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EDITOB. 



MIIYIII. Oct 8, 1891, No. 15. 



Editorial Buzzijigs. 



Queens now go by mail to Austra- 

 lia. Brother Root has sent several to 

 that colony through the mails. 



Tlie Food £:xpositionoF Man- 

 ufacturers, dealers and consumers will 

 be held at the Madison Square Garden, 

 New York, next week. 



Our Kriend A. E. Manum, of 

 Bristol, Vt., was married to Miss Hattie 

 C. Barnura on the 16th ult. The Bee 

 JouBNAL wishes them joy and happiness 

 through life. 



I^arge Queen.— Brother E. L. 

 Pratt has a 6-pound queen. She arrived 

 Sept. 20. Congratulations. This queen 

 will probably do more "piping" the 

 next few months than Brother Pratt has 

 been accustomed to hear, as 'tis the first 

 born in his home apiary. — Apiculturist. 



Xlie Bee UVorld has been merged 

 into the American Bee-Keeper, of James- 

 town, N. Y. The latter has a great 

 capacity for swallowing up its cotem- 

 poraries. It had already taken the 

 Advance, the Bee Hive, and now takes 

 the World. Will "the World'' satisfy 

 the Falconer Company ? 



Bee-Keepers will congregate in 

 Chicago on Nov. 19, to have a happy 

 reunion. Brother Hutchinson, editor of 

 the Review, gave it the following notice 

 last month : 



The Northwestern bee-keepers will 

 hold their annual convention Nov. 19 

 and 20, at the Commercial Hotel, corner 

 of Lake and Dearborn Streets, Chicago, 

 Ills. This date occurs when excursion 

 rates on the railroads will be one fare 

 for the round trip. I have tried several 

 times to analyze my feelings and decide 

 why I always look forward with un- 

 usually happy anticipations to these 

 annual meetings of the Northwestern 

 bee-keepers. Can it be that it is because 

 it is the one convention that sails in 

 without any essays, or even so much as 

 a printed programme ? 



Prof*. Cook writes us that he did 

 not give the name "bug-juice" to the 

 secretions of the aphidte. We were 

 under the impression that he was its 

 author, and so stated on page 393. We 

 expected to find proof on page 488 of 

 Gleanings for July 1, 1890 — but there 

 we only find that in referring to honey- 

 dew from bark-lice, he uses this lan- 

 guage : " This is always rank, dark, 

 and unwholesome. It is good to sell for 

 manufacturing purposes only." On page 

 52 of the Bee Jouknal for July 9, 

 1891, E. T. Davis mentions "bug-juice;" 

 but the first place where we noticed its 

 use was in Gleanings for 1888, page 

 494, where Jno. Nebel & Son, speaking 

 of honey-dew, remark thus: "Should 

 it continue to last until the first of 

 August, we shall have bug-juice in 

 abundance." Whether they originated 

 the term or not, we are not now pre- 

 pared to say. Perhaps they will inform 

 our readers on that point. 



