The American Bee Journal, Volume XXXIII, No. 2, January 11, 1894

GEORGE W YORK. EDITOR
The Weather , up to Jan. 5th, here in Chicago, has been more like fall than winter. Reports seem to indicate that bees are wintering well, so far.
Mr. John Hager, Jr. , of Arabi, La., has sent us a box of specimens of honey-plants now in bloom in his locality, among them white clover and golden-rod. We wish to thank Bro. Hager for his kindness, as it is something unusual for us to see blossoms of honey-plants in the month of January. Louisiana, as well as the other States in our Sunny Southland, ought to be a Paradise for the bee-keeper and his bees. Doubtless it only needs a little more push and energy to wonderfully develop the bee-industry in that region of almost perpetual sunshine and blossoms.
Gleanings in Bee-Culture for Jan. 1st, 1894, appeared with a few very nice improvements. The principal one is the proposed “leading” of the reading matter—that is, putting strips of lead or metal between the lines, so that they will be further apart. This paragraph is “leaded,” while “The Stinger’s” department in the Bee Journal is “solid,” as printer’s say.
This “leading,” Bro. Root says, will reduce the amount of reading in Gleanings about one-fifth , and as Bro. Hasty, in the Review for March, 1893, figured that the Bee Journal then contained over 16.000 more words of bee-reading per month than Gleanings , hereafter the Bee Journal will be more than ever at the head of the list in quantity of bee-matter published; and as to quality of contents—well, we can safely leave that to our subscribers, whether or not it is up to standard.
Bro. Root has also put in some nice new departmental headings, which, with the “leading” of the type, give to Gleanings an exceedingly neat and tasty appearance.
☞ It is hardly necessary for me to say that the Italians are my choice among all the bees that I have ever seen, either for comb honey or for extracted.— Doolittle.
Bro. Pringle , of Canada, who had in charge the Ontario honey exhibit at the World’s Fair last summer, left for home on Dec. 21st. He had been in Chicago ever since April 6th, being the first apiarian superintendent to reach the Fair grounds, and the last to leave.