1900 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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PI-ni.ISHED MONTHLY HY 



THE W T. FALCONER MANFQ. CO. 



H. E. HILL, 



Editor. 



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4®" Subscribers receiving their paper in blue 

 wrapper will know that their subscription ex- 

 pires with this number. We hope that you will 

 not delay favoring us with a renewal. 



SS' A led wrapper on your paper indicates 

 tha; yon owe for your suliscription Please give 

 the matter yoiir early attention. 



The Australian Bee Bulletin reconi- 

 niends, instead of wires a stick the same 

 .size as the bottom-bar. placed horizontally 

 in the middle of the frame, as a stippi irt to 

 brood and extracting combs. 



The Japanese, it is said, keep fully 2,000 

 colonies of bees within three miles of 

 Honolulu. 



The second abundant flow of honey-dew 

 in over 25 years is reported to have occur- 

 red in his locality la.st fall, by F. <Treiner. 

 in Gleanings. 



Our readers are requested to earefully 

 note our clubbing li.st. I_n .some instances 

 we can furn'.sh the Bee-Keeper with 

 certain other magazines at less than the 

 regular cost of the others alone. 



D. \V. Heise, in the Canadian Bee-Jour- 

 nal discusses the Apis dorsata question , 

 and goes on to tell just what can, and can- 

 not be done wath the giant bee. Say, 

 Mr. Heise, please admit The Bee-Keeper 

 into that discussion; we don't know any- 

 tliing about it, either. 



The Leahy Mfg. Co., of Higginsvillt. 

 Mo., have recently acqtiired the exclu.sivvr 

 right to manufacture the Heddon Hive 

 in the United States, except the few that 

 Mr. Keddon may wi.sh to make himself , 

 and their arrangements are such that any- 

 one buying the hives from them will not 

 be compelled to get an individual right 

 to use same from Mr. Heddon. 



Gleanings for Nov. 15, and the Decem- 

 ber number of the Review vie with each 

 other for honors at the head of the list of 

 liandsome apicultural publications. The 

 enterprise of tlie.se publi.shers i.^ ailmir- 

 able — doing credit to the industry. Wc 

 congratulate Messrs. Hutchinson and 

 Root upon tlie beauty of these excjuisite 

 numbeis. 



The Bee-Keepers" Review, in a long and 

 unbiased editorial, di.scusses the relative 

 merits of barrels and tin cans as a ship- 

 ]:>ing package for honey, and the editor 

 says that in his travels through Wiscon- 

 sin he found all the extensive producers 



