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vice I judge is one which he is going to 

 try. When somebody has actual experi- 

 ence in this promising Hne we shall be all 

 ears. 



Mr. Hall at the Association gets rather 

 acetic on honey vinegar. He says if one 

 wants to make it for fun all right; but it 

 will cost more than it is worth. Cana- 

 dian, 229. 



Not every editor could make the avow- 

 al which the editor of the Canadian makes 

 on page 200— to wit, that he has never 

 refused publication to any article criti- 

 cising his own utterances. Good thing 

 to be able to say. But sometiuies such 

 criticisms are so gross that they ought to 

 be refused — and a pledge to always pub- 

 lish them would be quite apt to bring out 

 a crop of intolerable ones. 



Richards, Ohio, August i, 189S. 



,ri\ EDITORIAL 



Offerings. 



The State Fairs will claim my whole 

 attention for the next few weeks. I 

 sliall probably attend the fairs of Indi- 

 ana, Illinois and Missouri, and send an 

 exhibit to the Michigan fair. The Octo- 

 ber Review will probably be a little late 

 on account of my absence on this trip. 



Black, in my experience, seems to 

 rouse the ire of bees more than is the 

 case with other colors. Dr. Miller says 

 in Gleanings that is his experience. The 

 editor has had no such experience. If I 

 wear a black hat the bees will go 

 "bump," "bump," against it. A straw 

 hat with a black band around it causes 

 the bees to ' ' bump ' ' against the black 

 band. I once saw worn in the apiary a 

 hat having a black binding around the 

 rim, and it was reallj- comical to see the 

 way the bees would pitch for that black 

 binding. 



Language that is pure and perfect is 

 certainly to be admired. A journal the 

 colums of which are plentifully sprinkled 

 with slang cannot, of course, receive the 

 respect of one that uses choice language. 

 At the same time, let us not forget that 

 criticisms on this subject may become 

 hypercritical. 



THE OMAHA CONVENTION. 



The United States Bee-keepers' I'nion 



will hold its 29th annual convention, 



September 13, 14 and 15, at the Delone 



Hotel, corner 14th street and Capitol 



avenue, Omaha, Nebraska. Here is a 



list of the topics and of the papers that 



are to be read: 



(Jeneral Advice to Bee-koppers—ltev. E. T. Ab- 

 bott, St. Joeoph, Mo. 



Beo keeping in Cnba and Porto Rico -O. O. 

 Poppleton, Stuart, Fla. 



t'o-operation among Beekoepors— P. H. Elwood, 

 Starkvillo, N. Y. 



Organization among Bee-keepers— W. F. Marks, 

 Chapinville, N. Y. 



Bees in America— Prof . Lawrence Bniner, Lin- 

 coln, Neb. 



Recent Progress in .\picalture— E. R. Root, Me- 

 dina, Ohio. 



Feeding Bees foi Best Results- W. Z. Hntcliin- 

 son, Flint, Mich. 



Bee-keepers ami Supply Manufacturers— Dr. C. 

 C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 



Foul Brood in the Apiary— W'm. McEvoy, 

 VVoodburu. Ont., Can. 



Advanced Methods of Comb-honey Production— 

 S. T. Pettit, Belmont, Ont., ('an. 



Experiences and Suggestions in Marketing 

 Honey— 8. A. Niver, ttroton, N. Y. 



Migratory Bee-keeping— H. E. Hill, Titusvillo, 

 Pa. 



Best Methods for Developing and Maintaining a 

 Market for Honey— Herman F. Moore, Chi- 

 cago, 111. 



Honey-producing Plants— Prof. Charles E Bes- 

 sey, Lincoln, Neb. 



The Scientific Side of Apiculture— C. P. Ua- 

 dant. Hamilton. 111. 



k Half-century of Bee-keeping in .America — 

 Hon. Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



Best Size of Hives to Use in the Apiary— J F. 

 Mclntyre, Sespe, Cal. 



The Kelatiou Existing Between the Apiary and 

 the Successful Production of Fmit-G. M. 

 Whitfonl, Arlington. Neb. 



The Apiary on the Farm and in the Orchard— E. 

 Whitcomb, Friend, Nob. 



Needs of Bee Culture in the South— Dr. J. P. H. 

 Brown, Augusta, (ia. 



