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VOL. XXXI. CHICAGO, ILL, MARCH 16, 1893. 



NO. IL 



"God Bless the Man who sows the wheat. 

 Who finds us milk and fruit and meat ; 

 May his purse be heavy, his heart be light ; 

 His cattle and corn and all go right ; 

 God bless the seeds his bands let fall, 

 For the farmer he must feed us all." 



The l^asliing^ton Convention 

 Report is now in pamphlet form, and we 

 shall be pleased to mail a copy to any 

 one desiring it, for 25 cents. It con- 

 tains 32 pages. As only a very limited 

 number were printed, you should order 

 promptly if you want a copy. 



Mr. Frank McXay, of Mauston, 

 Wis., gives in Oleanlngs a comparative 

 statement of the honey produced during 

 16 years (from 1876 to' 1891, inclu- 

 sive) in the famous " Sespe " apiary in 

 California, and his own apiaries in Wis- 

 consin. It is an interesting table, show- 

 ing that 73 pounds per colony was the 

 total average of the California apiary, 

 and 93 pounds per colony of Mr. Mc- 

 Nay's apiaries. Mr. M.'s best crop in 

 any one year was 23 tons ; best gain 

 from one colony, 31 pounds in one day ; 

 and 335 pounds from a single colony in 

 one season. 



Questions and Answers.— As 



there are always new members coming 

 into the Bee Journal, family, it be- 

 comes necessary to repeat at intervals 

 what should be understood about asking 

 questions. The subscriber who thinks 

 he is entitled to nothing more than to 

 find what happens to come in our col- 

 umns ready printed, whether it fits his 

 particular case or not, is making a great 

 mistake. It is no grievance for us to be 

 obliged to answer questions. Thaf^s 

 what we're here for ; to tell, just so far 

 as we know how, what you want to 

 know. Not but what there are plenty 

 of questions to be asked in bee-keeping 

 that we cannot answer — how we wish 

 we could answer all — but there are also 

 plenty we can answer. 



Too often it is the case that some be- 

 ginner feels that he does not want to be 

 troublesome, and so refrains from ask- 

 ing questions. Let such a one please 

 remember that there are others just like 

 himself, and that we are glad to have 

 questions for the general good. Any one 

 who has mastered to a considerable ex- 

 tent the contents of one of the standard 

 text-books on bee-cu!ture, and then finds 

 a point on which he has a question, will 

 be doing us a favor to send it. 



On page 333 of this number, we begin 

 a new department, called " General 

 Questions," in which we will endeavor to 

 accommodate those questions that can 

 be just as satisfactorily answered by one 

 person, and also such as demand an 

 ivimediate reply in order for such reply 



