1893. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



ficiently self-sacrificing for buman- 

 ty's salie, to welcome a practical 

 trial of the experiment. 



The subject of marketing honey is 

 rowded off the program of the W. 

 N. Y., N. W. P. &. E. O.Bee-Keep- 

 3r3' convention entirely,by such prob- 

 ems as "house apiaries," "artificial 

 ncrease" and "spring management.'' 

 [f it is really a fact that these matters 

 ire of primar}^ interest to bee keepers 

 it this time, as indicated, it is evi 

 lent that the importance of united 

 iction tendino; toward the develop- 

 nent of the honey market has been 

 greatly overestimated by certain 

 pecialists and the bee keeping press. 

 The market demand for apiary pro- 

 iucts, it would seem, is the only 

 'oundation upon which to build, being 

 he sole support of the industr}- for 

 ill time. Is this matter of devising 

 50rae means of creating a popular de- 

 aiand for our prodnct, not Worthy of 

 1 place alongside of such questions 

 IS "artificial increase,"' before 41 con- 

 i^ention of hone}^ producers? 



To the question of a correspondent 

 n Gleanings: "Can 1 not put off 

 feeding until winter? ", ]\Ir. Doolittle 

 replies thus emphatically: "No! a 

 housand times nol When will people 

 [earn not to put off the feedins; of 

 bees 'till cold weather comes." 



The latest census reported about 

 70,000 colonies of bees in Ontario, 

 Canada. 



Californians want the next convon- 

 ion of the United States Bee Keep- 

 Ts' Union. San Francisco's the phte:>, 

 :hey sav, 



The spring rush for the Klondike 

 5oId fields will soon begin, and in an- 

 icipation of it the Northren Pacific 

 [\ailvvay Co , has issued a very com- 

 Drehensive pamphlet on the Alaskan 

 jrold Fields, giving in detail the l)est 



routes to go, and the distances , the 

 articles to take along, the cost, etc. 

 The pamphlet is called the "Key to 

 Klondike.'" If any bee keepers con- 

 template going there, they will find 

 much valuable information in it and 

 it will pay to get a copy which can 

 be had for a 2c stamp sent to Charles 

 S. Fee, general passenger agent, St. 

 Paul. It is needless to say you can- 

 not keep bees in Klondike. 



We will send the American Bee 

 Keeper one year and a box of gar- 

 den seeds (price $1.60) for 75c post- 

 paid. 



F. T. Hall, Wisconsin, recently put 

 an end to the destructive work of a 

 4-000 pound bear in his apiary by a 

 well aimed rifle .bullet. 



According to accounts in the Pa- 

 cific Bee Journal, the bee keeper out 

 that way that does not report nine 

 tons and upwards this year, is a 

 "little fellow."" 



~ Literary Items^ ' 



MARK TWAIN's NEW STORY. 



Mark Twain's new humerous story, which 

 he is now writing in Vienna, is to go to The 

 Ladies' Home Journal, which magazine has 

 also secured F. Marion Crawford's new 

 story, which is a tale of the unreal, with 

 the striliing uncanny title of •' The Dead 

 Smile." 



" WHAT TO EAT" FOR JANUARY — "HOW 

 TO KEEP YOUNG '" 



is the title of another article in What To 

 Eat for January, and it will interest every- 

 body who has passed twenty. 



If you want to " swear off '' in a sensible 

 manner for the coming year, read the pledge 

 containe I on the frontpage. It promises 

 what any of us ought to cheerfully sub- 

 scribe to. "Frauds in Flour" and "Frauds 

 in Food and Drink'" form the subject of 

 particularly vigorous editorials, and choice 

 recipes, poems and stories make up the rest 

 of the number. 



It is announced that the winners of the 

 prize poem contest will be given in the next 

 i.ssue. 10c a copy, $1 a year. Address 

 Pierce & Pierce, Publishers, Minneapolis, 

 Minn. 



