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VOL. XXXIV. CHICAGO, ILL, NOV. 22, 1894. 



NO. 2 



Tlie Convention Report.— Last 

 "week we explained that we had to omit the 

 St. Joseph convention report, for the sim- 

 ple reason that Secretary Benton had not 

 sent us any more " copy " after the part of 

 the report that we had published in the 

 "Bee Journal" for Nov. 8. We have the 

 same excuse to offer this week— no " copy " 

 was received from Secretary Benton in 

 time for this number. We cannot account 

 for the delay in forwarding the report to 

 us, as at this writing (Nov. 16) we have not 

 learned the cause. 



We mention the foregoing, so that our 

 readers may know that it is no fault of 

 ours, that the report fails to appear regu- 

 larly in the "Bee Journal." Next week, 

 h owever, we will publish another install- 

 ment, which came to-day. 



Xlie St. JoiiiepU Convention was 



briefly written up for " Gleanings " by Mr. 

 J. T. Calvert, Mr. Root's son-in-law and 

 business manager. He wrote entirely from 

 memory, and made a very interesting con- 

 densed report of the meeting. As he failed 

 to mention it, we think he must have tem- 

 porarily forgotten the "variety show," 

 and the seal that was accused of saying, 

 ''Go out!" 



A Year ^Vitli Bees is the title of a 

 Special Bulletin issued in October, 1894, by 

 the Apiary Department of the Michigan 

 State Agricultural College Experiment 

 Station. It is written by Hon. R. L. Tay- 

 lor, superintendent of the experiment api- 

 ary, and consists of the various monthly 

 reports which have been published in the 

 " Bee-Keepers' Review " the past year or 

 so. It has 28 pages about the size of this 

 page, and, like all that comes from the 

 hand and brain of Mr. Taylor, is most ex- 

 cellent. There is no more careful, pains- 

 taking and accomplished bee-keeper in 

 America to-day than Hon. R. L. Taylor, of 

 Lapeer, Mich. He's " the right man in the 

 right place '' — and should be kept there as 

 long as he will consent to stay. 



Mr. J. \%\ Vonng-, of Kingman, 

 Kans., sends us a beautiful picture of 1)l> 

 very neat apiary. We have never seen a 

 cleaner looking bee-yard. It is indeed a 

 model in neatness and arrangement. 



Have Yon Honey to Sell ?— If you 



have more than you can dispose of in yuur 

 home market, why not advertise it for sale 

 in the " American Bee Journal," and help 

 out some other bee-keeper who may have 

 had a short crop ? Sui'ely, those bee-keep- 

 ers who have not enough to supply a g > ;d 

 local trade already worked up, would m ich 

 prefer to get honey from another bee- 

 keeper than to get it elsewhere. Then, ue- 

 sides, there is in it the idea of helping eajh 

 other. 



Also, a better price would probably be 

 obtained in this way, for your honey now 

 on hand, as almost any one would prefer to 

 buy from some one whom they could rely 



