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VOL. XXXIV. CHICAGO, ILL, DEC. 27, 1894. 



NO. 26. 



GEORGE W YORK.%0 



, EP'^O" .y<C^^ 



' A Happy ]\e>v Year" to you all- 

 With cheerfulness and health. 

 A Happy New Year " may it be, 

 Midst poverty or wealth. 



]^o Convention Copy was received 

 in time for this number of the Bee Journal, 

 consequently none of the report of the 

 North American will be found in it this 

 week. We had hoped to complete the re- 

 port before the Toronto meeting, in 1895, 

 but, like some other things in Washington, 

 D. C, 'tis inexcusably slow-moving. 



Tlie Index to Volume XXXIV 



will be found in this number. It is what 

 might be called " a recapitulation " of the 

 26 issues of the American Bee Journal since 

 July 1, 1894. We hope the majority of our 

 readers have preserved the copies from 

 week to week, so that now, with the aid of 

 the index, they will be able to refer with 

 ease to any particular and important topic 

 they may desire to re-read. It may be that 

 some matters during the hurry of summer- 

 time were overlooked. The index will re- 

 mind you of any such. Look it over — then 

 bind it in with the preceding 25 numbers, 

 and you will have a valuable volume of the 

 latest bee-literature. 



Anotliei* Volnnie of the American 

 Bee Journal is completed with this number. 

 Its 35th year will commence next week. 

 We hope that 1895 will be the best year the 

 old American Bee Journal ever had. We 

 believe that in its special bee-information 

 and general reading on the subject of bee- 

 culture, the next volume will far exceed 

 that of any previous volume. It shall be 

 our constant aim and endeavor to improve 

 its contents from week to week. We desire 

 ever and always to give more than " value 

 received " — to give two dollars' worth of 

 bee-reading for one dollar. We believe in 

 " scripture measure " — pressed down, heap- 

 ing up, and running over. Our efforts will 

 surely be rewarded, for bee-keepers, as a 

 rule, are a generous, fair, and square class 

 of people. And they " know a good thing 

 when they see it." We'll try to see that 

 they '• see a good thing " in the old Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal every week. 



Expei-inient Apiary Reports. — 



On page 814 of this number of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, will be found some 

 "boiled down" reports of experiments 

 made by Hon. R. L. Taylor, of the Michi- 

 gan Experiment Apiary. The "boiling 

 down " process was done, as will be seen, 

 by Rev. W. F. Clarke, who, for the time 

 being, acted as " cook." It required a deal 

 of work to thus condense the several long 

 reports, and will no doubt be appreciated 

 by all. 



Another ISee-I*aralysi<<$ Core. — 



In the November Bee-Keepers' Review, W. 

 A. Webster, of BakersQeld, Calif., gives 

 another remedy for bee-paralysis. He says 

 it was given to him by one of his corres- 



