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exhibit ; Bro. Pringle, of the Ontario ex- 

 hibit ; Bro. Kretchmer, of the Iowa exhibit ; 

 and Bro. Wilcox, of the Wisconsin exhibit 

 — all presented us fine samples of either 

 comb or extracted honey from their various 

 cases. With so much honey to put on our 

 buckwheat cakes the coming winter, both 

 the editor and his wife ought to keep pretty 

 sweet. (Please don't understand us to 

 even hint that Mrs. Editor really needs 

 honey in order to be "sweet," for it 

 wouldn't be true. But, then, honey is a 

 great " sweeten (h)er," isn't it ?) 



Again we wish to thank our World's Fair 

 honey friends for their generosity, and also 

 for their kindly interest in us and the Bee 

 Journal. We trust that the friendships 

 we have formed the past few months may 

 be lasting and ever mutually pleasant. 



Xhe Convention JPIiotograpli — 



the one taken of the bee-keepers inside the 

 hall — is commented upon by Bi'o. Root in 

 last Oleanings as follows: 



Toward the center of the room will be 

 found the editors of the Meview, Gauadimt 

 Bee Journal, the American Bee Journal, 

 and Oleanings. The last two sit in one chair, 

 arm in arm. While this was purely acci- 

 dental (there being a scarcity of chairs), 

 we are glad to say that it indicates pretty 

 fairly that the editors of two bee- journals 

 cannot only be on good speaking terms, but 

 they can sit together in one chair, sleep 

 together in one bed, or ride together in one 

 sleeper, all of which is literally true, as we 

 speak from personal knowledge. At one 

 other time Bro. Hutchinson and Bro. Hol- 

 termann occupied the same chair, and there 

 is no indication that these pleasant rela- 

 tions on the part of any of us will ever be 

 " strained." 



We may add in reference to the above 

 interesting comment, that although we had 

 never met Bro. E. R. Root before the day 

 we both occupied one chair at the same 

 time, we at once felt that we were well 

 acquainted with him, and that we indeed 

 would be the best of brothers. 



We were very sorry not to have had a 

 chance for a longer visit with Bro. E. R., 

 for we feel that our interests are, in a 

 great measure, almost identically the same, 

 and hence wished to become still better 

 acquainted with him. We had met Bros. 

 Hutchinson and Holtermann several times 

 before, and felt that we knew them quite 

 well, especially Bro. Hutchinson, with 

 whom we roomed while attending the 

 North American convention in Indianapo- 



lis, in 1886, and at various times since then 

 we have been together. 



Bro. Root has well said it, when speaking 

 of the bee-editors present, in these words : 



There is no indication that these pleasant 

 relations on the part of any of us will ever 

 be "strained." 



But if they ever do, let us hope that it 

 won't be worse than ^^ strained'' honey! 

 We'll try our best to " keep sweet," and no 

 doubt the others will do so without trying. 



Xliose IVIicliig'itn Experiments. 



— Bro. R. L. Taylor writes as follows, in 

 reply to the editorial on page 552 : 



Friend York: — ^Will you give me sufii- 

 cient space in the " Old Reliable " to pre- 

 sent a different aspect of some of the points 

 you mention in your editorial entitled 

 " Apicultural Experiments," on page 552 of 

 last American Bee Journal ? You say : 

 "As Mr. Taylor's work is paid for out of 

 public money, his reports belong to the 

 public," etc. Which would no doubt be 

 true if it applied; but it doesn't apply to 

 the case. I have made no report, and can- 

 not until the end of the year, and in the 

 ordinary course of things it would not be 

 published then for several months. 



The above is not written as a hint to any 

 one that he is not fi'ee to publish the articles 

 referred to — quite the contrary — but only 

 this : The editor of the lieview employs me 

 to write the articles, and pays me for it, so 

 he has of course the usual right 'to expect 

 credit when the articles are copied by other 

 journals — a thing which I notice you neg- 

 lect to do in the case of the last article, no 

 doubt on account of your misconception of 

 the case. 



Then you say you have published all the 

 articles, in which statement I think you are 

 again in error. The one in the September 

 lieview I think you overlooked. Of course 

 at that time I had no knowledge of what 

 your intentions were with regard to their 

 publication. You do publish notices of all 

 conventions, as well as reports of their 

 proceedings ; now suppose in speaking in 

 the convention on some germain topic, I 

 had said that on account of these points no 

 live bee-keeper could afford not to take the 

 American Bee Journal, would it have 

 been a very heinous offense '. But you say: 

 " It could but result in injury to our jour- 

 nal, and be a gross injustice to our brother 

 editors and their papers." How could it be 

 an injustice to other journals— practically, 

 I mean — when it did not lielp j-ours ? I can 

 see how it might help yours, as well as your 

 new subscribers, without injury or injus- 

 tice to any other. If you liad been present, 

 I do not think you would have discovered 

 anything to find fault with. 



Say, Bro. York, what is the matter with 

 the Chicago climate ? I have been ill for 

 the 10 days since I reached home, and write 



