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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Vol. nil. Dec, 22, 1886. No.51, 



RInisout! yeg-lorious CIn-istnias bells, 

 Peal loud, and sweet, and clear. 



And let your music, as it swells. 

 Proclaim the peace-time here. 



Ring out I and while you peal, sweet bells, 



Oh I let us humbly brins, 

 Thoee gifts, whose presence ever tells 



Each one to authems sing. 



Eing- out ! Earth's lessons we must learn. 



As on we walk, each day ; 

 And Christmas hours, with each return, 



Mark mile-stones on our way.— Ex. 



It is said that there is only a yery small 

 part of a drop of poison in the sting of a 

 bee. No matter how small the part, how- 

 ever, the departure of the person stung is 

 sure. The bee "gets there" all-e-samee— 

 but it parts with its sting. 



A AVeeUly Feast is presented to every 

 reader, and the followitig letter from B. H. 

 Holt, of Adel, Iowa, is a sample uf hundreds 

 just received from the guests who have 

 been regaled at our weekly banquets during 

 the past year : 



I like the American Bee Journai, for the 

 many good things which it presents each 

 week. I always look for it with the assur- 

 ance of finding a feaft therein, and I am 

 never disappointed. May its editor long 

 live to calm the troubled waves of discus- 

 sion, and to keep all its correspondents in 

 good fellowship, is the earnest wish of a 

 constant reader. 



The November 'Weather in England 

 has been open and fine. A writer in the 

 London Journal of Horticulture gives the 

 following facts about the bees there during 

 the past month : 



Up till Nov. 26 the weather has been open 

 and fine. The bees carried pollen up until 

 that date, when the winter's fog commenced. 

 Some colonies have increased in number of 

 bees greatly during the month. The calm, 

 sunny weather, permitting the bees to tly, 

 and the young ones to clear themselves of 

 all incumbrances as late as the 2.^th, will 

 counteract other evils which, had the 

 weather been untoward, were sure to have 

 followed so much late breeding. The tem- 

 perature of the month has not only been 

 mild, but remarkable for the equality of the 

 day and night temperature. Forsome nights 

 and days together there were only 4° differ- 

 ence in the day and night temperature. 



"Hereive liave an Objo'tioii to the 



Union," says the Canadian Bee Journal, and 

 then it proceeds to give the reason for ob- 

 jecting in this language : 



Beekeepers who have ill-feelings towards 

 their neighbors have a good chance to vent 

 it. They join the Union and then call on 

 their neighbors to "come on." feeling- that 

 the Union will assist them, and theircosts 

 will be light, while the defendant will have 

 to foot his own bill. Thus they can " stick " 

 their neighbor for a lot of costs, and them- 

 selves escape almost "scot free." We are 

 therefore in favor of a voluntary and im- 

 promptu defence by bee-keepers generally, 

 each giving what they are able to in the 

 defence of " right and justice," when they 

 satisfy themselves that the case calls for 

 such a defence. 



The writer appears to have been sadly 

 " mi.\ed up," when framing the above para- 

 graph. The bee-keeper who joins the 

 " Union," and says to his neighbor " come 

 on," is the defendant, if that neighbor does 

 " come on" with his lawsuit ; but the item 

 calls the " neighbor" the " defendant," and 

 says he" will have to foot his own bill !"— 

 Say plaintiff, brother— just to make sense I 



The writer is also in error concerning the 

 "National Bee-Keepers' Union." It does 

 not work on the plan mentioned in the 

 above editorial extract. It only assists in 

 the defense of the pursuit of bee-keeping, 

 after investigating the cause of the trouble. 

 If it is but a personal quarrel, the Union 

 does not interfere with it. If, however, 

 there is a principle Involved, or the pursuit 

 is "at stake," the Union /leips to defend the 

 case by paying something like one-halt of 

 the costs, while the " real defendant " pays 

 the other half. It does not by any means 

 let the members of the Union " stick their 

 neighbor for a lot of costs, and themselves 

 escape almost scot-tree," as stated in the 

 item quoted above. 



In Switzerland, as well as throughout 

 Europe (says Mons. E. Bertrand, of Nyon, 

 Switz.), the past season has been very poor 

 for honey. The first honey-flow was almost 

 nothing ; the second, where there was any, 

 was better, but that honey is of a dark color 

 and second grade. 



