. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. XHis;. MME'REcmK MMM j&Jumnmi^. G75. EDITOR. voiniv. no,42. Xlie Columbus Con-venlion has monopolized a large space in this issue of ttie Bee Joubnal. Next week we hope to give the remaining portion. In order to do this we omit the Queries and nearly all the correspondence. As that convention presents the newest matter for the craft in America, we must give it In time to be fresh as well as seasonable. Xhe Alabama State Fair occurs at Montgomery on Oct. 32, and in the Bee and Honey Department the premiums amount to $fi8, besides diplomas. C
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. XHis;. MME'REcmK MMM j&Jumnmi^. G75. EDITOR. voiniv. no,42. Xlie Columbus Con-venlion has monopolized a large space in this issue of ttie Bee Joubnal. Next week we hope to give the remaining portion. In order to do this we omit the Queries and nearly all the correspondence. As that convention presents the newest matter for the craft in America, we must give it In time to be fresh as well as seasonable. Xhe Alabama State Fair occurs at Montgomery on Oct. 32, and in the Bee and Honey Department the premiums amount to $fi8, besides diplomas. Capt. W. H. Black makes an exhibit there. His 16 colonies last spring have increased to .38, besides Riving over 1,000 pounds of surplus honey in one-pound sections. That is a little over 6i pounds per colony, spring count. That is a report not to be ashamed of in this exceedingly poor season ! ^^^^^^^'-?j .^^^^^»^» —».-^ On moiuitain Sides.—A California paper thus moralizes over the fruit-bees controversy and its results : The irrepressible conflict between fruit- grower and apiarist has ended in the latter Beeiiig to the mountains, taking the little busy bees to gather the nectar from the de- licious mountain flowers. The orchardist charged that the bees punctured the ripeii- ina fruit with their lancet tongues, and while the hpe-masler knew this to be an error, he had no choice but to go among the hills where fruit-growing is not yet a lead- ing industry. Nay I Rather say that the rich mountain flowers have enticed the bee-keepers to the delicious bee-pasturage provided by Nature away up the mountain sides, leaving the valleys to the raisin-growers—thus solving the problem to the advantage of both the fruit-growers and bee-men. How much bet- ter to have it so, than to quarrel over it. HiiilKtin I%o. :t9, issued by the Agri- cultural College of Michigan, on Sept. 1, 1888, contains "experiments with insecti- cides," by Prof. A. J. Cook (wlio is well- known to
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