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Congress vote a suitable appropriation, and 

 employ competent parties to visit Judea 

 and the East Indies, for the purpose of 

 securing Apis Dorsata, ^.nd other races of 

 bees not now domesticated, and their intro- 

 duction into the United States ; further. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions 

 be published in the bee-papers, and that 

 the bee-keepers of the United States be 

 asked to join in petitions to Congress for 

 the same purpose. W. F. Marks, 



L. C. Mather, 

 F. D. French, 

 Committee on Rexolutionx. 



Comb Holiey and Swariiiing-.— 



On page 80 will be found an interesting 

 article by Mr. T. I. Dugdale, of West Gal- 

 way, N. Y., on '"Comb Honey and the Pre- 

 vention of Increase by Swarming." When 

 sending it to us, Mr. D. enclosed the fol- 

 lowing: 



Of course there is some work about my 

 plan of managing swarms while working 

 for comb honey, but the beauty of it is, it 

 works, and comes nearer to Nature's way 

 than any other I have ever tried. It is no 

 mere theory on my part, but an actual 

 practice case where I am working it on an 

 apiary of 110 colonies, without a single 

 failure thus far this season or last. 



Yours truly, T. I. Dugdale. 



Xlie IVovelty Pocket-Knife is 



worth having. Mr. A. G. Amos, of New 

 York, says this about it: " The ' Novelty' 

 pocket-knife which I received with the 

 American Bee Journal arrived all O. K., 

 and it is a dandy." Better get one your- 

 self, and then you will know what a 

 " dandy " thing it is. See another page 

 for advertising offer. 



Carniolans Great Breeders. — 



The June Bee-Keepers' Review had this edi- 

 torial item by Bro. Hutchinson, on the 

 Carniolan bees : 



For several years I have had a few colo- 

 nies of Carniolans. There is no question 

 but that they are great breeders, especially 

 so in the spring. 1 am not sure but this 

 trait might not be used to advantage by 

 Northern honey-producers in getting popu- 

 lous colonies in time for the white clover 

 harvest. I do think, however, that this 

 great brood-rearing disposition needs join- 

 ing with the sense, or thrift, of the Italians. 

 To illustrate : 



I now have two colonies of pure Carnio- 

 lans. They both swarmed June 2nd. [ 

 examined their hives and found every comb 

 jammed fuU of brood, with not half a 

 pound of honey in the hive. I also found 

 another weak colony of Italians actually 

 starving. No honey was coming in. The 



Carniolans will rear brood and swarm so 

 long as there is a drop of honey in the hive, 

 and it makes no difference if none is com- 

 ing in. This may be a good trait in some 

 respects, but it needs joining with some 

 other traits. 



Xlie <j(reat Railroad (Strike, at 



this time (July 13th), gives promise of 

 being amicably settled very soon. While 

 Chicago has been the "seat of war," 

 neither the publishing of the Bee Journal 

 nor our mail have been noticeably inter- 

 fered with. It has been suggested that we 

 give something about the strike, in the Bee 

 Journal, but we hardly think it necessary, 

 as the newspapers throughout the country 

 have published full reports of the trouble, 

 which is quite sulBcient, we think. Nearly 

 all trains, both freight and passenger, are 

 now running on regular time on all the 

 railroads centering in Chicago, and it is 

 quite likely that in a week or two all will 

 be going on again as usual. 



^^ " It seems to me that I would have 

 to go out of the bee-business should I drop 

 the Bee Journal. I find it very helpful to 

 me." — B. F. Boultinghouse, of Indiana, 

 June 30, 1894. 



Continuous Advertising, even if 

 it be only a small announcement, pays the 

 advertiser the best in the long run. Spas- 

 modic advertising, like "spasms" of any 

 kind, is unsatisfactory. To secure the very 

 best results, year in and year out, you must 

 keep your name and business before the 

 public. Only by so doing can you hope to 

 keep from being forgotten when the time 

 comes that your would-be customers wish 

 to purchase what they want. 



Besides, in the fall of the year, more 

 agricultural papers send out large numbers 

 of sample copies, and the advertiser fails 

 to get the advantage of reaching the thou- 

 sands who get the free sample copies, un- 

 less he keeps his advertisement running all 

 the time. This is a matter worth thinking 

 about. Heed the lesson taught by that in- 

 telligent comb foundation firm, Chas. 

 Dadant & Son, and also others, whose ad- 

 vertisements are found in every mimher of 

 the Bee Journal without a single miss. 



Have You Read the wonderful Pre- 

 mium offers on page 95 ? 



