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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Who wants to do some slumming ? 

 Friend York of the American Bee Journal 

 offers to take us to thirty places in the wick- 

 ed and tricky city of Chicago wliere honey 

 is being glucosed. 



Rambler's on the war path after the term 

 queen-bar, which some would have us use 

 as a substitute for queen-excluder. Says 

 basswood cuttings grow nicely if kept over 

 in the cellar. They must be kept in sand 

 that is neither dry nor wet. Too much 

 dampness spoils them. Wonder if letting 

 the butts of the bundles stick through 

 holes made in the bottom of the box, and 

 setting the box so as to expose the cut ends 

 to the light, would not help on the healing 

 process. 



Dr. Miller thinks that when we try to vote 

 out a third termer we should not be re- 

 quired to mail our ballots to the gentleman 

 himself. Gleanings 141. 



Doolittle thinks when a newly hived 

 swarm of bees slowly come out and go home, 

 leaving the queen balled on the floor, that 

 they consider her lo^t, and k ow not where 

 to find her. Gleanings 143. Dju'tknowas 

 that theory ever occurred to me. Mv theory 

 has been that tlie bees don't know what to do 

 to rescue their sovereign from the ball of 

 of strange bees, but know where she is well 

 enough — the going home being simply a 

 iRzy way to get out of a bad scrape — Good 

 S imaritan Lsvites ( or leave-ites ) at 

 wholesale. Still Doolittle may be right. 

 He's apt to be. 



Rtohauds. Ohio. April, 11, I.'^IM',. 



them. If we want Apis Dorsata, which, by 

 the way, is another story, it is quite likely 

 that Frank Benton is a good man to send, 

 but, for all that. I can't conscientiously ask 

 the goverment to send a man who neither 

 does his duty nor keeps his promises. 



Frank Benton's Promises. 

 In a late issue of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal Prof. A. J. Cook advises that bee-keep- 

 ers urge the general goverment to make an 

 effort to import Apis Dorsata, and that 

 Frank Benton be employed for that purpose. 

 Commenting upon this editor York says: — 



"We'd like to suggest that before Mr. 

 Benton is sent after Apis Dorsata, Prof. 

 Cook tret him to do as he agreed at the To- 

 ronto Convention, viz: To turn over the 

 balance of the St. Jo«eph Convention report, 

 for which he received pan a year and a half 

 a(jo. Until Mr. Benton does this duly, ive 

 can't conscientiously endorse him for any- 

 thing. And neither should any one else, " 



Bro. York has said some things which did 

 not meet my approval, but this isn't one of 



Where Shall the Next Meeting of the North 

 American be Held T 



The editor of the American Bee Journal 

 has the following to say on this subject. 



"Again we want to suggest the experi- 

 ment of following the G. A. R. encamp- 

 ment this year. As the Grand Army meets 

 in St. Paul in September, and that city will 

 be pretty well crowded then, we think that 

 Minneapolis would be the proper place. All 

 could get round-trip tickets to St. Paul, and 

 then a small street-car fare would take them 

 to Miniieai)olis in a few minutes more. It 

 seems to us this plan is worth trying, as the 

 railroad fare will be only o>ie ce)i( a mile at 

 that time. 



While we know that it was practically de- 

 cided at the St Joseph convention that the 

 North American in IHtH'i should go to Lin- 

 coln, Neb., still we also know that those 

 good western people are willing that the 

 success of this year's meeting shall not be 

 prevented by holdinsr the North American 

 so strictly to its pledges in a matter of this 

 kind. Doubtless some other year, and that 

 verv soon, the G. A. R. will meet in Lincoln 

 or Omaha ; and then, if we find it a good 

 thing to follow it around, there will be such 

 a big meeting of bee-keepers a^ will simply 

 astound our Neb-aska friends, although 

 accustomed to big things. " 



Commenting on this the editor of Glea- 

 nings says : 



"The President of the North American 

 says he is agreed, provided the Nebraska 

 bee-keepers are. It seems to me that, in 

 view of the grand opportunity of one cevt a 

 Jiu7c, they surely will be agreed also. Ore 

 reason, yes, the main reason, why the North 

 American has been so poorly attended at its 

 variousmfetings is because of the railroad 

 fares. Hi ro is the only chance to get low 

 rates, " 



I agree entirely with the President that 

 it will be best to meet at the same time that 

 theG. A. R. people at St. Paul ;/ the Neb- 

 raska people can yield as gracefully as they 

 did at the St. Joseph meeting. They could 

 have carried the next meeting to Nebraske 

 just like a book, but when they learned that 

 an implied promise had been given to Canada 

 they yielded with a magnanimity that caused 

 the convention to send up a cheer. Unless 

 these western friends with their big hearts 

 can see their way clearly to again give up 



