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THOS. G.NEWIVJIAN ^SON, , 



CHICAGO, (L.L. 



EDITOR. 



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BUEEIMQS, 



IIo^v dotli tliP little busy bee, 

 Delialit to bark aad bite ; 



It aathers honey all the clay 

 Aua eats it up at ninht. 



You never hear tlie bee complain, 

 Nor hear it weep nor wail ; 



But if it wish It can unfold 

 A very painful tail. 



Tlie Pnlnictto Honey of Florida, 

 exhibited at the Columbus, Ohio, Conven- 

 tion, was nearly as palatable as our white 

 clover honey, and Mr. Detwiler wants us to 

 call it by its proper name, and not class it 

 with Southern honey generally. There can 

 be no objection to doing so, and certainly 

 there would be justice in it. Let it be 

 known as Palmetto Honey, by all means. 



All in a Rom.— At the Columbus con- 

 vention, after the adjournment, while 

 listening to the songs of the "Glee Club," 

 brother Hutchinson called attention to the 

 fact that if a cannon-ball should strike 

 Brother Root and cross the line of chairs, it 

 would wipe out Ave or six editors of bee- 

 periodicals — they having unconsciously 

 placed themselves in that position, so as to 

 be near one another and have a "friendly 

 chat" between the songs. We heartily en- 

 dorse the sentiment of the following con- 

 cerning it, copied from the las't Oleanings : 



Quite by accident, the editors of the rep- 

 resentative bee-papers sat in a line .so 

 straight, indeed, that, if a cannon-ball had 

 been tired along that line it would have 

 swept them all down. It was Mr. Hutchin- 

 son, we believe, who first called attention 

 to this phalanx of editors. Let's see : 

 There was Holterniann, of the Catiadlnii 

 Honey-Produca- ; Newman, of the Ameri- 

 can Hke Jour.vai. ; Hutchiuson, of the 

 Bee-Keepers' Review, and your humble ser- 

 vants [A. I. Root and his son Ernest]. This 

 little incident, quite accidental in itself, 

 represents the fraternal feeling that exists 

 among us, we feel sure ; and God grant that 

 editors of bee-papers may never be ashamed 

 to sit together and be " kind o' decent." 



Xlie i'anadian Honey-Prod ncer 



for November is on our desk. It was the 

 first of tlie monthlies to put in an appear- 

 ance, and has a fair report of the Columbus 

 convention. Bro. Holtermann is a wide- 

 awake and energetic worker, and deserves 

 great success. He is a risitif/ young man, 

 and some day we hope to announce that he 

 is elected President of the International 

 Bee-Association. He is a " worker-bee " in 

 " the hive of Nature." 



FloriOa Honey Crop.— Alderman 

 & Roberts, of Wewahitchka, Fla., report 

 their crop of honey for the past season as 

 follows : 



Our honey crop has been about 7.5 pounds 

 per colony. We have taken tlie honey 

 from about 8,000 hives now. We have 1,000 

 colonies in Langstroth hives. 



ICee-I>a!!iliira;;e 8 Miles A-*vay.— 



Away out in Washington Territory, on 

 Fidalgo Island, there lives a bee-keeper by 

 the name of H. A. March, who also has the 

 only spot of ground in America wliere cauli- 

 flower seeds are matured as a crop. He has 

 acres of them, and sells them to Eastern 

 seedsmen. So says the Washington Farmer 

 of the r2th inst. He has also discovered 

 how far his bees go to their pasturage to 

 gather honey. This he did by following 

 with his boat under a line of bees across 

 Padilla Bay. He traced them to where 

 they were gathering honey from the golden- 

 rods on Skagit flats, eight miles distant. He 

 knew they were his, not only because he 

 followed them, but because there were no 

 Italian bees in the county at that time ex- 

 cept his. 



He also has a dozen poultry houses scat- 

 tered over his place, at which he breeds 

 special valuable varieties of chickens. He 

 keeps them out of his garden by clipping 

 their wings. Mr. M. is marching along, 

 quite abreast of the times, in that new 

 country so far away. The Bee Jouknal 

 visits the bee-men of that region as well as 

 "islands of the seas," to instill the knowl- 

 edge of the newest methods and the most 

 profitable management of an apiary. 



