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VOL. XXXI. CHICAGO, ILL, JUNE 29, 1893. 



NO. 26. 



Please JDou^t send to us for bee-sup- 

 plies, as we do not deal in them, and your 

 order, if sent to us, must necessarily be de- 

 layed in filling. Just patronize those sup- 

 ply dealers who advertise in our columns, 

 and you will thus please us most. We shall 

 be glad to furnish you any bee-book and 

 the Bee Joubnal, but when it comes to 

 supplies — well, we are not "in it." 



Volume XXXI is completed with this 

 number of the Bee Journal. Another 

 milestone on the way to higher usefulness 

 and greater excellence in progressive bee- 

 literature is thus attained. In all of its 

 departments in the volume just finished we 

 have endeavored to advance at least a little 

 over the standard already reached in the 

 previous volumes. Whether or not our 

 object has been fully gained can only be 

 answered by those who from week to week 

 have perused its pages. 



In the future, as in the past, we shall en- 

 deavor to press onward, ever striving to 

 present to our appreciative readers those 

 things which shall most aid them to make 

 the greatest possible success of the keeping 

 of bees. 



With gratitude to all for their hearty co- 

 operation ; with the earnest hope that this 

 year we may yet have a splendid honey 



crop ; and with an eye single to the highest 

 interest of all deserving bee-keepers the 

 world over, we close the present volume, 

 and turn with feelings of pleasure and en- 

 couragement to the fair and unsullied 

 pages of Volume XXXII. 



Iflr. II. I>. Cutting', of Tecumseh, 

 Mich., called at the Bee Journal office on 

 Wednesday, June 21st. He was in Chicago 

 looking after the apiarian exhibit to be 

 made at the World's Fair by the State of 

 Michigan. If any man can get up a credit- 

 able display for the small sum of $500, Bro. 

 Cutting is just that man. What a pity that 

 the great State of Michigan couldn't have 

 done better for the horticulturist's best 

 friends — the honey-bees ! It shows that bee- 

 keepers have not as yet sufficiently insisted 

 upon the great value bee-culture is to the 

 world. It is high time that each bee-keeper 

 appoint himself a committee of one on edu- 

 cation, and then see to it that everybody 

 he meets shall understand something of the 

 value of bees to the farmer, gardener and 

 fruit-grower. 



Xlie Foul Brood Cure, as practiced 

 by Mr. Wm. McEvoy, the Foul Brood In- 

 spector for Ontai'io, Canada, will be given 

 in the Bee Journal for next week. Mr. 

 McEvoy has been unavoidably delayed in 

 preparing it for publication. He is a very 

 busy man, indeed, and those who have so 

 long waited for the description of his 

 method of curing foul brood, will kindly 

 excuse him. The article came just a little 

 too late for this issue, or we would have 

 given it this week. 



Bees and Honey" — see page 803. 



