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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



November 



A fair crop of fine honey is reported 

 by our readers in the Boise river region 

 of Idaho. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



THE W. T. FALCONER MANFG. Co. 



H. E. HILL, - EDITOR. 



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Beyond the banks of ice and. snow 

 another springtime awaits the North- 

 ern bee-keeper. 



Editor Hutchinson, of the Review, 

 wants someone to formulate and sub- 

 mit a working plan for co-operative 

 marketing. Here is the opportunity 

 for some bright fellow to distinguish 

 himself. 



We are in receipt of a business com- 

 munication, postmarked, "Cudahy, Wis- 

 consin," without either date or signa- 

 ture. We shall have to wait patiently 

 until our correspondent "calls us down"^ 

 for negligence. 



The trip recently taken to the Den- 

 ver convention seems to. have wonder- 

 fully dilated the comprehension of 

 some, in regard to the magnitude of 

 the world; yet, we understand there is 

 still a portion lying even beyond Den- 

 ver. 



A too prevalent error among bee- 

 keepers is the robbing of colonies of 

 their stores. Indiscreation in the mat- 



At the Denver convention, Mr. Hut- 

 chinson was re-elected president; Jas. 

 U. Harris, Grand Jimction, Colo., suc- 

 ceeds Mr. Hershiser as vice president, 

 and Geo. W. York, Chicago, captured 

 the secretaryship. 



The past season in Ireland is charac- 

 terized as "disastrous" by the Irish 

 Bee Journal. "Failure, such as the long- 

 est memory cannot recall from by- 

 gone years." With such general re- 

 ports of failure and small crops, better 

 prices should result- 

 Any of our readers having experience 

 with a Carniolan-Italian cross, are in- 

 vited by a western subscriber to tell 

 us something of their characteristics. 

 "How about their swarming propen- 

 sities, the amount of brood comb to 

 give them, etc.," are questions of par- 

 ticular interest to our correspondent- 



We call the attention of our readers 

 to the cheap advertising column which 

 ter of taking honey from the hives, we begins with this number. If you want 

 believe, is responsible for the loss of to buy, sell, exchange, beg, borrow or 

 more bees than the ravages of all dis- give away anything, this department 

 eases combined. will enable you at at trifling cost to. 



