1894. 



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you never saw a more healthy colony 

 in your life. Yours, 



J. W. Batjgkman. 



Leesburg, Va., May 16, 1*94. 



Editor American Bee-Keeper, 

 Dear Sir : — Please find postal note en- 

 close! for renewal of subscription. 



We consider the Bee-Keeper an 

 excellent and profitable investment 

 to those who wish to succeed in api- 

 cultural industry. We consider it one 

 of the foremost and best advertising 

 mediums in the country at present, 

 especially on account of its straight- 

 forward position in regard to honesty 

 and fair dealing, thus barring swin- 

 dlers from its columns for the protect- 

 ion of the honest and unsuspecting 

 buyer, and apiarist at large. We are 

 unlike our friend Mrs.Jennie Atchley, 

 of Beeville, Tex., who claims that her 

 producing capacity, should she adver- 

 tise, would be taxed beyond control. 

 We ,fear no such evil effect, on the 

 contrary, since there is always room 

 to do more business, and do it right, 

 ceasing to advertise would be ceasing 

 to exist so far as our patrons in Api- 

 culture are concerned. 



It is evident, however, from exper- 

 ience, that highly colored and exager- 

 ated advertisements are less productive 

 than to simply state what we have and 

 then supply fair and honest dealing if 

 we wish to build up a permanent and 

 lasting trade. The mature mind of 

 the experienced looks suspiciously 

 upon such advertising as " The Cheap- 

 est in the World," "A Fortune Free," 

 "A Thousand Dollars Given Away," 

 etc. The victims of these snares are 

 mostly school children and new begin- 

 ners. Hence the injustice of such im- 



positions is two-fold : to the buyer, 

 and to the honest dealer. The sooner 

 our bee journals strictly assume the 

 position of the Farm Journal in this 

 regard the sooner will the apicultural 

 interest be benefitted. 



Bees in this section have wintered 

 excellently as they generally do, pro- 

 tected by the blue ridge mountains on 

 the west. The hill device for winter- 

 ing is successfully used in this section. 



Our branch apiary at Palatka, Put- 

 nam Co., Florida, about which I wrote 

 in the Bee-Keeper some time ago, 

 has proved a success, both for honey 

 and for supplying early tested queens 

 for the market. Two sets of section 

 honey from orange bloom have been 

 taken this spring. Besides, high 

 priced imported queens can be sent 

 there for safe wintering and returned 

 north in the spring with safety. 

 There is plenty of room for experi- 

 menting and investing in Apiculture 

 in the south, about which I will write 

 more in the future, 



S. P. Roddy & Bro. 



Mt. St. Marys, Md, April 16, 1894. 



•Win. M. Gerrish, East Nottingham, 

 N. H., will keep in stock a supply of 

 our goods this season. Our customers 

 in his part of the country will find it 

 convenient to get their supplies of him. 



The book " Success in Bee Cu'ture " 

 by Heddon is now out of print and 

 no more copies can be furnished. 



How to manage Bees is the name of 

 a book of 200 pages which we will 

 send postpaid for only 25 cents. 



We must urge our readers to send 

 in some contributions for publication. 

 They are always needed. 



