“A Modern Bee-Farm and Its Economic Management,” is the title of a splendid book on practical bee-culture, by Mr. S. Simmins, of England. It is 5¾ × 8½ inches in size, and contains 270 pages, nicely illustrated, and bound in cloth. It shows “how bees may be cultivated as a means of livelihood; as a health-giving pursuit; and as a source of recreation to the busy man.” It also illustrates how profits may be “made certain by growing crops yielding the most honey, having also other uses; and by judgment in breeding a good working strain of bees.” Price, postpaid, from this office, $1.00; or clubbed with the Bee Journal for one year, for $1.60.
RANDoM STINGS
From “The Stinger.”
Only a bee!
Only a bee, as it flew through the air,
And tried to hum the sweet elfin air.
Only a bee!
Only a bee, and yet when it stings,
The air with loud cries of pain loudly rings.
Only a boy!
Only a boy, on mischief bent,
Only a boy who was not content.
Only a grave!
Only a grave on yonder hill,
Contains a corpse both cold and still.