THE AMERICAN APICULTURTST. 



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AMERICAN APICULTURIST 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 

 Henry A.lle>', Wenham, Mass. 



Established In 1883. 



Subscription Price, 75cts. Pf.r Ykar. 



Entertd at the P. O. Wenham, Mass., as second class 

 mail matter 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



We have an old-fashioned New Eng- 

 land winter. Plenty of snow, ice and 

 zero weather. 



The editorials must be brief this time, 

 as we need the space for other interest- 

 ing matter. Just look our columns over 

 and see if you can not find sufficient 

 information that is worth to you more 

 than one year's subscription. Show the 

 Api to your friends and ask them to sub- 

 scribe. Point out the inducements we 

 offer. Help us publish a good paper. 



After about thirty days of confinement 

 the bees had a flight. As our colonies 

 were fed all their stores (sugar and hon- 

 ey) neither the snow nor hives wera 

 spotted in the least. So much for a good 

 quality of food — we found all our col- 

 onies in splendid condition. 



WOMICN IN THK YKAR 2000. 



As a sort of supplementary chapter 

 to his "Looking Backward," Mr. Ed- 

 ward Bellamy has written an article for 

 the February issue of The Ladies' 

 Home Journal, under the title of 

 "Women in the year 2000," in which 

 the famous Nationalist will sketch wom- 

 an, marriage, courtship, etc., as they 

 will be regarded in the year 2000. 



Several new bee-papers have made 

 their a])pearance within a few months. 

 We hope they will succeed, yet we do 

 not see how they can. Beekeepers who 

 take an interest in bee literature or who 

 subscribe for bee-papers are sadly in the 

 minority. Why do not more of the 300, 

 000 beekeepers of tiiis country subsciibe 

 for and read the bee journals? Come 

 forward, friends, and lend a helping 

 hand in tiiese matters ; it is for your in- 

 terest to do so. 



The fact grows more and more appa- 

 rent every year that this country, espec- 

 ially the eastern states must depend 

 upon the honey resources of California 

 for its supplies of honey. Some fifteen 

 years ago A. E. Manum and several 

 other large beekeepers in Vermont 

 used to send honey to market by the 

 car-load. 



In the state of New York were Mr. 

 Doolittle, Capt. Hethington, C. L. Root 

 and a hundred other honey producers 

 who used to fill the New York and other 

 m'^rkets with fine comb honey. Now 

 how is it? We do not nowadays hear 

 of these large crops of honey, yet we do 

 hear about car-loads coming from Cali- 

 fornia. Even one of the large beekeep- 

 ers of Ohio, A. I. Root, has purchased 

 and sold several carloads of honey 

 shipped to him from California. 



Well, it really looks as though honey 

 producing must go into the hands of the 

 smaller beekeepers. 



A WORD ABOUT OLD AND NEW 

 BEE-PAPERS. 



The old American Bee Jour ?ia/ comes 

 to hand in its new form. In this respect 

 its improvement over the old style is 

 quite marked. In other respects there 

 is no improvement. We mean it, Bro. 

 Newman. It was not possible to im- 

 prove on the general make-up of the 

 A. B. J. How can anything already 

 perfect be improved on ? 



GLEANINGS. 



Gieafiings made an improved change 

 several months ago. If there is anything 

 wrong about Gleanings we do not know 

 what it is. Brother Root probably has 

 the largest subscription list of any of 

 of the bee-papers ; yet we doubt whether 

 he gets as much profit from Gleanings 

 (except as it is his advertising medium) 

 as is realized from some of the other 

 papers. Brother Root gives his sub- 

 scribers a good deal for their money. 



THE RE^^EW. 



This paper has also made a change. 

 Several pages, as well as a cover, have 



