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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



February 



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EDITORIAL. 



This number of the Bee-Keeper, 

 as our subscribers and friends will 

 notice, is double its former size. We 

 have concluded that we have not been 

 giving onr readers enough for their 

 money. Since we began the publica- 

 tion of the Bee-Keeper we have en- 

 deavored to restrict the contents to 

 subjects bearing directly upon bee- 

 keeping, and to that end have en- 

 gaged at all times the services of the 

 best " bee writers. " Of late there 

 has been a proneness on the part of 

 nearly all the papers and magazines 

 devoted to beekeeping to mix in mat- 

 ter foreign to that subject. We have 

 in former issues found considerable 

 fault with them for doino- so, and we 



have not changed in our ideas on the 

 subject. However, there seems to be 

 a demand for something besides ' 'bee- 

 keeping " in a magazine, something 

 that will interest other members of 

 the family perhaps, besides the bee 

 man or woman as the case maybe. 

 So we have decided to add a literary 

 department which will be of interest 

 we hope to everyone, at the same time 

 taking care not to reduce the amount 

 of pure bee matter. Of course to so 

 greatly increase the size of the Bee- 

 Keeper, very much increases the 

 cost of publishing it, but we will not 

 increase the subscription price. 



In a recent number we wrote some- 

 what at length concerning the hold- 

 ing of the next North American con- 

 vention at Toronto, and deplored the 

 fact that hotel acccommodations were 

 likely to be scarce and rates high, 

 and incidentall}' relating the Editor's 

 experience while there in September 

 last. Editor Holterman in the Janu- 

 ary number of the Canadian Bee 

 Journal takes the subject in hand a^ 

 follows : 



Friend Merrill we are surprised, but — tell 

 it not in Canada, least the young men and 

 maidens rejoice — lluit at last a Canadian 

 has been able to get the better of an Ameri- 

 can cousin. Iu Canada it is generally con- 

 sidered that bargians too frequently result 

 the other way. But laying all jokes aside 

 in future when bee-keepers propose visit- 

 ing the Toronto Industrial Exhibition drop 

 brother Hoherman a card and he will do 

 his best to find a comfortable, convenient 

 and moderate boarding place for you, or 

 better still, he is generally at the Honey 

 Department, call on him there and he will 

 post you. For years, almost every year for 

 the last fourteen years, we have attended 

 the Industrial Exhibition in Toronto, and 



