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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



The Honey Market.— Detailed re- 

 ports of the honey market — from all 

 sections except San Francisco — will be 

 found oil another page. We intend to 

 give our readers such reports with 

 each issue of the ApiculUirist. The re- 

 ports in most of the papers do not sat- 

 isfy the producer. They are too brief, 

 and do not seem to particuhirize suffi- 

 ciently to make them interesting and 

 satisfactory, or of any great value to 

 those who have honey and wax for sale. 



We requested dealers to make any 

 suggestions regarding large or small 

 packages of honey, and to state the 

 demands and what is desired in order 

 to make honey sell more readily and at 

 better prices. Those who read ihese 

 reports Avill be posted and ready to 

 take advantage of the market at any 

 time. 



A New Bee Paper.— Some enter- 

 prising person has started a new bee 

 paper, somewhere in Maine. We pity 

 the poor fellow, as we well know 

 what a bitter experience he must pass 

 through before such an enterprise can 

 even look like success. All that is 

 needed to keep the paper running sev- 

 eral years is a fat pocket-book. We 

 can assure our friend that he 'never 

 will succeed ; that is, the money invest- 

 ed and expended in the publication of 

 a "bee journal" will never return. As 

 we stated a few months since, the bee- 

 keeping public will not liberally support 

 any bee publication; no matter how 

 ably edited and conducted. When A. 

 I. Root cannot get and hold 6,000 sub- 

 scribers out of his 100,000 customers, 

 other bee journals must take and keep 

 a back seat so far as success is con- 

 cerned. Go ahead, put out your money, 

 some one will be benefited thereby at 

 your expense ! We hope you will suc- 

 ceed, but we well know you will not. 

 Mark the prediction ! 



"What's in a Name?"— Mr. 

 Thomas G. Newman, editor of the A. 

 B. J., complains, and justly too, be- 

 cause some of the newpapeis devoted 

 to bee culture use the words or name 

 "Bee Journal." There may be some 

 advantage in adopting the name of an 

 older publication, yet we did not so 

 view the matter when the " ApicuUu- 

 rist" was first thought of as we con- 

 sider ^'Apiciiltitrist" the most appro- 

 priate name applied to any publication 

 devoted to beekeeping, and it was one 

 of Mr. S. M. Locke's most brilliant 

 thoughts and ideas when he named 



his paper " American Apknlturist." 



While some of these new papers 

 have tried to "steal a march" on Mr. 

 Newman by using the name of his 

 journal, others (two of them) have 

 borrowed the word "friend," so grace- 

 fully and much used by Mr. A. I. Hoot. 

 As Mr. Root was the first person or 

 first editor, we migiit say, to use the 

 word " friend" when writing to his 

 correspondents and customers, also in 

 his editorials, we do not see anything ' 

 out of the way, in fact we rather like 

 it; but when other editors use it so 

 much and so often in such a "soft- 

 soapy" way, it is altogether out of 

 place. 



The October Number.— We are 



receiving a large nunibei- of calls for 

 copies of this number. To those who 

 send us ten cents for a ccpy we will 

 continue to mail the " Api" one year 

 on receipt of ninety cents more, Ihus 

 making it the regular subscription 

 price lor one year. The present num- 

 ber is a specimen of what all may ex- 

 pect to receive during the coming 

 year. 



Every copy of the " Api" will con- 

 tain information worth more than the 

 price of one year's subscription to any 

 beekeeper; when they do not, then we 

 will discontinue publishing the jour- 

 nal. Send in your subscription and 

 renewals and thus invest in an enter- 

 prise that Will pay you 500 per cent 

 every year. 



Linen Foundation.— We have re- 

 ceived from Lake Bros., Catonsville, 

 Maryland, several samples of founda- 

 tion made on linen cloth. If such a 

 device will obviate the stretching and 

 sagging of foundation, the manufactur- 

 ers of such goods will have all the bus- 

 iness they can well attend to. We re- 

 gret that the foundation did not come 

 to hand several weeks earlier so that 

 we might have tested it and reported 

 through the "Api," the result. The 

 samples were very nice and equal to 

 any sent to the Ajnculturist oftice this 

 year. 



A Physician says: " When a tea- 

 spoonful of warm honey is taken every 

 fifteen, twenty or thirty minutes, it 

 has a surprising efl'ect on catarrh. Ev- 

 ery family should have a glass of pure 

 honey in the house in order after 

 catching cold, to be able to use some 

 at once. 



