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A Law is needed against spraying 

 fruit trees with poison while they are in 

 bloom. A correspondent writes about 

 it, as follows: 



It seems to me that the matter of 

 spraying fruit trees while in bloom, and 

 the consequent poisoning of bees, is 

 something that might well occupy the 

 attention of the Union. Much spraying 

 will be done in the Southern part of 

 Illinois, hereafter, and, of course, ignor- 

 ant or malicious people will do enough 

 of it while trees are in bloom to poison 

 many colonies of bees. 



A friend, living some 12 miles away, 

 lost 60 or 70 colonies that way, last 

 spring. Cannot the Bee-Keepers' Union 

 get a law passed in our Legislature, this 

 winter, to make it a misdemeanor, with 

 suitable penalties, to spray fruit trees 

 while in bloom. 



Such a law would benefit the fruit- 

 growers hardly less than it would bee- 

 keepers. T. P. A^TDEEWS. 



Farina, Ills., Jan. 5, 1891. 



We refer this malter to our friend, J. 

 M. Hambaugh, of Spring, Ills., who is in 

 the Legislature, and will there look out 

 for the interesrs of bee-keepers. Mr. 

 Andrews will please write to him about 

 it. Others who are interested in good 

 government and beneficial laws, should 

 do the same. 



An Excellent Periodical. — Professor 

 William Soule, Librarian of Mount Col- 

 lege, at Alliance, Ohio, and also one of 

 the most popular instructors in that 

 well-known institution, has this to say 

 about the Illusteated Home Journal, 

 in a letter just received : 



During the past 16 months we have 

 received regularly the Illusteated 

 Home Jouenal at our College Reading 

 Room. It is an excellent periodical. It 

 is clean, entertaining and instructive. 



Yes, it is just such a magazine as 

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 than this. 



The Wiley Lie about manufactured 

 comb-honey gets another black-eye from 

 the pen of Mrs. L. Harrison, in the 

 Prairie Farmer of last week. She writes 

 thus : 



Comb-honey is now retailing at Peoria, 

 Ills., for 25 cents for a pound-section, 

 and very few pounds can be had at that 

 price. 



What has become of all those " manu- 

 facturers of comb-honey " that we used 

 to hear so much about ? If there could 

 be such a thing as manufactured comb- 

 honey, now would be a good time to fire 

 up the factories and run them night and 

 day, for there is very little comb-honey 

 to be had at any price. 



The scarcity of this product, at a time 

 when it commands a good price, is evi- 

 dence of the truth of the statement that 

 comb-honey never has been and never 

 will be manufactured. 



A score of years ago, small glass jars 

 filled with glucose, in which was a small 

 piece of comb-honey, were to be seen 

 upon the shelves of all grocers, but the 

 people were caught only once, and the 

 stuff could not be sold. The bee-keepers 

 all over the land raised such a " hue and 

 cry " about it that an imitation of the 

 pure article is now difficult to find ; pure 

 extracted-honey is sold so cheaply now 

 that it will not pay to adulterate it. 



Keeping- Sheep and Bees. — There 



are three German adages which run 



thus : 



1.— Bees, sheep, and ang-le-rod, be sure. 

 Will make thee quickly rich— or poor ! 



2.— Sheep, doves, and bees, (naught surer,) 

 Will make thee nor richer nor poorer ! 



3.— Keep plenty of bees and sheep. 

 Then cosily lie down and sleep ! 



In the kingdom of Bavaria, over 200,- 

 000 colonies of bees are kept, according 

 to the official returns made to the Gov- 

 ernment ; and these, it is stated, yield 

 an average annual profit of 75 per cent, 

 on the investment. In view of this re- 

 sult, a German writer thinks there is 

 rather more truth In the last of these 

 adages than in the first two. 



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