Our friend, Mr. Bertrand, was elected an 

 honorary member of the North American 

 Bee-Keepers' Society, at Indianapolis, and 

 acknowledges the honor in a very polite 

 letter to the editor of the American Bee 

 JocBNAL, who proposed the honor, and the 

 followiugto the President, Dr. C. C.Miller, 

 of Marengo, Ills. : 



Nyon, Switzerland, Nov. 26, 1886. 



Sir:— I see by the report of the proceed- 

 ings of the convention held at Indianapolis, 

 that I was elected an honorary member of 

 the North American Bee-Keepers' Society. 



Allow me to thank you and the associa- 

 tion for the honor which you have conferred 

 upon me. I feel highly flattered in being 

 an honorary member of the leading society 

 in America. 



I have the honor to remain, sir, yours truly, 

 Ed. Bertrand. 



Ciiernian Bee-Papers.- On page 707 we 

 commented on the assertion made at the 

 Indianapolis Convention that " we have a 

 greater number of apicultural papers " than 

 "all the rest of the world combined." We 

 then stated that "Germany alone" has 

 " more than all the rest of the world com- 

 bined." The British Bee Journal, for Dec. 2, 

 not only alhrms our remark, but gives a list 

 of 23 German bee-papers devoted exclusively 

 to bee-keeping ; not including any that 

 combine bee-culture with something else, 

 of which there are a large number. Here is 

 the list : 



1. Bienenzeitung. Editor, Fr. Wilh. Vogel. 

 Price M 6.50. 



2. Deutsche illustrierte Bienenzeitung. 

 Editor, C. J. H. Gravenhorst. Price M 4. 



3. Schweizerische Bienenzeitung. Editor, 

 Pastor Jeeker.Olten. Price M 4. 



4. Der eleassisch-lothringische Bienenzeit- 

 ung. Editors, J. Dennler, Enzbeim, & C. 

 Zwilling, Mundolsheim. Price M 3. '20. 



.5. Centraiblatt. Editor, G. Lehzen. Price 

 M 3. 



6. Die Biene. Editor, Lehrer Oswald, 

 Darmstadt. Price M 3. 



7. Deutscher Bienenfreund. Editor, L. 

 Krancher. Price M 3. 



8. Preussische Bienenzeitung. Editor, J. 

 G.Kanitz. Price M 2.50. 



9. Bienenblatt. Editor, J. B. Kellen. Price 

 M 2.40. 



10. Der schlesische Imker. Editor, J. P. 

 Benda. Price M 2.40. 



11. lilustriertes allgemeines deutsches 

 Bienenorgan. Editor, M. Felgentreu. Price 

 M2. 



12. Oesterreiehisch-ungarische Bienenzeit- 

 ung. Editor, P. Colestin Schachinger. Price 

 M2. 



13. Schlesische Bienenzeitung. Editor, G. 

 Seeliger. Price M 2. 



14. Die Biene und ihreZucht. Editor, Rud. 

 Kern. Price M 2. 



15. Biene. Editor, Pastor Hergenrother, 

 Hesselbach. Price M l.GO. 



16. Die BienenpHege. Editor, Dr. Wilh. 

 Ebel. Price M 1.'25. 



17. Munchener Bienenzeitung. Editor, Dr. 

 Stautner. Munich. Price M l.'iO. 



IS. Pfalzer Bienenzucht. Editor, Lehrer 

 Sauter. Rodenbach. Price M 1. 



19. Blatter fur Bienenzucht. Editor, S. 

 Baumann. Price M 1. 



20. Illustrierte Bienenzeitung. Editor, G. 

 Adolphson, Zurich. 



21. Leipziger Bienenzeitung. 



22. Blatter fur Bienenzucht, Ungarn. Ed- 

 itor, .1. Kriesch. 



23. Bienenfreund von Niederbayern. 



Water is essential for bees in cellars, 

 and quite often it has restored bees to 

 their normal condition, after a "roaring" 

 in the hive is heard, which is caused by ex- 

 cessive thirst and prolonged low tempera- 

 ture. 



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