. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 645. Our Club Rates are: ^ for two copies (to the same or different post-offices); and for THREE or more copies, 90 cents each. EDITOR, Noy, 19,1891, No, 21, Editorial Buzziiigs. Tlie World is a crowded 'bus ; A few good men, perhaps, May g-et a seat, the rest of us Must hold on by the straps. Xlie IVational Flo^wer was voted for at the Flower Show In Chicago last week. When the box was opened it was found that out of the 899 votes cast, 457 was for the bee's favorite— the golden-rod—and the rest were scat- tering
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 645. Our Club Rates are: ^ for two copies (to the same or different post-offices); and for THREE or more copies, 90 cents each. EDITOR, Noy, 19,1891, No, 21, Editorial Buzziiigs. Tlie World is a crowded 'bus ; A few good men, perhaps, May g-et a seat, the rest of us Must hold on by the straps. Xlie IVational Flo^wer was voted for at the Flower Show In Chicago last week. When the box was opened it was found that out of the 899 votes cast, 457 was for the bee's favorite— the golden-rod—and the rest were scat- tering. The golden-rod was an over- whelming favorite. "It grows every- where," said one lady when she voted, " and is the typical American flower. It makes itself at home anywhere, in the gardens of the rich and poor alike, and its growth is so rapid, and it attains magnificence so soon that it is more emblematic of America than any other flower in the ; The voting con- tinues through this week. Anotlier patent has just been issued on a bee-hive. It is dated Nov. 10, 1891, and was given to Reuben H. Ewing, of Iowa. It is the old story—a moth-proof hive—worthless and useless, with not a new feature in it. Here is the claim of the so-called invention : The bee-hive A, having a horizontal bottom B, with the central hole h, just large enough to allow the bees to pass through it, and an upwardly-convex bottom C, whose oppositely-inclined sides meet in a vertex c, directly under the said hole, and just far enough there- from to permit the bees to reach the hole, the said hive being provided with opposite entrances c' c' for the bees and moths between said bottoms, as shown and described. The inventor does not even know the sex of worker bees, as will be seen by the following from the specifications, where it is called he every time. The tendency of the bee is to move upwardly, and as soon as he reaches the vertex c he will make for the entrance h, while t
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