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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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picture of the ruins and his bear- 

 ship. We at once enclosed the 

 amount requested for a copy of the 

 picture with a view to presenting 

 it to our readers; but Mr. Victor 

 thought that if this was done he 

 would not realize the cash he should, 

 out of it, and accordingly made ap- 

 plication to the Librarian of Con- 

 gress for protection through the 

 copyright law. 



We present in this number two 

 pictures which will illustrate the 

 appearance of an apiary after a 

 bear raid. One gives a general 

 view of the situation and the other 

 a glimpse of the foreground. This 

 apiary, as noted in The Bee- 

 keeper for No vemb<^r, 1900, belong- 

 ed to the Southern Bee Company, 

 and was located on one of the islands 

 which run parallel with the coast, 

 near Fort Pierce, Fla., and was 



visited d«uring the absence of the 

 a]narist by a drove of bears. Six- 

 teen colonic^ were wiped out, about 

 a half ton of honey wasted and 376 

 brood combs destroyed. The ma- 

 rauders seemed to have made the 

 very best of the opportunity and 

 passed on to other fields of labor 

 without having left even the conso- 

 lation which it would have afYorded 

 to know that so mu. h honey made 

 them sick. We have heard nothing 

 of them since, and, indeed, are quite 

 content that it should ever so 

 remain. 



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Nearly all small bee-keepers and, 

 indeed, many of the "large" ones, 

 appear to take much pleasure in 

 publicly reporting a successful har- 

 vest of honey. In these years of 

 small crops, generally, when a fel- 



