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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER, 



February 



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EDITORIAL, 

 Elsewhere we publish an article on 

 the Apis Dorsata (Giant Bees of 

 India) by Grravenhorst, the well 

 known German Bee writer and trans- 

 lated hy Frank Benton. We are 

 heartily in favor of the importation 

 of some of these bees into this coun- 

 try, and we are sure there are many 

 leading apiarists who are of the same 

 mind in this respect, notwithstanding 

 the fact that certain editors of bee 

 papers have apparently endeavored to 

 stifle the idea. No one is in position 

 to know whether or not the introduc- 

 tion of Apis Dorsata would be bene- 

 ficial, and no one can know until the 

 thing is tried. It would not cost 

 very much to do so, and if proper 

 steps are taken no doubt the govern- 



ment can be induced to take the mat- 

 ter in hand. We understand that the 

 Ontario Co. (N. Y.) Beekeepers As- 

 sociation are having necessary forms 

 gotten ready, and will circulate peti- 

 tions among the bee-keepers through- 

 out the country asking the Secretary 

 of Agriculture to secure and intro- 

 duce into the United States the Giant 

 Bees of India. 



By referring to the supplement to 

 this number of the Bee Keeper our 

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 usually low prices on all goods, and 

 especially sections where other goods 

 are ordered with them. The sections 

 offered are not culls, but equal to 

 those they have been selling the past 

 two years, and are known everywhere 

 as the ' ' Falcon Sections, the best in 

 the world." They have sold the 

 same quality of sections within the 

 past month in carload quantities at 

 very much higher prices. As the 

 offer is a limited one every one who 

 may be in need of supplies should 

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