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lutely necessary to take care of the bee- 

 exhibit. A hand rail should extend 

 along the rear end of the hives, and two 

 feet distant from the same, to allow the 

 public to inspect the bees closely without 

 being able to jostle the hives. 



The colonies should stand in a line, 

 about 2 feet apart, on a staging, about 

 the height of an ordinary table or desk — 

 the most convenient height for the sight- 

 seer. 



The colonies will necessarily need 

 some attention during the six months 

 sojourn at the exhibition. To open a 

 hive, and keep the bees from roaming 

 all over the Agricultural Building is not 

 an easy matter to accomplish — enclosing 

 the hives in a separate room would not 

 remedy this evil. The best method I 

 can think of would be, to take the colo- 

 nies into the open air, if they could be 

 conveniently carried out, meanwhile 

 closing the exit tubes by an arrangement 

 similar to the damper in a stove-pipe, 

 located near the hive end of the tube, 

 thus allowing the flying bees to cluster 

 inside and around the entrance end of 

 the tube, without being able to enter the 

 building ; opening the "damper" when 

 the hive is again in place. 



Yours truly, 



F. Hahman, 



Sec. Phila. Bee-Keepers'' Association. 



Not Sold. — A few weeks ago we 

 said that the White Mountain Apiarist 

 had been sold to Mr. E. F. Quigley, the 

 publisher of the Progressive Bee-Kceper ; 

 but it seems according to the following 

 paragraph from Mr. Q.'s last issue, he 

 did not buy the other paper, after all : 



As we were going to press last month, 

 we received a letter from A. D. Elling- 

 wood, stating the price he asked for the 

 White Mountain Apiarist subscription 

 list. We wrote him we would take it, 

 but before remittance was sent him, he 

 changed his mind, and concluded he 

 would publish it himself. 



Later. — Since the foregoing was put 

 in type, we have received a letter from 

 Mr. Ellingwood himself, correcting the 

 notice we had given about the sale of his 

 paper. His letter is dated Oct. 6, 1892, 

 and reads as follows : 



In a recent number of your excellent 

 Amercian Bee Journal, you stated 

 that the subscription list of the White 

 Mountain Apiarist had been sold. This 



is a mistake ; it has not been sold, and 

 will not be sold. The first of November 

 the Apiarist is to appear under the 

 name of "Country Life," and is to be 

 16 pages, with 3 columns on a page. 

 All subscriptions and advertising matter 

 will be finished by the new journal. 

 Yours truly, 



A. D. Ellingwood. 



We are always glad to correct mis- 

 takes, when it is possible to do so. We 

 took the first notice from the Progressive 

 Bee-Keeper, which stated prematurely 

 that it had purchased Mr. Ellingwood's 

 list. 



The Hive and Honey-Bee— 



the book written by Langstroth, revised 

 by Dadant, and translated by the latter 

 into French — has lately been given the 

 honors of a re-translation into Russian, 

 by Mr. G. Kandratieff, editor of the 

 Russian Journal of Apiculture and 

 Director-in-Chief of the Imperial Opera 

 at St. Petersburg. The work is an ex- 

 act translation of the French edition, 

 and contains 482 pages. This is a new 

 honor both for Father Langstroth and 

 the Dadants, which is indeed well 

 merited. 



Many Premiums are offered in 

 this number of the Bee Journal, and 

 you should avail yourself of them. A 

 little effort among your bee-keeping 

 neighbors no doubt would result in an 

 increased number of new readers for 

 the Bee Journal, and at the same time 

 secure some of our excellent premiums 

 for yourself. Show the Bee Journal 

 to your apiarian friends, and see how 

 quickly they will subscribe when it costs 

 less than two cents a week. 



Your Subscription to the Bee 



Journal — is it paid up to date ? If not, 

 please send to us a dollar for a year, 

 and thus show your appreciation of our 

 efforts in your behalf. Look at your 

 wrapper-label, and if the date looks like 

 this—" Dec91," that $1.00 sent to this 

 office will make it look like this — Dec92. 



