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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



August 



member will receive free a copy of 

 the proceedings of the convention 

 free of charge and their name and ad- 

 dress will be printed therein. Every 

 bee-keeper should become a member 

 and every member should attend the 

 annual convention. 



The American Bee Journal is grum- 

 bling because we clip articles from, its 

 columns occasionally and in crediting 

 them use only the initials A. B. J., 

 taking us to task quite severely for 

 not practicing what we preach, we 

 having some time ago asked editor- 

 ally that our correspondents and 

 friends in referring to our -magazine 

 use the full name and not abreviate, 

 as there were so many papers the 

 initials of whose titles were so nearly 

 alike. We would explain to Editor 

 York that the American Bee Journal 

 has been established so long that 

 everyone knows it as the A. B. J., as 

 well as by its full name, and when a 

 reader sees A. B. K. at the end of an 

 article, or A. B. K. referred to in 

 any of the bee journals, he usually 

 credits it to the A. B. J. mechani- 

 cally or he thinks it is an error in 

 print and should be A. B. J. As for 

 1 ( the majority of editors who have 

 long since ceased the meaningless 

 'initializing' of other bee papers" 

 we fail to find them in any great ma- 

 jority. 



The American Apiculturid was out 

 late last month, the first time in " a 

 dogs' age," but it was accounted for 

 by a change in printing offices. Editor 

 Alley complains of a great scarcity of 

 new subscribers. We haven't said 

 anything but have also noticed that 



subscriptions have not been coming 

 in as freel} 7 as usual for some weeks. 

 Now we regret this for two reasons. 

 We cannot afford to get out so expen- 

 sive a magazine without a goodly list 

 of subscribers and there is not near 

 the interest developed as when our 

 subscription book is full. Don't fail 

 to renew when your time expires. 



We notice with pleasure the enthu- 

 siasm of A. 1. Root on bicycle mat- 

 ters, and his discriptions of his trips 

 on his wheel interest us very much. 

 We have never mentioned the fact 

 but both members of our firm are en- 

 thusiastic wheelmen, the writer being 

 a " century rider. " The senior mem- 

 ber rides a Victor while the writer 

 now mounts a 22 lb. Rambler. He 

 had a new Monarch stolen from him 

 on the street only a few days ago, 

 and no trace of the thief or wheel can 

 be found. It was a Monarch wheel, 

 No. 8 30G with a new cyclometer on 

 it. By the way Bro. Root by all 

 means put on a cyclometer (if you 

 have not already done so) you will 

 enjoy your riding much more, as you 

 can then measure the distances ex- 

 actly. 



The annual convention of the North 

 American Bee-keepers' Association 

 should be held farther east next year 

 and we believe no better place can be 

 selected than Buffalo. It will be con- 

 venient for Canadian members and is 

 easy of access from all parts of the 

 union. Buffalo was proposed last 

 year but St. Joseph was selected in- 

 stead. Probably the Canadian mem- 

 bers will "fight" for Toronto, so it 

 will be well for all members living 



