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Vol. nil. Not. 24, 1886. No.4]. 



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During tUe Past Week the editor has 

 been quite unwell, and unable to attend to 

 his regular duties. Part of the time his 

 physician would not allow him to leave his 

 residence. This may explain why some 

 letters have not been answered promptly. 



Prospects for successful wintering of 

 the bees are thus commented upon by Mr. 

 C. H. Dibbern, in the Plowman : 



Those who use large hives, and did not ex- 

 tract all the early white honey, will probably 

 come through all right. Owing to the ex- 

 tremely dry summer, the late honey was of 

 a very inferior quality, and we may expect 

 the small hive man, who has extracted all 

 he could get up to August, will be among 

 the mourners next spring. 



At tlie Dallas, Texas, Fair, Mr. J. W. 



Eckman seems to have made a "sweep "of 

 the premiums. The Richmond Opmton of 

 Nov. 5, says : 



In the honey department Mr. ,T. W. Eck- 

 man proves that his system of bee-manage- 

 ment is par excellence, for he took the whole 

 list of premiums, showing honey in every 

 conceivable shape and form. 



The premiums on bees and honey, which 

 Mr. Eckman was awarded, amounted to $52. 

 Surely it pays to excel in the matter of 

 putting up honey for the market, and then 

 to make a good display of it. We congratu- 

 late Mr. Eckman upon his progressive man- 

 agement, and the exertions he has put forth 

 to exhibit it to the world. 



Mr. K. H. Holmes, of Shoreham, Vt., 

 on Nov. 1.5, 1886, i-equeated us to note the 

 following announcement. As every other 

 department of the Journal is full, we give 

 it here : "The annual convention of the 

 Vermont Bee-Keepers' Association will be 

 held in liurlington, Vt., on Jan. 13, 1887." 

 The programme is not fully made up, but it 

 is expected that there will be a two days' 

 session. 



E. H. Cook, Andover, Conn., has sent us 

 his 28-page Club List of newspapers and 

 magazines for 1887. 



Canadian Suit Aigalnst Bee-Keeping. 



— R. F. Holtcrmann sends to the General 

 Manager of the Ree-Keepers' Union a state- 

 ment of the case as set forth on page 742, 

 and adds, " I think you will hex-e And a case 

 which should be taken up." He then adds : 



How far we in Canada have supported the 

 Union I know not ; probably not as we 

 should : but I have seen its utility if prop- 

 erly conducted, and thus far I believe it has 

 been. I sent $1, and am prepared to send 

 another, so I am not ashamed to call for aid. 



In reply to this we will say that the Union 

 for the present year has only two members 

 in all Canada— the Rev. W. F. Clarke and G. 

 A. Deadman. Last year there were three, 

 if we include Mr. Holtermann's dollar sent 

 to the defense fund, without annual dues. 

 Mr. Jos. Harrison, the person sued, is not a 

 member, and the only claim that could be 

 entertained at all, would be to prevent the 

 recording of a precedent in the law books of 

 America. 



The "only bee-paper in Canada" has 

 never thought enough of the Union to men- 

 tion " its aims and objects :" neither have its 

 proprietors ever offered to become members. 



Mr. Harrison, in a letter dated Nov. 10, 

 1886, writes as follows : 



If such men are permitted to obtain in- 

 junctions to restrain persons from keeping 



bees, farewell to bee-culture in Ontario 



I cannot say when the iinal question will be 

 brought up, but e.vpect it sometime before 

 Christmas. The judge submitted these 

 questions to the jury : 



1. Did nearness of the bees cause discom- 

 fort to the complainant in any unusual 

 degree ? 



2. Did the complainant acquiesce in Mr. 

 Harrison's keeping bees, by allowing him to 

 put 28 hives of bees in his yard before he 

 (Mr. Harrison) found fault with the dirty 

 pig-pen ? 



The General Manager is in some doubt 

 whether the Union should take hold of the 

 case in Canada, especially when the apiarist 

 is not a member of the Union. He is now 

 consulting with the Advisory Board, and 

 their decision will be final. 



Tasting of a Honey-Bee.— The Hart- 

 ford Times recently contained the following 

 peculiar experience with a honey-bee : 



A Ridgefleld farmer has a hired man 

 named Bnrdick, who, a few weeks ago, was 

 picking up apples to carry to the cider-mill. 

