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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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As the home of short-lived bee jour- 

 nals. Texas easily "takes the bakery." 

 It is said another will soon be launch- 

 ed, and we hope it may be more suc- 

 cessful than its predecessors. 



IN AUSTRALIA. 



"Springtime is coming; 



Just hear its low humming 

 Off where the blue waters sweep. 



Sandled w^ith gold. 



It breaks the brown mould, 

 Waking the blossoms from sleep." 



Every reader of the Bee-Keeper is 

 invited to put on his thinking cap and 

 go after ideas relative to the co-oper- 

 ative marketing of the honey crops of 

 the United States. "What do you 

 think?" 



Virgil, it is said, claimed that bees 

 did not live over seven years. There 

 are still lots of people who believe the 

 same thing. 



Just at present the business end of 

 bee-keeping, the marketing of the prod- 

 uct, is the factor most in need of at- 

 tention. — Review. 



The next convention of the Chicago- 

 Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will be held at the Briggs house, 

 Chicago, December •! and -4. 



It is a common practice m some 

 parts of the world to feed a swarm 

 for the first day or two, and it is no 

 doubt a profitable thing to do. It ought 

 to be a good thing for a forced swarm 

 as well.— Dr. Miller, in Gleanings. 



A disgruntled fossil out West writes 

 that The Bee-Keeper is "getting too 

 gay." What does he expect of a "young 

 thing." in the best of health and hand- 

 somely clad, who is just entering her 

 teens? The Bee-Keeper has no occa- 

 sion to be otherwise than "gay." 



Who is it that squanders his money 

 on worse than useless patents and fix- 

 tures? He who "can not afford" to 

 take a bee-paper.— Prof. A. J. Cook. 



We regret to state that our "shadow," 

 who undertook to follow "Pat" into 

 Cuba, was taken ill at Miami, and was 

 therefore unable to proceed farther. 



Short cuts and quick methods 

 should not be the chief aim of the be- 

 ginner. To do well that which is to 

 be done is a more commendable ambi- 

 tion. 



There is no breed of bees which are 

 more hardy than the others. The com- 

 mon black bee, the ItaHan, the Cyprian, 

 the hybrids between these different rac- 

 es, all winter equally well or badly. We 

 must therefore look elsewhere than in 

 the race for the cause of death or life 

 during the cold winters. — C. P. Dadant, 

 in Modern Farmer. 



Among our correspondents, there are 

 none who have shown a greater inter- 

 est in keeping our directory columns 

 correct than Editor H. E. Hill, Am- 

 erican Bee-Keeper. We are glad to 

 add that this publication is one of the 

 best in the line of bee culture and is 

 quoted from and recognized every- 

 where. — Trade Press List, Boston. 



In the construction of a solar wax- 

 extractor, the use of the wire-cloth 

 strainer should not be thought of. It 

 is worse than useless; it's a genuine 

 nuisance. 



Rev. W. F. Clark, one of Canada's 

 foremost authorities on bees, and of 

 whom James Heddon has said, "he is 

 the ablest apicultural writer in the 

 world," died at his home in Guelph, 

 Ont. Sept. 26. 



Tlie difficulties between the pear 

 growers and the bee-keepers of Cen- 

 tral California, which were so much dis- 

 cussed a year or so ago, seem to not to 

 have been settled by the removal of the 

 apiaries from the pear-growing dis- 

 trict. Poisoning of the bees and other 

 troubles are anticipated to break out 

 afresh when the blooming season re- 

 turns. As a result, Secretary F. E. 

 Brown, of the Central California Bee- 

 Keepers' Association was delegated to 

 make a formal appeal to the National 

 Association for advice and protection in 



