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buckwheat, which put a quietus on the 

 weeds. The value of this ground was 

 ascertained, and yearly since it has 

 yielded good crops of different kinds. — 

 Mrs. L. Harbison, in Prairie Farmer. 



Distance to Prevent " Mixed Bees." 



I see some write as though they 

 thought two different races of bees 

 could be kept within one mile of each 

 other and yet be no mixing from one to 

 the other. If such writers are practic- 

 ing what they teach, they do not know 

 what " mixed bees" are. 



When the apiary of which I am part 

 owner was first Italianized, the Italian 

 bees were unknown about here. At that 

 time there were within five miles of our 

 apiary about as many hives of black or 

 German bees as we had Italians ; and 

 by the second season about half of the 

 hives of black bees within that distance 

 showed trace of Italian blood. A few 

 colonies mixed seven miles off. The 

 bees in some of these hives would be 

 pretty fair hybrids, while in others 

 about a fourth of the bees would show 

 one and two bands, the others none at 

 all. Up to this time no swarms had left 

 our yard ; and, according to the theory 

 of nearly all the best authorities on bees 

 (in which they surely are wrong), there 

 could not have been any hybrid drones 

 in the hives of black bees by the second 

 season. — George W. Cleveland, in 

 Gleanings. 



An Awful, but True, Indictment. 



The liquor traffic bids for ignorant 

 vicious and purchasable votes. It domi- 

 nates in primaries and dictates nomina- 

 tions in conventions. It silences the 

 police. It suborns evidence. It bribes 

 juries and judges. It lobbies the legis- 

 latures. It combines with all kindred 

 evils. It seeks the balance of power. 

 Its own forces are as compact as a 

 Roman legion or a Macedonian phalanx. 

 It is a secret tribunal. It is an owl of 

 the night. It acknowledges no criter- 

 ion but success, and worships no God but 

 self-interest. It has no patriotism, and 

 carries the black flag. Instance the 

 shameful record of the Louisiana lot- 

 tery. What that lottery was for a time, 

 the liquor traffic is all the time. 



Who can outline this traffic ? To-day 

 we see it in prospective as it throws 

 across the dark and distant heavens, 

 against a back-ground tragic and ter- 

 rible, its direful and ever changing pro- 

 file. A Titan, a fighter, an athlete, a 



vampire, an octopus, a python, a vol- 

 cano. It has the stealth of the tiger, 

 the bound of the panther, the weight of 

 the mastodon, the momentum of an 

 avalanche, and speed of lightning. Ter- 

 rible is its secretiveness, it never fore- 

 tells what it wants, nor where it goes, 

 nor where it strikes. It advances and 

 recoils. It threatens North and South. 



With one friifge of its cloud it eclipses 

 the genius of Prentiss, while with a 

 paralyzing glare of its lightning it 

 "turns the poesy of Burns into tuneless 

 babble." It was said of a French com- 

 munist, wherever it respires it conspires 

 with no more conscience than cold iron, 

 no more heart than an iceberg ; it con- 

 fronts us to-day, as ever before, always 

 the foe of man — always inexorable — in- 

 accessible — glacial. The man who makes 

 friends with it lashes himself to a tomb 

 with the boom of eternity's retribution 

 sounding in his ears. The party which 

 makes coalition with it invites the scorn 

 of man and the judgment of God. 



If you ask the centuries what is the 

 result of this traffic, the answer comes 

 century by century, like the peal of 

 minute guns from some drowning ship, 

 or like the measured stroke of a funeral 

 bell, or like storm-thud on granite 

 shores : " Death — ever death — utter 

 death." An eternal reverberation which 

 fills all history. — Dr. B. H. Carroll. 



Bee Journal Posters, printed 

 in two colors, will be mailed free upon 

 application. They may be used to ad- 

 vantage at Fairs over Bee and Honey 

 Exhibits. We will send sample copies 

 of the Bee Journal to be used in con- 

 nection with the Posters in securing 

 subscribers. Write a week before the 

 Fair, telling us where to send them. We 

 would like to have a good agent at every 

 Fair to be held this year. Here is a 

 chance for a live man — or woman. 



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