April 20, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



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stand our Northern. -winters, but the result mig-ht beany- 

 thing- but desirous in the South. 



It seems to me that it ought to be easier to domesticate 

 them in their native reg-ion than to bring- them here and 

 domesticate them. Let the effort first be made where they 

 are. and, if successful. Apis dorsata can be brought here ; 

 if the effort should be unsuccessful. Apis dorsata can re- 

 main in foreign lands, and this country be saved from 

 another English-sparrow scourge. C. C. MiLi,ER. 



We agree exactly with Dr. Miller in the above — not be- 

 cause it is Dr. Miller who wrote it, but because we think his 

 view in the matter is eminently sensible. It is always safer 

 to be sure vou are right before going ahead. 



A Group of Canadian Bee^Keepers, to the number of 

 17, were taken in a photograph, and a full-page illustration 

 therefrom graces the pages of the Canadian Bee Journal. 

 They're a fine looking lot, making one wish for closer ac- 

 quaintance. 



Honey Advancing. — Gleanings says \.h.a.\.good extracted 

 honey is a scarce article, being Iji to 2 cents higher than a 

 year ago. A good article of comb honey could be bought a 

 short time ago for 10 cents, and now " fancy " brings all 

 the way from 12 to 14, and No. 1 from 10 to 13. There was 

 one year, a good many years ago, when honey was so 

 scarce that in spring it went up quite materially, but since 

 then the rule has been that honey kept over till spring 

 broug-ht a lower price. There seems at present to be no 

 question that ^oo</ honey is a pretty scarce article, but it 

 will not be so very long until the new crop from the South 

 begins to come in. 



Getting New Subscribers for the American Bee Jour- 

 nal ought to be easy work at this time of the year. The 

 warm spring days will soon be here, when the bees will be- 

 gin to hum again, and then their keepers will be interested 

 in reading about them, and will want a good bee-paper. 

 The Bee Journal, we believe, will just suit them. 



From time to time we offer some excellent premiums to 

 those of our regular readers who will go to the trouble of 

 getting one or more new subscribers and send in the money. 

 We hope that those who value the Bee Journal the most 

 (our regular readers) will try to get their bee-keeping 

 friends and neighbors to subscribe for it. 



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Mr. Fred D. Gibbons, of Orange Co., Ind., writing us 

 April S, said : 



"The American Bee Journal gets better all the time. It 

 is a welcome guest in our home." 



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The F.\rm Journai^ is 22 years old, prints 40 tons of 

 paper a month, and is out of debt ; it is cut to fit every pro- 

 gressive farmer and villager. Very well, see the offers on 

 page 254. We will have the Farm Journal sent to your ad- 

 dress for the balance of 1899 and all of 1901, 1902, 1903, and 

 1904 — nearly five years — and it will get to you if alive anv- 

 where on this planet. 



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R. Iv. T.WLOR criticised Dr. Miller for using the expres- 

 sion, " bring to a boil." The Doctor defends his usage by 

 referring to the Standard Dictionary, the latest and by far 

 the largest work of the kind ever printed. Mr. Taylor ob- 

 jects, saying no other dictionary makes anj- mention of 

 " boil " as a noun in this sense (heating water). Dr. Miller 

 is entirely right. — Stenog, in Gleanings. 



A Pathetic Appeai<. — The following poetical effusion 

 won for its author, the Editor of the Rocky Mountain Celt, 

 the prize of $1,000 for the best appeal poem to subscribers 

 to pay up their subscription : 



" Lives of poor men oft remind us honest men won't 

 stand no chance. The more we work there grow behind us 

 big-ger patches on our pants, once new and glossy, now 

 are strips of different hue, all because subscribers linger 

 and don't pay us what is due. Then let us be up and doing ; 

 send in j'our mite, however small, or when the snow of win- 

 ter strikes us we shall have no pants at all." 



We do not republish the foregoing prosy-looking poetrj- 

 because we fear being pantsless by another winter, but 

 thought it might help to remind some of our readers that 

 their subscriptions were not paid up. We hope that all who 

 are in arrears will remit promptly, and thus help to keep up 

 the financial end of the Bee Journal — the very important 

 end of the business — the " business end," as is sometimes 

 spoken of the bee. 



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Mr. F. Grkiner, of Ontario Co., N. Y., wrote us April 

 9, wishing to make the following correction : 



Editor York : — In your synopsis of my article, " He or 

 She," on page 216, the meaning of a certain phrase is rather 

 misrepresented. I do not wish to have it go that way, lest 

 the German readers of the American Bee Journal might not 

 think very highlj' of my conception of the German lan- 

 guage. I did not say that the Germans nowadays call the 

 queen-bee " koenig " (king), for the intelligent, up-to-date 

 bee-keepers do not. But it is a fact that this word " kuenig " 

 has been used by the people just the same as the word 

 "king " has been used here among English-speaking people. 



In the case of the drone it is true that in the German 

 language the drone has the feminine gender — "die drohne." 



F. GrEinER. 



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Emerson Taylor Abbott is no longer connected with 

 the Modern Farmer and Busy Bee. We learn this from the 

 following, which we received from Mr. Abbott last week : 



"Notice. — I hereby cancel all offers to furnish the 

 Modern Farmer. It has'past beyond my control. Forced 

 out because I objected to a certain class of advertisements. 

 — Emerson T. Abbott." 



Mr. Abbott was making a good paper, and it seems un- 

 fortunate that his connectron should be severed. But we 

 are glad to know that he values principle above financial 

 gain. There are too many in business who are just the 

 opposite. Truly, the love of money is the tap-root of much 



evil. 



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The Man Who Succeeds. — The man who makes a 

 success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. 

 He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve. It takes a great 

 lot of grit. But the man who succeeds has both. Any one 

 can fail. The public admires the man who has enough 

 confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are 

 the main thing after all. The man who tries to succeed 

 must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever 

 done but the greater number consulted previously doubted 

 the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of what 

 most people think can't be done. — C. V. White. 

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Mr. W. T. Richardson and Wife [of California], who 

 spent several months in the East, have returned to his 

 ranch and his bees in the Simi Valley. He reports better 

 bodily health, but a sickly dry-weather feeling when he con- 

 siders bee-matters. A goodly number of his 1,200 colonies 

 are still on deck, but a good amount of feed will be neces- 

 sary to carry them thru the season, provided it does not rain. 

 Our conversation in this country is regulated by that pro- 

 viso. — J. H. Martin, in Gleanings. 



Langstroth on the Honey. Bee, revised by the Dadauts, 

 is a standard, reliable and thoroughly complete work on 

 bee-culture. It contains 520 pages, and is bound elegantly. 

 Every reader of the American Bee Journal should have a 

 copy of this book, as it answers hundreds of questions that 

 arise about bees. We mail it for SI. 25, or club it %vith the 

 Bee Journal for a year— both for only $2.00. 



