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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



NovembiT 



PUBLISHED MON'THLV BV 



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By a recent purchase, we are in- 

 formed, Mr. N. L. Stevens, of 

 Venice, N. Y., has increased his 

 stock of bees to nearly five hundred 

 colonies. We learn also that Mr. 

 Stevens captured the first three 

 prizes conferred for honey- exhibits 

 at the Cayuga County fair. Good 

 for Mr. Stevens. 



London makes the price on Jamai- 

 can honey, since nearly, if not all of 

 the island's product is shipped 

 there. During the past season the 

 quotations have been exceedingly 

 discouraging to the West Indian 

 producer, being Is. per imp. gal. 

 Twenty - four cents for fourteen 

 pounds of nice honey is not an en- 

 couraging market. 



To the subscriber sending us the 

 most interesting letter for the De- 

 cember number, we will mail, free, 

 a copy of Maeterlinck's new book, 

 "The Life of the Bee," beautifully 

 bound in cloth and gold. The letter 

 must reach us not later than Nov. 

 19. This delightful book sells at 

 11.40, and the winner will find in 

 its 427 handsomely printed pages 

 the source of several enjoyable eve- 

 nings. Open to everybody. 



At the Tex.s Bee keepers' Conven- 

 tion H. H. Hyde, it is reported, said 

 that he favored the Doolittle method 

 of queen-rearing; that while the 

 best queens could be reared by the 

 Alley plan, "good queens and more 

 of them" could be reared after Doo- 

 little. Simple assertions that 

 better queens are produced by 

 Alley's plan than by the Doolittle 

 method are more numerous recently 

 than are specific reasons why, or 

 wherein they are "better." 



The American Bee-keeper was 

 without an official representative at 

 the Buffalo Convention of the Na- 

 tional Association. A large num- 

 ber of our readers wei-e present, 

 however, and some notes will fol- 

 low. A very interesting meeting, 

 is the general report. W. Z. Hutch- 

 inson, the urbane editor of the B" 

 Keepers' Reoieic, was elected presi- 

 dent for the succeeding term, and 

 Mr. O. L. Hershiser, of Buffalo, 

 was elected vice-pi^esident. The 



