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VOL XXXIV. CHICAGO, ILL, JULY 19, 1894. 



NO. 3. 



Xlie Canadian Bee Journal has 



just completed its first year under the new 

 manae:ement. It has improved wonder- 

 fully since its Brantford owners took hold 

 of it, and we hope it may continue to evi- 

 dence signs of "going on to perfection." 



Extract the I>ar]c Honey.— The 

 Progressive Bee-Keeper says that James Hed- 

 don advises getting all the white honey 

 stored in the sections, and extracting the 

 dark fall honey, as the latter brings about 

 as much in the market when extracted as 

 it would in the comb. 



Xlie J\ortli American Convention, 

 as announced last week, is to be held at St. 

 Joseph, Mo., on Oct. 16th, 17th and ISth. 

 President Abbott is very desirous of hav- 

 ing all who expect to attend that meeting, 

 to notify him by postal card or otherwise 

 at once, as it will aid him very much in get- 

 ting reduced rates on the railroads. Please 

 attend to this little matter now, before you 

 forget it, and thus do your share in assur- 

 ing a successful meeting. We trust that 

 there may be a general rally of bee-keepers 

 at St. Joseph in October— even a larger 

 and more enthusiastic company than was 

 at the Columbian meeting last year, if that 

 is possible. 



Prospects tor tlie Honey-JPlow. 



— In Gleani?igs for July 1st we find this edi- 

 torial item on the honey prospects of the 

 country : 



For the last ten days the prospects have 

 been rather discouraging. Reports seemed 

 to show that there was very little white 

 clover anywhere in the country; and in 

 our own locality scarcely any could be seen 

 in the old pasture lots, where years before 

 it abounded freely. It is still early to speak 

 for outside localities ; but in our own the 

 white clover is just beginning to make its 

 appearance. Basswood, too, is just open- 

 ing up. The conditions for a honey-flow 

 from this source were never better. The 

 trees are literally full of flower-buds ; and 

 where the blossoms have opened up, the 

 bees are humming around them as in the 

 old-fashioned way, and already are begin- 

 ning to drop in at the entrances; and as 

 early as the first break of day there is that 

 roar that sounds sweeter to the bee-keeper 

 than music. P^eports everywhere speak 

 well of the prospects from basswood. 



It^" Some claim that it is not fully set- 

 tled that the queen deposits the egg in the 

 queen-cells at the time of natural swarm- 

 ing ; but my assistant saw her do it, and so 

 have others, while the position of the eggs 

 in the cells proves it, even had no one ever 

 witnessed her in the act.— BooUttle. 



A"*vtHl Heat in Xexas. — On July 

 12th we received the following letter from 

 Mrs. Atchley, telling about the awful heat 

 at Beeville, Tex., on Monday, July 2nd: 



Dear Bro. York : — I have a sad thing to 

 relate. On last Monday we had a hot wind 

 that began to blow from the north about 

 noon, and the heat increased until the 

 thermometer indicated 114 degrees in the 

 coolest part of the house. The house and 

 furniture, and in fact everything, became 

 go hot that it could not be touched. Fortu- 

 nately, we have a pipe and hose that leads 



