THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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The American Bee-Keeper, 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



THE W. T. FALCONER MANFG CO. 



TERMS : 



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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER, 



Jamestown, N. Y. 



Publication Office, Falconer, N. Y. 



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For a long time past we have been 

 frequently urged by many of our bee- 

 keeper friends to establish a bee jour- 

 nal, and for a long time we have con- 

 templated, more or less seriously, the 

 abvisability of our doing so. Finally, 

 we have come to a conclusion, and 

 dear reader you have the result before 

 you. The feeling that the field of bee 

 journalism has been very well filled 

 for some time past has been one cause 

 of our hesitation, but having succeded 

 in purchasing the Bee Hive, we feel 

 that we have crowded no one out. It 

 shall be our endeavor to publish a 

 magazine that will rank as one of the 

 very best. Articles from the pens of 

 the best writers on apiculture will ap- 

 pear in each issue, and the subjects 

 presented will be varied so that every 

 reader will find something of interest. 

 There is some objection to a journal 

 being published in connection with the 

 supply business, but it is not our in- 

 tention to make this journal simply an 

 advertisement of our business. We 



shall be strictly impartial on all matters 

 whether of vital interest to us or other- 

 wise, and it is our intention to be as 

 largely international in character as 

 possible. We shall continue running 

 " Our Extractor " department, and will 

 favor our readers with the choicest 

 selections from American and foreign 

 bee journals. To the many subscribers 

 of the Bee Hive we wish to say, they 

 will receive this magazine until the 

 full term of their subscription has ex- 

 pired, and we hope they will be so 

 well pleased with the change, that 

 each one will renew their subscription 

 promptly when it expires. 



There are a great many bee-keepers 

 of keen intelligence who are very ob- 

 stinately set against patented bee hives 

 or fixtures. Why this is so we do not 

 understand for certainly a man who 

 evolves a useful idea in regard to 

 bee-keeping appliances should have as 

 much credit for his thought as one 

 who invents a threshing machine or 

 an electric light dynamo. Then why 

 should we not pay him for his invent- 

 ion, and by so doing encourage him 

 and others to think up something of 

 still more value ? Of course, there are 

 many patented appliances that are of 

 very little real value, and the inventors 

 of such get but little compensation, as 

 their sales are meagre. The fact that 

 the article is patented does not neces- 

 sarily enhance the cost of it, and 

 seldom does, for competition is what 

 makes the price of any article low, 

 and while an article may be patented 

 so that no one can make its counter- 

 part, nevertheless, the manufacturer 

 or dealer, in order to compete with 

 some other similar article of equal 



