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The American Bee Keeper invites its 

 readers to send in reports of the past 

 and projected plans for the coming 

 season. These little items are an in- 

 teresting, and often instructive, featu e 

 of our bee journals. If your experience 

 has taught some new idea in practical 

 work, write it up for The Bee Keeper. 

 We shall always be pleased to receive 

 communications from our readers, and 

 to pay for articles of exceptional merit 

 relating to bee-keeping. 



Bright, wai-m days during February 

 and March often induce bees wintering 

 upon the summer stands to fly freely, 

 and serious loss not infrequently re- 

 sults from large numbers alighting 

 upon the snow, where they become 

 chilled and die. Do not neglect, then, 

 to littQr well with straw about the 

 hives and thus save thousands of bees 

 so much needed at this particular sea- 

 son to protect the brood nest now be- 

 ing fol-med. Better prevent too fre- 

 quent flights by shading the entrances 

 during sunny days. 



We are pleased to note that the pro- 

 posed amendments to the constitution 

 of the United States Bee-Keepers' 

 Union, as published in the October 

 number of The American Bee Keeper 

 and submitted to a vote of its mem- 

 bers, were carried almost unanimously. 

 We hope every reader of The American 

 Bee Keeper may appreciate our mutual 

 good fortune in having such an able 

 organization to represent and protect 

 our interests, and that all may realize 

 their evident duty, in behalf of their 

 personal interests and the future wel- 

 fare of the bee-keeping industry, to be- 

 come members and thus assist the im- 

 portant work projected. 



Our subscribers will note the de- 

 creased number of pages in The Bee 

 Keeper this month, the entire paper 

 being devoted to the industry in the 

 interest of which it is published. We 

 shall gladly make additions to our 



space as patronage may warrant; bu 

 to include in a bee journal that clas 

 of miscellaneous reading matter to b 

 found in weekly newspapers, or to es 

 pouse the cause of other industries o 

 professions is not in accordance witl 

 our idea of conducting an aplcultura 

 magazine. We trust our readers ma 

 approve the action, and by their kin 

 co-operation assist us in making Th 

 Bee Keeper an exclusive t)ee Journal, a 

 implied by the name, interesting an 

 instructive. 



In commenting upon the undevelopo 

 condition of the Southern honey mai 

 ket, through the American Bee Joui 

 nal, Mrs. L. Harrison says she visite 

 many groceries enquiring for honey i 

 Mobile (a city of about 44,000), bv 

 found none. We have made a simila 

 canvass in Chattanooga, Altanta, Sa 

 vannah and other Southern cities wit 

 about the same results, when, at th 

 same time, the commission men an 

 warehouses of Chicago and New Yor 

 were storing tons of honey. One grc 

 cer in Atlanta, who kept a large stor 

 on one of the principal streets, told u 

 that he had never had but one lot c 

 "honey in little boxes," and that as ; 

 was a novelty it sold very readily 

 Does not the importance of united ac 

 tion on the part of honey producers 

 tending toward some systematic meth 

 od of distributing their product mor 

 generally and educating the people t 

 its use, become more apparent eac 

 day? 



WHO'S THE CHAMPION? 

 "Three hundred and thirty-fou 

 pounds of honey was extracted from 

 single hive in England the past seaso 

 by Lancelot Quayle. The British Be 

 Journal regards this as probably th 

 largest ever taken in the kingdom." 

 [It is hardly fair to crow over our Bril 

 ish cousins; but some years ago a re( 

 ord of 700 pounds was reported froi 

 Texas, but it was discredited by a goo 

 many prominent bee-keepers. We d 



