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GEOBGE W. -STORE, I 

 Editor. r 



Devoted Exclusively- 



-To Bee-Culture. 



J Weekly, $1.00 a Year. 

 j Sample Free. 



VOL XXXII. CHICAGO, ILL. JULY 13, 1893. 



NO. 2. 



'riie 01«l FfieiKls, the old frieuds, 



We loved when we were young, 

 With sunshine on their faces, 



And music on their tongue! 

 The bees are in the almond flower, 



The birds renew their strain ; 

 But the old friends, once lost to us, 



Can never come again. 



The old friends, the old friends ! 



Their brow is lined with care ; 

 They've furrows in the faded cheek, 



And silver in the hair ; 

 But to me they are the old friends still. 



In youth and bloom the same. 

 As when we drove the flying ball, 



Or shouted in the game. 



— Lo7ido7i, Spectator. 



I^evcr I^aiig'Ii at anything funny you 

 say yourself. In the first place, it spoils 

 the joke, and in the next place it is very 

 likely no joke, any way. 



Xlie .Tapauese Honey Iii(lit!!»ti-y 



is also represented at the World's Fair by 

 specimens of bees, honey, beeswax, and 

 hives. The Japanese Agricultural Bureau 

 has published a little pamphlet explaining 

 the way of using the hive, the method of 

 collecting honey, and giving the names of 

 the plants from which the bees get honey. 

 It is there stated that honey sells for 9 sen 

 (cents) a kin (1.325 pounds), and beeswax 

 at 3o sen a kin. 



Bii-ds of IVIicliig'an, by Prof. A. J. 

 Cook, is the title of a beautiful pamphlet 

 just issued by the Michigan Agricultural 

 College. It is Bulletin No. 94, contains 

 about 150 pages, and is elegantly illustrated. 

 It must have taken a wondrous amount of 

 work to prepare, and that may account for 

 Prof. Cook's 'Seeming to take so little inter- 

 est in bee-keeping of late. The Professor is 

 a hard worker, and the " Birds of Michi- 

 gan " is only one of the results of his tire- 

 less efforts. 



Illinoiiii) Bee-Keeping' was not aided 

 very much at the late meeting of the State 

 Legislature, outside of the appropriation 

 for making the apiarian exhibit at the 

 World's Fair. Mr. Jas. A. Stone, Secretary 

 of the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, wrote us as follows on June 33rd : 



Bradfordton, Ills. 



Our Legislature has adjourned without 

 doing anything for us, or for the people of 

 the State, in the way of helping along the 

 bee-keeping industry, and thereby cheap- 

 ening honey to the consumer. We had 

 some good friends there among the mem- 

 bers of both houses, and we desire they 

 shall always be remembered, and we shall 

 do it in every way we can. 



Our Bill asking an appropriation of ?5500 

 to publish our Report, passed the House of 

 Representatives, and when on the second 

 reading in the Senate, the enacting clause 

 was stricken out. 



The Bill to prevent the adulteration of 

 honey passed the Senate, and went to the 

 second reading in the House. Their plea, 

 when approached regarding it, was — 

 •' Hain't got time." The Legislative com- 

 mittee of the State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion did all in their power to do, but to no 

 avail. Sometimes we had hopes, but they 

 soon withered away. 



I wish to say. however, that our coming 

 report (for 1893) has been delayed untU we 

 should know whether or not the appropria- 



