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VOL. XXXIII. CHICAGO, ILL. MAR. 15, 1894. 



NO. 11. 



1 GEORGE WY0Ri^^7 



^Vliere Honey Conies I'^roni. — On 



another page of this number of the Bee 

 Journal will be found the promised inter- 

 esting address delivered by Mr. R. Mc- 

 Knight, at the recent Ontario convention. 



Conil> Honey !* Years Old.— Hon. 

 Eugene Secor, of Forest City, Iowa, sent 

 us the following on March 3rd, about a box 

 of comb honey that had been kept for eight 

 years, and still was well preserved : 



We have just finished eating a 3-pound 

 box of comb honey that was eight years 

 old. It has been kept, too, under unfavor- 

 able conditions a part of the time, having 

 been moved from kitchen to garret several 

 times, and last summer, while we were 

 building, it was exposed to all the changing 

 moods of climate for three months out-of- 

 doors. But it would not stand everything. 

 In handling it somehow got broken, began 

 to leak, and we were obliged to eat it to 

 save it — as the lion protects the lamb. The 

 honey was all right. No one at the table 

 suspected that it was old. It was nbt gran- 

 ulated in the cells, and I think never has 

 been. 



This is no remarkable afifair, I suppose. 

 Probably most bee-keepers know that 

 honey can be preserved almost indefinitely 

 if properly taken care of. By the way, I 

 believe I have now an almost ideal place to 

 keep honey in — an attic where it will al- 

 ways be dry and warm — under a tin roof. 

 Eugene Secok. 



Bees and Fruit is the title of a 16- 

 page pamphlet just issued by A. I. Root, of 

 Medina, Ohio. It shows the important part 

 played by bees in the fertilization of blos- 

 soms, giving the evidence pro and con,. It 

 is the "Symposium on Bees and Fruit" 

 that we mentioned on page 364, put in 

 pamphlet form for handy distribution by 

 bee-keepers among fruit-growing neighbors 

 who think that bees are detrimental to their 

 interests. Prices are : Single copies, post- 

 paid, 2 cents each ; 25 copies, 40 cents ; 50 

 copies, 75 cents; and 100 copies, *1.25. 



]lfot Swpply Healers. — Our subscrib- 

 ers will please remember that we are ?iot 

 dealers in bee-supplies ; so do not send to us 

 for a catalogue — send to those who adver- 

 tise supplies in the Bee Journal, and they 

 will be glad to accommodate you. 



^Vintering" ^Vell. — So far reports 

 seem to indicate that bees are wintering 

 quite nicely all over the country. Now if 

 they will only " spring" equally well, bee- 

 keepers will be prepared to harvest a large 

 crop of honey — providing the flowers " give 

 down " the nectar. 



Prof. Cook and His IWeM' Home. 



— As many of the friends of Prof. A. J. 

 Cook will be pleased to know just what he 

 is doing in his new home at Claremont, 

 Calif., it gives us a great deal of pleasure 

 to make the following statements : 



He is Professor of Zoology and Ento- 

 mology at Pomona College — precisely the 

 same position which he held in the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College. 



Pomona College is a denominational in- 

 stitution, like Oberlin, Amherst, Olivet, etc. 



