. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 508 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 8, ^T^e ^. CiGOri^o IW Yrtrii, - - Editor, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, Se FIftb Avenue, - CHICAGO, ILL. $ a Year—Sample Copy Sent Free. [Entered at the Post-OCBce at Chieago as Second-Class Mail-Matter.] Vol. IIXV. CKICAeO, ILL, AUG. 8,1895. No, 32. Editorial Budgets The Biogrrapliical Sketch of the late Mr. Chas. E. Parks will be found on page 504 of this number of the Bee Journal ; also his portrait on the first page. The biography was written by Rev. E. T. Abbott, the personal friend of M
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 508 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 8, ^T^e ^. CiGOri^o IW Yrtrii, - - Editor, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, Se FIftb Avenue, - CHICAGO, ILL. $ a Year—Sample Copy Sent Free. [Entered at the Post-OCBce at Chieago as Second-Class Mail-Matter.] Vol. IIXV. CKICAeO, ILL, AUG. 8,1895. No, 32. Editorial Budgets The Biogrrapliical Sketch of the late Mr. Chas. E. Parks will be found on page 504 of this number of the Bee Journal ; also his portrait on the first page. The biography was written by Rev. E. T. Abbott, the personal friend of Mr. Parks, and is exceedingly interesting. It will well repay a careful reading, as Mr. Parks was a successful business man, as well as a practical inventor. The Eye of a Bee is a very interesting piece of work. A paragraph is going the rounds, which says that every bee has two kinds of eyes—the two large, compound ones, looking like hemispheres, on either side, and the three simple, or single eyes, which crown the head. Each compound eye (as one would naturally suppose from the term which designates it) is really an immense aggregation of eyes, each being composed of 3,500 facets, which means that every eye seen has its image reflected 3,500 times in the bee's tiny brain. Every one of the facets is the base of an inverted hexagonal pyramid, whose apex is fitted snugly to the head. Each of these pyramid facets may be termed a perfect eye, for each has its own iris and optic nerve. "Who Has Honey to Sell?—For four or five weeks in June and July, there was an advertisement in the Bee Journal offering to pay "spot cash " for honey, and ask- ing that samples and prices be submitted. Now it may sur- prise you, but not a single response was given to that adver- tisement. The firm offering the "spot cash" are responsible, as I fully know, and it seems strange that among the whole list of Bee Journal readers, there isn't one that has any honey to sell. Is
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