VOL. XXXIV. CHICAGO, ILL, SEPT. 20, 1894. 



NO. 12. 



N GlORCE W YORK =t;p' 



Uro. Ci. 1£. IlHl»bar4l and wife, of 

 Ft. Wayne, Ind., left last week for River- 

 side, Calif., where Mrs. H. finds increased 

 health and strength. She has been an in- 

 valid for several years, but California 

 climate helps her wonderfully. We hope 

 she may speedily be restored to vigorous 

 health. 



Xo Remove Propolis from the 

 hands is quite a job unless you know how. 

 Bro. Holtermann, in the Canadicm Bee Jour- 

 nal, says: " We pour a little coal-oil in the 

 palm of the hand, and rub it well over the 

 parts soiled. The oil readily removes the 

 substance. Wash well after applying the 

 oil, rubbing with soap and cold (or better 

 warm) water, and your hands are clean." 



Xlie C\ IS. &. <|. Railroad is the 



hest one to take when going to the St. 

 Joseph, Mo., meeting of the North Ameri- 

 can. Please don't forget this. Also re- 

 member that the convention will be held 

 Oct. 10th, nth and 12th. The "Harvest 

 Excursion" on all the roads east of the 

 Missouri river starts on Oct. 9th. If you 

 want to ride on the best road to St. Joseph, 

 he sure to take the " C. B. & Q." 



Xhe JVatloual ]VIitseiiiii at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, contains some bees, it seems, 

 though not live ones. A writer in the 

 Western Rural says this about it : 



While passing through the National 

 Museum, in Washington. D. C, the other 

 day, my attention was attracted by a case 

 containing 13 small vials. These were filled 

 with a black liquid, and in each was a small 

 insect. Closer examination proved that in 

 this small case was a condensed history of 

 our honey-bee. The vials were divided into 

 three rows ; one being made up of those 

 containing the worker-bees ; the second con- 

 tained the queens; and the third the 

 drones. The vials in each division showed 

 the bees in four stages of development — 

 the egg, the larvae, the pupa, and the 

 imago, or fully developed bee. The ma- 

 ture insect must have passed through all 

 these stages. It is interesting to study the 

 bees in these different conditions. 



j^ortli Aiiierieau I>eleg-ates. — 



Pres. Abbott is becoming more enthusias- 

 tic about the future of the North American 

 Bee-Keepers' Association than if a whole 

 colony of properly aroused Cyprian bees 

 were after him. That's a good sign. We 

 need more enthusiasts on this line. Here 

 is what Bro. Abbott says now: 



THE FUTURE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN. 



Rev. W. F. Clarke, in his address at the 

 Keokuk meeting had the following to say 

 on this subject: 



" I have only one word more to say about 

 the future of this Association. It needs to 

 assume a more representative character. 

 All along, during the course of its history, 

 we have tried to give it this feature. The 

 only defect in this meeting has been that 

 there were so few ' wise men from the East ' 

 here. The distance is too great for many 

 whose hearts have been with us, to bear 

 the expense of the journey. 



•'I say frankly, that but for the generous 

 of my fellow-members of the 



