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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



The American Bee-Keeper, 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



THE W. T FALCONER MANFG CO. 



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EDITORIAL, 



When the idea of publishing the 

 Am. Bee-Keeper first occured to us 

 we were utterly undecided as to our 

 future policy, and as to what style of 

 bee paper the majority of bee-keepers 

 were most in need of. The problem 

 has been gradually solving itself ever 

 since, and we are now of the opinion 

 that there is most needed a paper for 

 the bee-keepers who have but little or 

 no experience and who are in need of 

 advice as to the least intricate methods 

 "I' getting the best results from their 

 labor. The Review is, strictly speaking, 

 the scientific periodical of American 

 bee culture. (Meanings, while covering 

 the ground in all directions, not only 

 in bee culture, but the garden, medi- 

 cine and religion, has almost outgrown 

 its usefulness to the novice. The Am. 

 Bee Journal docs not indulge quite SO 

 much iu medicine and religion as Glean- 

 ings, but contains, as a rule, compara- 

 tively little of practical use to the be- 

 ginner, although it is of undoubted 

 interest to the advanced bee-keeper. 



The Apiculturist is , well, it is good, 



but is a little too "high strung" for 

 those who are not well up in bee lore, 

 and is of more interest to the queen 



breeder than to him who does not 

 know a queen from a drone. So we 

 shall hereafter endeavor to publish the 

 Bee-Keeper especially for the bene- 

 fit of the beginners and the inexperi- 

 enced, and while we will from time to 

 time give our readers a taste of more 

 advanced bee culture, as a rule theo- 

 retical articles will seldom appear. As 

 this is primarily and solely a free paper, 

 we shall refrain from publishing any- 

 thing not strictly pertaining to bee 

 culture, and our readers can depend 

 each month on receiving not less than 

 16 full pages of reading matter. All 

 advertising will be restricted to the 

 advertising pages. These pages are not 

 numbered, so that in case any of our 

 subscribers desire to have the Bee- 

 Keeper bound they can remove all 

 advertising pages and have the pages 

 of the bound volume numbered con- 

 secutively. This is a feature that no 

 other journal has. 



Having concluded to follow out the 

 above policy, we request all our friends 

 and contributors to send us only such 

 articles as are of practical benefit to 

 the general reader. We shall be pleas- 

 ed at all times to receive such articles, 

 but we beg of you do not s-nd us any 

 scientific or theoretical articles, for if 

 you do we shall have to decline to use 

 them. 



The volume of trade up to the 1st 

 of April this year was considerably in 

 excess of last season 's, during the same 

 time, but owing to the backward spring 

 which we have had many bee-keepers 

 have been reluctant in sending their 

 orders during the past month. Trade 

 is getting quite lively now, however, 

 and we would advise everyone who 

 may be in need of supplies to send in 

 their order as early as possible, other- 

 wise they may experience the same 

 difficulty in procuring goods that ex- 

 isted last season, although we are in 

 a far better position to make prompt 

 shipment than we were a year ago. 



