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VOL XXXIII. CHICAGO, ILL, APR. 26, 1894. 



NO. 17. 



I?lr. W. A. Pryal, of North Temescal, 

 Calif., is the "duly ' accredited' represen- 

 tative" of the American Bee Journal at 

 the Midwinter Fair, now being held in San 

 Francisco. On another page of this num- 

 ber may be found Bro. Pryal's first 

 "special" report, which will doubtless be 

 interesting reading to all, as he is one of 

 the raciest writers in the Golden State. 



\^ If I had the strength of a Samson I 

 don't think I should waste it in stooping 

 over hives, so long as I could get a seat.— 

 Dr. Miller. 



]?Irs. 1^. Harrison has again re- 

 turned to her home in Peoria, Ills., after 

 spending the winter among the ever-bloom- 

 ing flowers of Florida. Writing from that 

 State on April 13th, Sister Harrison said: 

 "The weather is very warm and pleasant. 

 Bees are busy upon the bloom of honey- 

 suckle and other flowers." If the delight- 

 ful weather we are having now (April Ifith) 

 here in Chicago continues, it won't be long 

 before bees 'will also be gathering honey in 

 the North. 



Our Apiarian Poets are wide- 

 awake folks. We have had several cor- 

 rections of the credit of the lines of poetry 

 on page 465. The one quoting the lines said 

 it was in Bryant's " Thanatopsis," instead 

 of "The Death of the Flowers," by the 

 same author. One of our bee-keeping 

 poets, when calling attention to the error, 

 wrote thus: 



If he had quoted two lines a little further 

 on, I think he would have voiced his feel- 

 ings better, viz. : 



"Where I are the flowers, the fair young 

 flowers, that lately sprung and stood 



In brighter light and softer airs, a beaute- 

 ous sisterhood ?" 



I suppose it was simply a lapse of the 

 memory — a failing most of us can plead. 

 A Subscriber. 



Yes, all make mistakes, and especially 

 " ye editor." As an example of one of our 

 utterly inexcusable errors, see the first 

 editorial item in last week's Bee Journal. 

 Mr. Corneil died on Aprinth, not "March 

 7th," as we had it. The "forms" were 

 ready for the press when we received the 

 sad news, and in our haste to get it in, the 

 mistake was made. But there's no good 

 excuse for it, anyway, and so we won't 

 attempt further explanation. 



Farmer's I\eM^ <iiiii<1e — see page .517. 



Cantly for Kee«ling" Bees. — The 



American Bee-Keeper gives the following 

 directions for making candy for bees: Two 

 pounds of granulated sugar. Boil until it 

 will crack when dropped into cold water ; 

 then take ofl" the fire and stir in one pound 

 of good extracted honey ; then stir until it 

 creams, and you will have candy that the 

 bees can use in every kind of weather. 



