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VOL. XXXIV. CHICAGO. ILL, AUG. 9, 1894. 



NO. 6. 



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Bees und PloMers is a new 4-page 

 circular just issued by the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Union, 147 South Western Ave., 

 Chicago, 111. It treats of the relation of 

 bees to horticulture, being a reprint of the 

 valuable and interesting essay by Bro. C. 

 P. Dadant, which we published in the Bee 

 Journal for June 21, 1S94. This new cir- 

 cular should be widely distributed in fruit- 

 growing districts, as the facts which it con- 

 tains regarding the great value of bees to 

 blossoms, are clear and conclusive. We 

 presume you can have as many free copies 

 as you can use judiciously, by addressing 

 the Union as above. 



Cotton-IVaste lor Siiiolcer Fuel. 



— Mr. L. Highbarger — a successful bee- 

 keeper — says in the Home Journal that he 

 uses cotton-waste for bee-smoker fuel, such 

 as possibly may have been used in axles 

 of railroad cars, and saturated with oil. He 

 says it gives the best satisfaction of any- 

 thing he has tried, and it never goes out. 

 The way to use it is this: " Drop a coal of 

 fire in the fire-box of the smoker; then put 

 some of the cotton-waste on it, give a few 

 puffs with the bellows, and then notice 

 how slowlv it burns." 



Honey will be Money this year, sure. 



JBro. \¥. C R. Kemp, of Orleans, 



Ind., met with a serious accident on Tues- 

 day, July 24th. His horses ran away, and 

 as a result dislocating and fracturing the 

 bones of bis left wrist. We can sympathize 

 with Bro. K., as we received ezactiy the same 

 kind of an injury 16 years ago last June, 

 having been thrown from a horse on the 

 farm. But Time has fully healed the hurt, 

 as he does in nearly all cases, whether 

 wounds of the feelings or body. 



Keeping- Empty Conil)s.— Bro. 



Hutchinson says in the Review that combs 

 which he didn't expect to use this season 

 have kept nicely, hung one inch apart in a 

 dark, cool cellar. They have not been 

 fumigated, and he sees no need of it. 



Our Visit to Mr. Liyman^s. — On 



the afternoon of Saturday, July 28th, we 

 visited the home and apiary of Bro. Walter 

 C. Lyman, of Downer's Grove, Ills., 20 

 miles southwest of this city, on the Chi- 

 cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad. We 

 boarded the train at the Union Depot in 

 Chicago at 12:10 p.m., and arrived at our 

 destination about 1 o'clock, where we found 

 Mr. Lyman waiting for us with horse and 

 carriage. 



He lives nearly a mile directly north of 

 town, on a farm of 240 acres. The family 

 consists of Bro. L., his mother (who is 73 

 years old) , and an unmarried sister. Mr. 

 Lyman is also unmarried. He is about 40 

 years old — certainly old enough to know 

 what kind of a wife he wants, but for some 

 reason (likely well known to himself) he 

 has not, as yet. found this particular one 

 of '' Heaven's best blessings." 



Mother Lyman is a dear old lady— but 



