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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



translated into several foreign lan- 

 guages. 



Mr. Cowan, having plenty of lei- 

 sure, and being wealthy, has had 

 every opportunity to study his favor- 

 ite subject among the bee men of 

 England and Europe generally ; his 

 liberal education giving him com- 

 mand of foreign languages, which 

 alone is a great factor in the under- 

 standing of methods employed by 

 beemen whose apiaries one may 

 visit. French, Swiss, German and 

 Italian methods, hives, etc., are all 

 equally familiar to Mr. Cowan, and 

 this knowledge, joined to urbanity of 

 manners and strict impartiality, has 

 made his services as a judge sought 

 after for all the principal shows in 

 England. 



Knowing all I do, for many years 

 past, of the gentleman, I feel sure the 

 B. B. J. will gain much by having 

 such an editor, and be more than 

 ever appreciated by its subscribers. 

 I heartily wish Mr. Cowan a long 

 career of usefulness. 



The necessity, when sending bees 

 by rail, to see them very carefully and 

 securely packed, has lately been 

 strongly enforced by a case occurring 

 recently in the north of England. At 

 a junction, a hive of bees had to be 

 lifted from one train to another, and 

 the cover or bottom, not being se- 

 cure, fell off. The bees escaping, 

 caused a scene, it is stated, that just 

 baffled description, and that any 

 beekeeper can imagine. The iron 

 horses did not seem to mind it, but 

 their drivers did, and got themselves 

 and passengers out of that station as 

 fast as possible. 



Recently, I had some old box hives 

 sent to me by rail, packed by a 

 farmer, and it is a miracle that they 

 ever arrived at all. Now I mention 

 this occurrence, to warn our readers 

 to pack carefully, for if some great 

 accident were to take place, we 

 might wake up some day to find the 

 railroad companies putting some vex- 

 atious restrictions on the transit of 

 packages of live bees. 



Frank R. Cheshii-e, well known for 

 his researches on "Foul Brood," is 

 about to give to the bee world a new 

 work, entitled, " Bees and Beekeep- 

 ing ; scientific and practical," on 

 which he has been engaged for many 

 years. I cannot do better than copy 

 the words of the notice of the appear- 

 ance of this work from the B. B. J. 



" The author, Mr. Frank R. Ches- 

 hire, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., is well known 

 in this country, on the continent, 

 and in America, where he is uni- 

 formly acknowledged to be the most 

 scientific beekeeper in England. 

 His numerous writings have been for 

 many years before the public, and 

 his inventiveness has set an indelible 

 mark upon the apiculture of the day. 



At the first bee show, properly so 

 called, held in this country, he se- 

 cured the whole of the eight prizes 

 offered for new inventions calculated 

 to advance apiculture, and this fact 

 alone is the most ample guarantee 

 that \}i\Q. practical part of the work 

 will be as perfect as the scientific. 



His thorough knowledge of the 

 literature of the subject has made 

 him acquainted with all that has 

 been done before, both abroad and 

 at home, and has enabled him to ac- 



