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more than Pleased.— Dr. A. 



Sayler, of New Palestine, Ohio, in a 

 letter dated Aug. 29th, expresses his 

 pleasure over receiving the American 

 Bee Journal and the book "Bees and 

 Honey," in the following happy manner: 



Friend York : — Your Bee Journal, 

 with back numbers from June 1, 1892, 

 came to hand a few days ago, and I 

 have been gorging most gloriously on 

 them. More " sweets " for a dollar than 

 I could have ""obtained spending the 

 money for sugar. 



To-day, the gorgeous bee-book came — 

 "Bees and Honey." Pictures of the 

 great bee-lights are just what I have 

 been longing for. 



This morning I read Father Lang- 

 stroth's article on his sickness in the 

 Bee Journal, then I wanted to see his 

 picture. To-day's mail brought it in the 

 book. Ah ! but he's a grand old man. 

 He looks — an uncrowned king. The 

 pictures in "Bees and Honey" show 

 that all you bee-men — all the " big 'uns " 

 — are prim and precise to a fault, and 

 immaculately neat. Well, idlers and 

 slouches will never get to the top in any 

 of the branches of your craft. 

 Yours Respectfully, 



A. Sayler, M. D. 



The Apiculturist for September 

 came right on time, and is full of good 

 things. Here are a few of Bro. Alley's 

 "A pi-thoughts :" 



September is the best month for pre- 

 paring bees for winter. Don't fuss with 

 them late in the fall. 



Twenty-five pounds of sugar, or $1.25 

 worth, will carry any colony of bees 

 through the hardest winter. 



Bees in the Bay State Apiary have 

 gathered more or less honey all through 

 the summer. Quite an unusual thing. 



When those bee-keepers who have the 

 Punics learn how to handle them, little 

 complaint will be heard from stings. 

 There is a great knack in handling bees 

 to avoid stings. Some people cannot 

 handle bees any more than they can the 

 horse, or other domestic animals. The 

 Punics are all right. 



Don't be in a hurry about marketing 

 your honey. There must have been a 

 short crop of good honey gathered this 

 year. Vermont bee-keepers have se- 

 cured but little surplus, and this seems 

 to be the condition in several States 



where large quantities of comb honey in 

 sections is usually secured. 



A big crop of new bee-papers is prom- 

 ised in the near future. Such things 

 must be expected as long as fools and 

 cranks infest the world with their ex- 

 istence. 



'Tis pretty rough to be obliged to 

 write this stuff with the temperature at 

 92° in the coolest place. 'Tis rough, 

 too, to go into the apiary and put up 

 queens when it is 120° in the sun. We 

 poor mortals who rear queens and pub- 

 lish bee-papers have to do these things 

 as well as a good many more things the 

 common bee-keeper is not obliged to do. 



All "Visitors will be interested in 

 the Agricultural exhibit, but its chief 

 value will rest upon a much broader and 

 more significant fact. The exhibit will 

 afford a vast amount of information to 

 many thousands to whom it will prove 

 of incalculable benefit. The crops best 

 adapted to different localities, and the 

 reason therefor, the most improved 

 methods of cultivation that are being 

 pursued, the best results that have been 

 secured, and the manner of their secur- 

 ing, and the perfection of products in 

 every line — all these will be shown, and 

 will constitute the more important les- 

 sons which the Agricultural exhibit will 

 teach. Through the thousands who 

 learn these lessons, and are sure to make 

 practical utilization of them, the agri- 

 cultural industries will receive such an 

 economic readjustment and impetus as 

 will result in increased productiveness 

 and merit, and general benefit to the 

 entire country, from the World's Fair. 



Catalogues have been received 

 from the following : — 



Mrs. Jennie Atchley, Floyd, Tex. — 16 

 pages — Bees, Queens and Nuclei. 



John Nebel & Son, High Hill, Mo.— 

 20 pages — Bee-Keepers' Supplies, Ital- 

 ian Bees and Queens. 



Why Not send us one new name, 

 with $1.00, and get Doolittle's book on 

 "Scientific Queen-Rearing" as a premi- 

 um ? Read the offer on page 383. 



