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TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Bee Journal is sent to subscribers until an order is received by the publishers for its discontinuance, and all arrearages are paid. A Sample Copy of the BEE JOURNAL Will be sent FREE upon application.

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Emerson Binders, made especially for the AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, are convenient for preserving each weekly Number, as fast as received. They will be sent, post-paid, for 50 cts. each. They cannot be sent by mail to Canada. Lost Numbers.-We carefully mail the BEE JOURNAL to every subscriber, but should any be lost in the mails, we will replace them if notified before all the edition is exhausted. Always State the Post-Office to which your paper is addressed, when writing to us.

The St. Joseph Convention will be in session while most of our readers are perusing these pages. Next week we hope to be able to tell something about the meeting, that may interest those who were unable to attend. Then the following week we expect to begin publishing the proceedings in full, as we have employed an expert to report the convention specially for the AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. W. Z. Hutchin

son is the man who will take down" the "doings" in a short-hand way, and then, after the convention is over, write it all out so the rest of us can read it in the BEE JOURNAL.

You May Be Surprised to receive this number of the AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL earlier than usual, but it is on account of our going to St. Joseph, Mo., this week to attend the North American bee-convention. If your next week's copy of the BEE JOURNAL is late, you will have to blame that same convention for it. It has required some hard work for us to arrange matters in our office so as to get away for nearly a whole week, but we have succeeded in doing it, and now expect to have a delightful time with the members of the North American at the St. Joseph meeting. correspondence will have to be neglected for about a week, when we expect to be again at the "old stand," and with our accustomed promptness.

All our

Rev. Wm. F. Clarke, of Guelph, Ont., Canada, called on us last week. He was visiting friends and relatives in ChiCage. Most of our readers know that Mr. Clarke, over 20 years ago, was editor of the

AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, having removed it from Washington, D. C., to Chicago, where it has been published ever since. In 1873 he sold his interest to Mr. Thomas G. Newman, who edited and published it until June 1, 1892, when the present proprietors assumed full control of the destinies of the old AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Mr. Newman's financial interest in it ceased when it passed into our hands, though we find that the mistaken idea is still abroad, that he is yet closely connected with its management.

Mr. Newman continued in the bee-supply business in Chicago, and publishes the monthly Illustrated Home Journal. He is also the General Manager of the National Bee-Keepers' Union, which has done so much in defending, bee-keepers against unjust and malicious persecution.

Twenty-One Tons of Honey.Mr. Thos. B. Blair, of Neenah, Wis., sent us the following item that he had clipped from a local newspaper, and whose truthfulness he was inclined to doubt:

Mrs. W. J. Pickard, of Richland Centre, Wis., shipped to New York a carload of honey weighing 36,000 pounds. Her entire product this year was 42,000 pounds, which amount was procured in 21 days, making an average of two tons a day.

Wishing, before publishing the item, to be assured that it was something near the truth, we wrote Mrs. Pickard herself, and here is her reply, which came promptly:

RICHLAND CTR., Wis., Oct. 1, 1894. GEORGE W. YORK & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sirs:-This clipping is worded almost exactly as I gave it to our home editor, and there need be no doubt about the truthfulness of the statement. Although this is a large amount of honey, it is nevertheless the truth. Yours respectfully,

MRS. W. J. PICKARD. P. S.-There is one statement which might be corrected, and that is, it ought to be 2,000 pounds instead of two tons per day. MRS. W. J. P.

Certainly the words "Well done," can aptly be addressed to Mrs. Pickard, for her crop of honey is indeed something glorious in this year of drouth and unfavorable results in the majority of the apiaries of our land.

It would be interesting to know the number of colonies Mrs. Pickard had, and anything else about the matter that she may be good enough to tell us all.

PRESIDENT ABBOTT.

showing by portraits on this page. Gleanings for Oct. 1st also contained a picture of Mr. Abbott, but as we had decided, before seeing Gleanings, to insert these two portraits this week, we have done so even at the risk of being thought to follow too closely in the footsteps of our worthy contemporary. We presumed that our picture of Mr. Abbott was exactly as it should be, until we saw the one in Gleanings, which shows bim slightly bearded. Not having seen him for a whole year, we are unable just now (Oct. 4th) to tell you which portrait is up to date," but after the convention we will be qualified to speak intelligently upon this important (?) subject. At the risk of disagreeing with Bro. A.'s good wife, however, we will say that we think he's more handsome with simply a mustache-as shown in the picture herewith.

Rendering Beeswax.-B. Taylor, in the Farm, Stock and Home, says that he had some old brood-comb that had remained in a tank of water for some weeks,

VICE-PRES. HERSHISER.

len!" We'll guarantee that if it can be clearly shown that "there's millions in it," there will be plenty Yankees who would soon go into the pollen-yeast business.