



I send you a sample cage of the 

 smallest bees I have ever seen. As you 

 will notice, they are pure Italians. All 

 the bees from this queen are like the 

 sample. W. C. Frazier. 



Thinking that perhaps Prof. Cook 

 might like to see the bees sent by Mr. 

 Frazier, we mailed them to the Profes- 

 sor, who commented thus upon them : 



The bees from Mr. Frazier are very 

 small, though I have seen them equal in 

 diminutiveness before, I think. If all 

 are so, as I conclude may be the case 

 from Mr. F.'s letter, it must be owing to 

 some peculiarity of the queen. If only 

 a part are so, which would be less 

 strange, and which I judge may be so 

 from the samples sent, then I presume 

 it arises from being reared in old combs, 

 which has been bred in so long that the 

 cells are very small, and so the cramped 

 quarters make the small bees. — A. J. 

 Cook. 



Experience in any line is a good 

 thing to listen to, and especially is it 

 true when considering the importance 

 of successful advertising. Here is what 

 a bee-supply firm says, that has spent 

 lots of money in advertising their goods : 



This is about the time a great many 

 advertisers withdraw their advertise- 

 ments until next season, thinking there- 

 by to save considerable expense, but it is 

 poor economy. Our experience is that 

 an advertisement which appears every 

 month in the year pays several times 

 better than one which runs only during 

 the busy season. 



That firm has the correct idea about 

 the matter. Bee-keepers may see an 

 advertisement when reading their bee- 

 paper months before the time when 

 supplies are needed, and remember it 

 when ordering goods ; while during the 

 busy season few apiarists have time to 

 examine advertisements very closely. 

 While it pays to advertise at any time, 

 it pays better to advertise all the time. 



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