. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (yj^'. u Journal DEYOTKl) TO TIIK INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. VOL. XX. CHICAGO, ILL., AUGUST 13, 1884. No. 33. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, EDITOF aNU Pbopuietou. 1^ Every subscriber sliould care- fully preserve the numbers of the Bee Journal for reference. Many an article is worth the price of a year's subscription. When the in- formation therein contained can be readily referred to, it is doubly val- uable. We can, therefore, do our readers no greater service than to recommend them to procure a Binder, and file away each
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (yj^'. u Journal DEYOTKl) TO TIIK INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. VOL. XX. CHICAGO, ILL., AUGUST 13, 1884. No. 33. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, EDITOF aNU Pbopuietou. 1^ Every subscriber sliould care- fully preserve the numbers of the Bee Journal for reference. Many an article is worth the price of a year's subscription. When the in- formation therein contained can be readily referred to, it is doubly val- uable. We can, therefore, do our readers no greater service than to recommend them to procure a Binder, and file away each number as fast as received. i^" We regret to have to note the death of one of our subscribers and correspondents, F. M. Clieney, of Sutton, N. H. He went to Tennessee last spring to take charge of an apiary for H. E. Andrews, of about 100 colonies, and died about the mid- dle of last mouth of malarial fever. 1^" We regret to learn that Mr. J. T. Wilson's house was burned early on the morning of Aug. 5, at Mortons- ville, Ky. He writes us that many bee-keepers are owing him, and with this calamity he is crippled finan- cially. These who owe him should at once send him the necessary funds to help him in this, liis " hour of ; 1^" The aphidse that trouble pot plants are green, and the tender new growth on plants often becomes com- pletely covered with them before they are noticed. These lice are often called the ants' cows, because the ants follow them to gather a honey that exudes from their bodies ; there is a white aphis that attacks the roots of plants ; the ants follow this also.— Exch. Are Bees an Injury to Fruit? Mr. L. A. Lowmaster, of Belle Vernon, O., has sent us a long ex- tract from the New York Sun, con- taining the usual charges against the bees, J. e., that they are an injury to fruit growers, the following being the last paragraph: Admitting that the accusations made against bees in regard to their destructiveness of fruits, have bee
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