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VOL. XXXII. CHICAGO, ILL, SEPT. 28, 1893. 



NO. 13. 





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Ciilass Hives were invented first in 

 1712 by Maraldi. a mathematician of Nice, 

 Italy, who devoted much time to the study 

 of the economy and in-door operations of 

 the bee. He likely was a " Nice " bee-man. 



Ifro. J. X. Calvevf, the affable 

 Manager of Bro. A. I. Roofs big bee-supply 

 business at Medina, O.. was at the Bee 

 Journal office last Friday. We had never 

 had the pleasure of meeting Bro. Calvert 

 before, and yet, having known him so well 

 by his excellent reputation, we felt pretty 

 well acquainted with him at once. He was 

 visiting the World's Fair with his wife, and 

 Miss Carrie, a daughter of Bro. Root. 



Hon. 1\ <jiri]Uin, of Jefferson, Wis., 

 came to see us last week. Mr. G. is a 

 brother of Adam Grimm, the man who 

 made a small fortune in the bee-busmess 

 years ago, and whose picture and biograph- 

 ical sketch we gave last February. Mr. C. 

 Grimm is now a member of the Wisconsin 

 Legislature, having been elected to that 

 honorable office last fall by a handsome 

 majority. He has about 300 colonies of 

 bees, and reports less than an average crop 

 of honey this year. He hopes to meet his 

 old-time bee-keeping friends at the conven- 

 tion next month. 



]TIi'. I. \¥. Rollins, of Elgin, Minn., 

 called on us last week. He reports about 

 1,200 pounds of comb honey from 29 colo- 

 nies, spring count. Speaking of the great 

 loss of bees last spring, he believed that it 

 was on account of old bees going into win- 

 tert, instead of young ones, and thus in the 

 severe spring that followed, they were un- 

 able to pull through until young bees could 

 be reared to take their places. In Minne- 

 sota, as well as elsewhere, there was no 

 fall crop of honey last year, and so the 

 bees were unable to rear the proper young 

 for wintering. Mr. R. thought this idea of 

 the cause of losses in wintering and spring- 

 ing bees had not been noticed sufficiently. 



Among' tlie dillers at this office 

 during the past week or so, and whom we 

 were much pleased to meet, were H. M. 

 Stephens, of Kansas ; Frank S. Baldwin, of 

 Michigan : Geo. H. Lawton, of Vermont ; 

 E. C. Porter, of Illinois (the Porter bee- 

 escape man) : Messrs. O. M. Morris and J. 

 W.Essex, of Indiana; Lester L. Price, of 

 Nebraska (the Ferguson patent hive 

 owner) ; T. Garion Fisher and Wm. B. Mc- 

 Cormick, of Pennsylvania; Ellis E. Mason," 

 son of Dr. A. B. Mason, of Ohio; and P. A. 

 Lindskoog, of Iowa. 



'I'lie rVortli Anierican. — Just one 

 week from next Wednesday (on Oct. 11th) 

 the great convention will be in session in 

 Chicago. The time is short, and everybody 

 should soon have everything in readiness 

 to start for the glorious rallying of bee- 

 keeping's mightiest and best leaders. It 

 should be a memorable gathering — it must be 

 nuch ! Brother, sister, you can help make 

 the forthcoming convention an era-mark — 



