AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Two Sides on the Farm. 



MAY MAPLE. 



Lice on the chickens, and bugs on the taters. 



Flies and mosquitoes to pester us all ; 

 Weeds in the dooryard, and weeds in the 

 garden. 

 All growing rank where the sun-showers 

 fall. 



Bees hanging up in the trees in great clusters. 

 Waiting for some one to put them in hives ; 



Fruit to be gathered, and children to care for— 

 Pity, oh ! pity the poor farmers' wives. 



Sweet new potatoes, and tender young chicks. 

 Bread, butter and honey, with milk new and 

 sweet ; 

 Peas, lettuce and beans— all the wealth of the 

 garden, 

 With no warmed-over, stale city dinners to 

 eat. 



Cribs full of grain— Nature's gold, coined by 

 labor, 

 Child fingers to draw forth the harmony 

 sweet, 

 Without which life's music is quite half un- 

 uttered, 

 Oh, pity them not, for their joy is complete. 

 —Selected. 



Expressions of Good-Will 



continue to come to us, for which we 

 feel truly grateful. We are going to try 

 to merit them, though we fear it will be 

 a rather difficult thing to do. The fol- 

 lowing paragraph is from the Nebraska 

 Bee-Keeper for July : 



The "old reliable" American Bee 

 Journal, which has been so long and 

 successful under the management of Mr. 

 Newman, has changed proprietorship. 

 Mr. Newman, on account of ill-health, 

 has retired, and Mr. George W. York 

 has taken his place. Mr. York has for 

 some time held the position of assistant 

 editor, and is well qualified to carry on 

 the work. 



We regret to lose Mr. Newman from 

 the position, but if he must retire, we 

 congratulate the patrons and bee-keep- 

 ing fraternity, that so good a man has 

 been found to take his place. May suc- 

 cess attend the new management. 



We especially value the kindly greet- 

 ings of our co-workers in apicultural 

 journalism, and shall ever hope that the 

 pleasant feeling now existing among us 

 may continue uninterrupted indefinitely. 



The American Farmer for July had 

 this to say concerning the change of 

 management of the American Bee 

 Journal : 



Owing to the continued ill-health of 

 Mr. Thomas G. Newman, the editor and 

 manager of the old-established and 

 widely-known American Bee Journal, 

 he has found it necessary to be relieved 

 of the care and labor attendant upon 

 the management of that Journal, and 

 has transferred his interests to Mr. 

 George W. York, still continuing, how- 

 ever, to give editorial advice and counsel 

 through the columns of the paper. 



Mr. Newman has done much during 

 his active career to stimulate an interest 

 in the pursuit of bee-culture, and it is a 

 matter of sincere regret to learn of his 

 retirement from the active field. We 

 wish for the new management the same 

 degree of success that has heretofore 

 attended the publication of the paper. 



To Mr. W. C. Frazier, bee-editor of the 

 Iowa Homestead, we extend our thanks 

 for the following fraternal notice : 



The American Bee Journal has 

 changed hands. Thomas G. Newman, 

 who has been editor for many years, has 

 been compelled, by failing health, to 

 dispose of the editorial management, 

 which has been assumed by Mr. George 

 W. York. Mr. York is a young man of 

 thirty, who has been assistant editor for 

 several years, and under his manage- 

 ment we have no doubt it will continue 

 to be the same prompt and reliable 

 journal, ever ready to defend the rights 

 of the bee-keepers against their various 

 enemies. 



To publish a 32-page journal each 

 week, devoted entirely to bee-culture is 

 a herculean task ; if you do not think 

 so, try getting out the copy for an issue 

 or two. While we regret that the old 

 management has been obliged to retire, 

 we heartily welcome and wish abundant 

 success to the new. 



largest Crop Ever Known , 



is what they say of the white clover crop 

 in northwestern Iowa. The fields are 

 just covered with white blossoms that 

 yield the abundant harvest of sweetness. 

 The corn crop is reported as a failure in 

 that part of Iowa, and the farmers are 

 plowing the corn-fields and sowing them 

 to buckwheat. That will doubtless 

 mean a large crop of buckwheat honey 

 later on. From nearly everywhere the 

 reports are that the prospects never were 

 better for a grand yield of fall honey. 

 " So may it be." 



