THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



47 



A great many letters of complaint 

 have been received from persons to 

 whom we have been sending the Bee- 

 Keeper, because we asked them to 

 pay for it. Many of them say they 

 never subscribed and do not think 

 they should be compelled to pay. We 

 do not send this magazine to anyone 

 unlesss ordered to do so, excepting to 

 the former subscribers of the Advance 

 Bee-Hive and Bee World, whose sub- 

 scrition lists we have purchased, and 

 we have continued after their orig- 

 inal subscriptions have expired, ex- 

 cepting when ordered to stop doing 

 so by the subscribers themselves. 

 We have frequently mentioned the 

 necessity of ordering us to stop if 

 the magazine was not wanted, and 

 have sent postal card notices to 

 to those whose subscriptions have 

 expired six months back or more. 

 Now, we do not wish any one to 

 take this magazine against their 

 wishes, nor pay for it either, but 

 we do wish you would notify us on 

 a postal card or otherwise, if you 

 want it stopped when your subscrip- 

 tion expires. 



The Paddock Pure Food Bill now 

 before the United States Senate is 

 one in which every bee-keeper 

 should be interested. The bill pro- 

 vides for the prevention, by govern- 

 ment inspection, of the mis-brandine: 

 or mis-labelling of all articles of 

 food and drugs. In other words, if 

 a can containing honey is marked 

 "Pure Honey," it will necessarily be 

 exactly what the name implies, and 

 not an adulteration. 



out the country, especially in the 

 Eastern and Middle states, and we 

 wish our friends would send in 

 their views in regard to the advant- 

 ages of the Simplicity or Langstroth 

 style of hives over the old style 

 box hives. Send it to us either as 

 a regular contribution or corres- 

 pondence for publication. 



We notice in Gleanings. Tfie Re- 

 view, Progressive Bee- Keeper and other 

 journals the "ad." of the "Chicago 

 Bee-Keeper's Supply Company," in 

 which they state their office as being 

 68-70 South Canal Street. , Chicago. 

 Parties interested have endeavored 

 to find such a concern at this street 

 number but they have failed to do 

 so. A man by the name of Kline, 

 claiming to be the secretary of the 

 company, offered this magazine a 

 very liberal "ad." some months ago, 

 but as our information regarding 

 the concern was not satisfactory we 

 declined to accept the "ad." All 

 bee-keepers will do well to deal 

 only with old established manufac- 

 turers and dealers. 



We have been making an exten- 

 sive inquiry as to the styles of 

 hives in most general use through- 



Hereafter we will put the name 

 of the state in which they are writ- 

 ten at the end of all articles, so that 

 our readers will know that a meth- 

 od or system advanced by a bee- 

 keeper in Georgia, for instance, 

 will not be of much use to any one 

 in this state, especially if it relates 

 to handling bees. 



C. H. Dibbern is not satisfied with 

 his bee escape invented the latter 

 part of last season, and claims now 

 that he has another almost perfect- 

 ed which will beat anything yet. 

 A great man on bee escapes is our 

 friend Dibbern. By the way, M. E. 

 Hastings has recently invented an es- 

 cape something on the principle of 



