. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 39. Our Club Jiates are: ^ for two copies (to the same or different post-offices); and for THREE or more copies, 90 cents each. EDITOR. VoLXIVIII, July 9,1891, No. 2, Editorial Buzzings. The Bees were gathering- in their early stores From willoAvs by the brookside, and I watched Them flying to their hives, with laden thighs, All covered with the gold of pollen-dust. Doolittle^S Queen-Rearing is the greatest hit of the decade in bee-keeping. So says A. N. Draper, Upper Alton, Ills. N. D. l?irest'S queen-cell protector and cage


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 39. Our Club Jiates are: ^ for two copies (to the same or different post-offices); and for THREE or more copies, 90 cents each. EDITOR. VoLXIVIII, July 9,1891, No. 2, Editorial Buzzings. The Bees were gathering- in their early stores From willoAvs by the brookside, and I watched Them flying to their hives, with laden thighs, All covered with the gold of pollen-dust. Doolittle^S Queen-Rearing is the greatest hit of the decade in bee-keeping. So says A. N. Draper, Upper Alton, Ills. N. D. l?irest'S queen-cell protector and cage are illustrated and described in friend Gravenhorst's Bienenzeituncj •for June. Tlie Honey Almanac is the result of a suggestion sent to us some 12 years ago by E. Drane, Eminence, Ky. To be sure it was not acted upon at once, but it is now an established fact. He wants credit for the idea, and we cheerfully accord it to him. A Xew Scale-Insect from California, injurious to fruit trees, is described in the last number of Insect Life, by D. W. Coquillett, who furnishes a list of trees attacked by it. Notes on the habits and early stages of an Aus- tralian moth, written by the late Henry Edwards, affords a singular instance of change of habit. Twenty years and more ago it was only known as occurring on a species of acacia, called black wattle, but it must now be included among the insects most injurious to fruit trees in Australia. r,a Orippe had Mr. C. J. Robinson in its power last Spring. Its endurance is something wonderful. Some time since Mr. R. wrote us the following : I am just recovering from an accute attack of la grippe. O, heavens, what a disease ! If it takes liold in earnest, it demoralizes all the anatomy of the human structure, and shakes out the corporeal frame of bones. Why not execute murderers with la grippe f C. J. Robinson. The 'Word "over" should be omitted in the fourth line of the third paragraph of our reply to Mr. Cornell, on page 804. It is


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