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imported queen for the reason that the 

 purchaser stated that he lost the queen 

 sent on his order. 



No expert bee-keeper will believe that 

 a queen breeder, and expert bee-keeper, 

 who has many colonies of bees, and lots 

 of "nuclues colonies," could not take 

 care of an imported queen at any time. 

 "No place to put her" is too thin. 



If a purchaser receives a queen that 

 does not fill the order, or he has no 

 place to put her, what is the duty of the 

 party receiving the queen ? Assuredly 

 the recipient should promptly remail the 

 queen to the party who sent her. If the 

 l)urchaser lets a queen die on his hands 

 lie accepts her, and has no valid claim on 

 the seller for another, or for indemnity. 



Prior to writing as I have just quoted, 

 the same purchaser wrote to the importer 

 a postal card, which is before me, and it 

 reads thus: "About a week ago I 

 received a queen ; supposed it came from 

 you. Thought I would introduce her 

 this morning. When I'saw her I pinched 

 her head ofT — a little, mean black queen; 

 she would not live till spring." This is 

 the queen he demanded should be 

 replaced by sending him another. If 

 the queen was such as the purchaser 

 represented her to be, he would, if 

 honest, have remailed the queen, return- 

 ing her to the importer. He had no 

 right to kill her. How (;ould the party 

 receiving the queen know that the queen 

 "would not live till Spring." The pur- 

 chaser wi'iting as I have quoted, convicts 

 himself of an attempt to defraud — to get 

 another queen by misrepr(;sentatioii. 



These wrongs ought to be done away 

 with, and there can be no more practical 

 way of a(;coniplishing it than by an 

 exposure of the transactions. 



Ri€hford, N. Y. 



Carolina Bee-Keepers' CoiiTeiitioii 



.JAMKS K. RANKIN. 



The Carolina IJee-Keepers' Association 

 met at the Court House, in Charlotte, N. 

 C, July oO, and was called to order by 

 Vice-President Grifilith. 



The session was opened with prayer 

 by J. R. Rankin. 



Minutes of last meeting were read and 

 uflopted. 



The roll was (-ailed and the members 

 responded. 



The name of T. B. lirown was placed 

 upon the roll of members. 



Reports from the Secretary and Treas- 

 urer were received and adopted. 



Annual dues were called for and paid 

 by all members present. 



Report of Executive Committee was to 

 the effect that the wishes of the Associ- 

 ation in regard to printing constitution 

 and by-laws were carried out. The 

 report was adopted. 



Vice-President Grifhth addressed the 

 Association. 



An essay on marl^ting, by A. L. 

 Beach, was read and discussed. 



On motion it was ordered that the 

 Association meet three times a year — 

 February, July and December — and that 

 the President fix the day. 



Moved and adopted that the Mecklen- 

 bury Times, Aoricultural Bee and Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal be requested to publish 

 the proceedings of this meeting. It was 

 further ordered that a rising vote of 

 thanks be tendered to the Mecklenburg 

 Times and other journals for so kindly 

 giving notices of our meeting. The 

 Association adjourned to meet in Decem- 

 ber, at the Court House in Charlotte, 

 N. C. 



Wtiat Can lie Done witli Honey-Dew ? 



II. DIBBERN. 



The early honey harvest is now over, 

 and we have a fine crop of honey-dew, 

 as a result of all our efforts. The honey 

 gathered during June is very dark, 

 though cappcid white, and is of very poor 

 quality. Tin; complaint is quite general 

 all over the West, and is the worst dose 

 I have seen in my twenty-five years' 

 experience. I have thousands of sections 

 filled with the stuff, and the brood-cham- 

 bers are also full of it. This misfortune 

 has overtaken our industry at a particu- 

 larly bad time. Last year was almost an 

 entire failure, and bee-keepers were 

 looking hopefully to the present year to 

 give them an old-fashioned yield of fine 

 clover honey to help them out financially 

 and restore confidence in the business. 



What to do with the stuff is now the 

 problem. Already farmers are bringing 

 it to market and selling it for what they 

 can get. In selling such stuff, farmers 

 have a great advantage over the profes- 

 sional bee-keeper. They take their few 

 hundred pounds to their grocer, who 

 dares not refuse it for fear of losing 

 their trade. He perhaps argues with 

 himself, that as there is not much of it, 

 he can soon " work it off." He buys it 

 cheap, too ; but what is the result? 



A customer comes in, and seeing new 

 honey, and so cheap, too, buys a few 



