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journals take and still give place 

 to their advertisement. 



We would ask in all candor what 

 kind of protection this is. We 

 have determined whatever comes 

 to speak the truth fearlessly. Who 

 can estimate the harm that has 

 already been done, and who knows 

 if these opinions are wholly free 

 from "foul brood?" These are 

 questions of vital importance. And 

 our sympathy for the business of 

 one firm should not warrant us in 

 permitting them through such 

 ignorance and from other causes 

 to endanger the whole community 

 and threaten to paralyze the great 

 industry in every section of our 

 country. 



It has been said that we soon 

 should find that the beekeepers 

 who had so much to say about re- 

 form were "hypocrites" (or words to 

 that elTect) and would fail to stand 

 by us ; but we are pleased to know 

 that the most prominent among the 

 beekeepers, prominent because of 

 their worth, are with us in this, 

 and endorse the steps that we have 

 taken. The time has come when 

 we should make immediate and 

 permanent reforms, both in our 

 bee literature and association work. 

 We may struggle on individually 

 almost indefinitely without accom- 

 plishing much ; it needs united or 

 cooperative action, and you, the 

 thousands who read our journals, 

 and depend upon beekeeping as a 

 means of obtaining a livelihood, 

 are those who should arouse your- 

 selves from your apathy, come to 

 our help, and rally about us. 



iS'ow, while in many regards we 



favor Mr. House's plan for solving 

 this difficulty, yet there are break- 

 ers ahead even there, but these of 

 course could and probably would 

 be corrected when the constitution 

 and by-laws of the associations 

 were framed. 



No associations, founded upon 

 any platform which is not planked 

 with a broad and protecting char- 

 ity, and an interest in the welfare 

 of the whole community, can ever 

 reach the goal of success or fully fill 

 the mission for which it was organ- 

 ized as the voice of the people. 



Our object is to speak on behalf 

 of the majority, and not in the in- 

 terests of a few promiiient individ- 

 uals, and so long as we can do 

 this, and §ee the course of apicul- 

 ture advanced, no burden is too 

 heavy for us to bear. It shall 

 never be said of the ''Apicultu- 

 rist" that it has failed to speak 

 always in defence of the interests 

 of the majority and in the cause of 

 right and justice honestly and fear- 

 lessly. 



All that we ask is that the bee- 

 keepers of America come to our 

 support and rail}' about us. 



BEE NOTES. 

 When this number of the journal 

 reaches you the bulk of the surplus 

 honey Avill have been gathered and 

 the harvest past, although in sec- 

 tions where buckwheat is largely 

 grown or perhaps in the south 

 where the flowers yield honey for a 

 longer season, the bees may yet 

 gather more than enough to su[)ply 

 the wants of the colonies and per- 

 haps store some surplus. Those 



