AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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The Bee-Age, we understand, 

 "has been dropped for the present." It 

 was one of the new bee-papers that 

 blossomed a few months ago. We never 

 saw even one copy of it. We also learn 

 through the Progressive Bee-Keeper for 

 July (which, by the way, only got so 

 far as to print the cover for June) that 

 " there will be a very large crop " of 

 new bee-papers in the near future, if 

 all who think of starting them "carry 

 out their plans." With the poor honey 

 seasons of the past few years we should 

 think that it would be rather discourag- 

 ing business to start new bee-papers. 

 But then, it is easy enough to start them 

 — the trouble seems to appear when 

 their publishers try to keep them going. 

 Of course, we have the very kindest of 

 feelings toward every one who is inter- 

 ested in the pursuit of bee-keeping, or 

 who tries to advance its literature ; and 

 that is just the reason we do not like to 

 see our apiarian friends lose their 

 money, either by starting new bee- 

 papers, or by subscribing for them. Once 

 in awhile there is an exception, we are 

 glad to say. 



Mr. H. K. Staley, of Pleasant 

 Ridge, Ohio, called on us last week, and 

 found us trying to " keep cool." Mr. S. 

 is much interested in electrical matters, 

 as well as in the " busy bee." Many of 

 our readers will remember his interest- 

 ing and well-written articles which 

 have appeared in the Bee Journal, 

 during the past five or six years. 



Good Country Roads is a 



subject which is now being much agi- 

 tated, and well may it be, for who has a 

 better right to receive help from the 

 Government than those who pay the 

 taxes — the country people? There is 

 now a Memorial before Congress on the 

 subject of a "Comprehensive Exhibit of 

 Roads, Their Construction and Main- 

 tenance at the World's Columbian Ex- 

 position." It is desired that our readers 

 write to their Members of Congress for 

 copies of the Memorial ; and also urge 

 their representatives in Congress to vote 



for the Bill which provides for this com- 

 prehensive road exhibit. 



The passage of this Bill will result in 

 the saving of millions of dollars an- 

 nually, as the exhibit will teach the best 

 and cheapest method of making good 

 country roads in all parts of the United 

 States. As vast sums of money are 

 spent every year in the construction and 

 maintenance of the highways of this 

 country, it is of the greatest importance 

 to show the people how to use this 

 money to the best advantage. 



The establishing of a permanent road 

 exhibit and a college for road engineers 

 at Washington, D. C, is also contem- 

 plated. 



The World's Fair presents, a magnifi- 

 cent opportunity to inaugurate a great 

 national movement for improving the 

 highways of the country. Let all labor 

 together to bring about this result. If 

 the people will now speak to their repre- 

 sentatives in no uncertain tone, the 

 work will be accomplished. 



The Bee - Supply Business 



seems a great attraction to many bee- 

 keepers. In one of our apiarian ex- 

 changes we read this sentence recently, 

 by one of our prominent bee-keepers and 

 queen-rearers: "If I had a bee-jour- 

 nal I would go into the supply businegs." 

 It was really amusing to us. Just as if 

 a bee-keeper must have a bee-paper in 

 order to go into the supply business ! It 

 must be that some people think that a 

 bee-periodical is simply a catalogue for 

 apiarian supplies. Though there may 

 be some excuse for so thinking, when 

 looking over some of the bee-papers, yet 

 the best ones, we think, are true to what 

 they profess to be. 



As far as the American Bee Journal 

 is concerned, it is now perfectly free and 

 independent of the bee-keepers' supply 

 business, as all well know who read it 

 from week to week. We may change 

 our minds some day, but we now really 

 believe that a periodical of any kind can 

 render the best service to an industry of 

 which it is the exponent, when not in- 

 terested financially in the various appli- 

 ances used in such industry or pursuit. 



Read 8. F. & I. Trego's Advertisement. 



