TTIE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



March 



tlemen have "been out west." looking 

 over the situation and therefore ought 

 to know. 



rUBI.ISHEI) MONTHI.Y I'.Y 



THE W. T. FALCONER MANFG. Co. 



H. E. HILL, - EDITOR. 



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An exchange recently published a 

 likeness of the man who invented the 

 \"-shaped top-bar. Rather a question- 

 able honor: is it not? 



There are one or two among us to 

 whom the beauties of Maeterlinck's de- 

 lightful book are overshadowed by the 

 trifling inaccuracies which are but the 

 imprint of humanity. 



We have pleasure in presenting this 

 month an excellent portrait of ^Michi- 

 gan's state inspector of apiaries. Mr. 

 John M. Rankin: whose indefatigable 

 efforts to wipe out the foul brood of 

 his state have elicited" the praise of all 

 progressive bee-keepers. 



All queens offered for sale are "red- 

 clover" queens. No queen on the mar- 

 ket today but the "long-tongued" kind. 

 Buyers will have no choice in the mat- 

 ter this year. It's the very long- 

 tongued variety or none at all. Order 

 carlv and a\i)id the rush. 



( )ur printer, who. Ijy the way. has 

 more than a local rcnUation as a streak- 

 lightning workman, in making up the 

 forms for the February Bee-Keeper. 

 served uj) a piece of "pi." which, no 

 doubt, many of our readers observed, in 

 the second editorial colunui. It was 

 decidedly the most distasteful thing 

 passing- under that name that the edi- 

 tor has encoimtered in a long time. In 

 I he fiuure we will serve a better qual- 

 ilv. ov none at all. 



The editors of Gleanings and the Re- Will our correspondents who occa- 



view are agreed in the opinion that sionally favor us with contributions, 



Avithin a few years the great bulk of our and from wliom we are always pleased 



honey' i)roduction will be west of the to hear, very kindly be as brief as pos- 



MissisNipni river. Both of these gen- sible in stating wliat they have to say. 



