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XHOIflAS G, I^E^VItlAIW, 



EDITOR. 



YoLIIYIII. Oct. 1,1891, No. 14, 



Editorial Buzzijigs. 



A S"wanii of bees that was captured 

 in Birmingham, the other day, weighed 

 25 pounds. 



Hx-Judgfe Douglass Boadman, of 

 Ithaca, N. Y., departed this life on 

 Sept. 4, aged 69 years. The deceased 

 presided as Justice in the Supreme 

 Court on the trial of the Kich vs. 

 Olmsted case. The jury gave the verdict 

 of 6 cents against Mr. Rich. 



Oolden-Rod and asters are yield- 

 ing honey profusely now in some 

 localities. Recent reports of the Fall 

 crop of honey are very encouraging. 

 Bees, in places where Fall flowers 

 abound, will be well supplied with 

 Winter stores. The late warm spell has 

 been very valuable to fruit and flowers. 

 Where there has been no rain, it has 

 dried up vegetation, and some prairie 

 fires have resulted. 



Foreigfii Mails, — The Govern- 

 ment has just issued orders to the 

 Customs Department of the Postoffice, 

 to confiscate all photographs, prints, and 

 other reproductions of artistic or natural 

 objects coming per mail ; and stating 

 that in future they must be sent by 

 express company, and regular customs 

 entry and duty paid on import going 

 through the United States stores. 



This Rule does no good, and much 

 harm. Just think of the abominable 

 administrative tyranny of confiscating a 

 private letter from Europe, for instance, 

 simply because it contained a photograph 

 of father or mother, wife or child, who 

 happened to be over there ! It is an 

 outrage and a scandal upon our preten- 

 sions to civilization. 



We well know what it means to import 

 small packages by express. The delays 

 in delivering, the Custom House exac- 

 tions and broker's charges, the days 

 wasted in waiting for what should be 

 promptly received, are discouraging and 

 exasperating. 



liutier's LrCtters on apiculture 

 w^ere republished as a supplement in the 

 "International Review of Apiculture" 

 for April, 1891, by our friend Ed. 

 Bertrand, of Nyon, Switzerland. 



Montana bee-keepers are invited 

 by A. M. Day, of Brunswick, Mo., to 

 write to him concerning the valleys 

 near Helena, and describe their pastur- 

 age for bees, and fitness for bee-keeping. 



Rain was forced from the clouds by 

 exploding bombs la'st week, in Kansas 

 and Texas, thoroughly soaking the 

 ground, which has been suffering in- 

 tensely from drouth. We have not only 

 harnessed the lightning, compelling it 

 to draw our carriages and run our mills, 

 but we now also arrest the clouds and 

 compel them to discharge their accumu- 

 lated moisture and refresh the parched 

 earth, when and where we desire it. 

 Surely, this is an age of wonders. 



