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— some good for milk, some for butter, 

 some for beef. Horses — long legs, short 

 legs. Dogs— long heads, short heads. But 

 not only the nature of animals is change- 

 able, but that of the plants is, too. That's 

 why we have so many kinds, and some 

 times vtrij different kinds of one and the 

 same species. Think of apples, cherries, 

 and the garden stuff. 



Now. 1 think it would be a move in the 

 right direction if we try to find or propa- 

 gate a variety of red clover that has shorter 

 corollas and of just as good, if not better, 

 qualities than the old one. What a picture 

 for the bee-keeper I Let us try ! Gardeners, 

 be up and doing! This is something for 

 you! Man has accomplisht much. Why 

 not this ? (Rev.) H. RoHits. 



Rock Co., Wis. 



Wintering Nicely — Mild Winter. 



Bees are wintering nicely up to date. 

 Those on the summer stands get a flight 

 about twice a week. The winter has been 

 unusually mild. Sweet clover seed that 

 dropt from the stalks last fall is sprouting 

 now, fully a month earlier than other 

 years. Fruit-buds, too, are far advanced ; 

 no doubt they will get damaged by frost 

 later on. John Nebel & Son. 



Montgomery Co., Mo., Feb. 1-t. 



Lack of Pollen Cause of Bee -Paralysis. 



According to a German bee-keeper quoted 

 in I'Apiculteur for January, 1898, that 

 mysterious bee-disease called " May-dis- 

 ease," paralysis, etc., is mainly due to 

 scarcity of pollen in the hive. Pollen, be 

 says, being a stronger restorer of lost- 

 vitality than even honey, larva; and bees 

 fed with a too meager supply of pol- 

 len will be lacking in energy and strength, 

 which will cause the colony to behave as 

 has often been described. 



This fact, he go°s on to say, would ex- 

 plain why the stronger colonies (short of 

 pollen stores) seem to be more liable to 

 show the symptoms of the malady, and 

 why the malady disappears as soon as pol- 

 len becomes abundant. 



Bee-paralysis has also been traced to 

 sugar syrup feeding. Very likely the same 

 cause lies at the bottom of such an assump- 

 tion — absence of pollen in the sugar syrup; 

 hence the advisability of mixing with the 

 feed some substitute for pollen. 



Here is a hint for our apicultural experi- 

 ment stations. H. Dupret. 



Province of Quebec, Canada. 



In Favor of One Big Union. 



In the Bee Journal of Jan. 20, under the 

 heading, "The New Union's Membership," 

 the editor asks: "Are ;/o« a member ? If 

 not, you should join at once, and lend your 

 aid in carrying out the important objects of 

 the new (Jnion." With the editors per- 

 mission, I would like to state why I have 

 not renewed my membership. 1 fail to see 

 the use or benefit of being a member of 

 three separate bee-keepers' organizations, 

 when one could accomplish ail the objects 

 desired infinitely better than any number 

 can do separately. If we as bee-keepers 

 mean business, we must get together and 

 present a united front to our enemies. If 

 adulteration and the other evils of which 

 we complain are going to be put down, we 

 must have a strong organization with a 

 fighting man at the head of it. Judging 

 from present conditions, it is not likely that 

 more than a small proportion of those who 

 keep bees will ever become member* of any 

 union that may be formed, but we have al- 

 ready material enough to make a strong 

 society, and it is no compliment to our in- 

 telligence, as beekeepers, that it has not 

 been done sooner. 



There are two bee-keepers' associations 

 in Minnesota, and many States in the Union 

 have one or more, which, if all united, 

 would be a power that would soon make it- 

 self felt for good. Let us quit our petty 

 jealousies, if that is what is keeping us 

 apart, and have only one bee-keepers' union 

 in the United States. Can't the constitii- 



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This loth and latest edition of Prof. Cook's 

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