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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



ric'iiltural college, appointing as 

 one of its teachers a professor of 

 scientific and practical beekeeping 

 and establishing in connection with 

 it an experimental apiary for the 

 benefit of its students, we shall not 

 have completed our work or have 

 fulfilled our mission. 



While in the future as in the 

 past, the bulk of surplus honey will 

 be produced by the specialist, who 

 in order to succeed shotdd become 

 thoroughly conversant with all the 

 varied requirements of scientific 

 apiculture, yet, in order that it 

 may fulfil its mission properly and 

 well, simple methods must be 

 taught to the farmer, horticulturist 

 and others, whereby they may 

 keep bees, thereby supplying their 

 own tables with nature's pure un- 

 adulterated sweets, and thus in- 

 creasing their income by saving 

 from $25 to $100 yearly, which 

 to the average farmer is no 

 small item, not to mention the a<l- 

 vantages which accrue from having 

 the bees to fertilize the fruits, 

 grains, clover, etc. 



This calls for a far different 

 method of conducting our associa- 

 tions, bee-literature, and, in fact, 

 every means through which one 

 may obtain an apicultural educa- 

 tion, than at present exists. This 

 -i^need has been recognized by such 

 teachers as Moses Quinby, L. L. 

 Langstroth, Samuel Wagner and 

 many others, but has been almost 

 buried out of sight bj' those, who 

 in order to further their own in- 

 terests at the sacrifice of the inter- 

 ests of others have monopolized, 

 in fact, almost every means by 



which these ends might be accom- 

 plished ; and while there are those 

 who will take issue with us on this 

 point, yet we are free to assert 

 that many of those who have con- 

 trolled and conducted our bee-lit- 

 erature are largely responsible for 

 the fact that beekeeping in Amer- 

 ica to-day is in such a disorgan- 

 ized and unsatisfactory condition, 

 and are further responsible for a 

 large portion of the grevious mis- 

 takes that have come to apicul- 

 ture. 



We do not take this position un- 

 advisedly, and were it not that the 

 records of the leading bee-journals 

 bear us out in this, it would be 

 simply ridiculous and fool-hardy 

 for us to make such statements, 

 nor do we stand alone in this, for 

 we only reiterate the statements of 

 the more thoughtful and most 

 pi-ominent apiarists in America. 



There is one association, how- 

 ever, whose members following in 

 the footsteps of its founder, the 

 noble and justly honored Moses 

 Quinby, have, by speaking always 

 on the side of right and justice 

 (and this boldy and zealously in 

 order to protect the rights of its 

 members) incurred the wrath of 

 these monopolists and for this 

 reason everything possible has 

 been done to ignore or injure it. 



These ai'e but a few of the many 

 vexing subjects with which we 

 have to contend, and which can all 

 be practically and effectually 

 solved if less attention is paid to 

 monopoly speculation in the supplj' 

 business and more thought given 

 to the advancement of scientific 



