OEOK6E W. VOBK, I DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY 

 Editor. f 



J Weekly, $1.00 a Year. 

 To Bee-Culture. I Sample Pree. 



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



NO. 26. 



SI.OW BUT SURS:. 



Better the old way of striving, 

 And counting small gains when the year 

 is done. 

 Than to use our forces all in contriving, 

 And to grasp for pleasures we have not 

 won. — Selected. 



A Happy I%e>v Year to all our 



readers, and many returns of the day when 

 we hope the good new resolutions may not 

 only be made, but fully kept throughout 

 the future years. 



A Complete Index to Vol. XXXII 

 will be found on page 826. Somehow we 

 cannot help pointing with a great deal of 

 pleasure to the index at the end of each 

 volume of the Bee Journal. It indicates 

 in a nut-shell the vast amount of informa- 

 tion to be found in a single volume, and no 

 doubt, of itself, the index would serve as a 

 most excellent sample copy of the Bee 

 Journal. Only those who have ever pre- 

 pared and published an index can possibly 

 know of the great labor it requires ; so we 

 trust that our readers will not fail to ap- 

 preciate this particular part of our work. 

 Of course we are glad to publish the index, 

 as it is of so much value to those who are 

 careful enough to preserve and bind the 

 Bee Journal for future reference. 



Bee-Kecper.s' Unioii Report for 



the 9th year will be found on page 823 of 

 this number of the Bee Journal. It will 

 pay you to read it very carefully, and if 

 not a member now, you should join at 

 once. Voting blanks and copies of this 

 Report may be had by addressing Ceneral 

 Manager Newman, who has so faithfully, 

 wisely, and successfully directed the efforts 

 of the Union ever since its organization. 

 Although small in membership, it is apicul- 

 ture's '-standing army," and practically 

 invincible in its defense of the just rights 

 of bee-keeping. All should rally 'round its 

 victorious banner. 



^^^ Every successful apiarist may well 

 be compared to a General of an army, who 

 must collect his forces, equip them for the 

 struggle, and lead them to victory. — Br. 



Tinker. 



Volume XXXII of the American Bee 

 Journal is completed with this number. 

 Next week'Volume XXXIII will commence. 

 So you see the Bee Journal is climbing 

 along the years at a rapid rate. Nearly a 

 third of a century old ! Can it be possible ? 

 Yes, 'tis true; and — 'tis well. 



For over 30 years the Bee Journal has 

 striven — with more or less effort and suc- 

 cess—to elevate the industry which it ex- 

 clusively represents, upon a higher plane ; 

 it has endeavored to spread abroad such 

 information as should most aid the advance- 

 ment of practical apiculture ; and has tried 

 to exalt bee-culture to its just and deserved 

 position among the most beneficent 

 branches of our glorious American agricul- 

 ture. 



While the Bee Jouunal now marks 



