and " Where shall we look for the best 

 race of bees V" 



Men of advanced ideas are being 

 greatly exercised over these questions. 

 They are thinking, pondering, experi- 

 menting, planning and testing. Amer- 

 icans are never satisfied with present 

 attainments — they " reach out after the 

 things that are before '' — pressing 

 towards their ideal prize, and will never 

 rest till it is in their possesion. In the 

 question of improvements in the race 

 of bees, the grand possibilities are on 

 our side. Our most careful breeders 

 have it in their power to dispel all doubt 

 and silence all cavil, by patiently and 

 carefully selecting their best to breed 

 from, until they shall have produced a 

 type of bees that will eclipse the best 

 Italians of to-day, and be sought for and 

 admired throughout the world. 



Mr. Langstroth struck the key-note 

 when he said: "We want the best 

 race of bees, or the best cross in the 

 world. " It is yet an open question as to 

 what part will be taken by the Cyprian 

 race, in producing u the coming bee." A 

 "cross " in this direction, and breeding 

 in or out the distinctive features and 

 propensities, may be " the next progres- 

 sive step," or may not ; as yet we can- 

 not say. 



Of one thing we are certain, however, 

 " the bee of the future " will be the one 

 that will gather the most honey, be the 

 most prolific, and, at the same time, be 

 the most docile, and when produced 

 whatever may be its color or markings, 

 its name will be Apis Americana I 



ig^Dr. Lewis Knorr, Savanna, Ga., 

 says that the following item has been 

 in several papers, and wishes to know 

 if it is true : 



" They now take honey from tbe hives without risk, 

 in Germany, by stunning the bees with electrical 

 wires." 



We have not heard of any such thing 

 and have no idea that it is stated cor- 

 rectly. We imagine that to use elec- 

 tricity in the management of bees would 

 be too great a risk. Some experiments 

 with ether are described on page 33. 



New Arrivals at our Museum. 



We have received for our Museum a 

 nice photographic view of the apiary of 

 Mr. J. H. Robertson, of Pewamo, Midi. 

 Mr. R. is a successful apiarist and an 

 enterprising man. 



THE PALACE BEE HIVE. 



We have received from the White 

 Manufacturing Co., Madison, Ind., the 

 palace bee hive. It is large, and has 

 ample room for storing comb honey. 



Bfo. 1 — Showin- side section -holders on top and side 

 of brood chamber, each holdin" tPn Si^ x~^<, sections. 



No. 3— Showing IS frames, for extracted honey, tin 

 feeder, and the feeder holder open. 



Among the advantages claimed for it 

 are : very large capacity for storing 

 honey in sections; being also easily 

 adapted to the storing of extracted 

 honey, by the removal of the sections 

 and substituting frames for them ; that 



