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VOL. XXXIII. CHICAGO, ILL, JAN. 11, 1894. 



NO. 2. 



Xlie "Weaf lier, up to Jan. 5th, here 

 in Chicago, has been more like fall than 

 winter. Reports seem to indicate that bees 

 are wintering well, so far. 



Mr. .Foliii Hag'er, Ji-., of Arabi, 

 La., has sent us a box of specimens of 

 honey-plants now in bloom in his locality, 

 among them white clover and golden-rod. 

 We wish to thank Bro. Hager for his kind- 

 ness, as it is something unusual for us to 

 see blossoms of honey-plants in the month 

 of January. Louisiana, as well as the 

 other States in our Sunny Southland, ought 

 to be a Paradise for the bee-keeper and his 

 bees. Doubtless it only needs a little more 

 push and energy to wonderfully develop 

 the bee-industry in that region of almost 

 perpetual sunshine and blossoms. 



<jileaiiiiig'!« ill IBee-Ctiltin'c for 



Jan. 1st. 1894, appeared with afew very nice 

 improvements. The principal one is the 

 proposed " leading " of the reading matter 

 — that is, putting strips of lead or metal be- 

 tween the lines, so that they will be further 

 apart. This paragraph is "leaded," while 

 "The Stingea-'s " department in the Bee 

 Journal is " solid," as printer's say. 



This " leading," Bro. Root says, will re- 



duce the amount of reading in Gleanings 

 about one-Jifth, and as Bro. Hasty, in the 

 lieview for March, 1893, figured that the 

 Bee Journal then contained over 16.000 

 more words of bee-reading per month than 

 Gleanings, hereafter the Bee Journal will be 

 more than ever at the head of the list in 

 quantity of bee-matter published ; and as to 

 quality of contents — well, we can safely 

 leave that to our subscribers, whether or 

 not it is up to standard. 



Bro. Root has also put in some nice new 

 departmental headings, which, with the 

 "leading" of the type, give to Gleanings 

 an exceedingly neat and tasty appearance. 



It is hardly necessary for me to say 

 that the Italians are my choice among 

 all the bees that I have ever .seen, either" 

 for comb honey or for nxtracted.—BooUttle. 



JKi'O. I*rinsle, of Canada, who had in 

 charge the Ontario honey exhibit at the 

 World's Fair last summer, left for home 

 on Dec. 21st. He had been in Chicago ever 

 since April 6th, being the first apiarian 

 superintendent to reach the Fair grounds, 

 and the last to leave. 



The day before departing for his Cana- 

 dian home, Bro. Pringle kindly called to 

 bid us "good-bye," at the same time bring- 

 ing with him, for "ye editor," a quart jar 

 of fine clear extracted honey, as a memento 

 from Bro. McEvoy, Ontario's popular Foul 

 Brood Inspector ; also a pound jar of honey 

 from Mr. D. Chalmers, of Poole, Ont. ; and, 

 besides, a beautiful one-pound section of 

 honey as a slight remembrance from Bro. 

 P. himself. We want to thank all these 

 friends for their "sweet" expressions of 

 good-will, and assure them that we very 



