THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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and practical apiculture, develop- 

 ing new markets for hone}^ etc. 



After a thorough experience in 

 every branch of the bee and siqiply 

 business, we became fully confident 

 that, until we had an independent 

 journal and one which was entirely 

 free from the supply business, and 

 published in the broadest sense of 

 the word in the interests of bee- 

 keepers, every attempt to correct 

 the evils that threatened beekeep- 

 ing would prove abortive ; and it 

 was only after weighing the matter 

 carefully that we decided to enter 

 the field and endeavor to give to 

 the beekeepers of America such a 

 journal. 



We also remembered that while 

 heretofore others had tried to ac- 

 complish this, but through lack of 

 support and overpowering circum- 

 stance had failed, and also that 

 every effort would be made to crush 

 out any attempt that we might 

 make, yet trusting in One who al- 

 ways favors and protects right and 

 justice, and relying upon the intel- 

 ligent and thoughtful apiarists who 

 would rally to our support, we 

 have embarked in this enterprise. 

 How thoroughly we have laid the 

 foundation for continued and 

 effective work, we leave to the 

 testimony of the hundreds of prom- 

 inent and successful apiarists from 

 every quarter of the globe, and the 

 actions of the two leading beekeep- 

 ers' associations, all of whom have 

 pronounced the Apicultuuist one 

 of the best journals published in 

 the interests of beekeepers. Now 

 we do not say this boastingly, for 

 we are fully aware that had such 



an editor as that scholarly and tal- 

 ented pioneer of America bee jour- 

 nalism continued at the head of the 

 journal that he founded until to- 

 day, tliere would not have existed 

 this need of reform. 



It doubtless is not pleasant to 

 some to hear tlieir records as pub- 

 lic teachers rehearsed and criti- 

 cised, but we are not responsible if 

 such records will not bear the pure 

 light of impartial investigation. 



Our object is to continue the 

 publication of the Apiculturist, 

 giving our readers each month the 

 richest thoughts and ripest exper- 

 iences in as simple and practical a 

 manner as possible, advocate the 

 proper and thorough systematiza- 

 tion of our associations as one 

 great means for advancing and 

 protecting the interests of beekeep- 

 ers ; encourage the researches in 

 scientific and practical apiculture, 

 whereby we sliall be able to place 

 our honey in the martsof the world 

 not alone as a luxury, but also as 

 an indispensable commodity, and 

 open up new and better uses and 

 markets for the same ; devising ef- 

 fectual methods for obtaining accur- 

 ate statistics regarding beekeeping, 

 and protect the rights and pi-ivi- 

 leges of the individual beekeepers 

 against injury and wrong, extend- 

 ing freely to our readers the rights 

 and privileges which accrue from 

 an independent expression of 

 thought through the public press ; 

 and indeed to devote our time and 

 attention wholly and solely to the 

 advancement of the cause of api- 

 culture in its every branch and de- 

 partment. 



