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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Illinois Bee-Keepers have now 

 a duty to perform at once. The bill be- 

 fore the Legislature. appropriating $500 

 to defray the expense of publishing the 

 Annual Reports will receive some an- 

 tagonism from a few members, unless 

 pressure is brought to bear by their 

 constituents. 



In order to restrain their opposition, 

 we earnestly request the bee-keepers in 

 the nine districts named below, to 

 immediately write to their members, 

 requesting them to favor the measure, 

 and also to obtain the endorsement of 

 other influential citizens, and send such 

 to them. 



That every one may know whom to 

 address, we will here give the names of 

 the members whose endorsement we 

 need, noting their Counties and Districts. 

 Here they are : 



James Cockrell, Kinmundy, Marion 

 County, 43d District. 



Geo. B, Parsons, Shawneetown, Galla- 

 tin County, 49th District. 



James P. Wilson, Woosung, Ogle 

 County, 10th District. 



Eli Dixon, Roseville, Warren County, 

 27th District. 



Chas. V. Chandler, Macomb, McDon- 

 ough County, 27th District. 



David C. Enslow, Carlinville, Macoupin 

 County, 38th District. 



Edward Merritt, Springfield, Sanga- 

 mon County, 39th District. 



Fred Wilkeson, Petersburg, Menard 

 County, 34th District. 



John Springer, Jacksonville, 38th 

 District. 



Kruit Bloom is here, but the 

 weather, heretofore warm and sunny, 

 is now cold and cloudy (as we write this 

 on Monday morning). The cherry trees 

 are in blossom, and the bees have been 

 gathering nectar from them. Should 

 the weather become pleasant for a few 

 days, the bees will gather a generous 

 supply of honey from the fruit bloom. 

 They need it, and the trees are equally 

 needful of their services in fructifying 

 the bloom, and thereby to insure a gen- 

 erous quantity of fruit. We hope, there- 

 fore, to have many warm and pleasant 

 days in this month. 



Katlier I^atisfstrotli, in years 

 now passed (and some few do it yet), 

 was falsely charged with copying De- 

 beauvoys, and other Europeans, rather 

 than inventing the hive that has revolu- 

 tionized bee-keeping the world over. The 

 refutation repeatedly made had its effect, 

 but the charge, and its oft reiteration in 

 new fields, was very wearing upon the 

 "grand old man." It has recently been 

 again charged in Switzerland, but 

 Father Dadant has given it a quietus in 

 the Revue Internationale. It took four 

 pages of vigorous arguments, but the 

 work was nobly done. 



Prof. A. J. Cook has just issued 

 another edition of his "Bee-Keepers' 

 Guide" (the 16th thousand). It con- 

 tains 461 pages, and is nicely printed- 

 and bound, and the price is now reduced 

 to one dollar. Such a full and complete 

 work, at such a low price, should be a 

 very popular one, and the sales should 

 be very large. It is thoroughly scien- 

 tific and practical, and fully abreast of 

 the times, in our ever-advancing pur- 

 suit. For sale at this office. 



Beg^inners are now to have a bee- 

 periodical wholly devoted to their inter- 

 ests. The American Bee-Keeper an- 

 nounces, in its last issue, that it will 

 hereafter be published " especially for 

 the benefit of the beginners and the 

 inexperienced," It says that such a 

 paper " is most needed," and admits 

 that the field for advanced bee-keepers 

 is well occupied by the other bee- 

 periodicals. 



Itev. It. C. Bedford, a bee- 

 keeper of Montgomery, Ala., preached 

 in Clinton, Wis., on April 19, and the 

 Bawner, published at that place, gives 

 the following as a news item : 



Upon examination of C. W. Dayton's 

 queen-restrictor, Mr. Bedford was so 

 well pleased with it that he took one 

 with him to introduce into his Industrial 

 Institute, at Tuskegee, Ala. 



