. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. iHjQPMi^ PUBLISHED BY THOMAS Q. NEWMAN, KlUTOU AND PitOPRIETUH. 925 WEST MADISON-STREET, CHICAGO, tU. Weekly, SS a year ; Monthly, SO cents. Vol. XXI. February ?5,1885, No. 8. ";—Dr. C. C. Miller, President of this Society, asks for a vote by mail, on the subject of having the next meeting at Detroit with the " National" Convention: Editor Bep: Journal : — There seems to be what may be a general wish that the " Northwestern " should omit its meeting at Chicngo next fall, and unite with the " National&quo


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. iHjQPMi^ PUBLISHED BY THOMAS Q. NEWMAN, KlUTOU AND PitOPRIETUH. 925 WEST MADISON-STREET, CHICAGO, tU. Weekly, SS a year ; Monthly, SO cents. Vol. XXI. February ?5,1885, No. 8. ";—Dr. C. C. Miller, President of this Society, asks for a vote by mail, on the subject of having the next meeting at Detroit with the " National" Convention: Editor Bep: Journal : — There seems to be what may be a general wish that the " Northwestern " should omit its meeting at Chicngo next fall, and unite with the " National" iit Detroit on Dec. 8-10. The officers have, I think, no right to make any change except upon vote of the mem- bers. 2ilay I trespass so far upon your time and patience as to ask yon to re- quest eacli member of the " North- western " to send you a postal giving his vote for Detroit or Chicago, and then the majority can rule V 1^ A correspondent in the Apicul- turist accuses the Bee Journal of copying the Query Department from that paper; and that assertion is en- dorsed by its editor. Both are a little too fast. In April, 1879, we had some Queries on abnormal swarming, and desiring to obtain the opinions of sev- eral apiarists on the subject, we sent the Queries to them, requesting re- plies (just as we are now doing). The queries and replies were published in the Bee Journal for May, 1879—/'our years before the Apiculturist was born I Now, whose ox is gored V If there has been any copying, perhaps the Apiculturist is the guilty party ! But WE shall not complain. Such jealousy would be foolish. "We hope the".^)3i" may succeed, but it can hardly hope to do so. by such narrow-mindedness. 1^" Mr. J. B. Mason, of Mechanic's Falls. Maine, has sent us a sample of his dovetailed sections, made of white wood. They are exceedingly nice. Another Apiarist Gone. ^Ve are much pained to hear that Mr. William Williamson, of Lexing- ton, Ky., died on the


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