THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



June. 



of Mr. France* an, unprecedented re- 

 cord of good work promises to mark 

 the present year. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



THE W. T, FALCONER MANFG. Co 



H. E. HILL, - EDITOR. 



Texas is accredited with being the 

 greatest apicultural state in the Union; 

 and, indeed, it is a poor year there 

 when she fails to give birth to at least 

 one bee journal. Failing in this, she 

 is sure to resurrect an old one. 



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We have a number of large photo- 

 graphs from Dr. Blanton, Greenville, 

 Miss., illustrating the recent floods 

 along 'the Mississippi river, the broken 

 levees and the work of reconstruction. 

 The Doctor has our thanks for having 

 thus kindly remembered us. 



Pat writes from Cabans, Cuba, April 

 12, that his bees werejdoing better bus- 

 iness in honey-gathering at 'that time 

 than at any time since his arrival there, 

 and ascribes the activity to accessible 

 mangrove foimd in abundance about 

 one mile distant, on the sea shore. He 

 was preparing to transport his apiary 

 of 320 colonies by schooner to an even 

 denser field of this great honey yielder. 

 If enthusiasm and hard work will 

 bring success, success is assured to 

 Pat. 



After an extended period of hiber- 

 nation, the Southland Queen, Beeville, 

 Tex., .has again entered the realm of 

 active life; beginning with "Vol. i.. No. 

 I." The Queen is nominally a south- 

 ern journal, though specifically repre- 

 sentative of Texas apiculture, and its 

 contents are generally decidedly prac- 

 tical and instructive. One of the ar- 

 ticles in the new number, however, is 

 not particularly meritorious. I't was 

 originally an editorial taken from our 

 columns by the Australian Bee Bulletin 

 and republished by the Queen and cred- 

 ited "exchange-'' We welcome the re- 

 newed visits of .the Queen, and wish it 

 abundant success. 



An accident to our linotypes is re- 

 sponsible for a delay of several days 

 in mailing this issue of The Bce-Keep- 

 er. 



The National Bee Keepers' associa- 

 tion now has away over a thousand 

 members; and under the management 



"The Queen Bee and the Palace She 

 Should Occupy," is the singular title of 

 an interesting booklet recently issued 

 by T. K. Massie, Tophet, W. Va. The 

 author is evidently a very practical 

 apiarist, and the motive behind the en- 

 terprise appears to be a desire to ac- 

 quaint 'the bee-keeping public with a 

 new hive, of which he is the inventor, 



