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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



that your skill can dictate. P;-eP«re your 

 cases with mottoes, designs anclletteis that 

 the bees can draw and weave into fantastic 

 forms and rest assured it is the ambition 

 of your Executive Committee to «ee an api- 

 arian exhibit from the State of Illinois 

 that will be in excess of any exhibit ever 

 before seen in the United States. 



This appeal, we are aware comes very 

 late, but through no fault of JOur State 

 bee-keepers' officials, who have labored 

 almost incessantly for over two /ears to 

 receive recognition and justice from the 

 hands of their superiors in office iiut tne 

 goal has been reached, and let us prove 

 worthy of the occasion, and do honor to 

 our Jdustry, to the ^Bt^te^-^J^.^.^^ 



Spring, Brown Co., Ills. 



As stated in the Bee Journal of last 

 week, we trust that every bee-keeper m 

 this State will do all he can to help in mak- 

 ing the Illinois honey exhibit one of the 

 greatest attractions at the World's Fair. 

 If you think you can do anything at all 

 towards it, write immediately to Mr. Ham- 

 baugh, who will give you such information 

 and assistance as you will likely most need. 



Flic i^atiosial Stot'liiuam of Pitts 

 burg. Pa., in its May Uth issue, had the 

 following announcement at the head of its 

 bee-keeping column : 



We take pleasure in announcing that this 

 Department will hereafter I><^ c«i^ducted by 

 Dr C C. Miller, of Marengo, Ills., which 

 is equivalent to saying that it will be the 

 y brightest and best page of its kind to be 

 found anywhere. 



We congratulate our agricultural publish- 

 ing friends upon their wise selection. Dr. 

 Miller is in great demand, and must be a 

 very busy man. But then, he's one of the 

 right kind-would rather wear out than 

 rust out. 



escape from the lungs, and the sting will 

 penetrate at once. I have never seen an 

 exception to this in 25 years' observation. 



I have taught young ladies with very 

 delicate hands to astonish their friends by 

 the performance of this feat ; and I saw one 

 so severely stung as to require the services 

 of a physician, through laughing at a w itty 

 remark of her sister, forgetting that laugh- 

 ing required breath. For a theory mex- 

 pllnatioh, I am led to believe that holding 

 the breath partially closes the pores of the 

 skin My experiments in that direction 

 have not been exact enough to be ot any 

 scientific value, but I am satisfied that it 

 very sensibly affects the amount of insensi- 

 ble perspiration.— ,S'dmce Correapmident. 



What a beautiful theory that is ! We 

 wish the writer of those two paragraphs 

 had a chance to try his flne-spun theory. 

 He could afford to be more '^ exact,"' after 

 a trial. It no doubt would very sensibly 

 affect his bump of nonsensical ideas, or give 

 him another bump or lump that would 

 cause him to feel quite insensible-which 

 must have been his condition when writing 

 his "scientific pleasantry." O, great is 

 Science! We have all heard of her before, 

 but not as being quite so bmttJiless as in this 

 case. 



Stiiig>» aiitl tJ»e BrealU.— One of 



our subscribers has sent the following, 

 taken from some newspaper called the In- 

 vestigator. Evidently the '-Investigator" 

 didn't investigate very closely, or it would 

 not have put>lished such a foolish item. It 

 was headed with the attractive words, 

 '• Wasp Stings," and continued thus: 



It is a fact not generally known, that if 

 on* holds his breath, wasps, bees aiid 

 hornets can be handled with ">'l>vuiity 1 

 skin bec-omes sting-proof, and holdi g t e 

 insect by the feet, and giving hei tiiU ib- 

 ertv of action, yon can see her drive her 

 weapon against the impenetrable surface 

 wfthaforce tluit lifts her body at every 

 stroke ; but let the smallest quantity ot air 



Preveiitiiis After-Swarms is the 



subject of an article by Bro. Doolittle in 

 Gleamngs for May 1st. His method is as 

 follows, which he says is " the only certain 

 plan " he knows of: 



The morning of the eighth day after a 

 first swarm has issued, I open the hive, 

 take out the first frame, and hastily glance 

 over it for nearly ripe queen-cells; and if 

 none are found, I shake most of the bees off 

 near the entrance of the hive, into which 

 they will immediately run, when the frame 

 is closely inspected for q^^een-cells peering 

 into every nook and corner for them, for 

 should some small or crooked one be missed 

 swarming would surely result. All cells 

 frnd^ar^cut off, after a frame has been 

 shaken to rid it of bee^ for this shaking of 

 the young queens m their cells is almost 

 sure to kill them, or cause deformity. 



The next frame is treated the same, un- 

 less ripe cells are found, in which case it is 

 set outside the hive, awaiting the Andmg of 

 a cell from which a queen has hatched, 

 when all are cut off: but should none have 

 hatched, then the best one of these ripe 

 cells is saved and put back into the h ve. 



In this way we can make sure that no 

 swaru will issue, after the first from this 

 hive, and it is the only certain plan I know 

 of. ^-^^^ 



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