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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



The American Bee-Keeper, 



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EDITORIAL, 



A great many of the paid subscrip- 

 tions to this magazine expired List 

 month. We hope that every one will 

 hasten to send in their renewal. If 

 we do not hear from you we will con- 

 tinue to send it regularly for six 

 months, at the end of which time you 

 will receive a postal card notifying 

 you of the amount due us, l( you do 

 not wish the magazine continued do 

 not fail to notify us promptly. We 

 do not wish to send the magazine to 

 any one who does not want it, hut 

 were we to stoji it promptly at the ex- 

 piration of the time paid for by each 

 subscriber there would be a general 

 complaint, and so we think it better 

 to continue sending it unless especial- 

 ly ordered not to do so, relying on the 

 proverbial honesty of bee-keepers to 

 pay for what they get. 



Our friend Alley, in Dec. Apicuhm-- 

 ist, calls Bro. Hutchinson's attention 

 to the fact that the Beekeeper for 

 Nov. was as much of a " booming cir- 

 cular " as the August Api. Now, this 

 was rather unkind of Henry, and the 

 statement was almost as great a stretch 

 of his imagination as for him to im- 

 agine he would not accept one hundred 

 cold dollars for that $100 queen, for 

 by comparison we find that the August 

 Api. has not to exceed two columns of 

 matter that is not, strictly speaking, 

 pertaining to the business of the edi- 

 tor, while the November Bee-Keeper 

 has sixteen full pages of matter that 

 does not refer in any way to our busi- 

 ness. Friend Alley is getting some 

 rather hard rubs from both home and 

 foreign journals, and he feels a little 

 edgewise in consequence. 



One can hardly realize what a vast 

 power is required to move the machin- 

 ery of a great factory. For a num- 

 of years past we have been supplied 

 with power by a Ball automatic en- 

 gine, 60 H. P., aided by a 50 H. P. 

 water-wheel, and the demand for our 

 ever increasing business made it nec- 

 essary to add new machinery from 

 time to time, until finally our little 

 engine, like an over-worked animal, 

 reached a point where it could do no 

 more. The load was too heavy and it 

 gave (nit, so that we had to let it "rest 

 up " while we were repairing it. This 

 state of ail'airs continued until recent- 

 ly we concluded to put in a " dust 

 collector" which made it necessary to 

 have a much larger exhaust fan, aud 

 of course a larger fan required more 

 power to run it, and our little engine 

 was not competent to perform the 

 duties required of it, so we sold it and 



