. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Dr. C. C. Miller and Family (Mrs. Miller and her sister. Miss Emma Wilson) gave us a short office call last week when in Chicago on a shopping expedition. They may well be called " The Happy ; * # * « * great SwEST Labor.—" How is it you're such a worker?" askt the grasshopper. "Because I love to work," said the busy bee. "I couldn't be happy without it. In fact, you have noticed when my busiest season is on I'm in ;—Philadelphia Press. ? ? * ? ? Mr. W. J. PiCKARD, of Richland Wis., dropt in to


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Dr. C. C. Miller and Family (Mrs. Miller and her sister. Miss Emma Wilson) gave us a short office call last week when in Chicago on a shopping expedition. They may well be called " The Happy ; * # * « * great SwEST Labor.—" How is it you're such a worker?" askt the grasshopper. "Because I love to work," said the busy bee. "I couldn't be happy without it. In fact, you have noticed when my busiest season is on I'm in ;—Philadelphia Press. ? ? * ? ? Mr. W. J. PiCKARD, of Richland Wis., dropt in to see us on Thursday of last week. He reported their nearly 400 colonies of bees as having wintered with a loss of only about 10. His daughter. Miss Ada, will run her large api- ary again this season, as usual. Mr. Pickard has been in- vesting in a few young samples of Polled Angus cattle. With the good women of the family to look after the bees, and Mr. P. to take care of the blooded farm stock, they have a pretty strong combination. Editor Ernest R. Root had this to say in the last number of his paper, dated April IS : " I have just returned from attending a convention of the Chicago Bee-Keepers' Association—an organization that takes in bee-keepers of the city and immediate vicinity. The convention, while not large in attendance, was an ex- cellent one, and the discussions were of the very best. After the convention I had a delightful visit with Dr. Miller and his ; * * * * * Editor Leahy's Good-By.—An editorial in the Pro- gressive Bee-Keeper begins by saying that in these days of telephones the word " good-by " has not connected with it the pathos of the olden time, but the good-by that he is now to speak is sad as that of yore. After thus stirring one up to wonder whether his editorial pencil or typewriter is to be forever stilled, or what other thing is to happen, he relieves the strain by saying that about 300 delinquent subscribers ar


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