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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Bro. Hutchinson, of the Re- 

 view, is now the proud father of an in- 

 teresting "quartette "of the "sweetest" 

 and "nicest" girls in all Michigan. We 

 wish to congratulate our brother editor 

 upon the recent arrival of the fourth 

 little "queen," of whose advent he thus 

 writes with such dainty eloquence in 

 his September Bee-Keepers' Revieiv : 



Another "tiny feather from the wings 

 of love" has been "dropped into the 

 sacred lap of motherhood " at the home 

 of the Review. It is one of the sweetest, 

 nicest little girls thai we ever had. Ivy 

 said: — 



" Papa, are you going to put her in 

 the Review ?" 



" Yes, you write a notice, and I'll put 

 it in." 



"Oh, I couldn't do that." 



"Well, let's see how you would start 

 out if your were going to write one ?" 



"I would say, ' The editor of the Re- 

 view has another bright, lively little 

 daughter, although she has not made 

 very much noise yet.' " 



That was as far as I could induce her 

 to go, but it expresses the situation as 

 well, perhaps, as would a whole page, 

 with the exception that the baby has 

 since redeemed herself in the way of 

 noise-making. 



The Minnesota State Fair 



was held at Hamline, Minn., on Sept. 

 5th to 10th, and the St. Paul Pioneer 

 Press of Sept. 9th contained the follow- 

 ing notice of the meeting of the State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, and also the 

 honey exhibit at the Pair : 



The Bee-Keepers' Association met 

 yesterday morning in the Institute Hall 

 to discuss plans for the World's Fair 

 exhibit. The State Commission has set 

 aside $500 for this industry, but the 

 members of the association are hopeful 

 of securing a much larger amount. Mr. 

 A. K. Cooper, of Winona, Secretary of 

 the association, has charge of the col- 

 lection of the exhibit, and he proposes 

 to secure a little honey from every 

 county in the State where any attention 

 is paid to the keeping of bees. In some 

 instances he may be compelled to buy 

 the honey, but he expects to have this 

 donated in most cases. Both extracted 

 and comb honey will be collected. Min- 



nesota is by some considered too far 

 north for the honey-bee, but the St;;te 

 will make an effort to secure the first 

 premiums at the World's Fair. 



The past season has been a poor one 

 for bee-keepers, but the exhibit in the 

 main hall is a creditable one. J. P. 

 West, of the State examiner's office, 

 and President of the Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, is«superintendentof this display, 

 and to his personal efforts is largely due 

 the present success. J. M. Doudna, from 

 the northern county of Douglass, has an 

 attractive exhibit in beeswax, and some 

 very fine honey; he has taken four first 

 premiums and second prize in sweep- 

 stakes. Other counties well represented 

 are Hennepin, Houston, Kandiyohi and 

 Wabasha. 



The Bee-Keepers' Association will hold 

 its annual meeting in Minneapolis on 

 Thursday, Friday and Saturday, im- 

 mediately following the annual meeting 

 of the State Horticultural Society, 

 which will be held in the same place on 

 the third Tuesday in January, 1893. 



Construction of Bee-Cellars 



is to be the "special topic " of the Octo- 

 ber B.-K. R. (If anybody but an old 

 bee-reader could guess what those three 

 initial letters stand for, we should be 

 very much surprised.) In the depart- 

 ment " Among Our Exchanges " in this 

 issue, is an item which is taken from the 

 B.-K. R. It requires a mighty good 

 guesser now-a-days, to understand some 

 of the modern ways of conveying knowl- 

 edge. But we will try to keep up with 

 the crowd, even though we "miss it" 

 occasionally. 



Drones and Electricity.— Mr. 



F. Greiner, in Gleanings, in his "Cobs 

 and Kernels," says this about the ability 

 of drones to withstand a current of 

 electricity : 



Experiments made years ago in Ger- 

 many have shown that drones cannot 

 withstand as strong a current of elec- 

 tricity as workers. Would it not be 

 simpler and cheaper, by means of an 

 electrical battery constructed in such a 

 manner that the strength of the current 

 could be changed ad libitum, to kill all 

 drones of a colony instantly, than to use 

 drone-traps for the purpose ? 



