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VOL XXXIII. CHICAGO, ILL, JAN. 18, 1894. 



NO. 3. 



Jake Smitli is heard from again with 

 his semi-comic letters to "Mr. A. I. Gleen- 

 ings." If we should try real hard, we 

 think we could tell who " Jake Smith " is. 

 But it's more fun not to tell. 



iVIany Contributions we always re- 

 ceive at this time of the year, and of course 

 cannot publish them all at once. Those 

 who have sent us anything for the Bee 

 Journal, that is still unpublished, will 

 please be patient, and we will " give them 

 a show " as soon as we possibly can. We 

 believe in giving all a fair chance, but of 

 course we can't put everything into one 

 issue of the Bee Journal. So if our friends 

 will only bear with us a little while, we 

 will be able to let them have their " say." 



Xlie ^licliigait Convention re- 

 port we have received for publication in 

 the Bee Journal. We will begin it next 

 week. Bro. Hutchinson, the Secretary, 

 prepared it for us, and, after looking it 

 over, we think they must have had a much 

 better convention than their last one was — 

 less of a questionable character in the 

 essays and discussions this time. It pays to 

 '• keep in the middle of the road," and not 

 " go off " on dangerous " side-tracks." 



I>r. A. a. Jflason, we are sorry to 

 learn, has been suffering from an attack of 

 the "grippe." We had about a month of 

 it the latter part of October and first of 

 November, 1893, and know how to sympa- 

 thize with the Doctor. We are glad he is 

 better again, though we presume that a 

 man who pulls teeth for apart of his living, 

 wouldn't complain much if he had to endure 

 a little pain himself. But then, we are sure 

 Dr. Mason doesn't " enjoy " poor health or 

 pain, any more than one who is less in- 

 clined to be jovial and good-natured. 



Bees never make an attack while in 

 quest of honey, or on their return, until 

 they have entered the hive. It is only in 

 the hive and in its vicinity, that we may 

 expect them to manifest this irascible dis- 

 position. — Quiuby . 



Bees and Pollenization. — Califor- 

 nia fruit-growers are rapidly coming to 

 their senses in the matter of the value of 

 bees in the pollenization of fruit-blossoms, 

 and thus insuring an abundant harvest. 

 Prof. Cook, writing from there on Dec. 21st, 

 has this to say about it : 



Friend York: — I see by the papers that 

 some of the leading horticulturists of Cali- 

 fornia are becoming aware of the value of 

 bees in the work of pollenization of plants. 

 Some of the leading fruit-growers in the 

 annual meeting of the State Horticultural 

 Society expressed themselves very heartily 

 in favor of the bees. 



Mr. E. A. Gammon, of Courtland, Calif., 

 (who has charge of Mrs. D. D. Gammon's 

 fine fruit-ranch, and who secures the very 

 highest prices for his fruit, having sold the 

 product of about 40 acres of bearing or- 

 chard for as much as $16,000 in a single sea- 

 son), has become convinced that he loses 

 much from the fact of imperfect poUeniza- 



