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KDITOR. 



VoiniY. Jnly4,1888. No, 27. 



Our Friends — The I-'loMers.— 



Under this heading the following lines by 

 Tudor Williams, of Albany, N. Y., may be 

 found in Vick's Monthly for July : 



Ye beauteous blossoms, bright and frail, 



My .spirit's sweet enchanters, hail ! 



Ne'er did >our aentle magic fail, 



Wheilier ye blushing be, or pale, 



Or dyed in sunliylit's gulden hue. 



Or wear the sky's unsullied blue ; 



Swinging tnll censers of perfume, 



Or gla<leniiig lue with scentless bloom ; 



Whether low nestling on the ground, 



Or decking shrub and tree are found ; 



Whether in summer's prime ye blow. 



Or nigh the season of ihe snow ; 



Whether your home in open air 



And all the clime's caprices dare. 



Or in a crystal-walled retreat, 



Pampered, ye bask in genial heat ; 



Whether the tiller's pride ye be. 



Or tlirive in wilds, unkempt and free ; 



Wliether in myrialson the mead. 



Tempting the swarming bees to teed. 



Or in the twillglit of the wond. 



Pining, a sparse and puny brood. 



Or, matchless, in lone nooks upspring. 



Or to the creviced crags ye cling ; 



Wherever hiding, still my friends. 



Whose graceful fiprnis my speech transcends. 



In every mo"d, of glonm or joy. 



When thought is liglit, or cares annoy ; 



In sunny or in darksome hours, 



Always my comrades boon, O, flowers ! 



Every llee-Keeper who realizes the 

 importance of the work now being done in 

 the interest of the pursuit sliould send a 

 dollar to this office and become a member 

 of the National Bee-Keepers' Union for the 

 ensuing year. " In Union there is strength." 

 Reader, can you afford to remain outside 

 any longer ? 



IVulliing: has yet Ucvelopea rela- 

 tive to the admission of queen-bees to Can- 

 adian mails, so far as we have been able to 

 learn. 



A PloasanI I>'ulic« is given to the 

 Rev. Jj. L. Langstioth by Mr. O. Puole, a 

 correspondent of the Australaskin Bee 

 Journal, which lias just come to our de»k. 

 lie seems to have a keen appreciation of 

 the labors of Mr. Langstroth, and the bene- 

 fits conferred upon modern apiculture by 

 his inventions. He says : 



One interesting feature in the American 

 Bee .Joiiknal is the pnrtraitand biograph- 

 ical skeich of some member of the bee- 

 keeping fraternity. The number for Jan. 

 25 contains an excellent portrait of Father 

 Langstroth, with a short but concise biog- 

 raphy of the reverend gentleman, who is 

 now in his 7Sth year. I am sorry to learn 

 that he has very indilferent health, and that 

 pecuniarily he IS not situated as he should 

 be. One of the American bee-societies re- 

 cently raised a subscription and sent him a 

 small donation, for which he expressed 

 many grateful thanks. 



Now, this is not as it shonld be. Do bee- 

 keepers in America, in Eigland and Aus- 

 tralia realize to what extent they are in- 

 debted to Father Langstroth, not only for 

 his inventii/n of tlie frame hive, but also for 

 his excellent work on apiculture ? I trow 

 not. If they did, not a moment would be 

 lost in getting up an universal subscription 

 ov.er the wbole bee-world in aid of this 

 veteran apiculturist. 



We sliould be glad to know that the bee- 

 keepers of the world had subscribed to and 

 provided a life annuity for this good man, 

 who has benefited them so much by his 

 invention of the movable-frame hive. In 

 order to start such a matter we will make 

 an annual subscription of $35.00. Who will 

 follow ? Let us all club in and do the thing 

 handsomely. European and Australasian 

 apiarists are invited to join with us in pro- 

 viding for this annuity. 



Sometime since we mentioned the fact 

 that a move was made on the quiet to pro- 

 vide an annuity for our aged friend, and 

 that Dr. Miller liad the matter in charge. 

