1901 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



his bees in Washington. Tell us 

 first, Mr. Heilig", about the bees 

 and flora of that Arctic spur of our 

 Uncle's domain. 



Mr. L. E. Kerr, who writes on 

 the same line in this number, says 

 in a private note that his bees 

 average a return of ten dollars per 

 colony; that they have never known 

 a failure in the honey-crop in his 

 section of Arkansas, and that in 

 the time required to produce ten 

 dollars" worth of queens, they can 

 produce $150 worth of honey. 

 There mu",t bean expensive method 

 of queen-rearing in vogue abont 

 Hurricane. 



There is a real funny little item 

 now going the rounds of our bee- 

 keeping exchanges, credited to the 

 Australian Bee Bulletin^ upon whom 

 the American Bee Journal fixes the 

 responsibility for the joke. It is 

 remarkable how much more interest- 

 ing an item becomes for having 

 twice crossed the Pacific. In this 

 case it was carried to Australia by 

 The American Bee-keeper and car- 

 ried back without credit by the 

 Bulletin. It's interesting now. 



We are always glad to have our 

 contemporaries quote, paraphrase, 

 copy or comment upon anything ap- 

 pearing in The Beekeeper; but we 

 should like in all such cases to have 

 this journal properly credited. To 

 give as authority for extracts, "Edi- 

 tor Hill " without mentioning The 

 Bee-keeper is hardly a fair or sat- 

 isfactory credit. When attention 

 is due us, either favorable or other- 

 wise, pay it to the journal, breth- 

 ren ; we shall endeavor to reciprocate 



If you have a photograph of an 

 apiary, or other apiarian subject, 

 we should appreciate the privilege 

 of seeino; it. Whether we can make 



use of it in The Bee-keeper or not, 

 we will be interested in it and, if 

 requested, return it uninjured to 

 the owner. We have a great quan- 

 tity of excellent matter for publica- 

 tion, though good pictures seem to 

 be scarce. The editor would like 

 to make the acquaintance of any of 

 his readers who use a camera. We 

 like to talk photography about as 

 well as to discuss bees. 



Owing to the heavy rains in Cal- 

 ifornia during the past winter it 

 was thought that California honey 

 would be very much in evidence in 

 the Eastern markets this season. 

 From a communication to Gleanings 

 by M. H. Mendleson, one of the 

 heaviest producers on the Pacific 

 coast, it appears that the Eastern 

 producers need not be alarmed. 

 Mr. Mendleson says that there are 

 not a quarter of the bees in Califor- 

 nia to gather the crop that there 

 were prior to the two past seasons, 

 which proved such a failure in his 

 country. 



So great has been the influx of 

 new subscribers since the beginning 

 of the new year, many of whom de- 

 sired to have the volume complete, 

 that, we are advised by the pub- 

 lishers, the January numbers have 

 been exhausted, and future sub- 

 scriptions will ther^'fore of necessity 

 have to begin with the April num- 

 ber. Several hundred new names 

 have been added to the subscription 

 list within the past month, and they 

 are still coming by every mail. 

 Each month adds to the pleasures 

 and encouragement of the " up-hill" 

 job which we were supposed to have 

 undertaken. 



Volume 1, No. 1 of the Rorkt/ 

 Mountain, Bee Journal is before us. 

 The new candidate for public favor 

 hails from Boulder. Col. . and H. C. 



