. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. TMm' wMERicKP* mmm 307. EDITOB. VoLXXIY, May 9,1888, No. 19. Give IIS of your sunshine, O ! .vn bonny spring, Of your golden treasure, Days of sunlight bring. Come and deck with beauty Hill and valley fair. Every swaying tree-top. Every meadow bare. Robe all with beauty rare. Acrostic. —Lizzie Godfrey. Cbriiiit Ilefbre Pilate, a painting by Munkacsy, the famous Hungarian artist, is on exhibition at Central Music Hall, Chi- cago, where it may be seen during the day and evening for several weeks. It meas- ures 18x25 feet including the frame,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. TMm' wMERicKP* mmm 307. EDITOB. VoLXXIY, May 9,1888, No. 19. Give IIS of your sunshine, O ! .vn bonny spring, Of your golden treasure, Days of sunlight bring. Come and deck with beauty Hill and valley fair. Every swaying tree-top. Every meadow bare. Robe all with beauty rare. Acrostic. —Lizzie Godfrey. Cbriiiit Ilefbre Pilate, a painting by Munkacsy, the famous Hungarian artist, is on exhibition at Central Music Hall, Chi- cago, where it may be seen during the day and evening for several weeks. It meas- ures 18x25 feet including the frame, and contains nearly forty life-sized figures. When gazing at the picture as it stands draped on the stage, in the large hushed hall, one almost waits to hear words issue from the canvas, so very realistic does the scene appear. Honey on tlie Bill of Fare.—F. A. Huntley, in the Minnesota Farmer, says about the future of honey consumption : Bee-keeping was one of the first rural occupations. At the time when man first conimenced to stir the soil for his daily bread, bees were managed for domestic use, to furnish the only product then known and used exclusively as a sweet. The discovery of sugar making supplied a cheaper staple, which placed honey among the luxuries. For hundreds of years such has been the state of the honey trade. Now we see ad- vanced bee-keeping increasing the produc- tion to an extent that will soon place honey on the regular bill of fare of the most un- pretentious hotels. ' Indeed, we should see it there to-day. The way to do it, is for bee-keepers and others to call for it when at hotels. " Mine host" will provide whatever is demanded. If honey is not required, it will not be provided. Statistics Alone.—H. M. Moyer, of Berks County, Pa., writes as follows, for publication, on the subject indicated in the heading : To get governiental statistics through the assessors may be good for some, but I am sure tor the majority of bee-keepers it
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