 Any further subscriptions should be sent to 

 him, and not to us. If desirable they may 

 be sent direct to Father Langstroth, whose 

 address is 928 Steele Avenue, Dayton, O. 



In order to ascertain what Americans had 

 been doing in this matter, we wrote to Dr. 

 C. C. Miller, of Marengo, Ills., and we re- 

 ceived this reply : 



Friend Newm.vn :— You ask me if there 

 is anything tor the public, with regard to 

 the fund tor Father Langstroth. I had no 

 thought originally of saying anything pub- 

 licly about it, but in courtesy to your re- 

 quest 1 may say that a response has been 

 made very gratifying in some respects. Ynu 

 will remember that whatever was sent to 

 Father L. was to be entirely a free-will 

 offering out of a sense of justice or good- 

 will toward the recipient, without even the 

 reward of the little nofcniety that luight be 

 obtained from the publieaticm of the list of 

 names of those particinating. So it is a 

 matter of unselfish and hearty cordiality, 

 and tills with warm words accompanying, 

 liiijlilv heightens the value of the substan- 

 tial aid received by the good old man. If a 

 list of names were to be published with 

 amounts attached, I have no dnubt that the 

 amount could be increased many limes. 



Our English friemls are doing well in mak- 

 ing the move Ihey have, but it is only justice 

 to say that a few on this side have respomled 

 just as liberally or more so, with no other 

 reward than the consciousness of doing a 



riiiht thing. Some forty have thus far re- 

 sponded in sunii of one dollar and upwards, 

 anionntiiig to about S'-'.TO in all. How much 

 hanpiness has been caused in the hearts of 

 both donors and recipient is known to them 

 alone. C. C. Miller. 



We have no desire to parade these sub- 

 scriptions, but a certain amount of such 

 must be done in order to get anything like 

 a unanimity in the matter. We do hope 

 that American apiarists will do their whole 

 duty in this affair, and do it promptly. 



Another Uiogfraphioal Sketch 



will appear in out next issue, with a por- 

 trait of one of America's prominent api- 

 arists. 



The Xhird Annual Report of the 



General Manager of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Union will be published in a few 

 days and mailed to all the members with 

 Voting Blanks for officers for the coming 

 year. We hope that a general response will 

 result in renewed subscriptions for the 

 coming year. As the fees are now reduced 

 to a dollar a year, thousands should flock to 

 its standard at once. 



Queenlessness of a colony of bees 

 should be remedied as soon as possible, for 

 the very existence of the colony is in dan- 

 ger—the means of perpetuation having 

 been lost. When dividing a colony it is 

 sometimes uncertain in which "halt" the 

 queen may be. It can easily be determined 

 which "half" is queeuless by looking at 

 each about half-an hour after the division. 

 The bees will be excited, some running 

 about as if looking for something. The 

 queen is lost, and they are trying to find 

 her. That half is without a queen. 



GoodM of every kind and description 

 sell better when put upon the market in a 

 neat and attractive condition. Honey is no 

 exception to this rule. Crates should be 

 neat and clean ; sections ought not to be 

 covered with daubs of propolis here and 

 there. The honey should be capped and 

 nicely arranged in the crates, which should 

 have at least one glass side, so as to pre- 

 vent rough handlint.',by showing the delicate 

 nature of the contents. 



A Good apiarian display is to be made- 

 under Governmental supervision at the 

 Cincinnati Centennial Exposition next 

 month. Quite a number of articles, show- 

 ing the history and development of the in- 

 dustry, have been sent from the Museiim of 

 the American Bee Journal. After the 

 close of the Exposition they will be for- 

 warded to the National Museum at Wash- 

 ington for permanent display. We will 

 publish a list of such in our next issue. 



■We Resrel to learn that Dr. G. L. 

 Tinker has been quite ill for the past few 

 weeks. He is now convalescing slowly. 



