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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



April 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



THE W. T. FALCONEK MANFG. CO. 



H. E. HILL, 



Editor. 



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 H. E. Hill, Fort Pierce, Florida. 



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 pond with some practical bee-keeper 

 who is conversant with the French 

 language. Address the editorial 

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supplies, write at once to the pub- 

 lishers for information in regard to 

 it. You'll find it interesting. 



One hundred and thirty-five com- 

 pleted queen-cells out of a possible 

 one hundred and thirty-eight given 

 to a single colony of Dees is a most 

 interesting f-ubject of a very ])oor 

 photograph recently sent us by Mr. 

 W. O. Victor of Texas. Thanks. 



Mr. A. I. Root, pi'esident of the 

 company which bears his name, at 

 Medina, Ohio, honored us with a 

 call, February 23rd. Mr. Root was 

 making a hurried trip through Flor- 

 ida in the interests of his house, 

 which is well known throughout the 

 bee-keeping world. 



Editor George W. York, of the 

 American Bee Journal, in his issue 

 for March 14th, 1901, in a manner 

 becomingly affectionate chronicles 

 the death of his father, Mr. John B. 

 York, of Randolph, Ohio, which oc- 

 curred on the 3rd of March, at the 

 age of seventy one years and six 

 months. We extend assurances of 

 our condolence to Brother York in 

 his bereavement. 



Editor E. R. Root, of Gleanings, 

 has under contemplation a six 

 months" sojourn in California. Ed- 

 iting a bee-journal at a range of 

 several thousands of miles from the 

 publication office will probably act 

 as a preventive of the ill effects 

 which sometimes i^esult from over- 

 exertion in persistent mountain 

 climbing and protracted outings. 



From far-off Alaska, written on 

 U. S. Government stationery, comes 

 a letter by A. R. Heilig, a bee- 

 keeper subscriber, formerly located 

 at Tacoma. Mr. Heilig appears to 

 be looking hopefully forward to the 

 time when he shall again be among 



