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date possible, to your executive officers. 

 Bear in mind the time is limited to Aug. 

 15th for receiving all light grades of honey. 

 Buckwheat and all dark grades are limited 

 to Sept. 1st. The cases will be ready in a 

 few days, and all exhibits will be mounted 

 at once. 



Should you desire to be further informed, 

 please send for Circular, which will give 

 all necessaiy information. Should any 

 readers of this know of any select and choice 

 lots of honey, they will confer a favor by 

 at once informing us. 



Let us once more appeal to your jiatriot- 

 ism and State pride, by asking your earnest 

 co-operation in this great work. We desire 

 an exhibit in keeping with the occasion, 

 and an honor to our State and industry. 

 Yours truly, 



J. M. Hambaugh, 

 Agricultural Building, Chicago, Ills. 

 Care Hon. W. I. Buchanan. 



Expei-iiiieiital Apiciiltiti-e is to be 



the " special topic " for discussion in the 

 August Bee-Keepers' Bevieio. In his introduc- 

 tory editorial on the subject in the July 

 liei'iew, Bro. Hutchinson makes some good 

 suggestions, which, by the way. is just 

 what he is in the habit of doing now-a-days. 

 Next week we will have something to say 

 upon the subject, as Bro. H. asks for what 

 " others think." 



Xlie <^alifoi-iii:t Iloiiey Crop. — 



From reports published in California papers, 

 it appears that the honey crop in that State 

 is not a large one, by any means. In some 

 places a very large crop has been obtained ; 

 in others, the yield has been anything but 

 satisfactory to the apiarist. 



The season was good at the beginning, as 

 the rainfall was propitious, and with the 

 right climatic conditions during the inflor- 

 esence of the honey-yielding plants, the 

 crop would have been up or above the 

 average. But the climate of California is 

 not to be relied upon in all things. It has 

 a peculiar way of disappointing one in re- 

 gard to the way it will act, about the time 

 of harvesting a crop. It is true that it does 

 not get furious as the climate of the East- 

 ern States does at times, and go off on a 

 " big tear " to paint towns and everything 

 else in its track 'red;'' but it will some- 

 times just dry things up a little too quickly. 

 This is one of the reasons why honey is so 

 apt to be not forthcoming at times in that 

 State. 



A Ventura paper reports that M. H. Men- 

 dleson had extracted 30 tons up to th« time 



of its report. This may be said to be a 

 large yield, though it is not. TMs apiarist, 

 like Mr. J. F. Mclntyre, was a pupil in the 

 school of apiculture with that pioneer Cali- 

 fornia bee-keeper, Mr. R. Wilkin, and, like 

 Mr. Mclntyre, he keeps bees on a big scale, 

 and gets big results from them when such 

 results are to be expected. 



Some of tine bee-keepers of San Bernar- 

 dino and Riverside counties, we under- 

 stand, have obtained fair yields. These, as 

 well as that above referred to, may be con- 

 sidered no better than a half-crop. In fact, 

 the yield of the whole State will be not 

 above a half-crop. And yet the dealers are 

 offering but five cents, or less, per pound. 

 The great majority of apiarists are holding 

 out for six cents, and it is probable they 

 will get it if they can hold out long enough. 

 Those who have the money, or can easily 

 borrow it, can do so, while those who can- 

 not, will, like the poor farmer, be obliged 

 to sell at a sacrifice. 



ISa1>y Perit'.<* picture has been sent to 

 us by her papa, Bro. Hutchinson. It repre- 

 sents her seated in her pretty carriage, and 

 looking as if she were queen of all she sur- 

 veyed — and we presume she is. Thanks, 

 Bro. H., for your though tfulness in sending 

 the picture, which we presume is intended 

 as a " slight hint "^one of the results of 

 our remarks on page 40 about the ' ' baby 

 carriage. ■' We shall think lots of Baby 

 Fern's picture, '' allee samee." 



Xlie Rules aii<1 Regulations we 



have received for the Scottish Bee-Keepers' 

 Association's summer show of bees, honey, 

 and hives, to be held in Dean Park, Edin- 

 burgh, in connection with the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society's Show, on July 25th 

 to '28th, inclusive. Also the Prize List on 

 bee-appliances, honey, wax, etc., forms a 

 portion of the circular. 



'File l..aiig-4lon ]\oii-i$^variiier, so 



far as we have heard reports, is not proving 

 all that was hoped for from it. Perhaps 

 Mr. Langdon will now be able to improve it 

 still more, so that by another season it will 

 work successfully in the majority of cases. 

 It no doubt is worth attempting, at any 

 rate. 



'*Bees and Honey" — seepage 131. 



