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VOL XXXIII. CHICAGO, ILL, APR. 19, 1894. 



NO. 16. 



Ml GEORGE W YORKfv^ 



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Sii«1<len I>eatli. we just learn, came 

 to Mr. S. Corneil, of Lindsay, Ont., on Sat- 

 urday, March 7th, while he was out in his 

 garden. Particulars later. 



lL.a <wrippe has been after Rev. W. F. 

 Clarke all winter — perhaps it would be 

 more correct to say that it has had him in 

 its grip all winter. Either way is bad 

 •enough. He says he now can sympathize 

 with Friend Newman, who has suffered 

 with la grippe for several years. 



Mr. ■%V. C R. Kemp, of Indiana, 

 lias sent us a sample of what he calls '"the 

 world's best bee-smoker," and which he 

 manufactures. It is well made, has a strong 

 cold blast, and ought to answer every pur- 

 pose for which it is intended. Later on we 

 expect to give it a personal trial. 



An Average Honey Crop. — Here 

 is one of Dr. Miller's recent short straws in 

 Gleanings ; 



Please rise and tell what "an average 

 crop " means. 



Why, that's easy to explain. Doctor, even 

 without rising. ''An average crop" is 

 what the great majority of bee-keepers 

 didn't get last year ! Next. 



C^alifornia Honey in 1893.— We 



have received a statement given out by the 

 Southern Pacific Railroad Company in San 

 Francisco, Calif., which contains some 

 figures covering the amount of honey 

 moved by that railroad during 1893, which 

 will no doubt be of interest to bee-keepers 

 not only in that State, but elsewhere as 

 well. Here are the figures representing 

 the number of tons in each instance : 



From territory which may be consid- 

 ered tributary to San Francisco 222 



From territory tributary to San Jose. . 91 

 " ■' " Stockton.. 679 



" " " Sacramento 16 



" " " Marysville. 5 



" " " Los Angeles 132.5 



' ' Nevada and Utah 82 



" Arizona and New Mexico 215 



Total number of tons 2635 



In pounds this would be 5,270,000— a very 

 large quantity of sweetness. Nothing 

 small about California — especially when it 

 comes to honey-production ! 



Tlie Unusnal Marcli ^Veatlier 



has brought disastrous results, especially in 

 the South where vegetable life was far ad- 

 vanced. One correspondent from the far 

 South writes in an utterly discouraged 

 tone. He says that such a time has never 

 been known before. In that very state- 

 ment there is some comfort, for there is no 

 probability of the like happening again in 

 his lifetime. 



No doubt it is discouraging enough to see 

 all the blossoms killed, and have one's 

 bright prospects all blighted in a night, but 

 things are much as we look at them. Look 

 around and see how it is with others who 

 are worse off. In the North it is not en- 

 tirely unknown to see the ground covered 



