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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Illinois Bee-Keepers» interests 

 are located with the horticulturists in 

 the coming World's Columbian Fair. 

 The Committee on Horticulture for 

 Illinois met in Chicago on the 9th inst., 

 to consider the needs of the several 

 departments. 



Representatives of the several divi- 

 sions of the Horticulture Society of the 

 State were present, together with the 

 World's Fair Committee of the State 

 Horticultural Society. They discussed 

 at considerable length the proposed 

 exhibit, and determined upon its scope. 

 The information obtained will be sub- 

 mitted by the committee to the coran>is- 

 sion at its October meeting. Owing to 

 the limited area assigned to Illinois, it 

 will be necessary to restrict the exhibit 

 so far as growing trees are concerned. 



The committee will recommt^nd the 

 appointment of a Superintendent of 

 Horticulture for the State at large, and 

 an assistant for each of th(> three grand 

 divisions, with suggestions as to the 

 amount of their compensation. The 

 sum of $40,000 is asked for the expenses 

 of the department. 



TlliS is. one of the many excellent 

 recipes in the Honey Almanac for this 

 year, and is called the "Honey and Tar 

 Cough Candy " : 



Boil a doublehandful of green hoar- 

 hound in two quarts of water down to 

 one quart; strain, and add to this tea 

 two cups of extracted-honey and a table- 

 spoonf al each of lard and tar. Boil down 

 to a candy, but not enough to make it 

 brittle. Begin to eat this, increase from 

 a piece the size of a pea, to as much as 

 can be relished. It is an excellent cough 

 candy and always gives relief in a short 

 time. 



We have tried the above recipe and 

 know it to be excellent for a cough, that 

 one has when getting over that terrible 

 Russian malady— la grippe.— Editor of 

 the Soutliern Horticulturist. 



We cheerfully commend this remedy 

 to Bro. Root, who is now having a tussel 

 with that monster, 



Soil has much influence upon nectar 

 secretions in flowers. A correspondent 

 in the Prairie Farmer states an interest- 

 ing point in this direction, as follows : 



A bee-keeper — a close observer of 

 nature — told me of late that he noticed 

 bees working continually on a patch of 

 white clover, on sod which had not been 

 disturbed for a long time, and adjacent 

 to it was a patch on ground that had 

 been thrown out in laying the foundation 

 for a building, and he never noticed a 

 bee upon it, thus showing that good, 

 moist, rich land produces honey from 

 clover, while hard, sandy land does not. 



TTliis is IVliat the Western Plow- 

 rtian remarks concerning the latest 

 invention for bee-keepers : 



Our bee editor, C. H. Dibbern, has 

 invented a new and successful "bee- 

 escape," and is thus keeping abreast of 

 the times, and in harmony with the 

 spirit of the age which demands some- 

 thing better to-day than we had yester- 

 day. 



Mr, Dibbern is an enthusiast on api- 

 culture, but he is something more. He 

 is practical and progressive. He thinks, 

 studies, investigates and tests ; and, in 

 consequence, when he arrives at a 

 particular result, the chances are that it 

 is as near right as can be secured. 



Adam's Bees have come to light 

 at this late day. Bevista Ajyicola, the 

 Spanish bee-periodical published in the 

 Island of Minorca, says that Prof. Herr, 

 of Zurich, has discovered 844 species of 

 fossil insects which date back to the 

 tertiary period. Among these is found 

 a bee, well preserved, which has been 

 added to the museum. Its size is half 

 that of the present bee. Its tongue, 

 wings and abdomen are well defined, 

 and also its composite eyes and two 

 simple ones. Prof. Herr has named it 

 Apis Adamitica (bee of Adam), and he 

 considers it the progenitor of the present 

 bees. 



The Irittle Busy Bee was not 



well rewarded for diligence this year. 

 The crop is not over one-fourthi of a.n 

 ordinary out-put. 



