GEORGE W. YORK, I 

 Editor. f 



Devoted Exclusively- 



-To Beb-Culture. 



j Weekly, $1.00 a Year. 

 i Sample Free. 



VOL. XXXII. CHICAGO, ILL, AUG. 3, 1893. 



NO. 5. 



%V. ]?1. Barnuiii, now of Denver, 

 Colo., formerly of New York, is associate 

 editor of the Colorado JIagazi7ie, an elegant 

 monthly published in Denver. We wish 

 Bro. Barnum a large measure of success in 

 his new position. 



Xlie Canadian Bee Journal has 



been purchased by the Goold, Shapley & 

 Muir Co., of Brantford, Ont., and will be 

 published as a monthly by them hereafter. 

 Mr. R. F. Holtermann is to have editorial 

 management of the paper, and contem- 

 plates enlarging and improving it consid- 

 eerably. We wish the new publishers and 

 our new brother editor much success in 

 their undertaking, and trust that their 

 every anticipation may be fully realized. 



Prof. Coolc, who has for so many 

 years done such valuable work at the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College, is to go to 

 Pomona College, in California, next No- 

 vember, we understand. By reason of his 

 "Manual of the Apiary,"' and various 

 other scientific and practical writings upon 

 the subject of bee-keeping during the past 

 years, Prof. Cook has endeared himself to 

 apiculture everywhere. California can't 

 have him all to herself, no matter how hard 

 she may try. 



Keeping; tlie Orass I>o>v'n in the 



apiary is often quite a task, but a Mr. Burt, 

 of Ohio, uses sheep for the purpose instead 

 of a lawn-mower. Simple enough, and 

 wouldn't work the bee-keeper very hard, 

 either. It beats all how many of the most 

 valuable helps in bee-keeping, or in any 

 other industry, are simple. When told of 

 them, we often exclaim. "Why didn't we 

 think of that ? How easy and simple !" 



Ramliler, of California, reports hav- 

 ing taken 10 tons of honey, and expected 

 more. It looks now as if Rambler is going 

 to try to keep sweet entirely without the 

 help of a sweet-heart. It's just too bad 

 that he should miss so much of bliss, by 

 persisting in existing in " single miserable- 

 ness " — not "single blessedness," as com- 

 monly written. 



I>oose ISottoni-Boards to hives are 

 preferred by Bro. Hutchinson. And he is 

 not alone in this preference, as was shown 

 by the replies to Query 865, on page 429 of 

 the Bee Journal for April 6, 1893. 



Xo Illinois Bee-Keepers. — We 



have received the following important let- 

 ter from Bro. Hambaugh, and we hope that 

 the bee-keepers of Illinois will not only 

 read it, but will immediately act upon the 

 suggestions made therein, so that the Illi- 

 nois apiarian exhibit at the World's Fair 

 may be completed at once, and in a credit- 

 able manner: 



It is very important that aU parties who 

 desire to make an exhibit of honey and 

 beeswax at the World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion, be as expeditious as they can in its 

 preparation, and ship at the very earliest 



