. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 581. Our Club Rates are: ^ for two copies (to the same or different post-offices); and for THREE or more copies, 90 cents each. EDITOR. , Not, 5,1891, M19, Editorial Buzzings. It LrOOkS very much as if we were in for a hard Winter. The weather prophets threaten us with a number of killing blizzards. Xlie :Nortli American Bee- Keepers' Convention will be held at Albany, N. Y., Dec. 8 to 11. Reduced rates on all the trunk line railroads are secured. Read the notice on page 596. Qeo. H. Hilton has been ap- pointed by the
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 581. Our Club Rates are: ^ for two copies (to the same or different post-offices); and for THREE or more copies, 90 cents each. EDITOR. , Not, 5,1891, M19, Editorial Buzzings. It LrOOkS very much as if we were in for a hard Winter. The weather prophets threaten us with a number of killing blizzards. Xlie :Nortli American Bee- Keepers' Convention will be held at Albany, N. Y., Dec. 8 to 11. Reduced rates on all the trunk line railroads are secured. Read the notice on page 596. Qeo. H. Hilton has been ap- pointed by the Board of World's Fair Managers for Michigan, a member of the special committee on apiarian prod- ucts. It would have been about the right thing to have made George chair- man of the national committee on that "subject," as there is probdbly no better authority on matters concerning the apiary than Mr. TmUcMtor. Spraying: Fruit for the preven- tion of the ravages of insects and fungus diseases is no longer an experiment, but a necessity, in order to get large crops of perfect fruit, but the blossoms must not be sprayed with the poison. As noted on page 428, the New York City Board of Health recently condemned grapes on the market that showed signs of poison on the stems, and had tons of them destroyed. The hasty action of the Board caused a grape panic. An investigation showed that the grapes had been sprayed with a solution of the Bordeaux mixture, and that traces of the sulphate of copper remained on the stems. The matter was referred to the De- partment of Agriculture, which has for several years been recommending the spraying of grapes with this mixture, as a preventive against fungus diseases. The Department officially replied that over a ton of grapes, sprayed eight times with the mixture, would be required to furnish a single poisonous dose. In this transaction, the spraying of fruit has received an advertisement that will result in making know
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