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VOL XXXIV. CHICAGO, ILL, JULY 26, 1894. 



NO. 4. 



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Boracic Acid— a quart of boiling 

 water to a tea-spoonful of the drug — is said 

 to be an immediate cure for bee-stings. 



'I'o Keinove Propolis from the 

 hands, clothing, etc., use alcohol, ether or 

 chloroform, as they are ready solvents of 

 bee-glue. 



i^ot a I^arge Crop has been taken 

 by bee-keepers this year, if we may judge 

 from the reports thus far. In many locali- 

 ties the severe drouth has cut off the honey 

 resources, and doubtless the bees must be 

 fed to tide them over. 



A short crop should mean longer (or bet- 

 ter) prices for honey this year, so those 

 who are fortunate enough to have any 

 honey for sale, should use extra care in 

 marketing it, in order to realize the best 

 financial results possible. 



It is the height of folly to rush much 

 honey to any one market, and thus over- 

 stock it, and cause prices to be lowered. A 

 better way is to market it yourself, if you 

 can do so— sell it in your home market— to 

 your neighbors who do not keep bees, or 

 else sell it from house to house in the near- 

 est towns. The producer may as well save 

 the middlemen's profit, and at the same 



time work up a demand that would take 

 aU his honey, year after year, and also at 

 much better prices than can be realized in 

 any other way. 



With a superior article of honey (either 

 comb or extracted), and a well worked 

 home market, we believe the best and most 

 satisfactory results in bee-keeping will be 

 attained. 



^Vliat Have Ifoii I^earned this 

 season in your apiary ? Have you dis- 

 covered any new kinks that are worth 

 knowing ? If so, why not tell us all about 

 it, and thus contribute your share toward 

 the general good ? The Bee Journal is 

 here to aid in such interchange of ideas as 

 shall be most helpful to all, and the only 

 way to get the greatest amount of good 

 out of it, is for each one to put in something 

 of value. What have you to give ? 



I^" I have never succeeded in rearing 

 queens which pleased me every time, till I 

 commenced to work in harmony with Na- 

 ture's plans. — DooUttle. 



Tlie Honey-Flo^v for 1N94.— We 

 find in Gleanings for July 15th, this editorial 

 item about the honey-flow for this year, 

 which will be of interest : 



The honey-flow, so far as reported, seems 

 to be widely different in various localities. 

 So far in Ohio- -at least in our vicinity — we 

 have had a good flow from basswood.' Cer- 

 tain parts of New York State and Pennsyl- 

 vania report the same. As the letters are 

 coming in day by day. about half report 

 this as being the poorest of the poor seasons 

 so far. The other half— especially those in 

 the basswood regions — are jubilant over 

 their fine crops of honey. In a few days 

 we expect to send out statistical blanks to 



