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Whew! "Tlierc arc but two bcep.iiicrs 

 pnbli>li«'(l tliis side oltlie water, tliiit I et;iil!irly 

 give their readers able, tliRiiilled eilitorKils 



The lellow who wrote the above probab y 

 lives in Alaska. Our advice to liim is to pub- 

 lish a bee-paper ot liis own. His editorials 

 would, ill all probaliilitv, be so ••dif,niilied" 

 tiiat all the other bee journals would have to 

 snceimib for want of support. 



Go in. Hrotlier. and give us another bee 

 journal. Conduct your paper aecordiiifr to 

 the dictates of the knowing ones. No doubt 

 you can llll a "niche" that will be pleasin;^ to 

 everybody,— th.it is, if "dignilied " editorials 

 are .-ill thiit is lacking to make a publication a 

 success. V 



SPECIAL NUMUKKS OF THE API. 



So nianvofthc leiulers of the "Api" have 

 requested" us to issue other numbers con- 

 taining Essays upon some important sub- 

 jr-cts relating to bee culture we have con- 

 cluded to do so, and, if possible the March 

 issue will be devoted largely to essays. The 

 subject will be "Pkactical Hints to BhE- 



KEEPEKS." 



Beekeei)ers who have failed to read the es- 

 says on '•Ho^v TO Winter Bk.k.s" by the 

 eleven prominent beekeepers, as given in the 

 October, ISSti. issue of the API. also the es- 

 says on the "Production of Comb Honey" 

 ill the .June, 1887. number of the Ai'i cer- 

 tainly have lust a rich treat. These numbers 

 Will be mailed to all subscribers free; to others 

 at ten cents per copy. 



TREAT.MENT OF ROBBER BEES. 



The Deutsche llhistrieste Bienenzcitimr/ has 

 a somewhat lengthy aiti-le upon robber bees. 



A man who has about 400 colonies gives the 

 following experience : 



He stated the bees commenced robbing in 

 the spring of the ye r; he started it by exam- 

 ining tliem while there was no hmiey flow. 



The lobbing became so general that he had 

 to place foit3' colnnie.'-. in the cellar. Kvery 

 known remedy W'as tried without efl'ect; as a 

 last resort a ihin sugar syrup was made and 

 combs tilled with this syrup, also vessels with 

 syrup jiut out s^iie di^tance from the yard. 

 The liees at once availed themselves of this 

 artificial flow and wlieii it became exhausted 

 they had forgotten all about robbing one an- 

 other as in .my other case where a naiuial 

 honey flow has" checked robbing. He states 

 during the following ten years (being up to 

 the present time) he has on several occasions 

 tested the matter and always witli the most 

 satisfactory results. We would suggest try- 

 ing the experiment on a small scale if at ail. 

 It is generally recommended not to expose 

 any honey as such tends to robl)ing. Des- 

 perate cases may, however, require desperate 

 remedies. — Exchange. 



[We don't know but tliat the 

 above plan will work well in Ger- 

 many, but it will not do to practi.se 

 it here. If a fellow wants to ''jump 

 from the frying pan into the fire" 

 make a practical test of the above 

 method. As soon as the bees had 

 gathered up the syrup they would 



then attack any colony in tho api- 

 ary and those colonies that had not 

 acquired the habit of robbing would 

 by the above treatment at once 

 commence and every colony in the 

 apiary would be ruined. An apiary 

 of 400 colonies situated near a vil- 

 lage or city and treated as above 

 recommended would drive all the 

 inhabitants out of town. A bee- 

 paper that will publish such an 

 item as the above should tell its 

 readers that the result and effect of 

 such a practice would be bad in 

 the extreme. Useful knowledge is 

 what is needed, not such as the 

 above. 



There are plenty of much better 

 ways than the aliove to prevent 

 and break up robbing in the apiary, 

 all of which may be found in the 

 bee-papers published in America.] 



Give Proper CitEDiT.— Several bee-papers 

 have cojiied the report of the Chicago con- 

 vention from the AMERICAN Bee Journal 

 without giving any credit for it. As we paid 

 the reporter for attending the sessions and 

 writing out the proceedings, it is our private 

 property, and any periodical which copies it 

 should in common honesty, give the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal projier credit for it. If it 

 does not wish to do that, then let it send a re- 

 porter to the convention and get it in a legit- 

 imate wav. — Am. Bee Journal. 



[That is right. Brother Newman, 

 give it to them. By the way, when 

 the above appeared in the A. B. J. 

 it did not a[)ply to the Api, but 

 now we are as gnilty as anybody, 

 as one essay did appear in our Jan- 

 uary issue and not credited to the 

 A. B. J. as it should have been. 

 Well, we are willing to be forgiven 

 for such an unpardonable sin, and in 

 future will try and do something to 

 keep Brother Newman in good hu- 

 mor. We hope Brother Newman 

 will live an unlimited number of 

 years and enjoy good health and 

 keep the old American Bee Journal 

 well up to the high standard it has 

 attained.] 



