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VOL. XXXIV. CHICAGO, ILL. AUG. 2. 1894. 



NO. 5. 



GE.ORCE W Y0RK.%S7 



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Rev. W, Anderson, of Imlay City, 

 Mich., made us a very pleasant call last 

 week. He has 35 colonies of bees, and has 

 some honey this year, taken from bass- 

 wood bloom. Bro. Anderson evidently 

 finds that bee-keeping and the preaching of 

 Congregational gospel go well together. 



An Australian I..etter will be found 

 this week on page 146, written by Mr. Ed- 

 ward Rye, proprietor of the Wingham, N. 

 S. W., Vhrwdcle. Mr. Rye is a beginner in 

 bee-keeping, but writes very entertainingly 

 of his apiarian experience, and of the pros- 

 pects for bee-keeping in his country. We 

 are always glad to hear from far-away 

 Australia, and the progress being made 

 there with modern apicultural methods. 



Bro. Xlionia!^ Cw. ]\e>v 



called on a week ago last Saturday, and 

 found him suffering from a severe cold, 

 which, on top of the exhausting attacks of 

 la grippe he has had, just about "used him 

 up." He reported a fair trade in bee-sup- 

 plies up to the time of the railroad strike, 

 which stopped everything. But the past 

 two weeks all has gone on again about as 

 usual, and he is filling orders with his ac- 

 customed promptness. 



JTIating- of 4(neens.— Dr. F. L. Peiro, 



who conducts " Our Doctor's Hints " in the 

 Bee Journal, handed us this item re- 

 cently, which he translated from L^-iplcol- 

 tore, an Italian bee-paper : 



The Bleueazeltunn has gathered statistics 

 regarding the marital excursions of queens, 

 and learns that fecundation seldom if ever 

 occurs until after her third flight — usually 

 later. The time required for impregnation 

 varies from 10 to 35 minutes. 



Xlie Bee-Keepers' Revie^v for 



July came very nearly being an August 

 number. It was all caused by the railroad 

 strike, Bro. Hutchinson says, as he had " to 

 wait nearly three weeks for paper." 



'» Bee-I..ine " I^e\»'Iy Belined. — 



In a district school the pupils were asked to 

 define a bee-line. A small boy answered: 

 " I know it: It's the line a feller makes fer 

 home when a bee's stung him." Probably 

 he had in mind an experience all his own, 

 and so knew what he was talking about. 



Rouncl-TCp in tlie Apiary. — Mrs. 

 L. Harrison, writing in the Orange Judd 

 Farmer the past month, had this to say: 



It is a good time now to have a round- 

 up in the apiary preparatory to a fall flow 

 of honey. Where colonies have been al- 

 lowed to swarm at their own pleasure, 

 there may be parent colonies which have 

 swarmed to death ; that is. until they have 

 too few bees to pass the coming winter in 

 safety. Small after-swarms or casts may 

 also be found, which have only a small 

 amount of comb. If these were returned 

 to the parent colony before the fall flow of 

 honey, they may be able to secure enough 

 stores for cold weather. 



In my apiary there has not been a single 

 after-swarm this season, and but few first 



