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VOL XXXIII. CHICAGO. ILL, JUNE 14, 1894 



NO. 24. 



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"^S GEORGE W YORK. 



MP 



Tlie Fruit Excliaiise of California 

 is explained somewhat on page 758 of this 

 number. Read it. 



Sainple!>< of Foiiii elation have been 

 received at this office from Mr. W. J. Finch, 

 Jr., of Springfield, 111. He claims to make 

 it by an "improved process," as will be 

 seen by his advertisement on another page. 

 The samples are nice. 



FjJerlcra'-og- 15i-Avl is the name of 

 a new monthly paper published at Cedar 

 Rapids, Iowa, in the interest of Scandina- 

 vian poultry and bee culture of the United 

 States. We have received a copy of it, 

 but, like Dr. Miller, we are " not going to 

 read it." John A. Jensen is its editor. 



Ill Good. Coiiipaiiy-— The Canadlmi 



Bee Journal for June contains, on the same 

 page, the portraits of Bro. E. R. Root (as- 

 sociate editor of Gleanings), and also the 

 phiz of the editor of the American Bee 

 Journal. We want to thank Bro. Holter- 

 mann for the honor conferred upon us, in 

 placing us in such excellent company. Bro. 

 Root and ourselves have no differences 

 worth mentioning — we always agree almost 

 to a dot. 



Midwinter Fair Awards.— We 



learn that the awards in the apiarian de- 

 partment of the Midwinter Fair will be the 

 same as are to be given for anything else 

 exhibited. Four awards will be given, viz : 

 Special Diploma of Honor, First Award, 

 Second Award, and Third Award. 



Next week we hope to give Mr. Pryal's 

 final " special report " on the apiarian ex- 

 hibit at the Midwinter Fair. 



Mr. ^Vni. Coiise, of Streetsville,Ont., 

 is the new Secretary of the Ontario Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, instead of Mr. F. A. 

 Gemmill, as announced a few weeks ago in 

 these columns. Mr. Gemmill, " for various 

 reasons," could not accept the appointment, 

 we learn from the Canadian See Journal. 

 Mr. Couse has had much experience in the 

 Secretary business, and no doubt will fill 

 the position very acceptably. 



California Honey in 1893.— 



Rambler says in Gleanings that the latest 

 figures, compiled from railroad and steam- 

 ship lines, puts the shipments of California 

 honey in 1893 at about 7,000,000 pounds. 

 Who said California wasn't the banner 

 honey-producing State last year 1 Perhaps 

 nearly all who saw her exhibit (?) of honey 

 at the World's Fair! 



Favoral>le Year.— Dr. Miller, in 

 Gleavings for June 1st, says that, taken all 

 together, he never knew a more favorable 

 year up to the middle of May. Bees were 

 booming, white clover luxuriant, and he 

 could hardly see how we can fail of a crop 

 unless we have one of those years when the 

 blossoms yield no nectar. 



