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EDITORIAL. 



Twenty-four pages this month. 



The honey season in England has 

 thus far been disappointing. Cold 

 east and northwest winds is the cause 

 attributed by the Bee-Keepers' Record. 



The editor of Gleanings says some 

 of their colonies are run for both comb 

 and extracted honey at the same time. 

 Every season brings to light new and 

 novel ideas, and in this respect 1898 

 will ever stand forth conspicuously. 



While a few localities appear to have 

 been especially favored this year, there 

 is now evidence of a shortage in the 

 general honey crop of the country. 

 With no California honey to be placed 

 in the eastern markets, as a result of 

 the drouth, indications favor better 

 prices for the light supply that will be 

 offered. 



The usual "gap between white clover 

 and basswood" was kept well closed in 

 this locality this season, by a continu- 

 ation of clover, which was yet in full 

 bloom when basswood was declining. 

 But when milkweed opened the bees 

 had but little time for either, a decided 

 preference being shown for the latter. 



Mr. Ed. Jolley wheeled up the valley 

 from Franklin, Pa., recently to honor 

 our "sanctum" with a brief call and 

 discuss intricate phases of modern bee- 

 dom. To us it was a pleasant hour, in- 

 deed, and incites an earnest wisii that 

 we might thus meet more of our read- 

 ers and contributors, with whose 

 names we have become so familiar. 



W. A. Varian, in American Bee Jour- 

 nal, has conceived the idea of a com- 

 mittee of bee-keepers being formed 

 from General Merritt's army in the 

 Philippines to test Apis dorsata. He 

 says: "If the great bee, or a closely 

 allied variety, inhabits the region, they 

 can test them there, and if they prove 

 adapted to hiving, introduce them." 

 Has Mr. Varian taken into considera- 

 tion the awful possibility of their pref- 

 erence in favor of improved hives, 

 which might result in their wresting 

 perforce from Apis mellifica their pa- 

 latial dovetails throughout America? 

 It might be prudent to test them in the 

 Ladrones before jeopardizing the Phil- 

 ippines. 



A metropolitan newspaper is author- 

 ity for the statement that during his 

 day of peaceful residence in his native 

 land, Senor T. Estrada de Palma, of 

 the Cuban junta, has received in one 

 year from bee-hunters $800 for the 

 privilege of removing the Tioney and 

 beeswax from his estate in Santiago 

 province. If "Old Glory" is hoisted over 

 much more of that kind of territory, 

 The American Bee-Keeper may decide 

 to confer additional honor upon Gen. 

 Shaffer by publishing his picture. 



