weekly, $1 a Year, f ^^'^^''^^l^^ro^^^is-C^UBE. \ Sample Copy Free. 



VOL XXXIV. CHICAGO, ILL. NOV. 29. 1894. 



NO. 22. 



s GEORGE W Y0RK.%<7 



~^ i^o'^o^ /^r^^ 



Cfive Xliaiikii* for blessings you enjoy — 



For life and health, and all ; 

 Your gratitude express with praise— 



Ye bee-folks, large and small. 



Tlie Convcntioit Report is con- 

 tinued again in this number, and we trust 

 that from now on we may not be hindered 

 in crowding it right through. 



Hon. Eugene Secor, of Forest City, 

 Iowa, will read an essay on "The Mission 

 of the Birds and Bees in the Orchard and 

 Garden," at the next meeting of the Iowa 

 State Horticultural Society. That will be 

 worth going a long distance hear. Bro. 

 ■Secor, if he is anything, is a close student 

 of nature, and a most able and conservative 

 writer. 



Mr. E. S. Eovesy, of Salt Lake City, 

 Utah, sends us a picture of a honey exhibit 

 made at their Fair this fall, by Messrs. 

 Lovesy, Terry & Co. Mr. L. and Father 

 Terry are shown in the picture, and the ex- 

 hibit is quite a large one. We understand 

 that they captured the first premium on 

 nearly everything. Which shows what good 

 work they must have done, and what a fine 

 exhibit they must have had. 



manag'enient or tlie Bees? was 



talked of just a little bit at the late North 

 American convention, "management" be- 

 ing considered of greater importance. Here 

 is what Editor Root said about it in 

 " Gleanings " for Nov. 15: 



It was decided at the St. Joseph conven- 

 tion that there is more in management 

 than in races of bees or location. Obviously, 

 bee-journals cannot improve location. They 

 may do a little in the way of betterment 

 of races; but they can do very much in 

 suggesting new and better management; 

 hence, no bee-keeper who keeps even but 

 few colonies can afford to be without at 

 least one good bee-journal. 



True, Bro. Root, bee-papers can do, and 

 are doing, much for the advancement of 

 practical and profitable management in the 

 apiary. Scarcely any bee-keeper of any 

 prominence or success goes without one or 

 more good bee-papers now-a-days. And 

 day by day more are coming to see that 

 without the help of a bee-paper they can- 

 not hope to keep up with those who do read 

 and profit thereby. 



Tlie American Bee-Keeper for 



November contains these sentences in its 

 report of the St. Joseph convention : 



We note that the press was abundantly 

 honored. Every representative of a bee- 

 paper present, excepting Editor York, who 

 held the office of Treasurer last year, was 

 elected to some office. 



Not so fast, our good friend. You have 

 forgotten Editors Leahy and Quigley, of 

 the "Progressive Bee-Keeper," who were 

 present also at the St. Joseph convention, 

 but were not elected to any office — probably 

 because there were not quite enough offices 

 to accommodate every press member pres- 

 ent. But we are rather inclined to think 



