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Mr. J. H. Larrabee, the late Secre- 

 tary of the Vermont Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, has been Induced to come to the 

 Michigan Agricultural College, to assist 

 Prof. Cook in making experiments in 

 apiculture. The Professor gives the fol- 

 lowing in the Review, concerning the 

 work to be done : 



Not long since, Dr. C. V. Riley visited 

 our college, and wished to know if I 

 would give attention and care to experi- 

 ments in bee-keeping, in case the Depart- 

 ment would furnish a good assistant to 

 care for and manage details. I said I 

 would do all I could to make such exper- 

 iments successful. In discussing the 

 matter. Dr. Riley and I thought best to 

 press the work of special planting for 

 honey, that it might soon be decided 

 whether it would ever pay or not. It 

 was also thought wise to take every care 

 and pains to breed up a superior variety 

 or strain. It is also proposed to try 

 experiments to find all the factors that 

 enter into the matter of ill-success in 

 wintering. Other experiments will be 

 conducted, but the above will receive the 

 emphasis of our care and effort. 



In making inquiries, I was led to decide 

 upon Mr. J. H. Larrabee, Secretary of 

 the Vermont State Association, to assist 

 in this work. Mr. Larrabee is very intel- 

 ligent; a hard worker; neat and method- 

 ical in his work; has proven his ability 

 by that best of tests, real success; and is 

 of that judicial turn of mind that can 

 carry on an experiment and give results 

 — the real facts — without prejudice or 

 bias. At least I was led to that belief, 

 after many inquiries; and now that Mr. 

 Larrabee is with me, and I have become 

 acquainted with him, I am more assured 

 that I made no mistake in deciding upon 

 him to assist in this important work. 



Let me add that we shall be very glad, 

 at any time, to receive suggestions from 

 bee-keepers, either as to ways to conduct 

 these experiments, or regarding other 

 experiments that it may be thought wise 

 to prosecute. 



Every Grand Army man will be 

 delighted with the beautiful colored 

 lithograph that appears in this week's 

 issue of " Judge." It is the most living 

 likeness of Gen. Sherman that has yet 

 appeared. 



Clubs of 5 New Subscriptions for $4.00, 

 to any addresses. Ten for $7.50. 



Prohibiting the Bees. — F. M. Hart, 

 of Traver, Calif., writes thus : 



Mr. W. Ogden is harping at the bees 

 again. I notice the following in the 

 Viralio Delta : 



"The fruit-growers' petition to the 

 Supervisors, to pass an ordinance pro- 

 hibiting the keeping of bees in any great 

 numbers, has 77 tax-payers' names 

 signed to it, up to date. It has been in 

 Grangeville for the past three weeks, but 

 Mr. Ogden removed it to Hanford, last 

 Saturday, to give the growers in that 

 vicinity a chance at the bees." 



By this it seems that he intends to 

 send his petition to the Board of Super- 

 visors, instead of the Legislature, as I 

 wrote you lately. F. M. Hakt. 



Mr. Hart is a member of the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Union, and has been in- 

 structed how to proceed. Meanwhile 

 Mr. Ogden has full swing to do as he 

 pleases with his petition. When the 

 time for action comes, he may go home 

 with a " flea in his ear." 



Now it is Dr. A. B. Mason that is 

 having la (jrippe. He writes that he 

 has a sort of " influenza which makes 

 me very weak." That "League Con- 

 vention and Banquet," together with 

 the Bee-Keepers' Convention, must have 

 over- worked the " big doctor," and this 

 is the result. But, then, he enjoys lots 

 of work. Here is what he writes about 

 his guests : 



We had a good Bee-Convention ; there 

 were over 50 bee-keepers present. On 

 Tuesday night we had at our house, as 

 guests, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Haines, of 

 Bedford ; Ernest R. Root and Mr. Cal- 

 vert, of Medina ; W. Z. Hutchinson, of 

 Flint ; and Mr. E. E. Hasty. If we did 

 not have "a right royal time," it was not 

 our fault. There were eleven at our table 

 at breakfast on Wednesday morning. 



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