 He came across a fair and ripe one and bit 

 into it for a mouthful, without discovering 

 a hole in it wherein was concealed a bee. 

 which stung him on the tongue. It was 

 painful for a time, and his tongue badly 

 swelled. For two days he suffered from 

 constant nausea, and was scarcely able to 

 eat. The effect then passed off and he forgot 

 the matter. But he is now forcibly reminded 

 of it, for whenever he attempts to eat an 

 apple he experiences the same sensation he 

 did when stung, and if he persists in eating 

 it, his tongue swells and the nausea returns. 



J. W. Santlers, of Le Grand, Iowa, has 

 sent us one of his division-boards, which 

 consists of a plain piece of board U of an 

 inch shorter than the hive, with a piece of 

 rubber Vi inch wide at each end to make it 

 up to the width of the hive, and keep it bee- 

 tight. It has an ordinary flat top-bar with 

 projecting ends. 



The frame is a regular Langstroth frame 

 with a V-shaped top-bar, with comb founda- 

 tion about one-half the way down, and a 

 wire run through from side to side,embedded 

 in the foundation to keep it from bulging. 

 Both are placed in our Museum for the 

 inspection of visitors. 



Tlie Indianapolis Convention — the 



proceedings of which we have published, 

 and a notice may be seen on page 7-18 of this 

 issue— is thus commented upon by our 

 friend, Mr. A. I. Root, in Oleanings, for Nov. 

 1.5, 188G : 



REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINOS OF THE INDIAN- 

 APOLIS CONVENTION. 



The above report is very neatly gotten up. 

 It IS a book closely printed, of :« pages. It 

 is furnished by the American Bee Journal 

 tor 2.5 cents. It seems to me the matter con- 

 tained in it otight to be worth that to any 

 enthusiastic bee-keeper. While I am about 

 it, I believe I omitted to make editorial men- 

 tion of the proceedings a year ago. I regret 

 this, as it embodied also a history of the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Society from 

 1870 to 1884. The price is also 25 cents, 

 furnished by the American Bee Journal. 

 This latter hook contains 64 pages. While 

 we are looking over these convention re- 

 ports, I feel moved to say that the editor of 

 the American Bee Journal should receive 

 a vote of thanks for the very faithful ser- 

 vice he has rendered at different times to 

 this convention, or, so far as I know, at all 

 conventions. He is a most excellent reader 

 and speaker, full of good natured pleasantry 

 and enthusiasm ; and with the experience 

 of the last two or three conventions before 

 rae, I for one should feel sorrv to find friend 

 Newman absent from any convention I 

 might have the good fortune to be permitted 

 to attend. 



Thanks, Brother Root, but we fear we 

 shall not have the pleasure of meeting to- 

 gether at the Michigan State Convention. 

 We regret this, but it is out of our control. 



mons. Leon JTonas, one of the founders 

 and the Secretary of the " Societe D'Apfcul- 

 teurde la Somme," in the northeast of 

 France, died last January, and on Oct. 12, 

 the President, Mons. Jules Madare, also de- 

 parted this life. The Bulletin of the Society 

 came out with a wide,black border for each, 

 showing the esteem and affection in which 

 they were held by the members. The death 

 of the latter occurred while our interna- 

 tional convention was being held at Indian- 

 apolis. It is strange that these two intimate 

 friends should have died in the same year I 

 Both were apiarists of renown, and in their 

 death the apicultural world has lost two 

 progressive and enthusiastic bee-keepers. 



The December Number of Frank 



Leslie's Sunday Magazine closes the Twen- 

 tieth Volume. The opening article is "A 

 Moravian Village," by Lieut. H. R. Lemly, 

 U. S. A., who describes sympathetically the 

 village of Salem, N. C. Mr. Powell's fifth 

 number of "Leaves from My Life," deals 

 with Lord Beaconsfteld, "Barry Cornwall," 

 and Alfred Domett. This Leaf is very fully 

 illustrated. Other profusely illustrated arti- 

 cles are : " Zanzibar, and Mission Work 

 There," etc. There is plenty of miscellany 

 in the shape of short articles and sketches, 

 and several very beautiful full-page repro- 

 ductions of paintings by well-known artists. 



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