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VOL. XXXIV. CHICAGO, ILL, DEC. 13. 1894. 



NO. 24. 



■•rof. A. J. Coolc, we understand, 

 will represent the California State Univer- 

 sity at Farmers' Institutes in Southern 

 California during the coming season. That 

 should mean that bee-culture will be prop- 

 erly presented in that region. Prof. Cook 

 knows how to make the subject interesting, 

 and no doubt the industry will be greatly 

 helped there. 



Ifli-. «. K. Hubbard, of Indiana, 

 whose wife has been an invalid for several 

 years, writes that she is better now. We 

 are glad to learn this, and trust she may 

 fully recover. They are in Riverside, Calif., 

 and Mr. H. says that he is " picking up an 

 apiary with more earnestness than ever, 

 having bought 31 colonies, with more in 



Friends. — "If a man has a thousand 

 friends he has not one too many." — Review. 



This also is true : If a publisher of a bee- 

 paper has 10,000 friends, or subscribers, he 

 has not one too many. There is no limit to 

 the number of friends every man or woman 

 would like to count as their own. The 

 "Good Book" says that he that would 

 have friends must make himself friendly. 

 Pretty good recipe for friend-making, 



Xliomas Cir. IVe^v^man and ll'^ife 



leave Chicago this week for a trip to the 

 East, visiting relatives and old-time friends. 

 They expect to return about Jan. 1. We 

 trust they may have a pleasant time and 

 safe journey. Mr. Newman certainly needs 

 the rest and recreation afforded by such a 

 trip, after having put in some months of 

 hard work in several of the life insurance 

 and fraternal orders to which he belongs. 

 And the change will do Mrs. Newman much 

 good, as her health is not the ruggedest. 



I>r. C C J^Iiller expects to be at the 

 meeting of the Northern Illinois Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association at Rockford, Dec. 18 and 

 19, in the court house. 



Belated Convention Report. — 



As we expected, some of our subscribers 

 are becoming justly dissatisfied with the 

 snail-rate at which we have been compelled 

 to publish the report of the proceedings of 

 the St. Joseph convention, held Oct. 10, 11 

 and 12. Here is a fair sample of what is in 

 the minds of some of our readers, which 

 we received Dec. 4: 



Editor York :— What is the matter with 

 that report of the St. Joseph convention ? 

 Here it is Dec. 3, and the convention that 

 commenced in October hasn't got through 

 its first day. At that rate, when will we 

 get the last of it ? Those who were there 

 perhaps do not care, but most of us were 

 absent, and depend upon the reports that 

 have always come so promptly heretofore. 

 Of course we do not want to blame you if 

 you are not to blame, but we would like to 

 know, you know. If you are getting so old 

 that you cannot move around so lively as 

 you used to, just say so and we will make 

 allowance. If that shorthanded reporter 

 has been on a spree and lost his notes, say 

 so. But really, we cannot see why there 

 should be such slow work when the reporter 



