AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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fHOS. G. NEWMAN ^ SON, 



EDITOR. 



VoinVII. ADPil30,1891, No. 18. 



Editorial Buzzings. 



\¥lien writing an article for the press, 

 Whether prose or verse, just try 



To settle your thoughts in the fewest words, 

 And let them be crisp and dry. 



And when it is finished, and you suppose. 

 It is done exactly brown. 



Just look it over again and then 

 Boil it down. 



Mr. Morris A. TVilliams, of 



Berkshire, Tioga county, N. Y., died 

 April 18, aged 4:0 years. Mr. Williams 

 has been engaged in bee-keeping for a 

 number of years, and was a regular 

 subscriber to the Bee Journal. His 

 malady was consumption, and last Fall 

 he took a trip to the West, hoping 

 thereby to improve his health by a 

 change of climate, but the grim reaper. 

 Death, had already marked him for his 

 own. Mr. Williams was a highly- 

 respected citizen, and was the senior 

 member of the firm of M. A. Williams «fe 

 Co., whose railroad apiary was illustrated 

 on page 757 of the Bee Journal for 

 1882. 



It is Hncouragfing: to know that 

 our labors are appreciated. It helps us 

 all to renewed and diligent exertions 

 when we know that those for whose 

 benefit we labor, recognize and esteem 

 our efforts. The following from Dr. C. 

 C. Miller will encourage our friend, Hon. 

 J. M. Hambaugh, and so we publish it : 



Representative Hambaugh is one of 

 the sort worth having in a Legislature. 

 The work he is doing will not only benefit 

 Illinois bee-keepers, but will help to stir 

 up the matter in other States. If the 

 fraternity only ask for what they need, 

 there seems to be no difiSculty in getting 

 it, but it helps greatly to have a man 

 like Hambaugh at headquarters. 



C. C. Miller. 



Marengo, Ills., April 17, 1891. 



It must not be forgotten, however, 

 that we have several others in the halls 

 of the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives, who are working for our interests, 

 and are entitled to our highest esteem 

 and approbation. They are co-laborers 

 with him, for the interests of apiarists. 



But l,ittle has been heard in the 

 bee-papers of late from our friend J. M. 

 Hicks, who has for years figured con- 

 spicuously in the bee-keeping world, but 

 we received a letter from him last week. 

 He is getting along in years, and neces- 

 sarily, with age comes infirmity, in a 

 greater or less degree in us all. He said : 



I write you for a two-fold purpose ; 

 first, to let you know that I yet live, and 

 regularly receive the American Bee 

 Journal, which contains much that 

 interests the oldest bee-keepers as well 

 as others ; and, secondly, to tell you 

 about the death of our venerable friend. 

 Dr. Stephen Hathaway. 



A Queen-Cage is received from 

 Jenkins & Parker, of Wetumpka, Ala., 

 lKx23^x% of an inch. It weighs but 

 half an ounce, and transportation in the 

 mails costs but one cent. Printed on the 

 cover are the following directions : 



After taking off this board, see that 

 the queen is all right. Place the cage 

 between the top-bars of two brood- 

 frames, directly over the cluster , with 



