1900 



THE AMERICAN DEE-KEEPER 



73 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



When writing to any of our ad- 

 vertisers please do not fail to say 

 that you saw the advertisement in 

 The American Bee-keeper. This 

 paper is an American bee-journal, 

 but that is not its name. A num- 

 ber of our correspondents in writ- 

 ing to us refer to The American 

 Bee-keeper as the American Bee 

 Journal. There is a publication of 

 that name j^i^blished in Chicago, 

 and ihe two should not be con- 

 founded. 



The series of Florida freezes in- 

 troduced in 1894 has been continued 

 with remarkable regularity. Dur- 

 ing the night of February 18, 1900, 

 we again had the temperature slight- 

 ly below the freezing point for sev- 

 eral hours, but the damage to bee- 

 keeping interests as far south as 

 Fort Pierce is hardly perceptible. 

 The winter generally, however, has 

 been quite unfavorable for building 

 up the working force, owing to the 

 heavy rains and high winds which 

 have prevailed during the greater 

 part of the time. 



In a letter dated February 14, to 

 The American Bee-keeper, Mr. M. 

 H. Mendleson, one of the worlds 

 largest bee-keepers, writes from 

 Ventura, Cal., that he fears even a 

 worse season than were 1898 and 

 '99. He truly says "they were 

 bad enough," and adds: "If we get 

 no more rain nine-tenths of the bees 

 will be dead. Many are discour- 

 aged and have gone out of the busi- 

 ness. I am preparing for another 

 dry year.'" We will put aside 

 modesty for once to quote Mr. 

 Mendleson a little farther: "The 

 American Bee-keeper is neatly 

 printed, and having our leading 

 producers as contributors and its 



interesting editorials makes it a 

 good journal. It is interesting 

 reading.'" 



south DAKOTA BEE-KEEPERS. 



Yankton, S. D . January 25, 1900, 

 is the birthplace and birthday of 

 The South Dakota State Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association, a new society of 

 bee-keepers, whose efforts are 

 pledged to promote the interests of 

 apiculture in that state. Mr. 

 Thomas Chantry, the well-known 

 apiarist of Meckling, was unani- 

 mously elected president of the or- 

 ganization, and Mr. E. F. Atwater, 

 of Yankton, secretary. The 

 American Bee-keeper congratu- 

 lates the association upon the wis- 

 dom of its choice in selecting Mr. 

 Chantry as its first leader; and we 

 trust South Dakota may yet pro- 

 duce honey in proportion to its 

 output of bread-stuffs. 



an underhanded scheme 

 discovered. 

 The enemies of the spraying law, 

 which went into effect July 1, 1898, 

 in New York state, have been at 

 their wits' end to have it repealed, 

 and having failed in this at the last 

 session of the legislature, now seek 

 to render it ineffective by the 

 introduction of an amendment 

 which provides that experiment 

 stations and individuals may "ex- 

 periment." In the event of its pas- 

 sage spraying could be done at any 

 time, under the pretense of an "ex- 

 periment," and the loss to bee- 

 keepers would be as .if no law 

 existed. Every fair-minded and 

 enlightened agriculturist in the 

 state of New York should act at 

 once by writing to his senator and 

 representative, urging its defeat, 

 and thus thwart the deep-laid 

 scheme of misguided persons to not 

 only add to the burdens of New 



