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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



June 



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 H. E. HILL, - EDITOR. 



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 do so, you will thereby confer an obli- 

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• Brother Hutchinson, of the Review, 

 saj's neatness can be carried to excess; 

 but in all his travels among bee-keep- 

 ers he has not found an instance in 

 which it appeared to have been done. 



Have you a bee-keeping neighbor or 

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 have his name, and do what you can to 

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We are still offering a year's sub- 

 scription for ideas expressed in writ- 

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 taining to bee-keeping, and of interest 

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Our thanks are due many of our rea- 

 ders this month for their kindness in 

 having sent in lists of bee-keepers' 

 names, to whom we are sending sample 

 copies. More than ought else, we ap- 

 preciate these expressions of kind rem- 

 embrance. 



The Irish Bee Journal, published at 

 Lough Rynn, Dromod, Ireland, and 

 edited by J. G. Digges, M.A., celebrat- 

 ed its first birthday last month. It is 

 a promising youth, and a welcome ac- 

 quisition to our exchange table. Broth- 

 er Digges gets out one of the best. 



We are in receipt of a copy of the 

 Report of the Proceedings of the 

 Thirty-Second Annual Convention of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, which was held last September at 

 Buffalo. In addition to the complete 

 report, the book contains a list of the 

 names and addresses of the members, 

 the constitution, and many portraits of 

 those active in the work. It is con- 

 veniently and neatly gotten up, con- 

 tains about eighty pages, of this size; 

 costs 25 cents and is published by Geo- 

 W. York & Co., 144 Erie St., Chicago. 



The latest acquisition to our ex- 

 change list is the Jamaica Times, the 

 official organ of the Jamaica Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association. The apicultural de- 

 partment is edited by Secretary C. W. 

 McHardy, and contains much of inter- 

 est to the bee-keepers of this charming 

 isle of the Caribbean. In welcoming the 

 Times to our table, we might suggest 



