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has always been comparatively easy, 

 but a journey that would take a week 

 or ten days was a ver\' doubttul mat- 

 ter and with valuable queens could 

 not be risked by any except those 

 who could afiford to take the risk ; 

 but now owing to the "Good'''' candy 

 and fast travel, there need be no risk 

 at all, and then if a party did receive 

 the cjueen all right, the introducing 

 of her was a feat not so easily accom- 

 plished as the reading of the theory 

 would indicate. In the first place 

 she must be transferred into another 

 cage to be introduced and often was 

 hurt beyond redemption between 

 the fingers of the trembling hand of 

 a nervous beekeeper. Not so now. 

 The "Peet" cage was the first to rev- 

 olutionize that part of the work and 

 now , the "Alley cage" simplifies it 

 still more and we can truthfully say, 

 the beekeeper "though a fool need 

 not err therein ;" and the saving of 

 time by withdrawing the old and in- 

 troducing the new queen at the same 

 opening of the hive is a point of 

 value highly appreciated by every 

 beekeeper, who has had any exper- 

 ience in the old method. Truly we 

 live in a wonderful age, everything is 

 fast. The electrical current seems 

 to permeate this part of the world 

 completely ; distance and time are 

 annihilated ; on land and sea we have 

 our Maud S's fighting time and dis- 

 tance ; we talk with each other hun- 

 dreds of miles apart as though we 

 stood face to face ; we ride on ele- 

 vated railroads and across bridges 

 that span the streams of waters as 

 though suspended from the very 

 heavens, and are lighted on our way 

 by a similar current captured as it 

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were from the very lightning itself 

 and chained to every pole. 



That the "Api" may prosper and, 

 like a true child of the times, grow 

 apace with the "New vs the Old" is 

 the sincere wish of the writer.^ 



EDITORIAL. 



We must of necessity be brief 

 this month, and the thought which 

 we would present to our readers is 

 one that we have often urged before, 

 but never more opportunely than 

 now, — that of association work. 



With the month of September 

 comes the calling of our conventions, 

 the beginning of our apicultural year 

 so to speak. It is not the time to 

 boast when the harness is being put 

 on ; and it is not in the way of 

 boasting, but by way of summons, 

 that we say there never has been a 

 year that began with better promise, 

 and from which we had reason to ex- 

 pect greater results, than the one now 

 dawning upon us. The tone of feel- 

 ing manifested by our earnest and 

 active apiarists in the work of the 

 future is unmistakably encouraging ; 

 the system of organization among us 

 has never been so complete ; and the 

 opportunities are overwhelming. 



We cannot but feel ourselves jus- 

 tified in contemplating plans for en- 

 larged activity, and we only voice, 

 we believe, the sentiment of the bee- 

 keeping fraternity everywhere, when v 

 we bid welcome to the opportunities 

 and responsibilities before us, in 

 pledging ourselves to energy and 



iTne initials at be^'inning- ol' tlii.s article 

 s/iowMread " T. O. P." 



