Mar. 9, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



153 



spector shall receive four dollars per day and traveling ex- 

 penses for the actual time served, which sum shall not ex- 

 ceed the moneys hereby appropriated, to be paid by the 

 State Treasurer upon warrants drawn and approved by the 

 Governor. 



Sec. 7. — This Act shall take effect and ,be in force from 

 and after its passage and publication. 



Sec. 8. — By this Act all previous legislation on the sub- 

 ject of foul brood on the statutes of Michigan is hereby re- 

 pealed. 



Mr. Hilton also desired us to again urge all bee-keepers 

 in Michigan to write at once to their senators and represen- 

 tatives at Lansing, urging them to favor the passage of the 

 Foul Brood Bill as above. 



Dk. C. C. Miller was in Chicago last week attending 

 the third quarterly meeting of the Chicago Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. It is just wonderful how young he keeps. He 

 is 67, and Dr. Peiro, when so told, said, "Why, he doesn't 

 look a bit over SO." But may be it's a habit doctors have — 

 ■of looking young. Now. Dr. Peiro is 59, and he doesn't 

 look much over — well, 45. Of course doctors ought to know 

 how to keep looking young while they help to make the rest 

 of us look old ! 



♦ ♦ * # * 



Redbug Not Bedbug. — Mr. O. O. Poppleton. of Dade 

 Co., Fla., wrote us Feb. 28 : 



Friend York : — On page 115 of your issue for Feb. 23, 

 first column and last paragraph, the word "bedbug" is 

 printed for " redbug." Please correct the mistake, as the 

 balance of the paragraph reads rather funny as it is. 



Bees are doing the poorest in building up this winter I 

 have ever known them to do here. The reason is because 

 the extensive fires last spring destroyed our winter pastur- 

 age. O. O. POPPLETOX. 



♦ * * « « 



Dr. C. a. D.wiD is one of Chicago's eminent medical 

 specialists. He was born in 1845, in Richland Co., 111., and 

 came to Chicago in 1875, when he decided to devote himself 

 exclusively to one class of diseases — that of the rectum — 

 such as the treatment of piles, fistula, irritable ulcers, stric- 

 tures and the like. He then took a thorough course at the 

 University of New York, graduating therefrom in 1882. Dr. 

 David has superseded the old methods of torture with a 

 more rational treatment, and, as a consequence, success has 

 attended his efforts, and b^- the profession at large he is 

 recognized as an authority. His success maj' best be sum- 

 marized by the simple statement that of the vast number of 

 treatments which he has given, aggregating nearly 100,000, 

 he has never lost a case. 



We have recently had occasion to patronize Dr. David, 

 and are glad to recommend him to all who require the kind 

 ■of service he can so successfully and satisfactorily perform. 

 His office is in the Champlain Building, northwest corner 

 of Madison and State streets, Chicago. To our mind he ex- 

 emplifies to the fullest degree the highest ideal of the 

 Christian physician. 



♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦ 



Mk. Frank McN.w. of Wisconsin, who with his wife, 

 has been spending the winter in California, wrote us as 

 follows from San Francisco, Feb. 20 : 



Friend York : — California seems to be doomed to 

 another year of severe drouth, as there has been no rain for 

 ■several weeks, and only about an aggregate of three inches 

 in most locations in Southern California, and but little 

 more up here. Bee-keepers are fast losing hopes of a suffi- 

 cient amount of rain to secure any honey, and bees are 

 being shipt to Arizona and Utah. 



The very small amount of rain and exceptionally fine 

 warm weather have afforded us an excellent winter for tour- 

 ing. Mr. J. H. Martin (Rambler) was our near neighbor 

 while in Los Angeles, and on our Rambler wheels %ve en- 

 joved many long rambles to the country and mountains 

 with " Rambler " as our guide. 



Before leaving Los Angeles we enjoyed an ocean voy- 

 age to San Diego and return. I also had a very pleasant 

 visit with Mr. Harbison, and a drive of 25 miles out to his 

 large apiary, which is an ideal location on his 700-acre 

 ranch in a mountain canyon. 



