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EDITOR. 



ypi. iiYiii, mi 10, 1891. No, 11. 

 Editorial Buzzijigs. 



Friend Demaree has been suf- 

 fering with another severe attack of 

 sciatica. On the 26th ult. he wrote us 

 as follows : 



I have suffered terribly for two weeks 

 past. Old Sampson sciatica has "smote 

 me hip and thigh." I guess I know what 

 that passage means now. 



G. W. Demaree. 



Droi^ned. — Willie Baldensperger, 

 who has for many years been a close 

 reader of the American Bee Journal 

 in Palestine, was drowned on July 26, 

 1891, while bathing. His brother 

 writes us as follows : "Besides a good 

 brother, I lose a good friend in him. 

 More than one-half of our time was 

 taken up with bee topics." In his death 

 the Bee Journal has lost a devoted 

 friend in the land that is sacred in the 

 hearts of all Jews and Christians. 

 Accidents happen everywhere. 



Xlie Honey Crop of California 

 for 1891 is only one-fourth of the 

 amount produced in 1890. So writes 

 Mr. Geo. W. Brodbeck, of Los Angeles, 

 Calif. The Southern California Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold its annual 

 convention next month. 



Our Nebraska friends will be 

 disappointed this week. J. M. Young 

 was to have made a good display of 

 honey at the fair from his apiary. For 

 two weeks he has been suffering with a 

 severe attack of fever, from which he is 

 but just recovering. This will not only 

 prevent his exhibiting, but also preclude 

 his being in attendance. 



Brazil will also be represented at 

 the World's Fair. Capt. Rodgers, Com- 

 missioner to Brazil for the World's Fair, 

 reports that "the State of Minas Gereas, 

 Brazil, has appropriated $25,000 to 

 meet the preliminary expenses of secur- 

 ing a representation of that State at 

 Chicago in 1893. This is In addition to 

 the appropriation made by the General 

 Government of Brazil." 



Oatliering* the Fall crop of honey 

 in Canada is thus described by friend 

 Jones in the Canadian Bee Journal : 



Our bees as they leave the home yard 

 now, all sweep around to the north, and 

 on walking through the yard in the 

 evening, the odor of the mint honey was 

 very easily detected. We took a run 

 down along the flats and creek bottoms, 

 and found the bees in large numbers, on 

 what we term horse-mint, or wild mint, 

 which is quite plentiful, and of which 

 there are many varieties just coming into 

 bloom. The Canadian thistle, in many 

 places, has almost ceased blooming, but 

 we passed a field to-day which seemed to 

 have just come into bloom, and it would 

 -delight you to see the bees going from 

 head to head, and the size and trans- 

 parency of their bodies, as the bright 

 sun shone on them, would indicate that 

 they were filling up rapidly, and the 

 odor from the field was so marked, that 

 we knew the flowers contained abun- 

 dance. 



