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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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The flmepican Bee-Keeper, 



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EDITORIAL. 

 We wish all our readers a Merry 

 Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

 May the coming season be one of pros- 

 perity and pleasure to all of us. We 

 can not expect it, however, unless we 

 all strive with all our energy to make 

 it so. In these times prosperit)' never 

 comes to the laggard. 



Two well written articles on bee 

 keeping, by Rev. E. R. Hardj^ of 

 Buffalo, recently appeared in the Buf- 

 falo Sunday Express. They were well 

 illustrated and no doubt proved very 

 instructive to many readers of that 

 popular paper. 



We will send the American Bee- 

 Keeper one year with the Cosmopol- 

 itan for $1.25. The Cosmopolitan is 

 a monthly magazine containing an 

 average of over 100 pages and 80 il- 

 lustrations each month. 



Long before this time the bee keep- 

 er has his bees well housed for the 

 winter and can take a rest for several 

 weeks before beginning his labors for 

 another season. If he is a novice he 

 should improve his bee knowledge by 

 reading such of the current bee papers 

 that he can obtain and laying his 

 plans for next year. 



We will duplicate the prices on 

 hives and supplies offered by any 

 first class manufacturers — and in 

 many cases can do even better by you 

 than anyone else. 



As revealed by an inquiry in the 

 American Bee Journal, the importa- 

 tion of Apis Dorsata by the United 

 States Government is favored by such 

 distinguished and reliable apiarists as 

 Prof. A. J. Cook, Mrs. L. Harrison, 

 E. France, J. M. Hambaugh, W. G. 

 Larrabee, G. M. Doolittle and G. W. 

 Demaree. 



We are in need of articles for pub- 

 lication at all times, especially cor- 

 respondence. Write us a letter de- 

 scribing your experience the past 

 season. 



John H. Martin, in Gleanings, says 

 portions of Central America are equal 

 to Cuba in honey production. It 

 would be interesting to have more in- 

 formation about these portions in 

 general. There is no doubt but that 

 the specialists of the future will seek 

 the more favorable conditions which 

 exist in the south as more is known 

 of them. 



"How TO Manage Bees," a 50c 

 book, and the American Bee-Keep- 

 er a year for only GOc. 



