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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



for the extra expense and trouble, but 

 that protecting the yard by high-board 

 fences, or otherwise, would pay. 



J. J. Ochsner carried off the North 

 American Bee-Keepers' Association 

 silver medal. 



It was voted that Mr. Hatch and Mr. 

 Turner be authorized to go to Milwau- 

 kee to confer with the World's Fair 

 Commission in reference to Wisconsin's 

 honey exhibit, and that the expenses be 

 paid out of the grant from the State. 



Bee-Keepliig In FlorlJa. 



MES. L. HARKISON. 



Mr. Craycraft's prayer (page 82) is 

 answered. I am spending the Winter in 

 Florida, but as yet I have found no bee- 

 keepers worthy of the name. All the 

 bees that I can hear of in this town, are 

 8 or 10 colonies of blacks, which man- 

 age their own affairs, principally. 



I am told that there are very exten- 

 sive apiaries located at Wewahicthka, 

 Fla., and I am going to visit them on my 

 way home ; if I do, I will tell you about 

 them, and whether they produce comb 

 or extracted-honey, and their reasons 

 for so doing. 



I have just been out in the yard with 

 the broom, but I must confess that I 

 could not run the handle down to water. 

 If I had gone over to a ti-ti in sight, per- 

 haps I migh,t. The lady must have been 

 mistaken. 



Our party came with a livery team 

 from Chiply, 52 miles distant, and as we 

 passed houses, I would see bed-clothing 

 hung out in the sun. It puzzled me to 

 know why women should hang out their 

 gaily-patched quilts to fade. I saw the 

 same thing here, and on making in- 

 quiries I was told that good house-keep- 

 ers habitually hung out their bed-clothes 

 to dry out the dampness once a week. 



The palings on the fence opposite keep 

 falling off like Autumn leaves ; the nails 

 rust off. Stoves rust, and you cannot 

 pull a pin out of a cushion. Bees may 

 build comb here just as well as in Illi- 

 nois, but I doubt very much its keeping 

 any length of time after it is removed 

 from the hives. I should expect that it 

 would g(it watery, and burst the cells, 

 unless kept in a well-ventilated room 

 with iir(3 heat. The comb-honey that I 

 have bought here, was cut out of the 

 top of a hive, and kept in a tin can, all 

 broken up. It would not sell in my 

 market at all. 



I saw bees working to-day (Feb. 17) 

 on peach-bloom. Strawberries are 

 blooming, and the yellow jessamine is 

 opening ; I saw a vine to-day on the side 

 of a house, and it was lovely. 



Hives are very populous, and the bees 

 are busy carrying heavy loads of pollen 

 of a pale yellow color. I heard this 

 evening of an apiary located three miles 

 away, which I will visit in a sail-boat, if 

 the wind blows in that direction. 



St. Andrews' Bay, Fla. 



PMlalelBlila Bee-Keepers' Convention. 



The tenth annual meeting of the 

 Philadelphia Bee-Keepers' Association 

 was called to oider by the President, at 

 Philadelphia on Jan. 23, 1892. The 

 Secretary read the minutes of the pre- 

 vious meeting, which were approved as 

 read. 



The President then called attention 

 to the work which had been accomplish- 

 ed by the Association since its organiza- 

 tion ten years ago, and stated that the 

 Secretary had prepared a brief history 

 of the Association, which he would read 

 after the routine business had been dis- 

 posed of. 



He also reported a communication 

 from Dr. C. S. Dolley, Professor of Gen- 

 eral Biology at the University of Penn-: 

 sylvania, from which he hoped an 

 opportunity would be afforded to the 

 members of the Association for seeing 

 the model of the honey-bee recently im- 

 ported from Paris. The following is a 

 description of this splendid model, taken 

 from the Philadelphia Record : 



MODEL OF THE HONEY-BEE.' 



" An Immense honey-bee has been im- 

 prisoned in one of the rooms of the 

 University of Pennsylvania. It is fully 

 4)^ feet from sucker to sting, and meas- 

 ures nearly 6 feet from tip-to-tip of 

 wings. This is the largest bee ever 

 seen in this part of the country, at least, 

 and if it could feed on clover blossoms, 

 would make necessarily a great honey- 

 producer, for its honey-bag is big enough 

 to store away a whole comb. But there 

 is little danger that it'will escape from 

 imprisonment to the fields, as it is made 

 entirely of papier-macho. This huge 

 imitation has been purchased for the 

 use of the students in the Biological De- 

 partment of the University. It was 

 manufactured in Paris by an ingenious 

 artificer, Emile Deyrolle, who is famous 

 for being the unique constructor of such 

 biological working models. 



