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rUE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



September 



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EDITORIAL. 



While the past season seems to have 

 been generally favorable for bee 

 keepers, good crops being secured in 

 nearly every state, discouraging ac- 

 counts come from here and there 

 throughout the country, with various 

 statements as to the cause of failure. 

 Minnesota and Florida appear to have 

 fared the worst. In the latter, the 

 crop may be said to be an entire fail- 

 ure, perhaps the poorest within its 

 history. Up to that time, 1893 was 

 the poorest season recorded in Flotida, 

 followed in 1894 by the largest crop 

 of honey ever produced in the state. 

 Bee keepers are accordingly hopeful 

 of a repetition of that experience in 

 looking forward to the season of 1898. 



Leron D. Brill of Duchess county, 

 N. Y., has been engaged by Li Hung 

 Chang to conduct a model farm under 

 the Chinese government, for which, 

 according to Associated Press dis- 

 patches, he is to receive a "fabulous" 

 sum of money. As yet Mr. Brill is 

 unable to foretell the geneial char- 

 acter of his work among the Mongo- 

 lians, but if natural conditions war- 

 rant it, a "model" apiary will prob- 

 ably be established, being essentially 

 a part of a model farm, and he has 

 promised to favor the Bee Keeper 

 with information regarding the apicul- 

 tural outlook, etc., when he is estab- 

 lished in China. 



What had the appearance of being 

 a new bee disease was recently re- 

 ported from the arid regions of the 

 west. When the hot weather set in 

 the field bees would suddenly and 

 mysteriously disappear, leaving noth- 

 ing but the brood and nurse bees 

 upon the combs. C. Whitcomb of 

 Nebraska,has shown quite conclusively 

 that the loss is caused by the bees, in 

 carrying the large amount of water 

 required in brood-rearing at that time, 

 filling themselves with the cold water 

 that flows directly from ice and snow 

 in mountain streams, and are thus 

 chilled and die, and that it may be 

 averted by providing an ample sup- 

 ply of pure water within the apiary. 



We received a very pleasant visit 

 recently from R. B. Leahy of the 

 Leahy Manufacturing Co., Higgins-, 

 ville. Mo., and editor of Progressive 

 Bee Keeper, and found him to be an 

 agreeable and interesting visitor. We 

 regretted that his stay with us was so 

 short, as we would like very much 

 to have become better acquainted. 



