AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 

 GEORGE W. YORK, 



Editors. 



YoLffl. July 7, 1892. Io.2. 



Women are angels here below, 

 For man's blessedness given ; 

 Their smiles of joy, their tears of woe. 

 Bless as they shine, pain as they flow — 

 They are creatures born of Heaven. 



Mr. F. C. Morrow, of Wallace- 

 burg, Ark., has sent us a sample of 

 Italian queen-bees with attendant bees, 

 which are quite yellow and nice. 



Women Bee-Keepers of the 



State of Illinois are requested to send 

 their names and addresses on postal 

 cards to Mrs. Thos. F. Gane, 425 La 

 Salle Avenue, Chicago, Ills., saying that 

 they are bee-keepers. Mrs. Gane is 

 Vice-President of a woman's organiza- 

 tion connected with the World's Fair, 

 and desires to get statistics on bee-cul- 

 ture, poultry-raising, or any other semi- 

 agricultural pursuit in which women are 

 interested. 



Warned Against Small-Pox 



— We have received from the Illinois 

 State Board of Health a letter calling 

 attention to the recent cases of small- 

 pox in New York, Chicago, and Pitts- 

 burg, and suggesting that rigorous pre- 

 cautions be at once taken to prevent any 

 further outbreaks. The communication 

 recites the fact that an epidemic whould 

 result in great loss. It includes by in- 

 sisting on the rigid enforcement of the 

 vaccination ordinances as a means of 

 prevention. 



The Board of Health at Springfield, 

 Ills., will furnish, throughout the State, 

 carefully selected, reliable vaccine at 

 actual wholesale cost, accompanying 

 each package with plain, practical in- 

 structions for the operation. To com- 

 munities unable to purchase vaccine, if 

 any such there be, it will be furnished 

 gratuitously on proper representation of 

 the facts, and an agreement to report 

 results on the blanks furnished by the 

 board. 



Self-Hiving' Arrangements 



are receiving much attention by pro- 

 gressive bee-keepers now-a-days, and 

 they will doubtless receive a great deal 

 more before they are made to do per- 

 fectly the work for which they are in- 

 tended. Mr. C. H. Dibbern, in the 

 Western Plowman, writes thus of his 

 efforts to improve and perfect the device 

 for the self-hiving of swarms : 



During the present season we are in 

 hopes of perfecting the self-hiver, so 

 that it can be used without much after 

 manipulation. We believe that we now 

 have it so that this can be accomplished, 

 but one can never be sure until it has 

 been in actual use. Somehow the bees 

 have decided notions of their own, and 

 will often persistently refuse to do the 

 very thing we think they ought to do. 

 We shall try all the different plans that 

 have been suggested during the past 

 winter and spring ; but we are very sure 

 that some of the devices will not work 

 at all. We shall do our best to perfect 

 our own device, and now confidently ex- 

 pect to give something definite in a very 

 short time. 



