1894. 



THE .1 MERIi IA BEE-KEEPER. 



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The American gee-Keeper, 



PUBLISH ED MOM Mil V BT 



THE W T. FALCONER MANFG CO. 



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EDITORIAL, 



From Gleanings we learn that the 

 Standard oil Company have repre- 

 sented to certain Canadian manufac- 

 turers of comb foundation thai A. I. 

 Root, M. II. Hunt. Dadant & Sons. 

 ourselves and some other leading 

 manufacturers were using refined 

 paraffine wax for the purpose of mak- 

 ing foundation. We are glad to 

 notice that all the parties above 

 mentioned positively deny the charge 

 and as for ourselves, we have never 

 used anything but the purest bees- 

 wax in making foundation, and have 

 never even had a pound of paraffine 

 on our premises thai we ever knew 

 of. — We believe paraffine is used to 

 a considerable extent by manufac- 

 turers of foundation in Germany, but 

 we never knew of any one using it in 

 this country for thai purpose. The 

 whole charge made by the Standard 

 Oil Company arose from the fact 

 that the Roots have for a number of 



years purchased from time to time a 



small amount of paraffine which they 

 used for coating i be inside of pack- 

 ages for extracted honey and paraf- 

 fining the candy boles in queen cages 

 but for no other purposes 



We do not often complain of our 

 treatment by our fellow bee-keepers, 

 l>ut we would be much pleased if we 

 had greater support from the bee- 

 keepers of the east, especially New 

 York and Pennsylvania There are 

 many thousands of bee keepers in 

 those staler, and if only one in every 

 ten would send in their subscription 

 we would be enabled to go to greater 

 expense in the way of more original 

 articles, more pages and a ureal many 

 other general improvements. — "We 

 send this number free to several 

 thousand bee-keepers who are not 

 subscribers, and we earnestly requesl 

 that everyone who receives a copy 

 will immediately send in their sub- 

 scription. If you have not the cash 

 to send now. send along your name 

 and let the cash follow at your con- 

 venience. 



Al this writing the temperature is 



65 in the open air. and things be- 

 gin to have the appearance of the ap- 

 proach of spring — The winter general- 

 ly speaking has been a mild one. and 

 a good one for the sale wintering of 

 bees. 



We have mailed acopy of our 1894 



catalogue to everyone on our list of 

 bee-keepers If anyone has not re- 

 ceived a copy <>r wishes another we 

 shall lie glad to -end one if re- 

 quested. 



