The American Apiculturist. 



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VOL. III. WENHAM, MASS., AUGUST 15, 1885. 



No. 8. 



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FOREIGN NOTES. 

 By Arthur Todd. 



The greater part of the work be- 

 ing done among beekeepers of the 

 nations outside the United States of 

 America is practically unknown to 

 the average beekeeper of this fav- 

 ored land. With the exception of 

 an occasional translation of an arti- 

 cle, little appears in the journals to 

 keep all ^^au couranf with the march 

 of apistical events abroad. 



The great majority of beekeepers 

 cannot read French, German or Ital- 

 ian ; hence, even if they did receive 

 foreign journals, they would be a 

 sealed book to them. It appears to 

 me to be the duty of the publisher 

 of a leading bee journal to do the 

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translation that his readers are una- 

 ble to do, and from the mass of facts, 

 many scientific, many purely interest- 

 ing, collate such as will give the gist 

 of the work going on abroad. 



Great minds are at work across 

 the seas : their names, their work, to- 

 tally unknown to the beekeepers here. 

 This should not be. The average 

 reader should be put in the way of 

 knowing who these men are, and 

 their work. So that, for instance, 

 when Giotto Ulivi is spoken of the 

 hearer's mind will at once throw on 

 the mirror of memory : "Ah ! that is 

 the parish priest way down in Italy 

 who holds to the doctrine that queens 

 are fertilized inside the hive." 



Who of you has heard of Mr. 

 Vignolles? Yet he was one of the 

 thoughtful painstaking bee men of 

 France and the one who undertook 

 an exhaustive series of experiments 

 to determine what weight of honey 

 has to be consumed by the bees to 

 produce a given weight of wax. 



Sir John Lubbock, Frank Cheshire, 

 Pastor Dzierzon and others have 

 made their names household prop- 

 erty and it will be our pleasing duty 

 to bring prominently forward each 

 successive step they take in the 

 paths of discovery. 



"Arrenotokia" ! ! Professor Cook 

 may have known what that word 

 meant, but the average beekeeper 

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