I also took a ride by wheel over the Mexican border, re- 

 turning by way of Coronado Beach and the famous hotel. 



We have now spent a week looking over San Francisco. 

 Oakland, the Golden Gate Park. Sutro Heights, and the 

 Beach, and I took a wheel-ride to San Jose, 45 miles down 

 the Bay, through a fine farming and fruit valley. But we 

 do not. enjoy this part of the State as well as Los Angeles 

 and vicinity, and we will soon leave the coast, as we wish 

 to spend a few weeks in Salt Lake City and Denver before 

 returning home. Frank McNay. 



We are glad our friends have enjoyed themselves so 

 much in California. Some day we hope to be able to follow 

 their example, and ramble around awhile in winter in a 

 warmer clime. 



■»»»«* 



Dk. Peiro, when on his trip West last fall, also visited 

 the States of Oregon and Washington. He has this to say 

 about them : 



I have given much thought regarding the matter of 

 migration to either of the above States since a personal 

 observation of the several encouragements each offer, par- 

 ticularly in an agricultural and horticultural sense, and 

 conclude that to the young man of brains and brawn anx- 

 ious to " get on in the world " a well-selected piece of land 

 for a farm home in either of these States is preferable to 

 the drier altitudes of Arizona, California, or even Idaho. 

 Much moisture can be depended upon to insure regular 

 crops, and the market for any produce is fully as favorable. 



Because of the plentiful and natural irrigation, fruits 

 are abundant, small grain yields fine average crops, and 

 hay (alfalfa, especially) is always and bountifully to be de- 

 pended on. Hence to the young, or even middle-aged, blest 

 with health and a willingness to work, I suggest they in- 

 vestigate the possibilities of these comparatively new but 

 fast-growing States. From a climatic point of view I 

 should deter the weak, consumptive or inflaminatory rheu- 

 matic patient from going there. Dk. Peiro. 



The Union Combination Self-Feed Rip and Cross- 

 cut Saw, while it is designed for wood-workers generally, 

 is especially valuable for making bee-hives, frames, etc. 

 This machine and attachments are suitable for ripping, 

 cross-cutting, mitering, rabbeting, grooving, graining, 

 dadoing, boring, scroll sawing, edge moulding, beading, etc., 

 thoroughly practical in every particular, and easy to oper- 

 ate. It has a large combination wood and iron table, 28x36 

 inches, with extension rolls, four changes of speed and 

 three changes of feed. It has babbitt metal lined boxes 

 which are adjustable to take up the wear ; has steel shafts 

 and machine cut gears ; has foot power with a walking mo- 

 tion, and a chain belt attachment for fast speed. A com- 

 plete illustrated catalog fully describing this machine and 

 attachments, also a full line of wood-working machinery, 

 will be sent on application. Send for catalog " A." Address 

 the manufacturers— The Seneca Falls Mfg. Co., 46 Water 

 St., Seneca Falls, N. Y.. and say you saw their advertise- 

 ment in the American Bee Joarnal. 



Editor Hutchinson, of the Bee-Keepers' Review, had 

 this to say in his February number : 



" The American Bee Journal began the year with a 

 new dress of type and a number of little nicknacks that add 

 to the beauty of its personal appearance. By the way, this 

 journal recently printed 15,000 copies ; the extra copies to 

 be used as samples. This is probably the largest single 

 issue of any bee-journal that has ever been printed in this 

 country." 



Many thanks, Mr. Hutchinson. But the number we 

 printed in that large edition was 16,000. You mist it by 

 only 1,000. 



♦ # ♦ * # 



I. J. Stringham. 105 Park Place, New York, N. Y., has 

 sent us his catalog of bee-keepers' supplies for 1899. He is 

 one of our regular advertisers, and will be glad to mail his 

 catalog to all who will write him for it. Please mention 

 the American Bee Journal should you write Mr. Stringham 

 or anv others of our advertisers. 



