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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Here's a €roo<1 One.— In an essay 

 read before a certain Farmers' Institute 

 not 500 miles from Chicago, were these 

 words : 



As Rev. E. T. Abbott, of England, has it, 

 " Apis is Latin for bee, and an apiary is 

 where bees, and not apes, are kept." 



We have thought for some time that Rev. 

 E. T. Abbott was the present President of 

 the North American Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion ; and also that he lives in St. Joseph, 

 Mo., not in England! The 'ape-y" part 

 of the quotation sounds more natural, but 

 you can't prove it by us. May be he did 

 say it. 



Xlie St. JTo^iiepli Convention will 

 be in session while most of our readers are 

 perusing these pages. Next week we hope 

 to be able to tell something about the meet- 

 ing, that may interest those who were un- 

 able to attend. Then the following week 

 we expect to begin publishing the proceed- 

 ings in full, as we have employed an expert 

 to report the convention specially for the 

 American Bee Journal. W. Z. Hutchin- 

 son is the man who will " take down " the 

 "doings "in a short-hand way, and then, 

 after the convention is over, write it all 

 out so the rest of us can read it in the Bee 

 Journal. 



Yon iflay Ke Sni'pi'ise<l to receive 

 this number of the American Bee Journal 

 earlier than usual, but it is on account of 

 our going to St. Joseph, Mc, this week to 

 attend the North American bee-convention. 

 If your next week's copy of the Bee Jour- 

 nal is late, you will have to blame that 

 same convention for it. It has required 

 some hard work for us to arrange matters 

 in our office so as to get away for nearly a 

 whole week, but we have succeeded in doing 

 it, and now expect to have a delightful 

 time with the members of the North Ameri- 

 can at the St. Joseph meeting. All our 

 correspondence will have to be neglected 

 for about a week, when we expect to be 

 again at the " old stand," and with our ac- 

 customed promptness. 



Rev. IVni. F. VlarUe, of Guelph, 

 Ont., Canada, called on us last week. He 

 was visiting friends and relatives in Chi- 

 cago. Most of our readers know that Mr. 

 Clarke, over 20 years ago, was editor of the 



American Bee Journal, having removed 

 it from Washington, D. C, to Chicago, 

 where it has been published ever since. In 

 1873 he sold his interest to Mr. Thomas G. 

 Newman, who edited and published it until 

 June 1, 1892, when the present proprietors 

 assumed full control of the destinies of the 

 old American Bee Journal. Mr. New- 

 man's financial interest in it ceased when it 

 passed into our hands, though we find that 

 the mistaken idea is still abroad, that he is 

 yet closely connected with its management. 

 Mr. Newman continued in the bee-supply 

 business in Chicago, and publishes the 

 monthly lllmtrated Home Journal. He is 

 also the General Manager of the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Union, which has done so 

 much in defending bee-keepers against un- 

 just and malicious persecution. 



X^venty-One Xons^ of Honey. — 



Mr. Thos. B. Blair, of Neenah, Wis., sent 

 us the following item that he had clipped 

 from a local newspaper, and whose truth- 

 fulness he was inclined to doubt: 



Mrs. W. J. Pickard, of Richland Centre, 

 Wis., shipped to New York a carload of 

 honey weighing 36,000 pounds. Her entire 

 product this year was 42,000 pounds, which 

 amount was procured in 31 days, making 

 an average of two tons a day. 



Wishing, before publishing the item, to 

 be assured that it was something near the 

 truth, we wrote Mrs. Pickard herself, and 

 here is her reply, which came promptly: 



Richland Ctr., Wis., Oct. 1, 1894. 

 George W. York & Co., Chicago, 111. 



Dear Sirs .-—This clipping is worded almost 

 exactly as I gave it to our home editor, and 

 there need be no doubt about the truthful- 

 ness of the statement. Although this is a 

 large amount of honey, it is nevertheless 

 the truth. Yours respectfully, 



Mrs. W. J. Pickard. 



P. S.— There is one statement which 

 might be corrected, and that is, it ought to 

 be 2,000 pounds instead of two tons per 

 day. Mrs. W. J. P. 



Certainly the words " Well done," can 

 aptly be addressed to Mrs. Pickard, for her 

 crop of honey is indeed something glorious 

 in this year of drouth and unfavorable re- 

 sults in the majority of the apiaries of our 

 land. 



It would be interesting to know the num- 

 ber of colonies Mrs. Pickard had, and any- 

 thing else about the matter that she may 

 be good enough to tell us all. 



