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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



July 



with the doctrine long preached by 

 Dr. Miller; but the theorists would 

 hear him not. 



The New York Herald for May 

 10 presented an interesting half- 

 page write-up of Mr. F. G. Heinnan, 

 the gentleman who has contributed 

 an article on house apiaries to this 

 number of The Bee-keeper. The 

 HerahVs article was elaborately 

 illustrated with views in and about 

 Mr. Herman's apiaries; though the 

 reporter fully sustained the reputa- 

 tion of his profession, by making a 

 mess of the information given him 

 in regard to bees and bee-keeping. 



We have learned that there are 

 yet several hundreds of bee-keepers 

 in this country who have not sub- 

 scribed for The Bee-keeper, and 

 in order that they may do so at 

 once, we have decided to give them 

 the opportunity to become acquaint- 

 ed with the paper, by reading it for 

 six months, for ten cents. Send in 

 your dime and have your name en- 

 rolled for six months. We believe 

 you will stay with us. This offer 

 is made only to those who are not 

 now subscribers. 



Mr. Thaddeus Smith, in the col- 

 umns of the Amerlcjin Bet Journal. 

 some time ago, labored strenuously 

 to discredit the generally accepted 

 fact that bees are necessary to effect 

 a thorough pollenization of fruit- 

 bloom. Mr. Doolittle in a later 

 issue reminds him of several experi- 

 ments formerly conducted, the re- 

 sult of which were irrefutable 

 arguments to the conti'ary. It is 

 not probable that Mr. Smith will 

 have a great following, either in 

 the ranks of the bee-keepers or the 

 growers of fruit. 



In this number of The Bee- 

 keeper we present a picture in 



colors. For nearly a year we have 

 been endeavoring to work out a 

 practicable plan of producing pic- 

 tures in natiu^al colors, in The Bee- 

 keeper. The process attempted 

 this month is wholly an experiment, 

 of which we have some hope. The 

 subject includes three leaves and a 

 single festoon of the saw palmetto 

 bloom, with a copy of The Bee- 

 keeper to show comparative size. 

 This shrub is to the Florida bee- 

 keeper what white clover is to the 

 northern producer of honey. Hun 

 dreds of thousands of acres of 

 Florida sand are covered with a 

 scrub growth of it, while in moist 

 and richer localities it grows in im- 

 penetrable jungles and is one of the 

 most beautiful of our sub-tropical 

 palms. In the event of our ability 

 to achieve satisfactory results by 

 this method of reproduction, we 

 should be pleased to receive good 

 photographs of prominent nectar- 

 producing plants from all parts of 

 the country, such as linden, the 

 clovers, sage, appleb lossoms, gold- 

 enrod, asters, raspberry, etc. 



bee supply exhibit at BUFFALO. 



We are informed that the pub- 

 lishers of the American Bee-keeper, 

 The W. T. Falconer Manufacturing 

 Co., has an exhibit of some of their 

 products at the Pan-American Ex- 

 position. Visitors will find the ex- 

 hibits of The A. I. Root Co. anl 

 The W. T. Falconer Manufacturing 

 Co. together, in the gallery of the 

 Agricultural Building; so that 

 those interested will see the respec- 

 tive lines of these two leading man- 

 ufacturers side by side. We have 

 no doubt that this joint display will 

 be a central point of interest to at- 

 tending bee-keepers — in fact a sort 

 of bee-keepers' rendezvous. In a 

 priA^ate letter, such as frequently 

 pass between the publishers and the 

 editor, we are advised that the dis- 



