. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 147 ^^i^3g]RIOA|f "'^Vx. THOMAS G. NEWMAN, VoLIIIIL Marcli 9,188], No. 10. pVt^v^^ The Minnesota Valley Bee-Keepers' Association was formed on Feb. 25, with about 20 members, who are enthusiastic hee keepers. Tlie February Number of the Bee- Keepers' Advance is a great improvement over the initial number. The type is smaller; more taste is displayed in getting it up, and the printing is more creditable. There is still much room for improvement. Prof. «;. G. Uroff, of Lewisburg, Pa., is ?engaged to deliver a course of lec
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 147 ^^i^3g]RIOA|f "'^Vx. THOMAS G. NEWMAN, VoLIIIIL Marcli 9,188], No. 10. pVt^v^^ The Minnesota Valley Bee-Keepers' Association was formed on Feb. 25, with about 20 members, who are enthusiastic hee keepers. Tlie February Number of the Bee- Keepers' Advance is a great improvement over the initial number. The type is smaller; more taste is displayed in getting it up, and the printing is more creditable. There is still much room for improvement. Prof. «;. G. Uroff, of Lewisburg, Pa., is ?engaged to deliver a course of lectures on apiculture, open to all students, at the Bricknell University in that city, next May and June. This we glean from the annual catalogue of the University, which is on our desk. From England we have the following letter from our friend William Carr, Esq., who, during our last visit to England In 1879, was our constant companion. He has been a reader of the American Bee Jour- NAi. for many years, and a faithful friend to Americans. He writes : My Dear Mk. Newman :—I wish you could have come over to our Colonial last autumn; and seen the rapid strides we had made in beekeeping since you favored us with your company in 1879. We made the most we could of your Canadian neighbors during the three months they were with us. They represented the "Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association," and have returned to Canada with $-1, which they received for the honey they brought, alter deducting the expenses. They went to si-o almost everything of interest in all parts of this country, and everything was thrown open to them, and highly delighted were they with their re- ception. You would see an account in the bee journals of some of the entertainments we gave them, and how they said they were pleased. If you coul4only have come, you would have been not onlv a New-man. but a. very great man amongst us, as there is nobody we should have rejoiced to honor more than yo
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