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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



combined interests of the producers 

 and consumers, are sent eacli year 

 to our North American convention 

 we can hope for unselfish and sat- 

 isfactory results. 



In order to establish a stable de- 

 mand for honey, the masses mtfsi be 

 educated as to its value and uses. 

 To do this there must be a beekeep- 

 ers xhibit connected with every 

 agricultural fair in the country con- 

 sisting of displays and sales of 

 honey, wax, and in fact all that 

 pertains to beekeeping together 

 with exhibitions of the practical 

 management of bees in the pro- 

 duction of honey, so that the 

 people may become familiar with 

 the methods by which comb and 

 extracted honey are produced. 

 This may seem a hard task ; and 

 indeed some of our teachers will 

 suggest innumerable difficulties, 

 but those who take abroad, liberal 

 view of these matters will agree 

 with us in saying that when we are 

 willing to attend conventions for 

 the worthy and commendable pur- 

 pose of enacting such measures as 

 will bring the most good to the 

 largest number, and forever banish 

 sectional strife and selfish aims, it 

 will be an easy matter to adopt a 

 course by which these matters may 

 be satisfactorily solved. Indeed 

 we think, and experience has taught 

 us, that the masses of beekeepers 

 are ready for advanced ideas and 

 that the reason that we have made 

 no more progress in this regard has 

 been because we have lacked vvion 

 and cooperative effort. 



We would urge the importar ' o of 

 reform in association work as the 



only means through or by which we 

 can solve all the great questions 

 that are A'^exing us at present. Let 

 the beekeepers in every state and 

 section awake to the importance of 

 this matter at once. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



NOTES FROM NORWAY. 



Mr. Editor : 



I am in receipt of your kind let- 

 ter of Nov. 24, as well as the 

 numbers for 1884 of your excel- 

 lent journal. 



With regard to your journal it 

 is, according to my conception, 

 the best bee-journal I know. I 

 receive 2 American, 1 English, 1 

 French, 1 German, 1 Danish and 1 

 Swedish bee-journal, but none of 

 these can be compared to yours. 



As to sending you communica- 

 tions about apiculture in Norway, I 

 will do that Avith pleasure, though I 

 believe that it will hardly be of anj' 

 value for your journal, which has 

 so many eminent apiarists as 

 correspondents. 



As I am somewhat inexi)erienced, 

 I can only send you communications 

 about the Norwegian beekeepers' 

 efforts to imitate the first apicultur- 

 ists of the world — the Americans. 



Apiculture here has only been 

 carried on with skeps ; some bee- 

 keepers have however tried a kind 

 of frame-hive, called the Einnes, 

 which however has been found less 

 suitable and too small. There 

 have been used also some twin-hives 

 but this hive-form though frequent- 

 ly tried, has not shown itself ad- 

 vantageous. The heath beekeeping 

 may therefore be considered as the 

 only one that has had any progress 

 here : skeps with slaughtering in 



