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dressing-cases, etc., and it is also em- 

 ployed extensively in the manufacture of 

 paper. 



It has often been said that we are 

 cutting off our own noses in using it for 

 one-piece sections — that we are "killing 

 the goose that lays the golden egg." 

 Well, it is true that apiarian-supply 

 dealers may use quite a little ; but still, 

 the amount that they use is very insig- 

 nificant in comparison with that em- 

 ployed by furniture makers, packing- 

 box concerns, and paper makers. 



After all, there is one redeeming fea- 

 ture — basswood is a very rapid grower. 

 If basswood will replace itself in ten, or 

 even twenty years, so that it can be used 

 again for lumber, there is yet hope that 

 it may continue to bless the bee-keeper. 



Father Moore — he was familiarly 

 known by this name by a large circle of 

 acquaintances — has departed this life. 

 We mean William W. Moore, of Gillett, 

 Clay county, Iowa. He died on Oct. 2, 

 1890, at the advanced age of 78 years. 

 His brother, Peter M. Moore, sends us 

 a photograph, and the following con- 

 cerning our deceased friend : 



His health had been failing for three 

 years, although he had been able to do 

 the principal part of the work in his 

 apiary. Last Spring he made 40 new 

 hives and their frames, but in September 

 was compelled to relinquish his work to 

 others. He was a great lover of bees 

 when a young man, and reared black 

 bees for several years, in Ohio, and 

 experimented on different patterns of 

 hives. 



When he came to Northwestern Iowa, 

 24 years ago, he brought the first bees 

 into the Little Sioux Valley. They were 

 black bees. He lost his first bees soon, 

 they being injured in shipping, having 

 to be carried 75 miles in a wagon. His 

 second effort was successful, but he lost 

 all his colonies the second Winter, not 

 having become sufficiently acquainted 

 with and prepared for the rigors of this 

 climate. 



Then he secured another start of Ital- 

 ians. With these he had fair success, 

 and imported a queen from Milan, Italy, 

 thinking to improve them, but lost her, 

 and all but three of his colonies, in the 

 hard Winter of 1880. Then he bought 

 two more colonies. 



Being so isolated, he kept his strains 

 pure, and increased his colonies from 50 

 to 80— all he cared to keep. These bees 

 were indeed his pets. 



His location was in a native grove, on 

 the Little Sioux River, and, perhaps, had 

 some advantages over the surrounding 

 prairie. But his success was encourag- 

 ing to the people on the prairie, and he 

 supplied them with a start in the busi- 

 ness, within a large circle. He was an 

 ardent student, and educator in the 

 science of apiculture, being our oracle 

 on bees, and had placed delicious honey, 

 extracted and in the comb, before the 

 people in so many meetings and conven- 

 tions, and in the markets here, in such a 

 way as to prove its value over the sweets 

 of commerce, and he so firmly estab- 

 lished its purity, and his honesty, that 

 hundreds of people wanted Father 

 Moore's honey. 



He was much attached to the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal and its editor, and 

 had such a fraternal feeling for all bee- 

 rearers, and writers on the subject, that 

 I take pleasure in sending his photo- 

 graph. Peter M. Moore. 



La Grippe holds almost universal 

 sway in this locality. Every mail brings 

 intelligence of apiarists all over the 

 country being within its terrible grasp. 

 The editor of the Bee Journal has 

 suffered much from it this Winter, but 

 fortunately not so much as he did last 

 yeaf. To show the strong grip it has on 

 Chicago, the following from the Herald 

 of the 12th inst. is appended : 



Everybody has the grip. The disease 

 is ravaging the city. The county hos- 

 pital is full of patients with it. Pneu- 

 monia frequently follows it, and the 

 mortality is great. West Side street car 

 men are all affected with it, and all the 

 " extras " are being called into service. 

 The police force is being thinned by it. 



It is playing havoc at the Government 

 building. Monday it seized upon about 

 25 letter-carriers, and Tuesday 40 were 

 unable to report for duty. Seventy-five 

 Postoffice employes were off duty on 

 Tuesday. Altdgether about 125 people 

 employed in the building are affected. 



Do You Want a Tested Italian Queen 

 free of cost ? Jacob T. Timpe offers one 

 of his five-banded Golden Italians as a 

 present for the first order for his Pota- 

 toes, from any State. This is a rare 

 opportunity to obtain a valuable Queen. 

 See our advertising columns. 



