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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Novfinber 



includes 16 beautiful colored plates 

 besides innumerable small half tone 

 and wood engravings. The price is 

 fifty cents. It can be obtained from 

 the Wilmer Atkinson Co., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. 



x\t the time our last issue was be- 

 ing mailed to our subscribers we were 

 in receipt of advice that Rev. L. L. 

 Langstroth, of whom ever3^one con- 

 nected with bee keeping has heard or 

 known, had passed away ; his death 

 having occurred on Sunday, October 

 6th. Rev. Langstroth was 84 years 

 old. He was born in Philadelphia, 

 and was of German parentage. He 

 purchased his first colon}' of bees in 

 1838 , and from that time always took 

 great interest in bee keeping. In 

 1852 he invented the movable comb 

 hive, and all hives used toda}' are 

 patterned after it. Mr. Langstroth 

 was married in 1836. Two daughters 

 survive him. For many years he has 

 had trouble in his head. These at- 

 tacks would last from six months to 

 a year, during which time he would 

 be unable to write, and sometimes to 

 even converse. During the past year 

 or more he has been feeling much 

 better than for some years previous- 

 ly, and was present at the recent 

 Toronto Convention, taking active 

 part therein. In his death the bee- 

 keeping fraternity has lost a true 

 friend. 



We are in receipt of an invitation 

 to attend the first annual exhibition 

 of the Titusville Poultry Association, 

 notice of holding of which will be 

 found elsewhere. No doubt any of 

 our readers who attend will be well 

 repaid for doing so. 



If this notice is mariccd you 

 owe something on your sub- 

 scription. We hope you will 

 pay up promptly. 



H. E. Hill of the South Florida 

 Apiary Companj' has just sent us a 

 photograph of their apiary at New 

 Smyrna, Florida. In a later issue we 

 will reproduce it for our readers. The 

 scene is a typical southern one show- 

 ing the apiary — -which is, b}' the way, 

 very neatly laid out — surrounded b}' 

 a luxuriant growth of palms and 

 vegetation that is found so profusely 

 ill southern Florida. 



65 cents pays for the American 

 Bee Keeper one year and a copy of 

 the fifty cent book " How to Manage 

 Bees." 



We must urge our readers to send 

 in more articles for publication. At 

 this time of the j'ear many of our 

 readers can just as well write their 

 experiences of the past summer, 

 and these would be very acceptable 

 reading to our subscribers. Just try 

 it. 



Dealers in bee keepers supplies 

 should get our prices on goods in 

 quantities before tying themselves up 

 elsewhere. Our goods are guaranteed 

 to be superior to those of any other 

 manufacturer, and notwithstanding 

 the claims of our competitors our 

 " Falcon "' sections are acknowledged 

 by all who use them to be unequaled. 



THE FIRST ANNUAL EXHIBITION 



Of the Titusville Poultry Association 

 will be held Dec. 10, 11, 12 and 13, 

 1805. 



It is the intention of the manage- 



