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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



December 



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EDITORIAL. 



A Merry Christmas and a Happy 

 New Year is our wish for each of our 

 readers. 



Another year is slipping into the 

 past and the last number of the Bee- 

 Keeper is before you for 1895. A 

 year -ago we prophesied that this 

 would be a good honey year. We 

 were mistaken. Everything pointed 

 to a prosperous year up to the middle 

 of the spring when came an unusual 

 drought, followed by frosts in many 

 localities, completely destroying all 

 prospects for the bee-keeper. The 

 result has been the loss of many ^col- 

 onies and in some localities whole 

 apiaries. Bee-keepers have been very 

 much discouraoed, but many will 

 "stick to it" and we hope success 

 will ultimately be their reward. 



We notice by the November num- 

 ber of the Kansas Bee Journal that its 

 name has been changed to the Rural 

 Kansan with promises of enlargement 

 for the December number. Hereafter 

 the greater part of each issue will be 

 devoted to agriculture. 



4 per cent, discount will be allow- 

 ed on all orders at catalogue prices 

 received before January 1st. 



Dr. Miller in December Grleanings 

 makes the assertion that the series of 

 " Lessons for Bee Keepers " now 

 running in the Southland Queen, which 

 is published by the Jenny Atchley 

 Co. is copied from back numbers of 

 the American Bee Journal. This is 

 a rather grave charge but the Doctor 

 is not in the habit of making a mis- 

 take. 



We are in want of Beeswax and as 

 stated elsewhere, we will pay 28c per 

 lb. for good wax shipped freight paid 

 to Falconer, N. Y. 



Elsewhere is printed the report of 

 the Committee appointed at the An- 

 nual Convention of the N. A. Bee- 

 Keepers' Association on the Amalga- 

 mation of that body with the National 

 Bee- Keepers' Union. We think the 

 report is acceptable in every way and 

 should be adopted by the so-called 

 N. A. B. A. as soon as possible. 

 The union is an association which 

 has been and will be of great benefit 

 to the bee-keeping fraternity, while 

 the N. A. is and has always been of 

 no benefit to any but a few who re- 

 ceive various pecuniar^' benetits or 

 the questionable honor of holding an 

 office. Long live the Union. 



