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THOS. G.NEWMAK B ^SGS, 



CMICAGO, Il't'. 



EDITOR. 



Vol. HIT. M 28,1888. No. 48. 



To Kiss her cheek ! as honey fine 

 The bee from rose or eglantine 



Doth sip, so I from dimple cute 

 Would taste of love's delicious wine ! 



What could a knight (or bee) compute 

 Dearer than such delight divine ? 



Pure ammonia is a good remedy for 

 bee-stings. 



W^e Reg-ret to learn that Mr. John G. 

 Smith, Secretary of the Central Illinois 

 Bee-Keepers' Society, met witli;an accident 

 on his vpay home from the Clayton Conven- 

 tion. While on the train between Bluff 

 City and Barry, a cinder lodged in his eye, 

 which caused him severe pain for several 

 days. Since then he has been indisposed 

 from the results of a severe cold in the head. 

 His many friends will be sorry to learn 

 these particulars of his illness, and with us 

 will no doubt olfer^him their sympathy. 



A Correspondent in central New 

 York writes us concerning the complaint 

 against Mr. McCaul, published on page 7.50, 

 and states that he is still doing business at 

 122 Water Street, New York. We have 

 written to him, at that address, calling for 

 a settlement for the Florida honey, and 

 await a reply. Our correspondent adds : 

 ";Mr. McCaul Iku sold hundreds of dollars 

 worth of honey for me, and always rendered 

 an accurate account, at good prices." If he 

 will do the same for the Florida honey, and 

 satisfactorily explain the cause of the delay 

 in remitting for it, after having sold it for 

 cash long ago, Alderman]& Roberts will no 

 doubt be very glad to state the fact as pub- 

 licly as they made the complaint. 



^Vliy M-as Mr. Uoolittle I\ot 



Xliere?— That question is often asked 

 about bee-conventions, but it has never 

 been publicly answered. We have known 

 the reason for some years, and when Mr. 

 Doolittle's name was mentioned for Presi- 

 dent of the International at Columbus, we 

 suggested that Mr. Doolittle was not a mem- 

 ber, and was therefore not eligible. We 

 did this to have his name dropped, and still 

 not give the real reason. Then one enthu- 

 siastic member paid the dues for his friend 

 Mr. Doolittle, so as to make him eligible to 

 the office. This made it necessary to take 

 another tack, for we had never felt author- 

 ized to state the true reason. The result 

 was that Dr. Mason was re-elected. 



Then our friend Doolittle wrote to us 

 asking why his name appeared among the 

 members, when he had not paid any dues. 

 We replied with the above facts, and this 

 is his reply : 



FitiEsi) Newman :— Your letter regard- 

 ing to how 1 came to be a member of the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Association 

 is at hand. Thanks to that friend whoso 

 kindly paid my membership fee, but 1 am 

 sincerely glad that 1 was not made Presi- 

 dent. If anything of the kind ever again 

 comes up where you are, please say for me 

 that I cannot accept the oflice on any ac- 

 count. 1 have a heart trouble that excite- 

 ment makes much worse, and being away 

 from home at conventions, etc., puts me in 

 such a condition that I am wholly untitted 

 to assume any office, or take any comtort in 

 the proceedings of a convention. For this 

 reason I have staid at home, of late. 



G. M. Doolittle. 



As the above question is so often asked, 

 we take the liberty of publishing friend 

 Doolittle's letter, without his knowledge or 

 consent, just to reply to the many similar 

 inquiries to the one at the head of this 

 article, which are so frequently propound- 

 ed. We know of no one more worthy of 

 the honor of being President of the " Inter- 

 national," and so stated at the convention, 

 but his wishes should be consulted. In the 

 higher sense we know his " heart is right," 

 ftven if physically he has a " heart trouble" 

 —which has not been generally known till 

 this announcement. 



4jtone to California.— Our friend A. 

 I. Root has taken his departure for Califor- 

 nia, going by way of New Orleans, for a six 

 weeks' sojourn. Qlcanings for Nov. 15, 

 says that he left on the ISth inst., and then 

 It adds : 



He has worked long and hard at his post ; 

 and while some of us at home will have to 

 work a little harder, perhaps, in his absence, 

 it is a pleasure to us to think that he has 

 now arrived at that point in life when he 

 can take this change and rest, which he so 

 richly deserves. He will furnish notes of 

 travel by the way, besides telling of that 

 great bee-country— California — a country 

 whose resources seem boundless, and about 

 which we bee-keepers of the East know 

 comparatively little. 



Xiic Appeal in the lawsuit against Z. 

 A. Clark, of Arkadelphia, Ark., was to be 

 called for Monday, the 26th inst. In our 

 next issue we hope to be able to record 

 some good news concerning it. 



<j!overnniental Statistics.— At the 



late meeting of the National Board of 

 Trade, a resolution was presented recom- 

 mending the "discontinuance of monthly 

 crop bulletins by the department of agricul- 

 ture, as their only effect had been to disturb 

 the world's markets without giving any re- 

 liable information." One of the members 

 remarked as follows : 



The statistician of the department has 

 been continually representing the annual 

 produce of grain in this country as enor- 

 mously in excess of what it was. The re- 

 port of last year was so ambiguous in its 

 language that nobody could understand it, 

 particularly that part concerning the wheat 

 crop. The Secretary of the Chicago Board 

 of Trade endeavored to ascertain what this 

 meant, and liad made frequent interroga- 

 tions. The statistician, for instance, repre- 

 sented in his returns that the spring wheat 

 crop last June was 13 bushels to the acre. 



Now, the average produce per acre was 12 

 bushels. The fact was that the spring wheat 

 croD was more than a month late last year, 

 and was far behind the average. A farmer 

 in Indiana reads the reports of the statis- 

 tician, and makes up his mind that there is 

 a hig crop in the country, and that he will 

 sell all he has got. He finds out, when it is 

 too late, that the crop is meager, and that 

 he has lost heavily. The returns of last 

 year, prepared in the month of December, 

 showed a produce of 11,000,000 bushels in 

 excess of the later and perfected returns 

 prepared three months afterward. The re- 

 sult of the whole thing was encouragement 

 for the operations of English bears, "and in- 

 jurious to American agriculture. 



After some discussion a substitute resolu- 

 tion was adopted, which provides for the 

 establishment of reporting agencies 

 throughout the country, which will collect 

 and furnish to the bureau all the necessary 

 information regarding the crops of the 

 country, and provides several other im- 

 provements in the machinery of the depart- 

 ment. 



This is similar to the work undertaken by 

 apiarists, after waiting some time for the 

 governmental reports through the statis- 

 tician, on bee and honey statistics. 



«S- Xlie National Itee-Keepers' 



Union fiscal year has heretofore ended on 

 June 30. Sometime since it was proposed 

 to have it end with the calendar year. It 

 was submitted to vote, and every vote so 

 far received is of the same tenor as the fol- 

 lowing from Mr. H. K. Staley, Pleasant 

 Ridge, Ohio : 



At the request of the Manager of the Bee- 

 Keepers' Union, for the members to vote 

 on the proposed change for the paying of 

 the annual dues from June to January, I 

 vote in the positive, or in other words, I 

 favor the change. 



If any one wants to vote in the negative, 

 please let it come at once ; if none are re- 

 ceived by Dec. 10, the motion will be de- 

 clared to be carried, and the change made 

 accordingly, by consent. 



This change will make the time for pay- 

 ing dues and voting for officers come on 

 Jan. 1, and blanks will be sent out on Dec. 

 15, for that object— unless somebody votes 

 , against the change. 



