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Vol. XIX. Sept. 15, 1892. So. 12. 



A Dialogue on Queen-Searing 

 will be commenced by Mrs. Atchley next 

 week, in her department. It promises 

 to be very Interesting, especially to the 

 beginner who wishes to rear his or her 

 own queens. Look out for this "con- 

 tinued " dialogue about queen-bees. 



Mr. Jas. A. Stone, the hard- 

 working Secretary of the Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, asks us to 

 publish the following : 



The subscribers to the American Bee 

 Journal, who in the future (as we get 

 the time to mail them) receive copies of 

 the first Annual Report of the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, may 

 consider themselves under obligation to 

 our friends, George W. York & Co., of 

 the American Bee Journal, who, at 

 our request, kindly gave us your ad- 

 dresses. Jas. A Stone, Sec. 



Poor Seasons or poor years are 

 apt to occur in any business, and es- 

 pecially in an agricultural line. While 

 the past few seasons have been rather 

 severe on the bee-keepers, yet it cannot 

 be that such will continue much longer. 

 Bro. Root, editor of Gleanings, has had 

 some conversation with „an aged bee- 

 keeping friend, which is summed up as 

 follows : 



A few days ago we were talking with 

 a gentleman who kept bees many years 

 ago. We referred to the poor seasons 

 that bee-keepers had been having for 

 the last four or five years, and asked 

 whether this was to continue. Our old 

 bee-keeping friend then related that, 

 away back in the '60's, bee-keepers had 

 four or five poor honey years in succes- 

 sion, followed by many years of good 

 honey-flows. He also alluded to the fact 

 that certain agricultural products were 

 subject to cycles of four or five years. 

 Well, our cycle of poor years, we are in 

 hopes, is about up ; at any rate, we shall 

 keep on hoping ; for " hope," says 

 Eugene Secor, " is the bee-keeper's best 

 bank account." 



A False Statement is going the 

 rounds of the press to the effect that 

 visitors will not be able to get any 

 drinking water at the World's Fair 

 without paying for it. There will be an 

 abundance of excellent water free to all 

 who want it. Those who wish to drink 

 mineral spring water, piped to the Ex- 

 position Grounds from Waukesha, Wis., 

 a hundred miles distant, will have to 

 pay one cent a glass for it. The free 

 water will be that of Lake Michigan, 

 brought by tunnel from a point four 

 miles from shore, and much better than 

 the inhabitants of most large cities are 

 supplied with. 



The Bee-Age, we now learn, was 

 never born. It seems we were misin- 

 formed about it. But no matter, "'tis 

 better so." When better seasons come 

 again, will be time enough to talk of 

 " the age of bees." 



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