THE AMERICAN BEE KEEI'EK. 



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The American Bee-Keeper. 



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EDITORIAL, 



Mr. O. L. Hershiser recently called 

 upon a- to arrange for our manufac- 

 turing i he hotfev- cusps to be used in 

 the New York honey exhibit at the 

 Columbian Exhibition at Chicago 

 next year, and from our conversation 

 with him we feel thai the Empire 

 State's display will be the largest and 

 best of all, and a credit to the bee- 

 keepers of the state. Certainly the 

 work is in compeienl hands, as we 

 know from persona] experience, Mr, 

 Hershiser having bad charge of our 

 exhibits at the Buffalo and Detroit 

 exhibitions on different occasions, 

 where he performed his duties must 

 acceptably. He is now spending con- 

 siderable time among the honey pro- 

 ducers of the state, endeavoring' to 

 insure a good display. 



It is desirable that every one who 

 make an exhibit, the amount tor each 

 exhibitor being one hundred pounds 



of comb and fifty pounds of extracted 

 honey, which must be in place by 

 April 20, 1893, Old honey of this 

 season will be replaced with the new 

 crop later, or as soon ;>s ii comes in. 



A tine exhibit will be of great ben- 

 efit to the bee-keepers of this state. 

 Any information will be cheerfully 

 given by Mr. EL, whose address is 

 No. 24 West Seneca St., Buffalo,. 

 N. Y. 



Special rules and information for 

 the exhibit were published in the 

 July number of The Bee-Keeper. 



Advertisers will find the Ameri 

 Bee-Keeper to be an excellent me- 

 dium during the coming year, as we 



intend to greatly increase its circula- 

 tion, besides issuing several verj huge 

 editions. Our circulation has not ma- 

 terially increased of late, as many of 

 our old subscribers have ceased keep- 

 ing bees, owing to the continuation of 

 open seasons. Still we can safely say 

 there are but two publications in this 

 country that issue so large a number 

 each month the year round. Some of 

 our contemporaries claim very large 

 circulation, but whose claims are un- 

 founded. One of them, who some 

 time ago claimed 4.000 subscribers, 

 offered its entire list to us recently for 

 a few dollars, but we declined it. 

 There were only 500 names on the list. 



We have received several circulars* 

 and catalogues lately from supply 



dealers in Australia, and it is very 

 gratifying to note that with hardly 

 any exceptions the Australian bee- 

 keepers are adopting- and using Amer- 

 ican hives and furniture, which, as 

 most of our readers doubtless know, 

 are decidedly different from those in 

 vogue in England, 



