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EDITOR. 



Pleurisy Root.— Mr. James Heddou, 

 on page BOO, uieiitiims the fact that this 

 plant had "shared the fate" of the clover 

 and buckwheat of this season, at least to a 

 certain extent. Now in Olcanitigs we find, 

 as a later report, the fdUowing, stating that 

 it has yielded better than any other plant : 



This yenr the pleurisy plant is the best 

 honey yieldcr of them all. It has spread 

 until there is no dearth and robbiug, when 

 basswood closes. We see that the quality 

 of the honey is exeell'-nt, and the color 

 about the same as white clover. It is stand- 

 ing full of seeds this season, and we be- 

 lieve that in the near future, it will be the 

 bent sunilus honey -producing plant we 

 hive in this locality, basswood and clover 

 not excepted. 



VoLIIlV. 



Oct.3,1888. No. 40. 



Tlie " iKortli American " Conven- 

 tion will be in session by the time this 

 paper is in the hands of its readers. We 

 expect to give a report of the proceedings 

 in our next issue. 



■»Ve Kogret to learn that Mr. W. Z. 

 Hutchinson has been "on the sick list" 

 again. He is now improving, however, and 

 hopes to have fully recovered in a few days. 



A Oiang;e of Time for the payment 

 ot dues and the election of officers of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Union was proposed 

 on page 579. It was thought that it would 

 be a much better time to have it come in 

 January instead of July, and as we have 

 several cases on hand with a call for money 

 to carry them to a successful issue, it was 

 further proposed that the next annual dues 

 be called for next January, for the year 

 1889. Several have voted, and all so tar 

 have been in favor of the change. Let every 

 member of the Union send a postal card to 

 the Manager, and say whether he favois the 

 change or not. Be free to vote, and vote at 

 once. 



Uncle Kant's Matioiiul no-»ver.— 



Upon the selection of this, the Lewiston, 

 Maine, Jo^imal remarks as follows : 



What shall be the National flower of the 

 United States ? This question was first 

 bronaht before the public at the rfcent ses- 

 sion of the Society of American Florists in 

 New York. Some one proposes that the 

 golden-rod shall be the chosen emblem of 

 nationality. The claims made for this 

 flower are that it is national in the wide 

 range of its growth, accommodating itself to 

 almost any circumstances, in the pasture, 

 in the meadow, in the roadside, or by the 

 stream. 



Mr. Turner's "Outline Studies in the 

 History of the Northwest," (Charles H. 

 Kerr <& Co., Chicago), is a timely jiublica- 

 tion in this anniversary year of the settle- 

 ment of the Northwest. It is prepared for 

 the uses of study clubs, and arranged to 

 occupy fifteen meetings, each meeting being 

 devoted to a particular division of the study, 

 and three special topics being provided for 

 each. Mailed to any address for 10 cents by 

 the publishers. 



The Appeal of the Arkadelphia case 

 is to come before the Supreme Court at 

 Little Rock, Ark., this month. The Hon. 

 S. W. Williams has the case in charge for 

 the Union, and we confidently hope that it 

 will sustain the verdict of the lower court, 

 and declare that the pursuit of bee-keeping 

 is iwt a nuisance. Thousands anxiously 

 await the result of the trial. 



If you Have Surplus Honey 



ready to take off from the hive, do so at 

 once. Honey is much better looking when 

 just completed than it will ever be after. 

 By leaving it on the hive the bees thicken 

 the capping^, and by traveling over the 

 dark brood-combs and then over the honey, 

 it becotnes soiled, and has a darker appear- 

 ance. The propolis nuisance sliould also 

 be remembered. The sooner the honey is 

 removed the less of this will there be to 

 scrape off from the sections.— Co^mnn s 

 Rural. 



I»r. Itlorrison, of Oxford, Pa., was 

 very successful at the late Pennsylvania 

 State Fair, in his competition in the Api- 

 arian Department, having secured five first 

 prizes on his bees. First on Carniolan and 

 Italian bees, and on queens, queen-rearing 

 and queen-cells. 



Reproduction in the Honey Bee is 

 the title of a pamphlet just received. It is 

 an address delivered before the Pennsyl- 

 vania State Board of Agricult'ire, by Prof. 

 G G Groff, acting President of the Buck- 

 nell University, and apiarist of the State 

 Board of Agriculture. It is a very interest- 

 ing address, and we shall copy a portion of 

 it as soon as we can find room for it. 



Nature's Way.— This is the title of a 

 15-ceut pamphlet entitled, " G. M. Doolit- 

 tle's Method of Rearing Queens "—which is 

 called " The nearest approach to Nature's 

 way yet devised." It describes his method, 

 and points out its advantages. For sale at 

 this office. 



Xlie Winterings of Bees is the most 

 important sui'}.-ct now before us— it is thor- 

 oughly a seasonable topic, because a plan 

 must be decided upon and put into prac- 

 tice in a very short time. We advise every 

 bee-keeper to read carefully the article on 

 pages 647 and 648, written by Mr. G. R. 

 Pierce, entitled, "The Result ot Experi- 

 ments Made to Discover the Cause of Bee- 

 Diarrhea." Its careful perusal will pay for 

 the time devoted to it, even though you may 

 not agree with all its conclusions. 



At tlie Indiana State Fair Mr. G. 



K. Hubbard captured all the premiums but 

 one; the excepiion being that of acoUection 

 of honey plants, which was awarded to Mr. 

 J. S. Russell, of Zionsville, Ind. Mr. Hub- 

 bard took the other eight premiums as fol- 

 lows : On queens, apiarian supplies ; comb 

 foundation for brood-chamber and surplus, 

 honey and wax extractors, sections, and 

 crates for honey. By the report we should 

 think that no honey was exhibited. 



Wlien \»'e Consider that pure honey 

 is the very essence of flowers and plants, in 

 which, we are told, there is a remedy for 

 every disease, surely we cannot doubt the 

 happy combination of honey as medicine. 

 The Scripture tells us, In many passages, 

 of the womlerful efficacy of honey as food 

 and medicino. As the treatment of disease 

 becomes more and more rational so will the 

 value of honey as a medicine become more 

 and more appannt.— Exchange. 



'Wax is a substance secreted by the bees, 

 and is analogous to the fat of higher ani- 

 mals. To produce a single pound ot wax, 

 bees must consume from 15 to 20 pounds of 

 honey. The expensive substance is used 

 by the thrifty Utile insects with the greatest 

 economy. The thickness ot the cell-walls 

 in a new comb is said to be only l-180th of 

 an inch.— The Millstone. 



Saved by Bees.— An exchange says : 

 "Once when the Turks had begun to scale 

 the wall of a church in Transylvania, a 

 girl's wit saved the people from capture and 

 death. Behind the church was a little 

 garden, and in it a dozen bee-hives which it 

 was the girl's duty to care for. Seizing a 

 hive she ran up on the fortress wall and 

 burled it down among the enemy. Again 

 and again she repeated the process until 

 ten or more swarms of maddened bees were 

 stinging the Turks. They were blinded 

 and dismayed, and, unable to cope with the 

 insect foe, beat a hasty retreat. They had 

 been discoutited by a girl's device." 



