1901 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



13 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



THE W. T. FALCONER MANFG. CO. 



H. E. HILL, 



Editok. 



Terms: 



Fifty cents a year in advance ; 2 copies 85 cts.; 

 3 copies, *1.20 ; all to be sent to one postoffice. 



Postage jirepaid in the United States and Can- 

 ada; 10 cents extra to all countries in the postal 

 union, and 20 cents extra to all other countries. 



Advertising Rates: 



Fifteen cents per line, H words; $2.00 per inch. 

 Five per cent, discount for two insertions; seven 

 per cent, for three insertions; 10 per cent, for six 

 insertions; twenty per cent, for twelve insertions. 



Advertisements must be received on or before 

 the 1.5th of each month to insure insertion in the 

 month following. 

 t^"Matters relating in any way to business should 



invariably be addressed to 

 The AMEbiiCAX Bee-keeper, Falconer, N.Y. 



1C^~ Articles for publication, or letters exclusively 

 for the editorial department, may be addressed to 

 H. E. Hill, Fort Pierce, Florida. 



1^~ Subscribers receiving their paper in blue 

 wrapper will know that their subscription expires 

 with this number. We hope that you will not 

 delay favoring us with a renewal. 



£^~ A red wrapper on your paper indicates that 

 you owe for your subscription. Please give the 

 matter your early attention. 



EDITORIAL. 



Do not fail to read the publish- 

 ers' offer, on another page, of 

 thirty-five dollars worth of bee- 

 keepers' supplies free to Bee-keeper 

 readers. It's an interesting pro- 

 position. 



We have never had such a quan- 

 tity of excellent matter for publica- 

 tion on hand as at present. We 

 appreciate this interest which our 

 readers are taking in the paper. 

 Let the good work continue. 



We learn with pleasure, through 

 a private letter from a Canadian 

 friend that Mr. John Newton, 

 Thamesford, Ont., has been elected 



president of the Ontario Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association. It is an honor of 

 which Mr. Newton is worthy. 



Don't fail to write for particulars 

 in regard to the bee-keepers' sup- 

 plies which the W. T. Falconer 

 Manufacturing Co. propose to send 

 free to readers of The American 

 Bee-keeper this season. You will 

 probably need some of them in June 

 and Jul3^ 



Our friend (and every bee-keep- 

 er's friend), G. M. Doolittle of 

 Borodino, N. Y. , may sotm change 

 the. old address so long familiar to 

 bee-keepers. We believe Mr. Doo- 

 little is at present in Arkansas look- 

 ing over the bee-keeping prospect 

 in that state. 



And still The American Bee- 

 keeper continues to climb steadily 

 up hill. The kind wishes of our 

 friends who prayed that the present 

 editor would not find that he had 

 undertaken an "up-Hill" job' are 

 being very satisfactorily granted. 

 The pleasures, encouragement, 

 hope and determination are ten-fold 

 greater than when we began the 

 work in 1898. The eleventh birth- 

 day of The Bee-keeper, which it 

 celebrates with this number, is the 

 most cheerful and promising in its 

 history. 



With the good sense, honesty 

 and courtesy which has character- 

 ized its editorials since its incep- 

 tion, The Bee-keejyers' ReDieio, re- 

 ferrirg to our discussion of the sub- 

 ject of clipping queens, in the 

 October number, comments thus: 



"I have no doubt that, after 

 practicing a while 'on drones and 

 workers, ' as Bro. Hill suggests, 

 one could clip queens successfully 

 in the manner that he describes. I 

 have never tried exactly the plan 



