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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Feburary 



seemed to fear we should, there is a 

 pleasure and fascination about it which 

 inereases with each successive month. 

 We therefore enter upon the year beffore 

 us with pleasant anticipations of the fur- 

 tnre, and trust that our readers will re- 

 s])on(l generously to our request for their 

 experiences and ideas, in order that we 

 may make the jiaper more interesting and 

 instructive than ever l)efore. With the 

 co-operation of our readers we shall con- 

 tinue to introduce new features as fast as 

 the advancement is thus rendered possible. 

 We shall he glad to have a letter from 

 each of our readers, and as often as they 

 mav find it convenient to thus favor us. 



DE.^TH OI" MRS M. V. RICKVIC. 

 We learn with profound sorrow, through 

 a brief note from the Iiereaved husband, 

 of the death of Mrs. Millard V. Reeve, 

 of Rutledge, Pa., which occurred Jan 6, 

 iqoo. Mrs. Reeve was 43 years of age. 

 Three children, aged iS, 14 and 12 years, 

 are left to mourn the loss of a kind, de- 

 voted mother. I\Ir. and INIrs. Reeve 

 would have celebrated the 20th anniver- 

 sary of their marriage next month. We 

 condole deeply with the bereaved familv 

 in their hour of sorrow. 



I'xsic.ASox.vnr.ic .vrticmcs. 

 A favorile theme with .some of the bee- 

 l^apers just now is that of the unseason- 

 able character of the matter published bv 

 their cotemporaries Dr. Mason, in 

 ReCiew, takes a rather broader view of 

 the matter and .savs that he has a diction- 

 ary and an encyclopedia that are full of 

 "unseasonable" matter: but, like the bee 

 journals, the information is there readv 

 for use when wanteil. Exactly so. The 

 volumes of his journal are as much a 

 work of reference to the studious bee- 

 keeper as are the above named books 

 We do not look foi'. nor expect to find all 

 matters of seasonable intere.st in the la.st 

 number of our journal; nor, indeed, in ail 

 the numbers of the current jear. Who 

 has not found himself turning back five, ten 



or twenty years in tracing some interest- 

 ing subject or idea? The chief mission 

 of such a periodical publication is to 

 afford a medium for the discu.ssion of 

 subjects pertaining to our business, and 

 to record current developments as they 

 transpire in our industry. These old 

 numbers are hardly less valuable than are 

 those of the present. If the matter is at 

 hand it matters not whether it was pub- 

 lished this year, last year or the 3"ear be- 

 fore. All any one can reasonably expect 

 of his journal is to keep him informed on 

 the important, matters in general up to 

 date. 



"GOOD THING.S IN THK BEK-KEKPING 

 PRESS." 



The Progres.sive Bee Keeper, after the 

 .style of the Review, has introduced a 

 department under the above title. The 

 new department is presided over by that 

 observing and practical writer, "Somnam- 

 Imlist,'' who.se intertaining productions 

 have long been regularly published in 

 that journal under the heading, "Way- 

 -side Fra'.nnents." Two full pages are de 

 voted to comments on The Bee-Keeper, 

 and a general I'eference to the volume 

 just closed is thus made in the opening 

 paragraph : 



"Being posse.s.sed of patriotic streaks 

 prompts me to begin with the journal 

 which in its name enil)races the whole 

 western hemisphere, as well as islands of 

 the sea, The .American Bee-Keeper. It 

 is, as near as possible, true to its name, 

 for its readers have been taken from 

 Canada to Florida, and thence to Mexico, 

 California an<l Chili. All favored bee- 

 keeping haunts have been mo.st faillifuUy 

 described and illustrated, and should any 

 unknown ones be discovered, their merits 

 •and demerits will, most probably, re- 

 ceive their rhie." 



As viewed by Sonmambulist it would 

 appear that The Pan-American Bee- 

 Keeper woulil !)e a rather more appropri- 

 ate title for our Journal; but, in addition 

 to taking our readers to the utmost ex- 

 tremes of the western hemisphere for 

 50c., we have on some occasions gone 

 with them around the world. While our 



