. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. T'MEE! MMBRKCMH mMl& JOURMSIIL. 99. THOS. fcSON, tnic/\ao, II I K^^PSi®S»5ss XH091AS G. r«EYV91AI«, EDITOR. Vol. mi. FeU, 15,1890. No. 7. ? The honey-bee is a regular merchant. It " cells " combs for a living. ' One apiarist first ordered a thousand Almanacs. These worked so well in dis- posing of honey, that he has just bought 3,000 more. It pays to scatter them liberally. Mr. George Ilentlerson, for many years sub-editor of the British Dee Journal, died on Dec. 21, 1889. He was an accom- plished linquist, a Greek scholar, and


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. T'MEE! MMBRKCMH mMl& JOURMSIIL. 99. THOS. fcSON, tnic/\ao, II I K^^PSi®S»5ss XH091AS G. r«EYV91AI«, EDITOR. Vol. mi. FeU, 15,1890. No. 7. ? The honey-bee is a regular merchant. It " cells " combs for a living. ' One apiarist first ordered a thousand Almanacs. These worked so well in dis- posing of honey, that he has just bought 3,000 more. It pays to scatter them liberally. Mr. George Ilentlerson, for many years sub-editor of the British Dee Journal, died on Dec. 21, 1889. He was an accom- plished linquist, a Greek scholar, and a highly-esteemed gentleman. Among those prominent apiarists who have been visited by la Oi'ippe, we may mention G. M. Doolittle, C. P. Dadant, Ernest Root, J. Van Deusen, James Hed- don, J. E. Pond, E. L. Pratt, and many others whose names we do not now recall. They all have our sympathies. Oiii* XIianl are due for the many kind allusions to our late illness in the bee- periodicals, as well as in hundreds of pri- vate letters. We are sorry to learn that many of the editors of the bee-papers have suffered from la Orippe, in more or less severity. We never recovered so slowly from any previous illness, and this seems to be the case with others. The gi'ip on our vitals was a tight one; and to-day, after a month's tussel with it, we are not able to do half as much as formerly in the same time. We do not want to have anything more to do with anything Prussian—the Cossacks may keep it at home, or else banish it to Siberia, as they do all the rest of their unwelcome things. Ilouey for :i 4iiri|>l>c.—The item on honey for la Oripiic, published on page 35, is being copied quite largely, through the influence of beekeepers all over the country. The Elgin, Ills., News published it, and then followed it twith these addi- tional lines: We know of one family that has eaten freely of honey for a couple of weeks or so, and while neighbors have had the grip, it has not invaded


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