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derstood with white honey. The West- 

 ern member of the Albany committee 

 did not meet with us, and I have been 

 informed since that very large quantities 

 of yellow or saffron colored sealing is 

 produced in the prairie States. If so, it 

 may be necessary to make another grade 

 for this. The small quantity usually 

 produced in the East, can be put into 

 the mixed grade. — P. H. Elwood. 



It is both desirable and feasible to 

 grade comb honey, and standard " rules" 

 should be agreed upon, and generally 

 adopted. We fully believe in the rule of 

 the majority. The united wisdom of 

 those in attendance at the North Ameri- 

 can Convention temporarily settled upon 

 " Rules." These are being discussed, 

 and, as a result, will be reviewed at the 

 next meeting, and then should be every- 

 where acknowledged and used. — Edi- 

 tors. 



Milk - "Weed and Pleurisy- 

 Root.— Mr. L. Posey, of Torch, Ohio, 

 sent us some flowers to be named, and 

 wrote concerning them as follows on 

 June 25, 1892 : 



I send you a spray of flowers which I 

 would be pleased to have named. I have 

 6 colonies of Italian bees, and they are 

 doing a big business just now on this 

 same flower, and, strange to say, I can- 

 not find a solitary black bee working on 

 them, although there are quantities of 

 blacks right close to my Italians. Can 

 you offer any cause why this flower 

 seems to be the exclusive property of the 

 Italians ? My Italians in dovetailed 

 hives are doing splendid work this sea- 

 son ; three of them have 48 sections 

 nearly sealed with white clover honey. 

 Almost all the bees in this neighborhood 

 are blacks, in box-hives, consequently I 

 have no opposition in producing honey. 



L. Posey. 



We sent the flowers to Prof. T. J. 

 Burrill, of the Illinois State University 

 at Champaign, Ills., who wrote us as 

 follows about them : 



The two specimens inclosed are red 

 milk-weed, Asclepias incarnata, and 

 yellow milk-weed, or pleurisy-root, A. 

 tuberosa. These flowers are bad traps 

 for black bees, for by their peculiar 

 structure the tongue of the bee gets 

 caught in a slit, and the death of the 

 insect is often a consequence. Italian 

 bees seem to be strong enough to escape, 

 though these do occasionally get fast- 



ened in a similar way. Sometimes numer- 

 ous dead bees can be found on the 

 flowers, or near by. Do they learn to 

 avoid the flowers, as Mr. Posey's obser- 

 vations seem to indicate? — T. J.Burriix. 



The World's Fair grounds and 

 buildings, now nearing completion, are 

 .so renowned as a most beautiful and 

 interesting spectacle that not only do 

 from 5,000 to 12,000 people a day, at 

 a cost of 25 cents a piece, inspect them, 

 but the great majority of travelers who 

 pass through Chicago devote a day or 

 more to the same purpose. Hundreds 

 of distinguished foreigners, and thou- 

 sand of prominent men from the various 

 States of the Union have availed them- 

 selves of this privilege, and it is not 

 exaggeration to say that all, without 

 exception, have been most agreeably 

 surprised at the splendor and magnitude 

 of what they witnessed, and have de- 

 parted very enthusiastic over the bright 

 prospects of the Pair. Several hundred 

 of the returning delegates of the late 

 Republican national convention at Min- 

 neapolis, inspected the wonders of 

 Jackson Park while in Chicago. Nearly 

 all of the delegates to the Democratic 

 convention at Chicago have done the 

 same. The Exposition authorities have 

 committees to show visitors about and 

 explain details to them. 



The Paper Trade Club of 



Chicago, representing nearly all the 

 paper manufacturers of the city, is 

 arranging for an interesting display at 

 the World's Fair. The club expects to 

 put a complete paper mill on the 

 grounds, and show the process of mak- 

 ing paper from the pulp to a finished 

 card in the shape of a World's Fair 

 souvenir. 



The Globe Bee- Veil, which we offer 

 on the third page of this number of the 

 Bee Journal, is just the thing. You 

 can get it for sending us only three new 

 subscribers, with $3.00. 



