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VOL XXXI. CHICAGO, ILL, APRIL 27, 1893. 



NO. 17. 



From the brooklet, from the rushes 

 Come the merry song- of turtles ; 



Hark, in tuneful songs the thrushes 

 Join the chorus, from the myrtles. 



There they're cooing', there they're billing, 



Each in notes most sweet and ringing. 



Say not 'tis the turtle's wailing 

 Of the sorrows that are nearing ; ' 



Say, Instead, that new life's creeping 

 In the veins of all that's sleeping. 

 " Winter's past and Springtime's coming," 

 la the news the bees are humming; 

 And the birds are clearly singing, 

 " What you've longed for Spring is bringing. 



— Vick's Magazine. 



Xlie Ifiee-Esca.i>e was first so-called 

 by Mr. G. W. Demaree, of Christiansburg, 

 Ky. He exhibited a " bee-escape " in Lex- 

 ington, Ky., in 1881, at the meeting of the 

 North American Bee-Keejiers' Association. 



Sci-a.|>s of Quota-tious from some 

 noted authors are now fittingly placed at 

 the head of some of the contributions for 

 the Rmiew, indicating something of the 

 nature of the article that follows. Editor 

 Hutchinson says he puts them there, but 

 " they are not always of his choosing." We 

 just believe that they are made so appro- 

 priate by reason of the loving efforts and 

 thoughtfulness of some angelic presence in 

 the home of the Review. Now, didn't we 

 guess it, Bro. H. ? 



j^Ir. i\. Ijcvering-, of California, be- 

 gins with the April number to conduct 

 "The Apiary" department in the Califor- 

 nia Cultivnior and Poultry Keeper, published 

 at Los Angeles. In his " Salulatory," Mr. 

 Levering says that he believes he originated 

 the first apicultural department ever pub- 

 listted in Southern California, in the Los 

 Angeles Herald, in 1876, and was chosen its 

 editor by the Los Angeles County Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, and re-elected to that 

 position for a number of consecutive years 

 thereafter. In 1883 he published the Gali- 

 foruial Apiculturint, the first and only paper 

 that was devoted exclusively to apicultural 

 interests published on the Pacific Coast. 



Xm«l<* iVotew is the name of a new 

 department begun in Gleaiunys for April 

 l.ith. It is intended to " keep track of and 

 describe all recent useful improvements" 

 in bee-appliances. Bro. Root will " sit on 

 the judgment seat," and try " to be as im^ 

 partial as possible. ' ' Only devices or ideas 

 that he considers worthy of notice will be 

 described. It will be an interesting feature 

 of what is already as nearly perfection in 

 the way of a bee-periodical as can well be 

 attained. But Bro. Root seems to want the 

 "perfectest" kind of perfection; and he'll 

 have it, too, as (^leaiunys is well Root-ed. 



Men* Reepeii, of Germany, who re- 

 ports for the Bee Journal the most impor- 

 tant apiarian events occurring in "The 

 Land of Dzierzon," we are pleased to say 

 has been selected as delegate to the Colum- 

 bian Exposition for the Kingdom of Prus- 

 sia. We hope he may be here when the 

 North American Convention is in session, 

 so that it may be honored with his presence. 