Transpoi-tins' itneens. — Mr. G. M. 



Doolittle, in Glcmnngs, contends that 

 "queens are not injured so much by trans- 

 portation in the mails, or by express, as 

 they are by the sudden check in egg pro- 

 duction, that results from taking them 

 away from full colonies in which each 

 queen is laying perhaps her weight of eggs 

 each da}'." This position is very reason- 

 able, and is no doubt correct. 



Mr. Ivar S. Ifonn;;; writes this to the 

 British Bee Jmirnnl from Christiania, Nor- 

 way, on Sept. 28, 1888 : 



In Norway, last winter was quite serious 

 to us bee- keepers. I suppose that about 

 three-fnurths of all the colonies died of cold 

 and hunger, and this summer has only very 

 little bettered us, because the honey-harvest 

 with us in Norway, as well as in England 

 and America, has been scarce nearly every- 

 where. However, we will not therefore 

 lose heart, but hope for better luck next 

 year. 



Commenting npon our friendly 

 notice of the exliibit of Mr. A. I. Root at 

 Columbus, he remarks thus : " How grati- 

 fying it is that editors of bee-papers, unlike 

 some other pursuits, can say kind things of 

 each other, and not exhibit signs of jeal- 

 ousy." Sure enough. If the editors of the 

 periodicals of an industry cannot be just, 

 reasonable and friendly towards each other, 

 they ought to "get out," and make room for 

 those who will not be such fools as to be 

 jealous. We hate "jealousy." The Bible 

 truly says : " It is as criiel as the grave." 



I^ol Miicli Honey — Mrs.L. Harrison, 

 Peoria, Ills., writes: "There have been 

 several frosts in this locality, and thin ice 

 formed one night, yet on Oct. 7 honey came 

 in quite freely during the warm part of the 

 day. Golden-rod and asters are still bloom 

 ini!. also black-heart (Polygonum Pennsyl- 

 V(inl^um). There is very littlchoney to be 

 seen in the stiues here, and what there is. 

 is badly niixed. It took the bees all the 

 season to till a few boxes, crnsequently it 

 is travel-stained."— 0. J. Farmer. 



Antiimn in England and its effect on 

 the feeding of bees is thus described in the 

 British Bee Journal for Oct. 11, 1888 : 



With the exception of a few cold days, 

 bee-keepers in the southeastern localities 

 have enjoyed splendid weather for rapidly 

 feeding their bees in anticipation of the 

 long winter on which we are abjiut to enter. 

 Snow, wind-storms, and extremely cold 

 nights, in the north and midland districts, 

 have, we fear, interrupted the feeding 

 process. 



The Union.— Mr. J. M. Hambaugh, of 

 Spring, Ills., sent two membership fees for 

 the Union, collected at the Clayton, Ills., 

 Convention, and adds : 



We had a splendid time at the Clayton 

 meeting, and will send the report for pub- 

 lication .soon. Resolutions were unani- 

 mnusly adopted requesting each member to 

 send thfir money and names to the editor 

 of the Amkkican Bee .Journal, and be- 

 come members uf the Union, iu the defense 

 of right. 



Tlie Ventilation, by special arrange- 

 ment, of a bee-depository, is decided to be 

 unnecessary by the leading bee-keepers 

 who have given their views in the Bee- 

 Keepers' Riview for October. Its editor 

 sums the matter up thus : 



Ventilation, simply for the sake of secur- 

 ing fresher or purer air, finds but little sup- 

 port ; while the tew who plead for special 

 ventilation do so almost entirely upon the 

 ground tliat they can thereby more readily 

 control tlie temperature. Some who have 

 been to the expense of furnishing their cel- 

 lars with sub-earth and special ventilation, 

 have linally abandoned it as not only use- 

 less but injurious. If bee-repositories are 

 built sufficiently under ground it does not 

 seem that ventilation would be very much 

 needed for controlling temperature. 



