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VOL. XXXI. CHICAGO, ILL, JUNE 1, 1893. 



NO. 22. 



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CSreat Jfii-itain imported, during the 

 month of April, 1893, about $17,500 worth 

 of honey. 



Bread a,iicl Honey was the principal 

 food of the Pythagorians, as stated by 

 Aristophanes, who says that those who ate 

 this for their morning meal were free from 

 disease all their lives. 



•fust One Year Ago 'I'o-llay 



(June 1st) we assumed the management of 

 the American Bee Journal. It was with 

 a feeling of uncertainty as to our ability to 

 conduct it successfully that we began the 

 work, and we are not sure yet whether the 

 " Old Reliable " is doing all it should do to 

 advance the best interests of the bee-keep- 

 ers who read it from week to week. We 

 think we know of ways in which there is 

 abundant opportunity for still greater im- 

 provement, and just as soon as we feel 

 financially able to bring the American Bee 

 Journal up to the standard we have in 

 view, we mean to do it. 



We desire right here to most earnestly 

 thank our friends for the cordial support 

 and very encouraging words they have 

 given us in our work the past year, and we 

 trust that the friendships that have been 

 formed may be lasting, and become deeper 



and stronger throughout the coming 

 months and years. 



In view of the past few seasons of failure 

 in the honey crop, we have been rejoiced to 

 behold the grit, pluck, and good-nature 

 with Which so many bee-keepers have held 

 on to the cause they hold so dear, and we 

 trust that the dawning season of 1893 may 

 fully reward them for the heroic faith, en- 

 durance and fidelity which was necessarily 

 exercised the past few years. That the 

 future may bring to our readers the full 

 fruition of their every goodly hope, is our 

 sincerest wish. 



IVorld's Fair I^otes. — The great 

 World's Fair, or more properly perhaps, 

 the Columbian Exposition, has now been 

 running for nearly one month, and from 

 20,000 to 50,000 people are daily on the 

 grounds. 



Owing to numerous misleading reports 

 that have been published in the newspapers 

 throughout the country, we thought that 

 our readers might like to know just how 

 things really are, and would be pleased to 

 to have it direct from the editor of the Bee 

 Journal. Wliatever we may say now, or 

 at any time hereafter regarding the Fair, 

 will be just as nearly the exact truth as we 

 may be able to learn while right here at 

 the " seat of war." 



From our office we can go to the Fair all 

 day, and it need not cost us over 60 cents — 

 10 cents for round-trip street-car fare, and 

 50 cents for the admission fee. This, of 

 course does not include refreshments, which 

 can be had inside the gates at a slightly ad- 

 vanced price over provisions outside, where 

 they are not excessively high. The better 

 way is to buy a lunch before entering, as 



