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jflr. Cieo. X. <)iiiiiii, of Iowa, is a 

 great deal safer thau his back name would 

 indicate. He favored us with a pleasant 

 call a few days ago. He is one of the 

 younger bee-keepers, but keeps his eyes 

 open for apiarian "game."" Last winter 

 two of his colonies became queenless in the 

 cellar and went into other hives. One col- 

 ony was in a hive directly above another, 

 and there being a crack in the cover of the 

 lower hive, the bees from above all went 

 down and united with the bees below. In 

 the other case, the two hives were side by 

 side, and the one colony went out of its 

 hive-entrance and into the entrance of the 

 other hive. Mr. Gunu knew the two colo- 

 nies had thus united, as tAvo hives were en- 

 tirely empty of bees, and the other two 

 colonies were just double the strength in 

 bees, of any of the others in the cellar. 



]flr. H. 15. Sissnon, of Ottumwa, 

 Iowa, died on Aug. 16, 1893, after only a 

 few hours' illness. He would have been 71 

 years old had he lived until Aug. 26th. He 

 had been a bee-keeper for 25 years, 15 years 

 of which he run his apiary in connection 

 with dentistry, and the last 10 years of his 

 life he gave his entire time to bee-keeping, 

 as his health failed so that he had to get out- 

 doors, away from his office work. Mr. 

 Sisson had been a careful reader, as well as 

 cori'espondent, of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal for years. Thus we are again re- 

 minded that Death still calls, and enforces 

 his demands. 



Mi'. J. F. jWclHtyre, of California, 

 has sent us a photograph of his 8-comb 

 honey-extractor, which reverses while in 

 full motion. • The picture was taken after 

 it had extracted 44,000 pounds of honey 

 without injury to the combs or machine. 

 It is a regular " Jumbo." Few bee-keepers 

 in this " neck of the woods" would have 

 any use for so large a machine ; but in 

 California, where they do big things on a 

 big scale, it is just what they want. 



'flie Apistriiiu Kxliibit, in the 



southeast corner of the gallery of the Agri- 

 cultural Building, will likely be visited by 

 the convention in a body, this week, and 

 no doubt they will be able to " help " Judge 

 Secor in making tlie proper awards. 



Old ISees^ l>o l^ot Ijocate their hive 

 when swarming, says Bro. Hutchinson edi- 

 torially in the Bei'icw. He says that this 

 season "he was practicing the Heddon 

 method of preventing swarming, that of 

 leaving the old hive by the side of the 

 swarm for seven or eight days, and then 

 moving it away, but neglected to move one 

 hive until the ninth day in the afternoon. 

 Within half an hour after the removal a 

 second swarm issued. The queen did not 

 go with the bees ; probably she was too 

 young to fly. According to the rules, the 

 bees should have returned to the hives from 

 which they issued. About one-third of 

 them (probably those that had never be- 

 fore left the hive) returned to the hive 

 from which they had swarmed, and the 

 rest of them went back to the old location 

 and joined the swarm that was hived nine 

 days before on the old stand." 



i^Ii". K. France's Report, from 

 Platteville, Wis., for the season of 1893, in 

 Oleardnya for Oct. 1st, shows a total of a 

 trifle less than 40,000 pounds of extracted 

 honey taken from a spring count of 323 

 colonies. The bees were in seven different 

 yards. The honey was secured between June 

 19th and July 20th, and 1,400 pounds was ex- 

 tracted in two hours, with a two-frame, 

 non-reversible machine. 



Xlie llliitois l>airy Kxliil>it is an 



I elegant little 32-page pamphlet " souvenir " 

 I issued by the Executive Committee of the 

 i Illinois Dairyman's Association. It is 

 I printed on enameled paper, and beautifully 

 I illustrated. It shows that the total annual 

 I value of the dairy products of Illinois is 

 I over $75,000,000. W. R. Hostetter, of Mt. 

 Carroll, Ills., is the Secretary. 



Exliibits of Honey at Fairs. — A 



short time ago, we received the following 

 comment on the discussion in the Bee 

 Journal regarding the New York honey 

 exhibit. It is so "to the point," that it 

 will serve very nicely as a further "final 

 reference "to that subject. It was simply 

 signed " Far West,"' and though our rule is 

 not to publish any anonymous contribu- 

 tions, this one is so unique and interesting 

 that for once we lay aside the " rule " and 

 allow it to pass in. As it is evidently writ- 

 ten with the kindest of motives, and feel- 

 ing of sympathy, it will be all the more ac 



