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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



March 



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EDITORIAL. 



We send this month a number of 

 sample copies to bee keepers who are 

 not subscribers. Every one should 

 take a bee paper and keep up with 

 the times. We hope every one re- 

 ceiving a free copy of the American 

 Bee Keeper this month will regard 

 it as a special invitation to subscribe. 

 Remittances can be made in postage 

 stamps. 



Our friend Doolittle, who writes 

 regularly for this magazine, is now 

 associate editor of the Progressive 

 Bee Keeper. We congratulate that 

 paper on securing the services of so 

 widely known and sensible a writer. 



In California everything indicates 

 that there will be a good honey har- 

 vest the coming season, and Cali- 

 fornia bee keepers are rejoicing ac- 

 cordinglv. 



The prices of sections have chang- 

 ed some from those of last season, as 

 will be noticed in the price list of 

 sections elsewhere. Our sections are 

 superior to any on the market, and 

 only those of two other makers ap- 

 proach anj'where near them in quali- 

 t}'', yet our goods are sold as low as 

 others. 



" How TO Manage Bees," a 50c 

 book, and the American Bee-Keep- 

 ER a year for only 60c. 



The Roots have launched another 

 " great thing " on the supply market 

 in the way of a deep cell foundation 

 This idea has been worked upon for 

 several years, but without success. 

 Now, however, according to the claims 

 of the makers, their inventor-in-chief, 

 Mr. Weed, has succeeded in accom- 

 plishing a successful result, but that 

 veteran bee keeper and writer, Mr. W. 

 Z. Hutchinson, differs seriously with 

 them as to its value and the advant- 

 age of using it. This is what he says: 



We all know that the eating quality of 

 comb honey has not been iinproved by the 

 use of comb foundation — much has been 

 the complaint about the "fishbone" in 

 comb honey. Comb, natural comb, is of 

 a light friable nature — like feathery, new- 

 fallen snovv. Once this snow has been 

 meltea it can never be restored to its form- 

 er state. It may be frozen again, but it 

 will be hard and solid : it will be ice. Of 

 course, Nature can evaporate the water, 

 and form it into, snow again, but man can 

 not restore it to snow. In a like manner, 

 once comb has been melted into wax its 

 character is changed. It is no longer 

 comb, but wax. Another simile has been 

 used by Mr. Bingham, viz : that " butter 

 is butter, but melted butter is greese ; so 

 comb is comb, but melted comb is wax.'" 

 Comb foundation of the liehtest, most 

 fragile type is bad enough ; foundation 



