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place possible to learn better ways 

 of beekeeping. Shake off those old 

 foggy notions you are adhereing to 

 and come out and learn up-to-date 

 methods as is talked at the con- 

 ventions by our best beekeepers. 

 You will not regret it, although 

 you may think you know it all. 



We are very sorry to report both 

 cabbage palmetto and black man- 

 grove honey a total failure this 

 year. The causes are past finding 

 out, the convincing fact remains. 

 It is such seasons as this, that 

 keep the "good season beekeepers" 

 out of the field. The TRUE beeman 

 alters not his opinions nor abates 

 his ardor, in the face of poor seas- 

 ons. "It is not love, that alters 

 where it alteration finds." Nor is 

 he a real LOVER cf the Busy Bee, 

 whose affection for the pursuit 

 Vv^EATHER VANES with the fluct- 

 uating seasons' yields. — E. G. B. 



Still another affiliated association 

 is added to the already very credit- 

 able list. This time it is the 

 Louisiana State Association, with G. 

 Frank Pease, President and L. T. 

 ixcyiris, Shrevcpcrt, Secretary. The 

 NATIONAL is now composed of 

 thirty-three very live affiliated as- 

 sociations and several more being 

 talked of. Get busy and organize 

 the branch you have been thinking 

 about, it's very simple, just call 

 a meeting of bee-keepers, elect your 

 officers and there you are. You need 

 15 members then vote to affiliate 

 with the NATIONAL, the conven- 

 tion season is just ahead, some 

 leader must make the first move, 

 the rest is easy, only you should 

 advertise the meeting well to get 

 bee-keepers out. 



The following letter is interest- 

 ing: 



"Dear Sir: — Your favor of the 

 2 7th at hand and regret to say I 

 cannot reply fully at this time re- 

 garding all conditions here but will 

 do so later. However I wish to 

 say, I desire to go into beekeeping 

 in a small way. I think the oppor- 

 tunities are good at this place, be- 

 cause the ANTS have killed out 

 nearly all the wild bees and hence 

 there is plenty of forage for a 

 large apiary if properly protected. 

 I contemplate protecting my apiary 

 by digging a ditch around it, mak- 



ing a small island of one-fourth 

 a,cre or more. Here I could kill out 

 the ants." 



JOHN G. LEWIS, 

 B. E. Pine Key, 

 Marathan, Fla. 



[You do not state. Friend Lewis, 

 whether you contemplate surround- 

 ing the bees with water, forming a 

 sort of MOAT, or not. If you mere- 

 ly dug a DITCH, no water in it, 

 the large brow^ ants, so common in 

 Florida, would not be hindered at 

 all from your bees. If you can in 

 some way flood the ditch, you 

 will have a fine method of keeping 

 your apiary free from the trouble- 

 some ants. How do you KNOW it 

 was the ants, however, that killed 

 off the wild bees, i. e. the bees in 

 bee trees?] E G. B. 



Apropos of the letter from Mr. 

 Lefler we wish to offer a 

 suggestion merely. It refers to 

 the term "Orange honey." On one 

 occasion when speaking to a dealer 

 in one of our large cities, he said, 

 "Do you make honey from oranges? 

 ! ! 1 You say such ignorance is 

 worthy of deepest Africa! Yes, but 

 is current widely in civilized Amer- 

 ica. He was familiar with "orange- 

 ade" made (supposedly) from the 

 juice of oranges. He knew, doubt- 

 less, of the popular belief, once 

 general, that honey was "MADE" 

 by MAN, instead of produced by 

 the bees, so what was strange in 

 his jumping at the conclusion 

 "made from oranges" when he 

 first heard the term "orange 

 honey." 



To that dealer "Orange honey" 

 was on a par with "orange marma- 

 lade." It was the persistent prac- 

 tice of one large dealer in choice 

 Delicatessen goods which convinced 

 us that there was a better term; 

 and we have ever since emphasized 

 it in speaking of this honey. It is 

 "Orange BLOSSOM Honey." Not 

 only is it more exact, it has also 

 the added charm of being more 

 PICTURESQUE. When you HEAR, 

 or say "Orange Blossoms," what a 

 surge of sweet imaginings (or asso- 

 ciations) comes over you! Cut out 

 the word "Blossoms" and say 

 "orange" and see what your asso- 

 ciations are. Of course, it takes a 

 little longer to say the fuller term, 

 but printers' ink is not so terribly 



