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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



August 



support. 



This Mail and Express item ap- 

 pears to flourish as did the old Wiley 

 "pleasantry" many years ago, and 

 is becoming quite too popular with 

 agricultural papers of the country, 

 and editors who make use of it 

 stand sorely in need of light, which 

 their readers should not hesitate to 

 bestow. 



Some editors, it is a pleasure to 

 note, gladly accept any information 

 enabling them to make amends 

 for injury inflicted through thought- 

 lessness or ignorance; but there is 

 another class who either refuse or 

 with great reluctance acknowledge 

 an error on their own part, think- 

 ing, no doubt, to thereby avoid a 

 humiliating situation. 



In Tlte Florida Farmer and Fruit- 

 grovier^ a very prominent agricul- 

 tural paper of the South, under the 

 heading, "The Apiary," this lively 

 brain-child of the Mail and Express 

 hoaxer was the only information (?) 

 given in a recent number. We felt 

 constrained to enter a mild protest 

 in behalf of the slandered industry. 

 Our comments were published in 

 full, but the editor evidently felt it 

 his duty to append, in serious lan- 

 guage, a foot-note, tending to 

 justify continued faith In the origi- 

 nal version. 



The Farm^ Field and Fireside 

 copied the same slanderous item, 

 and when \h.Q. Atnerican Bee Journal 

 called its attention to the injury 

 such falsehoods work to bee-keeping 

 interests, it was given the laugh 

 for its stupidity in being unable to 

 see the joke. The whole thing was 

 simply a "joke," as the -Farm, Field 

 and Fireside had seen it. He kept 

 on talking, however, until he had 

 clearly demonstrated the fact that 

 he knew little or nothing:: about 

 modern bee-keeping, and spoiled 

 it all. 



Agricultui'al editors should be 



informed in the various branches of 

 the industry; and many of them 

 evidently need to brush up a little 

 on "apiculture" before they assume 

 the role of instructor. 



THE JULY BEE-KEEPER. 



Emphasizing the Good Things in the 

 Last Number. 



BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



THE first name we find in reading 

 the July niimber (if The Bee- 

 keeper is that of our old and 

 familiar writer, F. Greiner. While I 

 luive never seen Bro. Greiner in the 

 llesh, still I have learned to love him 

 and call him friend, from the fact that 

 his every effort in writing for the bee- 

 papers seems to be to impart practical 

 information to others so that our pur- 

 suit may be advanced and the world 

 made better by the part he is playing in 

 it. Many are the hints I have obtained 

 from Greiner's writings, which hints, 

 wlien put in practice, have yielded 

 fruit — "some thirty, some sixty and 

 some an hundred fold." Would that all 

 writers could write from as vuiseifish a 

 standpoint as does Brother (Jreiner ! 



TREVENTION OF SWARMING. 



1 hope every reader of The Bee- 

 keeper will read that article of Brother 

 Greiner's until they have it f,ully at their 

 command during every swarming sea- 

 son. I have practiced it much; and 

 where we wish both comb and extracted 

 honey from the same apiary I doubt if 

 there is a better way. of managing bees, 

 whether at the out-apiary or at home. 

 But where we wish to pile up all the 

 comb-honey possible from our bees as 

 well as to secure a moderate increase to 

 make good any loss we may suffer in 

 wintering or otherwise, I have a plan 

 which I prefer to Greiner's, and with- 

 out further emphasizing his, which is 

 the best where both comb and extracted 

 is desired, I will tell the readers of this 



