AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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EDITOR. 



Voinvil, April 23, 1891. No.ll, 



Editorial Buzzijigs. 



Whatever you have to say, my friend, 

 Whether witty, or grave, or gay. 



Condense as much as ever you can. 

 And say it in the readiest way ; 



And whether you write of rural affairs, 

 Or matter and things in town. 



Just take a word of friendly advice, 

 Boil it down. 



Deadly* — All the yellow fever and 

 cholera that ever prevailed In this coun- 

 try was not equal in fatality to la grippe 

 during the past sixteen months. 



l^lien Oividingf, give full sheets 

 of comb-foundation in the brood-frames 

 having no combs. It will encourage the 

 bees to work. 



Xlie l^isconsin Foul-Brood Bill 

 has passed the Senate, and our friend, 

 Hon. B. H. Standish, who is the Chair- 

 man of the Committee to whom it was 

 referred, is one of the principal apiarists 

 of that State. There is but little doubt 

 of its becoming a law, being in the 

 hands of such a clever and successful 

 manager as Mr, Standish. 



Bee-Keepers' Union.— Mr. E. 



France had an article in Qleanitigs for 

 March 1, combatting the idea of the 

 Union being absorbed in the North 

 American Bee-Keepers' Association. He 

 did not seem to understand that the 

 Union is already a part and parcel of 

 that association, so far as its influence 

 and protective care is concerned. We 

 hope to find room for Mr. France's 

 article soon. 



Mr. E. R. Root added these very com- 

 plimentary words — still erroneously 

 thinking, however, that the mantle of 

 the association was not extended over 

 the Union : 



I can agree with friend France, in 

 regard to the inadvisability of merging 

 the Bee-Keepers' Union into the North 

 American Bee-Keepers' Association. 

 Under its present management, and with 

 its small membership, the Union has 

 done a magnificent service. Could it do 

 better under the wings of the North 

 American ? I doubt it. 



It is true, there is a kind of ignorant 

 prejudice that some farmers and others 

 have, that bees injure their apple crops. 

 At our Shane yard, located in an or- 

 chard, an old farmer intimated that, 

 since the bees had been there, they had 

 not been able to get any apples. I 

 showed him that thsre were others who 

 had no bees near them who got no better 

 crops. The facts were, if the bees were 

 removed entirely the crop would not be 

 as good. It is a remarkable fact, that, 

 whenever there is a good yield of buck- 

 wheat honey, there is always a good crop 

 of grain, A good yield of honey is ac- 

 companied by a moderate yield of grain. 



Canton, a city of Fulton county. 

 Ills., is now in commotion. Complaints 

 have been made to the Mayor against 

 the bees belonging to Mr. G. W. Cole. 

 They are branded as a " nuisance." The 

 facts are, however, that the opposition 

 grows out of iguorant jealousy, which 

 should be promptly rebuked by all 

 justice-loving people. The Mayor and 

 councilmen have all been dosed with the 

 full text of the arguments of Judge 

 Williams, of Arkansas, proving that 

 bees are not a nuisance, per se. We 

 await results. 



