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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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Chicago; was greatly damaged by 

 Are on January l.st. The Jotn-nal^ 

 however, still continues to come to 

 hand with its usual remarkalle 

 regularity. We regret to iearn of 

 bi'other York's misfortune; and 

 trust that his losses may not prove 

 heavy, when an adjustment of the 

 remnant lias been made. 



Mr. H. H. Robinson, Port 

 Orange, Fla. , .one of the largest 

 producers of honey on the Halifax 

 River, dui'ing a recent cruise down 

 the coast, stopped off to have a bee 

 chat and hand the editor half a dol- 

 lar. Mr. Robinson reports his 

 bees in excellent condition, and a 

 favorable prospect ahead for the 

 opening season. In the matter of 

 peiiodical bee-literatur3, Mr. Robin- 

 son finds The Bee-keeper quite 

 adequate to his needs. 



The Worcester (Mass.) County 

 Bee-keepers' Association held their 

 annual meeting January 19. 



Secretary C. R. Russell in his re- 

 port said: "The association was 

 organized AjDril 1-i, 1900 with a 

 membership of twenty-two. Eleven 

 new members have been added to 

 the rolls. Two meetings were held 

 during the summer at the apiaries 

 of two of the members. At both 

 these out-door meetings the attend- 

 ance was large and enthusiasm was 

 manifested. The coming season we 

 hope to have more out-door meet- 

 ings as our experience has proven 

 there is profit to be had from this." 

 Seven joined at the meeting, mak- 

 ing a total membership of forty. 



The American Bee Journal, in its 

 Issue for January 17th, appears to 

 have reached a stage in the discus- 

 sion of the "yellow wax" matter, 

 where it sees less "amusement" and 

 more logic in our position. Editor 

 York now asserts that his "journal 



has never pretended to claim for 

 slow cooling anything more than 

 that it allowed the foreign particles 

 time to settle." Why, then, has 

 the journal so emphatically opposed 

 our assertion that slow cooling has 

 nothing to do with rendering dark 

 wax a bright yellow? The settling 

 of foreign particles will not change 

 the color of wax; and if it -.vould, 

 slow cooling does not give the for- 

 eign particles a chance to settle. 

 The constant application of moder- 

 ate heat is very necessary in 

 settling this foreign matter. If 

 truth and facts are the objects of 

 discussion why not renounce and 

 confess a revealed error as freely 

 and openly as we were wont to de- 

 fend it. 



Mr. E. C. Summerlin, St. Lucie, 

 Fla., recently renewed his subscrip- 

 tion for 1901, at the same time 

 olTering some very encouraging re- 

 marks in regard to the paper. Mr. 

 Summerlin is an experienced bee- 

 keeper, who believes that the south 

 does not receive its share of repre- 

 sentation in apicultural journals; 

 but says The Bee-keeper is more 

 evenly balanced than any of the 

 others in this respect, and that he 

 therefore prefers it to any other 

 bee-paper published. Mr. Summer- 

 lin claims to have learned a lot 

 about bee-keeping through his 

 former mistakes, besides many 

 things otherwis3 acquired. For 

 example, he has learned that the 

 wax-moth, ants and bears, are sub- 

 jects of vastly more moment to the 

 Florida boe-keeper than "the 

 preparation of bees for winter." In 

 his locality, he says, moths have 

 entirely ruined eight or ten sets of 

 combs, as a result of a few days 

 neglect. He has experiemented 

 to some extent in the matter of 

 trapping the moth, by setting a 

 lamp in a wide pan of water and 



