GEORGE W. YORK, I 

 Editor. i 



Devoted Exclusively- 



-To Bee-Culture. 



I Weekly, $1.00 a Tear. 

 I Sample Free. 



VOL. XXXI. CHICAGO, ILL, MAY 18, 1893. 



NO. 20. 



A Terrible Raiii-Storin swept over 

 Greenville, Tex., where Mrs. Atchley lives, 

 and so blew her queen-rearing yards about 

 as to result in considerable damage. If her 

 customers, who may read this, are delayed 

 several days in receiving queens, they will 

 now understand the cause of it. About 500 

 fine cells were destroyed, besides much 

 other loss. There was also great damage to 

 property in the city of Greenville. 



Xlie Illinois Honey Exliil>it at 



the World's Fair ought to be a good one. 

 The amount of the appropriation for that 

 purpose is $3,500 instead of $3,000 as an- 

 nounced last week. 



Mr. J. M. Hambaugh and Mr. J. A. Stone, 

 respectively President and Secretary of the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 were in Chicago last week to see about 

 space for the exhibit at the Fair. The Bee 

 Journal was favored with a call from these 

 brethren, and they expressed the hope that 

 the bee-keepers of this State would help to 

 make the honey exhibit in every way what 

 it should be. 



All who have honey to exhibit, or expect 

 to have later on, are urgently requested to 

 correspond at otice with Jas. A. Stone, of 

 Bradfordton, His., or J. M. Hambaugh, of 

 Sjpring, Ills. , either of whom will be glad to 

 furnish you with all necessary information. 



]^ot Siire About Stigar Honey. — 



The following is one of Bro. Root's editorial 

 items in 0Iea7dngs for May 1st, and with 

 the last paragraph we agree most fully : 



Since we shut down on the sugar-honey 

 question in our columns, we have been 

 asked by adherents on both sides to renew 

 the discussion, more particularly as some of 

 the other journals were keeping it alive in 

 their columns. We do not wish to indicate 

 any policy for another paper, but we hardly 

 think it wise for us to open the discussion 

 for the jyresent. If the production of sugar- 

 honey is unwise, as we firmly believe it is, 

 the best way to kill it is to say nothing 

 about it. To vigorously oppose it is, in a 

 certain sense, to keep it alive. The thing 

 that we have to regret is, that it should 

 have been discussed as much as it has in 

 our columns, particularly as more exten- 

 sive experiments should have been made, 

 and a better knowledge of the product 

 secured ; for even Prof. Cook, in a card just 

 received, says: 



" I am not sure that sugar-honey is what I 

 think it is ; that, of course, is to be settled." 



How much better to have "settled it" 

 before saying anything about it, and so in- 

 curring great risk as to the consequences ! 



Xlie Bee-Keepers' Revie>v foi 



May came right "on time" this month — 

 May 10th. Bro. Hutchinson has a most 

 beautiful and valuable number for May, 

 having added eight extra pages. He says : 



I have always rather prided myself on 

 the small size of the Rei<iew. I have felt 

 that it should be small but good. 



Bro. H., we don't think any one will ob- 

 ject if you continue to keep it " good " and 

 also large, instead of " small." It is only 

 another proof of Bro. Root's statement, 

 viz.: " Apicultural journalism was never 

 on a higher plane than now, both in quality 

 and quantity." 



