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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



35 



rrHMSHED MONTHLY BY 



THE W. T. FALCONER MANFG. 



H. E. HILL, - EDITOR. 



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T| We are obliged "^o announce that it is 

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^ ■ ■ ■ snt C. Roat. Rushville, \ ates County. N 



13, last, at Canandaigua, we are advis- 

 ed by Secretary Greiner, the following 

 officers were elected for 1902: Presi- 

 dent, H. L. Case, Canandaigua; Vice- 

 presidents, W. F. Marks Canandaigua, 

 C. H. Olmstead, East Bloomfield. E. 

 H. Perrv. Manchester; Treasurer. H. 



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v.: Honey Inspector, E. H. Perry; 

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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER, 

 Falconer, N. Y. 



In addition to the usual quantity of 



matter we begin this month the publi- 



rest. after having been treated by the 



Articles for publication or letters exclusively McEvOy plan, for black brOOd, Still 



for the editorial department may be addressed (ligeased, is the report of Mr. G. F. 



Fort Pierce, Fla. Tubbs, Annin Creek. Pa. By way of 



Subscribers receiving their papei in blue comparison, Ordinary discouragements 



would indeed seem insignificant. How- 

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wrapper will know that their subscription ex 

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have been met and surmounted by 

 those who have eventually achieved suc- 

 cess in bee-keeping. 



In addition to the usual quantity of 

 matter we begin this month the publi- 

 cation of a new department. While this 

 will perhaps be of little interest to the 

 majority of our readers, it will doubt- 

 less be appreciated by the thousands of 

 bee-keepers in Cuba and other Span- 

 ish-speaking countries, where modern 

 methods in apiculture are being estab- 

 ' >ircia Vieta of Cuba, whose portrait ap- lished and pursued. It is designed here- 

 ars this month in the Spanish de- in to deal almost exclusively with prob- 

 vartment. has recently been elected to lems relating to tropical bee-keeping; 

 > ongress in the new republic, thus add- though such subjects as may be deemed 

 ing another to his long list of honors of general interest will be given in 

 in public life. "ambas lenguas" — both languages. 



Our esteemed contributor, Dr. G. 



