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TEE AM Ell I CAN BEE-KEEPER. 



June 



The American Bee-Keeper, 



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EDITORIAL, 



During the past four weeks the 

 weather has been more like that which 

 we usually experience in November 

 than May. It has been cold, very 

 wet and an occasional light frost has 

 in many places done considerable 

 damage. The outlook for a good 

 honey season is not as hopeful as it 

 was three or four weeks ago. 



A great many bee-keepers do not 

 know that one-piece sections should 

 be dampened in the grooves before 

 folding thus preventing their break- 

 ing on account of being too dry. It 

 is very easily accomplished, one sim- 

 ple method being a bottle with a goose 

 quill inserted in the cork, the sections 

 being laid on a table the grooves up- 

 ward and in line. Fill the bottle 

 with water and draw the end of quill 

 through the grooves. 



Probably not nany of our readers 

 are aware tnat we were the original 

 makers of polished sections, and today 

 we have the only perfect machine for 

 manufacturing them successfully. 

 Our Falcon sections are so popular 

 that we have had to run our section 

 machinery day and night nearly all 

 the spring to keep up with orders 

 and notwithstanding this have been 

 compelled to decline several large or- 

 ders from Europe. 



We regret to learn through our cor- 

 respondence with numerous customers 

 in California that this will be a de- 

 cidelv " off year " for honey and fruit 

 in that state. The weather has been 

 very dry and bees will in many locali- 

 ties barely survive the summer. Or- 

 anges are very dry and pulpy and are 

 not marketable. 



Our New Process Foundation is a 

 great success. The base is extremely 

 thin and uniform while the side walls 

 are high and of considerable thick- 

 ness. The wax is soft and bees seem 

 to take to it much better than to wax 

 that has been sheeted by the old 

 method, they utilize all the wax in 

 the foundation pulling the side walls 

 out very thin. 



Editor Holterman of the Canadian 

 Bee Journal has started an art gallery 

 judging by the last number of his 

 journal. The halftones of " The edi- 

 tors family " show a very interesting 

 group. 



We are in receipt .of an official no- 

 tification from committee of awards 

 for the Worlds Fair Association that- 

 we were awardsd a diploma of merit 



